Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2018-09-18T19:03:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017 - Gilceli Chagas Moura.pdf: 1944492 bytes, checksum: f87dd5a1ce949dd59694d76b9de5e370 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-18T19:03:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017 - Gilceli Chagas Moura.pdf: 1944492 bytes, checksum: f87dd5a1ce949dd59694d76b9de5e370 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-09 / The present dissertation proposed the analysis of the student's aid program implementation in the Federal Institute of Amapa (IFAP), at Campus Macapa, and its contributions to the permanence and successful exit of professional education students. It aimed to describe the Student Aid Policy adopted in the institution; as well analyze, the perception of students and managers regarding the Student Aid Policy execution, and propose measures that enhance the performance of this policy. To achieve this purpose, we did a documentary research using the qualitative approach. The first step of the study consisted of theoretical reflections, through bibliographic review addressing the concept/definitions of essential terms that substantiate the goals of student's aid; to establish the context to the history of social rights from industrial revolution to present days, based also in current legislation. The next step was to gather information about the institution installation process; the student's aid program implementation and how the policy is being handled. In order to do that, we used as research instruments the documents available at the website, such as the Institutional Development Program (PDI) and public notice, the promotional material available to the students and budget sheets. For the third step, 20% of the students of technical education covered by the aid program responded a survey, which represented 39 students. The survey questionnaire consisted of open and closed-ended questions. Also, semi-structured interviews were used for data gathering, with the people responsible for the establishment of the aid policy in the IFAP. The results reveal that the profile of the students covered by the aid program consists mostly of black women; coming from families with low level of education; composed by 6 people that survive with an income per capita of up to half minimum wage and excluded from the government aid programs. Another fact observed was the contribution of the aid program for the students to continue their professional education, according to the results, although there are actions that aim to guarantee the stay and successful outcome of the students, the policy doesn't fully accomplish its goals, cause there is no section responsible for monitoring the students at the Dean. Aside from the lack of specific regulations, the lack of evaluation mechanisms and the small number of servants to carry out the program, which ends up in a simple cash transfer program. / A presente disserta??o se prop?s a analisar o processo de implementa??o do programa de assist?ncia estudantil do Instituto Federal do Amap? (IFAP) no Campus Macap? e suas contribui??es para a perman?ncia e a sa?da com ?xito dos estudantes na educa??o profissional. Buscou-se descrever a Pol?tica de Assist?ncia Estudantil ora adotada; bem como analisar, frente a esse modelo de refer?ncia, a percep??o dos estudantes e dos gestores quanto ? execu??o da Pol?tica de Assist?ncia Estudantil e assim propor medidas que possibilitem melhor desempenho na implementa??o dessa pol?tica na Institui??o. Para isso, utilizou-se a abordagem qualitativa realizando-se pesquisa documental. A primeira etapa do estudo constituiu-se inicialmente de reflex?es te?ricas, atrav?s de revis?o bibliogr?fica abordando os conceitos/defini??es de termos essenciais que fundamentam o objetivo-fim da assist?ncia estudantil; contextualizou ainda, o percurso da garantia dos direitos sociais desde a revolu??o industrial at? os dias atuais, embasada tamb?m nas legisla??es existentes. No segundo momento, foram levantadas informa??es acerca da implanta??o da Institui??o; da implementa??o do Programa de Assist?ncia Estudantil e como hoje esta pol?tica est? sendo executada, para tal objetivo foi necess?rio utilizar como instrumentos de pesquisa o PDI, editais, a coleta de materiais informativos dispon?veis na p?gina eletr?nica e dos materiais impressos de divulga??o, disponibilizados para os alunos e planilhas or?ament?ria. Para a terceira etapa, preferiu-se a aplica??o de question?rio a 20 % dos alunos do ensino t?cnico contemplados no PAE, correspondente a 39 alunos, o referido instrumento constou de perguntas abertas e fechadas. Ainda como coleta de dados foram realizadas entrevistas com perguntas semiestruturadas aos atores no processo de implanta??o e operacionaliza??o do PNAES no IFAP. Os resultados revelaram que o perfil dos discentes usu?rios da assist?ncia estudantil ? caracterizado em sua maioria de mulheres; pardas, oriundas de fam?lias com baixo grau de escolaridade; composta por at? 6 pessoas as quais sobrevivem com uma renda per capita familiar de at? meio sal?rio m?nimo e exclu?das de programas governamentais. Outro dado constatado diz respeito sobre a sua contribui??o para o a perman?ncia dos estudantes na educa??o profissional, onde a pesquisa revelou que embora ocorra as a??es com vista a garantir tal perman?ncia e a sa?da exitosa, a referida pol?tica n?o consegue efetivar seus objetivos, tendo em vista que n?o ocorre um acompanhamento real dos usu?rios dos servi?os, pois a inexist?ncia um setor respons?vel no ?mbito de Reitoria; a inexist?ncia de uma regulamenta??o pr?pria; a falta de mecanismos de avalia??o e o escasso n?mero de servidores para realizar os servi?os, acaba resumindo as a??es do PAE num processo de transfer?ncia de renda.

Objetivamos levantar a opinião de alunos e professores sobre o significado de ser bom e mau professor; as estratégias de ensino e os critérios de avaliação utilizados nas aulas. Trabalhamos um estudo qualitativo usando a metodologia participativa mediada pela Pesquisa-Ação. Investigamos 47 sujeitos (12 professores e 35 alunos) da educação profissional de nível técnico em enfermagem, de uma instituição mineira. Os dados foram obtidos por meio de questionário e da observação participante. Após categorização efetuou-se a análise dos dados. A maioria dos educadores entrevistados referiu que bom professor é aquele que é aberto, responsável, facilitador, entre outros. E o mau professor, assume postura autoritária e adialógica. Já os alunos evidenciaram ser bom professor aquele que domina e sabe passar conteúdo e para o mau professor, o inverso. Professores e alunos destacaram a aula expositiva como a técnica mais utilizada em sala de aula e os alunos evidenciaram uso excessivo de retroprojetor para esse tipo de aula. Quanto ao processo de avaliação os professores demonstraram preocupação em contemplar várias modalidades avaliativas, e os alunos destacaram provas, trabalhos individuais e em grupo como as técnicas mais utilizadas. Sobre as dificuldades enfrentadas na sala de aula, os professores mencionaram o desinteresse, e os alunos enfatizaram a desmotivação nas aulas. A respeito do ensino à distância, professores e alunos revelaram conhecimento sobre essa modalidade de ensino. Os alunos revelaram necessidade de maior motivação na vida dos professores e no processo ensinoaprendizagem. Os resultados finais foram compartilhados com alunos e professores, explicitando que isso representaria o lançamento de uma semente, necessitando maior investimento na área, sobremaneira às complexas questões que se atrelam o processo ensinoaprendizagem e a relação professor-aluno. / The goal of this research is to get students and professors’ opinions about waht means beeing a good or a bad teacher; learning strategies and evaluation criterias used on the classes. We used a qualitative research methods and a participative methodology in Action Research. We investigate 47 people (12 professores and 35 students) from a professional level education in nursing at an institution in Minas Gerais. The data were achieved by questionaries and participative observation. After categorizing the data we did the analysis. Most os the interviewed educators said that the caracteristics of a good professor are: openess, responsability, and among others that he has to be a facilitator of the learning process. And a bad professor is authoritarian and not able to stabilish a good dialog. On the other hand, the students said that a good professor is the one who dominates the class and knows how to explain the subject and the bad one doesn’t do any of those. Professors and students detached the expositive class as the most used technique in the classroom and the students emphasized the excessive use of the overheadprojector on this kind of classes. About the evaluation process, the professors showed that they were worried about adding new evaluation modalities, and the students said that tests, individual and group work were the most used evaluation techniques. About the difficulties inside the classroom, the professors mentioned that one of them is the students’seflessness and the students agreed that desmotivation is a problem in the classes. Professors and students said that they both have some knowledge about distance learning education. Students said that professors needed more motivation on their own lives and also on the teaching and learning process. The final results were shared with the students and professors, showing that this attitude would represent the beginning of a process which needs more attention, mainly those complex problems concerning teaching and learning process and the relation between professor and students.

Nos últimos anos, as universidades corporativas têm emergido no complexo sistema de ensino do nosso país, como uma alternativa à falta de mão de obra qualificada no mercado de trabalho. Algumas iniciativas não utilizam a denominação \"universidade corporativa\", uma vez que não existe nenhuma forma de reconhecimento oficial. O uso do termo \"universidade\" é, além de uma metáfora dos objetivos que se pretende alcançar, uma estratégia de marketing que, por vezes, pode causar certa polêmica nos meios acadêmicos. Mas, na prática, o que se vê nas universidades corporativas é uma aproximação entre empresa e academia, uma vez que as parcerias com universidades e instituições de ensino de renome acrescentam qualidade e credibilidade ao trabalho proposto. O que parece ser mais importante neste cenário é a procura por alternativas que revertam um quadro de profissionais mal qualificados, o que diminui a produtividade e inibe a inovação, fatores que afetam diretamente o desenvolvimento de todo o país. Este trabalho traz um levantamento do cenário da educação brasileira e a emergência das universidades corporativas. Propõe-se, portanto, essa aproximação entre escola, empresa e academia para um único objetivo: cidadãos formados e informados, com capacidade crítica e criativa. / In recent years, corporate universities have emerged in the complex Brazilian educational system as an alternative to the lack of qualified manpower in the labor market. Some initiatives do not make use of the \"corporate university\" title, as there is no officially recognized nomenclature. The use of the term \"university\" is, besides a metaphor for the goals to be reached, a marketing strategy which, at times, may bring about some sort of debate in academic environments. But, in practice, what is seen in corporate universities is convergence between company and academy, as partnerships with universities and well-known educational institutions add quality and credibility to the proposed work. What seems most important in this scenario is the search for alternatives to reverse the current state of underqualified professionals, which decreases productivity and inhibits innovation, factors that directly impact the development of the whole country. This work raises data on the educational scenario in Brazil and the emergence of corporate universities. It is proposed, therefore, the intersection of schools, companies, and academy towards a single goal: educated and informed citizens who are critically and creatively skilled.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-08-16T12:38:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Gisela Lange do Amaral_.pdf: 1684764 bytes, checksum: 671ac8dda024a96129f7d868ddd5f571 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-16T12:38:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gisela Lange do Amaral_.pdf: 1684764 bytes, checksum: 671ac8dda024a96129f7d868ddd5f571 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-24 / Nenhuma / Nesta pesquisa analisou-se o contexto, o desenvolvimento e os desdobramentos do Curso em Execução, Conservação e Restauro de Edificações-PROEJA, realizado no Câmpus Pelotas do Instituto Federal Sul Riograndense, cujo projeto político-pedagógico foi construído na perspectiva de uma formação emancipatória. O objetivo foi compreender seu processo, desde o planejamento até seus resultados, para averiguar as possibilidades de processos escolarizados, na concretude de seu cotidiano, se constituírem como promotores do desenvolvimento da consciência crítica dos educandos e, a partir dela, de sua emancipação e autonomia, como condição à participação desses sujeitos na transformação social que supere o capitalismo e aponte para relações baseadas em princípios de igualdade, justiça e sustentabilidade das relações entre as pessoas e delas com o planeta. Constituiu-se como um estudo de caso articulado a pressupostos da pesquisa participante, já que a pesquisadora atua no Curso desde seu planejamento e, a partir da pesquisa, buscou criar espaços de construção coletiva dos sujeitos que o compõem, com reflexões, análises e proposições voltadas à qualificação de seus processos. As análises foram desenvolvidas a partir de três conceitos chave: consciência, emancipação e autonomia, complementados por outros, como: hegemonia, contradição, reprodução, resistência, poder. Foram subsidiadas pelos registros da observação participante e por manifestações de professores, gestores e alunos egressos do Curso, contrapostos a referenciais teóricos, em especial, do campo Trabalho e Educação. Concluiu-se, especialmente frente à escuta dos alunos egressos e à observação sobre suas manifestações e práticas, que é possível, e necessário, a implementação de propostas pedagógicas emancipatórias em escolas públicas as quais, apesar de se constituírem em espaço de reprodução do projeto social hegemônico, pelas contradições que afloram em seus processos, são também espaços de resistência e, para além dela, de avanços, contribuindo para a construção da consciência crítica e emancipação dos educandos. Esses resultados, no entanto, dependem de um conjunto de fatores que vão da macro a micro política, mas, fundamentalmente, estão atrelados à condição de autonomia e emancipação de seus agentes – especialmente, professores e gestores. Ao mesmo tempo, precisam ser referenciados às condições de origem de todos os seus partícipes. / This research analyzed the context, the development and unfolding of the Course in Execution, Conservation and Restoring of Edifications – PROEJA, carried out in the Campus Pelotas of the Instituto Federal Sul-Riograndense, whose pedagogical-political project was built under a perspective of emancipatory education. It aimed at understanding its process, from planning to results, to investigate the possibilities of scooling process, on the concreteness of everyday, constituting themselves as promoters of development of critical awareness of students and, from it, its emancipation and autonomy, as condition for the participation of these subjects in the social transformation to overcome capitalism and developing relations based on principles of equality, justice and sustainability between the people and them with the planet. It is constituted of a case study articulated to presuppositions of participatory research, since the researcher takes part in the Course since its planning and, from the research, aimed at creating spaces of collective construction of the subjects who are part of it, with reflections, analysis and propositions toward qualification of its processes. The analyses were based on three key concepts: awareness, emancipation and autonomy, complemented by others, such as: hegemony contraction, reproduction, resistance, power. They were subsidized by records of participating observation and by manifestations of teachers, managers and graduated students of the Course, counterpointed to theoretical references, especially, from the area of Work and Education. It is concluded, mainly by listening to graduated students and by observing their manifestations and practices, that it is possible, and necessary, to implement of emancipatory and pedagogical proposals in public schools in which, besides being constituted in spaces of reproduction of the hegemonic social project, by contradictions which emerge in its processes, they are also spaces of resistance and, beyond it, of advances, contributing for the construction of critical awareness and emancipation of students. These results, however, depend on a set of factors of macro and micro politics, but, mainly, they are linked to the condition of autonomy and emancipation of its agents- especially, teachers and managers. At the same time, they need to be referenced to the conditions of origin of all its participants.

Accounting is a professional occupation that is continually evolving and requires a dedication to continuing education to meet the legal demands of new regulations and to maintain professional competency. Continuing Professional Education (CPE) is required by state boards for certified public accountants (CPA) to meet these requirements and to maintain professional competence. CPAs are responsible for complying with all applicable CPE requirements, rules, and regulations of state boards of accountancy, as well as those of other professional organizations. The purpose of this study was to determine the opinions of CPAs about the current requirements for CPE and to determine their level of satisfaction with the content and delivery of CPE instruction. CPE has come under scrutiny in recent years with some professionals questioning if the needs of accounting professional and the objectives of continuing education are being met. This survey research included 23 Likert-type items and 5 demographic questions. The survey was administered to 203 licensed certified public accountants to obtain their opinions about continuing education. The 5 dimensions of the survey were: Value (cost benefit), Delivery (methods and quality), Benefit to Self, Benefit to Others, and Barriers (to obtaining CPE). These dimensions were compared across the demographic variables of gender, years of experience, type of business, number of employees, and position with their employer. No significant differences were found among the 5 dimensions between gender or among different positions. Significant differences did occur among the Dimension of Value opinions based on years of experience, among the Dimension of Value opinions based on type of business, among Dimension of Benefit to Self based on type of business, among the Dimension of Value based on number of employees, and among the Dimension of Benefit to Others based on number of employees.

Frequently, educational approaches are considered as a dichotomy – liberal versus professional. However, perpetuating this dichotomy may not best serve students or the workforce. We are at the forefront of an educational movement and it is critical that we think intentionally about who we are training our students to be and how do we best do it. Baccalaureate public health education is occurring in a range of locations including community colleges, traditional liberal arts schools, and schools of public health. Faculty and staff have a diverse range of training and experience in educational frameworks, In addition, this educational movement is occurring at a time when the disciplinary boundaries of public health are expanding and becoming less defined.

This study was designed to investigate the current practice of continuing professional education in the library science departments of teachers colleges and universities in Thailand and the role of the library science department in continuing professional education for librarians. In order to accomplish this task, two questionnaires were developed and administered to 236 chairpersons and library school faculty of 31 tecahers colleges and 9 government universities. Of the returned questionnaires, 72.88% were usable. Data were analyzed using percentage and a contingency chi-square test. The major conclusion of the study was that while the library science departments of teachers college and universities in Thailand provide to some extent, all 20 continuing education items of the Association for Library and Information Science Education model, only two were identified as being provided by more than a majority of institutions.

Com base em estudos qualitativos e levando em consideração o contexto político, social, educacional e cultural da cidade de São Paulo nas décadas de 1950, 1960,1970 e 1980, esta tese aborda e discute aspectos relevantes da existência do Iadê - Instituto de Arte e Decoração (de 1959 a 1987), notadamente o ensino de projeto em seu Colégio Técnico de Desenho de Comunicação.Pretendemos resgatar historicamente o instituto, sobretudo em suas relações com o campo do design paulistano, com base em relatos de ex-alunos, ex-professores, ex-dirigentes e ex-funcionários e na análise de documentos de arquivos pessoais e institucionais. A abordagem da estrutura pedagógica do Iadê foi estudada no paradigma interpretativista. A pesquisa é organizada em seis partes principais: a primeira concentra-se no contexto cultural, social, industrial e econômico da cidade já estabelecida como grande metrópole; a segunda é voltada para o âmbito educacional, envolvendo os cursos livres, técnicos e superiores existentes no campo das artes visuais, da publicidade, da decoração e da comunicação visual; a terceira destaca a implantação do Instituto de Arte e Decoração, seus fundadores e a estrutura conceitual de seu Curso de Decoração a partir de 1959; a quarta, trata do conceito pedagógico do Colégio Técnico de Desenho de Comunicação em sua trajetória, de 1969 a 1987, e do perfil dos estudantes e professores que ali atuaram; a quinta parte aborda o ensino de projeto aplicado e, por fim, a sexta traz uma reflexão sobre a trajetória cumprida pela instituição, suas conquistas, seu legado e as causas de seu desparecimento prematuro. / Based on qualitive studies and taking the 1950s-1980s political, social, educational and cultural context in São Paulo city into consideration, this doctoral thesis discusses the Iadê - Instituto de Arte e Decoração (1959-1987) relevants aspects, notably the project teaching at its the Technical High School of Communication Design. We intend to rescue historically the Iadê, above all its dealings with the design field in São Paulo, according to former students and past staff (teachers, employees and directors) reports and to analysis of personal and institucional data archives. The approach of Iadê pedagogical structure was studied under the paradigma interpretativist and the the surch was organized under six parts: the first one focuses in cultural, social, industrial and economic context of the São Paulo city already established as a metropolis; the second one is aimed at educational scope involving the free, technical and colleges courses in the visual arts, advertising, decorationg and visual communication fields; the third one underscores the Aidê implantation, its founders and the conceptual estructure of its Decoration Course (1959); the fourth part concerns the Technical High School of Communication pedagogic concept in its trajectory, from 1969 to 1987, and the its past students and teachers profile; the fifith part approaches the teaching of project apllied there; and the last part presentes a reflection about the Aidê trajectory, its achievements, its legacy and the its premature extinction.

This study was designed to identify the spiritual needs of multicultural Australians with a health problem, in order to understand the educational implications for health care professionals. The rationale for the research was supported by the Australian Council for Health Service (1997) requirement that health care professionals meet the spiritual needs of their patients and clients'. At the commencement of this study, no research had been published on what these spiritual needs might be. To discover what health care professionals needed to be taught in order to meet the spiritual needs of their patients, I required a suitable group of patients. Then, after identify their spiritual needs, I wanted to explore ways in which these needs could be met. For this to occur, I also needed to identify factors that would fulfill patients' spiritual needs or prevent them from being met. This research proceeded in two stages. The first involved collecting data from all spiritual groups in Western Australia. The second involved the recruitment and interviewing a small number of ex-patients to gain their perspective of health care related spirituality and needs. To gain data about the various spiritual groups in Western Australia, I wrote to all organisations and associations, asking for information and reference material. This data was analysed using HyperResearch (1995), and themes common to all spiritual groups were developed. The inter-relationship between these themes provided the framework for an emergent model of spirituality. / For the second part of the research which involved a case study of health care patients, a qualitative methodology was used. This approach enabled me to explore the phenomenon of spirituality from the perspective of eight participants, which involved identifying their spiritual needs, the care they desired, and the rite of passage they underwent when receiving health care. The qualitative methodology enabled me to explore the subject from a sensitive holistic perspective, and to protect the integrity of the participants. I wanted to know what patients understood about their spirituality and how spiritual care could be implemented not only in clinical practice but also into health care education programs. The participants' detailed subjective experience was especially important, because I wanted to know how they identified their spiritual needs, how they had requested their needs be met by health care professionals, and the extent to which health care professionals had reacted to those cues. I formulated an 'interpretive phenomenology research' design based on the philosophical writings of Heidegger and Bakhtin. Heidegger argued that people gain knowledge of a subject from their own subjective experience, and of the person being in their world (simultaneous past, present and future thoughts). Bakhtin stated that to bring about social change, the researcher needed to understand the social context of the people's language including their culture, politics, government-provided amenities (such as education and health care), employment and social interaction, both within and outside their communities in which they live. The eight participants were interviewed a number of times in order to explore the phenomenon of spirituality beyond the notions already published in the literature (i.e. from multicultural Australian's perspective). / They told of hospital or health care experiences that included: health care for childbirth, mental and psychiatric illnesses (depression, manic-depression, and anxiety), immunology (lymphoma), stroke, detoxification of alcohol, arthritis, coronary occlusion, hypertension, and peritonitis; surgical procedured/s such as repair of hernia, bowel obstruction, eye surgery, orchiopexy (removal of testes from inguinal canal into the scrotal sac), caesarian birth, appendectomy, and oophorectomy (removal of ovaries); treatments such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and physiotherapy; and hospital experiences in both large and small public and private acute hospitals, private and public mental health/psychiatric hospitals, intensive care and coronary care units. These situations demonstrate the diversity of contexts which people want their spiritual needs met. The study revealed that it is not only dying patients who have spiritual need; spiritual needs exist in widespread ordinary conditions and across a wide range of health care services. The eight participants - Ann, Athika, Garry, Red, Rosie, Scarlet, Sophie, and Tom (pseudonyms) - were drawn from many of the multicultural groups resident in Western Australia including Aboriginal, Chinese, English, European, Indian, and Irish peoples. Their spiritualities encompassed Judeo-Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Pagan Romany, Society of Friends (Quaker), Humanist, Socialist, and Communist values and beliefs. The results of the research give insight into the eight participants' perspectives on being a person, their understanding of spirituality, perceived spiritual needs, their desired levels of spiritual care, and the rite of passage they experienced when undergoing health care treatment in hospital. / The participants' spiritual needs comprised of four categories: 'mutual trust', 'hope', 'peace' and 'love'. The levels of spiritual care spoke of desiring were: 'acknowledgement', 'empathy', and 'valuing'. Recommendations are given for health care professionals to provide spiritual care for the eight participants, and implications are considered for the spiritual education of future health care professionals in order to sensitise them to the wide range of healthcare related spiritual needs they might encounter in local multicultural communities. It is recognised that the scope of the implications is contingent on further research establishing the incidence of health-care related spiritual needs among the broader population of multi-cultural Western Australians. The richness and depth of the data and the very sensitive nature of the material that came from the eight people who shared their experiences with me has rendered this thesis an important document. The nature of the various incidents and situations they shared with me, I believe, demonstrated their preparedness to tell their story so that health care can be improved. On many occasions, I felt honoured that they had sufficient trust in me to enable them to report such deep and personal suffering. For example, Rosie told me of her mental torment and of not knowing if she was alive or dead; of how she burnt her legs to try to feel pain in order to see if she was alive. It was stories such as this that gave me the passion to write this thesis well in order to do justice to all people who want spirituality included in health care treatment.

Universities are becoming more accountable for their own funding and for establishing their own societal relevance. As Governments respond to the demands of industry and commerce to fit graduates for the workplace, universities are being asked to provide students with the knowledge and skills for learning and working in an ever-changing workplace. There is a strong implication here that the traditional theory-based learning associated with higher education needs to be augmented (and complemented) by an experiential component that enables students to develop a 'feel' for the workplace and 'an instinct' for what they are likely to be doing when they are working. Demands for such a change are not only coming from industry: students are asking that their university programs be made more 'relevant' to the reality of work rather than merely for the next step in the higher education ladder which requires the 'skills of research'. Recently there has been a strong move throughout the western world towards 'cooperative education' or 'work-integrated education'. Local initiatives at individual institutions are beginning to emphasise the importance of universities developing more symbiotic relationships with the industries in which their graduates are likely to be employed. In Australia, Griffith University has, for example, set up through its Griffith Institute of Higher Education (GIHE) The Griffith Graduate Project, which is attempting to develop an institution-wide policy in this area so that a concerted and coordinated response can be made. As convenor of a Griffith University workplace-based experiential course in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, I find this study has provided an opportunity to examine the key determinants of success for a workplace-based course and to consider in detail the teaching and learning processes involved. The aim was to examine the fine-grained processes underlying the construction of new knowledge as students accommodate to the demands placed upon them. The methodology adopted was based on an interpretive constructivist paradigm and addressed a number of questions that considered the roles of the different stakeholders in a specific workplace-based course, the formal and informal expectations held of them, and the role-conflicts these stakeholders tended to experience. This meant that the basic process followed was inductive rather than deductive, worked from the specific to the general and required a methodology that did the same. Because the nature of the work in criminal justice agencies often must deal with feelings and emotion, it was assumed that the students' emotional responses could affect their learning so the methodology allowed for the subjective interpretations and responses (both appropriate and inappropriate) made by all stakeholders and the data was collected as verbatim reports of both factual reports and feeling responses. These were then analysed according to the students' own reports of learning and key principles of procedure for the design and implementation of such courses across the career spectrum were extracted. The values and approaches of action research were central to the responsive case study methodology that was developed. The study found that at its best, the course was conducted according to principles that enabled the student to experience an intuitive 'felt reality' while still making decisions on a strong cognitive base. The acquisition of knowledge appeared to depend on transactions that occurred between teacher and learner, supervisor and student in the workplace milieu. The thesis concludes with a number of recommendations and implications for developing best practice in the field. Ways in which the findings may be incorporated into university policy are also considered, as are the implications for change in the design, conduct and teaching of university professional studies courses.