This thesis explores whether environmental justice can attenuate the burdens attributed to the operation of the E.B. Campbell Dam experienced by downstream Indigenous communities in the Saskatchewan River Delta. Environmental justice for Indigenous people who are affected by dam management is important for three reasons. First, Indigenous people often experience environmental burdens of dam management disproportionately. Second, Indigenous people are often excluded from dam decision-making. Third, when Indigenous people are included in dam decision-making, their rights and values are sometimes misrecognized within decision-making processes. While exploring environmental justice for Indigenous people in the context of dam management, this thesis contributes to a recommendation that empirical studies of environmental justice should describe the underlying causes of environmental injustice. This thesis contributes to this recommendation by documenting how power relations challenge environmental justice for Indigenous people in dam decision-making. A place-based, interdisciplinary methodology was taken to clarify an environmental justice pathway for downstream Indigenous communities in the Saskatchewan River Delta. This methodology involved analyses of hydrometric data, interview data and legal and policy documents. The findings of this thesis include that Indigenous people, through their meaningful participation in dam decision-making, could help government representatives recognize the environmental burdens of dam management. However, imbalances in power between Indigenous people and government representatives could constrain Indigenous people’s meaningful participation. The implication of these findings is that if power relations are accounted for in decision-making, the meaningful participation of Indigenous people can facilitate the recognition and remediation of environmental burdens attributed to dam management.

This essay examines three of Herman Melville’s shorter fictions: Bartleby, Benito Cereno and Billy Budd. An analysis and comparison is made of the forces of power relations and resistance between the main characters in the three stories. Foucault’s theories of power are used as a basis for the analysis. Apparent power structures such as law and military hierarchy are analysed, but the focus is on more subtle relations based on language, knowledge, conformity with norms, silence, capitalism and position. It is argued that, apart from the apparent power structures, one needs to consider the more subtle power relations and acts of resistance for an understanding in the shifts of power positions. The study examines how the resisting oppressed party in each of the three works of fiction ends up dead, and that on a first reading resistance may seem futile. A further examination of the seemingly re-established conventional order, however, reveals shifts in power positions, shifts that indicate instability in the norms of society. It is argued that positions of power are to some extent reversed in the studied works of fiction, where the dominant party ends up suffering.

In this thesis, in which I use the stand-alone paper format, I employ a Foucauldian lens to examine Alberta’s Future Leaders (AFL), an Aboriginal youth leadership development program. In the first paper, I identify how power relations shape AFL, including its ambitions and struggles towards developing sustainable programming. In the second paper, I examine AFL’s cross-cultural approach to mentorship and the ways in which failing to address issues of culture (re)produces colonial relations of power. Overall, my findings highlight the importance of recognizing and problematizing the power relations at work within Aboriginal youth leadership development initiatives.

This thesis takes its departure from the on-going debate about teachers´(collective) ‘continuing professional development’ (CPD). Teachers’ CPD through an imposed nine-step model of peer group mentoring (PGM) is focused on. The study draws on data from a two and a half yearlong interactive project that took place in a teacher team in a Swedish school. The general aim of the thesis is to study a practice of professional development in a teacher team involving peer group mentoring and to find out how and what kind of teachers’ expertise that is constructed. Furthermore, the aim is to examine how the PGM-practice was constrained and enabled and what kind of CPD was made possible. The theoretical and methodological framework is mainly based on practice theory. Practices and practitioners are seen as mutually interrelated. Practice architectures (Kemmis &amp; Grootenboer, 2008) are used to uncover the relations between the PGM-practice and its historical, material-economic, social-political and cultural-discursive conditions. Furthermore, Foucault’s notion of power was adopted as an analytical tool to examine how power came into play during the mentoring sessions and how the teachers’ discursively constructed a ‘good teacher’ and teachers’ expertise. The methodological approach is action research. A main finding of the thesis is that professional and personnel development may be imposed through peer group mentoring. Furthermore, democratic processes increased during the PGMmeetings and seemed to have an impact on classroom practice and the practice of parent-teacher meetings. The results show how the PGM–practice and its outcomes are deeply interconnected to global and local historical, material-economic, social-political and cultural-discursive arrangements which constrained and enabled it. When economic cut downs (i.e. materialeconomic arrangements) began to take effect in the local school, along with a neo-liberal discourse (i.e. cultural-discursive arrangements), democratic processes were challenged and threatened. The focus in the PGM discussions shifted from the teachers’ perceived need for pedagogical knowledge development to talk about students as costs. The constrained nine-step model disciplined some individuals more than others. The teachers disciplined each other through e.g. confessions, corrections and differentiations. Inconsistent discourses about good teaching and teachers’ know-how were constructed and the teachers positioned themselves and each other as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ teachers. The interactive research approach partly enabled the PGM-practice but at the same time effected the teachers’ positioning of each other. The interactive research approach disciplined both the teachers and the researcher. Anyhow, power relations became fluent and mutual among the participants. A collegial approach and the ability to carry out reflexive cooperation were both fostered by the model and articulated in the PGM-practice as important teacher skills. / <p>Akademisk avhandling som med tillstånd av utbildningsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid</p><p>Göteborgs universitet för vinnande av doktorsexamen i Pedagogiskt arbete framläggs till offentlig granskning Fredagen den 14 mars, klockan 13.00, Sal C 203 vid Högskolan i Borås</p><p>Fakultetsopponent: Professor Emeritus Per Lauvås, Oslo</p><p>Langelotz, L., &amp; Rönnerman, K. (2014).The practice of peer Group mentoring - traces of global changes and regional traditions. In K. Rönnerman, P, Salo &amp; T. Lund (Eds.), Lost in Practice. Transforming Nordic Action Research. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. (forthcoming)</p><p>Langelotz, L. (2013). Teachers peer group mentoring - Nine steps to heaven? Education Inquiry, 4(2), 375-399. ISSN 2000-4508</p><p>Langelotz, L. (2013). Så görs en (o)skicklig lärare. Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige, 18(3-4). ISSN 1401-6788</p><p></p>

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The life history research reported here, explores Becoming, Othering, and Mothering experiences of Korean immigrant women with White dominant culture English speaking Canadian-born spouses, and is guided by the research questions: (1) How do the Korean immigrant women who have White dominant culture English speaking Canadian-born spouses describe their linguistic and cultural integration into their intercultural families and Canadian society? (2) How do they negotiate and reconstruct their identities? (3) How do they describe their strengths and challenges as foreign wives and immigrant mothers in intercultural families and as immigrants in Canadian society? and (4) How do they deal with their children’s dual languages, cultures and identities? Multiple life history interviews were conducted with seven participants; additionally, the researcher’s autoethnography was included. The data were examined through reflexive analysis—within-case analysis, and across-case analysis—and interpreted through an interpretivist perspective (Crotty, 1998; Mack, 2010). Emergent themes in three main categories include—becoming, othering and mothering—each of which is discussed in terms of language socialization, linguistic and cultural power relations, and the impact of linguistic and cultural integration and power relations on participants’ identities. This research brings to attention the circumstances of linguistically, culturally, and racially marginalized minority people in Canada. When the intercultural family is viewed as a microcosm of Canada’s multicultural society, this research provides to both dominant-culture Canadians and minority group people, awareness of how linguistic, cultural, and racial hegemony marginalizes minority people in Canada. / May 2016

Assessor: The purpose of this study is to highlight tenants and staff’s perception of user’s involvement and influence in municipal group housing in living by the Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS). The study where performed in five small municipalities in the southern part of Sweden. Leading research questions have inter alia been in what way the process of decision-making is shared between the user and support person. Applied methods are mixed between qualitative interpretative modes with a certain quantitative approach. Qualitative group interviews consist of two focus groups with professional employees. One consists of three middle managers and the other one of five caregivers at special housing (LSS). Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with three individual users, i.e. a person who has assistance according to LSS. Twenty-four quantitative questionnaires directed to professionals in varying positions, all with the common feature that they are working with people with disabilities according to LSS. The assembled data was coded and themed into participation, influence, integrity and self-determination, living like others. Findings: Users can influence through board meetings and by legal predecessors and staff. The situational built in asymmetrical power imbalance can be compensated through mutual acceptance.

Student Number: 0306365F Masters in Education School of Education / An attempt to improve the quality of education in Botswana included an emphasis on alternative forms of assessment. This attempt however, has produced inconclusive results and the censure has often been on technical issues such as; lack of resources and overlooking the teachers’ understanding of the proposed innovation. A naturalistic research approach was undertaken by this study to investigate whether or not teachers at junior secondary schools in Botswana were using formative assessment when teaching mathematics as advocated in the RNPE. By employing the notion of currere, the study subjected three purposively sampled mathematics teachers drawn from three purposively sampled public junior secondary schools to an autobiographical process to reflect on their practices. The research methods comprised classroom observations and interviews. In the light of Bernstein’s theory of pedagogic device, data was analyzed and interpreted. The findings of this study indicated that mathematics teachers’ assessment strategies are still traditional. Their practices are influenced by many factors more especially by the need to make sure that students do well in the public examinations. Their understanding of these factors determines their receptivity to the proposed change. These teachers need to put themselves on the spot, and question their taken-for-granted aspects of their work. Only this way, would they become aware of alternative cause of action they need to take and can regard themselves as “critical public intellectuals.”

Esta pesquisa coloca em evidência as decisões tomadas pelos conselheiros do Conselho Nacional de Autorregulação Publicitária, o conar (OARP), no ano de 2015. Através de um arcabouço teórico e de uma abordagem discursiva, nosso objetivo é problematizar as relações de poder e mecanismos que influenciam nas decisões alcançadas pelos conselheiros da entidade, as quais são sempre justificadas com base em uma aplicação do Código de Ética Publicitário. Problematizamos os conceitos de língua e de seu uso como sistema fixo, transparente e objetivo que envolve produtores e receptores de significados, o qual é o ponto de partida de outros trabalhos que falam sobre o papel do Conar na publicidade, para dar espaço a uma visão de construção de significados por sujeitos envolvidos em uma interação discursiva, e que sofrem sempre influência da posição de onde suas falas partem e de suas subjetividades. Discutimos o OARP em dois momentos históricos distintos e a partir de uma visão de campo, refletindo sobre como seus discursos se inserem nas condições de produção de cada momento respectivo, contextualizando seu aparecimento, no final da década de 70 e início da década de 80, e depois, em um período já recente, onde o OARP trabalha ativamente a partir de sua posição no campo para sua manutenção em relação aos outros atores sociais. Analisamos como os mecanismos de exclusão e validação da voz que são criados tanto discursivamente quanto pela estruturação específica das interações do campo publicitário garantem um espaço ao consumidor, mas em uma posição de existência sem direito à voz, situação discutida em algumas decisões analisadas, dialogando com o conceito de subjetividade. Por último analisamos decisões que pertencem a duas indústrias específicas e diferentes: na primeira há intensa atividade com denúncias empresa-empresa, onde essas podem se provar úteis para a obtenção de lucros, alimentando a disputa entre atores sociais que competem no mesmo segmento de negócios. Na segunda analisamos decisões relacionadas a uma indústria onde não há quaisquer denúncias empresa-empresa, e onde há participação intensa de consumidores, de quem partem todas as denúncias contra as empresas. / This research highlights the decisions made by the counselors of the Conselho Nacional de Autorregulação Publicitária, or National Council for Self-Regulating Advertising, also known as Conar (and which we shall call hereinafter OARP), in the year 2015. Through a theoretical framework and a discursive approach, our objective is to problematize the power relations and mechanisms that influence the decisions made by the counselors of the entity, which are always justified on the basis of compliance to the Code of Publicity Ethics. We problematize the concepts of language and its use as a fixed, transparent and objective system that involves producers and recipients of meanings, which is the starting point of other works discussing the role of Conar in Advertising, so instead, we make room for a vision of constructing meanings by subjects involved in a discursive interaction, and who are always subject to the influence of the position wherein their speech is built as well as to their subjectivity. We discuss the OARP at two distinct historical moments and from a specific perspective of the concept of \"field\", by Bourdieu, drawing reflections on how the OARPs discourses fit into the conditions of production in each respective moment, contextualizing the agencys foundation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and then, looking at a recent period when the OARP works actively in the \"field\" for the maintenance of its position always in relation to the other social actors present in the same field. We analyze how the mechanisms for exclusion and validation of the voice of social actors are created through both, discourse and by means of specific structuring of the interactions in the publicity field, guaranteeing consumers with a position, however without right to having voice, as we discuss in some decisions which were analyzed, and that dialogues with the concept of subjectivity. Finally, we analyze decisions belonging to two specific and different industries: in the first industry we see intense activity with company-company denunciations, where these can prove useful for obtaining \'profits\', fueling the dispute between social actors competing in the same business segments. In the second industry, we analyze decisions where there are no \'business-to-business\' denunciations, and where there is intense participation from consumers, from which all denunciations against companies originate.

O presente estudo insere-se na linha de pesquisa Currículos, ensino e aprendizagem em Matemática, do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Educação Matemática e Educação (GEPEME), da área de Ensino de Matemática e Ciências do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e tem como objetivo investigar em que medida o conhecimento matemático é usado na sociedade contemporânea e como se manifesta nas relações de poder; e compreender sobre e como as práticas de significação interferem na organização e construção do currículo da Matemática da Educação Básica. Metodologicamente, inclui-se numa abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa, na modalidade ensaio teórico e articula práticas discursivas que têm sido pouco confrontadas com a Educação Matemática, mais precisamente, com o currículo da Matemática escolar, ao longo dos últimos anos. Teoricamente, fundamenta-se em estudos sobre as diferentes teorias de currículo procurando analisar o papel que as disciplinas escolares ocupam em cada uma dessas teorias; em estudos sobre a centralidade da cultura para discutir as questões da contemporaneidade; e em estudos na área de Educação Matemática, tais como Etnomatemática, Enculturação Matemática, Educação Matemática Crítica e Modelagem Matemática por serem estudos que articulam-se, sobremaneira, com o cultural, o político e o social da Educação Matemática. Ao tratar-se das disciplinas escolares, recuperando os conceitos de conhecimento poderoso, legítimo, de status elevado e não elevado, da relação mútua entre saber e poder, do currículo como prática de significação, conceitos esses que dão sentido às ações e permitem interpretar ações alheias e que quando tomadas em seu conjunto formam as culturas, pensou-se na Matemática escolar, nos saberes matemáticos institucionalizados ou não. Matemática escolar essa que como prática social, cultural e política deveria privilegiar e dar mais atenção aos menos favorecidos, fazendo ecoar as suas vozes. É por essa Matemática escolar, mais igualitária e menos representante do pensamento hegemônico que se construiu uma proposta alicerçada em conceitos-chaves estruturados em teorias curriculares e educacionais em consonância com a Etnomatemática, que auxilia no fortalecimento da ideia de que o conhecimento matemático é hibridizado e fundamenta-se, sobretudo, na reestruturação e fortalecimento das raízes das vozes silenciadas; com a Educação Matemática Crítica, que preocupa-se sobremaneira com os aspectos políticos da Educação Matemática, isto é, com as questões relacionadas à temática do poder; com a Modelagem Matemática, que é uma importante peça constituinte das discussões envolvendo a Matemática escolar e as relações de poder; e com a Enculturação Matemática, que apresenta uma proposta de currículo da Matemática escolar com a centralidade na dimensão cultural. / This study is part of the research line \"Curriculum, teaching and learning in mathematics\", developed by the Group of Studies and Research in Education and Mathematics Education (GEPEME) from the Teaching of Mathematics and Science area in the Post-Graduation in Education Program of the Faculty of Education - University of São Paulo (USP) and aims to investigate the extent to which mathematical knowledge is used in the contemporary society and how it manifests itself throughout power relations; and also to understand how practices of meaning interfere in the organization and construction of the mathematics curriculum of basic education. Methodologically, this study is a theoretical essay and has adopted a qualitative approach to research. It articulates discursive practices that have rarely been confronted with mathematics education, more precisely, with the curriculum of school mathematics. Theoretically, it is based on studies on different curriculum theories seeking to analyze the role that school subjects play in each of these theories: in studies on the centrality of culture to discuss contemporary issues; and, in studies in the area of mathematics education such as ethnomathematics, mathematical enculturation, critical mathematics education and mathematical modeling, because they are articulated, above all, with the cultural, political and social aspects of mathematics education. When we dealt with school subjects, recovering the concepts of legitimate, powerful knowledge, high and not-high status, the mutual relationship between knowledge and power, the curriculum as a practice of meaning; concepts that give meaning to actions and allow us to interpret others actions and that when understood as a whole, form cultures; we thought about school mathematics and mathematical knowledge whether institutionalized or not. As a social, cultural and political practice, school mathematics should give priority and more attention to the less privileged ones, echoing their voices. It was for such school mathematics, more egalitarian and less representative of the hegemonic thinking, that a proposal was built based on key concepts grounded in educational and curriculum theories in line with: Ethnomathematics, which helps to strengthen the idea that mathematical knowledge is hybridized and is based mainly on restructuring and strengthening the voices that were silenced; with the Critical Mathematics Education, which is largely concerned with the political aspects of mathematics education, that is, issues related to power; with Mathematical Modeling, which is an important part of the discussions involving school mathematics and power relations, and with the Mathematical Enculturation, which proposes a school mathematics curriculum centered on the cultural dimension.