Esta pesquisa tem como tema central a questão de gênero e trabalho feminino. Traçando como objetivo geral analisar as percepções do trabalho na ótica das cuidadoras sociais de casas lares em Curitiba e Região Metropolitana. Delimitamos como objetivos específicos: identificar o papel das cuidadoras sociais da casa lar, a partir dos significados por elas atribuídos; identificar as fragilidades e gratificações na relação de trabalho das cuidadoras sociais no contexto da perspectiva de gênero; analisar as relações de trabalho as quais são submetidas às cuidadoras sociais, bem como a legislação profissional. Realizamos uma pesquisa com referencial metodológico qualitativo. Como técnica para a coleta de dados, utilizamos a entrevista semiestruturada com 15 cuidadoras sociais das instituições selecionadas. Foi utilizada a técnica de análise de conteúdo. Em relação às análises e interpretações dos dados coletados se verificou que a maioria das entrevistadas se considera de alguma forma mãe das crianças e adolescentes institucionalizados, o que indica, a princípio, que não compreendem a profissão de cuidadoras sociais como um trabalho. Percebe-se ainda, que este fato dificulta a percepção acerca da desvalorização social e financeira da profissão. A pesquisa apontou a importância de se constituir nos espaços das casas lares a implementação de formações continuadas, já que na maioria das entrevistas se identificou que no processo do trabalho as cuidadoras sociais se identificam como mães das crianças e adolescentes acolhidos e não se reconhecem como profissionais do cuidado. Dessa forma, uma das percepções observadas na pesquisa foi a necessidade que haja, por parte dos setores públicos, a responsabilidade de averiguar como as instituições contratantes dessas profissionais estão capacitando essas mulheres, como uma maneira de provocar nesses espaços a materialização de ações que minimizem a desvalorização desta profissão. / This research has as central theme the issue of gender and women's work. The objective of this study is to analyze the perceptions of work from the point of view of the social caregivers of homes of children in disadvantaged or at risks in Curitiba and Metropolitan Region. We define as specific objectives: to identify the role of the social caregivers of the home, based on the meanings assigned by them; Identify the weaknesses and gratifications in the work relationship of social caregivers in the context of the gender perspective; Analyze the labor relations that are submitted the social caregivers, as well as professional legislation. We conducted a qualitative methodological research. As a technique for data collection, we used the semistructured interview with 15 social caregivers of the selected institutions. The technique of content analysis was used. Regarding the analyzes and interpretations of the collected data, it was verified that the majority of the interviewees consider themselves to be somehow the mother of the institutionalized children and adolescents, which indicates, in principle, that they do not understand the profession of social caregivers as a job. It is also perceived that this fact makes it difficult to perceive the social and financial devaluation of the profession. The research pointed out the importance of the establishment of continuous training in the homes of children in disadvantaged or at risks, since in most of the interviews it was identified that in the work process, the social caregivers identify themselves as mothers of the children and adolescents who are accepted and do not recognize themselves as professionals Of care. Thus, one of the perceptions observed in the research was the need for the public sectors to determine how the contracting institutions of these professionals are empowering these women, as a way to provoke in these spaces the materialization of actions that minimize the devaluation of this profession.

Acompanha produto: Linguagem científica e aprendizagem significativa em abordagem de astronomia no ensino fundamental: sugestões para elaboração e uso de blog / O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar contribuições e limitações referentes à utilização da tecnologia de blogs como meio de complemento pedagógico, em especial no Ensino Fundamental 2. Através do emprego de blog, espera-se fomentar o desenvolvimento e domínio da linguagem científica, e consequente compreensão de conteúdos relacionados às Ciências Naturais, ao permitir o registro e análise de temas associados à Astronomia e Ciências. A análise apresentada ao longo deste trabalho fundamenta-se nos pressupostos da Teoria da Aprendizagem Significativa, de David Ausubel e colaboradores, e no conceito de Zona de Desenvolvimento Proximal da Teoria de Aprendizagem de Lev Vygotsky. Esta pesquisa foi desenvolvida com estudantes de 5º e 9º ano em colégio particular em Curitiba, Paraná, entre os anos de 2011 e 2017. Os dados foram constituídos por registros realizados por estudantes, professores e outros participantes em blog, complementados por trabalhos desenvolvidos pelos discentes em sala de aula. Os dados foram analisados por meio de Análise de Conteúdo e, para tanto, foram organizados em dois conjuntos: o primeiro refere-se aos alunos no 5º ano em 2011 e 2012; o segundo conjunto se relaciona aos mesmos estudantes em 2015 e 2016, momento em que se encontram no 9º ano. Entre os resultados obtidos destaca-se que o uso compartilhado das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC) fomentou a curiosidade e interação entre os participantes do blog, fato este que pode ter contribuído para o aprimoramento do uso da linguagem e da apropriação de conceitos científicos por parte dos estudantes. Espera-se que o enfoque destinado aos blogs relatado neste trabalho sirva como uma proposta significativa para a apropriação da linguagem científica em outras realidades e níveis de ensino, e que estimule a aprendizagem continuada e colaborativa de seus participantes. / Evaluate contributions and limitations concerning the use of blog´s technology as teaching empowering tool, especially in primary education, is the subject of this dissertation. Through the blog employment, is expected to foster the development and mastery of scientific language, and consequent understanding of content related to natural science, allowing the recording and analysis of topics related to astronomy and science. The analysis presented throughout this work is based on the assumptions of the Meaningful Learning Theory of David Ausubel and collaborators, and the Zone of Proximal Development, concept of Lev Vygotsky Learning Theory. The data consisted of records made by students, teachers and other participants in blog, complemented by work done by students in the classroom. Data were analyzed using content analysis and, therefore, were organized into two sets: the first refers to students in the 5th grade, along 2011 and 2012; the second set relates to the same students in 2015 and 2016, in the 9th grade. Among the results obtained, it is highlighted that the shared use of communication technologies (ICT) encouraged curiosity and interaction between the participants of the blog, a fact that may have contributed to the improvement of language use and ownership of scientific concepts by students. It is expected that blogs as reported in this work could be a meaningful tool for scientific language appropriation for other realities and levels of education, and encourages the continued and collaborative learning among participants.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar as possibilidades de estudo sobre a autonomia docente em um grupo de professores de Ciências e Matemática, a partir de suas experiências vivenciadas em um curso de robótica educacional, sob a perspectiva de Contreras e Habermas. Tal abordagem procura, sem rebaixar a importância dos conteúdos, retirar sua centralidade do processo de ensino/aprendizagem, trazendo como protagonista, para o palco desse processo, o desenvolvimento das habilidades comunicativas do professor e de seu aprendiz. O trabalho se fundamenta no estudo da autonomia docente feita pelo professor espanhol José Contreras, e para os aspectos comunicativos do curso e de sua posterior análise, no modelo de teoria da argumentação apresentado pelo filósofo alemão Jürgen Habermas em sua obra Teoria do Agir Comunicativo (TAC). Na metodologia são descritas, em detalhes, as atividades desenvolvidas ao longo do curso bem como as dificuldades encontradas para sua execução, as quais acabam por influenciar a reflexão feita pelos professores durante a realização do grupo focal, que nos forneceu o material com o qual procedemos a uma análise de conteúdos fundamentada no trabalho da pesquisadora francesa Laurence Bardin. Os resultados apontam para um efeito limitador na construção da concepção de autonomia docente dos professores provocado principalmente, pela centralidade que os conteúdos curriculares possuem nos processos educativos. Como produto dessa pesquisa é apresentado um curso de robótica no formato WEB no qual os conteúdos se apresentam conforme são exigidos, tanto para a montagem, como para a análise dos experimentos propostos. / The present work has the objective of analyzing the possibilities of studying the autonomy of teachers in a group of teachers of Science and Mathematics, from their experiences in an educational robotics course, from the perspective of Contreras and Habermas. Such an approach seeks, without diminishing the importance of contents, to withdraw its centrality from the teaching / learning process, bringing the development of the communicative skills of the teacher and his apprentice to the stage of this process. The work is based on the study of teaching autonomy made by the Spanish teacher José Contreras, and the communicative aspects of the course and its subsequent analysis, the German theory model of the argument presented by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas in his work Theory of Communicative Action (TAC). The methodology describes in detail the activities developed along the course as well as the difficulties encountered for its execution, which end up influencing the reflection made by the teachers during the realization of the focus group, who provided us with the material with which we proceed to a content analysis based on the work of French researcher Laurence Bardin. The results point to a limiting effect in the construction of teachers' conception of teacher autonomy provoked mainly by the centrality that the curricular contents have in the educational processes. As a product of this research, a robotics course in WEB format is presented in which the contents are presented as required, both for the assembly and for the analysis of the proposed experiments.

O mundo está em constante processo de mudanças econômicas, sociais e políticas que afetam os negócios; os concorrentes inovam e os mercados evoluem com insuspeita velocidade. O estudo da Difusão da Inovação com foco nos institutos de pesquisa é importante para o fomento do avanço da sociedade do conhecimento e da promoção da superação dos desafios impostos. O escopo deste trabalho neste cenário, foi o levantamento dos processos de Gestão da Informação que levam à Difusão da Inovação em Entidades de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação – lECTIs – privadas paranaenses, sobretudo aquelas fundamentadas em administração central, corretagem e difusão orgânica. O objetivo foi propor um macroprocesso para a otimização da Difusão da Inovação em ECTIs privadas paranaense. A pesquisa realizada foi do tipo explicativo-descritiva usando o método de análise de conteúdo, partindo-se das melhores práticas resultantes de pesquisas bibliométrica e bibliográfica que nortearam a composição dos instrumentos e técnicas utilizadas. Os resultados da análise permitiram a construção de um modelo de macroprocesso de Gestão da Informação para Difusão da Inovação, composto pelos dados coletados na revisão de literatura, pelos resultados das entrevistas e das técnicas de análise qualitativa a partir do método de análise de conteúdo. A pesquisa contribuiu para desvelar a temática e evidenciar a necessidade de melhor compreensão acerca da perspectiva de Gestão da Informação que apoie as práticas de difusão. O interesse da pesquisa aliou-se a necessidade do Senai do Paraná em padronizar práticas de apoio às indústrias e formalizar os processos de Difusão da Inovação por meio dos Institutos de Tecnologia e Inovação e assim, proporcionar para as indústrias conhecimento, tecnologia e infraestrutura de ponta e promover a inovação e a transferência tecnológica, contribuindo, em última instância, em dados e informações que contribuem para elevar a competitividade da Indústria Brasileira. / The world is in a constant process of economic, social and political changes that affect the business; the competitors innovate and the markets evolve. This study of innovation diffusion focused on research institutes is important for the promotion of the knowledge society advance and the promotion of challenges overcoming. The scope of this research was the surveying of practices of Information Management that would followed by technological diffusion and innovation in private Science, Technology and Innovation Entities (ECTI) of the Paraná state, mainly the ones that are grounded in central administration, brokerage and organic diffusion. The objective was to propose a macroprocess to optimize the innovation diffusion of innovation in private ECTIs from Paraná state. The research developed was explanatory and descriptive type, using the method of content analysis, from the best practices extracted from the bibliometric and bibliographic research that guided the composition of the instruments and techniques used. The results from the analysis allowed the design of a model of process of Information Management to innovation diffusion, compounded by data collected in literature review, the results from the interviews and the techniques of qualitative analysis from the content analysis method. The interest of the research allied with the need from Senai of Paraná to standardize the practice of support to the industries and formalize the processes of innovation diffusion by the Institutes of Technology and Innovation and by this way, provide to the industries knowledge, technology and infra structure and promote the innovation and technology transfer in last instance to raise the Brazilian Industry competitiveness.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study uses a rhetorical visual analysis to investigate supplement advertisements within the top three fitness magazines, according to circulation, to provide a richer understanding of the message construction within the visual images the advertisements contain. The advertisements were selected at random over a time span of a year and a half within each of the magazines, totaling nine separate advertisements for analysis. The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent, if any, the construction of advertisements in men's fitness magazines operates as ideographic images establishing legitimacy as determined through application of Sonja Foss' rhetorical visual analysis methodology. Previous research has identified various analyses of visual images within the fitness culture, however, rhetorical visual analysis of supplement advertisement does not appear to have been investigated prior to this project which is the primary concern for the initiation of the current research. Employing rhetorical analysis in order to understand visual images provides a perspective that is imperative to identification of elements and functions of visual images. The current findings indicate that images in advertisements in men's fitness magazines do not establish rhetorical legitimacy, as understood from a rhetorical perspective. However, when examined through a traditional aesthetic intentionalist perspective, the construction of the advertisements operates as ideographic images, establishing legitimacy through the image. This information provides us with the understanding that advertisements within current muscle magazines are operating under a traditional viewpoint, and as such, produce traditional perspectives. The advertisement industry within this genre is reliant upon the consumer first knowing what the product is and then realizing how the image fits into that function. The limitation within this perspective of the advertisement industry is the consumer's knowledge base concerning the product, the product being explained through text and the time the consumer is willing to spend on correlating the intent or function with the images presented.

This study uses a mixed-method approach to analyse the coverage of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan’s two major English-language newspapers – The Japan Times and The Daily Yomiuri. Quantitative coding is combined with critical discourse analysis to determine whether the coverage was, overall, predominantly alarming, reassuring, or relatively balanced and neutral. This is done to ascertain whether the newspapers were sensationalising the crisis, echoing the official government and industry communication thereof, or reporting in a critical, responsible manner as the fourth estate. To answer the research question, key aspects of the coverage like foci, framing, sources, narratives, actors and agency, and criticisms are closely examined. It is revealed that the coverage was neither predominantly alarming nor reassuring, but was problematic in other ways. The implications of the complex findings, both for the Japanese media industry and international disaster reporting, are discussed. The study is situated in a broad literature framework that draws on agenda setting theory, research about the roles and responsibilities of the media, the field of risk communication and the reporting of radiation events in history. / Communication Science / M.A. (Communication)

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / A move toward care of residents in nursing homes where they are respected and heard is finally emerging. Common strategies used in nursing homes to improve quality of care for residents are integration of person-centered care and assessing care using satisfaction surveys. Although approaches of integrating person-centered care and satisfaction surveys have been valuable in improving nursing home quality, strategies of care that include things that matter from residents’ perspectives while living in nursing homes need investigation. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe things that residents age 65 and older state matter to them while living in the long-term care sections of nursing homes. A qualitative mode of inquiry using purposeful sampling led to a natural unfolding of data that revealed things that mattered to residents. Content analysis was used to reduce the data in a manner that kept the data close to the context yet moved the data toward new ideas about including things that mattered to residents in nursing care. The findings revealed residents’ positive and negative experiences and addressed the question: How can nurses manage residents’ positive and negative aspects of care in nursing homes? This study substantiated the importance of developing nursing care strategies derived from residents’ descriptions of care. Finding ways to promote nurses’ investment in attitudes about a person-centered care philosophy is essential for successful person-centered care implementation. Enhancing nurses’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes with an investment in person centeredness will be more likely to put nurses in a position to role-model care that is person-centered from residents’ perspectives.

This study investigates factors hampering comprehension of sign language interpretations rendered on South African TV news bulletins in terms of Deaf viewers’ expectancy norms and corpus analysis of authentic interpretations. The research fills a gap in the emerging discipline of Sign Language Interpreting Studies, specifically with reference to corpus studies. The study presents a new model for translation/interpretation evaluation based on the introduction of Grounded Theory (GT) into a reception-oriented model. The research question is addressed holistically in terms of target audience competencies and expectations, aspects of the physical setting, interpreters’ use of language and interpreting choices. The South African Deaf community are incorporated as experts into the assessment process, thereby empirically grounding the research within the socio-dynamic context of the target audience. Triangulation in data collection and analysis was provided by applying multiple mixed data collection methods, namely questionnaires, interviews, eye-tracking and corpus tools. The primary variables identified by the study are the small picture size and use of dialect. Secondary variables identified include inconsistent or inadequate use of non-manual features, incoherent or non-simultaneous mouthing, careless or incorrect sign execution, too fast signing, loss of visibility against skin or clothing, omission of vital elements of sentence structure, adherence to source language structures, meaningless additions, incorrect referencing, oversimplification and violations of Deaf norms of restructuring, information transfer, gatekeeping and third person interpreting. The identification of these factors allows the construction of a series of testable hypotheses, thereby providing a broad platform for further research. Apart from pioneering corpus-driven sign language interpreting research, the study makes significant contributions to present knowledge of evaluative models, interpreting strategies and norms and systems of transcription and annotation. / Linguistics / Thesis (D. Litt.et Phil. (Linguistics)

This study investigates factors hampering comprehension of sign language interpretations rendered on South African TV news bulletins in terms of Deaf viewers’ expectancy norms and corpus analysis of authentic interpretations. The research fills a gap in the emerging discipline of Sign Language Interpreting Studies, specifically with reference to corpus studies. The study presents a new model for translation/interpretation evaluation based on the introduction of Grounded Theory (GT) into a reception-oriented model. The research question is addressed holistically in terms of target audience competencies and expectations, aspects of the physical setting, interpreters’ use of language and interpreting choices. The South African Deaf community are incorporated as experts into the assessment process, thereby empirically grounding the research within the socio-dynamic context of the target audience. Triangulation in data collection and analysis was provided by applying multiple mixed data collection methods, namely questionnaires, interviews, eye-tracking and corpus tools. The primary variables identified by the study are the small picture size and use of dialect. Secondary variables identified include inconsistent or inadequate use of non-manual features, incoherent or non-simultaneous mouthing, careless or incorrect sign execution, too fast signing, loss of visibility against skin or clothing, omission of vital elements of sentence structure, adherence to source language structures, meaningless additions, incorrect referencing, oversimplification and violations of Deaf norms of restructuring, information transfer, gatekeeping and third person interpreting. The identification of these factors allows the construction of a series of testable hypotheses, thereby providing a broad platform for further research. Apart from pioneering corpus-driven sign language interpreting research, the study makes significant contributions to present knowledge of evaluative models, interpreting strategies and norms and systems of transcription and annotation. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / Thesis (D. Litt.et Phil. (Linguistics)

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / While the Arab spring succeeded in ousting the long-term dictator led governments from power in many Arab countries, leading the way to a new democratic process to develop in the Arab world, it did not end the old suspicions between Arab Muslims and the West. This research investigates the beginning of the relations between the Arab Muslims and the West as they have developed over time, and then focuses its analysis on perceptions from both sides beginning with 9/11 through the events known as the Arab spring. The framework for analysis is a communication perspective, as embodied in the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM). According to CMM, communication can be understood as forms of interactions that both constitute and frame reality. The study posits the analysis that the current Arab Muslim-West divide, is often a conversation that is consistent with what CMM labels as the ethnocentric pattern. This analysis will suggest a new pathway, one that follows the CMM cosmopolitan form, as a more fruitful pattern for the future of Arab Muslim-West relations. This research emphasizes the factors fueling this ethnocentric pattern, in addition to ways of bringing the Islamic world and the West to understand each other with a more cosmopolitan approach, which, among other things, accepts mutual differences while fostering agreements. To reach this core, the study will apply a direct communicative engagement between the Islamic world and the West to foster trusted relations, between the two.