Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T12:51:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 robertoborgesfilho_tese.pdf: 473504 bytes, checksum: 3752818ab01f81c1e62390a872253876 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-09-18 / The aim of this study was to contribute to an understanding of educative activities during the physiotherapy graduation course to improve awareness of the roles of students utilizing the consciousness-raising education method. The research-action method was followed. To collect information on the difficulties and limitations experienced by students, initial observations during the graduation courses. The data were collected into five themes: Autonomy, formal education, relationships (horizontal x vertical), critically consideration of the transformations and freedom of speech. The discussions correlated to actions were developed based on the teaching method of Paulo Freire. After this phase, there were transformations in the attitudes of students during actions developed in the training period. The results show that the methodological strategies applied, focusing on consciousness-raising education, were adequate to develop the critical awareness of the students in respect to the difficulties experienced with actions during the training period, directed to a transforming practice. / Este estudo teve por objetivo a aplicação adaptada da metodologia de Paulo Freire à graduandos em Fisioterapia. Para o desenvolvimento das ações foram utilizadas observações durante os períodos iniciais da graduação sob a forma de estudo piloto e posteriormente no período de estágio (Fisioterapia Esportiva), foi aplicado o método de forma adaptada pelo pesquisador.Os dados gerais foram selecionados pelo pesquisador em cinco temas geradores:Autonomia,Formação Acadêmica,Relação horizontal x vertical,o pensar criticamente as transformações e a liberdade de expressão.Foram verificadas pelo pesquisador através de conclusões com base na experiência profissional, transformações de atitudes nas ações desenvolvidas pelos graduandos após a aplicação do método.Os resultados permitem concluir que as estratégias metodológicas, aplicadas sob o enfoque da educação conscientizadora adaptada á área em questão, foram adequadas para o desenvolvimento de uma consciência crítica desses graduandos com relação às dificuldades encontradas no contexto das ações, direcionando para uma prática transformadora.

James Leslie Mitchell's critique of modern society, a society which nurtured aggression, colonialism, religion, racism, and gender bias, was rooted in his background, experience and commitment. Being a revolutionary writer, he held progressive and visionary views, and claimed his works were propaganda, carrying messages to reshape society on ancient values and socialist principles. In his Scottish short stories (written under his pseudonym Lewis Grassie Gibbon) wives and daughters were neglected and ignored, yet forced to do menial tasks on the farm. Women in his English stories and novels were better situated and educated, taking an active role in their own development, showing determination to exercise free will and develop self-awareness, and encouraging others to emancipate themselves. A number of characters accepted atheism and Communism, and believed in Diffusionism wherein people were simple, cooperative, without malice. Undoubtedly, Mitchell/Gibbon's crowning achievement was A Scots Quair. Chris Guthrie embodied the qualities of his earlier heroines. She loved the soil but disliked the workings, preferred the accuracy of English words and deplored the crude talk of the farming communities; yet she was impelled to carry on as a farmer. Chris was married three times, widowed twice, separated once, had one son, and few friends; and lived in a croft, a manse and a boarding house. She abhorred war, favoured birth control, had a glimmering of the Golden Age, and exhibited the attitudes, beliefs and opinions of her creator. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)