This study which was conducted in a shelter for girl street children in KwaZuluNatal explored the programmes available to the girl street child and the current evaluation strategies for such programmes. The aim of the research was to provide insight into what criteria or indices children and service providers think should be used to evaluate the effectiveness of programmes for street children. Qualitative research methodology using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach guided the research and allowed for in-depth discussions with the children living in the shelters as well as the staff involved. The children were between 12-18 years of age. Data were obtained through separate multiple focus group sessions with children and staff at the shelter. Seven focus group sessions were held with the children and three focus group sessions were held with the staff at the shelter. The sessions were tape-recorded and then transcribed. The major findings of the study indicated that the children overall were enjoying their stay in the shelter. However, inconsistencies were identified between the experiences of the children and the work conducted by the staff members. Further, the findings of this study showed that programmes at the shelter being studied were evaluated, but the effectiveness of these evaluation strategies has been questioned. Emanating from the findings, recommendations have been made with regards to practice issues and programme evaluation. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2005.

Orientador: Rogério Adolfo de Moura / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T02:36:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Moreto_Marina_M.pdf: 10785147 bytes, checksum: 5c135239ffb0aef71a64cdb1a9ff837f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Como se dá a educação na rua? Qual encontro é necessário? Qual encontro é permitido? Há educação na rua? Esta pesquisa apresenta um olhar sobre o fazer de um grupo de educadores sociais e meninos de rua, em Campinas/SP, e tem como objetivo inventariar e analisar suas práticas educativas, entre os anos de 2006 a 2010. Há meninos e há educadores nas ruas. Uma relação acontece... Um entrelugar efêmero brota... Para regar o broto: arte. Canetinhas, papéis, pipas, varetas, tintas, olhos, corpos, trabalho, suor. Observa-se a relação estabelecida entre esses pares, esses corpos educadores entre si. O encontro suficientemente bom de educadores e meninos os levam a construir saberes e metodologias que mostram possibilidades além rua, da droga, da contenção. Essa relação confirma que uma grande aliada para a solidificação do vínculo e construção do processo educativo é a criatividade e o fazer das mãos. / Abstract: How is education in the street? What date is it necessary? What date is allowed? There is education on the street? This research provides a glimpse into the making of street educators and street children in Campinas, and aims to survey and analyze educational practices carried out by educators, between the years 2006 to 2010. There are boys and there are educators in the streets, a relationship happens. The space between ephemeral flows. To water the bud: art. Pens, papers, pipes, rods, paints, eyes, bodies, work, sweat. Observe the relationship between these pairs, these bodies between themselves educators. The finding enough good teachers and boys take them to build knowledge and methodologies that show possibilities beyond the street, drugs, restraint. This relationship confirms that a great ally for the solidification of the bond and construction of the educational process is creativity and to do of hands. / Mestrado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Mestre em Educação

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Given the general challenges associated with finding alternative care for an increasing number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) in Zimbabwe, adoption appears to be an appropriate option. In practice adoption appears is one of the alternative forms of child care and ye it t has not received the necessary research attention. This study was aimed at developing an in-depth understanding of the challenges experienced by adoptive parents in the adoption of OVCs in Zimbabwe and the support system available for them in managing such challenges using the ecological systems theory. A qualitative research approach which was designed from exploratory, descriptive and contextual research designs to understand the challenges experienced by adoptive parents in the adoption of OVCs in Zimbabwe was adopted, with purposive and snowball sampling techniques used to identify and recruit a sample of eight parents who have undergone the process of adoption. Data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews guided by an interview guide and analysed according to Braun and Clarke’s six steps of qualitative data analysis. Trustworthiness of this study was evaluated according to its credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability as proposed by Guba and Lincoln while relevant ethical principles were upheld throughout the entire duration of the study. The findings revealed a variety of socio-demographic features of adoptive parents as well as several challenges and experiences which are presented in a form of 10 themes and 13 subthemes in this report. Conclusions are drawn based on the research process and the research findings from which the recommendations are proposed for research, practice and training and education. / Social Work / M. A. (Social Work)

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Orientador: Adriana Maria Bernardes da Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T13:51:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Penteado_AnaTerezaCoutinho_M.pdf: 3801907 bytes, checksum: 7ef92a2e9f1d57064ce6703166d8facb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta dissertação se propõe a analisar os usos do território e o processo de urbanização a partir da existência de crianças e adolescentes em situação de rua na cidade de Campinas/SP. Discutimos como uma determinada urbanização corporativa, que valoriza e desvaloriza o espaço urbano conforme os interesses das grandes empresas, provoca o deslocamento de algumas crianças e adolescentes das regiões e cidades periféricas para as áreas centrais, buscando no espaço público maneiras diversas de viver a vida privada. Igualmente, discutimos como os usos do espaço urbano das áreas centrais novamente afastam e escondem crianças e adolescentes em situação de rua. Para tanto, apresentamos as transformações da situação de rua de crianças e adolescentes imbricadas ao processo de urbanização da cidade, desde a sua constituição até os dias atuais, considerando a relação existente entre crianças e adolescentes em situação de rua e as políticas sociais e urbanas. Analisamos, ainda, como as recentes políticas sociais incidem na cidade, debatendo o adensamento normativo ocorrido a partir da década de 1980 que modificou as ações direcionadas aos pobres, os recentes planos federais para diminuição dos índices de pobreza, e as adaptações ocorridas na execução das normas no momento em que estas se territorializam na cidade de Campinas / Abstract: This dissertation proposes to analyze the uses of the territory and the process of urbanization from the existence of homeless children and adolescents in the city of Campinas / SP. We discuss how a particular corporate urbanization, which values and devalues the urban space according to the interests of big business, causes the displacement of some children and teenagers from regions and cities peripheral to the central areas, seeking in the public space in different ways to live a private life .Also, we discuss how the uses of urban space in the central areas back away and hide homeless children and adolescents. Therefore, we present the transformations of homeless children and adolescents intertwined in the process of urbanization of the city, since its establishment until today, considering the relationship between homeless children and adolescents and the social and urban policies. We also analyze how the recent social policies affect the city, discussing the regulatory consolidation occurred from the 1980s that changed the actions targeted to the poor, recent federal plans to reduce the incidence of poverty, and the adjustments made in the implementation of the rules when they are territorialized in the city of Campinas / Mestrado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Mestra em Geografia

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:20:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ivana Orionte.pdf: 752457 bytes, checksum: bacf95c7849f83984a7ee58c2dc8d916 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-08-19 / This study aims at understanding the significance and meanings attributed by abandoned children who are at a sheltering institution in the city of Goiania, GO, Brazil. To constitute the research design, strategies such as participator observation, semi-structured interviews, sentence-completion techniques, drawings and stories from children s books were used with five children, being three males and two females. Vigotsky s historic-cultural approach constitutes the theoretical basis upon which this research was developed, interconnected with González Rey s epistemology and qualitative methodology, and his content analysis approach for analyzing children s speech. A brief historic overview was made on the issue of abandoned children in Brazil, in which historical contexts are presented up to the present time, as well as the conditions for institutionalizing children before and after the ECA, the Child and Adolescent Act. Findings from the studied children and their speech are that although ECA guarantees children a place as subjects with rights, an adult centered view still dominates and tries to shut children s voices. This research, thus, tries to understand the significance and meanings of abandonment for the children from that particular instituion and how it echoes in the constitution of their subjectivities. The contents revealed from the analysis of the children s speech might alert the authorities about the importance of having children participate actively in the planning of public policies related to children, as well as the importance of the investment, within the institutions, not only on the pedagogical and structural factors, but also on the human factor, considered beyond the professional skills, in order to include the caring and emotional dimensions which are fundamental to the constituion of self-governing and healthy subjectivities. / Este estudo tem como objetivo a compreensão dos significados e sentidos do abandono atribuídos por crianças que se encontram em uma instituição de abrigo na cidade de Goiânia-GO. Na construção do corpus da pesquisa, foram utilizadas a observação participante e as entrevistas semi-estruturadas, técnicas de complementação de frases, desenhos e história de livros infantis, com cinco crianças, sendo três do sexo masculino e duas do sexo feminino. A abordagem histórico-cultural de Vigotsky constitui a base teórica sobre a qual se desenvolve a pesquisa, em articulação com a epistemologia e metodologia qualitativa de González Rey, e a proposta de análise de conteúdo do mesmo autor para estudar a fala das crianças. Realizou-se um breve panorama da história do abandono no Brasil, em que se resgatam os contextos históricos até os dias atuais, condições da institucionalização de crianças, antes e depois do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente ECA. Constata-se na fala das crianças pesquisadas, que, apesar da proposta do ECA de assegurar à criança o lugar de sujeito de direitos, predomina a visão adultocêntrica que invariavelmente tenta calar a voz da criança. Busca-se assim, compreender os significados e sentidos do abandono para as crianças naquela instituição e sua repercussão na constituição de sua subjetividade. Os conteúdos revelados na análise das falas das crianças podem alertar as autoridades sobre a importância da participação ativa da criança no planejamento de políticas públicas que a ela dizem respeito, assim como da importância do investimento, dentro das instituições não só no fator pedagógico ou estrutural, mas no fator humano, considerando além de sua capacitação profissional, as dimensões afetivas e emocionais, imprescindíveis na constituição de subjetividades autônomas e saudáveis.

This research study explores the ways in which children from diverse family backgrounds can construct or reconstruct their God representations. These were probed by using 'object relations theory' and 'matemal deprivation theory' as means of further gaining insight into children's initial formulations of interpersonal and emotional relationships and how these were translated into the way they imagined God to be for themselves, given their age-group. Parallels were drawn between the interface of psychology and theology by using theories on faith development. There is a clear acknowledgment that there are certain steps of development that individuals go through in their growth at both psychological and spiritual levels. This confirms that there is a need for these two disciplines to draw from each other as means of creating conducive climate to allow for an integrated approach towards formulations of spiritual development among children. Through the use of questionnaires the children were given the opportunity to explore images of God and to also express these in the form of a drawing. The content analysis of this study demonstrated that there were no distinct differences on how children perceived God between abandoned children being raised in an institutional setting and those children being raised by biological parents. This finding highlighted the fact that there are other factors that impact children's spiritual development. These include care, nurture and emotional security. This study contributes to future research on developing new theologies by children, thus enabling them to play a central role in formulating contextual and relevant curriculums on religious education. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

The master thesis investigates the care of orphans and abandoned children paying special attention to how the care was executed in Prague in the 1st half of the 20th century. First, the thesis describes the general development of care of these children and of legislation. It then focuses on Prague social care of children. The orphans and abandoned children could be provided either in foster families (this form of care was more frequent) or in orphanages. Prague children were often placed outside of Prague to the so called family colonies, where the foster families were concentrated and where it was easier to control the quality of care those children attained in foster families. The other option was care in orphanages. Those could be established by the city, by the church or by an independent charity association. For each option I chose one Prague orphanage as an example. I also tried to describe the everyday life in these institutions. The last chapter focuses on the period view on advantages and disadvantages of both forms of care. Keywords: orphans, abandoned children, social care, Prague, children's homes, foster care, family colonies