Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The history of geography is much more than the mere listing of the names and publications of great geographers, identifying different research traditions, or searching for paradigms. The history of geography ought to be seen within the context of the society of which it is an integral part.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:31:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Giovanni Horacio Guimaraes.pdf: 3488466 bytes, checksum: bff7f9531203e477b26e55917ee767d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-06 / This work completes a doctoral research, conducted at the Graduate Studies Program in Education: Curriculum, part of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, in the period between 2010 and 2014. The object of this investigation was established to be the curricular trajectory of the discipline "Social and Human Sciences" in the engineering courses at the Federal University of Itajubá, their disciplinary arrangements and programmatic directions acquired since its implementation in 1998. The main objective was to reassemble characteristics of the curricular trajectory of the discipline of "Human and Social Sciences" at the Federal University of Itajubá Engineering by recovering evidence of its disciplinary arrangement, its relations with the modifications imposed by the laws that regulate engineering education, its faculty, its contents and practices. The research scenario was the Federal University of Itajubá, located in the south of Minas Gerais. An institution of higher education founded in 1913 from the initiative of a positivist lawyer, Theodomiro Carneiro Santiago, as Institute of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of Itajubá. It became a federal institution in 1956 and its name was changed to Federal School of Engineering of Itajubá in 1968. Finally it became Federal University of Itajubá in 2002. In this sense, a qualitative approach was carried out and non-directive interviews, oral history and historical and documentary analyses were used as research procedures. The subjects are four professors of the institution who have taught Human Sciences since 1998. The path chosen to elaborate the theoretical reference was the curriculum mapping in its multidimensionality; the location of the theme of educational disciplining knowledge within the curriculum studies; the limits of curricular dimensions of school subjects; the pointing of relations between disciplining and teaching practice. The main theoretical references of this study are the works of Andre Chervel (1990), Apple (2008), Forquin (1993), Gimeno Sacristán (1999 and 2007), Goodson (1996 and 2008), Moreira & Silva (1996) and Viñao (2008). Fulfilling its goal, the research rescued pre-specified dimensions of the discipline; mapped important features of the faculty, such as academic production, their theoretical areas, traces of their practices and professorial identity. Also, it pointed out new paths to be investigated on the object / Este trabalho conclui uma pesquisa de doutoramento, realizada no Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação: Currículo, vinculado à Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, no período de 2010 a 2014. Configurou-se como objeto dessa investigação a trajetória curricular da disciplina de Ciências Humanas e Sociais nos cursos de engenharia da Universidade Federal de Itajubá, suas formas disciplinares e direcionamentos programáticos adquiridos no tempo desde sua implantação em 1998 até a atualidade. O objetivo principal foi remontar características da trajetória curricular da disciplina de Ciências Humanas e Sociais na Universidade Federal de Engenharia de Itajubá, resgatando indícios de suas formas disciplinares, suas relações com as modificações impostas pelas leis que regem o ensino de engenharia, seu corpo docente, seus conteúdos e práticas. O cenário da pesquisa foi a Universidade Federal de Itajubá, localizada no sul de Minas Geraes. Uma instituição de ensino superior fundada em 1913 por iniciativa de um advogado positivista, Theodomiro Carneiro Santiago, como Instituto de Engenharia Elétrica e Mecânica de Itajubá, federalizado em 1956 e tornado Escola Federal de Engenharia de Itajubá em 1968. Transformando-se em Universidade Federal de Itajubá em 2002. Nesse sentido foi feita uma abordagem qualitativa tendo como procedimentos de pesquisa a entrevista não-diretiva, a história oral e a análise histórico-documental. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são quatro docentes da instituição, que lecionaram e lecionam Ciências Humanas entre o período que vai de 1998 a 2015. O caminho percorrido para elaboração dos referenciais teóricos foi o mapeamento do currículo na sua multidimensionalidade; a localização do tema da disciplinarização do conhecimento educacional dentro dos estudos do currículo; a delimitação das dimensões curriculares das disciplinas escolares; o apontamento de relações entre disciplinarização e prática docente. Como referenciais teóricos principais dessa pesquisa estão os trabalhos de Andre Chervel (1990), Apple (2008), Forquin (1993), Gimeno Sacristán (1999 e 2007), Goodson (1996 e 2008), Moreira & Silva (1996) e Viñao (2008). Cumprindo com seu objetivo a investigação resgatou dimensões prescritas da disciplina; mapeou características importantes do corpo docente como produção acadêmica, suas áreas teóricas de atuação, traços de suas práticas e identidade professorais. Além disso, apontou caminhos novos a serem investigados sobre o objeto

Part-time faculty members represent the majority of faculty at public two-year postsecondary institutions. Utilizing part-time faculty enables two-year institutions to control their instructional costs and maintain scheduling flexibility. However, part-time faculty are diverse in regards to their employment preference, some prefer part-time employment while others would prefer a full-time position. Since retaining and attracting qualified and experienced part-time faculty members is essential, it is imperative that their satisfaction be understood. This study uses the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF: 04) to study faculty satisfaction. Faculty was disaggregated according to employment preference into full-time, involuntary part-time, and voluntary part-time in order to study the structure of satisfaction for each group and the factors that influence the satisfaction for each group. The factors studied were perception of equity, partial inclusion, demographic differences and academic discipline. I found that the structure of faculty satisfaction and the influence of variables on faculty satisfaction differ among full-time, involuntary part-time, and voluntary part-time faculty.