The thesis concerns with the quality of life of the individuals with hearing impairment. The thesis is divided into four major parts consisting of subchapters. First major part focuses on general description of the sense of hearing, auditory analyser and difference between these two terms as well as on the classification of the individual auditory impairment types. The next part provides general description of life quality according to various criteria. The last theoretic part focuses on everyday life of aurally impaired individuals. This chapter specifically refers to education and employment of individuals with hearing impairment. A chapter relating to social environment and leisure time is also included. Theoretic part of my thesis is followed by the results of my survey. Two different questionnaires were used aiming at two different groups of survey respondents. Partial conclusions were drawn from each questionnaire survey. The questionnaires mentioned were elaborated in accordance with interdisciplinary division of life quality as well as with subjective perception of quality of life. Key Words: Quality of life Hearing impairment Subjective perception of one's life quality. Employment and education Social environment

Submitted by Maria Aparecida (cidazen@gmail.com) on 2017-08-22T12:35:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Pedro Brandão Neto.pdf: 938638 bytes, checksum: 79ae100045510d32510d4a705eee798f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-22T12:35:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pedro Brandão Neto.pdf: 938638 bytes, checksum: 79ae100045510d32510d4a705eee798f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-06-18 / FAPEMA / Distance Education environments, nowadays, provide means for learner evaluation. This task, still, requires effort of the teacher. So, the learner accompaniment in distance teaching-learning environments, obtained through the observation of the learner activities, it presents referring problems to the lack of mechanisms that offer an effective support to the teacher in the orientation for the learner. These existent mechanisms only present results to the teacher without to do any inference, like this, self teacher needs to analyze those results manually in search of subsidies to do a precise orientation, showing the possible causes and addressing the learner for the correct road. However, to dower a mechanism with inference capacity is necessary to capture the knowledge of as the teacher fulfills the leaner accompaniment for, later, to transfer this knowledge for a knowledge base with inference capacity. The necessary knowledge for the teacher to realize the learner accompaniment in a teaching-learning environment is the evaluation criterions that are defined by course pedagogic coordination or teacher of the teaching institution. However, those evaluation criterions are generic and not standardized hindering, therefore, the consent of the same; was realized a theoretical rising for the definition of the evaluation criterions in the NetClass environment. This research generated the knowledge on the development of a model denominated Learner Accompaniment Support Mechanism based on techniques of Artificial Intelligence, which is applied to the NetClass environment of teaching-learning. / Os ambientes de Educação a Distância, atualmente, proporcionam meios de avaliação de o aprendiz. Essa tarefa, de fato, ainda, exige muito esforço e empenho da parte do professor. Portanto, o acompanhamento do aprendiz em ambientes de ensino-aprendizagem a distância, obtida através da observação das atividades dos aprendizes, apresenta problemas referentes à carência de mecanismos que ofereçam um suporte eficaz ao professor na orientação para o aprendiz. Esses mecanismos existentes somente apresentam resultados ao professor sem fazer qualquer inferência, desta maneira, o próprio professor precisa analisar manualmente esses resultados em busca de subsídios para fazer uma orientação precisa, mostrando as possíveis causas e direcionando o aprendiz para o caminho correto. Entretanto, para dotar um mecanismo com capacidade de inferência faz-se necessário capturar o conhecimento de como o professor realiza o acompanhamento do aprendiz para, posteriormente, transferir este conhecimento para uma base de conhecimento com capacidade de inferência. O conhecimento necessário para o professor realizar o acompanhamento do aprendiz em um ambiente de ensino-aprendizagem são os critérios de avaliação que são definidos pela coordenação pedagógica ou professor do curso da instituição de ensino. No entanto, esses critérios de avaliação são genéricos e não padronizadas dificultando, portanto, o consenso do mesmo; foi realizado um levantamento teórico para a definição dos critérios de avaliação no ambiente NetClass. Esta pesquisa gerou o conhecimento sobre o desenvolvimento de um modelo de um mecanismo denominado de Mecanismo de Apoio no Acompanhamento do Aprendiz (MAAA) o qual é aplicado ao ambiente NetClass de ensino-aprendizagem.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NeriAOC_DISSERT.pdf: 1709539 bytes, checksum: 27ae09e0afabc1ceee7d9f41de835f98 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-07-22 / The networks terminology has been growing in different meanings, in which emergent structures coming from one not so recently typology aquired, in the 90 s, fluid shapes impelled by waves without borders of the New Information and Communication Technologies. Ever since, the pattern and the morphology are being multiply and strengthen. With this backdrop, this study deals with the Education for Environment Networks, as a political and social, educative and cultural alternative intervention, as an answer for some contemporary demands. But what are these networks? In wich way they organize themselves to germinate political actions? Where is the core of these actions? What are their limits or potentialities? These are some of the questions that are presented along the study proposed. Therefore, we have in view to unveil the network social and environmental pedagogic dimension, as an alternative proposal towards to the planetary cintzenship formation for persons and coletivity. The study employs the exploration reasearch as the analysis of the organizational reference basis and the dinamics of conections that support the dialogue among the groups that belong to the Education for Environment Networks. We conclude that the networks overcome themselves as a powerfull tool to articulate and moblize people. They establish a potential pedagogic act for political and social intervention, as an alternative proposal for the citizen formation and his world vision. We sinalize that the networks are sometimes limited by the poorness of knowledge that still remains on those who find themselves twisted on them, and on the decreasing optics by those who are absent. / A terminologia redes vem ganhando novos significados, onde estruturas emergentes oriundas de uma n?o t?o recente tipologia adquirem na d?cada de 90 formas fluidas impulsionadas pelas ondas sem fronteiras das Novas Tecnologias de Informa??o e Comunica??o (NTIC). Desde ent?o, o padr?o e a morfologia est?o se multiplicando e se fortalecendo. Com este pano de fundo, este estudo trata das Redes de Educa??o Ambiental, como alternativa de interven??o pol?tica e social, educativa e cultural, em resposta a algumas das demandas da contemporaneidade. Mas o que s?o estas redes? De que forma se organizam para germinarem a??es pol?tcas? Onde est? o cerne destas a??es? Quais seus limites ou potencialidades? S?o estas algumas das quest?es que apresentamos ao longo do estudo proposto. Para tanto, objetivou-se o desvelar da dimens?o pedag?gica socioambiental das Redes, enquanto proposta alternativa contribuinte para a forma??o da cidadania planet?ria de indiv?duos e coletivos. Empresta como refer?ncia de an?lise a pesquisa explorat?ria dos fundamentos organizacionais e as din?micas de conex?o que sustentam o di?logo dos grupos pertencentes ?s Redes de Educa??o Ambiental. Conclu?mos que as Redes superam como articuladoras e mobilizadoras de indiv?duos e coletivos. Instaura-se um potencial pedag?gico e de interven??o pol?tica e social, enquanto proposta alternativa para a forma??o do cidad?o e sua vis?o de mundo. Indicamos que operam por vezes de forma limitada devido ? insipi?ncia do saber que ainda perpetua nos que nela se enredaram e na ?tica descrente dos que nela se fazem ausentes.

Cette recherche s’inscrit dans une dynamique d’évaluation de la qualité et de l’applicabilité de l’ERE dans le programme scolaire des deux premiers cycles du niveau fondamental en Haïti, tout en tenant compte de ce qui se fait en France et au Canada (Ontario). Des comportements irresponsables à l’égard de l’environnement constituent des facteurs aggravants ayant des incidences directes sur l'ensemble de la population. La dégradation écologique accélérée de la République d'Haïti est une préoccupation majeure qui oblige à tourner le regard vers des actions plus concrètes et durables susceptibles de contribuer grandement à la résolution de ces nombreux problèmes. Ce constat impose une autre approche, une autre forme de pensée. Il s’agit d’orienter l’éducation et l’enseignement vers de nouveaux paradigmes incluant l’ERE consacrée par les instances internationales comme un outil important dans la résolution des problèmes environnementaux et dont la finalité est de créer des citoyens dotés d’une vraie conscience écologique. L’analyse des curricula des sciences à l’élémentaire des trois pays étudiés permet de constater que les systèmes scolaires s'orientent plus vers une éducation qui tend à transmettre et à faire acquérir des connaissances en ERE plutôt que de placer l'enfant dans un contexte réel d'apprentissage où il peut développer des rapports étroits avec l’environnement. Cette observation nous amène à interroger 50 responsables d’établissements scolaires et 212 enseignants des écoles fondamentales en Haïti sur leur vision, leurs connaissances et la place réservée à cette notion dans leurs planifications pédagogiques. Le résultat de l’analyse de ces données démontre une grande méconnaissance de la notion dans le milieu scolaire étudié et qu'en outre l’ERE vient élargir le fossé des inégalités scolaires déjà criantes en Haïti. / This research is part of a dynamics of quality assessment and applicability of education on the environment in the science curriculum in elementary Haiti, while taking into account what is being practiced in France and Canada (Ontario). The analysis of the content of curricula of experimental sciences of these three (3) countries has served to mark such an approach. Irresponsible behaviors towards the environment faced with serious problems are aggravating factors that directly affect the entire population. Accelerated environmental degradation of the Republic of Haiti is a major concern that requires to look for more concrete and lasting actions in order to greatly contribute to solving these numerous problems. These findings require a different approach, a different way of thinking. It is a matter of orienting education and teaching to new paradigms including education on the environment enshrined in international forums as an important tool in the resolution of environmental problems and whose aim is to create citizens endowed with genuine environmental awareness. The analysis of the sciences curricula of elementary schools of the three countries under study allows to see that the school systems are moving more towards an education which tends to transmit and to make acquire knowledge about EE for the environment instead of placing the child in the real learning environment where he may develop close relationships with the environment. This observation led us to interview 50 school officials and 212 teachers of the fundamental level in Haiti about their vision, their knowledge and the place reserved to this concept in their teaching schedules. The result of the analysis of these data shows great ignorance of the concept in the school environment under study and in addition to that EE just widens the gap of school inequalities already obvious in Haiti.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Educational Leadership / Sarah Jane Fishback / A new group of learners is emerging in the adult learning environment as a result of the United States being at war for more than 10 years. More than two million warriors served in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Educational institutions across the United States are experiencing growing numbers of students who are military combat veterans of the GWOT. These numbers will continue to grow as more of them transition back into life after combat. These students are arriving in class with varying levels of combat trauma experience and possibly Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), major depression, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or a combination of these and other difficulties. The purpose of this research was to learn from military veteran students how their combat experience affects them in the classroom. Specifically it looked at the types of combat experiences they have and the types of physical and mental effects they report experiencing while attending and participating in educational learning activities. This research h sought to gain insight into how combat experience influences the learning experience for GWOT military combat veterans who participate in an educational learning environment. It explored the types of experiences these students bring into that learning environment and how their participation in learning activities is affected.

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