Orientador: Ana Tereza Caceres Cortez / Banca: Sandra Elisa Contri Pitton / Banca: Tania Maria de Campos Leite / Resumo: A geração de resíduos em laboratórios de Instituição de Ensino Superior, em especial os químicos advindos das atividades de ensino e pesquisa, vem ao longo dos anos acumulando problemas de forma diversificada e proporcionalmente desordenada. Diante dessa realidade, o gerenciamento de resíduos em laboratórios de ensino e pesquisa tem um papel muito importante se consideramos que tais resíduos, no longo prazo, agridem de maneira considerável o meio ambiente e que essas instituições são, acima de tudo, unidades formadoras de profissionais, de modo que eles devem ser conscientizados da importância de se preservar o meio em que vivemos. Por tudo isso, esta pesquisa tem o objetivo principal de conhecer os resíduos gerados nos laboratórios do Instituto Federal do Piauí, oriundos das atividades de ensino e pesquisa; além disso, objetivamos também a identificação das atividades realizadas nos laboratórios e os materiais utilizados nas análises; levantamento do descarte em pia pelos alunos e docentes; caracterização e quantificação do resíduo passivo estocado dentro e fora dos laboratórios, entre outros. No que concerne ao gerenciamento de resíduos na instituição, não existe um gerenciamento sistemático dos resíduos, e estes recebem o mesmo manejo dos resíduos domiciliares, no caso dos resíduos sólidos; e os líquidos são dispostos na rede de esgoto da cidade. O conhecimento gerado subsidiará a elaboração de um plano de gerenciamento de seus resíduos, como também servirá de base para elaboração de planos de gerenciamento de outras instituições, além de direcionar políticas públicas de gestão desses resíduos no estado do Piauí e contribuir, não somente para educar ambientalmente os alunos e funcionários dessa instituição, mas a população de forma geral / Abstract: The generation of residues in laboratories of Higher Education Institution, especially the chemists that work with teaching activities and research, come over the years accumulating problems in a diversified and disordered way. Due to this reality, the administration of residues in teaching laboratories and research has a very important role if we considered that such residues, in a long-term, cause prejudice to the environment where they live. For all it was mentioned before, this research has the aim of knowing the residues generated at the laboratories of the Federal Institute of Education of Piauí, originating from the teaching and research activities. Besides, we also aimed at the identification of the activities accomplished in the laboratories and the materials used in the analyses; rising of the discard in sink for the students and teachers; characterization and quantification of the passive residue stocked inside and outside the laboratories, among other things. Concerning to the administration of residues in the institution, there is no systematic administration of the residues, and they receive the same handling of the home residues, in the case of the solid residues; and the liquids are disposed in the sewerage system of the city. The generated knowledge will subsidize the elaboration of plans of the institutions. Besides to address public politics of administration of those residues in the state of Piauí and to contribute not only to develop ecological sense in the students and employees of the Federal Institute of Education of Piauí, but for the population in general way / Mestre

Orientador: Célia Maria Guimarães / Banca: Lenira Haddad / Banca: Gilza Maria Zauhy Garms / Resumo: Esta pesquisa vincula-se à Linha de Pesquisa Práticas Educativas e Formação de Professores do Curso de Mestrado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Campus de Presidente Prudente/SP. O problema da pesquisa se originou em função de nossa prática docente, das observações e dos diálogos com companheiros de trabalho, que revelavam a possível não identificação com as atividades profissionais. O objeto de estudo é a identidade profissional de docentes da Educação Infantil, especificamente dos professores que atuam com crianças pequenas de zero a três anos de idade, em instituições de cuidado e educação. Tal pesquisa teve como finalidade identificar o perfil profissional e identitário dos professores de Educação Infantil que atuam com crianças de zero a três anos, no município de São Paulo, em um Centro de Educação Infantil. Assim, estabelecemos como objetivos específicos investigar, analisar e discutir as concepções que os professores têm sobre a criança pequena, o trabalho docente e a instituição de educação infantil, bem como apreender elementos constitutivos da formação identitária docente. Para tanto, a metodologia empregada configurou-se na abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa, do tipo etnográfico-estudo de um caso. Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados foram pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental, aplicação de questionários semiestruturado e aberto, tabulação, categorização e análise dos dados obtidos por intermédio da Análise de Conteúdo. O referencial teórico utilizado abrange autores que estudam e discutem temas relacionados à educação, educação infantil, identidade e identidade profissional... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research links to the Line of Educational Research and Practice Teacher Training of the Program of Postgraduate in Education, Masters Course, of the Faculty of Science and Technology - campus of Presidente Prudente / SP. The problem was originated in the search function of our teaching practice, the observations and dialogues with fellow workers, which revealed the possible failure to identify with the professional activities. The object of study is the professional identity of teachers of early childhood education, specifically for teachers who work with small children from zero to three years, in institutions for care and education. This research was intended to identify the professional identity of teachers and of education who work with small children from zero to three years in the municipality of São Paulo, in a Children's Education Center. Thus, we investigate how specific objectives analyze and discuss the concepts that teachers have on the child, the teaching and the establishment of early childhood education and seize evidence of the teacher identity formation. Thus, the methodology used is set in a qualitative approach to research, the type-ethnographic study of a case. The methodological procedures were adopted literature, documentary research, application of questionnaires and semi-open, tabulation, analysis and categorization of data obtained through the Content Analysis... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Diante das possibilidades que são oferecidas pelas tecnologias móveis, das intenções de uso que os indivíduos idealizam nas mesmas, e das realidades organizacionais peculiares, no momento das práticas e experiências de uso, podem surgir conflitos entre usuário e tecnologia. Ou seja, ao mesmo tempo em que a evolução das tecnologias traz o progresso elas criam paradoxos sociais que desafiam as pessoas nas esferas pessoal e social. Esta tese busca responder ao seguinte problema de pesquisa: Como os paradoxos de uso da tecnologia móvel se manifestam nas práticas sócio-materiais dos gestores de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior? Como objetivos específicos busca-se: a) Identificar o perfil de uso de tecnologia móvel dos gestores; b) Investigar os diferentes contextos móveis criados pelos usuários de tecnologia móvel advindos das práticas sócio-materiais de uso; c) Descrever as manifestações dos paradoxos de uso da tecnologia móvel vivenciadas pelos usuários; d) Identificar as estratégias criadas pelos usuários para gerenciar os paradoxos de uso da tecnologia móvel. Por meio de uma pesquisa qualitativa realizou-se um estudo de caso na Universidade Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA), uma Instituição de Ensino Superior (IES). Foram realizadas 28 entrevistas em duas etapas com 19 gestores, Diretores e Coordenadores Acadêmicos, da Instituição. Complementou-se a coleta de dados com observações diretas realizadas em reunião dos gestores. Foi possível identificar na Unipampa uma cultura de uso da tecnologia móvel, mais especificamente com relação ao notebook, parecendo haver uma regra implícita de que este deve ser carregado para todas as reuniões de trabalho, principalmente para aquelas que envolvem o deslocamento de uma cidade para outra. Aliado a isto, verifica-se um intenso uso do e-mail, indicando que a Unipampa é uma organização “dirigida” pelo e-mail. Os relatos indicam que o ritmo do trabalho se dá pelo fluxo de e-mails trocados entre as equipes, em que a condução dos tempos das demandas, acaba por vezes sobrecarregando os gestores. Os variados contextos móveis que emergiram neste estudo revelam que os gestores criam e recriam estes contextos de acordo com seus ritmos e preferências, os quais vão guiar as práticas de uso da tecnologia móvel. Os contextos móveis criados pelos gestores evidenciam que aqueles acontecem, principalmente, em função da intenção do usuário em “encurtar” ou “alongar” o tempo, dado o envolvimento do usuário nas tarefas. Constatou-se que grande parte dos paradoxos são sentidos independentemente do uso da tecnologia móvel ser o notebook ou o smartphone, mas sim em função do e-mail. Este passa a ser então o determinante para a formação de contextos móveis a partir das diferentes práticas sóciomateriais de uso, revelando assim que, os paradoxos não são somente característicos da tecnologia móvel em si, mas sim da ferramenta de comunicação e-mail. A maioria das estratégias busca lidar com o paradoxo Liberdade X Escravidão, em que o conflito entre estar livre, porém, sempre disponível e conectável para as pessoas parece ser o mais combatido. Este conflito é gerenciado por meio de estratégias de resistência como distanciamento, ignorar, suspensão, negligência, ou refutar a tecnologia móvel. / Given the possibilities that are offered by mobile technologies, the intentions of individuals who use the same idealize, and organizational realities at the time of the practices and experiences of use, conflicts may arise between users and technology. That is, while the evolution of technology brings progress they create social paradoxes that challenge people in personal and social spheres. This thesis aims to answer the following research problem: How the paradoxical use of mobile technology is manifested in the sociomaterial practices of managers in a Higher Education Institution? Specific objectives aims to: a) identify the usage profile of mobile technology managers; b) Investigate the different mobile contexts created by users of mobile technology arising from sociomaterial practices of use; c) Describe the manifestations paradoxes of the use of mobile technology experienced by users; d) Identify the strategies created by users to manage the paradoxes of use of mobile technology. Using a qualitative study we performed a case study at the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), a Higher Education Institution (HEI). Twenty eight interviews were conducted in two stages with 19 managers, Directors and Academic Coordinators, of the Institution. We complemented the collection of data with direct observations made at a meeting of managers. It was possible to identify a mobile technology use culture in the Unipampa, specifically to notebook, there seems to be an unwritten rule that it must be loaded for all meetings, especially for those involving the displacement from one city to another. Also, there is an intensive use of e-mail, indicating that Unipampa an organization is “directed” by e-mail. Reports indicate that the pace of work is given by the flow of e-mails exchanged between the teams, in which the driving demands of the times, just sometimes overloading managers. The various mobile contexts that emerged in this study reveal that managers create and recreate these settings according to your preferences and rhythms, which will guide the practices of use of mobile technology. The mobile contexts created by managers show that those happen, mainly as a function of user intent to “shorten” or “lengthen” the time given user involvement in tasks. It was found that most of the paradoxes are felt regardless of the use of mobile technology to be the notebook or smartphone, but according to the email. This then becomes the determining factor for the formation of mobile contexts from different sociomaterial practices of use, thus revealing that the paradoxes are not only characteristic of mobile technology itself but the communication tool email. Most search strategies to deal with the paradox Freedom X Slavement in the conflict between being free, however, always available and connectable to the people seems to be the most fought. This conflict is managed through strategies of resistance as distance, ignore, suspension, neglect, or refute mobile technology.

The four year nursing programme is offered at the NEI in the EC province where this study was conducted. As early as 2009 the majority of first and second year nursing students of the NEI were academically unsuccessful in the subject biological science. This prompted the researcher to conduct a qualitative, contextual, exploratory and descriptive study to explore and describe the factors influencing the academic performance of students in the subject biological science at the NEI. Following an explanation of the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process as the framework of the study and the purpose of the study, the consecutive sample of second year nursing students who consented to participate completed a written appreciative interview schedule. The findings of the content analysis process revealed factors influencing performance in the subject biological science as biological science content, nurse educator characteristics, study strategies, resources and biological science assessments. The recommendation was for all the stakeholders to play their various active roles towards influencing biological science performance positively. / Dissertation (MCur)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Nursing Science / unrestricted

As nursing is a practice-based profession it is essential that pre-graduate students are socialised in the clinical learning environment from the start of their training. Consequently, clinical accompaniment is regarded as a vital component of nursing training to offer the necessary support to pre-graduate students. This study aimed to evaluate clinical accompaniment of pre graduate students in a specific Nursing Education Institution (NEI) in Gauteng as part of the four year comprehensive programme by means of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). The AI approach focuses on the positive aspects of an organisation and aims to enhance what could and should be valued rather than focusing on the problems. A qualitative, contextual, explorative and descriptive research design was utilised. Data was collected from second-, third- and fourth-year comprehensive programme pre-graduate nursing students in a specific NEI by means of semi-structured self-report interview guide. The data was analysed according to the four objectives of this study, guided by the 4-D cycle of AI, utilizing content analysis and verified by the co-coder. The results were categorized into four main themes. For the first objective, “the best of what is”, nurse educator support, registered nurse support, students’ professional development, and multidisciplinary team members’ support, were themed. The second objective intended to enhance the best of what is by indicating “what could be” the ideal clinical accompaniment. The third objective indicated “what should be” addressed during clinical accompaniment to move towards excellence and enhance the clinical learning experiences of students and the following themes emerged: inadequate support from nurse educators, lack of resources, inadequate support from registered nurses, and disregard for student status. The respondents recommended “what must be” as an action plan to enhance clinical accompaniment based on the findings, and the following themes emerged: nurse educator’s responsibility, registered nurse’s responsibility, and availability of resources for students. / Dissertation (MCur)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Nursing Science / unrestricted

Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl / The purpose of this study was to investigate plagiarism among undergraduate students at a higher education institution in South Africa. There is evidence from previous studies that plagiarism is increasing world wide among higher education students. The emergence of the Internet has made plagiarizing worse as students can easily copy and paste information from the World Wide Web. This study investigated the occurrence, causes and trends of plagiarism among students in the Faculty of Applied Science at a higher education institution. It also examines student awareness of institutional policies and guidelines regarding plagiarism. / South Africa

Submitted by Haroudo Xavier Filho (haroudo.xavierfo@ufpe.br) on 2016-04-08T16:38:22Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertacao Germana 18-10-15 Revisado VF.pdf: 2048112 bytes, checksum: dd04d156d9d2639b2c07583f75448ee2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-08T16:38:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertacao Germana 18-10-15 Revisado VF.pdf: 2048112 bytes, checksum: dd04d156d9d2639b2c07583f75448ee2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-26 / Com a transição da Administração Pública Burocrática para a Administração Pública Gerencial, o setor público tem passado por mudanças que reforçaram a necessidade de estudos sobre seus servidores. O novo perfil destes servidores, constituído a partir da profissionalização da burocracia e da instituição da seleção meritocrática e universal, tem preocupado os gestores no que tange ao fenômeno da rotatividade de pessoal, principalmente em decorrência da motivação dos servidores em relação ao trabalho. Diante deste panorama, definiu-se como objetivo geral da pesquisa verificar os aspectos motivacionais que impactaram no desligamento voluntário dos servidores estatutários (docentes e técnicos administrativos) da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, no período de 2010 a 2013. E para o alcance deste objetivo foram estabelecidos quatro objetivos específicos: a) traçar o perfil dos servidores que se desligaram voluntariamente da UFPE no período de 2010 a 2013, realizado a partir de dados disponibilizados pela Pró-Reitoria de Gestão de Pessoas e Qualidade de Vida da UFPE; b) calcular a taxa de rotatividade de pessoal nos setores da UFPE, a partir do número de desligamentos voluntários, no período de 2010 a 2013; c) identificar os principais fatores que influenciaram os servidores da UFPE a solicitar desligamento, a partir da análise de sua motivação para o trabalho, à luz da Teoria de Victor Vroom, realizado a partir de questionários aplicados a servidores que se desligaram da UFPE no período do estudo, com base na revisão de literatura e na Teoria da Expectativa; e d) verificar a percepção de gestores de pessoal da UFPE acerca da rotatividade de servidores na instituição, realizado a partir de questionários aplicados a gestores de pessoal da PROGEPE/UFPE. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de natureza quantitativa e qualitativa, que utilizou a estatística descritiva e a análise de conteúdo, tendo a UFPE como estudo de caso. A partir de seus resultados, foi constatado o baixo nível de satisfação com o trabalho dos servidores que se desligaram da UFPE, endossando a relação inversa entre satisfação e probabilidade de desligamento voluntário. Foi observado também que as principais causas para o desligamento de pessoal da UFPE são referentes às questões financeiras, quais sejam: salário e benefícios e plano de cargos e carreiras; entretanto, foram apontados alguns fatores que podem ser melhorados em decorrência de ações desenvolvidas pela UFPE, tais como: condições do local de trabalho; ambiente de trabalho/ clima organizacional; melhoria na alocação de servidores ingressantes na instituição; criação de canais de comunicação com servidores e candidatos a concursos da UFPE, entre outros. / With the transition of Bureaucratic Public Administration to Managerial Public Administration, the public sector has undergone changes reinforcing the need for studies about their government employees. The new profile of these employees, built from the professionalization of the bureaucracy and the institute of universal and meritocratic selection, has worried managers with regard to staff turnover phenomenon, mainly due to the motivation of employee in relation to work. With this conjuncture, it was defined as a general objective of the research verify the motivational aspects that impacted on voluntary resignation of statutory employees (teachers and administrative technician) of the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, in the period 2010 to 2013. And to achieve this objective were established four specific objectives: a) to trace the profile of employees who left voluntarily the UFPE in the 2010 to 2013 period, held from data provided by the Pró-Reitoria de Gestão de Pessoas e Qualidade de Vida – UFPE; b) calculate the staff turnover rate in the sectors of UFPE, from the number of voluntary resignation in the 2010 to 2013 period; c) identify key factors influencing the UFPE servants to request resignation from the analysis of their motivation for the job, according to the Theory of Victor Vroom, held from questionnaires given to servants who left the UFPE in the period the study, based on literature review and Expectancy Theory; d) verify the perception of UFPE personnel managers about the turnover of servants in the institution, held from questionnaires given to personnel managers PROGEPE/UFPE. It is an exploratory research, quantitative and qualitative, which used descriptive statistics and content analysis, having UFPE as a case study. From their results, it was found the low level of satisfaction with the work of the servants who left the UFPE, endorsing the inverse relationship between satisfaction and likelihood of voluntary resignation. It was also observed that the main causes for personal shutdown of UFPE are related to financial matters, namely: wages and benefits and plan for jobs and careers; however, it was pointed out some factors that can be improved as a result of actions taken by UFPE, namely: workplace conditions; work environment / organizational climate; improvement in the allocation of incoming servers in the institution, creation of channels of communication with servers and candidates in competitions of UFPE , among others.

The aim of this study was to determine the quality of work-life (QWL) of nurse educators at South African universities. The objectives of the research was to describe the demography, home, and work factors of these nurse educators, and its effect on their experience of QWL. It also entailed triangulation of these experiences with the perceptions of the heads of nursing departments (HODs) for a thorough understanding, and designing guidelines to address the situation. A mixed methods methodology was followed, with a partly mixed sequential equal status sampling design and equal weight to the first quantitative and second qualitative phases. The population for the first phase was all the nurse educators teaching at South African universities, who on invitation completed an electronic questionnaire. The data obtained was analysed by utilising both descriptive and inferential statistics. The population for the second phase was all the HODs of the nursing departments of the 22 South African universities. The qualitative data obtained in the second phase was analysed with the Atlas.ti 8 program. The results of the study indicate that nurse educators’ QWL is influenced by meso, macro and micro environmental factors, with work, home and individual situations that are contextual to the African and specifically South African positioning on the globe. A conceptual framework improving on Easton and Van Laar ‘s (2007) model are v proposed for the African higher education edcuation (HEI) context, to better understand these influences. Recommendations to address the situation include: • Mitigation of international, national and provinical influences through attention to curriculisation and improved governance and funding • Strengthening the structure across the HEIs by improved governance, consideration of salaries and benefits of all staff to be fair and equal, investing in good technology for better output, developing methods to distribute the workload fairly, and support to staff for research • Support of nursing departmental output by addressing the needs of HODs, line managers, the nurse educators themselves, supportive staff and students, with the focus on personal and individual factors that influence physical, mental and social health, inclusive of the support of family life The developed guidelines flows from application of industrial psychological principles to propose improving both the QWL and symbiotically, the output for HEI nursing departments. / Health Studies

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This research project explored the learning experiences of two groups of first-year students in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of the Western Cape during the course of 2009/2010. The aim was to obtain insight into the learning challenges that these students encountered and the reasons why some of them were less successful in the learning process, while others were successful. The perspective of this study was therefore student centred. The project was undertaken against the backdrop of a higher education institution that caters mainly for so-called 'disadvantaged' and 'underprepared' students. Such students come predominantly from marginalised and poorly resourced education environments and socio-economic backgrounds, which suggests that they would find higher learning challenging and, as a result, would most likely experience failure in the learning process. The objective of the research project was two-fold: firstly, to identify and determine which factors have an impact on failure or successful completion of the first year of study in this faculty; and secondly, to derive from the data a socially situated, supportive and holistic learning approach that could assist more students to be successful in the learning process. The argument in the study was that learning is socially situated and constructed. To realise the objective, Vygotsky's social cultural theory and Bandura's social cognitive theory were used as theoretical orientation of the study. This qualitative, interpretive inquiry was characterised by multiple data collection methods. Qualitative data concerning the perceptions of the participants were generated via written reflective pieces, a questionnaire and individual interviews and content analysis. In addition, quantitative data were collected and this further contributed to the triangulation of rich, in-depth data. An 'open coding' strategy for the content analysis was used, but the approach for the analysis was not purely inductive. A student-centred analytical framework based in part on theories and findings of five studies conducted on student learning, failures and dropouts, and the context of UWC as HSU served as a framework for the analysis but new subthemes also emerged from the data collected The results of these two Case studies revealed that some of the students experienced multiple learning challenges simultaneously which increased in severity during the course of the academic year, and that, in Case 1, these challenges became too overwhelming and severe for the students and that was why they were less successful; while in Case 2, the students managed to overcome and deal with these challenges successfully. The findings of this project, while specific to the context in which it was undertaken, contribute to the growing body of knowledge in the field of higher education and in the identification of enabling factors that could assist more students to be successful in their first year of study at a higher education institution. The findings provide guidelines for a socially situated, supportive and holistic learning approach that could help higher education institutions to mitigate the cumulative effects of learning on students' personal, academic and social lives.

Thesis(M.Com.(Human Resource Management)) -- University of Limpopo, 2019 / The general aim of this study is to determine the relationship between organisational culture, job satisfaction and turnover intention at an institution of higher education in South Africa. A quantitative, cross-sectional survey design was used in which self- administered questionnaires were utilised to collect data from a convenience sample of 198 participants. The respondents comprised mainly of the academic employees of the institution. Descriptive and inferential statistics including correlation and regression analyses were conducted. The data was collected using three different structured questionnaires. The findings indicated that there is a positive relationship between the dominant organisational culture and job satisfaction. There is a significant negative relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention. This study recommended that every institution should figure out the effective retention strategies which may have the most impact on their employees and find ways to improve employee job satisfaction. / National Research Foundation (NRF)