Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1985. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 82-88). Also available in print.

My thesis is dedicated to the study of popular, commercial cinema as a force within the discourse of national and personal identity in the rapidly changing mega-economies of India and China, and their diasporas, since the watershed year of 1990. Its purpose is to reveal the unique pattern of like and unlike that exists between the "Social Representations" (Serge Moscovici 2000) of contemporary India and China on screen through a juxtapositional comparative approach, close visual analysis, and the development of original theoretical tools. Tense networks of fantasy and anxiety emerge as popular culture actively circulates their shared experiences of changing global status, uneven economic growth (Gong Haomin 2012), and social change. Transnational subjects, Hua and Desi, arrive on screen ready to carve out culturally inflected modernities, in search of "tradition" and "values" to suit contemporary cultural-nations-beyond-borders. I treat film as consumer product, diegetic entity, and text: hence narrative, visual, linguistic and contextual aspects of over fourteen popular commercial films ("Bollywood" and "Yulepian"), are explored. My analysis comprises two interlocking halves: the first two chapters focus chiefly on identities - Hua and Desi, and diasporic persons. The former, conduits for the cultural nation to re-think modernity, the latter a dreamed vanguard of "claim-staking" ethnicised global consumers, defenders of the cultural nation in the "host" country. Chapters Three and Four focus on genres - comedy and history films. Through comedy, these films create state-serving heterotopias or challenge the status quo; perhaps they build cultural nationalist mythos, or lace cynical questions through lavish history film. To understand internecine relationships between economics, society and the imagination, entertainment film cannot be dismissed - in India and China, where change has had intended and unintended consequences unfolding even as uncertainty looms, I show that fresh study, especially in comparison, is absolutely essential.

The Evangelical Reformed Church is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary. This study investigates this church's unique view of Scripture and places it within the broader context of a Reformed approach. To this end, a literary study is conducted, whereby the Evangelical Reformed conviction is compared to that of Calvin and Barth, as put forward in their Institutions and Church Dogmatics, respectively. This procedure allows for a collation of the Evangelical Reformed stance and the Reformed view. Since the belief regarding Scripture has an effect on many aspects of the traditional reformed dogma, several bibliological facets are singled out, namely, revelation, authority, inspiration, and the inception of the canon. By way of illustration, these details are considered with specific reference to the Reformed doctrine of Predestination. The goal of this exercise is to evaluate the application of the bibliological dogma in the formulation of theology. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M.Th

L’identité professionnelle des enseignant-e-s des deux Congo. Les enseignant-e-s du primaire et du secondaire des deux pays, le Congo-Brazzaville et le Congo-Kinshasa, ont traversé, ces quarante (40) dernières années, des difficultés socio- économiques et politiques qui ont affecté leur éthique professionnelle, les obligeant à remettre en cause leur identité professionnelle. Des analyses sur les contextes éducatifs, les actions professionnelles, les aspects socio-relationnels, organisationnels, institutionnels et non formels nous permettront : d’étudier le rôle joué par la formation initiale des enseignants, de situer les questions relatives aux financements des structures éducatives ainsi que l’efficacité desdits financements, de comprendre la désaffection généralisée et l’affaiblissement du statut social et économique de la fonction d’enseignant-e. Tout ceci permettra de mieux expliquer le caractère de vulnérabilité des enseignants actuels, et de justifier ce qu’est « le revêtement identitaire idéalisé » selon (Dubar, 2000 :165). L’analyse des résultats de 103 interviews biographiques avec des enseignant-e-s formé-e-s pendant 4 périodes différentes sont présentées et analysées. Les résultats indiquent qu’a chaque période correspond une identité professionnelle de base. Sur le plan social, les enseignants, qui se considèrent comme Sisyphe du 21ème siècle et kamikazes des temps modernes, disent vivre une « tempête, une panique et une débandade identitaires » . Une étude comparative montrera le degré d’intervention dans les deux capitales proches géographiquement, mais ayant des systèmes éducatifs divergents : le Congo-Brazzaville ayant hérité du système français, le Congo-Kinshasa ayant hérité du système Belge. La comparaison sera intra-pays et inter-pays, et concernera les formations initiale et professionnelle des deux pays afin d’interroger leurs systèmes nationaux et les éventuelles similarités ou différences identitaires. / The professional identity of teachers : Analysis of situations and comparison’s studies between the Congo-Brazzaville and the Congo-Kinshasa. During the last forty (40) years, teachers of both The Congo-Brazzaville and The Congo-Kinshasa have known social, economical and political problems which affected their professional ethic, forcing them to question themselves about their professional identity. Studies of the educational settings, professional actions, socio-relational, organisational, institutional and non formal aspects will enable us: to study the role of the teachers’ initial training, to assess the issues related to the funding of the educational structures together with its efficiency, to understand the generalized disaffection and the weakness of the social and economical position of the teacher’s duty. All these will enable a better explanation of the vulnerability of current teachers and justify the “idealized identity revetment” according to (Dubar.2000:165). The analysis of the outcomes of 103 biographic interviews conducted with teachers trained during 4 different periods revealed that each period corresponds to a basic professional identity.In the social context, teachers who consider themselves as Sisyphe of 21st century and the new kamikazes talk about an identity panic and scuttle. A comparative study will show the level of involvement in both cities geographically close to each other. The educational systems are different: the Congo-Brazzaville inherited the French system and The Congo-Kinshasa the Belgian one. The comparison will be intra-countries and inter-countries and will entail the initial and professional trainings of both countries in order to question their national systems and any eventual identity similarities or differences.

This study explores two ancient approaches to spirituality, together with the cultural contexts in which they developed. Spirituality is a popular concept today among people of widely differing religious traditions, and among those who espouse no religious tradition. Spirituality defines the way in which people relate to what concerns them ultimately, and ways in which this concern is manifested in their daily lives. This popular interest has resulted in the rise of spirituality as an academic discipline. An in-depth study of Celtic and African Spirituality is presented in this study. Celtic Spirituality dates from the fifth century CE onwards, whereas African Spirituality predates written history. Few examples of African Spirituality are recorded in writing before the twentieth century, although some have existed for centuries in oral form. Many Celtic poems, and other examples of traditional oral literature were collected and recorded in writing by medieval monks, and thus preserved for later generations in writing. Both Celtic and African Spiritualities have a healthy, integrated approach to the material world and to the spiritual world. They acknowledge a constant interaction between the two realms, and do not dismiss or devalue either the physical or the spiritual. Art and oral literature also play an important role in enabling communication and expression of ideas. Power and powerlessness emerges as a dominant theme in African thought and spirituality, especially where African peoples perceive themselves to be powerless politically or economically. Areas of relevance of Celtic and African Spiritualities to the life of the church today are identified and discussed, such as ecological spirituality; oral and symbolic communication; the role of women in church and society; and the theme of power. These are areas from which the world-wide church has much to learn from both Celtic and African Spiritualities. The findings of this study are then discussed in terms of their relevance and helpfulness to church and society. Insights from Celtic and African spiritualities should be used in the future to deepen devotional life of individual Christians and of congregations, and ideas such as ecological responsibility and recognition of the value and gifts of women should permeate the teaching and practice of the church in the future. / Religious Studies and Arabic Studies / D. Th.(Religious Studies & Arabic Studies)

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No. of bitstreams: 1 souza_jr_dr_ia_par.pdf: 505450 bytes, checksum: 138e2480fd0102ecd7de800911620d90 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-15 / Esta pesquisa qualitativa de caráter bibliográfico-documental e cunho comparativo tem como objetivo central demonstrar a importância do ensino coletivo de instrumentos de Cordas Friccionadas desenvolvido no SESC-Consolação desde sua criação; verificar as similaridades e diferenças entre o ensino coletivo de instrumento desenvolvido na Inglaterra e nos EUA, além dos benefícios da adoção desse modelo pedagógico na educação não formal brasileira. Os dois primeiros capítulos descrevem o surgimento do ensino coletivo de instrumentos de cordas destinado aos jovens e adultos no SESC Consolação; sua extensão e importância na educação não formal brasileira. Para tanto, foram realizadas algumas entrevistas com alunos, professores, gestores e músicos que iniciaram seu aprendizado musical nessa instituição; consultados documentos que relatam as atividades desenvolvidas ao longo dos anos por essa instituição. Buscamos ainda descrever o legado dos egressos do projeto de cordas do SESC, o perfil atual desta atividade e propostas para o futuro. O capítulo III foi destinado à análise de dois métodos desenvolvidos no SESC e um método importado, todos direcionados ao ensino coletivo de cordas na instituição. O capítulo IV descreve como se originou o ensino coletivo de instrumentos de cordas friccionadas em grande escala na Inglaterra, no século XIX, com o predomínio do ensino de violino. Conforme descrevem os pesquisadores europeus, esse modelo foi introduzido nas escolas públicas inglesas, gerando o Movimento de Maidstone, que permitiu a milhares de crianças aprenderem violino e outros instrumentos já no início do século XX. O capítulo V descreve como esse ensino foi introduzido nos EUA e de que forma ele se propagou até os dias atuais. A partir destes capítulos buscamos encontrar as similaridades e diferenças do ensino musical desenvolvido no SESC-Consolação, comparado àqueles desenvolvidos na Inglaterra e nos EUA. Por último, tecemos as considerações finais apontando para os fenômenos observados. Esperávamos, com esta pesquisa, demonstrar a importância pedagógica do SESC-Consolação no cenário musical brasileiro e as vantagens que o ensino coletivo de instrumentos oferece. Nossos dados nos levaram a concluir, entre outras coisas, que, apesar de quase quatro décadas terem se passado desde o início da primeira turma do curso de ensino coletivo de cordas do SESC, este núcleo de ensino de instrumentos musicais continua sendo de capital importância para a cultura musical paulistana, oferecendo iniciação em cordas em sistema coletivo tanto para o público jovem e adulto com objetivos puramente amadores, quanto para os jovens com pretensões de futuras especializações e profissionalização. / This qualitative research of bibliographic and documentary character and comparative nature has as its main objective to demonstrate the importance of collective teaching for stringed instruments developed at since its inception; to verify the similarities and differences with the collective teaching of musical instruments developed in England and the USA, and the benefits of adopting this pedagogical model within Brazilian nonformal education. The first two chapters describe the emergence of collective teaching for stringed instruments for young people and adults at SESC-Consolação; its expansion and importance in non-formal Brazilian education. For this reason, interviews were carried out with former students, teachers, managers and musicians who began their musical learning at this institution; documents consulted that record the activities developed over the years by this institution. We seek to further describe the legacy of graduates by SESC strings project, the current profile of this activity and proposals for the future. Chapter III was designated for the analysis of two methods developed within SESC and an imported method, all directed to the collective teaching of strings at the institution. Chapter IV describes how the collective teaching for stringed instruments emerged on a large scale in England in the nineteenth century, with the predominance of violin teaching. As described by European researchers, this model was introduced in English public schools, creating the Maidstone movement, which allowed thousands of children to learn the violin and other instruments already in the early twentieth century. Chapter V describes how this teaching has been introduced in the USA and how it spread to the present day. From these chapters we seek to find the similarities and differences of musical education developed at SESC-Consolation with that developed in England and the USA. Finally, we weave the final remarks pointing to the observed phenomena. We hope this research will demonstrate the pedagogical importance of SESC-Consolação in the Brazilian music scene and the advantages that the collective teaching for stringed instruments offers. Our data led us to conclude, amongst other things that, in spite of nearly four decades having passed since the first class of collective teaching for stringed instruments at SESC; this teaching core of musical instruments remains of paramount importance for São Paulo's musical culture offering initiation into strings in collective system for both young and adult audiences with purely amateur purposes, and for young people with aspirations to future specialization and professionalization.

La représentation en perspective s'appuie sur plusieurs choix pour l'enseignement : mode de représentation, code d'écriture et de lecture pour combler la perte d'information dans le passage de trois dimensions à deux dimensions, approche pour enseigner le passage d'un objet géométrique de l'espace à un dessin. Notre étude questionne ces choix dans les deux systèmes éducatifs français et vietnamien et leurs effets sur l'apprentissage des élèves. En nous plaçant dans le cadre de la Théorie anthropologique du didactique, nous avons étudié les rapports institutionnel et personnel d'élèves français et vietnamien à l'objet « représentation en perspective ».Pour le premier (rapport institutionnel), nous avons caractérisé les modes de représentation et leurs approches mathématiques, puis nous avons élaboré les praxéologies de références relatives à l'objet « représentation en perspective ». Les technologies et théories de ces praxéologies s'appuient sur les règles de représentation du dessin en perspective (règles de conservation et de non conservation, règles de la troisième dimension, règles pour un dessin « bien informé ») que nous avons explicitées. Ensuite, nous avons utilisé ce modèle de référence pour l'analyse des programmes et des manuels ce qui nous a permis de mettre en évidence les points spécifiques de l'enseignement de la représentation en perspective en France et au Viêt-Nam. Enfin, nous avons formulé des hypothèses sur les règles implicites du contrat didactique, en tant que constituants des technologies des praxéologies personnelles de la représentation en perspective. Ces règles portent sur la troisième dimension et sont spécifiques à certains solides.Pour le deuxième (rapport personnel), nous avons fait passer aux élèves un questionnaire sur un type de tâches concernant la lecture d'un dessin. Ce questionnaire permet de mettre à l'épreuve les hypothèses précédentes et de mettre en lumière les praxéologies personnelles du passage d'un objet géométrique de l'espace à un dessin (technologie/théorie personnelle). / Perspective representation is based on several choices for teaching: mode of representation, code writing and reading to fill the information loss in the passage of three-dimensional object to two-dimensional object, approach to teaching the passage of a geometry object in space to a drawing. Our study poses questions for the choices in French and Vietnamese educational systems and their effects on student studying. By using the anthropological theory of didactics, we studied the institutional relation and personal relation of French and Vietnamese students for "perspective representation" object. For the first objective (institutional relation), we characterized the modes of representation and approaches mathematics, then we established the praxeologies of reference on the "perspective representation" object. The technologies and theories of the praxeologies are based on perspective representation's rules of drawings (rules of conservation and non-conservation, rules of the third dimension, rules for a "well informed" drawing) that we explicited. By applying the model of reference to analyze the programs and textbooks, we clarified the specific points of teaching the perspective representation in France and Vietnam. Finally, we established hypotheses about the implicit rules of the didactic contract, as the constituents of technologies of personal praxeologies, of perspective representation. These rules are based on the third dimension and specific to certain solids. For the second objective (personal relation), we designed a questionnaire for the students on a task type so-called reading a drawing. The questionnaire is used to check the mentioned hypotheses and to clarify the personal praxeologies of the passage from a geometric object in space to a drawing (personal technology / theory).

Tendo como objeto de estudo obras poéticas de Hilda Hilst, brasileira; e Ana Paula Tavares, angolana, esta pesquisa visa a discutir caracteres da construção identitária culturalmente atribuídos à condição feminina, a partir das manifestações eróticas representadas poeticamente na obra dessas autoras. Embora sejam escritoras não diretamente vinculadas a um programa literário feminista, ao representarem poeticamente o erotismo, contribuem para promover a emancipação da mulher. Associam-se, assim, construção erótica e construção da cidadania, analisadas neste projeto de um ângulo simultaneamente literário e sócio-existencial. / Taking as an object of study poetic works from Hilda Hilst, Brazilian; and Ana Paula Tavares, Angolan, this inquiry aims to discuss characters from the identity construction culturally attributed to the feminine condition, derived from the erotic demonstrations poetically represented in the work of these authors. Though they are writers not straightly linked to a literary feminist program, while representing poetically the eroticism they contribute to promote the emancipation of women. Therefore, the erotic construction and the citizenship construction have been associated and analyzed in this project simultaneously from a literary and a social-existential angle.

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