This thesis examines approaches consultants use to assist organizational leaders in moving strategically towards sustainability. The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), is examined to understand how one can overcome and address the complex challenges that consultants face in assisting leaders to develop appropriate leadership skills and sustainability knowledge that will allow them to lead their organizations strategically towards sustainability. Two consulting firms located in London are reviewed. From this research, an ideal way of using the FSSD called the Strategic Leadership Training Framework (SLTF) is proposed as a tool to guide and supplement current approaches used by consulting firms to improve their leadership training programs. A gap analysis compares the SLTF and the current approaches used by consultants. The SLTF can be used as a tool to assist consultants to find the gaps between the approaches they use and the SLTF. Finally, emotional intelligence and a definition of sustainability are found to be a key factor for a leader to be successful when moving their organization strategically towards sustainability.

Metaphorlc competence of learning disabled and normally achieving fifth and seventh grade male children was Investigated. Four measures were made of metaphorlc abilities. The first task was a multiple choice written test to determine the rate of metaphorlc preference. Part two consisted of children developing metaphors. Part three and four required explanations of the meaning of preferred metaphors and produced metaphors.

Dans le contexte actuel de changements environnementaux globaux, la croissance populationnelle et les besoins grandissants en termes de services écosystémiques en zone côtière occupent une place de plus en plus importante dans les problématiques de conservation. Le développement des pêcheries et la surexploitation qui en découle souvent, sont ainsi à l’origine d’un grand nombre d’effets délétères sur le plan écologique mais peuvent également conduire à une perte de diversité génétique associée à une diminution des capacités d’adaptation pour les espèces exploitées. Le programme transdisciplinaire GIPREOL présente ainsi pour vocation première de mesurer les conséquences de cette littoralisation et de proposer un plan de gestion adapté, sur le territoire de Marennes-Oléron, en mettant à contribution un panel de disciplines variées. Cette étude se focalise sur l’étrille (Necora puber), un crustacé décapode, particulièrement abondant sur les côtes oléronnaises, qui est la cible de pressions de prélèvement, récréatives et commerciales, importantes. Afin d’évaluer les conséquences de ces deux types de pêches sur les populations d’étrilles à l’échelle européenne, une analyse du polymorphisme génétique d’un locus mitochondrial, le COI, et de 10 marqueurs microsatellites a été réalisée pour 29 sites présentant des niveaux d’exploitation différents. Une signature d’expansion démographique datant de la fin du dernier maximum glaciaire du Pléistocène a été mise en évidence, associée à une diversité génétique limitée en accord avec une diversification actuelle des populations. L’étude de la structure génétique observée entre nos sites d’étude a par ailleurs démontré une différenciation génétique contemporaine, détectée grâce au loci microsatellites, révélatrice d’une possible rupture progressive aux flux de gènes entre populations et soulevant ainsi un questionnement légitime quant à l’avenir des étrilles européennes. L’étude de la dispersion larvaire, par une approche de modélisation a, quant à elle, démontré un potentiel de dispersion important. / Nowadays, population expansion and human growing needs in term of services provided by ecosystems biodiversity has become one of the major issues of conservation biology. Fisheries development and the resulting over-exploitation of marine species are heavily impacting marine resources and can furthermore lead to a genetic diversity tumble undermining species adaptive abilities. The GIPREOL transdisciplinary program, conducted by the University of La Rochelle and IODDE partnership, intends on measuring the consequences of coastal development and providing an accordingly suitable and sustainable management plan for the Marennes-Oléron territory. Our study focuses on the velvet swimming crab (Necora puber), a decapod crustacean highly targeted by both professional and recreational fisheries. In order to assess the impacts of such exploitation on Necora puber populations along the eastern coasts of Europe, we analyse the genetic polymorphism of the COI mitochondrial gene and 10 microsatellites loci from 29 European sites with contrasted degrees of anthropogenic pressures. Our results depicted a clear signature of recent demographic expansion from the last glacial maximum of the Pleistocene era combined with an overall low polymorphism. As for the genetic structure within the zone, microsatellites markers revealed a recent differentiation of populations, raising issues concerning the velvet swimming crab European populations future. Lastly, the dispersal abilities of the species were investigated and showed a significant dispersal potential over large distances.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation is associated to the doctoral program in Education from the Graduation Program in Education from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and belongs to the Research Line LP3 Special Education. The relevance and need of this study proposal lies on the fact that there are no studies on high abilities/gifted (HA/G) directed to the identification of elderly people and also in the lack of theoretical contributions that support this discussion. The objective of this study was to identify HA/G in elderly scholars inserted in the undergraduate program of the Federal University of Santa Maria, located in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) in order for them to be able to recognize themselves with indicators and characteristics of HA/G) and receive educational service consistent with their needs. Thus, it was developed a tool that allowed the identification of HA/G in elderly scholars in order to facilitate their insertion the social and academic environment. This qualitative research is characterized as a case study. The participants of this investigation were eight scholars that were more than 60 years old, who entered UFSM through vestibular for attending mode , and that are nowadays regular students of the institution in the graduation courses. Following a theoretical framework that serves as basis for the study and the data collected, categories of analysis were selected based on the premises of Content Analysis (BARDIN, 2011). Among the instruments that were part of this study, there is the individual questionnaire used to identify the indicators of HA/G in Elderly People (QIIAHSDI), adapted from Pérez (2008), that went through a process of validation previous to its application, a Personal Information Form (PIF) used in order to obtain personal, family, work, and leisure activities information, and also a semi-structures interview. Many of the common indicators found in the studies carried out with adults cited by Pérez (2008) and Delpretto (2009) were noticed in the elderly participants, such as curiosity, creativity, leadership, persistence, high sense of humor, autonomy, and preference for challenges. The identification of elderly people will favor adequate educational alternatives and recognition of their behaviors and potentialities, since it is a necessity to identify them, favoring their understanding according to their personal, intelectual, and emotional characteristics linked to HA/G. / Esta tese está vinculada ao curso de doutorado em Educação do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) e faz parte da Linha de Pesquisa LP3 Educação Especial. A relevância e a necessidade desta proposta de estudo estão no fato de não existirem estudos referentes às Altas Habilidades/Superdotação (AH/SD) direcionados à identificação de pessoas idosas e na escassez de aportes teóricos que subsidiem essa discussão. Este estudo teve como objetivo a identificação de AH/SD em acadêmicos idosos inseridos no ensino superior da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, localizada no Rio Grande do Sul (RS), no intuito de que estes possam se reconhecer com indicadores e características de AH/SD e receber um atendimento educacional condizente com as suas necessidades. Dessa forma, foi desenvolvido um instrumento que possibilitou a identificação das AH/SD em acadêmicos idosos para facilitar a sua inserção no âmbito acadêmico e social. Esta pesquisa, de cunho qualitativo, caracteriza-se como estudo de caso. Os sujeitos participantes desta investigação foram oito acadêmicos com mais de 60 anos, os quais tiveram como forma de ingresso na UFSM o concurso do vestibular para a modalidade presencial, e que, atualmente, são alunos regulares da instituição nos cursos de graduação. Partindo do embasamento teórico que estrutura o estudo e dos dados coletados, foram elencadas categorias para a realização da análise, partindo dos pressupostos da Análise do Conteúdo (BARDIN, 2011). Dentre os instrumentos que fizeram parte deste estudo, está o questionário individual para identificação de indicadores de AH/SD em Idosos (QIIAHSDI), adaptado de Pérez (2008), que passou por um processo de validação para posterior aplicação, uma Ficha de Informações Pessoais no intuito de obter informações pessoais, familiares, laborais e sobre as atividades de lazer, e uma entrevista semiestruturada. Muitos dos indicadores comuns encontrados nos estudos realizados com pessoas adultas citados por Pérez (2008) e Delpretto (2009) foram visualizados nos sujeitos idosos, como a curiosidade, a criatividade, a liderança, a persistência, o senso de humor elevado, a autonomia e a preferência por desafios. A identificação do público idoso favorecerá alternativas educativas adequadas e reconhecimento de seus comportamentos e potencialidades, pois é uma necessidade identificá-los, favorecendo o seu entendimento de acordo com as suas características pessoais, intelectuais e emocionais relacionadas às AH/SD.

The overall goal of this PhD thesis was to know the indicators of high ability / giftedness in students of Physical Education, University of Cruz Alta, RS. The higher education institution has a core of support for the student with special needs, providing pedagogic approach to academics. However, this sector had no official statistical data on the existence of students with high ability / gifted. In this sense, the research will contribute to the core collecting information necessary and relevant to its real purpose in seeking answers to many concerns that these students have, on the premise that the real inclusion of students with high ability / gifted only occur when education engage with them. The specific objectives of the thesis aimed to identify indicators of high ability / gifted students in the Physical Education course, describe the characteristics of indicators of high ability / gifted academic in the present, to understand the perception of academics with indicators of high ability / gifted about themselves as individuals in vocational training and contribute to the formation of teachers' degree course in Physical Education from the University of Cruz Alta. The research was conducted with 30 students from the 7th semester of graduation in Physical Education from the University of Cruz Alta, RS - which met a total of 14 students with characteristics of high ability / gifted. The profile of respondents is old people, aged over 21 years. The choice of this course is because of the same work with the psychomotor area and body-kinesthetic, thus allowing to investigate the three types of high ability / giftedness proposed by Renzulli (1986): the academic, the productive, creative and academic and productive and creative. For data collection we used three instruments: an information in order to delineate the social profile of the subjects, a questionnaire with open questions about the academic life of the subjects and their perceptions about the theme and a specific questionnaire for identifying indicators high abilities / giftedness in adults. After applying the questionnaires, the analysis and discussion of the data and came to the following conclusion: among the subjects surveyed, 7 show indicators of high / skills giftedness. This index can be projected onto other universities as well, there is an urgent need for educational policies geared to students with high ability / gifted. / O objetivo geral desta tese de doutoramento foi conhecer os indicadores de altas habilidades/superdotação em acadêmicos do curso de Educação Física da Universidade de Cruz Alta, RS. A instituição de ensino superior conta com um núcleo de apoio ao estudante com necessidades especiais, que presta atendimento pedagógico aos acadêmicos. No entanto, este setor não possuía dados estatísticos oficiais sobre a existência de estudantes com as altas habilidades/superdotação. Neste sentido, a pesquisa poderá contribuir com o núcleo coletando informações necessárias e relevantes para seu real objetivo ao buscar respostas a muitas inquietações que estes alunos apresentam, partindo da premissa de que a verdadeira inclusão dos alunos com altas habilidades/superdotação somente ocorrerá quando a educação se comprometer com os mesmos. Como objetivos específicos, a tese se propôs a identificar indicadores de altas habilidades/superdotação em alunos do curso de Educação Física; descrever as características dos indicadores de altas habilidades/superdotação presentes nos acadêmicos, compreender a percepção dos acadêmicos com indicadores de altas habilidades/superdotação sobre si mesmos como indivíduos em formação profissional e contribuir para a formação docente dos professores do curso de licenciatura de Educação Física da Universidade de Cruz Alta. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida com 30 acadêmicos do 7º semestre de graduação em Educação Física da Universidade de Cruz Alta, RS no qual encontrou-se um total de 14 alunos com características de altas habilidades/superdotação. O perfil dos participantes da pesquisa é de pessoas adultas, com idade igual ou superior a 21 anos. A escolha deste curso se deve ao fato de o mesmo trabalhar com a psicomotricidade e a área corporal-cinestésica, permitindo assim investigar os três tipos de altas habilidades/superdotação, propostas por Renzulli (1986): a acadêmica, a produtivo-criativo e a acadêmica e produtivo-criativo. Para a coleta de dados foram utilizados três instrumentos: uma ficha de informações, a fim de delinear o perfil social dos sujeitos; um questionário com perguntas abertas sobre a vida acadêmica dos sujeitos e suas percepções sobre a temática e um questionário específico de identificação de indicadores de altas habilidades/superdotação em adultos. Após a aplicação dos instrumentos, realizou-se a análise e discussão dos dados e chegou-se a seguinte conclusão: entre os sujeitos pesquisados, 7 apresentam indicadores de altas/habilidades superdotação. Esse índice pode ser projetado sobre outras universidades, assim, é urgente a necessidade de políticas educacionais voltadas aos alunos com altas habilidades/superdotação.

The aim of this dissertation is to find out the level of motoric abilities at younger school age children who take part in social dance. I tested the level of motoric abilities using the test battery Unifittest (6 - 60). I compared the level of motoric abilities at younger school age children who take part in social dance and at younger school age children who only attend PE lessons. I tried to find out the change of the level in motoric abilities at the two above mentioned groups. I also tried to discover the type and frequency of other sport activities which children regularly do in their free time. Empirically focused part of my thesis substantiate that children of the younger school age, who take part in social dance, achieved a bigger improvement of fitness and coordinative motoric abilities. The biggest improvement was in the test of flexibility. On the basis of the questionnaire survey I found out, that children of the younger school age who do not take part in social dance, very often devote to football in their leisure. KEYWORDS younger school age, motoric abilities, social dance, PE, Unifittest (6 - 60)

In my thesis, I focused on the development of motor skills of preschool children through games with an athletic theme. The theoretical part specifies in detail the preschool age, physical abilities - coordination, strength, speed and endurance. This part deals with the specifics of sports training preschoolers and athletics as such. In the practical part I have created a set of games with an athletic theme. Games are focused on the development of motor abilities and skills - running, jumping and throwing. These games I verified in practice and evaluation of resulting in the practical part. The practical part of the thesis is also an experiment in which I find the level of motor performance of preschool children at the beginning and after the end of the experime

The aim of this work is to introduce a new assessment method of children's cognitive abilities, the Cognitive Assessment System 2, to examine its criterion concurrent validity in a population of children with special educational needs and analyze the test profiles of these children. In the theoretical part of the work various assessment tools of children's cognitive abilities are presented. The Cognitive Assessment System 2 is also introduced. In the empirical part concurrent criterion validity of the CAS2 is examined via the correlation between the results of CAS2 and the results of other commonly used intelligence tests - it is examined on a sample of children with specific learning disabilities and children with below- average intelligence or mental retardation. The test profiles of children from both groups are analyzed. It was found that the overall scores in the method CAS2 highly correlate with total scores of the WISC-III in a group of children with a below-average intelligence and mental retardation, and with total scores of the WISC-III or the K-ABC in a group of children with specific learning disabilities. This is considered as evidence of the concurrent criterion validity of the CAS2. It was found that the children with a below-average intellect and mental retardation have balanced...

DEVELOPMENT OF POWER ABILITIES OF CHILDREN OF PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to verify whether the formed set of exercises will have a positive effect on the strength capability progress of the 4th graders. The program is composed of different balance and coordinative workouts. It will be going on under my guidance twice a week for a period of three months, always at the beginning of every P. E. lesson. The package of practices will take 10 minutes, excluding stretching and warm-up. All the exercises will be noted down in didactical sheets. The indicator of the program success rate is going to be the tested by a motion test; specifically by staying power in pull-up, standing long jump and 60 second sit-ups. The measured performances and the weight of all the exercisers will be recorded. The same measurement will be carried out with the controlled group which is supervised by its form teacher. Finally, the efficiency of the whole program is compared. KEYWORDS: power abilities, balance exercises, primary school age

Studien behandlar engelskundervisning för åk 4–6 där problemet är lärarnas inställningar gentemot pedagogiskt drama i engelskundervisningen. Syftet med där här studien är därför att undersöka hur pedagogiskt drama används i engelskundervisningen samt lärarnas inställningar till det. Vidare undersöks även lärarnas inställningar för språkliga- och psykosociala förmågor genom användandet av pedagogiskt drama i engelskundervisningen. Studien har en kvalitativ metod med en fenomenografisk inspirerad metodansats vars resultat bygger på intervjuer från verksamma lärare i åk 4–6. Resultatet är till sin struktur uppbyggt med studiens syfte och frågeställningar och innefattar enbart utlåtanden från deltagarna. Genom lärarnas utlåtanden och forskarnas studier leder slutsatsen till att eleverna utvecklar psykosociala förmågor som i sin tur förbättrar elevernas möjligheter till ökade språkliga förmågor. / This study examines the English teaching classroom in grades 4 to 6. The problem for the study is the teachers‘attitude towards educational drama used in an English teaching classroom. The purpose is therefore to examine the teachers´ attitudes and how educational drama is used in an English teaching classroom. Furthermore, the purpose examines the teachers’ attitude towards the pupils’ capabilities to develop linguistic- and psychosocial abilities through educational drama used in an English teaching classroom. The result is based on interviews from teachers in grades 4 to 6. Onwards, the result contains only statements from the participants and is constructed by this study’s purpose and issues. Through the researchers ‘and teachers’ statements the conclusion for the study is that the pupils develop psychosocial abilities which in turn also develop the pupils’ linguistic abilities. The method used is a qualitative method with a phenomenologically-inspired theory.