O ensino de Jornalismo é objeto freqüente de reflexão, principalmente no que diz respeito à aquisição e compreensão de ferramentas e conhecimentos necessários para a formação de um profissional com múltiplas habilidades e competências. A implantação dos Projetos Experimentais no currículo da Habilitação Jornalismo nos cursos de Comunicação Social no Brasil ocorreu em 12 de abril de 1978, recebendo posteriormente, a partir da Resolução do CFE nº 002/84, o tratamento de disciplina regida por normas específicas de acordo com os projetos pedagógicos das instituições de ensino superior. A pesquisa investiga o papel exercido pelos Projetos Experimentais em universidades paulistas, que possibilitam, por meio de diferentes experiências adotadas, a vivência, a aquisição e o domínio de técnicas importantes da produção jornalística para a formação ética e profissional dos graduandos em Jornalismo. Por meio de estudo de casos múltiplos e tendo como referência principal as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais dos cursos de Comunicação Social (Parecer CNE/CES nº 492/2001), verifica-se que os Projetos Experimentais têm importante papel no exercício de cidadania frente aos desafios e responsabilidades da profissão, especialmente quanto à contribuição para a sociedade, à formação do bem comum e à consciência do papel do Jornalismo na realidade. / The education of Journalism is a frequent object of reflection, mainly in what concerns the acquisition and understanding of tools and necessary knowledge for the formation of a professional with multiple skills and abilities. The implementation of the Experimental Projects in the curriculum of the competence Journalism in the courses of Social Communication in Brazil occurred on April 12, 1978, receiving subsequently, from the Resolution of the CFE number 002/84, the handling of discipline governed by specific standards according to the pedagogical projects of the institutions of higher education. The research investigates the paper exerted by the Experimental Projects in universities of the state of São Paulo that enable through different adopted experiences, the knowledge, the acquisition and the domain of important techniques of the journalistic output for the ethical and professional formation of the graduating students in Journalism. Through multiple case studies and having as main reference the National Curricular Directives of the courses of Social Communication (CNE/CES Study number 492/2001), are verified that the Experimental Projects have important paper in the exercise of citizenship facing the challenges and responsibilities of the profession, specially as regards the contribution for the society, to the formation of the welfare and to the conscience of the paper of the Journalism nowadays.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adelina Bracco.pdf: 41469019 bytes, checksum: 6ee453648658c6716e02adf0f5ea734a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-31 / In this analysis we looked into news stories appearing on four Brazilian national daily newspapers Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo, O Globo e Jornal do Brasil during the period ranging from December 2000 to 2007, in which we could find a large number of news about official statistical data produced by Brazilian statistical bureau (IBGE) and related to Brazilian people s living conditions. The aim of this study was to identify the signification emerging from these texts as well as different modes of presence of IBGE as they were constructed by the newspapers which, for that purpose, adopted enunciative and figurativization procedures, and also find out how figurativity was capable of unleashing a series of meaning effects particularly those of objectivity, subjectivity, veridiction, veracity and fiducia (trust). The theory and methodology to achieve our aim came from discursive semiotics as it provides us with resources to analyze different structures of the news on journalistic pages starting from the most concrete and superficial level up to the deepest level and its degrees of invariance and general categories in the semionarrative dimension. Our corpus was selected following almost seven years of accompaniment and evaluation of such news with the selection of more than 60 editions of newspapers on the whole. We adopted signifying relevance criteria to achieve homogeneity as to the selected news stories so that our collection included top or highlighted stories on front pages or special inserts and some on section pages only if they proved pertinent to the analysis. The news also articulated both verbal and visual systems of expression in syncretism. Another criterion was to choose same date articles if such procedure was considered relevant to our analytical approach. The question of our research work was to understand how each newspaper bearing its own identity marks as enunciating subject developed mechanisms to build the meaning of statistical data of scientific nature and at the same time issue IBGE simulacra from their texts. Our basic hypothesis was that in their enunciations arising from Other s information (IBGE), the papers under analysis efficiently managed discursive strategies by means of which they conveyed microuniverses of axiological values to their readers as well as evaluated and sanctioned a /doing/ from alterity / RESUMO: Neste trabalho foram analisadas reportagens publicadas em quatro jornais impressos diários brasileiros de grande circulação -- Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, O Globo e Jornal do Brasil --, no período de dezembro de 2000 a 2007, nas quais se abordou o tema dos dados estatísticos oficiais produzidos pelo IBGE, relativos às condições de vida da população. O objetivo do estudo foi buscar a significação desses textos, identificando neles regimes de presença do IBGE construídos pelos jornais, por meio de procedimentos enunciativos e figurativizações, e analisar como a figuratividade produziu diferentes jogos de efeitos de sentido, em particular, os de objetividade, subjetividade, veridicção, veracidade e fidúcia. A teoria e a metodologia empregadas foram da semiótica discursiva, que possibilita o aprofundamento nos vários textos das páginas jornalísticas a partir do nível mais concreto e superficial da instância discursiva até os graus de invariância e generalidade das categorias fundamentais, nas estruturas semionarrativas. O corpus da pesquisa foi selecionado ao longo de quase sete anos de mapeamento e avaliação das publicações impressas, perfazendo um total de mais de 60 edições selecionadas. Foram adotados critérios de relevância significante para a obtenção de homogeneidade do material noticioso, examinando-se manchetes de capa, destaques de capa, capas de cadernos e, em menor escala, páginas internas. O material selecionado também articulou os sistemas de expressão verbo-visuais em sincretismo. Outro critério foi o de datas coincidentes, quando essa condição favorecesse procedimentos analíticos. O problema de pesquisa consistiu em compreender como os jornais, com suas marcas identitárias de sujeitos enunciantes, construíram o sentido dos dados de um discurso de cientificidade e projetaram simulacros do IBGE a partir dessas construções. A hipótese básica de trabalho foi a de que, nas suas enunciações sobre as informações do Outro (IBGE), os jornais utilizaram eficazmente estratégias discursivas por meio das quais comunicaram microuniversos de valores axiológicos aos enunciatários-leitores, avaliando e sancionando um /fazer/ da alteridade.

Cette thèse a été conduite afin d’explorer le potentiel d’une nouvelle méthodologie utilisant la pyrolyse, la chromatographie gazeuse et la spectrométrie de masse pour la caractérisation et l’identification des fibres papetières utilisées dans la fabrication des papiers asiatiques traditionnels à partir de la caractérisation des métabolites de ces fibres. Cette méthodologie utilise un processus d’échantillonnage facilité nécessitant une très petite quantité d’échantillons (de l’ordre de quelques dizaines de µg). Après la pyrolyse des échantillons de papiers et la séparation chromatographique des composés formés, des distributions caractéristiques pour les métabolites des fibres papetières (considérant leur présence et leur intensité) ont été observées dans une région définie comme région d’intérêt dans les chromatogrammes: ces distributions se sont révélées spécifiques pour la caractérisation des papiers fabriqués à partir de différents types de fibres et ont été utilisées pour distinguer l’origine des différentes fibres papetières couramment utilisées dans la fabrication de papiers asiatiques traditionnels. Premièrement, les problèmes rencontrés dans l’étude des papiers faits à la main ont été présentés, comme l’origine de la fabrication du papier, l’incohérence de certains résultats dans l’identification des fibres (reportés dans différentes études scientifiques), les limites de la microscopie pour l’identification des fibres papetières d’origines botaniques similaires et les risques d’imprécision dans le référencement des échantillons. Tous ces problèmes montrent la nécessité d’explorer de nouvelles méthodes pour (1) améliorer la fiabilité de l’identification des fibres papetières des papiers asiatiques traditionnels, (2) valider et confirmer les résultats obtenus par l’analyse microscopique. À cette fin, dans un premier temps, des papiers asiatiques de référence ont été étudiés. Les résultats expérimentaux ont montré que les différentes fibres papetières utilisées pour la fabrication des papiers étudiés montraient des différences dans les distributions de leurs marqueurs spécifiques : par exemple, les fibres d’origine de la famille Moraceae montrent une distribution caractéristiques de composés triterpèniques alors que les fibres d’origine de la famille Thymelaeaceae montrent une distribution caractéristiques de composés de type stigmastanes. De leur côté, les fibres des plantes appartenant au groupe Ma montrent peu de métabolites caractéristiques. Les différences observées dans la distribution de ces métabolites ont été attestées par la comparaison entre distributions obtenues à partir des fibres végétales et celles des papiers faits à la main attestant de l’origine commune de ces métabolites issus des tissus végétaux d’origine. Ainsi, la méthodologie étudiée se révèle prometteuse en tant que méthode de chimiotaxonomie pour l’identification des fibres inconnues de papiers faits à la main. Avec les exemples d'applications fournies au cours du travail expérimental, le couplage de la pyrolyse, de la chromatographie en phase gazeuse et de la spectrométrie de masse (avec l’utilisation de la Py-GC/MS et de la Py-GCxGC/MS) a montré sa capacité à distinguer les fibres d'une même famille (qui peuvent présenter des caractéristiques similaires en microscopie) et peut ainsi constituer une méthode efficace d'identification des fibres et de validation des résultats d'identification obtenus par l'observation microscopique. Dans la présente thèse, les caractéristiques de la chromatographie gazeuse intégralement bidimensionnelle GCxGC, ses avantages pour les applications dans le domaine du patrimoine culturel et son apport potentiel pour le traitement des données 1D ont été discutées (...) / This study was conducted to explore a new methodology for handmade fiber characterizationand identification using pyrolysis, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. It employseasy sampling process with minor quantity of samples required. After pyrolysis of handmadepapers, a featured metabolites distribution patterns (presence plus intensity) eluting in the defined region of interest (ROI) was observed to be characteristic for handmade papers of different material origins. The method utilizes these metabolites distribution patterns as markers to discriminate different fiber origins. Firstly, the problems encountered in the investigation of handmade papers were introduced such as the origin of papermaking, the inconsistency in the fiber identification results sometimes gained by different scholars, the limits of microscopy in identifying fibers from similar species and the likely imprecision of the reference sample labeling. All these problems showed the necessity to explore a new method in order to (i) make precise fiber identification of handmade papers and (ii) to validate or confirm the identification results obtained by microscopy. Then, modern reference handmade papers were firstly studied. The result revealed that different plant fibers used for papermaking have different marker distributions in the ROI, forinstance, the Moraceae family with a featured distribution of terpene compounds and theThymelaeaceae family with a featured distribution of stigmasta compounds. The fibers fromthe ma group usually revealed few compounds in the ROI. This metabolites difference in theROI was attested from the plant tissues with their similar distribution in handmade papers and plant raw fibers. Thus, the chosen methodology offers promise as a method of chemotaxonomy for unknown handmade paper fiber identification. With the examples ofapplications provided during the experimental work, the coupling of pyrolysis, gaschromatography and mass spectrometry (through the use of Py-GC/MS and Py-GCxGC/MS)showed its ability to distinguish fibers from the same plant family (that may present similar microscopic features) and thus, can constitutes an effective method for fiber identification as well as to validate the identification results of the microscopic observation. In the present thesis, the features of GCxGC and the benefits for cultural heritage applications and its help for the ID data treatment were discussed. The tested Py-GCxGC/MS methodology has been for the first time proposed in the cultural heritage field and it harbors the potential to promote the research in this domain, enhancing our capacity to handle small quantities of complex samples while providing an exhaustive response on its composition.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Beatriz Caricari de Morais.pdf: 1235029 bytes, checksum: a4842e0640645795dfe41ccd69dd81bc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study is part of SAL - Systemics Across Languages, a project, developed in association with researchers from China, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Thailand, whose aim is to study specific and universal features of languages. In Brazil, it project focuses mainly the study scientific language. This dissertation aims to analyze the different uses and functions of the clitic se. This study excluded se when functioning as a reflexive pronoun or as a conjunction since their uses are clearly described and they are not related with the focus of this investigation: defocus of the participant and creation of agnates. The data, SAL project s data, consists of 1225 scientific papers from many areas of knowledge collected from Scielo database. Se functions typically as a grammatical item in a number of uses, therefore, one of the most interesting problems in Portuguese and others language such as French, Spanish and Italian. One of the controversies about this clitic is its possibility, in all those languages, of the participant being clearly expressed or not, as discussed in Nunes (1991), Monteiro (1994), Bagno (2000), Camacho (2002, 2003), or others with respect to Portuguese or Ruwet (1972), Suñer (2002) and Cinque (1988) for other languages. The theory underlying this research, Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday, 1994, 2004), focuses language in use and analyzes the grammatical choices in texts (spoken or written) based on their context of culture and of situation. This thesis shows se occurs in three categories: in middle constructions (self-caused process); in constructions that defocus participants, and in agnate constructions. We hope this description helps material and courses designers focusing production or comprehension of academic texts specifically and other context of occurrences / Este trabalho está inserido em um contexto maior, o projeto SAL (Systemics Across Languages) desenvolvido em parceria com pesquisadores da China, Argentina, México e Tailândia que procuram entender as características específicas e universais que partilham as línguas. No Brasil, o projeto visa estudar a linguagem de artigos científicos. Esta tese objetiva analisar os diferentes usos e funções que o clítico se desempenha em artigos científicos. As funções excluídas são: o reflexivo e a conjunção, pois seus usos são claramente descritos e não estão relacionados ao desfocamento de participante e com construções agnatas. O corpus de estudo, corpus do projeto SAL, contém 1225 artigos científicos de diversas áreas do conhecimento coletados da plataforma Scielo. A multiplicidade de funções é uma das características do se, um dos problemas mais interessantes da língua portuguesa e de outras como francês, espanhol e italiano. Uma das controvérsias em torno desse clítico é a possibilidade de o participante estar ou não indeterminado, como discutem as pesquisas de Nunes (1991), Monteiro (1994), Bagno (2000), Camacho (2002, 2003), entre outros. O mesmo ocorre com o on em francês, se em espanhol e si em italiano, conforme trabalhos de Ruwet (1972), Suñer (2002) e Cinque (1988). A base teórica, a Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional de Halliday (1994, 2004), tem como foco a língua em uso e permite analisar as escolhas gramaticais do autor em textos (escritos ou falados) com base no contexto de cultura e de situação em que se realizam. Segundo a proposta desta tese, os usos do se podem ser classificados em três categorias: se em construções médias as ações que acontecem por si só, um processo é causado por ele mesmo (self-caused process); se em construções com desfocamento de participante que ocorrem por ser irrelevante sua menção, parte do estilo do gênero acadêmico/científico e se em construções agnatas verbos que quando se ligam ao se têm significados relacionais e/ou existenciais. Espera-se que este pesquisa contribua com os estudos sobre o uso desse clítico em língua portuguesa e, também, auxilie na elaboração de materiais didáticos e de cursos instrumentais que visam atender a produção e compreensão escrita de textos acadêmicos

La ricerca ha messo a tema i diversi aspetti della vita privata e pubblica di una famiglia nobiliare a Mantova nel passaggio dall’Antico Regime alla Restaurazione, indagata in quanto rappresentativa del ceto nobiliare di appartenenza: la famiglia di Francesco Alberto d’Arco e Amalia Sanvitale. Di provincia ma non provinciale, la famiglia d’Arco è stata letta nelle sue varie scelte, come, ad esempio, l’educazione dei figli, i collegi frequentati, le strategie di carriera individuate per i figli maschi o l’assegnazione delle doti e la scelta delle alleanze per i matrimoni delle figlie femmine. Tale lettura è stata resa possibile dalla disponibilità dei carteggi conservati nell’archivio della Fondazione d’Arco, fonte che è stata messa a confronto con la coeva documentazione di tipo istituzionale. Dimensione privata e dimensione pubblica hanno trovato un punto di incontro nella lettura di questi carteggi, che con il loro carattere ibrido, a metà tra la “scrittura di sé” e la trascrizione di notizie, bene si prestano all’incrocio di fonti diverse e apparentemente lontane. / The aim of the research is to examine the diverse aspects of the public and private life of a noble family in Mantua in the transition from the Ancien Régime to the period after the Congress of Vienna. The d’Arco were chosen because they were representative of the noble class they belonged to and of the forms of aristocratic life style. From the province but by no means provincial, the d’Arco family has been studied in its various choices, as, for example, the education of its children and the colleges they attended, the strategies employed for the careers of its sons or the dowries and the choice of marriage alliances made for the daughters. Such study has been made possible by access to a privileged source - the family papers and correspondence preserved in the archives of the D’Arco Foundation. A source which was then critically compared with the contemporary institutional documentation. The private and public dimensions meet in the reading of these papers, which with their hybrid character, half way between “writing of oneself” and the transcription of news, lend themselves perfectly to a cross-match between sources that are diverse and apparently distant.

Das 2009 freigeschaltete Portal „Wissenschaftskultur“ der SLUB Dresden bietet nun mehr als 450 Artikel der Schriftenreihen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften im Volltext digital an, die von 1850 bis 1945 erschienen sind. Auch andere deutsche Akademien haben zwischenzeitlich ihre älteren Schriftenreihen online gestellt. In den Akademie-Abhandlungen veröffentlichten die seinerzeit wichtigsten Gelehrten ihres Fachs, deren Schriften auch heute noch nicht nur rein wissenschaftshistorisch interessant sind.

Unreliable homodiegetic narration presents a unique mode of narrative transmission which demands the encoding within the text of 'translational indices', that is, signifiers of several kinds which justify the reader/receiver in over-riding the sincere first person avowals of the apparent mediator of the discourse. The argument establishes the presence of an epistemologically primary 'immanent' narrative situation within an ostensibly unitary narrative situation. Such a stereoscopic perspective upon the presented world of the literary 'work provides the reader/receiver with a warrant for a rejection of the epistemological validity of the homodiegetic narrator's discourse. Moreover, the thesis advances a typology of such translational indices as they occur in the dense ontology of the literary work of art. The narratological theory of unreliable homodiegetic narration developed in the first half of the dissertation is applied in the second half to selected exemplars of such narrative transmissions, demonstrating thereby the theoretical fecundity of the model for the discipline of narratology. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1988.

Polyamideamine epichlorohydrin (PAE) resin is a water soluble additive and the most used permanent wet strength additive in alkaline conditions for preparing wet strengthened papers. In this thesis, we studied some properties of PAE resins and wet strengthened papers prepared from them. In order to elucidate PAE structure, liquid state, 1H and 13C NMR was performed and permitted signals assignment of PAE structure. PAE films were prepared to study cross-linking reactions and then thermal and ageing treatments were performed. According to our results, the main PAE cross-linking reaction occurs by a nucleophilic attack of N atoms in the PAE and/or polyamideamine structures forming 2-propanol bridges between PAE macromolecules. A secondary contribution of ester linkages to the PAE cross-linking was also observed. However, this reaction, which is thermally induced, only occurs under anhydrous conditions. The mechanism related to wet strength development of PAE-based papers was studied by using CMC as a model compound for cellulosic fibres and PAE-CMC interactions as a model for PAE-fibres interactions. Based on results from NMR and FTIR, we clearly showed that PAE react with CMC that is when carboxylic groups are present in great amounts. Consequently, as the number of carboxylic groups present in lignocellulosic fibres is considerably less important and the resulting formed ester bonds are hydrolysable, we postulate that ester bond formation has a negligible impact on the wet strength of PAE-based papers. In the second part of this work, a 100% Eucalyptus pulp suspension was used to prepare PAE-based papers. PAE was added at different dosages (0.4, 0.6 and 1%) into the pulp suspension and its adsorption was indirectly followed by measuring the zeta potential. Results indicate that the adsorption, reconformation and/or penetration phenomena reach an apparent equilibrium between 10 and 30 min. Moreover, we showed that the paper dry strength was not significantly affected by the conductivity level (from 100 to 3000 µS/cm) of the pulp suspension. However, the conductivity has an impact on the wet strength and this effect seems to be enhanced for the highest PAE dosage (1%). We also demonstrated that storing the treated paper under controlled conditions or boosting the PAE cross-linking with a thermal post-treatment does not necessarily lead to the same wet strength. Degrading studies of cross-linked PAE films showed that PAE degradation in a persulfate solution at alkaline medium was more effective. A preliminary study of industrial PAE-based papers (coated and uncoated papers) was also performed. For uncoated paper, persulfate treatment was the most efficient. For coated papers, all treatments were inefficient in the used conditions, although a decrease of the wet tensile force of degraded samples was observed. The main responsible of the decrease of persulfate efficiency for coated papers was probably related to side reactions of free radicals with the coating constituents.

All companies, municipalities, governments and private individuals are in need of a functioning banking system. Research shows that for the long-term survival of banks, sustainability is important. However, there are several reasons why the banks are working with sustainability. The purpose of this study is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the sustainability work of banks operating in Sweden and to see how sustainability work differs between banks. The purpose is also to contribute to a deeper understanding of why the banks work with sustainability. The study has examined the banks Nordea, Handelsbanken, Danske Bank, Swedbank, SEB and Ekobanken. The study has a deductive approach and uses mixed methods. Semi-structured interviews have been conducted, sustainability reports have been reviewed, the number of customers and customer satisfaction have been taken into account. The study consists of interviews with Handelsbanken, Danske Bank, Ekobanken, Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and Fair Finance Guide. A thematic analysis has been made based on the collected data. The study has come to the conclusion that the banks are working with sustainability to meet the expectations of their stakeholders, reduce risks, achieve trust, marketing goals and profitability. The banks work with both long-term social measures and short-term financial targets. The banks, Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and Fair Finance Guide believe that the climate is a current issue. It is also through the indirect impact they have the greatest opportunity to influence the world towards a more sustainable society. Sustainability is constantly changing as society norms and expectations change. There is also a gap between the banks' policies and what they do in practice regarding their work with sustainability. / Alla företag, kommuner, stater och privatpersoner är i behov av ett fungerande banksystem. Forskning menar att för bankernas långsiktiga överlevnad är hållbarhetsarbetet viktigt, dock finns flera olika anledningar till att bankerna arbetar med hållbarhet. Syftet med denna uppsats är att bidra till en djupare förståelse för hållbarhetsarbetet inom bankerna med verksamhet i Sverige samt att se hur hållbarhetsarbetet skiljer sig mellan olika banker. Syftet är även att bidra till en djupare förståelse för varför bankerna arbetar med hållbarhet. Studien har undersökt bankerna Nordea, Handelsbanken, Danske Bank, Swedbank, SEB och Ekobanken. Studien har en deduktiv ansats och använder sig av metodtriangulering. Semistrukturerade intervjuer har utförts, hållbarhetsrapporter har granskats, antalet kunder och kundnöjdhet har tagits i beaktande. De som har intervjuats är Handelsbanken, Danske Bank, Ekobanken, Finansinspektionen och Fair Finance Guide. En tematisk analys har gjorts med utgångspunkt i den insamlade datan. Studien har kommit fram till att bankerna arbetar med hållbarhet för att leva upp till sina intressenters förväntningar, minska risker, uppnå förtroende, marknadsföringssyfte och för lönsamheten. Bankerna arbetar både långsiktigt med sociala mått och kortsiktigt med finansiella mått. Bankerna, Finansinspektionen och Fair Finance Guide anser att klimatfrågan är väldigt viktig just nu. Det är även genom den indirekta påverkan de har störst möjlighet att påverka världen mot ett mer hållbart samhälle. Hållbarhetsarbetet förändras hela tiden i takt med att samhällets normer och förväntningar förändras. Det finns dessutom ett gap mellan bankernas policy och vad de gör i praktiken när det kommer till deras hållbarhetsarbete.

This study explored and evaluated the prevalence of supplementary tuition in the teaching and learning of Mathematics/Mathematical Literacy in some high-performing schools of the East London district in the Eastern Cape. The study followed a descriptive survey design to address the research problem. Data were gathered using questionnaires for grade 11 learners and high school Mathematics/Mathematical Literacy teachers. The learners were the first group to be taught the Mathematics/Mathematical Literacy learning programme of the new National Curriculum Statement (NCS). The results showed that a fair number of learners (about 48%) were not satisfied with their performance in Mathematics/Mathematical Literacy and a large number of the learners (about 90%) considered a good pass in Mathematics/Mathematical Literacy as important, particularly for their future careers. A substantial proportion of learners (42%) expressed concern about the amount of school time allocated to Mathematics/Mathematical Literacy, and thought that this factor hampered the successful completion of the syllabus. Teachers who happened to be adequately qualified and experienced enough, struggled to complete the Grade 11 Mathematics syllabus in time and were concerned about misconceptions carried from lower classes. Teachers also expressed some concern about learners' lack of commitment to Mathematics/Mathematical Literacy. Learners seemingly took supplementary tuition as a way of overcoming their learning challenges. Of the three forms of supplementary tuition (i.e. private tuition, vacation classes and revising model/former examination papers) commonly available in the district, revising examination papers was preferred (about 83%) followed by private tuition at 81% and lastly vacation school. Learners spent 1.67 hours per week on average on supplementary tuition. More Mathematics learners (about 34%) than Mathematical Literacy learners (about 6%) make use of supplementary tuition. Based on these findings, it was concluded that supplementary tuition is not unique to schools that perform poorly, and even at high performing schools, factors exist which influence learners to take supplementary tuition. / MATH, SCIENCE and TECH EDU / MSC (MATHS,SCIENCE OR T/EDU)