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This study focuses on the implementation of selective waste collection in a school located on the outskirts of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The participants consisted mainly of 64 students taking an Environmental Control technical course during 2007 and 2008. By addressing selective waste collection, the pedagogical proposal aimed at: a) enabling students to encourage practical behavioural changes and create new habits in terms of using natural resources; b) encouraging participants to reflect on our responsibility towards the planet and human survival itself, by providing the school community with elements to help create social and environmental responsibility. The transdisciplinary approach of the environmental theme and the pedagogical principals of critical theory were used as the theoretical basis for this study. The aim of this study was to emphasize the articulation between environmental education practices and a model of society that recaptures the quality of life of the individual. The qualitative research combined both qualitative and quantitative technical and methodological procedures. The results obtained indicate that the experience in question has great social relevance: pedagogically, it helps articulate the content of different subjects such as biology and chemistry; it allows for the reduction of environmental degradation in deprived regions; and it contributes to the creation of peer educators who will encourage the impoverished communities on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro to become more aware of the importance of selective waste collection. (Contains 1 footnote, 1 figure, and 2 tables.)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert