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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Teacher training (as) ruralistas in Juazeiro (EC) from 1934 to 1973: an emancipatory project / FormaÃÃo de professores (as) ruralistas em Juazeiro do Norte (CE) 1934-1973: um projeto emancipatÃrio

Pedro Ferreira Barros 22 June 2011 (has links)
CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / The objective of this work is to know as the received formation of the Rural Normal School of Juazeiro - ENRJ contributed to the conquest of e mancipation spaces for former-students in your life paths, to identify educational and cultural practices used, that they can illuminate the process of education of the present generations contributing to the elaboration of public politics. For this end the period from 1934 to 1973 , was focused time during which the project of rural teachers' formation was executed. The research of qualitative nature was developed in the descriptive and explanatory levels as study of partner-anthropological and historical character, in an approach fenomenolÃgical in the perspective of the etnometodologia. The subject of the research were teachers formed by ENRJ. In the execution of the field work they were picked through interviews semi-structured five reports histories of former-students' life formed in the years of 1938, 1942, 1950 and 1959, narrating memoirs of your existences in the family, ranches, city, school and professional practices, the ones which, as results of the research they were analyzed in response to the central question that relates Formation and emancipation. Sources of other natures were used as : school registrations, speeches of authorities, teachers and students, and the source hemerogrÃfica. In the theoretical-methodological course the oralidade is detached as important research source. It is placed, for this middle, in the pulp of the from Cearà education nal history of middles of the Century XX, the woman, the educator, the teacher elementary school teacher, your formation ruralist in Juazeiro of the North and the subject of your emancipation for the education and for the work. / O objetivo principal deste trabalho à conhecer como a formaÃÃo recebida da Escola Normal Rural de Juazeiro - ENRJ contribuiu para a conquista de espaÃos de emancipaÃÃo por ex-alunas nas suas trajetÃrias de vida, para identificar prÃticas educativas e culturais usadas, que possam iluminar o processo de educaÃÃo das geraÃÃes presentes contribuindo para a elaboraÃÃo de polÃticas pÃblicas. Para este fim foi enfocado o perÃodo de 1934 a 1973, tempo durante o qual foi executado o projeto de formaÃÃo de professores rurais. A pesquisa de natureza qualitativa foi desenvolvida nos nÃveis descritivo e explicativo como estudo de carÃter sÃcio-antropolÃgico e histÃrico, numa abordagem fenomenolÃgica na perspectiva da etnometodologia. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram professoras formadas pela ENRJ. Na execuÃÃo do trabalho de campo foram colhidas atravÃs de entrevistas semi-estruturadas quatro relatos histÃrias de vida de ex-alunas formadas nos anos de 1938, 1942, 1950 e 1959, e, cinco depoimentos de ex-alunas, gravados do arquivo da Sala de MemÃria AmÃlia Xavier de Oliveira, datada de 2009, narrando memÃrias de suas vivÃncias na famÃlia, escola, sÃtios, cidades, e prÃticas profissionais, os quais, como resultados da pesquisa foram analisados para resposta à pergunta central que relaciona formaÃÃo e emancipaÃÃo. Foram usadas fontes de outras naturezas como: registros escolares, discursos de autoridades, professores e alunos, e a fonte hemerogrÃfica. No percurso teÃrico-metodolÃgico a oralidade à destacada como importante fonte de pesquisa. Coloca-se, por este meio, no Ãmago da histÃria educacional cearense de meados do SÃculo XX, a mulher, a educadora, a professora normalista, sua formaÃÃo ruralista em Juazeiro do Norte e a questÃo da sua emancipaÃÃo pela educaÃÃo e pelo trabalho.
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Participação popular e emancipação social: um estudo sobre o Planejamento Participativo de Sergipe (PP)

Carregosa, Antonio Santana 22 October 2009 (has links)
The aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between popular participation and social emancipation in the Sergipe Participatory Planning (PP). It seeks to combine theoretical with practical field research to obtain operational categories to contextualize the experience and monitor its first steps. Thus, it was observed that the idea of popular participation in Brazil dates from the period of democratization, which strengthened the debate about the relationship between democracy and citizenship decisively influencing the development of the Constitution of 1988. This debate referenced a lot about classic experiments in participatory democracy as the Paris Commune and the Workers' Councils, which retrieves the principles of social control and the "redistribution". With the promulgation of the new Constitution and the rise of populist governments, participatory democracy in the form of Participatory Budgeting (PB) has spread across the country with the managements of PT (Partido dos trabalhadores, Workers Party) in Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where was the experience more successful. Becoming brand of PT administrations, the PB is also implemented in Aracaju, the capital of Sergipe, with the victory of the PT in 2000. In 2007 the PT took over the government of Sergipe and begins construction of the PP with the goal to correct the social inequities in the state. Under the coordination of SEPLAN and with the participation of various institutions, the new government establishing the eight Territories Planning Central Hinterland, High Hinterland, Low San Francisco, South Central, Greater Aracaju, Sergipe East, Middle and South Hinterland of Sergipe - and began the process of consulting the population. Have been held two rounds of Municipal Conferences, four Territorial Conferences and three State Conferences of the PP, involving more than 28,000 people. The actors are hegemonically between the popular sectors and the presented demands, and they refer mainly to the most basic questions of citizenship. Also if note that PP has stimulated new relations and new practices of these actors, besides fostering a mutual learning between experts and society at large. About social control, it is observed that the PP has not built the necessary tools yet. Moreover, it is understood that the PP is at a turning point in which the definition of an institutional architecture and the presentation of concrete results can ensure its consolidation as a means of propelling of a new political culture - democratic and emancipatory in Sergipe. / O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir a articulação entre participação popular e emancipação social no âmbito do Planejamento Participativo de Sergipe (PP). Busca-se combinar reflexão teórica com prática de pesquisa de campo no sentido de obter categorias operacionais, contextualizar a experiência e acompanhar seus primeiros passos. Procedendo desta maneira, observou-se que a idéia da participação popular no Brasil remonta ao período da redemocratização, que fortaleceu o debate sobre a relação entre democracia e cidadania influenciando decisivamente na elaboração da Constituição de 1988. Esse debate referenciou-se muito em experiências clássicas de democracia participativa como a Comuna de Paris e os Conselhos Operários, das quais recupera os princípios do controle social e da redistribuição . Com a promulgação da nova Constituição e a ascensão de governos populares, a democracia participativa na forma do Orçamento Participativo (OP) espalhouse pelo país tendo nas gestões petistas de Porto Alegre sua experiência mais exitosa. Tornando-se marca das gestões petistas, o OP é implantado também em Aracaju com a vitória do PT em 2000. Em 2007 o PT assume o governo de Sergipe e inicia a construção do PP com a meta de corrigir as desigualdades sociais do estado. Sob a coordenação da SEPLAN e com a participação de várias instituições, o novo governo institui os oito Territórios de Planejamento Agreste Central, Alto Sertão, Baixo São Francisco, Centro Sul, Grande Aracaju, Leste Sergipano, Médio Sertão e Sul Sergipano e iniciou o processo de consulta à população. Já foram realizadas duas rodadas de Conferências Municipais, quatro de Conferências Territoriais e três Conferências Estaduais do PP, envolvendo mais de 28.000 pessoas. Os atores estão hegemonicamente entre os setores populares e as demandas apresentadas dizem respeito principalmente às questões mais básicas da cidadania. Nota-se também que o PP tem estimulado novas relações e novas práticas destes atores, além de promover um mútuo aprendizado entre técnicos e sociedade em geral. Quanto ao controle social, observa-se que o PP ainda não construiu as ferramentas necessárias. Ademais, entendese que o PP se encontra num momento decisivo em que a definição de uma arquitetura institucional e a apresentação de resultados concretos podem garantir sua consolidação enquanto instrumento propulsor de uma nova cultura política democrática e emancipatória em Sergipe.
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A concepção de homem em Marx: uma análise dos Manuscritos econômico-filosóficos de 1844. / The concept of man in Marx: an analysis of Economic-philosophic manuscript of 1844

Sandeski, Margarida Maria 02 September 2016 (has links)
Submitted by Marilene Donadel (marilene.donadel@unioeste.br) on 2017-09-15T00:15:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Margarida_M_Sandeski_2016.pdf: 842940 bytes, checksum: 82cf10444175d9dbe9989bc6690391f4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-15T00:15:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Margarida_M_Sandeski_2016.pdf: 842940 bytes, checksum: 82cf10444175d9dbe9989bc6690391f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation has an objective to show the concept of man in Marx from the Economic-Philosophic Manuscript of 1844. For justification of this purpose, relevant categories will be discussed such as: work, private property, alienation, estrangement, destrangement and emancipation. We seek to understand: 1) how man, between alienated and estranged work, can achieve the quality of emancipated man; 2) how a Marx theoretical construction contributes by work proposition as founding category of social being, for man builds and rebuilds himself in the midst a capitalist society. First, we are going to show that the founding structure of the capitalist system is in a private property. The capitalist, when uses the estranged work, empowers the capital gain, makes the social division of work an instrument of worker accumulation and exploitation which earns a too little pay and his existence just has sense while it is useful to the capitalist, i.e. he does not exist as a human, but only as human good. To maximize the gains of capital, the capitalist structure feeds itself by man work which turned into good is sold by a wage which guarantees his survival. In this way, work and capital depend each other, the worker aims in the work, his existence is subjected in object and the human dimension is emptied. Second, we start with the assumption of the capitalist society has in the private property a production way which uses the alienated work to get and enhance its capital. Thus, the man by the modern conditions is in an alienation condition and generates the estrangement of the man in relation to his work product, in his activity, in his generic being in relation to the other men. The loss of himself, in his activity performance (work) changes his life in mere way of life and the man while he becomes alienated and estranged, his exteriority opposes him because it takes part of a set of social coercions; So Marx points out in the private property the cause of this man estrangement. Finally, we are going to talk at length about the man, the only being who can register in his own nature the freedom attribute as a becoming. Marx shows us that by a practical and real action, to remove the estrangement by the destrangement and build emancipatory actions. By the revolutionary action, the private property and the estranged work, which result in man brutalization, form this way besides the reflection about awareness importance of the working class which can support his estrangement state understanding the world is produced by it, since the capitalism is a historic construction. So, the man when requires his emancipation, which does not occur without a deep social transformation, notices this revolutionary action is not the return of his state of nature, but for the emancipation is connected to the history and aims the development of human capacities. / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo apresentar a concepção de homem em Marx a partir da obra Manuscritos Econômico-Filosóficos de 1844. Para a fundamentação desse propósito, serão abordadas categorias relevantes, tais como: trabalho, propriedade privada, alienação, estranhamento, desestranhamento e emancipação. Buscaremos compreender: 1) como o homem, em meio ao trabalho alienado e estranhado, pode se alçar à qualidade de [homem] emancipado; 2) como a construção teórica de Marx contribui, por meio da proposição do trabalho como categoria fundante do ser social, para que o homem se construa e reconstrua em meio à sociedade capitalista. Inicialmente mostraremos que a estrutura fundante do sistema capitalista está na propriedade privada. O capitalista, ao utilizar-se do trabalho estranhado, potencializa o ganho do capital, faz da divisão social do trabalho um instrumento de acumulação e de exploração do trabalhador que recebe um salário miserável, e sua existência só tem sentido enquanto útil ao capitalista, isto é, ele não existe enquanto homem, mas somente como mercadoria humana. Para maximizar os ganhos do capital, a estrutura capitalista alimenta-se do trabalho do homem que, transformado em mercadoria, é vendido por um salário que garante sua sobrevivência. Desta forma, trabalho e capital se interdependem, o trabalhador objetiva-se no trabalho, sua existência é subjetivada no objeto e a dimensão humana é esvaziada. No segundo capítulo, partiremos do pressuposto de que a sociedade capitalista tem na propriedade privada um modo de produção que se utiliza do trabalho alienado para obter e aumentar seu capital. Assim, o homem pelas condições modernas está numa condição de alienação e gera o estranhamento do homem em relação ao seu produto do trabalho, em sua atividade, em seu ser genérico e em relação aos outros homens. A perda de si, na realização de sua atividade (trabalho) transforma sua vida em mero meio de vida, e o homem à medida que se aliena e se estranha, sua exterioridade se opõe a ele, pois faz parte de um conjunto de coerções sociais; Marx então fundamenta na propriedade privada a causa desse estranhamento do homem. Por fim, iremos discorrer sobre o homem, único ser que pode inscrever na própria natureza o atributo de liberdade como um vir a ser. Marx nos dá indicativos para que, por meio de uma ação prática e real, suprimamos o estranhamento, por meio do desestranhamento ao construir ações emancipatórias. Pela ação revolucionária, a propriedade privada e o trabalho estranhado, que resultam no embrutecimento do homem, constituem esse caminho, além da reflexão sobre a importância da conscientização da classe trabalhadora que pode superar seu estado de estranhamento ao compreender que o mundo é produzido por ela, uma vez que o capitalismo é uma construção histórica. Logo, o homem ao requerer sua emancipação, que não ocorrerá sem uma profunda transformação social, percebe que essa ação revolucionária não é o retorno ao seu estado de natureza, mas sim que a emancipação está conectada à história e visa ao desenvolvimento das capacidades humanas.
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A Barbárie segundo Walter Benjamin e suas articulações com a educação / The Barbarism according to Walter Benjamin and their links with education

Pereira, Carlos Cesar Fernandes, 1981- 21 August 2018 (has links)
Orientador: César Aparecido Nunes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campionas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T20:38:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_CarlosCesarFernandes_M.pdf: 585334 bytes, checksum: 1f93474945d4713cd0bf80e88fa8e707 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: O presente trabalho de dissertação se trata de um estudo sobre a categoria de barbárie no pensamento de Walter Benjamin e de que forma se articula à educação. Para isso, em um primeiro momento, buscou-se entender como foi o processo de construção do pensamento de Walter Benjamin. Em seguida, houve a sepação de algumas categorias e preposições acerca de seu pensamento. Por fim, buscou-se articular estas categorias e preposições à educação. Com isso, surgiram alguns apontamentos para a superação da barbárie. / Abstract: This dissertation it is a study on the category of barbarism in the writings of Walter Benjamin and how education is structured. For this, at first, we sought to understand how was the process of building the writings of Walter Benjamin. Then there was the sepação some categories and propositions about their thinking. Finally, we attempted to link these categories to education and prepositions. Thus, there were some issues to overcome barbarism. / Mestrado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Mestre em Educação
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Arte para educar os sentidos : a atuação da Brava Companhia no Parque Santo Antônio - SP / Art to educate the senses : the action of the Brava Company Park Santo Antônio - SP

Miorim, Marina Araujo, 1981- 21 August 2018 (has links)
Orientador: Patrizia Piozzi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T21:22:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Miorim_MarinaAraujo_M.pdf: 3810512 bytes, checksum: bfae571d120c47428da2049ac3080706 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Este trabalho foi desenvolvido a fim de sistematizar e compreender a produção e as atividades da Brava Companhia - coletivo teatral da cidade de São Paulo -, pois suas ações são um exemplo do que vários grupos vêm realizando em comunidades da periferia da capital paulista, desenvolvendo uma pesquisa e criação cênica ao mesmo tempo em que agem política e socialmente nos espaços instalados. Assim, as práticas da companhia foram observadas com o intuito de compreendê-las em sua potencialidade de mediação para a tomada de consciência de processos econômicos e sociais que apartam os moradores do Parque Santo Antônio de uma emancipação humana baseada, sobretudo, em dignas possibilidades materiais de reprodução de suas vidas, bem como da liberdade de reflexão acerca do mundo contemporâneo. O objetivo, portanto, foi delimitar as proposições e expectativas que os integrantes desse coletivo teatral travam e quais são as possibilidades de repercussão para as pessoas envolvidas nessa sociabilidade intermediada pelo fazer artístico. / Abstract: This thesis was developed in order to systematize and understand the work of Brava Companhia - theatre company from São Paulo - insofar as it is an example of what has been performed by many groups that have been working in communities on the outskirts of São Paulo, developing both a research agenda and a theatrical creation to the same extent they act politically and socially in the areas in which they settle. Thus, it was observed how Brava may establish mediations for political awareness of economic and social processes that alienate residents of Parque Santo Antônio from a human emancipation based mainly on worthy material possibilities to reproduce their lives, as well as freedom of reflection concerning the contemporary world. The aim, therefore, was to delimit the propositions and expectations that members of this theater collective wage and what are the possibilities of repercussions for those involved in this sociability mediated by making art. / Mestrado / Ciencias Sociais na Educação / Mestre em Educação
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Conflictualités et politique comme oubli du citoyen (Haïti) / Conflictualities and politic as forgetting of the Citizen (Haiti)

Camilus, Adler 29 September 2015 (has links)
Notre thèse part de l’intelligibilité habituelle de la société haïtienne pensée dans un rapport de déterminité avec la colonie.Le sujet postcolonial est un sujet auto-enchaîné, autodestructeur et non émancipé par le fait que sa subjectivité serait produite par la colonialité. Par-delà ce schéma, nous émettons l’hypothèse que la Révolution haïtienne de 1804 peut être pensée comme une scène décoloniale dont la répétition peut être vérifiée dans l’Histoire et la radicalité susceptible de fonder une citoyenneté émancipatrice. Sa vérité se déploie dans une rencontre polémique avec la modernité. Elle devient le site d’un contre-imaginaire qui produit le détachement de l’imaginaire de la domination et une expérience de fondation et de commencement qui doit être étudiée en lien avec les conflictualités.L’oubli du citoyen vient de l’impossible croisement de la stásis et du dêmos contre l’ordre social de domination pour rendre effectifs de nouveaux droits face aux potentats au nom de l’égalité et de l’émancipation.La thèse est divisée en trois parties et neuf chapitres. La première partie traite du procès d’altérisation du sujet colonial en lien avec la subjectivité occidentale, les formes ambivalentes de ses revendications et de son auto-institution sans pouvoir s’auto-abolir. La deuxième aborde la question de l’interprétation de la Révolution et les formes de domination post-coloniale. La dernière partie retrouve la mémoire d’une exigence de fondation et de commencement au regard de l’idée de scène décoloniale porteuse d’une brèche-anarchique. Elle appréhende ensuite les rapports entre violence, pouvoir et conflictualités au regard d’une reconfiguration décoloniale du monde. / My doctoral thesis is a critical reading of the traditional intelligibility of the Haitian society which includes it in the relationship where its being is determined by the slave colony. The postcolonial subject is a self-chained subject, self-destructive and not emancipated one, because his subjectivity is produced by the coloniality. Beyond this interpretation, we hypothesize that the Haitian Revolution can be interpreted as a decolonial scene whose repetition can be verified in History and whose radicality can be found in an exigency of emancipating citizenship. Its truth manifests itself in the polemical encounter with the colonial modernity. It becomes the site of an against-imaginary which would bring the detachment of the imaginary of domination and a difficult experience of foundation/beginning which must be analyzed by taking into account the conflictualities. The forgetting of the citizen results of the impossible cross-road between stásis and dêmos against the social order of domination to make actual new rights in the name of equality and emancipation.The doctoral thesis is divided into three parts and nine chapters. The first part studies the othering process of the colonial subject in connection with Western subjectivity, the ambivalent forms of its claims and its self-institution not being able to self-abolition. The second part analyzes the interpretation of the Revolution and the post-colonial forms of domination. The last part finds the memory of a demand of foundation and beginning. It apprehends the relationships between violence, power and conflictualities with the aim of reconfiguration of the post colonial-world.
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Transgressions: corps féminin, langue d’adoption et légitimation dans la littérature maghrébine

Bouhayat, Souad 22 March 2017 (has links)
This thesis examines the voice of female writers from the Maghreb in the 1980s and their efforts to change the status of women of their respective countries: Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar and Badia Hadj Nasser. These writers exchange silence for voices in French, the language of ex-colonizer. They managed to stage in their novels strong women protagonistes who fight for their emancipation. These characters know how to overcome the obstacles of the Maghreban patriarchal society, who impose on them religious and traditional prohibitions, to find their freedom. In their fight, these women regain their feminine body in a society that refuses them one to become, in the end, a full subject. Notre thèse traite la voix des écrivaines maghrébine dans les années 80 et leurs efforts pour changer le statut de la femme maghrébine: Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar et Badia Hadj Nasser. Du silence à la prise de parole dans la langue de l’Autre, qui est la langue française, les écrivaines maghrébines de cette époque ont réussi à mettre en scène dans leurs romans des femmes militantes qui visent leur émancipation. Ces femmes ont su dépasser les entraves de la société patriarcale qui les incarnent dans les interdis religieux et traditionnels pour retrouver leur liberté. Leur combat a été celui de reconquérir leur corps de femme dans une société qui leur refuse un afin de s’imposer et de s’affirmer en devenant un sujet à part entière.
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Feminismus a emancipace na prahu 20. století. Anna Řeháková, Vlasta Pittnerová, dvě případové studie / Feminism and emancipation at the threshold of the 20th century. Anna Řeháková, Vlasta Pittnerová, two case studies

Potměšilová, Magdaléna January 2011 (has links)
Feminism and emancipation at the threshold of the 20th century Anna Řeháková, Vlasta Pittnerová, two case studies This PhD thesis deals with feminism and women's emancipation in Prague at the threshold of the 20th century. This work is a case study, based mainly on the biographical method. It is a concrete contribution to the history of emancipation and women's issues. The aim is to contribute to understanding the development of the women's movement in the Czech region on the border of the 19th and 20th century in a particular situation. Matter of this thesis is conceived as two case studies of two little-known personalities of the women's movement, their life and work today: a teacher and writer Anna Rehakova and writer and publicist Vlasta Pittnerová. The author conducted an analysis of the archival materials, memoirs, and inhe- ritances, the sources of contemporary women's own literary press and publications of both protagonists examined, as well as specialized books on the matter. On the basis of their work author demonstrates the development process in the women's movement, views the women and their fate. All of this, based on an example of life circumstances, attitudes and beliefs, as well as the formation of these two personalities not quite typical, active and taking part in the stream of...
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Misrecognition and Domination in Transnational Democracy

Allen, Michael 01 May 2010 (has links)
In this article, I locate the Critical Theoretic and Republican themes of misrecognition and domination in transnational democracy, viewed as an emancipatory project. Contrary to John Dryzek, I argue that transnational democracy requires an appropriate account of mutual recognition and personal integrity in order to ground the emancipatory dimension of this project, especially given Dryzek's analysis of transnational contests in forming personal identifications. Beyond this, I argue that the same themes are needed to supplement James Bohman's account of the normative powers of dominated persons to initiate deliberation in circumstances of injustice. Primarily, my claim has been that the idea of personal integrity remains essential not only to motivating the project of transnational democracy, but also modifying the appeal to normative powers in the interest of enabling dominated persons to enter into communicative relationships and engage in public processes of critical self-examination.
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A Study of Former Negro High School Students, Teachers, and Administrators in the Piedmont Area of North Carolina.

Washington, Carrie Smith 01 August 2002 (has links) (PDF)
This is a qualitative study of the perceptions of a purposeful sample of 27 individuals who were students, teachers, or administrators in North Carolina Negro high schools in the period from 1934 to 1966. I interviewed all of them personally or by telephone. All interviews were tape recorded, and the tapes were later transcribed by an individual who was familiar with the speech patterns of the interviewees. A commercial software program was used to help me identify any themes that emerged from the interviews. One main theme was that the conditions of buildings and equipment varied with the particular high school and the time period. Participants’ comments indicated that facilities were substandard because they were old, had not been maintained adequately, or lacked indoor plumbing. A second theme was that students said they had taken a wide range of courses in their senior years, including English, history, mathematics (algebra and trigonometry), science (biology, chemistry and physics), foreign languages (French and Spanish), home economics, and several secretarial or business courses. Responses were mixed about how well the students were prepared for employment, but several students said they were well prepared for college. A third theme was that former students indicated that their parents, teachers, and administrators had worked together effectively to offer supportive environments for students. The fourth theme was that, although the quality of education for black students in general had improved after desegregation began, in some cases desegregation had caused problems for academically talented black students who aspired to go to college. Some expressed the opinion that their teachers had cared more about them than is now the case. A fifth theme was that, although several of the former students said they favored maintaining desegregated public schools, some of them also expressed the hope that more schools attended by blacks would become neighborhood schools. It was the consensus that the federal government was the cause of desegregating Negro high schools altogether. There was a lack of consensus about whether the overall situation of black students had improved or worsened as a result of desegregation.

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