Paleontology teaching must be an usual subject in the cultural formation. It is from it that man understands the history of Earth and its evolutionary process, giving a new look and perspective of what behaviors a society must adopt. In order that teaching of paleontology subjects gets a response back from society, other methods beside the basic didactic books must be explored for diffusion of educational and informative message, whit less academic terms and more attractively. Searching alternatives to fill such necessities, some of the available options are: Games, expositions, animations/documentaries and paradidactic books. These media have already been used by many scholars in the area, but can always be reworked and explored. The Laboratório de Estudos de Comunidades Paleozóicas (LECP) of the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) has been using one of these alternatives. It is a project of elaboration of paradidactic books that a language directed to the infant-juvenile people was adopted to introduce paleontological concepts and fossiliferous localities - Maecuru e Ererê Formations (Amazonas Basin) - from Devonian Period. The referred project, although using a resource already available in Paleontology teaching, is innovator, because it deals with Brazilian formations of a geologic period unknown by the population. By alternative educational proposes the paleontology consolidates new process of interdisciplinary, necessary for diversified divulgation of its subjects. This new paleontology vision, when assimilated by the society, allow a conscientization about the biologics and non-biologics process that have occurred along the geologic time. A holistic conscience of the evolution of the Earth would help in the formation of a new society, which is already worrying about the balance and availability of the natural resources.
Since the calls "cabinets of curiosities", the essence of natural history was consolidating itself with the birth of the museums and the development of the Museums of Natural History. This consolidation was reached through following activities: expeditions, field trips, collection classification works, catalogues of diffusion of scientific knowledge, educativ activities and expositions. The present paper intends to discuss the importance of the museal institutions for the studies of Paleontology; since the museums of Natural History had exerted a pioneering paper in the institutionalization of certain areas of knowledge, as Palaeontology, Anthropology and Experimental Physiology, in Brazil. The Paleontological studies in museums had collaborated in the specialization and modernization of the appearance of "new museum idea". As this new concept the museum is a space of diffusion of scientific knowledge, represented as an object that reflects the identity of the society without an obligator linking with physical constructions. However, the Brazilian museums have been sufficiently obsolete, with problems that involve acquisition and maintenance of collections to production of temporary or permanent exhibitions. When the Brazilian institutions of natural history are analyzed they are not organized on the new museum conception and the digital age as the North American and European ones. Despite the difficulties found by the Museums since its birth as Institution in the 18th century, the contemporary development of Museology and Palaeontology as Science had contributed for the consolidation and institutionalization of both, helping the diffusion of scientific knowledge.
A Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) tem sua história iniciada em 1895, com a fundação dos que viriam a ser seus primeiros cursos, e é formulada enquanto universidade em 1934, com o nome de Universidade de Porto Alegre. Sua federalização ocorreu em 1950, passando à esfera administrativa da União. Se considerarmos a data de fundação das primeiras formações, temos 125 anos de história da educação no sul do Brasil. Essa trajetória se faz presente em documentos escritos, mas também na cultura material vinculada à UFRGS. Como pensar a preservação, pesquisa e promoção dos objetos que evocam essa história? A formação em Museologia da UFRGS tem buscado estratégias de gestão desse acervo, bem como de difusão do conhecimento produzido a partir dessas evidências materiais móveis. No artigo, três experiências são compartilhadas – o programa de extensão “Museologia na UFRGS: trajetórias e memórias”; o projeto “Gestão de acervos museológicos da UFRGS”; a disciplina eletiva “Tópicos especiais em pesquisa museológica da graduação em Museologia” – para refletirmos sobre a musealidade dos acervos que podem vir a se tornar museálias em salvaguarda da Universidade. Observou-se que a Universidade possui um vasto patrimônio cultural sob sua tutela, mas há ainda um longo processo museal para se tornarem museálias. Conclui-se que há a necessidade de interlocução e articulação entre as áreas do conhecimento, bem como a construção e consolidação de políticas setoriais para a difusão da produção científica e cultural presente na UFRGS por meio de seu patrimônio cultural universitário móvel.
A proposta textual, de caráter reflexivo, propõe um balanço avaliativo dos catorze anos de atuação do curso de bacharelado em Museologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) e seus desdobramentos, como o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Museologia e Patrimônio, que completou cinco anos de funcionamento. Tal exercício envolve uma dimensão informativa, produto de uma análise acadêmica de fatos e dados, e uma dimensão poética, que se vale de memórias compartilhadas por diferentes sujeitos que têm a Museologia da UFRGS como um marco em suas vidas: seja na condição de discentes, docentes, egressos, técnicos-administrativos, ou mesmo colaboradores da formação. A mescla das dimensões permite identificar objetividades e subjetividades que dão dinamicidade ao exercício de formar futuros profissionais do campo museal. O estudo avaliativo, ancorado nos preceitos da Memória Social, se valerá de fontes documentais (projetos político-pedagógicos, ementários, documentos oficiais, entre outros) e de fontes orais (memórias compartilhadas na subcoleção Afetividades Sonoras, do programa de extensão Museologia na UFRGS: trajetórias e memórias) que constituem um patrimônio histórico-educativo da formação em questão e permitem a inserção da Museologia na produção da História da Educação do Ensino Superior. A proposta estimula a partilha de experiências que a dimensão material não contempla isoladamente. A investigação valoriza as pessoas e suas relações, força motriz da formação.
The Maecuru Formation comprises the Devonian-Carboniferous sedimentary sequence of Amazonas Basin and consists of fluvialdeltaics to neritics sandstones and pelites layers. Its fossiliferous sediments (the uppermost part of the Lontra Member) consists of hummocky cross-stratified fine-grained to very coarse sandstones beds.With the purpose of adding more information about the palaeoecology of The Maecuru Formation fossils, the life habits of gastropods and bellerophontids were inferred based on functional analysis and similarities with the living forms. The more significant features used were: (1) total frontal cross-sectional area, (2) height and relative positions of pressure point and center of gravity, (3) apertural margin morphology, (4) kind of symmetry and (5) surface smoothness. The species Platyceras (Orthonychia) steinmanni; Platyceras (Tumbophalus) hartti; Platyceras (Platyostoma) darwini; Platyceras (Platyostoma) (?) agassizi; Platyceras (Orthonychia) meerwarthi; Platyceras (Orthonychia) gracilis; Platyceras (Tumbophalus) coutoanus; "Platyceras" tschernischewi; "Platyceras" subconicum; "Platyceras" (Ortonychia) hussaki; "Platyceras" (Ortonychia) whitii; "Platyceras" (Ortonychia) whitii var. curua and "Platyceras" symmetricum var. maecuruensis represent the epifaunal gastropods with low mobility (coprophagous/suspension feeders) of the Maecuru Formation, living symbiotically directly over the anus of a crinoid or nearby. This coprophagous mode of life was probably a non-obligate relationship, because only the closest organisms will get all the advantages of using the crinoid host as a nutrient source. The others adult platyceratids would have a broader feeding repertoire, like as suspension feeders. The bellerophonts Plectonotus (Plectonotus) derbyi, Plectonotus (?) (Plectonotus) salteri e Bucanella reissi would have an epifaunal medium to high mobility, showing a predator habit preferably. On the other hand Bucania freitasi, Ptomatis forbesi and Bellerophon steltzneri showed morphologies compable to a grazer habit with medium mobility. This relative high diversity of gastropods and bellerophonts corroborates the environment of medium and inner shelf inferred for the Maecuru Formation among the others macrofossils, since the majority of Paleozoic fauna of gastropods were typically from shallow seas.
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