This written thesis examines the process of producing Herb and Life: a Chinese Medical Family, a thirty-minute documentary video that explores the producer's family members' relationship with Traditional Chinese Medicine. This documentary uses interviews, narration, music, and observational sequences to display documentary subjects' career choices and their experiences with Traditional Chinese Medicine. This written thesis reveals the development of this documentary, from the pre-production to production and post-production stages. It also incorporates theoretical analysis and self-evaluation of this documentary video.

Diplomová práce Katedra občanské výchovy a filosofie Pedagogické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy Bc. Jana Eliášová Abstract and key words This thesis deals with the influence the pupil's transition from elementary school to secondary school in the communist regime era, i.e. in 1948-1989. The methodology is based on the interviews provided by the method of oral history, archival records and professional literature. Furthermore, the work deals with the functioning of the education at the time of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, focusing on the elementary and secondary schools. The pivotal part of the work is based on the oral historical field research, especially from the personal experience of witnesses. For this work provided their memories eleven witnesses (10 women, 1 man), who, at their youthful age, experienced either a complete ban on studies at the high school, or their onset at the high school was complicated, due to the improper assessment from the school or the politically improper parentage. The thesis intends to reveal the ways influencing the pupil's studies or bans, the reasons and impacts of this experience on further lives of witnesses. Key Words communism, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, education, elementary school, secondary school, assessments of educational skills, cadre system,...

Introduction: The dissertation of "The concept of basal stimulation from the point view of nurses working on Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation facility", discusses the matters of specifics and issues when it comes to providing a basal stimulation process within patient's hospitalization in a resuscitation unit. Patients in very complicated health conditions are hospitalized in a resuscitation unit, very often with symptoms of impaired consciousness. The concept of basal stimulation could very likely help patients' communication with other environment, with accepting and perceiving the actual situation as well as with recovering itself. The point of this dissertation is to chart the real and actual problematics of the basal stimulation used within resuscitation units, and also how nurses working in these units are bringing the concept to bear within their practice. Research methods and results: There are qualitative results posted within the empiric part of the research, as well as interviews with ten general educated nurses working in a resuscitation unit. All the results are collated and analysed in the final discussion after literal transcription of all the interviews. The result of which is, that the general educated nurses see the biggest issue when it comes to providing a basal stimulation...

Pendant de longues années, le vieillissement de la population a été associé aux pays développés. Récemment, il prend de l’envergure dans les pays en développement comme le Brésil. Cependant, il reste un phénomène assez méconnu et dont la complexité commence à se révéler. Mais si le vieillissement et la vieillesse prennent de l’importance dans les divers domaines scientifiques et dans les préoccupations politiques contemporaines, c’est pourtant le regard de ceux qui vivent ce processus quotidiennement qui est trop souvent négligé : les vieux eux-mêmes. Dans cette recherche, nous situons nos efforts dans une démarche compréhensive, capable de saisir l’ambiance présente. À partir des histoires de vie de personnes âgées de Rio de Janeiro, nous avons tenté d’appréhender le sens qu’elles attribuent à leur vécu, afin de rendre compte de leur existence et de leur difficulté d’exister, de leur mode de vie. Nous utilisons la méthodologiedes narratives pour la compréhension du matériel empirique. Nous faisons le constat de l’hétérogénéité du processus de vieillissement au Brésil ; et une image plus positive du vieux et de la vieillesse émerge de notre scénario. Nous constatons également la transfiguration du rapport au corps, au temps et à la santé parmi ces personnes et une nouvelle forme d’être ensemble, mettant en évidence l’émergence du paradigme postmoderne et sa coexistence avec les valeurs modernes dans la société brésilienne. Nous concluons par l’importance de prendre en compte la compréhension des personnes âgées pour l’élaboration et pour l’implémentation de politiques, programmes et services qui puissent signifier un gain qualitatif pour cette population / For many years, the aging of the population has been associated with developed countries. Lately, it increases in developing countries like Brazil. However, it remains a relatively unknown phenomenon whose complexity begins to appear. But if aging and old age are gaining importance in several fields of science and contemporary politicalconcerns, yet it is the view of those who live it daily that is often overlooked: the old themselves. In this research, we put our efforts into a comprehensive approach, which is able to capture this atmosphere. From the life histories of older people in Rio de Janeiro, we attempted to understand the meaning they ascribe to their experiences in order to account for their existence and their lack of ease in existing, their lifestyle. We use the methodology of narratives to understand the empirical material. We observe the heterogeneity of the aging process in Brazil, and a more positive image of the elderly andageing emerges from our scenario. We also perceive the transfiguration of the relation to the body, to time and to health among these persons and a new form of being together, highlighting the emergence of the postmodern paradigm and its coexistence with modern values in Brazilian society. We conclude with the importance of taking into account theunderstanding of elderly people in developing and implementing policies, programs and services that can mean a qualitative gain for this population

La survenue d’une incapacité motrice est un évènement majeur qui ne se limite pas à des dimensions corporelles, mais implique également des dimensions sociales. Elle provoque chez les personnes des perturbations biographiques qui se caractérisent par des ruptures et des bifurcations dans leurs trajectoires de vie ainsi que par la perte de place et de rôle dans la vie sociale. La survenue du handicap oblige à une réorganisation des conditions de vie et à une recomposition du quotidien lors du retour dans le milieu ordinaire après un séjour dans un centre de rééducation consécutif à la survenue de l’incapacité. L’expérience du handicap moteur permet ainsi de saisir la dynamique sociale des trajectoires de vie et les ressources sollicitées par la personne en incapacité motrice dans le processus de sa reconstruction sociale. À partir d’entretiens menés auprès des hommes et des femmes en incapacité motrice et vivant à domicile à Yaoundé (Cameroun), cette thèse a pour objectif d’analyser les interactions entre l’incapacité motrice et l’environnement social dans la réorganisation de leurs trajectoires de vie et dans leurs différentes activités suite à la survenue de l’incapacité. En adoptant un modèle social du handicap, elle met en relief les perturbations biographiques et les ressources sollicitées dans les différentes trajectoires pour maintenir et adapter leur identité. Cela permet une analyse située des mécanismes de construction du handicap à partir des expériences des individus / The occurrence of a motor disability is a major event that is not limited to corporal dimensions, but also involves social dimensions. Individuals are faced with biographical disruptions characterized by breaches and bifurcations in their lifetrajectories and by the loss of place and role in social life. The occurrence of disability calls for a reorganization of living conditions and of the day-to-day life when returning to their usual environment after a stay in a rehabilitation centre. Experiencing motor disability thus makes it possible to grasp the social dynamics of life trajectories and the resources solicited by persons with motor disability in the process of their social reconstruction.Based on interviews conducted with men and women with motor disabilities and living at home in Yaoundé (Cameroon), this thesis aims at analysing the interactions between motor disability and social environment in the reorganization of their life trajectories and in their different activities following the onset of disability. By adopting a social model of the handicap, it highlights the biographical disruptions and the resources needed in the different trajectories to maintain and adapt their identity. It allows a situated analysis of the mechanisms of production of disability from the experience of individuals.

Submitted by Aline Batista (alinehb.ufpel@gmail.com) on 2017-05-31T20:46:12Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO LILAN GREICE DOS SANTOS ORTIZ DA SILVEIRA.pdf: 1407320 bytes, checksum: dd1435018a6ee290e3ff50c04c5da5c6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Aline Batista (alinehb.ufpel@gmail.com) on 2017-06-01T19:00:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 DISSERTAÇÃO LILAN GREICE DOS SANTOS ORTIZ DA SILVEIRA.pdf: 1407320 bytes, checksum: dd1435018a6ee290e3ff50c04c5da5c6 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T19:00:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 DISSERTAÇÃO LILAN GREICE DOS SANTOS ORTIZ DA SILVEIRA.pdf: 1407320 bytes, checksum: dd1435018a6ee290e3ff50c04c5da5c6 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-24 / Sem bolsa / A presente dissertação pretende discutir as relações entre realidade e ficção identificadas nas narrativas “Lixo e purpurina”, “London, London, ajax, brush and rubbish” e “Garopaba mon amour”, de autoria de Caio Fernando Abreu. Para tanto, este trabalho contrasta os conceitos de autobiografia e autoficção, considerando este último como mais adequado para abranger os textos ora analisados. Além disso, correspondências e entrevistas do autor foram utilizadas para enfatizar o processo de ficcionalização que pode ser percebido em seus textos. Sugerimos ainda que o conceito de espaço biográfico permite compreender melhor como os diversos escritos do autor se relacionam entre si. São abordadas aqui as proposições teóricas de Philippe Lejeune além daquelas referentes à autoficção, termo criado por Serge Doubrovsky e posteriormente estudado por autores tais como Phillippe Vilain e Diana Klinger. Ademais, outro conceito crucial para a presente pesquisa é o de espaço biográfico, criado por Leonor Arfuch. Segundo a autora argentina, a biografia de um indivíduo é composta por uma pluralidade de textos, caracterizando, assim, um espaço textual mais amplo e complexo do que aquele pressuposto pelo gênero biográfico em si. Finalmente, a análise dos contos utilizados no presente trabalho levou em consideração as conexões possíveis entre literatura e sociedade, já que os textos de Caio Fernando Abreu eram concebidos como instrumentos políticos e ideológicos. / This dissertation aims to discuss the relations between reality and fiction identified in Brazilian author Caio Fernando Abreu's narratives “Lixo e purpurina”, “London, London, ajax, brush and rubbish” and “Garopaba mon amour”. In order to achieve such aim, this work contrasts the concepts of autobiography and autofiction, regarding the latter as the more appropriate one to encompass the narratives analyzed here. Furthermore, interviews with the author and some of his personal letters are used in this study as a mean of emphasizing the fictionalization process that can be observed in his works. It is also suggested here that the concept of biographical space allows one to better understand how several of the author's works relate to each other. This work addresses Philippe Lejeune's theories as well as those regarding the concept of autofiction, a term coined by Serge Doubrovsky and later studied by authors such as Philippe Vilain and Diana Klinger. Moreover, another concept that is vital to this research work is that of biographical space, introduced by Leonor Arfuch. According to the Argentinian author, an individual's biography is composed by an assortment of texts, therefore characterizing a wider and more complex textual space than that pressuposed by biography as a genre. Finally, the short stories used in this dissertation were analyzed taking into account the possible connections between literature and society, since Caio Fernando Abreu's texts were meant to work as political and ideological tools.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:27:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sejana de Pina Jaymell.pdf: 2874654 bytes, checksum: 434ea04be07cf81b7d7f5976415f5c29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-28 / This dissertation tries to understand the possible meanings of the old objects stored in old boxes and trunks. Specifically, clothes. To this ending, the visuality of the family dresses is investigated from the knowledge, description and registration of their physical and material features, which are the basis of the analysis. The testimonies of the individuals involved in its making and its use, the quest for the historicity of each piece, as well as their typology, support the discussion of the various functions, that the artefact can assume: starting as biographical objects, the dresses change from this and the other functions determined by their creation, use and keeping. With the Camisa de Pagão, used on babies, the children's little dresses, the debut gown and the bridal gown, this search goes through the economic, social and affective issues triggered remembrance processes. / Este trabalho busca a compreensão dos possíveis sentidos dos objetos antigos guardados em caixas e baús, mais especificamente, roupas. Para tanto, os vestidos de família têm investigadas suas visualidades a partir do conhecimento, da descrição e do registro de suas características físicas e materiais, que são a base da análise. Os depoimentos dos sujeitos envolvidos em sua feitura e seu uso e a busca pela historicidade de cada peça, bem como de sua tipologia, dão suporte à discussão sobre as diferentes funções que a roupa pode assumir: objetos biográficos a princípio, os vestidos oscilam entre esta e outras funções, determinadas por sua criação, uso e guarda. Da camisa de pagão, usada em bebês, aos vestidinhos infantis e vestidos de debut e de noiva, a pesquisa passa pelas questões econômicas, sociais e afetivas, desencadeadas nos processos de rememoração.

Esta tese investiga trajetórias de formação de professoras de escolas rurais do Brasil, da Bolívia e do México. Por meio de entrevistas biográficas buscou-se a partir das memórias de vida e formação das professoras, relações, diferenças e articulações em seus relatos de vida e itinerários formativos. A tese se desenvolve na linha de quatro grandes questionamentos que foram organizados em quatro partes. A primeira se ocupa das questões teóricas, na qual são apresentadas discussões mais gerais sobre formação de professores até as especificidades da educação rural no Brasil, na Bolívia e no México. Especificamente no contexto brasileiro apresenta-se um levantamento de dados sobre as pesquisas acerca da formação de professores de escolas rurais produzidas nos anos de 2000 a 2011, disponíveis no banco de dados da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) situando as principais questões presentes no debate nacional sobre formação de professores de escolas rurais. Além disso, há discussões sobre a formação de professores de escolas rurais no Maranhão, de onde são provenientes três das cinco professoras entrevistadas nesta pesquisa. A segunda parte trata do método e contexto de realização da pesquisa ou o campo de pesquisa, um quilombo, um assentamento vinculado ao Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), uma comunidade sem vínculo com os movimentos sociais, no caso brasileiro; uma comunidade rural chamada San Juan del Chaco, na Bolívia e Oaxaca, no México. Discute-se o método biográfico e abordagem da análise de conteúdo como abordagens teórico-metodológicas da pesquisa, além das cinco categorias de análise: trajetórias de formação profissional, práticas de docência, conhecimento da profissão, permanência na profissão e na docência rural e memórias da vida, trabalho e formação. A terceira é devotada à análise dos dados. Nela se verifica, dentre outras questões, que as cinco professoras são pertencentes à classe popular, tiveram dificuldades de acesso aos processos de escolarização e profissionalização docente, possuem, portanto, memórias de sofrimento e superação, encontraram na militância em organizações e movimentos sociais formas de combater a invisibilidade das escolas rurais, assim como, de compreender suas trajetórias de vida e de formação. A quarta, e última, parte apresenta considerações finais, limitações da pesquisa e, finalmente, propostas para as escolas rurais e formação de professores. A tese constata, deste modo, que não há nos três países políticas públicas consolidadas de educação rural, bem como, de formação de professores para as áreas rurais. / This thesis investigates learning paths of rural school teachers from Brazil, Bolivia and Mexico. Through biographical interviews it sought since the living memories and training of teachers, relationships, differences and joints in their reports of life and training routes. The thesis develops in the line of four major questions that were organized in four parts. The first, deals with the theoretical questions, in which are presented the general discussions from teacher training to the specificities of rural education in the three countries. Specifically in the Brazilian context is presented a data collection on researches about the formation of rural school teachers produced in the years 2000-2011, available in the database of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) [Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination], placing the main issues present in the national debate on training rural school teachers. In addition, there are discussions about the formation of rural school teachers in Maranhão, from where came three of the five teachers interviewed for this research. The second part deals with the method and the context of achievement the research or of the research field, a quilombo, a settlement linked to the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) [Landless Workers\' Movement], a community without ties with the social movements in the Brazilian case; a rural community called San Juan del Chaco in Bolivia and Oaxaca, in Mexico. It discusses the biographical method and the approach of content analysis as a theoretical and methodological approaches to research, besides the five categories of analysis: professional learning paths, teaching practices, professional knowledge, permanence in the profession and in the rural teaching and memories Life, work and training. The third is devoted to data analysis. Here can be verified, among other issues, that the five teachers are belonging to the working class, had poor access to schooling processes and teaching professionalization, hold thus suffering and overcoming memories, found in the militancy in social organizations and movements forms of combat invisibility of rural schools, as well as to understand their paths of life and training. The fourth, and final, part presents final considerations, research limitations and, finally, proposals for rural schools and teacher training. The thesis notes, therefore, that there are no publics polices consolidated in the three countries on rural education as well as on training teachers for rural areas.

This dissertation explores the ways in which Charles Dickens writes Nancy in Oliver Twist, Anthony Trollope writes Carry Brattle in The Vicar of Bullhampton, and Elizabeth Gaskell writes Esther in Mary Barton to represent and examine some very personal and painful anxiety. About Dickens and Trollope, I contend that they turn their experiences of shame into their prostitute's shame. For Gaskell, I assert that the experience she projects onto her prostitute is that of her own maternal grief in isolation. Further, I argue that these authors self-consciously create biographical parallels between themselves and their prostitutes with an eye to drawing conclusions about the results of their anxieties, both for their prostitutes and, by proxy, for themselves. In Chapter II, I assert that in Nancy, Dickens writes himself and his sense of shame at his degradation and exploitation in Warren's Blacking Factory. This shame resulted in a Dickens divided, split between his successful, public persona and his secret, mortifying shame. Both shame and its divisiveness he represents in a number of ways in Nancy. In Chapter III, I contend that Trollope laces Carry Brattle with some of his own biographical details from his early adult years in London. These parallels signify Carry's personal importance to her author, and reveal her silences and her subordinate role in the text as representative of Trollope's own understanding and fear of shame and its consequences: its silencing and paralyzing nature, and its inescapability. In Chapter IV, I posit that Gaskell identifies herself with Esther, and that through her, Gaskell explores three personal things: her sorrow over the loss of not one but three of her seven children, her possible guilt over these deaths, and her emotional isolation in her marriage as she grieved alone. In her creation of Esther, Gaskell creates a way both to isolate her grief and to forge a close companion to share it, thus enabling her to examine and work through grief. In Chapter V, I examine the preface of each novel and find that these, too, reflect each author's identification with and investment of anxiety in his or her particular prostitute.

<p>Organisations are by nature, dynamic entities that continuously undergo transformation in response to both internal and external pressures, which are imposed on them (Robbins, Odendaal &amp / Roodt, 2003). Government departments are by no means immune to these changes, which pose challenges that affect their service delivery. During periods of fundamental transformation, individuals typically experience changes in their levels of organisational commitment, which impacts on effective and efficient service delivery. Organisational commitment as an area of research is one of the factors that could lead to greater morale, strong organisational climate, motivation and productivity in many organisations facing transformation (Salami, 2008). The aim of this study was to investigate the level of organisational commitment after a transformation process at a Provincial Government Department. Recent organisational transformations (both in the private and public sector) have included the redrawing of divisional boundaries, flattening of hierarchic levels, spreading of spans of control, revising compensation, streamlining processes and reforming governance (Ndlovu &amp / Brijball Parusumar, 2005). The results of the research indicate that employees are moderately committed to the organisation. Statistically significant relationships were found between the dimensions of organisational commitment, except for affective commitment and total commitment which were not significant.&nbsp / Furthermore, results indicate that statistically significant differences exist based on the biographical characteristics (namely, gender, race, tenure, marital status, age and job level) but these characteristics do not significantly explain the variance in organisational commitment for this organisation. A limitation of the research is that the sampling composition and research design preclude the results of this study being generalised to other organisations and it is recommended that a stratified random sampling design be utilised for future research.</p>