Dear readers,

You probably don’t know who YVIRÁ is yet. It is the recently created bimonthly magazine of the UNESCO Chair of Science for Education. Inspired by the Tupi-Guarani word for tree, the Chair pays homage to the indigenous peoples of South America and at the same time gives symbolic value to a deeply rooted structure, such as Science, and with many branches, leaves, flowers and fruits, such as Education.

The UNESCO Chair was a proposal by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in partnership with the D’Or Institute for Research and Education, operated by the National Network of Science for Education, and formally approved by UNESCO in 2023. The proposal included an international group of researchers who make up our Scientific Council. YVIRÁ is here to strengthen the growing movement that Science has much to contribute to Education, offering proposals and suggestions that can make teaching and learning more effective. It is a magazine for educators, researchers, university students, managers and the public interested in how science can positively impact education.

And look at that. In this first issue, we offer you an article by the Argentine researcher Sebastian Lipina, a member of our Scientific Council, who tells us about his research on the impact of poverty on learning and education in general. Also in another article, Roberto Lent, Chair holder of the UNESCO Chair of Science for Education, summarizes the concept of Science for Education and its proposals.

In the Interview section, Sidarta Ribeiro, a researcher at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, talks to journalist Elisa Martins about how sleep and dreams impact memory and learning. And he shows the risks of a society that sleeps less and is more and more connected to screens and the internet.

Readers will also find reports from teachers on how the ban on cell phone use in schools, sanctioned by law, has had a practical impact on the daily lives of students and teachers.

This very current topic also leads us to a review of the much-talked-about series “Adolescence” and the warnings it raises about the hyperconnection of children and young people and online radicalization. We have also dedicated a space for teachers themselves to send in their questions about Education.

In other words, YVIRÁ offers them not only entertainment, but above all first-class informative material, qualified by specialized curation and prepared by a competent team of researchers, teachers, journalists and designers.

We hope you enjoy it and that you can admire the flowers and taste the fruits of YVIRÁ.

Editorial Board