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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-82). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ99188

The following study examines the conflicting discourses between the swedish school system andthe Christian denomination of Jehovah’s witnesses on the swedish upper secondary schoolcurriculum and its subject content. The purpose has been to identify if the discourses present avalue conflict with school interests and discuss both how these are different and why they constitutea conflict. This has been achieved by examining the religious body’s recent publications on thesubject through a discourse analysis method.The study shows that there are several themes in the swedish upper secondary schoolcurriculum and subject content in which Jehovah’s witnesses have discourses conflicting with theschool’s own, possibly constituting practical issues in the day to day education of students. Themain conflicts lies within the areas of social integration of students, the non-denominationalcharacter of the school system, sex education, the stance of religious pluralism taken in the subjectof religious studies, historical method and the subject content of natural science primarilyconcerning evolutionary biology. The study also concludes that there is a wide gap and lack ofinformation surrounding these conflicts and how teachers and other school staff should approach oravoid them. This ultimately derives from a lack of research around the subject and deficientguidelines from the Swedish National Agency for Education surrounding not only how to approachstudents that are Jehovah’s witnesses but religious discourses surrounding the curriculum andschool subjects in general.

Purpose of the following work is to put near not only concrete course of wedding and baptismal ceremonies in provincial environment, it has also show of what role at these ceremonies played their immediate participants ? godfathers and wedding witnesses. Basic characteristic of all the sample recorded persons would be enable to answer questions if within small rural sociality existed its elite part which had fundamental share on its behaviour. The most important origin for research of this theme were church registers which for any single event namely recorded participation of the witness of baptism or marriage, his socio-profession position and geographical origin. Important role then played fact what particular requirements lay then society on men participating thus especial events. It was also explored question to what degree is possible thru godparents and wedding witnesses to peep into mentality and behaviour then rural sociality. Rating socio-vocational submission and place of origin of these persons emerged that the choice of witness of baptism or marriage wasn't casual and underlay to many established habits and rules. Especially at choice of godparents was more than evident that the important factor were to be familiar and well-disposed relationships within closest surroundings of every person. To men witnessing by weddings was distinctive their good property and social background, decisive role at selection of wedding witness also played possibility of representation newly married couple and their families in the eyes of others neighbours. By approach particular persons which postured in roles of witnesses or godparents most frequently was confirmed that also in rural environment subsisted small range of individuals which is possible to characterize as a local top of society. By setting this top of society into the total context allowed to achieve if and to what degree this very narrow group of inhabitants was segregate from the others. In terms of this research was more likely confirmed that the rural man was limited more by geographical than social territory. On the basis of informations about persons participating on baptisms or weddings is possible to assume that the individual parts of society were interconnected through a number of hidden familiar and friendly structures which were fundamental to its behaviour.

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-04-26T15:23:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 edsondasilvacaldas.pdf: 968411 bytes, checksum: b6ab2a2cfc023dd90cbd0ea77b5f6a58 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-05-09T12:08:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 edsondasilvacaldas.pdf: 968411 bytes, checksum: b6ab2a2cfc023dd90cbd0ea77b5f6a58 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-09T12:08:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 edsondasilvacaldas.pdf: 968411 bytes, checksum: b6ab2a2cfc023dd90cbd0ea77b5f6a58 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-26 / Religião e cidadania são termos carregados de significado em nossa sociedade. Neste sentido, este trabalho tem por objetivo compreender a concepção de cidadania das Testemunhas de Jeová, um grupo religioso que a partir de uma visão de mundo peculiar, além de fazer distinção entre os integrantes da Organização de Jeová e os demais membros da sociedade, considera que as normas vigentes na primeira são superiores às leis que vigem na segunda. Deste modo, todas as escolhas feitas pelos integrantes dessa organização ocorrem em função desse entendimento, o que resulta em um exercício de cidadania moldado por convicções religiosas, tal como por ela concebido, em consequência de interpretações bíblicas peculiares. Para atender ao proposto, inicialmente são feitas algumas considerações sobre a história do movimento, seguidas por uma abordagem sobre alguns aspectos relativos à visão de mundo, ponderações sobre o processo de formação de cidadãos do Reino de Deus e finalmente algumas considerações sobre a concepção de cidadania desses religiosos. / Religion and citizenship are terms full of meanings in our society. In this direction, this work has as an aim to comprehend the conception of citizenship of Jehovah’s Witnesses’, a religious group that from a peculiar view of world, besides making a distinction between the members of Jehovah’s Organization and the other members of the society, it considers that the current rules in the first one are superior to the laws that are held in the second one. So, all the choices made by the members of this organization occur from this understanding, which results in an exercise of citizenship, framed by religious convictions, such as conceived by it, in consequence of peculiar biblical comprehension. In order to attend the proposed study, some considerations about the history of the movement are initially made, followed by an approach about some aspects related to the view of world, deliberations about the process of formation of Kingdom of God's citizens and at last, some considerations about the conception of citizenship of these religious people.

L’objectif de cette thèse était de fournir des recommandations aux professionnels de la justice pour recueillir la parole des adolescents, population de témoin peu étudiée en laboratoire. Pour cela, cinq études ont été conduites. Les deux premières avaient pour objectif de dresser un état des lieux des pratiques des enquêteurs français. Nous avons observé une spécificité des adolescents, notamment en ce qui concerne le recours aux suggestions d’informations. Celles-ci étaient plus fréquemment faites lorsque l’adolescent venait de développer un propos, ce qui n’était pas le cas avec des mineurs plus jeunes. Cela pourrait signifier des objectifs d’audition différents selon l’âge du mineur (Étude 1). Pourtant, les recommandations internationales déconseillent fortement l’usage des suggestions en raison des biais mémoriels qu’elles peuvent entrainer immédiatement comme de manière différée. Ensuite, nous avons montré que les adolescents sont les plus représentés parmi les mineurs témoins et/ou victimes dans les affaires françaises et qu’ils sont généralement perçus comme menteurs et pudiques par les enquêteurs (Étude 2). Une étude conduite avec des gendarmes formés aux techniques de recueil de la parole des mineurs témoins (vs. non formés ; Étude 3) a montré que ces utilisations des questions suggestives seraient dues à une croyance des enquêteurs selon laquelle les suggestions pouvaient aider le mineur à se souvenir et à rappeler des informations, mais aussi (et surtout) permettre à l’enquête d’avancer. Ceci était d’autant plus vrai pour les gendarmes non formés. Pour répondre à ces pratiques inappropriées, mais aussi aux besoins des enquêteurs, nous nous sommes intéressés à deux versions modifiées de l’entretien cognitif (ECM). En effet, ce protocole d’audition est basé sur un questionnement ouvert (plutôt que fermé ou suggestif), et propose des stratégies de récupération efficaces. En favorisant la récupération en mémoire et le rappel des informations, il pourrait alors optimiser leur fiabilité, en vue de les exploiter lors de l’enquête judiciaire. Pour cela, nous avons testé la mnémotechnique du Séquençage (Étude 4), qui a montré ses bénéfices. Nous avons en effet observé une hausse du rappel des informations correctes (vs. entretien structuré ; ES). Toutefois, celle-ci s’accompagnait d’une hausse des erreurs. Un résultat similaire a été observé en testant une version raccourcie de l’ECM pour des événements répétés dans le temps (vs. événement unique ; Étude 5). De plus, cette étude a mis en avant une hausse des affabulations avec l’ECM (comparativement à un ES, et indépendamment de la fréquence de l’événement), mais aussi des confusions entre les différents événements visionnés par une partie des adolescents. Ces augmentations des informations erronées n’entrainaient cependant, dans aucune des deux études, de chute du taux d’exactitude. Ces résultats seront discutés au regard de la littérature scientifique, et des recommandations appliquées seront formulées afin d’aider les enquêteurs à conduire au mieux leurs auditions d’adolescents témoins et/ou victimes. / The goal of this thesis was to provide recommendations to any practitioner involved in the justice system to interview adolescent witnesses and/or victims, a population little studied in laboratory analogue contexts. To do so, five studies were conducted. The first two studies were aimed at establishing an inventory of the young French investigators’ witness interview practices. We observed that adolescents are a specific population, in particular regarding the use of suggestive questions. This type of questions increased right after the adolescents had just developed a statement, which was not the case with younger children. This result might reveal that, during investigative interviews with children and adolescents, the investigators have different aims depending on the age of the young witness (Study 1). However, international recommendations strongly discourage the use of suggestions because of immediate and delayed memory biases that may occur. Secondly, we have shown that adolescents represent most of the under legal age witnesses and/or victims in French cases, and that investigators generally perceived them as liars and as easily ashamed (Study 2). A study conducted with military police officers who previously had training in the use of structured interview techniques (vs. untrained officers; Study 3) showed that their use of suggestive questions were related to the belief that suggestive prompts could help the young witness and/or victim retrieve and recall information, but also (and most importantly) allow the investigation to move forward. This was especially observed with untrained military police officers. To deal with these inappropriate practices, we investigated the efficiency of two modified versions of the cognitive interview (MCI). This interview protocol is based on an open (rather than closed or suggestive) questioning style, and proposes effective retrieval strategies. Relying on techniques that promote memory retrieval and recall of information, it could then enhance the adolescents’ statements’ reliability, for these to be used during the investigation. We therefore tested a mnemonic called ‘guided peripheral focus’ (Study 4), which showed its benefits. Indeed, we observed an increase in the recall of correct information (vs. structured interview; SI). However, this was accompanied by an increase in errors. A similar pattern was observed with a shortened version of the MCI (vs. SI) used for repeated events (vs. single event; Study 5). In addition, this last study showed an increase in confabulations with the MCI (compared to a SI, and irrespective of the frequency of the event), but also in confusions between the different events experienced by some of the adolescents. However, these increases in erroneous details did not lead to a drop in the accuracy rate in either study. The results of the five studies will be discussed in regards with the scientific literature, and recommendations to help justice practitioners conduct their adolescent witness and/or victim interviews as appropriately as possible will be provided