In my essay the dilemmas originate from what I have experienced. I have observed myself and some of my colleagues, how we meet children who are lacking the qualifications which school and most pedagogues expect them to have. Focus, in my written experiences, is on children who live in poverty, but how we meet and act toward them is often quite the same independent of what qualifications they are lacking. With the support from literature and theories I reflect and analyse the dilemmas. Through essaywriting I investigate my practical knowledge and I examine how we as pedagogues handle the complex situations encounter when in school and how it is possible to understand why we act the way we do. I think that the knowledge which essaywriting gives me will strengthen me as a person and in my work as a teacher for after-school-center. My essaywriting will motivate me to reflect over the norms of society and their influence on children. I have often find it difficult to know how to act, but my hope is that this new knowledge can help me to understand and handle these types of situations better in the future. We must dare to stand up for the children. Even if only one person reacts to difficult situationes, it will make a difference.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 15, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223).

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

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur uthyrda konsulter upplever sin position på kundföretag samt hur de upplever den eventuella maktrelationen mellan konsulter och den ordinarie personalen. För att besvara detta syfte har en kvalitativ metod tillämpats, där fem konsulter i Stockholmsområdet intervjuats. Studien har visat konsulternas arbetssituation på många sätt är otillfredsställande. Studiens resultat visar att konsulterna upplever ett visst utanförskap på sitt nuvarande uppdrag, dock inte i den utsträckning som tidigare forskning och teoretiska ramverk antydde. De faktorer som påverkade graden av utanförskap var konsulternas anställningsform (heltid/deltid), uppdragets längd samt åldersfördelningen på arbetsplatsen. De konsulter som arbetade deltid på sitt nuvarande uppdrag upplevde ett starkare utanförskap och upplevde att de hade svårare att komma in i den etablerade arbetsgruppen medan de konsulter som arbetade heltid kände en starkare samhörighet med kundföretaget och dess anställda. Uppdragets längd visade sig även i viss utsträckning påverka graden av utanförskap. De konsulter som arbetat på ett kundföretag en längre period upplevde en starkare samhörighet med kundföretagets personal, medan de konsulter som arbetat kortare tid på sitt uppdrag inte upplevde att kundföretaget och dess personal litade på att de utförde sitt arbete korrekt och att de skulle stanna på kundföretaget. Resultatet från denna undersökning visar att ju längre tid konsulterna arbetat på sitt aktuella uppdrag desto mindre betydelse hade anställningsformen. Ålder visade sig också vara en bidragande faktor till hur integrerade konsulterna upplevde sig vara på kundföretaget. På konsulternas arbetsplatser rådde en kraftig åldersskillnad och att det påverkade i sin tur relationsbygget på arbetsplatsen.

This essay investigates how capitalism affects the characters in John Dos Passos’ novel Manhattan Transfer. It argues how capitalism in many instances leads to alienation in various ways. In order to understand the historical context of the novel and to perform this character study, the concepts of modernism, modernity, Marxism, capitalism and alienation are put forward in the theoretical framework as the foundation of the essay. The main theories used are Georg Lukács’ definition of heaviness, Ferdinand Tönnies’ discussion on community and society and Melvin Seeman’s presentation of the ways in which the term alienation has been used and explained over the years.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2003-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:50:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 camargo_vo_me_mar.pdf: 256181 bytes, checksum: adeaa2b0e35ab0a13bd2880f0ed72aab (MD5) / Esta dissertação teve o propósito de analisar uma modalidade comportamental particular, construída durante as três últimas décadas do século XX e, que pode ser apreendida através do movimento Nova Era. A essa modalidade pode-se observar a construção subjetiva de mecanismos de respostas e de interpretação da realidade que resultam em atitudes e/ou numa ética comportamental capaz de traduzir os novos desafios que a realidade atual - denominada por alguns teóricos como sendo uma realidade pós-moderna - coloca para o indivíduo. Todavia, pode-se constatar que tais mecanismos de respostas, quando confrontados com o processo de alienação humana, tornam-se uma modalidade de resposta individual cujo potencial crítico fica ao nível superficial, reforçando um processo de privatização do indivíduo. / This dissertation had as the purpose of analyzing a modality peculiar comportamental, built during the last three decades of the century XX and that it can be apprehended through the movement New Era. For this modality it could be observed the subjective construction of mechanisms of answers and of interpretation of the reality that resulted in attitudes and or in an ethics comportamental capable to translate the new challenges that the current reality - denominated by some theoreticals as being a post-modern reality - it puts for the individual. Though, it can be verified that such mechanisms of answers, when confronted with the process of human alienation, they become a modality of individual answer which the critical potential is at the superficial level, reinforcing a process of the individualþs privatizations.

A pesquisa desenvolvida teve como objetivo investigar como o curso de Pedagogia a Distância da UERJ implicou a prática docente de egressos do curso. Partimos da discussão da concepção de formação do homem através de três categorias: trabalho, conhecimento e tecnologia e debatemos como a Educação a Distância e as tecnologias podem contribuir para a formação humana em nossa sociedade. Dando continuidade focamos o caso da graduação em Pedagogia a Distância da UERJ e discutimos quais são as contribuições e contradições existentes neste curso oferecido através do Consórcio CEDERJ. Realizamos o confronto entre os nossos referenciais teóricos e a prática das professoras entrevistadas a fim de nos aproximarmos de sua realidade e percebermos que implicações o curso teve à prática das mesmas. Para chegar a este resultado fizemos uso de entrevistas semi-estruturas que foram analisadas através da metodologia de análise do conteúdo. Nosso trabalho é pautado no materialismo histórico, portanto nos interessa como a teoria e a prática se relacionam no caso de nossas entrevistadas. O resultado da análise indicou de que maneira o curso colaborou para tornar essa prática reflexiva e crítica. / The research undertaken aimed to investigate how the Pedagogy Course at Distance Learning of Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) involved the teaching practice of graduates of the course. We started discussing the concept of human formation through three categories: work, knowledge and technology and focuses on how the distance education and the technology can contribute to human development in our society. Continuing focus the Course of UERJ and discuss what are the contributions and contradictions in this course offered through the CEDERJ Consortium. We performed a comparison between theoretical and practice of the teachers interviewed in order to approach to their reality and realize that the course had implications for the practice of them. To achieve this result we use semi-structured interviews that were analyzed using the methodology of content analysis. Our work is guided by the historical materialism, so interested in how the theory and practice are related in the case of our respondents. The result of the analysis indicated how the course helped to make this critical and reflective practice.

This research aimed to understand how former prisoners make sense of their participation in carceral employment programs in terms of their reintegration into the labour market upon release. Following a social constructivist approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with fourteen men living in Ottawa, Canada, who had participated in employment programs while incarcerated in Canadian federal prisons. Content analysis of the transcribed interviews showed that participation in work programs was perceived as beneficial for reintegration into the labour market if the individual received a provincially-recognized trade certificate, could count hours worked in prison towards an apprenticeship, or if engaged in a field of work that matched their aspirations in terms of future employment plans. Most participants noted additional advantages for engaging in work activities in prison, such as the use of work as a strategy to cope with feelings of idleness and estrangement from society while incarcerated. Participants who did not perceive participation as helpful mentioned that returning to the labour market was not desirable or was made difficult by plans to retire, to receive a government pension due to disabilities, mental health conditions experienced during and after prison, the stigma for being a former prisoner as overriding any potential benefit from the program, and parole conditions limiting or preventing the search for jobs in the community. Future studies investigating reintegration into the labour market upon release and seeking to understand how former prisoners make sense of their participation in carceral employment programs could focus on individuals who have completed their sentences and are not subjected to parole conditions. This would allow an investigation of the perceptions and experiences of those who are not impeded in seeking employment and have been actively searching for or engaging with employment upon release.

The body of writing collectively referred to as third generation or contemporary Nigerian literature emerged on the international literary scene from about the year 2000. This writing is marked by attempts to negotiate contemporary identities, and it engages with various developments in the Nigerian nation: Nigeria’s past and current political and socio-economic state, different kinds of cultural hybridization as well as the writers increasing transnational awareness. This study argues that contemporary Nigerian fiction obsessively returns to the period from 1985-1998 as a historical site for narrating the individual and collective Nigerian experience of the trauma of military dictatorship, which has shaped the contemporary reality of the nation. The study builds on existing critical work on contemporary Nigerian fiction, in order to highlight patterns and ideas that have hitherto been neglected in scholarly work in this field. The study seeks to address this gap in the existing critical literature by examining third-generation Nigerian writing’s representation of this era in a select corpus of work spanning from 2000-06: Okey Ndibe’s Arrows of Rain (2000), Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel (2002), Sefi Atta’s Everything Good will Come (2005), and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2006). The four novels chosen were written in response to military rule and dictatorship in the 80s and 90s, and they all feature representations of state violence. This study finds that, despite variations in the novels aesthetic modes, violence, control, silencing, dictatorship, alienation, the trauma of everyday life and resistance recur in realist modes. Above all, the study argues that contemporary Nigerian fiction’s insistent representation of the violent past of military rule in Nigeria is a means of navigating the complex psychological and political processes involved in dealing with post-colonial trauma by employing writing as a form of resistance.