It is acknowledged that the genre of animated documentary is particularly suited to depicting the subjective point of view (Wells, 1997, Honess Roe, 2013). It has also been suggested that animated documentary may have a tendency toward collaborative working methods (Ward, 2005: 94). This PhD work explores and expands these suggestions and presents the development of a methodology adapted from what has been termed collaborative ethnography (Lassiter, 2005) when using animation to document perceptual brain states. The claim to originality in this thesis lies in the methodological approach taken through the documenting of idiopathic perceptual brain states, previously unrepresented in animation. It involves a shifting of the roles of subject and director to collaborative consultant and facilitator respectively, and differentiates between the recording of an animated document and the creation of an animated documentary . It rejects the sound reliant template of the 'animated interview' (Strøm, 2005: 15) as the dominant model of creating animated documents, which assumes both that the indexical is crucial to documenting, and that this can only be achieved in animation through the use of indexical sound. It agrees with Tom Gunning s argument that Charles Sanders Pierce's original idea of the index as part of an interconnected triad of signs (index, symbol and icon) has been abstracted from its richer signifying context and extracted a simplified version of what Pierce intended it to mean (a trace or impression left by an object) to become a 'diminished concept' (2007:30-1), essentially a short hand coda in this instance for document . The practice in this work challenges this by presenting an alternative; using a collaborative cycle methodology.

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Esta dissertação é um estudo exploratório sobre o conceito de mediação cultural dialógica realizado a partir de oficinas de leitura comprometidas com o protagonismo cultural de crianças e adolescentes (00 a 18 anos) em situação de abrigo numa cidade do interior paulista a cerca de 80 kilômetros da capital. A metodologia utilizada foi a da pesquisa colaborativa e os dados foram analisados por meio das seguintes categorias: ambientes, ações, tempos, protagonistas e polifonia. Os resultados indicam que as mediações culturais realizadas no abrigo, centradas na singularização de crianças e jovens, foram capazes de romper com a impessoalidade, a frieza e a monotonia que marcam diversos aspectos da vida nos abrigos. Resistentes no início, à medida que as oficinas de leitura se desenvolviam e ganhavam corpo na dialogia todos os protagonistas (crianças, adolescentes, monitores e o próprio pesquisador) se reconheciam como parte destas ações, apropriando-se delas segundo suas expectativas e interesses específicos, criando vínculos com o mediador e com os livros, relacionando as leituras com outras atividades e práticas culturais, mostrando-se aptos a ressignificar o ato de ler. A mediação cultural dialógica, ao propiciar a singularização dessas crianças e jovens, permitiu a emergência de valores e significados para textos e contextos, para leitores e mediadores que se apresentaram como protagonistas culturais, categoria centrada no encontro e na vinculação com o outro. / This dissertation is an exploratory study of the concept of dialogical cultural mediation focused on reading skills workshops for the cultural protagonism of children and teenagers (0 to 18) at a shelter (in a city 80 kilometers from São Paulo). A collaborative research methodology was used so that data could be analyzed framed by the following categories: environments, actions, time, actors and polyphony. Results indicate that cultural mediations rooted in the singularization of children and teenagers empower them to break away from impersonal, cold and monotonous disciplinary practices. Resistant at first, all actors then engaged and enthused as the workshops were developed and reading became part of a dialogue among children, teenagers, instructors and the researcher herself. Actions could then be adapted to their expectations and specific interests, creating links with the mediator so as to connect elements in the books and readings with other cultural practices and activities. The act of reading was infused with new meanings as dialogical cultural mediation facilitated the singularization of children and teenagers. Readers and mediators became cultural protagonists a category founded on the encounter with the other.

Esta dissertação é um estudo exploratório sobre o conceito de mediação cultural dialógica realizado a partir de oficinas de leitura comprometidas com o protagonismo cultural de crianças e adolescentes (00 a 18 anos) em situação de abrigo numa cidade do interior paulista a cerca de 80 kilômetros da capital. A metodologia utilizada foi a da pesquisa colaborativa e os dados foram analisados por meio das seguintes categorias: ambientes, ações, tempos, protagonistas e polifonia. Os resultados indicam que as mediações culturais realizadas no abrigo, centradas na singularização de crianças e jovens, foram capazes de romper com a impessoalidade, a frieza e a monotonia que marcam diversos aspectos da vida nos abrigos. Resistentes no início, à medida que as oficinas de leitura se desenvolviam e ganhavam corpo na dialogia todos os protagonistas (crianças, adolescentes, monitores e o próprio pesquisador) se reconheciam como parte destas ações, apropriando-se delas segundo suas expectativas e interesses específicos, criando vínculos com o mediador e com os livros, relacionando as leituras com outras atividades e práticas culturais, mostrando-se aptos a ressignificar o ato de ler. A mediação cultural dialógica, ao propiciar a singularização dessas crianças e jovens, permitiu a emergência de valores e significados para textos e contextos, para leitores e mediadores que se apresentaram como protagonistas culturais, categoria centrada no encontro e na vinculação com o outro. / This dissertation is an exploratory study of the concept of dialogical cultural mediation focused on reading skills workshops for the cultural protagonism of children and teenagers (0 to 18) at a shelter (in a city 80 kilometers from São Paulo). A collaborative research methodology was used so that data could be analyzed framed by the following categories: environments, actions, time, actors and polyphony. Results indicate that cultural mediations rooted in the singularization of children and teenagers empower them to break away from impersonal, cold and monotonous disciplinary practices. Resistant at first, all actors then engaged and enthused as the workshops were developed and reading became part of a dialogue among children, teenagers, instructors and the researcher herself. Actions could then be adapted to their expectations and specific interests, creating links with the mediator so as to connect elements in the books and readings with other cultural practices and activities. The act of reading was infused with new meanings as dialogical cultural mediation facilitated the singularization of children and teenagers. Readers and mediators became cultural protagonists a category founded on the encounter with the other.

The article describes a teaching innovation proposal for the IT service management course that is currently taught at the Liberal Arts and Humanities school of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). The innovation consists of a new teaching method based on a board game (designed as a “serious game”) as the main learning strategy.  The update addresses the need to create didactic situations for a competence-based approach to teaching in the aforementioned course. Its development involved research, testing (on both recently graduated students and current students), and other enhancements. The resulting proposal is versatile, sustainable in the long term and can be also used in management education in other specializations. / El presente artículo describe una propuesta de innovación para la enseñanza del curso Gestión de Servicios de Información dictado en la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Esta innovación consta de una metodología de enseñanza, apoyada en un juego de mesa (diseñado bajo el concepto de “juego serio”) como principal recurso de aprendizaje. La innovación propuesta responde a la necesidad de crear situaciones didácticas para la formación basada en competencias en el curso antes mencionado, y su desarrollo involucró un proceso de investigación, pruebas (con egresados recientes y estudiantes actuales) y ajustes de mejora. El resultado ha sido una propuesta versátil y sostenible en el tiempo, con potencial de poder utilizarse también para la formación en gestión de otras especialidades.