ANOTATION Bc. Michaela Petráková, The quality of life in oncology patients. Hussite Faculty of Theology, Charles University, Prague. The dissertation topic is based on quality of life in oncology patients. Various factors of quality of life in general and particularly in oncology patients, issues of neoplastic diseases, branch of oncology, dialogue with patients, and palliative care as well are described in the theoretical part of thesis. The practical part of thesis deals with a level of patients' educaction, initial perception of their disease, subsequent course and more, changes in personal, family, social and professional life in connection with oncology disease and the treatment process. Corresponding research was performed among the patients in Na Pleši hospital, s.r.o. Obtained results has revealed the oncology disease decisively influenced an impact on life as well as on quality of life in diseased humans. There is a considerably hard for patients to cope with such a state of the life. Patients' families and friends play a significant role in oncology patients and they both have an important influence on the particular course of disease. Described scope of family and friends has been regarded as a support, and moreover some source of safety for the patient. Key words: Oncology, quality of life in...

Le PIB/ habitant de Madagascar classe le pays parmi l'un des plus pauvres au monde. L’État s'est engagé dans les objectifs de l’Éducation primaire universelle. Malgré cela, les indicateurs d'efficacité du système scolaire sont faibles. En 2012, seul 68,8% des enfants achèvent le cycle primaire, les taux de redoublement sont élevés, le taux de passage en cycle secondaire est faible. Aussi, le travail des enfants est encore un phénomène important dans la grande île. En 2010, près de 21% des 5-17 ans travaille, c'est le cas de 49% des 5-14 ans dans la région d'enquête, le Vakinankaratra. Dans les zones rurales, où la plupart des ménages vivent de l'agriculture d'autosubsistance, la main-d’œuvre infantile est fortement mise à contribution dans la production domestique. Les enfants sont tenus de combiner leurs activités scolaires et les activités productives. Nous proposons dans cette thèse de présenter les processus de scolarisation et de mise au travail des enfants à une échelle très fine. Pour ce faire, nous avons mené une enquête quantitative portant sur 247 ménages et une enquête qualitative dans deux villages et deux écoles primaires publiques qui étaient rattachées pendant quatorze mois. Les données quantitatives ont permis de mettre en exergue le lien entre les structures démographiques des ménages et la réussite scolaire des enfants. La monographie d'une des écoles primaires a permis de montrer les effets d'une faible qualité de l'offre sur les processus d'apprentissage des enfants et sur la demande scolaire. Par ailleurs, nous avons analysé les conséquences de la faible dotation en capitaux scolaires et économiques des ménages sur le déroulement de la scolarisation. Nous avons également mené des enquêtes par entretien auprès des enfants âgés entre 8 et 14 ans. Nous avons voulu savoir comment leurs représentations du travail et de l'école et leurs aspirations pouvaient influencer les processus de mise au travail et d'arrêt de la scolarisation. Finalement cette thèse permet d'analyser comment les objectifs de l'école primaire universelle peuvent être atteints face à la pauvreté des ménages et aux manques de moyens de l'école. Elle questionne également la capacité que pourrait avoir l'école à infléchir les processus de transmission des inégalités sociales et, dans notre cas, la reproduction de la grande pauvreté. / Madagascar is one of the poorest country in the world regarding its GPD per capita. Most of its population lives under the poverty line. The government is committed in the education for all plan since 1990. However, the quality of education is still low. In 2012, only 68.8% of the children achieved the primary school cycle, there are high repetition rates and few students access to the secondary school cycle. Most of international institution and NGO's oppose child labor and schooling. Child labor remains important, in 2010, 21% of the children aged from 5 to 17 years old work. We have conducted a survey about the households living in the rural zones. Most of them live from subsistence farming activities. Their children must participate to the domestic chores and economic activities and combine school at the same time. This work aims to understand the process of schooling and child work in a rural zone. We have collected quantitative data on 246 household and we made an ethnography in a primary state school for 14 months. Then, we have conducted semi-structured interviews with mothers, teachers and children aged from 8 to 14 years old. The quantitative data helped to analyze the relationship between the household demographic structures and the children school attainment. The ethnography shown the impact of a weak quality of education on the children learning process and on the school demand. The interviews conducted with the children shown how their perception of work and schooling and their aspiration could influence the reproduction of their economic and social position. To conclude, we question how the primary education for all can be reached when most of the household live in poor life conditions and the education sector suffers from a lack of funds. Can the school system stop the transmission of social and economic inequalities and break the poverty cycle?

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:33:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Regina Carvalho Calvo de Faveri.pdf: 1952643 bytes, checksum: 337c9c02037db012f38c151c795c934d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-14 / The Full-Time Schools Project was implemented in 2006 by the state government on state educational network of S?o Paulo. This process counted on the official documents publication such as the Full-Time School Guidelines, which guided the implantation of the model in part time schools and now have extended school day hours. We believe that the full-time schools represented, since the earliest experiments in the 1950s, the desire for a quality education and a more complete training, required by contemporary society. The teachers' comprehension about this form of school organization was seen as a prevailing aspect in the process of implementing this educational model. We intended to identify and understand the teachers' perception who works in curriculum workshops and the relationships that can be established with educational policies which ruled the implementation of this model aiming to educational quality. This qualitative research, featured as a case study, started in March 2011 and was developed in two full-time public schools in Campinas, through semi-structured interviews and document analysis. The results pointed to the fact of the perceptions of these professionals, regarding to the educational quality of workshops curricular, interfere in their pedagogical activities and demonstrate oscillation between the development of a differentiated work or remediation of teaching practices in the regular school hour. / O Projeto Escola de Tempo Integral foi implementado na rede estadual de S?o Paulo, no ano de 2006, por iniciativa do governo de estado. Tal processo contou com a publica??o de documentos oficiais, como as Diretrizes da Escola de Tempo Integral, que nortearam a implanta??o do modelo em unidades que atendiam em tempo parcial e passaram a ter jornada escolar ampliada. Consideramos que a escola de tempo integral representou, desde as primeiras experi?ncias na d?cada de 1950, o desejo de uma educa??o de qualidade e uma forma??o mais completa, exigida pela sociedade contempor?nea. A compreens?o dos professores sobre esta forma de organiza??o escolar foi observada como aspecto preponderante no processo de implanta??o desse modelo educacional. Procuramos identificar e compreender as percep??es dos professores que atuam nas oficinas curriculares de escolas de tempo integral e as rela??es que podem estabelecer com as pol?ticas educacionais que regeram a implementa??o desse modelo com vistas ? qualidade educativa. A pesquisa qualitativa, caracterizada como um estudo de caso, teve in?cio em mar?o de 2011 e foi desenvolvida em duas escolas estaduais de tempo integral no munic?pio de Campinas, por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas e an?lise de documentos. Os resultados apontaram para o fato de as percep??es desses profissionais, no que diz respeito ? qualidade educativa das oficinas curriculares, interferirem em sua atua??o pedag?gica e demonstrarem oscila??o entre o desenvolvimento de um trabalho diferenciado ou o refor?o das pr?ticas pedag?gicas do turno regular.

王麗佳. / "2013年8月". / "2013 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-310). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Wang Lijia.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:32:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Celia Borges Dalberio.pdf: 658758 bytes, checksum: ad71cd95c14d8ed1eb2ffd3f95ea6769 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The general objective of the present investigation consisted of knowing what was/is realized in the daily one of the Uberaba City schools about the Pedagogical-Politician Project and its interference in the teachers formation, in the democratic management, the active participation of the community school in the taking of decisions and, finally, in the conquest of the quality improvement of education and, therefore, in the adoption of a curriculum that favors more inclusive a school. The research on the PPP relations justifies itself for still not have been explored in locus and the problematic one chosen, in a context of more than one decade of experience. Our initial hypothesis was the PPP is a document that guides the routes and redirects the pedagogical practice pertaining to school, being able to accumulate the education quality. For the research accomplishment we guide us by the critical-dialectic perspective, a Paulo Freire perspective. Initially we made a bibliographical research, followed of a documentary research and, after that, we realized interviews with 52 educators of the Education Secretariat of Uberaba-MG, by means questions guided for a half-structuralized script. We evidence that it had a small advance in the democratic process of the municipal Uberaba schools; however, the participation is still shy and very incipient. The community insufficiently intervenes with the school life; it remains immobilized, without democratic conscience and inert by means of the politician indifference related to the education quality, a legal and legitimate right. The construction and the PPP experience had also insufficiently intervened with the teachers formation, education quality improvement and, therefore, with the curriculum redirecting and the reach of a more inclusive school. However, we continue believing the PPP can be capable to accumulate the education quality when assumed as proper project. As hopeful perspective we point the awareness and mobilization of the community, with respect to the collective and active participation with the public institutions and agencies to ask its rights and to act/to construct, together with the educators, a more human, emancipator, democratic school / O objetivo geral da presente investigação consistiu em conhecer o que foi/é realizado no cotidiano das escolas do Município de Uberaba-MG, com relação ao Projeto Político -Pedagógico e sua interferência na formação dos professores, na gestão democrática, na participação ativa da comunidade escolar na tomada de decisões e, por último, na conquista de a melhoria da qualidade de ensino e, portanto, na adoção de um Currículo que favoreça uma escola mais inclusiva. A pesquisa sobre as relações do PPP se justifica por não ter sido ainda explorada no lócus e na problemática escolhidos, num contexto de mais de uma década de experiência. Nossa hipótese inicial foi de que o PPP é um documento que orienta os rumos e redimensiona a prática pedagógica escolar, com poder para adensar a qualidade da educação. Para a realização da pesquisa nos orientamos pela perspectiva crítico-dialética, numa perspectiva freireana. Inicialmente fizemos uma pesquisa bibliográfica, seguida da pesquisa documental e, em seguida, realizamos entrevistas com 52 educadores da Secretaria de Educação de Uberaba-MG, mediante questões orientadas por um roteiro, semi-estruturado. Constatamos que houve pequeno avanço no processo democrático das escolas municipais de Uberaba, entretanto, a participação é ainda muito tímida e incipiente. A comunidade pouco interfere na vida da escola, pois permanece imobilizada, sem consciência democrática e inerte mediante o descaso político quanto à qualidade da educação, que é um direito legal e legítimo. A construção e a experiência do PPP pouco interferiram também na formação dos professores, na melhoria da qualidade de ensino e, portanto, no redimensionamento do Currículo e no alcance de uma escola mais inclusiva. Contudo, continuamos acreditando que o PPP, quando assumido como projeto próprio, pode ser capaz de adensar a qualidade de educação. Como perspectivas esperançosas apontamos a conscientização e mobilização da comunidade, para a participação coletiva e ativa junto às instituições e órgãos públicos, para cobrar os seus direitos e agir/construir, solidariamente com os educadores, uma escola mais democrática, humana e emancipadora

O ensino fundamental brasileiro passou por grandes transformações nos últimos trinta anos: o acesso foi praticamente universalizado, os municípios ganharam importância nas políticas educacionais, as instituições privadas se consolidaram, políticas de avaliação foram instituídas e a preocupação com a qualidade do ensino se tornou prioritária. O objetivo da presente dissertação é analisar essas transformações e retratar a situação atual do ensino fundamental. Para isso, a análise se concentrará na mesorregião Sul/Sudoeste de Minas, comparando-a a Minas Gerais e ao Brasil. A dissertação é composta por dois artigos. O primeiro deles adota uma visão mais ampla: ele apresenta as linhas gerais das mudanças no ensino fundamental em 1991, 2000 e 2010, em três níveis regionais (Brasil, Minas Gerais e no Sul/Sudoeste de Minas Gerais), em relação à expectativa de anos de estudo, taxa de frequência bruta e taxa de frequência líquida. Além disso, o artigo também fornece uma visão mais detalhada do ensino fundamental no Sul/Sudoeste de Minas em relação ao número de instituições de ensino básico, número de matrículas por dependência administrativa (federal, estadual, municipal e privada). Por sua vez, o objetivo do segundo artigo é investigar a relação entre gastos públicos e desempenho educacional, concentrando-se no ensino fundamental público municipal do Sul/Sudoeste de Minas Gerais. O primeiro artigo indicou que não há falta de escolas nem de vagas para os alunos, no entanto, há uma forte variação entre a quantidade de escolas e de matrículas dos municípios de pequeno e médio porte. Por sua vez, o segundo artigo indicou que a correlação entre despesas e desempenho escolar é fraca, o que indica que o processo ensino-aprendizagem não depende apenas da quantidade de recursos financeiros. De acordo com a metodologia empregada, os municípios de menor porte são mais eficientes. Portanto, os principais resultados do trabalhos são a constatação de que administrar os recursos aplicados à educação é tão ou mais importante que a quantidade despendida e que a mesorregião Sul/Sudoeste de Minas Gerais não se distância consideravelmente do padrão educacional público brasileiro. / Brazilian elementary education faced major transformations in the last thirty years: access to the education was practically universalized, municipalities gained importance in educational policies, private institutions were consolidated, evaluation policies were instituted and concern with the quality of education became a priority. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze these transformations and expose the current situation of elementary education in the country. In order to do so, the analysis will focus on the South/Southwest mesoregion of Minas Gerais, comparing it to Minas Gerais state and Brazil. The dissertation is composed by two papers. The first one adopts a broader view: it presents the main lines of changes in elementary education in 1991, 2000 and 2010, at three regional levels (Brazil, Minas Gerais and South/Southwest mesoregion of Minas Gerais) concerning the expected years of study and school frequency rate (both gross and net). In addition to that, the paper also provides a more detailed view of elementary education in the South/Southwest mesoregion of Minas Gerais concerning the number of basic education schools and number of enrollments per administrative dependency (federal, state, municipal and private). In turn, the purpose of the second paper is to investigate the relationship between public expenditures with education and educational performance focusing on municipal public elementary education in the South/Southwest mesoregion of Minas Gerais. The first paper found no shortage of schools or places for students, however there is a strong variation between the number of schools and enrollment of small-sized municipalities and the medium ones. On the other hand, the second paper showed that the correlation between expenditure and school performance is weak, indicating that the teaching-learning process does not depend exclusively on the amount of financial resources. According to the methodology employed, smaller municipalities are more efficient than medium and large ones. Therefore, the main results of the study are the observation that managing the resources applied to education is more important than the amount spent and that the South/Southwest mesoregion of Minas Gerais does not differ considerably from the Brazilian public educational profile.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SolangeMT_DISSERT.pdf: 1423299 bytes, checksum: 06c560710dc5a0166e9f2bf0e8adbf64 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-16 / The Expansion Plan of the Federal Network of Vocational Education foresees the construction of 860 new units of instruction until 2020, representing a strong growth against the 140 existing units prior to its disclosure by Federal Government of Brazil, in 2005. The Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology have been performing the expansion while experiencing the shortcomings and challenges of units still in development, created in previous phases of the Plan. The quality of the services of these institutions has been evaluated by the control bodies, which require the submission of performance indicators in annual management reports of institutions under their jurisdiction. In this context of expansion process, particularly, is desirable to identify possible changes in quality standards. Thus, this research was motivated by the following problem: there was difference in the performance of the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology after the inauguration of the first units of phase II of the Expansion Plan of the Federal Network of Vocational Education? This is an exploratory-descriptive, ex-post-facto, quantitative approach research, which aims to contribute to the knowledge of the impact of the expansion of the Federal Network. The data were collected from 12 indicators presented in management reports of 38 Federal Institutes through years 2007 to 2011 to evaluate the performances using descriptive statistical techniques. The indicators were analyzed in both consolidated and open manners by the following perspectives: country region, growth of instruction units and institutions origin. Was also performed a multivariate analysis of clusters in order to identify excellence groups of Institutes. The results showed differences in the expansion plan s development among Brazilian regions, both in terms of infrastructure and academic indicators, with better results in the Midwest and South, and that there are differentiated profiles of institutes as its origin, where the best quality indicators occur in those originated by integration of different educational institutions. Still, were identified two excellence groups, with emphasis on academic management, human resources and expansion / O Plano de Expans?o da Rede Federal de Educa??o Profissional prev? a constru??o de 860 novas unidades de ensino at? 2020, representando um intenso crescimento frente ?s 140 unidades existentes antes de sua divulga??o pelo Governo Federal, em 2005. Os Institutos Federais de Educa??o, Ci?ncia e Tecnologia v?m realizando a expans?o enquanto vivenciam as defici?ncias e os desafios das unidades ainda em desenvolvimento, criadas nas fases anteriores do Plano. A qualidade dos servi?os dessas institui??es tem sido avaliada pelos ?rg?os de controle, que requerem a apresenta??o de indicadores de desempenho nos seus Relat?rios de Gest?o anuais. No contexto da expans?o dos Institutos, em particular, deseja-se identificar poss?veis mudan?as os padr?es de qualidade. Assim, esta pesquisa foi motivada pelo seguinte problema: houve diferen?a no desempenho dos Institutos Federais de Educa??o, Ci?ncia e Tecnologia ap?s a inaugura??o das primeiras unidades da Fase II do Plano de Expans?o da Rede Federal de Educa??o Profissional e Tecnol?gica? Trata-se de uma pesquisa explorat?rio-descritiva ex-post-facto com abordagem quantitativa, que objetiva contribuir para o conhecimento do impacto da Expans?o da Rede Federal. Foram coletados os dados dos 12 indicadores apresentados nos Relat?rios de Gest?o dos 38 Institutos Federais nos anos 2007 a 2011, para avalia??o dos desempenhos atrav?s de t?cnicas de estat?stica descritiva. Os indicadores foram analisados de forma consolidada e aberta pelas seguintes perspectivas: por regi?o do pa?s, por crescimento de unidades de ensino e por origem das institui??es. Tamb?m foi realizada uma an?lise multivariada de clusters no intuito de identificar grupos de excel?ncia dentre os Institutos. Os resultados evidenciaram haver diferen?as no desenvolvimento do Plano de Expans?o entre as regi?es brasileiras, tanto no plano da infraestrutura quanto nos indicadores acad?micos, com melhores resultados no Centro-Oeste e Sul, e que h? perfis diferenciados de Institutos conforme sua origem, onde os melhores indicadores de qualidade ocorrem naqueles originados por integra??o de diferentes institui??es de ensino. Ainda, foram identificados dois grupos de excel?ncia, com ?nfase em gest?o acad?mica, de pessoas e de expans?o

This work deals with a comprehensive evaluation of private nursery schools included in the Register of School Legal Entities. The main research problem is the definition of pre- school facilities accredited by the Ministry of Education based on its comprehensive evaluation. The aim is to completely analyze selected preschool institution accredited by the Ministry and subsequently define the field of education with regard to the research assumptions based on laws, regulations, school government documents and documents selected institutions. The object of this work will be private nursery school accredited by the Ministry and will be subject to evaluation of the operation, ie the evaluation of the organization, control, staffing, content and form of education, educational environment and employee satisfaction school. We will analyze the work and the resources and procedures that must be achieved in order for the organization received accreditation. Subsequently, on the basis of a questionnaire we discover how employees organization meets the system operation or you against him in certain areas defined. Due to objective and comprehensive view we will use subsequent SWOT analysis system, which will set the strategy of the organization. The conclusion of this work we will try to affect the functioning...

The first cycle of quality assurance (QA) was conceptualised and developed between 2001 and 2004 as reflected in the policy documents of the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC). The HEQC as the national QA agency was created as the permanent sub-committee of the Council on Higher Education (CHE) to take care of the QA responsibility in 2001. The national QA agency had to operate within the divisions created in higher education under apartheid, which often created perceptions based on prejudice about the distribution of quality. The South African higher education landscape has been exposed to the first cycle of the Higher Education Quality Committee QA cycle during which conducted 34 institutional audits, accredited approximately 5000 new programmes, subjected 85 programmes to national reviews, trained approximately 550 institutional auditors and 1500 programme evaluators and conducted many workshops and training opportunities for higher education institutions (HEIs). The main aim posed by this study was to determine the response of HEIs to the recommendations in the HEQC audit reports. The sub-questions of the research are (i) What process was followed to develop the quality improvement plan? (ii) Who were the role-players in the development of the quality improvement plan? (iii) What influenced their actions in the development of the quality improvement plan? (iv) What value did the quality improvement plan development have for the institution? (v) How does the quality improvement plan fit into the comprehensive quality management system of the institution? To answer the research questions, interviews were carried out on six participants. The findings were that the primary research question has been addressed conclusively by the three institutions through the experience of participants. The responses indicate how they have embraced improvement at the respective institutions which in turn have grown as a result of the HEQC audit process. The conclusion was an in depth response to the recommendations in the audit reports, illustrating ownership of quality improvement plan processes within the institutions. From the results of the secondary research questions it is concluded that the participants’ responses provided the richness of the quality improvement plan process in the audit process. The responses reflected and confirmed the processes followed in developing the quality improvement plans and the role and influence of role- players in the quality improvement plan process. The responses reflected the value of this process and revealed how it had been incorporated into the comprehensive annual planning processes of the institutions. The study concludes that the participating institutions responded differently and effectively to the recommendations in the HEQC audit reports, with the improvement reflected in the manner and approach institutions displayed when responding to recommendations, reflecting systematic processes. Copyright / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Science, Mathematics and Technology Education / unrestricted

The universities have among their responsibilities, providing high quality education that benefits students, alumni, organizations and society in general.Alumni monitoring becomes an important source for curriculum feedback, assessing the quality of the training and their consistency with the requirements for professional performance in different companies. However, there are many difficulties in establishing and maintaining a relationship of mutual benefits between educational institutions and their alumni. In this article, a Model for Alumni Monitoring and Supporting is presented. The model was designed from a holistic, ensuring that all involved actors get benefits. The model has been validated and can be adopted and/or adapted by educational institutions to create or strengthen the relationship with their alumni. / Las universidades tienen, entre sus responsabilidades, ofrecer educación de calidad y que esta beneficie a sus estudiantes, graduados (egresados), a las organizaciones y en general, a la sociedad. El seguimiento a sus graduados, se convierte en fuente importante para la retroalimentación curricular, verificación de la calidad de la formación y coherencia con las exigencias para el desempeño profesional. Sin embargo, existe dificultad para establecer y mantener este vínculo para beneficio mutuo de instituciones educativas y graduados. El Modelo de Seguimiento y Acompañamiento a Graduados (SAG) que se presenta en este artículo, fue diseñado desde una perspectiva holística, asegura beneficios para los actores que en él se interrelacionan, ha sido validado y puede ser adoptado y/o adaptado por instituciones educativas para crear o fortalecer la relación con sus graduados. / As universidades têm entre as suas responsabilidades ofereçer uma educação de qualidade, e que a mesma beneficie aos seus estudantes, alumni, organizações e a sociedade em geral. O apoio aos seus alumni torna-se numa importante fonte de feedback do currículo, verificando a qualidade da formação e da sua coerência com os requisitos de desempenho profissional. No entanto, há dificuldade em estabelecer e manter esse relacionamento para o benefício mútuo das instituições de ensino e dos alumni. O Modelo de Monitoramento e Apoio aos Alumni (SAG), apresentado neste artigo, foi projetado a partir duma perspectiva holística, o qual garante os benefícios para os atores que interagem nele. O modelo SAG foi validado e pode ser adoptado e/ou adaptado por instituições de ensino para criar ou fortalecer o relacionamento com os seus alumni.