A chat with Vânia Zechner, from GEEAK-Austria

"Racism and football" is the title and the theme of this week's editorial, which analyzes the unfortunate episode that occurred in a football match in Porto Alegre-RS, in which a group of fans behaved pejoratively, in racist manner, against the goalkeeper of the Santos FC team.

Among the highlights of this edition, we call the reader's attention to the interview by Paula Kloser with the spiritist leader Vânia Cristina Gomes Zechner, who tells how GEEAK-Austria emerged and explains how the Spiritist movement in Austria is developing, a country where she resides for over twenty years.

Another highlight of this edition is the special article "The end of childhood? When being a child is a nuisance ... ", authored by Eugênia Pickina. The objective of the article is, according to the author, to promote reflection on childhood and the indiscriminate use of methylphenidate (commercially known as Ritalin) by children.

Orson Peter Carrara, in a report that is also one of the highlights of the week, shows us the work done by the Brazilian Institute of Moral Education (IBEM), which has developed several actions aimed at awakening and raising awareness among teachers so that the school can also work pedagogically in the moral development of children and youth.

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EVOC - The Virtual Publisher “O Consolodar” launched last Thursday, Sept. 18, the online edition of the book “Understanding Life - The existential questions and the Spiritist thinking”, written by Marcus De Mario, from Rio de Janeiro-RJ. The book can be dowloaded for free using the link:
http://www.oconsolador.com.br/editora/evoc.htm.