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    La creación de una Sirena Terena en una lección ambiental: un caso de desarrollo profesional docente
    (2016-04-26) Gioppo, Christiane; Soares Marques, Sonia Regina; Soares Marques, Sonia Regina; Vertelino Marques, Cristiane
    In west Brazil an Environmental Programme was established to fulfill environmental requirements as well as assist vulnerable communities affected by a huge engineering project.  The main goal was to mitigate environmental problems resulted by the highway construction.  One action accomplished (among many) was to put through an in-service Teacher Professional Development Programme with a group of indigenous people of Terena Ethnicity.  This paper presents the Programme that occurred in a native village in the State of South Mato Grosso and discusses one lesson that arose from it.  First we portray the group of Terena teachers who were collaborators on the Programme, then we present the theoretical background that uses two concepts: Culturally Responsive Teaching (Gay, 2000) and Resistance (Adorno, 1980; Benjamin, 1994).  After describing the grounds of the Teacher Professional Development Programme we proceed to a more detailed description of the creation process of a lesson, the mermaid one.  We finish with some considerations and discussion about the professional learning processes.