A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo principal elaborar um plano de ações com alternativas na preparação e colocação da mão esquerda no violino para estudantes de violino. Desenvolveu-se em um estudo experimental, com seis estudantes do Conservatório e da Graduação da Universidade de Caldas na Colômbia. O processo de investigação foi fundamentado em quatro tópicos: (1) a análise do posicionamento inicial da mão, dedos e braço esquerdo, (2) a introdução de padrões motores e de movimentos alternativos, (3) a comparação da mão esquerda antes e depois do plano de ações alternativas, e (4) a avaliação do plano de ações. Este estudo incluiu a coleta de dados por meio de registro de vídeo antes e depois das ações propostas. Esta proposta procura possíveis soluções para tensões musculoesqueléticas, que estão na origem da colocação inadequada dos dedos, mão e braço. O processo teve a fundamentação bibliográfica em Paul Rolland (1911-1981), Ivan Galamian (1903-1981), Carl Flesch (1873-1944), Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) entre outros. / The aim of this investigation was to develop a plan of actions for teaching and/or improving left hand positioning of beginner violin students. The goal was to have a teaching alternative that could help solving musculoskeletal tension, derived from inadequate positioning of fingers, and hand. An experimental study was conducted with six students from the Conservatory of Music and undergraduates of the University of Caldas, Colombia. The investigation was based on four topics: (1) analysis of the initial position of hand, fingers and left arm; (2) teaching of the proposed alternative motor and movement patterns; (3) comparison of the left hand before and after the action plan; and (4) evaluation of the action plan. For data collection during this study, video recording were done before and after the actions. This study was based on the writings of Paul Rolland (1911-1981), Ivan Galamian (1903-1981), Carl Flesch (1873- 1944), Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) among others.

Piano teachers agree that acquiring piano technique knowledge and skills is beneficial for musical interpretation as lacking a good technique may impact on the musicality of a performance and poor technique may lead to muscular pain or injury. Many piano teachers use a series of piano method books as major teaching materials in the lesson. It is essential for teachers to understand the technical elements included in the piano method books and to investigate whether any piano technical element is missing so that they may consider using supplementary technique teaching materials. Besides, to understand how the technical elements are presented and how soon each technique element is introduced would help teachers to teach more efficiently. The purpose of this study was to review how expert pedagogues teach piano technique to establish a framework of technique elements that should be taught to young piano beginners. Based on this framework, we undertook an analysis of the technical elements found in thirteen series of piano method lesson books together with their accompanying technical books. A calculation of the proportion of each piano technique element in each series, an evaluation of the pace at which new technique elements are introduced and an analysis of how each one is presented forms the objective of this study. The results will provide piano teachers with thorough information on the technique elements found in different method books and will help piano teachers to select the most appropriate method books for their students.

Many learners enter formal schooling without having mastered the necessary school readiness skills. Academically, those who are not equipped with the necessary school readiness skills often experience certain difficulties, a situation that can even lead to failure at the end of their first year at school. Had these learners been assessed for school readiness earlier, and their teachers informed of the interpreted results, they could have been helped to improve their literacy level earlier. With their knowledge, teachers are able to provide appropriate additional support to meet identified school readiness needs. A concern amongst educators is that many school readiness assessment instruments are available but they do not test the same skills. A further issue is that scientifically proven criteria for evaluating school readiness assessment instruments are not known to be available. Using information about the skills being assessed according to helpful and insightful criteria, would enable educators to know how best to assist learners. Learners do progress and learn differently. Focusing on the skills needed to succeed at school is essential for learners’ development. Hence the reason for engaging in this research was to explore school readiness assessment. From semi-structured interviews conducted, Grade 1 teachers did not have detailed knowledge of school readiness assessment and the instruments used. It is therefore recommended that awareness of the criteria for successful school readiness assessment becomes an integral part of the preparation for formal schooling. Irrespective of their age, applying such instruments could help learners who are not yet ready for school to be better prepared pre-schoolers. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2017. / Early Childhood Education / MEd / Unrestricted

In this essay I introduce and analyse Lärobok i lettiska (with an adaptation in English called A Course in Modern Latvian) from 1980 by Valentine Lasmane and LETTISKA för universitetsbruk I (Latvian for University Students I, my translation) from 1993 by Aija Priedīte.  My aim is to find out the author’s intention and examine how it is carried out. This involves vocabulary, grammar, possible influences by certain methods in language teaching, and exercises. As the books were written several decades ago, the question of their relevance today is also worth investigating.  In her work, Priedīte contrasts Latvian to Swedish, which also is a clear characteristic of the book. The vocabulary is translated into Swedish, and Swedish is used to explain the grammar. This is typical of the grammar-translation method. The vocabulary consists of about 770 words, plus over 400 items in thematic lists. There is emphasis on grammar in a way that is suitable for the university level. However, I conclude that this material requires teacher-led instruction and more varied exercises to be effective for the learner.  Valentine Lasmane’s Lärobok i lettiska is more focused on language skills than academic knowledge, although the description of Latvian grammar is also wide-ranging. It is intended for two years’ study. In it, Swedish is used in about the same way as in Priedīte’s book. The texts are about a Latvian family living in Uppsala and describe everyday life in the family, at work, in school, and so on. The vocabulary comprises some 1 700 words, plus about 500 thematic items. Some exercises are drills, but there are also other types of exercises. There is a grammar index and Swedish-Latvian and Latvian-Swedish word lists. I conclude that talented and diligent students should be able to study this course on their own, though it would be desirable to have oral contacts with Latvian speakers.  The two works I have studied are in many ways similar to each other, for example in their way of using Swedish. There are also differences. LETTISKA för universitetsbruk I is a more academic work, much focused on grammar, whereas Lärobok i lettiska has both grammar and a more practical view. I conclude that both books can still be used in teaching and learning Latvian thanks to their contents of everyday life situations.

With this essay, I’m reviewing with a narrative analysis, describing in what way the standards of feminism, bisexuality and non-monogomy is being represented in the movie Puccini for beginners. I’m reviewing this in support of a queer and straight time. As a complement for queer and straight time, I’m presenting different theoretical concepts, which are useful for the analyze of feminism, bisexuality and non-monogamy. The analyze is based on the categories of Labov. In which way the narritve is constructed, as well as in what way feminism, bisexuality and non-monogamy are being represented. Finally I’m summing-up how I answered my questions regarding straight and queer time in perspective of feminism, bisexuality and non-monogamy.

Title: Selected motivational aspects for beginners and advanced in karate Aim: The main aim of my thesis was to learn how the current poor popularity of karate sport influences students of elementary and secondary schools in Prague and its surroundings and their motivation in this sport for achievements and at the same time to suggest how to furthermore support and expand motivation with these students. Methods: To gain information and data for this thesis I used survey methods and its specially designed questionnaire. Further additional interviews were used with advanced karate students with the highest ambitions and with former Czech Republic karate representatives (2006-2013) and compared with motivational aspect with these two different generations of athletes. There was second specially designed questionnaire for these additional interviews with a possibility for free answers. Results: Through the survey the differences in motivational aspects at beginners and advanced in karate were found and with additional interviews differences were found in ambitions and motivational aspects among former Czech Republic karate representatives and current advanced students with high ambitions in karate. Manager suggestions for motivation expansion with beginners and advanced karate people were also...

<p>The aim of the study was to describe how anaesthetic nurses, within both advanced beginner and expert levels, experience their professional role as they perform a general anaesthetic.</p><p>The study had a descriptive design with a qualitative approach in which ten advanced beginners- and ten expert anaesthetic nurses from an operating theatre and an ambulatory surgical ward at a hospital located in the middle of Sweden, participated. All data was collected in an interview with semi-structured questions which focused on how the anaesthetic nurses experience their work. The data were analysed with qualitative content analysis. The results are presented in categories and themes. The themes were formed from the categories. Themes for the advanced beginners were: <em>support develops self confidence that gives the feeling of satisfaction</em> and <em>lack of support impedes further development of independency and gives the feeling of insecurity</em>. Themes for the experts were: <em>experience and new challenges in a supported environment give satisfaction</em> and <em>lack of support and own insecurity give dissatisfaction</em>. The advanced beginners described their experiences in a more descriptive way, while the experts had more difficult to describe what they experienced. The advanced beginners wanted more support from their colleagues while the experts wanted to be more independent and were also more confident in their professional role.</p> / <p>Syftet med studien var att beskriva hur anestesisjuksköterskor på avancerad nybörjarnivå respektive expertnivå upplever sin yrkesroll vid generell anestesi. Studien hade en deskriptiv design med kvalitativ ansats där tio avancerade nybörjare respektive tio expert anestesisjuksköterskor, från en allmän operations avdelning och en dagkirurgisk avdelning vid ett Mellansvenskt sjukhus, deltog i studien. Data samlades in via halvstrukturerade intervjufrågor som inriktade sig på anestesisjuksköterskors upplevelser av sitt arbete. Data analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet redovisas utifrån kategorier som bildade olika teman. Teman som för avancerade nybörjare var <em>stöd utvecklar självförtroende som ger en känsla av tillfredställelse</em> samt <em>brist på stöd hindrar utvecklingen av självständighet och ger känsla av osäkerhet</em>. Teman för experterna var <em>erfarenhet och nya utmaningar i en stödjande miljö ger tillfredställelse</em> samt <em>bristande stöd och egen osäkerhet ger otillfredsställelse</em>. Avancerade nybörjarna beskrev sina upplevelser på ett mer beskrivande sätt medan experterna hade svårare att beskriva vad de upplevde. Avancerade nybörjarna ville ha mer stöd medan experterna ville vara mer självständiga och var mer trygg i sin yrkesroll.</p>

The aim of the study was to describe how anaesthetic nurses, within both advanced beginner and expert levels, experience their professional role as they perform a general anaesthetic. The study had a descriptive design with a qualitative approach in which ten advanced beginners- and ten expert anaesthetic nurses from an operating theatre and an ambulatory surgical ward at a hospital located in the middle of Sweden, participated. All data was collected in an interview with semi-structured questions which focused on how the anaesthetic nurses experience their work. The data were analysed with qualitative content analysis. The results are presented in categories and themes. The themes were formed from the categories. Themes for the advanced beginners were: support develops self confidence that gives the feeling of satisfaction and lack of support impedes further development of independency and gives the feeling of insecurity. Themes for the experts were: experience and new challenges in a supported environment give satisfaction and lack of support and own insecurity give dissatisfaction. The advanced beginners described their experiences in a more descriptive way, while the experts had more difficult to describe what they experienced. The advanced beginners wanted more support from their colleagues while the experts wanted to be more independent and were also more confident in their professional role. / Syftet med studien var att beskriva hur anestesisjuksköterskor på avancerad nybörjarnivå respektive expertnivå upplever sin yrkesroll vid generell anestesi. Studien hade en deskriptiv design med kvalitativ ansats där tio avancerade nybörjare respektive tio expert anestesisjuksköterskor, från en allmän operations avdelning och en dagkirurgisk avdelning vid ett Mellansvenskt sjukhus, deltog i studien. Data samlades in via halvstrukturerade intervjufrågor som inriktade sig på anestesisjuksköterskors upplevelser av sitt arbete. Data analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet redovisas utifrån kategorier som bildade olika teman. Teman som för avancerade nybörjare var stöd utvecklar självförtroende som ger en känsla av tillfredställelse samt brist på stöd hindrar utvecklingen av självständighet och ger känsla av osäkerhet. Teman för experterna var erfarenhet och nya utmaningar i en stödjande miljö ger tillfredställelse samt bristande stöd och egen osäkerhet ger otillfredsställelse. Avancerade nybörjarna beskrev sina upplevelser på ett mer beskrivande sätt medan experterna hade svårare att beskriva vad de upplevde. Avancerade nybörjarna ville ha mer stöd medan experterna ville vara mer självständiga och var mer trygg i sin yrkesroll.

The Diploma Thesis addresses the methods of teaching playing the violin and related teaching materials. The first part of the Thesis is devoted to traditional Czech schools, which are at the moment the most common resource material used at the Czech ZUS basic fine arts schools. I briefly introduce methodical materials intended for the education of beginners by Josef Micka and Magdalena Micková, Otakar Ševčík, Jan Čermák and Jaroslav Beran, Zdeněk Gola and Eva Bublová. The second part, being the centrepiece of the Thesis, is focused on two pedagogical methods which are non-Czech by origin - namely the Suzuki method and the Colourstrings method. Shinichi Suzuki created his method in post-war Japan and his accent in teaching playing an instrument is in the development of the potential of a person as well as the society, not really achieving true mastery in violin playing. The Thesis includes a description of its cornerstones and foundations. The last method addressed in the Thesis is the Colourstings method, emerging partly from the Suzuki method. Its author, Géza Szilvay, created it for his daughter, now a professional violinist. Szilvay is currently heavily involved in a tour of lectures on musical pedagogy and long-distance teaching projects. He is based at The East Helsinki Music Institute and...

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No. of bitstreams: 1 karinerochanery.pdf: 1556253 bytes, checksum: d3b2380b9e43afe724c8afd6f8a7d6b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-31 / A presente dissertação é desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação (PPGP) do Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). O caso de gestão estudado discutiu o processo de capacitação dos Técnicos Administrativos em Educação (TAEs) da UFJF, ocupantes do cargo Assistente em Administração no campus avançado em Governador Valadares, tendo a seguinte questão norteadora: quais são os desafios dos servidores Assistentes em Administração do campus avançado da UFJF em Governador Valadares quanto a sua formação e capacitação para o serviço? O objetivo geral deste estudo foi a elaboração de um Plano de Ação Educacional (PAE), e para alcançá-lo, foi feito um estudo sobre as capacitações dos servidores que exercem funções administrativas no campus avançado da UFJF em Governador Valadares (UFJF-GV) e suas limitações. Como objetivos específicos, buscou-se: i) descrever a política de capacitação da UFJF e suas possíveis limitações; ii) analisar se as capacitações ofertadas são suficientes para o aperfeiçoamento dos servidores e; iii) propor um plano de intervenção que promova a melhoria dos cursos já ofertados pela UFJF e ações que propiciem aos servidores adquirirem mais conhecimentos e informações, de forma a se capacitarem continuamente. Assumimos como hipóteses que a capacitação ofertada pela UFJF não atende às demandas dos setores, e que os servidores não recebem capacitações específicas para as funções que exercem. Para tanto, utilizamos pesquisas bibliográficas e documentais como metodologia da pesquisa, e em primeiro momento, para o levantamento das evidências, foi realizada uma entrevista coletiva com os servidores lotados nas secretarias dos cursos do Instituto Ciências da Vida (ICV). No intuito de aprofundar na problemática descrita no primeiro capítulo, foi aplicado questionário a todos os servidores Assistentes em Administração, nível D, que atuam no campus avançado e realizada uma entrevista semiestruturada em Juiz de Fora ao setor responsável pela capacitação de servidores. Ao final da pesquisa foi constatado que a capacitação ofertada aos TAEs não atende às necessidades dos servidores e não é suficiente para o bom desenvolvimento das atividades, levando a vários problemas, como: atraso nos trâmites de processos, erros em documentos, insegurança nas ações, duplicidade de informações, falta de padronização, desperdício de recursos financeiros, perda de autonomia. / This Master Thesis is developed in the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation of Education (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The management case to be studied discussed the qualification process of the Technicians Administrative in Education (TAEs) of the UFJF, occupying the position Administrative Assistants in the Governador Valadares campus, having the following guiding question: what are the challenges of Governador Valadares campus Administrative Assistants of the regarding their training and training for the service? The general objective of this study was the elaboration of an Educational Action Plan (PAE), and in order to achieve it, a study was carried out on the qualifications of the servers that perform administrative functions in the UFJF campus in Governador Valadares (UFJF-GV) and its limitations. As specific objectives, it was sought: i) to describe the UFJF's training policy and its possible limitations; ii) analyze whether the offered capacities are sufficient for the improvement of the servers and; iii) to propose an intervention plan that promotes the improvement of the courses already offered by the UFJF and actions that allow the servers to acquire more knowledge and information, in order to be trained continuously. We assume as hypotheses that the training offered by the UFJF does not meet the demands of the sectors, and that the servers do not receive specific training for the functions they perform. To do so, we used bibliographical and documentary research as a research methodology, and in the first moment, to collect the evidence, a collective interview was held with the crowded servers in the departments of the Life Sciences Intitute (ICV). In order to deepen the problem described in the first chapter, a questionnaire was applied to all D-level Administrative Assistants, who work in UFJF-GV and conducted a semi-structured interview in Juiz de Fora to the sector responsible for server training. At the end of the research it was verified that the training offered to the TAEs does not meet the needs of the servers and is not enough for the good development of the activities, leading to several problems, such as: delay in processing of processes, errors in documents, duplication of information, lack of standardization, wastage of financial resources, loss of autonomy.