Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-25T18:14:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 carlabertaniaconceicaodesouza.pdf: 2600553 bytes, checksum: 4f5c366fe3c31627348de6ee71254d9b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-05-02T00:39:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 carlabertaniaconceicaodesouza.pdf: 2600553 bytes, checksum: 4f5c366fe3c31627348de6ee71254d9b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-02T00:39:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 carlabertaniaconceicaodesouza.pdf: 2600553 bytes, checksum: 4f5c366fe3c31627348de6ee71254d9b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-28 / O trabalho que ora se apresenta analisa os resultados da Regional Serrana II, localizada no município de Nova Friburgo, no Programa de Educação do Rio de Janeiro e as possíveis causas que contribuíram para o não alcance, por parte de quatro escolas, das metas estabelecidas pela Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro em 2011 e 2012. O Programa de Educação apresenta um planejamento estratégico estruturado em quatro eixos, incluindo políticas de ensino, políticas de gestão de pessoas, políticas de infraestrutura e gestão da comunicação, com estratégias de valorização de servidores através de meritocracia e bonificação por resultados, além de metas estabelecidas por meio de resultados anteriores de cada unidade escolar. A pesquisa realizou-se por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas, questionários em escala de Likert e análise de resultados de avaliações externas realizadas com os gestores das quatro unidades escolares e com amostras de professores. Os resultados dos estudos foram submetidos a autores escolhidos para subsidiarem o referencial teórico da pesquisa. A Regional Serrana II, nos anos de 2011 e 2012, destacou-se no ranking do estado entre as primeiras colocadas e a maioria das escolas que a compõe alcançou as metas propostas. A partir dos resultados da pesquisa, propõe-se um Plano de Ação Educacional (PAE), sugerindo a criação de um Grupo de Líderes (GL) que se destaca por ser formado por gestores que conseguiram resultados satisfatórios, por meio de uma gestão participativa e focada em resultados pedagógicos. / The results of four schools of Regional Serrana II in Rio de Janeiro Education Program are the subject of this research that aims to analyze the possible causes that contributed to not reach the goals established by the State of Rio de Janeiro Education 2011 and 2012. The research was carried out through semi-structured interviews, questionnaires on Likert scale and analysis of external evaluation results. The work has a focus on four schools analyzing different situations and identifying the reasons that may have contributed to the poor results at the start of program implementation, inadequate communication, irrelevant leadership profile, lack of information about the program, results of expropriation and the consequent departure from the proposed goals. The research has identified different characteristics to the same program by the analyzed school communities and the lack of cohesion in the work of some teams, but also identified the search for performance improvement in one and the difference that makes a participatory and collaborative management in school management. From the analysis carried out in the four school units, we intend to make the policies formulated by SEEDUC even closer on who runs through a Managers Leaders Group's own Regional Serrana II that has to accompany the development of the program in schools surveyed disseminating their actions, exchanging experience and showing that it is possible to achieve the expected results with planning, research, focus on results, teamwork and determination.

Education drives labour market outcomes and social mobility. When educational attainment is influenced by socioeconomic factors, many students from disadvantaged backgrounds are left behind. This is undesirable as it greatly reduces the human capital that could have been present in the national economy, therefore affecting the potential of economic growth. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the impact of a policy that has the purpose of reducing the gap in educational attainment between disadvantaged students and their peers.  The analysis takes place over a 12 year time span and across 22 local authority areas in Wales. The results highlight the importance in the measure of the attainment gap. The implementation of Pupil Premium can be correlated with a reduction in the gap that is defined by the proportional difference between disadvantaged students and their peers. The magnitude of the attainment gap has stayed fairly constant but overall attainment has risen significantly over the period under analysis.  There is room for further study into the possibility that the impact of Pupil Premium has affected some groups of students more than others.

Rebels haven’t always been sexy. In fact, throughout history “fighting the power” has often revealed the ugliest side of human nature. Of course, sometimes rebellion is necessary, even if it isn’t pretty, but it should never be considered lightly. So, under what circumstances is rebellion against authority—particularly a governing authority—morally sound? Is mutiny ever justified? Such questions are difficult, perhaps impossible, to answer, but literature can be a powerful tool for dissecting them. Captain Frederick Marryat (1798-1848), often called the father of naval fiction, used his novels to air these and other morally ambiguous questions for an early Victorian readership. At a time when widespread poverty, food shortages, and social injustices were leading to heated protests, Marryat’s microcosmic ships were a space to think through issues of rebellion, discipline, and the appropriate use of authority. This thesis analyzes two of Marryat’s novels, The King’s Own (1830) and Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836), highlighting themes of authority/discipline and the rhetorical functions of his didactic style. It’s easy to oversimplify Marryat—a patriotic ship captain and veteran of the Napoleonic Wars—as a classic establishment figure, but a close reading of these texts reveals that he was much more than an imperial flag-waver.

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Thesis advisor: Karen Arnold / Maximizing college summer breaks for career preparation and prestige accumulation is an established routine for elite undergraduates in the United States. Social reproduction, meritocracy, and changes to the world of work increasingly complicate this issue. Yet despite this additional burden, there is little research into the costs and benefits of participation and limited comprehension of how and why elite undergraduates internalize norms around summer breaks. This study fills that gap by introducing the High Prestige Summer Experience Model, a framework for understanding this decision-making process. Using interviews with 13 undergraduates and recent alumni from an Ivy League university, this grounded theory study presents the five phases of summer planning and participation. Students refine decisions at each stage by measuring possible opportunities against three mental measurements (Threshold of Acceptability, Narrative Currency Value, and Summer Prestige Ranking). The norms and beliefs inculcated through peer culture influence this paradigm through which they view their college summers. Underlying this process are the mediating factors that nudge and shape each particular student’s decisions: personal context; campus context; and societal context. Participants reported that summer experiences play an important role in peer positioning. They carry a narrative currency on campus and the ability to frame their experiences buys social acceptance for undergraduates. Summer experiences allow students to explore jobs in ways not normally available during term-time study, provide opportunities for personal development and growth, and equip them for their post-graduate elite status through capital accumulation. Participants noted that significant emotional and social consequences flow from actions in the summer experience process while simultaneously questioning its value to them in the long term. The findings of an additional comparison group of participants at a different selective campus indicate that this trend toward high prestige summer experiences is being normalized at lower rungs on the institutional prestige ladder as well. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

A meritocracia vem se destacando nas discussões de gestão de carreira como um sistema de valores que apregoa a igualdade de oportunidades e o reconhecimento do desempenho profissional. Ela se aplica por meio do atingimento de metas, ou ainda pelo reconhecimento da capacidade de uma atuação mais complexa, repercutindo em movimentações na carreira e recompensas pecuniárias. O presente trabalho se propõe a investigar as experiências de implantação de critérios meritocráticos nas decisões de movimentação na carreira de instituições do setor público brasileiro. Busca-se, a partir do estudo de um caso de implantação do referencial de competências aplicado a gestão de carreiras, identificar a influência dos fatores institucionais, dificultando ou facilitando a prevalência de práticas meritocráticas. O estudo de caso foi realizado em instituições do Poder Executivo do Estado do Espírito Santo. / Meritocracy has been highlighted in career management discussions as a system of values that claims equality of opportunity and job performance recognition. It applies through the achievement of goals or through the recognition of the capacity of more complex operation, reflecting on changes in the career and financial rewards. This study aims to investigate the experiences implementation of meritocratic criteria in decisions of career move in Brazilian\'s public sector institutions. The aim is, from a case study of framework competence´s applied to career management, to identify the influence of institutional factors that hinder or facilitate the prevalence of meritocratic practices. The case study was performed in Espírito Santo State´s institutions of the Executive.

A presente dissertação busca realizar uma discussão pormenorizada de dois grandes teóricos da justiça distributiva: John Rawls e Ronald Dworkin. O objetivo é verificar como a meritocracia e a responsabilidade individual são acomodadas, de forma normativamente apropriada, nessas diferentes interpretações do igualitarismo, ressaltando suas justificativas para a existência de desigualdades socioeconômicas, isto é, sob que condições estas poderiam ser consideradas legítimas. Além disso, verificar-se-á que tipo de políticas públicas o Estado estaria autorizado a adotar, se levar em consideração as implicações de cada uma dessas concepções de justiça. / This dissertation seeks to accomplish a detailed discussion of two major theorists of distributive justice: John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin. The aim is to check how meritocracy and individual responsibility are accommodated, in normatively appropriate way, in these different interpretations of egalitarianism, highlighting the justifications for the existence of socioeconomic inequalities, that is, under what conditions these could be considered legitimate. Furthermore, this study will verify what kind of policies the state would be authorized to adopt, taking into account the implications of each of these conceptions of justice.

Submitted by CARLA MARIA GOULART DE MORAES (carlagm) on 2015-06-25T17:41:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AltemarJuniorDireito.pdf: 728795 bytes, checksum: 6f5a6a49c9e7952d252311607b1fd841 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-25T17:41:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AltemarJuniorDireito.pdf: 728795 bytes, checksum: 6f5a6a49c9e7952d252311607b1fd841 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Nenhuma / Este trabalho discute a possibilidade de adoção de políticas de ação afirmativa como forma de promover a inclusão e a democratização racial nas universidades brasileiras. A partir da experiência dos Estados Unidos, onde há mais de cinquenta anos se desenvolvem tais políticas, procura fazer um paralelo entre a efetividade das ações afirmativas norte-americana e a forma como vem sendo desenvolvidos os programas de inclusão da população negra nos bancos das universidades brasileiras. Considerando que o Brasil é signatário da Conferência Contra o Racismo, Discriminação, Xenofobia e Intolerâncias Correlatas, ocorrida em 2001, e que a partir de então se compromete em adotar medidas de promoção da diversidade, o trabalho apresenta o modo como as principais universidades federais se organizaram para desenvolver suas formas de ações afirmativas, representadas pelas cotas no vestibular. Nessa perspectiva, a pesquisa se desenvolve tendo como referência teórica a lição de John Rawls, principalmente em sua apresentação do princípio da diferença, e o posicionamento de Ronald Dworkin acerca das ações afirmativas. Por outro lado, a pesquisa defende as razões que legitimam as ações afirmativas unicamente no que tange ao acesso da população negra nas instituições de ensino superior, não devendo tal política ser implantada em outra disputa democrática, sob pena de afrontar o princípio constitucional da igualdade. / The present study discusses the possibility of adopting affirmative action policies as a way to promote inclusion and racial democratization in Brazilian's universities. From the experience of the United States, where there is more than fifty years has been developed such policies, seeks to draw a parallel between the effectiveness of affirmative action in north america and how the programs have been developed to include the black population on the banks of Brazilian universities. Considering that Brazil is a signatory to the World Conference Again st Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerances, held in 2001, and since then undertakes to adopt measures to promote diversity, the study shows how the major federal universities are organized to develop their forms of affirmative action, represented by quotas to the entrance exam. In this perspective, the research is developed with theoretical reference by John Rawals's lesson, especially in its presentation of the principle of difference, and the positioning of Ronald Dworkin about affirmative action. On the other hand, the research defends the reasons that legitimate affirmative action just about terms of access of black people in institutions of higher education, shouldn't such a policy be deployed in other democratic contest, failing to confront the constitutional principle of equality.

This mixed-methods sequential explanatory study explored the causes of teachers' resistance to evaluation reform. Teachers in this study demonstrated both resistant and compliant behaviors in response to a particular evaluation policy, which also started a process for teachers to express concerns over the implementation of a new law governing teachers' careers. This research study utilized quantitative and qualitative methods for data collection and analysis, including surveys, interviews, and program documents. The responses, insights, and perspectives of 433 public school teachers provided the primary data in this study. The results indicated that the process by which the government of Peru implemented evaluation procedures negatively affected teachers' motivation toward compliance and thus impaired the success of the reform. This study also revealed that although teachers opposed evaluation, they agreed with the idea of an evaluation policy. Further, when given the opportunity to voice their opinions about evaluation procedures and the inclusion of merit pay plans into the career ladder, teachers cited overriding problems with the organizational structures in which they worked. The nullification of teachers' tenure and rights was the most important cause of teachers' resistance to evaluation-based pay plans; responses did not differ greatly between less and more experienced teachers. Finally, throughout this study it was clear that simply mandating change was not enough to successfully and effectively implement it or to achieve advances in teacher quality and student achievement. / text

A meritocracia vem se destacando nas discussões de gestão de carreira como um sistema de valores que apregoa a igualdade de oportunidades e o reconhecimento do desempenho profissional. Ela se aplica por meio do atingimento de metas, ou ainda pelo reconhecimento da capacidade de uma atuação mais complexa, repercutindo em movimentações na carreira e recompensas pecuniárias. O presente trabalho se propõe a investigar as experiências de implantação de critérios meritocráticos nas decisões de movimentação na carreira de instituições do setor público brasileiro. Busca-se, a partir do estudo de um caso de implantação do referencial de competências aplicado a gestão de carreiras, identificar a influência dos fatores institucionais, dificultando ou facilitando a prevalência de práticas meritocráticas. O estudo de caso foi realizado em instituições do Poder Executivo do Estado do Espírito Santo. / Meritocracy has been highlighted in career management discussions as a system of values that claims equality of opportunity and job performance recognition. It applies through the achievement of goals or through the recognition of the capacity of more complex operation, reflecting on changes in the career and financial rewards. This study aims to investigate the experiences implementation of meritocratic criteria in decisions of career move in Brazilian\'s public sector institutions. The aim is, from a case study of framework competence´s applied to career management, to identify the influence of institutional factors that hinder or facilitate the prevalence of meritocratic practices. The case study was performed in Espírito Santo State´s institutions of the Executive.