<p>The purpose of this study is to outline students’ attitudes towards ICT in the learning of English. The research was carried out as action research at a vocational high school in Sweden. The study aims at giving answers to the questions what the students’ attitudes towards ICT are, to what extent they think that ICT affects their learning and if ICT use changes their attitudes towards English. The students had little or no previous experience of ICT. For a period of two months, they used ICT in their English studies. This work was organized according to Svensson’s (2008) definitions <em>ICT as a tutor</em>,<em> ICT as a tool </em>and<em> ICT as an arena</em>, which are connected to behavioristic, cognitive/constructive and social constructivist/socio-cultural learning perspectives, respectively. For example, the students read and listened to texts online, wrote their own dialogues for a movie and maintained their own blogs. After each module, they evaluated the method and at the end of the project they were interviewed. The study shows that most of the students were positive towards ICT in learning English. They were most positive towards ICT as a tutor, which was interesting given that behavioristic ways of learning are often criticized by today’s scholars. Furthermore, the students claimed that ICT gives them new opportunities to learn. Not surprisingly, to learn in a way that suits the individual learner was seen as positive. They stated that it was difficult to comment on the impact that ICT might have had on their performance after such a limited period of time, but they indicated that they thought that they had improved at least a little. During the interviews, a few students claimed to have changed their attitudes towards English a little, in a positive way, but it was difficult to confirm this after such short time.</p>

Cette thèse met en place un modèle permettant d'éclairer les relations entre certaines émotions et la conception que l'individu a de lui-même. En accord avec plusieurs auteurs contemporains, il est ici défendu que la conception que nous avons de nous-mêmes prend la forme d'une identité narrative, c'est-à-dire d'un récit à l'intérieur duquel nous tentons de structurer une image cohérente de nous-mêmes. Dans cette perspective, il est proposé qu'un certain groupe d'émotions, comme la honte, la fierté et la culpabilité, occupe une place cruciale dans la formation et le maintien de cette image de soi. Ces émotions, que nous pouvons qualifier d'auto-évaluatives, conditionnent l'évaluation que nous avons de nous-mêmes et participent ainsi à l'élaboration de la représentation de soi. De plus, cette identité narrative, à travers un certain aspect normatif et motivant, vient à son tour influencer la manifestation et l'interprétation de ces mêmes émotions. Ainsi, la relation entre les émotions auto-évaluatives et l'identité narrative serait une relation complexe d'influences réciproques. L’analyse proposée devrait permettre de clarifier de nombreux aspects de l’économie mentale de l’individu et plus particulièrement de sa motivation morale. / This thesis establishes a model to understand the relationships between a particular group of emotions and the individual's conception of himself. In agreement with several contemporary authors, it is argued here that the conception we have of ourselves is in the form of a narrative identity, namely a story within which we try to structure a coherent picture of ourselves. In this perspective, it is proposed that a group of emotions, including shame, pride and guilt, occupies a crucial place in the formation and maintenance of this self-image. These emotions, that we can describe as self-assessing, would influence self assessment and thus participate in the development of self-image. Moreover, narrative identity, through a normative and motivational aspect, will in turn influences the manifestation and interpretation of those same emotions. So the relationship between emotions and self-assessing narrative identity is a complex relationship of mutual influence. The analysis proposed here might help clarify many mental processes of the individual and especially its moral motivation.

This thesis proposes a theory of literature's human relevance in literary terms, developing hints in the critical practice of twentieth century literary critic F.R. Leavis. It examines how literary texts can be humanly relevant in a manner that depends on their literary merit, and does so in three stages, interrogating: the way literary texts operate; the role literary language plays in thinking; and the interaction of literature and morality. The thesis has two, related, aims: to reconceptualise literature's relation to human living, and to offer a recharacterisation of Leavis's literary criticism, with the investigation of aspects of Leavis's practice forming part of the more fundamental enquiry regarding the nature of literature's human significance. In the first stage, the thesis argues that Leavis's critical practice in his works of the 1930s (his first major decade of critical output) provides fruitful ways for conceptualising the interaction between form and meaning in literature, with important consequences for present-day understandings of how literature functions and how it matters. It focuses on an untheorised (by him or others) achievement in Leavis's criticism, the introduction of the term 'attitude' into literary analysis and judgement, and argues that the term enables a different mode of attention to the question of how literature relates to the human world. The second stage first interrogates the role that language in general plays in understanding, constructing a hypothesis from arguments by philosophers R.G. Collingwood and Charles Taylor, and then turns to literary language, arguing that it enables a mode of relating to experience not otherwise possible, and forms a process of thinking, for reader and writer alike. The final stage focuses on arguments in aesthetics against literature's cognitive value, and in moral philosophy for its empathic and moral value. Building on earlier arguments about the operation of literary language and language's relation to thought, the thesis claims that literary language is humanly meaningful in a way that is both cognitively and morally significant. Throughout, the thesis argues for the inescapable link between well-written literature and the morally resonant, such that good literature forms what Taylor calls 'moral sources'. The crucial query is how literature functions, which will help us better to answer why it is humanly important. This thesis engages with literary criticism, philosophical aesthetics and moral philosophy, as well as offering close readings of literature itself.

[pt] O tema da normatividade desde sempre foi tido como misterioso. Muitas explicações foram dadas sobre o fenômeno em diversos âmbitos do saber, embora nenhuma em definitivo. Quando se trata da normatividade jurídica não é diferente. Com o objetivo de trazer novas luzes sobre o nebuloso assunto, o ponto de partida da presente investigação é o conceito de afirmações internas do direito, tal como formulado por Herbert L. A. Hart. Por meio de uma análise sociolinguística, o autor propõe que tais enunciados comprometidos com o direito sejam vistos como expressões da aceitação de certas regras. No entanto, o autor não vai muito além em pontos importantes e alguns questionamentos surgem tanto sobre a melhor leitura de certos conceitos na obra de Hart, quanto em relação a real capacidade de sua teoria dar conta do tema. Há evidências nos escritos do autor que permitem dizer que a sua proposta é bastante semelhante à ideia de expressivismo de normas, tal como formulado por Allan Gibbard no campo da metaética. Essa linha teórica aparece como uma versão sofisticada de não-cognitivismo e, portanto, entende que os termos normativos são geralmente utilizados na linguagem ordinária para expressar um estado conativo, um estado mental diferente de uma crença, e que, portanto, não possui aptidão de verdade. Pretende-se demonstrar que tal postura, expressivista, é bastante atraente para o filósofo do direito, pois consegue explicar tanto as afirmações internas do direito como o elo implícito com a ideia de normatividade. Além disso, essa perspectiva é capaz de responder às críticas que teóricos rivais (cognitivistas) formularam sobre a construção conceitual hartiana. Por meio da análise da superação por parte dos autores expressivistas de argumentos tradicionais do campo da metaética é possível deixar mais sólida a posição dentro da teoria do direito, bem como transferir o ônus argumentativo para os oponentes da posição. Por fim, será sugerida interpretação sobre o mecanismo psicológico e social por detrás do expressivismo de normas. O recente corpo de evidência científica parece fornecer uma licença para o otimismo em favor do expressivismo em relação à capacidade de se desvendar o mistério da normatividade. / [en] Normativity has Always been taken as something mysterious. Many explanations from a range of different areas were given about this phenomenon, though, no definitive one. Legal normativity is no different. Aiming to bring new lights to this cloudy subject, the starting point of the present investigation is Hebert L. A. Hart s concept of internal legal statements. Through a sociolinguistic analysis, the author claims that such statements committed with the law are to be seen as expressions of rule s acceptance. Nevertheless, Hart does not go further and a lot of relevant points and questions arise both about the best way to read his work and on the real explanatory power of his theory. There are evidences in his writings that allow us to read his theory in a very similar way to Allan Gibbard s metaethics one. This line of though seems to be a sophisticated version of a non-cognitivism and, therefore, sees normative terms as used to express conative states of mind. These mental states are different from a belief and hence cannot have truth aptness. We intend to show that such theoretical posture, expressivist, is very alluring for the legal philosopher, since it can explain the internal legal claims and its implicit relationship with normativity. Further, this perspective is capable of answering critics posed by cognitivists about Hart s conceptual work. By means of an analysis of how expressivism can answer traditional metaethical questions, it is possible to make the legal expressivist position even more solid, and to switch the argumentative burden to opponent side of the dispute. Lastly, we will indicate an interpretation of a social and psychological background mechanism to norm expressivism. The recent body of scientific evidence provides a license for optimism in favor of expressism s ability to unveil the mystery of normativity.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-08-26T14:49:36Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO DEFINITIVA.pdf: 2841429 bytes, checksum: 7a2ab1e6670fc50edaf4f514819d3657 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-26T14:49:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO DEFINITIVA.pdf: 2841429 bytes, checksum: 7a2ab1e6670fc50edaf4f514819d3657 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-17 / CAPEs / O presente trabalho teve por objetivo identificar quais teorias de aprendizagem orientam o designdas tecnologias educacionais (ambientes, materiais didáticos e atividades) desenvolvidas para os cursos de Pedagogia oferecidos na modalidade a distância pelas universidades federais do Nordeste. Para tal, realizamos a revisão de literatura das principais teorias de aprendizagem dos séculos XX e XXI, de modo a identificarmos seus princípios mais importantes para o planejamento de tecnologias educacionais, tais princípios deram origem às nossas categorias de análise. Para a coleta dos dados em campo foram realizados os seguintes procedimentos: a) análise documental, como indicada por Gil (2008), dos Projetos Pedagógicos de Curso-PPCs; b) entrevistas semiestruturadas com professores/coordenadores dos cursos-alvo, e; c) observação sistemática das tecnologias empregadas em sete disciplinas de dois destes cursos. Para análise e interpretação dos dados foi adotada a técnica da análise de conteúdo, conforme orientada por Moraes (1999) e Gil (2008). Como resultado, identificamos que os PPCs apresentam forte viés escolanovista com significativa presença do Construtivismo e Socioconstrutivismo. Já as falas dos sujeitos são marcadamente behavioristas e cognitivistas, apresentando ainda uma ênfase leve ou moderada de princípios construtivistas e/ou socioconstrutivistas. Nas tecnologias propriamente ditas transparecem princípios coerentes com aqueles identificados nas falas dos sujeitos entrevistados, variando, contudo, a qualidade com que tais princípios são aplicados durante o processo de design, o que indica haver forte presença de senso comum orientando o planejamento das tecnologias educacionais. / This study aimed to identify which learning theories guide the design of educational technologies (environments, learning materials and activities) developed for teaching courses offered in distance education by federal universities in the Northeast region of Brazil. To this end, we conducted a literature review of the main theories of learning of XX and XXI centuries, in order to identify its most important principles for the planning of educational technologies. Such principles originated our analytical categories. To collect the field data, the following procedures were performed: a) document analysis of Pedagogical Projects Course -PPCs, as indicated by Gil (2008); b) semi-structured interviews with teachers/coordinators of the target courses, and; c) Systematic observation of the technologies employed in seven of two of these courses. For analysis and interpretation of data it was adopted the technique of content analysis, as guided by Moraes (1999) and Gil (2008). As a result, we identified that the PPCs have a strong bias of New School thought with a significant presence of constructivism and socio-constructivism. Yet, the participants&#39; speech are markedly behavioral and cognitivist, and contains mild or moderate emphasis on constructivist or socioconstructivist principles. The technologies themselves transpire principles consistent with those identified in the statements of the interviewees, varying, however, the quality withwhich these principles are applied during the design process, which indicates that there is strong presence of common sense guiding the planning of the educational technologies.

Ce mémoire étudie l’influence du monologue intérieur sur l’immersion d’un spectateur lorsqu’il audiovisionne une œuvre filmique narrative. Plus particulièrement, il s’intéresse à décrire les différents mécanismes perceptifs impliqués lors du traitement de l’information sensorielle et de quelles façons ces derniers influencent la production et la perception d’un discours intérieur chez le spectateur. S’inscrivant dans une perspective cognitiviste fonctionnaliste, ce mémoire explore différentes hypothèses et concepts rattachés aux processus attentionnels, mémoriels et langagiers chez l’être humain, eux-mêmes fortement impliqués lors du décodage d’une œuvre fictive et narrative. La recherche proposée permet de revisiter la théorie générale du PECMA flow développée par Torben Grodal (1997), qui conçoit l’expérience cinématographique en tant que flux de traitement sensoriel. L’approche transhistorique et intersectorielle préconisée dans le cadre de ce mémoire permet d’aborder certaines conceptions matérialistes liées aux fonctionnements physiologique et neurologique du cerveau humain, en les combinant à différentes théories issues des sciences humaines et des sciences sociales rattachées au soi dialogique, au soi narratif, de même qu’aux processus de traitement ascendant et descendant. Enfin, l’analyse d’un extrait tiré de The Tree of Life (2011), du réalisateur Terrence Malick, démontre comment l’expérience d’audiovisionnement d’un film peut concourir à mettre en place un recul nécessaire avec le récit, qui s’avère primordial dans l’actualisation et la perception d’un monologue intérieur « immertiel » chez le sujet. À l’aide des notions développées au cours des différents chapitres et s’appuyant sur le modèle du PECMA flow, le mémoire illustre comment une œuvre filmique peut concourir à faire émerger, en parallèle de l’audiovisionnement, une conversation intérieure toute particulière dans l’esprit du spectateur, qui participe directement à son immersivité filmique. Une attention particulière sera accordée à l’usage de la voix-over au cinéma, afin de démontrer comment son traitement dans l’œuvre à l’étude en fait un élément du langage cinématographique qui favorise l’élaboration d’un trialogue entre le sujet pensant confronté à son propre monologue intérieur et sa position de spectateur récepteur du ou des discours transmis par le film. / This master’s thesis studies the influence of the inner monologue on the immersion of a spectator when he/she audioviews a narrative film work. More specifically, it is interested in describing the different perceptual mechanisms involved in the processing of sensory information and the ways in which these influence the production and perception of an inner speech in the viewer. From a functionalist cognitive perspective, this dissertation explores different hypotheses and concepts related to attentional, memory and language processes in humans, which are themselves strongly involved in the decoding of a fictional and narrative work. The proposed research allows us to revisit the general theory of PECMA flow developed by Torben Grodal (1997), which conceives the cinematic experience as a sensory processing flow. The transhistorical and intersectorial approach adopted in this dissertation allows us to address certain materialist conceptions related to the physiological and neurological functioning of the human brain, by combining them with different theories from the humanities and social sciences related to the dialogical self, the narrative self, as well as bottom-up and top-down processing. Finally, the analysis of an excerpt from The Tree of Life (2011), by director Terrence Malick, demonstrates how the experience of audio-viewing a film can contribute to the establishment of a necessary distance from the narrative, which proves to be essential in the actualization and perception of an “immertial” inner monologue in the subject. Using the notions developed in the different chapters and based on the PECMA flow model, the master’s thesis illustrates how a filmic work can contribute to the emergence, in parallel to the audiovisioning, of a very particular inner conversation in the spectator's mind, which directly participates in his filmic immersiveness. A particular attention will be paid to the use of the voice-over in cinema, to demonstrate how its treatment in the work under study makes it an element of the cinematographic language that favors the elaboration of a trialogue between the thinking subject confronted with its own inner monologue and its position of receiver of the discourse(s) transmitted by the film.

Utbildning för slutanvändare av IT-system på arbetsplatsen är en dyr och tidskrävande affär. Trots att mycket information om systemen tas fram under utvecklingenav systemet, i form av kravdokument och annan dokumentation, används den informationen sällan i utbildningssyfte. Företaget Multisoft önskadeundersöka hur den dokumentation de tar fram under utvecklingen av skräddarsyddaverksamhetssystem åt olika företag, kallade Softadmin R -system, kananvändas i utbildningssyfte.Syftet med detta examensarbete var att identifiera vilka lärbehov slutanvändareav verksamhetssystem utvecklade av företaget Multisoft har. Baserat på dessa lärbehov undersöktes hur den dokumentation som tas fram under utvecklingenskulle kunna nyttjas i utbildningssyfte. En kvalitativ undersökning med narrativa semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med slutanvändare och projektdeltagare hos sex olika företag som implementeratett Softadmin R -system inom de senaste två åren. Projektdeltagarna hade varit involverade under utvecklingen från kundföretagets sida och slutanvändarnahade inte varit involverade i utvecklingen. Tio intervjuer genomfördes och en tematisk analys utfördes på intervjutranskriptionerna. Framtagna teman tolkades utifrån en kognitivistisk syn på lärande. Resultatet från analys av intervjuerna pekar på att slutanvändare vill kunna lära sig genom att testa sig runt i systemet. Slutanvändare vill lära sig genomatt få information visuellt och inte enbart via text. Ett utbildningsmaterial om ett Softadmin R -system ska inte kräva tidigare kunskap om systemet för attvara tillgängligt. Vidare indikerar resultatet att slutanvändare upplever att systemen har en komplex affärslogik där det är svårt att förstå hur systemet solika processer påverkar varandra. Övergången från ett gammalt system till det nya kan innebära svårigheter i lärandet för slutanvändarna. Avsaknad avstruktur då slutanvändarna lärde sig använda systemet identifierades som ett problem. Ett förslag på struktur för ett utbildningsmaterial har tagits fram. Detta utbildivningsmaterial är tänkt att använda information från den dokumentation som tas fram under utvecklingen av Softadmin R -system. Denna användning av dokumentationen skulle i nuläget behöva göras manuellt med viss anpassning. Förslag på hur det kan automatiseras har presenterats. Funktionella krav på ett system för framtagning och underhåll av den informationsom krävs för det föreslagna utbildningsmaterialet har presenterats. När Softadmin R -system som utbildningsmaterialet berör uppdateras möjliggörsystemet uppdatering av utbildningsmaterialet. Systemet möjliggör även framtagning av utbildningsmaterial anpassat för en viss yrkesroll. / End user training of IT systems at the workplace is an expensive and time consuming ordeal. Despite a lot of information about the systems being produced during development of the system, in the form of requirement documents and other documentation, the information is seldom used for educational purposes. Multisoft wished to explore how the documentation produced during the development of their tailor-made business systems, named Softadmin R systems, can be used for educational purposes.The purpose of this master thesis was to identify what learning-needs end users have in regards to business systems developed by the company Multisoft. Based on these learning-needs an investigation would be placed on how the documentation produced during development could be used for educational purposes. A qualitative study with narrative semi-structured interviews was conducted with end users and project participants at six different companies that had implemented a Softadmin R system at their workplace within the last two years. The project participants had been involved from the customer company’s side during the development whereas the end users had not been involved. Ten interviews were conducted and a the matic analysis was performed on the interview transcripts. Procured themes were then interpreted from a cognitiveperspective on learning. The results indicated that end users want to be able to learn by trying to use the system themselves. End users want to learn by getting information visually and not only via text. A training material for a Softadmin R system should not require prior knowledge about the system to be available to the learner. Furthermore the results indicate that end users feel the systems have a complex business logic where it is difficult to understand how the different processes in the system affect each other. The transition from an old system to a new system can be problematic to the end users’ learning. A lack of structure in the end users’ learning of the system was identified as an issue.

<p>Instructional theories often view the work of instructors from a psychological perspective while playing little emphasis on the communicative aspects. However, there are vital communicational influences on and implications for instructional practice and the instructional process as a whole. As such, this work begins with the position that instruction is, in its entirety, a communicative process. A comparison is made between the three basic models of communication (transmission, interaction and transaction) and three main educational theories (behaviorism, cognitivism and constructivism). This comparison shows that there are alignments between the transmission model of communication and behaviorism, the interactive model of communication and cognitivism, and the transactional model of communication and constructivism. These similarities are explored over three major instructional activities – lesson planning, lesson delivery and assessment. Subsequently, three real-life scenarios were presented to illustrate how the three basic models of communication are manifested in the classroom. Given the applicability of the models of communication to the instructional process, the practical utility of approaching instruction from a communicative perspective is discussed. Potential implications for educational practitioners and scholars are discussed afterwards.</p>

Negli ultimi decenni i film studies stanno spostando la propria attenzione sul livello corporeo e affettivo dell’esperienza filmica. Adottando un approccio fenomenologico e focalizzandosi sulla nozione di empatia, la tesi studia le strategie del coinvolgimento dello spettatore cinematografico nei film di successo contemporanei. Il capitolo 1 rintraccia le diverse accezioni di empatia in filosofia, estetica, psicologia e nelle neuroscienze cognitive. Il capitolo 2 traccia una genealogia dell’empatia nelle teorie psicologiche ed estetiche del film. Il capitolo 3 esplora la rilevanza della teoria dell'atto empatico di Edith Stein per la filmologia e ne propone un'applicazione allo studio dell’esperienza filmica contemporanea. Il capitolo 4 analizza un ampio corpus di film contemporanei individuando quattro “figure aree” del coinvolgimento filmico: l’acrobazia, la caduta, il volo e il movimento in assenza di gravità. Attraverso la simulazione empatica dei movimenti nel film e del film, lo spettatore esperisce inavvertitamente l’intenzionalità implicata nelle forme e negli oggetti della rappresentazione, cogliendo con la propria sensibilità il senso di un’esperienza che trascende l’immanenza del film e contribuisce al processo di attribuzione di senso al Mondo, all’Altro e al Sé. / In recent decades film studies have shifted their focus to the emotional and bodily level of film experience. By adopting a phenomenological approach, this dissertation deals with the strategies of the film spectator’s involvement in contemporary mainstream narrative films. Chapter 1 reconstructs the meanings of the notion of empathy in philosophy, aesthetics, psychology and neurocognitive research. Chapter 2 traces a genealogy of empathy in film theories, from Bergsonism to Cognitivism, and evaluates the relevance of Simulation-Theory to film studies. Chapter 3 explores the relevance of Edith Stein’s phenomenological theory of empathy to film theory and assumes it is a theoretical model to investigate the “intensified” nature of both film design style and film reception style. A film is constructed and experienced on the basis of the “circuit of empathy”, a stratified system of different species of empathetic interaction, acting at senso-motorial, perceptual, cognitive and emotional levels with the aim of generating both an aesthetic and an inter-subjective experience. Chapter 4 analyses a vast corpus of contemporary films and focuses on four “aerial figures” of involvement and their combination: acrobatics, falling, flying, and non-gravitational movements, both of the actor’s human body and of the film’s anthropomorphic body. In the Conclusions, it is argued that the spectator internally imitates these “double” movements and inadvertently experiences the intentionality implied in the figures. Contemporary film spectators empathetically “get”, with their own sensibility, the senses of an experience that transcends the immanence of the film and contributes to the process of “giving” sense to the World, the Other, and the Self.

The guiding question for this essay is: who is the learner? The aim is to examine and criticize one answer to this question, sometimes referred to as the theory of the learning brain, which suggests that the explanation of human learning can be reduced to the transmitting and storing of information in the brain’s formal and representational architecture, i.e., that the brain is the learner. This essay will argue that this answer is misleading, because it cannot account for the way people strive to learn in an attempt to lead a good life as it misrepresents the intentional life of the mind, which results in its counting ourselves out of the picture when it attempts to provide a scientific theory of the learning process. To criticize the theory of the learning brain, this essay will investigate its philosophical foundation, a theory of mind called cognitivism, which is the basis for the cognitive sciences. Cognitivism is itself built on three main tenets: mentalism, the mind-brain identity theory and the computer analogy. Each of these tenets will be criticized in turn, before the essay turns to criticize the theory of the learning brain itself. The focus of this essay is, in other words, mainly negative. The hope is that this criticism will lay the groundwork for an alternative view of mind, one that is better equipped to give meaningful answers to the important questions we have about what it means to learn, i.e., what we learn, how we do it and why. This alternative will emphasize the holistic and intentional character of the human mind, and consider the learning process as an intentional activity performed, not by isolated brains, but by people with minds that are extended, embodied, enacted and embedded in a sociocultural and physical context.