abstract: College completion has become a national priority in the United States. Before students can graduate from a college or university, however, they must survive their first year in higher education. The retention of out-of-state freshmen is a major piece of the larger college student retention puzzle due to recent national enrollment trends and the financial implications of out-of-state student enrollment. With public universities nationwide receiving less financial support from state governments, many of these institutions have used a strategy of aggressively recruiting and increasingly enrolling out-of-state students because the higher tuition these students pay can help offset the loss of state funding. Despite the importance of out-of-state students to the national higher education landscape, little research has been conducted on out-of-state student retention. This study examined the relation between a resource website and the engagement, sense of belonging, homesickness, and retention of out-of-state freshmen at Arizona State University (ASU). Mixed methods of inquiry were utilized; data sources included a pre- and post-intervention student survey, student interviews, student essay artifacts, website utilization records, and university retention reports. This study demonstrated that freshmen coming to ASU from another state experienced four main challenges related to being an out-of-state student. Those challenges were homesickness, adjusting to living in Arizona, managing finances, and making friends at ASU. Out-of-state students therefore needed extra support for their transition. The study found that an out-of-state student resource website had a positive association with co-curricular engagement and homesickness frequency reduction. Moreover, the site provided useful information on the challenges experienced by out-of-state freshmen. Discussion includes possible explanations for the findings and implications for practice and research. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Leadership and Innovation 2017

During the last couple of years there has been an intensification of the discussion concerning integration in Sweden and how it should be managed. The subject is being discussed in the society and in political institutions. The purpose of this study is to examine how pupils in secondary schools are experiencing the three phenomenon; political participation, the attitude towards integration and the feeling of belonging in the society after the redistribution of pupils in 2017 when Vivalla secondary school was discontinued. The focal points of the study are three groups; pupils that have attended to the distributed school in the 6th and 7th grade, pupils that have attended the school of Vivalla in the 6th grade and have been redistributed to another school in the 7th grade, pupils in the secondary school of Vivalla that have done the survey-study "Du och samhället" in the year 2010. Surveys are used as a method to collect the attitudes and experiences of these groups which we can then examine and compare to see if there are any differences among the groups. The study is done with a quantitative and comparative method, firstly to compile the survey-results in SPSS and secondly to compare the results within the three groups of analysis. One of the conclusions of this study is that the perceived feeling of political participation among the pupils varies between the analysed groups. The redistributed pupils and pupils from Vivalla secondary school 2010 had the biggest difference in perceived feeling, where distributed pupils were the most positive towards political participation. The attitude towards integration had a rather big difference between the groups. Once again the distributed pupils had the most positive attitude towards integration and the pupils who had been in the distributed school in 6th and 7th grade had a slightly less positive attitude. The pupils from Vivalla 2010 had the least positive attitude within the groups. As for the feeling of belonging in the society there’s hardly a difference among the analysed groups. The pupils from Vivalla 2010 had the least positive feeling while the distributed pupils had a slightly more positive feeling. The pupils who had been in the distributed school in 6th and 7th grade had the most positive feeling. In conclusion we can say that the redistribution of pupils from Vivalla secondary school to other secondary schools in Örebro kommun shows an early positive effect.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Este trabalho tem como objeto de estudo as interações, envolvimentos e percepções de pescadores e veranistas com o local escolhido para morar e visitar: a praia de Atafona. Situada no litoral norte fluminense, no município de São João da Barra, às margens da foz de um dos maiores rios do sudeste brasileiro, o rio Paraíba do Sul, Atafona é uma praia que está sendo engolida pelo mar ao longo dos últimos 60 anos. Mais de 14 quarteirões já foram destruídos pelo mar durante este período, modificando constantemente a configuração e ocupação do espaço praieiro. Junto a esta situação peculiar, existem também outros eventos que modificam a pequena praia em determinados períodos do ano, como a chegada volumosa de veranistas e turistas na festa religiosa da padroeira da praia Nossa Senhora da Penha - e na temporada de verão. Para narrar os vínculos de pescadores e veranistas com a praia, a presente tese centrou-se nas historias pessoais vivenciadas em torno da temporada de verão, da Festa da Penha e das ondas do avanço do mar. Como veremos ao longo das descrições etnográficas, a compreensão de repetições e regularidades de eventos cíclicos, como também a forma de habitar e se relacionar com um espaço, requer entender as movimentações de continuidades em estreita relação com processos de descontinuidades, onde imprevistos, viradas de quadra, atalhos, ruinas e reocupações também orientam e desorientam ritmos e pertencimentos com a praia de Atafona. Ritmo e pertencimento são trabalhados a partir desta perspectiva relacional, trazendo o enfoque para as constantes negociações, reocupações e ações criativas que moradores e visitantes tem com o local. Desse maneira, entender os envolvimentos e pertencimentos de pescadores e veranistas com as transformações anuais e a longo prazo foi também trabalhar com desencontros, desafetos e maragrados revelados nas diferentes historias de vida dos interlocutores da pesquisa. / The thesis aims to study the interactions, involvement and perceptions of fishermen and vacationers with the place whom chosen for 'live' and 'visit': Atafonas beach. Located in Rio's north coast, in São João da Barra, on the banks of one of the biggest rivers in southeastern Brazil, the Paraíba do Sul, Atafona is known as a beach which is being "swallowed by the sea" since de 1950s. The sea destroyed more than 14 blocks during this period, constantly modifying the configuration and occupation of the beach. Alongside this peculiar situation, there are also other 'events' that modify the small beach at certain times of year with the voluminous arrival of visitors and tourists in occasions such as the religious partyfor Nossa Senhora da Penha and in the summer season. Thus, to narrate the ties of fishermen and vacationers with the beach, the thesis focused on the stories of life around the Penhas party, the "summer season" and the advance of the sea. By considering the ethnographic descriptions, the understanding of repetitions and regularities of cyclical events requires understanding the movements of continuities in close relation with processes of discontinuities. In this case it is necessary to consider un expected situations, "viradas de quadra", shortcuts, ruins and reoccupations that also can guide and disorient rhythms and belongings in Atafonas beach. Rhythm and belonging are worked accounting for this relational perspective, bringing the thesis focus to the constant negotiations, relocations and creative actions that 'residents' and 'visitors' have with the place. In order to understand the engagements and belongings of fishermen and vacationers about the social and natural changes annual and long-term it is important to work with misunderstandings, rivals and "maragados", such as reveled in different life histories narrated in the ethnographic research.

Notre recherche a été établie dans le cadre du programme de recherche interdisciplinaire Langages, objets, territoires et hospitalités. Notre objectif est d’apprécier les procédés informationnels, communicationnels et de management pour la valorisation des régions de Nabeul et de Médenine sous l’égide du CGDR et de l’ODS, et d’estimer et d’évaluer la nature du lien entre le sentiment d’appartenance et la valorisation territoriale par le biais de ces dispositifs d’intelligence collective. L’ancrage de notre recherche dans les champs interdisciplinaires des sciences de gestion et des sciences de l’information et de la communication nous a permis d’appréhender notre objet de recherche dans une logique d’instrumentalisation de pratiques et de dispositifs de management du territoire et dans une logique de communication, de transmission de l’information, de capitalisation et de diffusion des connaissances. Toutes ces pratiques étant sélectionnées à travers le ressenti envers le territoire en termes d’identité, d’attachement et de solidarité.In fine cette thèse révèle les liens de causalité entre le sentiment d’appartenance et les dimensions de l’IET et certaines dimensions du KMT et de l’ITP. Nos propositions invitent au diagnostic, l’évaluation et la compréhension du pourquoi de l’abandon de certaines pratiques d’intelligence territoriale, l’adoption de nouvelles formes de communication publique et territoriale pour le renforcement du sentiment d’appartenance et pour assurer un meilleur partage et diffusion de l’information. / Our research has been established as part of the interdisciplinary research program languages, objects, territories and hospitality. Our goal is to understand the informational, communicational and management processes for the development of areas of Nabeul and Medenine under the CGDR and ODS, and to estimate and evaluate the nature of the relationship between sense of belonging and the Territorial Enhancement through the collective intelligence devices. The anchor of our research in interdisciplinary fields of management, information and communication sciences has enabled us to understand our research object in a logic of exploitation practices and devices management planning and in the spirit of communication, transmission of information, funding and dissemination of knowledge. All these practices are selected through the felt to the area in terms of identity, attachment and solidarity. Ultimately this thesis reveals the causal links between the sense of belonging and the dimensions of the TIE and some dimensions of the TKM and the PTI. Our proposals invite the diagnosis, evaluation and understanding the reason of the abandonment of certain practices of territorial intelligence, the adoption of new forms of territorial public communication and to strengthen the sense of belonging and to ensure better sharing and dissemination of information.

This following study aimed to determine the discriminant validity of Sense of Belonging and the different types of organizational commitment, and analyse the relationship and the predictive capacity of these constructs for subjective and psychological well-being. 354 people completed surveys measuring the constructs described. The results showed that Sense of Belonging and the different types of organizational commitment are different constructs, and they have different relationships the diverse indicators of well-being according to the type of employment. The affective commitment was the most relevant predictor in entry level employees, and Sense of Belonging was the only predictor in employees with leadership positions. / Los objetivos del presente trabajo son determinar la validez discriminante del sentido de pertenencia y de los diferentes tipos de compromiso organizacional, y analizar la relación y capacidad predictiva de estos constructos del bienestar subjetivo y psicológico. 354 personas cumplimentaron un cuestionario que permitía medir los constructos descritos. Los resultados muestran que el sentido de pertenencia y los diferentes tipos de compromiso organizacional son constructos diferentes, y que se asocian de forma diferencial con los diversos indicadores del bienestar en función del tipo de puesto de trabajo estudiado. El compromiso afectivo es el predictor más importante para los empleados que desempeñan puestos de base, y el sentido de pertenencia es el único predictor para los puestos de mando.

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This study examines changes in the governance of Nottingham and Derby in the period 1945-1968 from a local and national perspective. In so doing it foreshadows the changes wrought by the Local Government Act 1972, which usually receives greater academic attention. Post-war, local authorities became the nation’s principal landlords, while utilities, such as electricity and gas, were nationalised. In fulfilling their new responsibilities, urban authorities were forced to build estates on the periphery of, or outside, their boundaries. The relocation of residents resulted in an exportation of urban identity and greater urban-ness, but was not accompanied by a corresponding redrawing of administrative boundaries. Nevertheless, when urban authorities sought boundary extensions they were fiercely contested by county authorities, local associations, and residents’ groups. Such associations and groups claimed to possess characteristics distinct from the authorities that wished to incorporate them. There was also a fear that democratic accountability would be lost in the creation of larger units of governance. The local feelings aroused by boundary extension proposals demonstrate that local government is more than merely an agent of central government. It is a living organism: changes to it affect not only services, but also the identity of that place. The expansion proposals of the county boroughs of Nottingham and Derby differed markedly. Uniquely amongst county boroughs nationwide, Nottingham sought no expansion under the review initiated by the Local Government Act 1958. The thesis assesses the political motivations behind this and the wider reactions to reconfiguration proposals for both county boroughs. The role of conurbations is considered in terms of local governance, including the extent to which Nottingham and Derby could be classified as one. The thesis concludes that the maintenance of existing party political strengths outweighed local sentiment, and that only those proposals for reform which benefited the former were enacted.

A presente dissertação propõe uma análise ética e estética do espaço urbano em busca de um território de Pertencimento na cidade de São Paulo. Trata-se de uma pesquisa interdisciplinar que, fazendo uso do método da cartografia e da arte como busca epistemológica, observou, no cotidiano da autora migrante, diferentes perspectivas de estar no mundo e de construir formas potentes de pertencer a um lugar na contemporaneidade. Além de abordagens teóricas, foram utilizados experimentos poéticos que resultaram na criação de uma obra Instalação chamada Cidade/Labirinto, que mescla vídeo performances, esculturas, um ato performativo e uma publicação montada com colagens feitas a partir de impressos coletados nas derivas. / This paper proposes an ethical and aesthetic analysis of urban space in search of a territory of Belonging in the city of São Paulo. It is an interdisciplinary research, that uses the method of cartography and art as an epistemological search to observe in everyday migrant author, different perspectives of being in the world and to build powerful forms of belonging to a place in the contemporary time. They were used in addition to theoretical approaches, poetical experiments that resulted in the creation of a work installation called Cidade/Labirinto that mixes video performances, sculptures, a performative act and a publication mounted with collages made above printed collected in drifts.

A pesquisa procura e refletir sobre convergências conceituais entre a análise psicossocial e o significado dos lugares e a análise geográfica, sobretudo em relação ao encontro geografia/educação. A pesquisa procura demonstrar como a geografia vem desenvolvendo teórica e praticamente uma abordagem capaz de produzir uma solução societária para a reapropriação selvagem dos lugares, por parte de indivíduos e grupos que perderam o sentimento de pertencimento, em relação a seus contextos sócio-geográficos. / The research tries to demonstrate and reflect on conceptual convergences between psychosocial analysis and the significance of places and the geographical analysis, especially in relation to the encounter of geography and education. The research tries to demonstrate how the geography has been developing practically and theoreticically an approach capable of producing a sociatary solution for the wild reapropriation of places by individuals and groups that lost the feeling of belonging, in relation to their socio-geographical contexts.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertacao_Humberto_Duarte.pdf: 965975 bytes, checksum: 3a63f142b7da1c3cc39fde8d0a71eba2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-23 / Sem bolsa / O presente trabalho tem como foco compreender a dinâmica da construção das identidades de negros ex-praticantes de cultos afro-brasileiros, convertidos à Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus na cidade de Pelotas. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa foram realizadas sete entrevistas, sendo cinco com negros convertidos à denominação neopentecostal, uma com representante de Centro de Umbanda/Nação de Pelotas e outra com representante do Movimento Negro Evangélico da região metropolitana de Porto Alegre. Foram realizados questionamentos sobre questões referentes às razões de ingresso, pertencimento, mobilidade social, discriminação racial, evasão, intolerância religiosa e identidade, em relação às religiões de matriz africana e Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. Fez-se análise qualitativa das respostas dos entrevistados, após enquadramento em três categorias principais e estas, por sua vez, em subcategorias. A primeira categoria - Religiões de matriz africana tratou das razões de ingresso, pertença, mobilidade social e identidade; A segunda categoria - Saída das religiões de matriz africana, das causas para o trânsito religioso; a terceira categoria - O negro evangélico, tratou da pertença (amizades e ritos), identidade e negritude (cabelo, boa aparência, discriminação racial, hierarquia e o uniforme), intolerância religiosa e mobilidade social (dízimo e teologia da prosperidade). Além das entrevistas utilizou-se, também, como fonte, publicações do Movimento Negro Evangélico e da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. Através da análise dos resultados obtidos, conclui-se que os negros convertidos à Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus apresentaram a construção de uma nova identidade a partir da ausência do sentimento de pertença e rejeição às religiões de matriz africana. Percebeu-se, também, que após a conversão, os entrevistados manifestaram sentimentos de acolhida pela nova denominação e reprodução dos discursos iurdianos, especialmente àqueles vinculados a mobilidade social através do pagamento do dízimo (é dando que se recebe), a consciência pessoal evoluiu no que se refere aos direitos sociais voltados aos negros, as entrevistadas apresentaram novas identidades, subordinadas ao discurso da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, segundo o qual Deus vê todos como iguais, indistintamente da cor de pele ou classe social (apesar de relato de discriminação racial por uma colaboradora). Sob essa ótica e atendendo aos interesses pessoais vinculados à ascensão social, status na coletividade religiosa pela assimilação/reprodução da estigmatização das religiões de matriz africana, as entrevistadas demonstraram ausência de preocupação com a herança cultural, enquanto afrodescendentes. / The present work focuses on understanding the dynamics of identities construction of black people ex-practitioners of Afro-Brazilian cults, converted to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in the city of Pelotas. For the development of the research, seven interviews were accomplished, being five with black people converted to the denomination Neo-charismatic movement, one with the representative of Center of Umbanda/Pelotas Nation and another with the representative of the Evangelical Black Movement of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. Questions were performed on issues related to the reasons for entrance, membership, social mobility, racial discrimination, evasion, religious intolerance and identity, in relation to the African matrix religions and the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. A qualitative analysis of respondents' answers was done, after being classified into three main categories and these, in turn, into subcategories. The first category - African matrix religions - dealt with the reasons of entrance, belonging, social mobility and identity; The second category - Exit of religions of African matrix, dealt with the causes for the religious transit; The third category - The evangelical black, dealt with belonging (friendship and rites), identity and negritude (hair, good looking, racial discrimination, hierarchy and the uniform), religious intolerance and social mobility (tithing and prosperity theology). Beyond the interviews, publications of the Black Evangelical Movement and the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God were also used as a source. Through the analysis of the results obtained, it is concluded that the black people converted to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God presented the construction of a new identity from the absence of the feeling of belonging and rejection to the African matrix religions. It was also noticed that after the conversion, the interviewees manifested feelings of reception by the new denomination and reproduction of the iurdian discourses, especially to those linked to social mobility through the payment of tithing (it is giving that one receives), the personal conscience has evolved concerning black social rights, the interviewees presented new identities, subordinated to the discourse of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, according to which God sees everyone as equal, regardless of skin color or social class (despite a report of racial discrimination by a female collaborator). From this point of view and taking into account personal interests linked to social ascension, status in the religious collectivity by the assimilation/reproduction of the stigmatization of African matrix religions, the interviewees showed lack of concern with the cultural heritage, as Afro-descendant.