Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T15:08:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2878530 bytes, checksum: 003c2acb254fc66fcebd26a935580673 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research, organized with a clear perspective and a phenomenological approach, has as its investigative question: What ethics do Bio-dance participants promote through their lived experiences? Thus, it presents Bio-dance as a measure of Bio-centric Education, interfacing the theory and importance of these experiences in the lives of the participants in this system. Bio-dance is based on the bonding of human beings, as it is based on loving, co-existence through the ethics of diversity and re-linking with the Earth through the experience of belonging. This perspective makes clear that there is not necessarily any discontinuity between the social, the human and their biological bases. To live is to know and as living beings we are continuously our own reproducers in a network of interaction. The basic theory of Bio-dance is in Roland Toro, its creator. In Humberto Maturana we look for the basics about the biology of loving, in Edgar Morin knowledge is understood as a construction based on the theory of complexity and the basics of ethics, such as re-linking and with Emmanuel Levinas we search for an understanding of the ethics of diversity. These are the principal authors with whom we try to dialogue. The basis is in the interaction with persons involved in the research through the importance of their lived experience of Bio-dance. When Toro presents Bio-dance he proposes a system of development and growth of human potential organized by him around five lived-experience themes: Vitality, Sexuality, Creativity, Affectivity and Transcendence. For him, Bio-dance is a new sensitiveness regarding our existence, through the poetry of the human encounter where each one is invited to dance his/her own life, which unleashes new feelings. The practice of Bio-dance is a proposal for creating an environment for learning new ways of feeling, which in turn unleashes new ways of seeing and living life. Thus, there occurs a certain reflection regarding motivation, transformation and bonding in the dance of life . This leads to the following conclusion: the ethics brought to the fore by the experience of Bio-dance take place within new feelings, promote changes in how we act, creating a new life-style with significant transformation in the ways of living and co-existence with others in the manner in which we inhabit the Earth, having life as the center of all. / Esta pesquisa, configurada na perspectiva qualitativa e de abordagem fenomenológica, traz a seguinte questão de investigação: Quais são as éticas promovidas pelos participantes da Biodanza, a partir de suas vivências? Assim, apresenta a Biodanza como mediação da Educação Biocêntrica, fazendo uma interface entre a teoria e os significados destas vivências na vida dos participantes desse sistema. Fundamenta a vinculação dos seres humanos, tendo por base a emoção do amar, a convivência pela ética da alteridade e a religação com a Terra, pela experiência de pertencimento. Esta perspectiva está na compreensão de que não há, necessariamente, descontinuidade entre o social, o humano e suas bases biológicas. O próprio viver é um conhecer. E como seres vivos, somos produtores de nós mesmos, de modo contínuo, numa rede de interações. A fundamentação teórica da Biodanza está em Rolando Toro, que é o seu idealizador. Em Humberto Maturana, buscamos a fundamentação sobre a biologia do amar. Em Edgar Morin, temos o entendimento do conhecimento como uma construção a partir da teoria da complexidade, e os fundamentos da ética como religação; e com Emmanuel Levinas, buscamos a compreensão da ética da alteridade. Estes são os principais autores com os quais buscamos dialogar. A fundamentação está em interação com as vozes dos sujeitos envolvidos na pesquisa, através dos significados que emergiram das vivências de Biodanza. Toro, ao apresentar a Biodanza, propõe um sistema para o desenvolvimento e o desabrochar das potencialidades humanas, que foram organizadas por ele, em torno de cinco Linhas de Vivências: Vitalidade, Sexualidade, Criatividade, Afetividade e Transcendência. Para ele, a Biodanza é uma nova sensibilidade frente à existência, através da poética do encontro humano , onde cada um é convidado a dançar a própria vida, o que tem desencadeado um novo emocionar. A prática da Biodanza é uma proposta para criar um ambiente de aprendizagem de um novo emocionar, que desencadeia novos modos de olhar e viver a vida. Neste sentido, há uma reflexão em torno das motivações, das transformações e da vinculação na dança da vida , chegando-se à seguinte conclusão: as éticas, como um estilo de viver as relações consigo mesmo, com o outro e com a Terra, suscitadas pelas vivências da Biodanza, acontecem a partir de um novo emocionar. Esse novo emocionar promove mudanças nas ações, gerando um novo estilo de vida, com acentuadas transformações no modo de viver e conviver com outro, e no modo de habitar a Terra, tendo a vida como centralidade.

1 online resource (181 leaves) / This study relies on ecocriticism as the discipline benefitting the analysis of the imagery of nature in Konstantin Paustovsky’s prose. The objective of this approach is to demonstrate that Paustovsky’s prose goes beyond of what was expected from a Soviet writer by the socialist realist dogma. This thesis attempts to prove that an ecocritical approach validates his prose as being universal in its message and thus relevant to contemporary readers. Scholars of ecocriticism ask the following questions when analysing a nature-orientated prose: what values are expressed in nature-orientated literature, does the portrayal of nature reflects the cultural values of a nation as well as the way in which a person’s interaction with his natural environment enhances or hampers his spiritual development. The timeframe, within which Paustovsky wrote his prose, should be taken into account, because it coincides with the Lenin and Stalin regimes, when any criticism of the government including its nature conservation policies was impossible. The analysis of attitudes of the Russian people towards nature in Paustovksy’prose demonstrates that it evolved from the acceptance of the official stand to the one of criticism. This research resulted in the following conclusions: Firstly Paustovsky’s view with regard to ecological problems and his solutions to these problems are on par with those of modern ecologists. The writer, for example, proposes a holistic way to undertake nature conservation, such as replacing ruined forests by the same type of trees, not interfering in the cycles of nature and stresses the importance of scientific information on how to care of the natural environment. Secondly, it is through his presentation of nature that the author familiarises the reader with the essence of the Russian culture, which is totally intertwined with the manifestations of Russian nature, such as folklore, superstitions, cultural traditions and values attached to certain animals and trees Thirdly, it has been established that the ‘external’ natural landscape of a person namely his environment, undoubtedly influences his ‘internal landscape’, his psyche. This implies that the natural environment of a person will have an influence on his psychological make-up. It is assumed that this study, in particular the use of ecocriticism as a tool to analyse literature where nature plays a role, will shed new light on the role of nature in Russian prose. This is especially the case with regard to the way in which ecological issues such as nature conservation are treated. / Classics & World Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Russian)

1 online resource (181 leaves) / This study relies on ecocriticism as the discipline benefitting the analysis of the imagery of nature in Konstantin Paustovsky’s prose. The objective of this approach is to demonstrate that Paustovsky’s prose goes beyond of what was expected from a Soviet writer by the socialist realist dogma. This thesis attempts to prove that an ecocritical approach validates his prose as being universal in its message and thus relevant to contemporary readers. Scholars of ecocriticism ask the following questions when analysing a nature-orientated prose: what values are expressed in nature-orientated literature, does the portrayal of nature reflects the cultural values of a nation as well as the way in which a person’s interaction with his natural environment enhances or hampers his spiritual development. The timeframe, within which Paustovsky wrote his prose, should be taken into account, because it coincides with the Lenin and Stalin regimes, when any criticism of the government including its nature conservation policies was impossible. The analysis of attitudes of the Russian people towards nature in Paustovksy’prose demonstrates that it evolved from the acceptance of the official stand to the one of criticism. This research resulted in the following conclusions: Firstly Paustovsky’s view with regard to ecological problems and his solutions to these problems are on par with those of modern ecologists. The writer, for example, proposes a holistic way to undertake nature conservation, such as replacing ruined forests by the same type of trees, not interfering in the cycles of nature and stresses the importance of scientific information on how to care of the natural environment. Secondly, it is through his presentation of nature that the author familiarises the reader with the essence of the Russian culture, which is totally intertwined with the manifestations of Russian nature, such as folklore, superstitions, cultural traditions and values attached to certain animals and trees Thirdly, it has been established that the ‘external’ natural landscape of a person namely his environment, undoubtedly influences his ‘internal landscape’, his psyche. This implies that the natural environment of a person will have an influence on his psychological make-up. It is assumed that this study, in particular the use of ecocriticism as a tool to analyse literature where nature plays a role, will shed new light on the role of nature in Russian prose. This is especially the case with regard to the way in which ecological issues such as nature conservation are treated. / Classics and World Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Russian)