Susana Vicentina Costa

University of São Paulo | USP · Department of Environmental Health (São Paulo)

Brazilian higher education institutions are expected to offer teaching research and extension services to the communities they belong to. University of São Paulo (USP), one of the largest educational centers in the country, offers mainly community assistance services as extension programs. However, internal changes at USP, in addition to others inv...

Analysis and Prevention of Accidents’ Model (MAPA) was structured with the objective of replacing old practices that condemn work accidents on the victim. Applied to different activities, MAPA was able to explain accidents as a product of multiple interacting factors. However, a few changes have been implemented on underlying conditions. Overall, t...

Ergonomic Work Analysis is important methodology for understanding the present situations and support recommendations for transforming work. However, more emphasis to the historical analysis of the activity system is needed for understanding the origin of problems so that expansive solutions can be designed. This article shows how a historical anal...

Resumo O objetivo deste artigo é analisar se um método de intervenção formativa contribui para que os profissionais de atividades colaborativas formem uma compreensão histórica dos problemas enfrentados em crises interinstitucionais e criem soluções para essas situações. Apresentamos o método Laboratório de Mudança (LM), inspirado na Teoria da Ativ...

RESUMO Neste artigo apresentamos estratégias e ferramentas utilizadas durante uma intervenção do Laboratório de Mudanças (LM) na segunda fase do ciclo de desenvolvimento expansivo: análise do desenvolvimento histórico da atividade. O referencial teórico que embasa o LM e é adotado neste estudo é a Teoria Histórico-Cultural da Atividade. A intervenç...