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Supervision is widely acknowledged as influencing the quality of postgraduate theses, and by association, of postgraduates. Despite this, publications on conducting research offer far less guidance on managing the supervision relationship than on the practicalities of producing a thesis. In-depth, qualitative supervision studies are few and fewer still examine power in the supervision relationship. Michel Foucault’s insights are used to explore the question: How do postgraduate supervisors and their Master’s students experience the supervision relationship and how are the dynamics of interpersonal and institutional power implicated in these relationships? Foucault argues that power relations always involve resistances; these function primarily through institutionalized discourses to produce different forms of knowledge, one form of which is identity or subjectivity. Accordingly, power relations are explored in terms of thesis-as-product, person-as-product and the impact of both on the mediation of knowledge in the educational domain. Four institutionalized discourses in the university domain are examined: · Commercial educational management discourse: targets academics through issues of quality assurance, throughput, publication, research productivity and funding. · Anarchic educational leadership discourse: integrates quantum principles with commercial demands, change management strategies and meaningful participation. · Humanistic discourse: favours a pastoral ethic and is person-centered. · Holistic discourse: cultivates ecological sensibility and values the interconnectedness of all aspects of being-in-the-world. Data collected in sixteen semi-structured interviews with three matched supervisor-student pairs selected from the humanities and education faculties of one South African university, are presented as case studies. Data analysis combines grounded theory techniques with selected aspects of Foucault’s methods. A conceptual model is devised to analyse how participants use resistance strategies to interface their autonomy and dependency with their expectations, abilities, and professional and pastoral care. The research yields rich data in which several thematic correlations in interpersonal and institutional power dynamics are grounded. These include: the significance of supervisor-student matching; links between expectations, abilities, the way participants negotiate power and the quality of professional and pastoral care they experience; the benefit of personal affinity to thesis-as-product and person-as-product; and the impact of commercial demands on participants’ power relations. Participants tend to reproduce the discourses in which they are embedded and adopt or adapt aspects of contesting discourses to this end. Potential avenues are identified for improving supervision practice and for further research.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2001-06-20Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:54:55Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 siqueira_e_me_arafcl.pdf: 2930930 bytes, checksum: 8ba8e0530d82eb336b093ef601326025 (MD5) / Pioneira da indústria cimenteira no país, a companhia Brasileira de Cimento Portland Perus (CBCPP) foi inaugurada em 1926. Em 1951, seu controle acionário passou para o Grupo Abdalla que instalou um forno que expandiu em 60 % a capacidade produtiva sem qualquer ampliação na infra-estrutura de alimentação (dimensionada para os três fornos originais), procedimento afinado com a expansão da demanda no Brasil do pós-guerra, mas que submetia o maquinário a níveis destrutivos de esforços. Era natural, portanto, que, as greves operárias pusessem em xeque a forma de gestão da empresa, com os trabalhadores implementando um plano de medidas técnicas alternativas em 1960-61 que criou uma autêntica situação de dualidade de poder dentro da companhia. Em 1962, uma greve iniciada em solidariedade a trabalhadores de outras firmas de Abdalla derivou para uma luta direta pela desapropriação da Perus com vistas a implantar uma co-gestão Estado/Operários. A paralisação foi derrotada, com profundas seqüelas no meio popular, parcialmente sanadas com a reintegração dos operários estáveis em 1969. A esta altura, porém, o futuro da fábrica já estava comprometido pelo desgaste dos equipamentos, quadro que o confisco federal em 1973 não reverteu. A empresa voltaria para a iniciativa privada em 1980 já praticamente liquidada, e funcionaria de forma agonizante até o fechamento em 1987.

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Orientador: Claudiney Rodrigues Carrasco / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T18:00:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bonetti_LucasZangirolami_M.pdf: 50559147 bytes, checksum: a7e1c7a5a3b506bea65fd2962a8eb748 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: O presente projeto pretende discutir os processos de composição utilizados por Moacir Santos (1926-2006) na concepção de sua obra a partir das diversas trilhas musicais que assinou, a maioria nos anos 1960. Santos dedicou boa parte de seu tempo confeccionando e produzindo trilhas cinematográficas, sendo essas produções seus primeiros trabalhos de grande impacto lançados no Brasil, serão analisadas sob aspectos composicionais as seguintes películas: Seara Vermelha (1964), de Alberto d'Aversa (1920-1969); O Santo Módico (1964), de Sacha Gordine (1910-1968) e Robert Mazoyer (1929-1999); Ganga Zumba (1964) e A Grande Cidade (1966), de Carlos Diegues (1940-); Os Fuzis (1964), de Ruy Guerra (1931-); e O Beijo (1964), de Flávio Tambellini (1925-1976). Tais trilhas apontam todo um direcionamento estético seguido por Moacir ao longo de sua carreira, sem contar as inúmeras melodias e temas nascidos por essa época e que iriam figurar em grande parte de sua produção de música instrumental e de canção lançadas posteriormente. Sendo assim, poderemos compreender de maneira mais completa a dimensão total de sua obra composicional, estudando e percebendo como suas referências imagéticas assimiladas dos filmes refletiram em seus processos composicionais / Abstract: This project aims to discuss the compositional processes used by Moacir Santos (1926-2006) in the conception of his work from the various film scorings that he composed, mostly in the sixties. Santos devoted much of his time composing and producing film scorings, and these productions are his first major impact works launched in Brazil, the following films will be analyzed under those compositional aspects: Seara Vermelha (1964), by Alberto d'Aversa (1920-1969); O Santo Módico (1964), by Sacha Gordine (1910-1968) and Robert Mazoyer (1929-1999); Ganga Zumba (1964) and A Grande Cidade, by Carlos Diegues (1940-); Os Fuzis (1964), by Ruy Guerra (1931-); and O Beijo (1964) by Flávio Tambellini (1925-1976). These scores show an entire aesthetic direction followed by Moacir throughout his career, and the countless themes and melodies "born" at this time and that would appear in most of his instrumental music and songs released after that. Thus, we can understand better the full scope of his compositional work, studying and realizing how the imagetic references assimilated in the films reflected his compositional process / Mestrado / Fundamentos Teoricos / Mestre em Música

Mon objectif ici sera de montrer que Cavell fait de l'autobiographie un exercice d'investigation philosophique. Afin d'atteindre ce but, j'emprunte une approche chronologique. Analysant une par une ses publications les plus importantes, je démontre que l'autobiographie remplit cinq fonctions distinctes dans son œuvre à savoir, une fonction descriptive, une fonction anthropologique, une fonction révisionniste, une fonction morale et une fonction perfectionniste. Ensuite, j'analyse le rapport entre le perfectionnisme moral et le récit autobiographie de Cavell intitulé Si j'avais su. Ma thèse trouve son originalité dans le fait que les commentateurs accordent généralement une faible attention au rôle de l'autobiographie dans l'œuvre de ce penseur. D'ailleurs, ce n'est que tardivement que celui-ci indique que l'autobiographie a toujours joué un rôle important dans ses écrits. Mon intention était donc de relire l'œuvre de Cavell afin de mettre en évidence l'importance de l'autobiographie dans sa pensée.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis traverses the complexities and entanglement of theoretical and practical processes in a Post-structural age. Through the deconstruction of stable systems of knowledge and thought, this age has become synonymous with uncertainty. In an attempt to navigate a time of continual change, Foucault proposes a toolkit. Foucault advocates deconstruction, critical engagement and reflection. In addition to these tools, this thesis moves through genealogical, mapping, archaeological and glass (blowing) methodologies. My practice cannot be separated from theory, it is excavated concurrently. Foucault, Derrida, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari open up knowledge systems in an effort to uncover alternative thought trajectories and create a space in which complexity can exist. Knowledge circulating in this space is not fixed, it manifests in moments. My practical project, Fleeting Certainty, also aims to create an open space. It does not culminate in one, autonomous work, but is rather an archive of moments. Viewers will also be equipped with a toolkit of light and lenses with which to create moments of their own. Therefore moments will generate continuously. These theoretical and practical processes do not culminate in a coherent conclusion. There is a pause, a comma, but there are many more trajectories or lines to follow. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis deurkruis die ingewikkeldhede en verstrengeling van teoretiese en praktiese prosesse binne ’n Post-strukturele tydperk. Hierdie tydperk het, deur die dekonstruksie van stabiele stelsels van kennis en denke, gelykstaande aan onsekerheid geword. In a poging om ’n tydperk van voortdurende verandering te verken, stel Foucault sekere hulpmiddels voor. Foucault bepleit, dekonstruksie, kritiese betrokkenheid en besinning. Benewens hierdie hulpmiddels, maak hierdie tesis gebruik van genealogiese, karterings-, argeologiese en glas (blaas) metodologieë. Die praktiese komponent van my werk hou ten nouste verband met die teoretiese en kan nie van mekaar geskei word nie. Foucault, Derrida, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari stel kennisstelsels oop in ’n poging om alternatiewe gedagtegange te ontbloot en skep ’n ruimte waarin kompleksiteit kan bestaan. Kennis wat in hierdie ruimte bestaan, is nie vas of bepaald nie, maar kom in oomblikke voor. My praktiese projek, Fleeting Certainty, poog ook om ’n ‘oop’ ruimte te skep. Die projek loop nie uit op een selfstandige werk nie, maar dien as ’n versameling of argief van oomblikke. Kykers sal ook toegerus word met hulpmiddels in die vorm van lig en lense waarmee hulle oomblikke van hul eie kan skep. Oomblikke sal dus voortdurent geskep word. Hierdie teoretiese en praktiese prosesse loop ook nie op ’n samehangende gevolgtrekking uit nie. Daar is ’n pouse, ’n komma, maar daar is baie meer bane of lyne om te volg.

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This critical introduction to the works of John Fowles focuses upon his three novels, with secondary attention to his poetry, essays, and The Aristos, his non-fiction book of personal philosophy. Giving some biographical detail, the first chapter treats the influence of other writers upon Fowles's work and discusses his thought--especially as it appears in The Aristos, the poems, and the essays. The second chapter is a study of The Magus, Fowles's first novel, although published second. The Aristos is especially important to an understanding of this consolidation of personal philosophy into a fictional structure; the two key influences upon The Magus are Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes and Jungian psychology. The third chapter deals with The Collector, revealing much of Fowles's feeling about the artist in society and the imbalance of social justice that spawns ignorance and cruelty. The fourth chapter examines his most successful novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, unusual for its combination of thematic modernity with Victorian narrative style. The final chapter summarizes Fowles's leading place in contemporary fiction three months before publication of The Ebony Tower, his forthcoming collection including four short stories and one novella. Fowles's fiction has established him among the finest of today's artists in British fiction and one of the leading writers in the world. Both critical and general readers have accepted his three novels with enthusiasm, and his distinctive poetry and essays may someday further enhance his reputation.