Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T13:54:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Danielton.pdf: 1927750 bytes, checksum: 3d3826581d7ff1775e395ef9ba879083 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-29 / Investigates the relationship between education, emancipation and barbarism, questioning whether the school evaluation is an obstacle to the achievement of an emancipatory Educa-tion. Theoretical nature research that addresses the topic from the philosophy of education. Based on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, particularly in adorner reflections on ed-ucation. Part of the hypothesis that, insofar as the school evaluations, through evidence, re-duce the ability of students to produce their own speeches are being themselves an obstacle to the achievement of an emancipatory education, because reducing the discursive capacity is a way to reduce also the ability to think independently. Objective to investigate if evaluations of learning applied in HEI's Brazil, in particular, have been targeted for the construction of the emancipation, analyzing a specific law course in IES São Luís, Maranhão capital. Methodo-logically develops from the approach of critical theory developing the search as follows. Pre-sents the transformations of emancipatory enlightenment due to instrumental reason, exposes the instrumental reason and the cultural industry transformed the emancipatory reason and instrumental reason serving as technical guidelines of domination and alienation of capital-ism. Exposes the Adorner's reflections on the relationship between education, emancipation and barbarism; presents its concerns about the need for education to be targeted to prevent that barbarism, which if expressed strongly by means of Nazism and Aushiwitz concentration camp, if repeat therefore to contribute to the realization of this project the education, must be oriented to emancipation. Analyzes the concept of school evaluation, showing its history, its features, functions, classification, and express analysis of the dialectical relationship of school evaluation with various other dimensions, such as the State, the labour market, the curriculum, within the context of today's Capitalism. Investigates whether the particular law school guides its school ratings in the form of evidence, more for an emancipatory project or barbarizante, from the analysis of statements of evidence applied in the course, the vision of students and teachers on the evaluations, presented through the result of data extracted from questionnaires with the directly involved in the evaluation process. Presents data, obtained through the appli-cation of questionnaires, which indicate understand most students that the evaluations imple-mented by teachers are more oriented towards barbarism, while the information presented by the Faculty allow you to infer something similar. Concludes that, from the analysis of extract-ed data in law school, field of study, the most commonly found type of evaluation in such an environment is of type barbarizante, becoming thus the evaluation of such an obstacle to the realization of an emancipatory Education. / Investiga a relação entre Educação, emancipação e barbárie, questionando se a avaliação es-colar é um obstáculo para a realização de uma Educação emancipatória. Pesquisa de natureza teórica que aborda o tema a partir da Filosofia da Educação. Fundamenta-se na Teoria Crítica da Escola de Frankfurt, em especial nas reflexões de Adorno sobre a Educação. Parte da hipó-tese de que, na medida em que as avaliações escolares, por meio das provas, reduzirem a ca-pacidade dos alunos produzir seus próprios discursos estarão sendo elas próprias um obstácu-lo para a realização de uma educação emancipatória, pois reduzir a capacidade discursiva é uma forma de reduzir também a capacidade de pensar autonomamente. Objetiva investigar se as avaliações de aprendizagem aplicadas em IES s brasileiras, em especial no Maranhão, têm sido orientadas para a construção da emancipação, analisando um Curso de Direito específico de uma IES na cidade de São Luís, capital do Maranhão. Metodologicamente desenvolve-se a partir do método de abordagem da Teoria Crítica desenvolvendo-se a pesquisa da seguinte forma. Apresenta as transformações da razão emancipatória iluminista em razão instrumental, expõe que a razão instrumental e a indústria cultural transformaram a razão emancipatória em razão técnica e instrumental, servindo assim às diretrizes de dominação e alienação do Capita-lismo. Expõe as reflexões de Adorno sobre a relação entre Educação, emancipação e barbárie; apresenta suas preocupações sobre a necessidade de a Educação ser orientada para evitar-se que a barbárie, que se expressou fortemente por meio do Nazismo e do campo de concentra-ção de Aushiwitz, se repita, pois, para contribuir na efetivação desse projeto a educação, deve ser orientada para a emancipação. Analisa o conceito de avaliação escolar, apresentando sua história, suas características, funções, classificação, além de expressar a análise da relação dialética da avaliação escolar com diversas outras dimensões, como o Estado, o mercado de trabalho, o currículo, dentro do contexto do Capitalismo hodierno. Investiga se o determinado Curso de Direito orienta suas avaliações escolares, no formato de provas, mais para um proje-to emancipatório ou barbarizante, a partir da análise de enunciados de provas aplicadas no curso, da visão dos alunos e professores sobre as avaliações, apresentada por meio do resulta-do de dados extraídos de questionários aplicados com os envolvidos diretamente no processo de avaliação. Apresenta dados, obtidos por meio da aplicação de questionários, que indicam entender a maioria dos alunos que as avaliações aplicadas pelos professores estão mais orien-tadas para a barbárie, enquanto que as informações apresentadas pelos docentes permitem inferir algo semelhante. Conclui que, a partir da análise dos dados extraídos no curso de Direi-to, campo de estudo, o tipo de avaliação mais frequente encontrada em tal ambiente é a do tipo barbarizante, tornando-se, assim, a avaliação desse tipo um obstáculo para a efetivação de uma Educação emancipatória.

The study is a critical investigation of social justice concerns in higher education policy in emerging democracies such as South Africa. The study focuses on three initiatives at the University of Pretoria as exemplary projects that address social justice concerns in order to redress the situation in post-apartheid South Africa. These initiatives are the Institute of Women and Gender Studies, IGWS, which attempts to achieve gender equality, eliminate patriarchal tendencies and unleash women‘s potentialities within the University of Pretoria; The Centre for the Study of HIV/AIDS which seeks to eliminate any discriminatory tendencies against University of Pretoria members who are living with HIV/AIDS and contribute meaningfully in reducing the scourge of the pandemic; and The University of Pretoria Foundation Year Programme, UPFY, which attempts to increase the participation rates of the previously disadvantaged in areas of scarce skills such as mathematics and science. The study seeks to share new insights into the limits of grand policy frameworks that promise much by way of social justice but deliver very little in real terms. This policy gap trajectory between intent and practice begins and ends at the University of Pretoria as a case study that provides important lessons for cognate institutions and other social structures. The study is further likely to contribute insights into how higher education can implement programmes so as to purportedly address and redress social injustices and inequalities when in essence; these programmes achieve little more than a public relations objective. The intent of this case study is to illuminate attempts, through various programmes, by higher education to address social justice concerns such as inequality and discrimination, and reflects the inadequacy of such efforts that are not developed within an institution‘s capacity in order to affect the existing institutional culture. In reflecting on the persistent policy challenges and the marginalisation of social justice agenda, the study points to the dominance of the neo-liberal discourse on a global and local scale and its manifestation in higher education in the form of commodification and marketisation. As a result, the study proposes the revival of a radical social justice agenda so as to mainstream social justice concerns in higher education and promote its emancipatory possibilities. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Education Management and Policy Studies / unrestricted

Cette recherche porte sur la gestion émancipatrice mise en œuvre par les entreprises sociales en vue de libérer leurs bénéficiaires –les populations «cibles » de leurs actions – de la pauvreté et de l’exclusion. Nous nous intéressons au cas particulier d’une entreprise sociale brésilienne, localisée dans la ville de São Paulo, dont la mission principale est de former des couturières et des artisans de quartiers populaires pour les intégrer au marché de la mode en tant qu’acteurs professionnels et autonomes. Reposant sur une étude ethnographique de près de dix-huit mois, cette thèse met en évidence la nature ambivalente des pratiques de gestion des entrepreneurs sociaux, en démontrant leurs effets à la fois libérateurs et oppressifs sur leurs bénéficiaires. En s’appuyant sur la théorie de l’émancipation développée par le pédagogue brésilien Paulo Freire, une référence décisive pour les entrepreneurs sociaux, cette thèse se propose de porter un regard critique sur le projet émancipatoire des entreprises sociales. Elle vise ainsi à apporter trois types de contribution à la littérature sur l’entrepreneuriat social. Sur le plan méthodologique, tout d’abord, cette étude met en avant la richesse d’une approche ethnographique interprétativiste et processuelle pour cerner toute la complexité des pratiques quotidiennes des entrepreneurs sociaux. Sur leplan théorique, ensuite, cette thèse replace au cœur du débat académique la question des relations entre entrepreneurs sociaux et populations locales, en faisant de ces dernières des acteurs centraux pour juger le potentiel émancipateur de l’entrepreneuriat social. Enfin, sur le plan de la pratique, cette étude propose de rénover la formation des entrepreneurs sociaux afin de redonner toute sa place aux thèmes du pouvoir et de ses déséquilibres, au sein du cursus des futurs praticiens de l’entrepreneuriat social / This research analyzes the emancipatory management implemented by social enterprises to free their beneficiaries – the “target” populations – from poverty and exclusion. This study focuses in particular on the case of a Brazilian social enterprise, located in the city of São Paulo, whose main mission is to train seamstresses and artisans from poor neighborhoods to integrate them into the fashion market as professional and autonomous actors. Based on an ethnographic study of nearly eighteen months, this thesis highlightsthe ambivalent nature of social entrepreneurs’ management practices, by demonstrating both their liberating and oppressive effects on beneficiaries. Based on the theory of emancipation developed by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, an essential reference for social entrepreneurs, this thesis proposes to take a critical look at the emancipatory project of social enterprises. It thus aims to bring threetypes of contribution to the literature on social entrepreneurship. First, methodologically, this study highlights the benefits of an interpretivist and processual ethnographic approach to identify the complexity of social entrepreneurs’ everyday practices. Second, with regards to theory, this thesis puts the relations between social entrepreneurs and local populations back at the center of the academic debate, making the latter key actors to assessing the emancipatory potential of social entrepreneurship. Finally, in terms of practice, this study proposes to renew the training of social entrepreneurs in order to prioritize the issue of power imbalances in the curriculum of future social entrepreneurship practitioners.

This thesis traces the inception and evolution of a combined collaborative action research project and living theory action research project. Six academic staff members attempted to improve our practice of generating locally relevant research in a university psychology clinic. This process impacted not only on the lives of the participants, but facilitated the enactment of the three tasks of universities and so influenced the lives of the student and residential communities to whom we had a responsibility. This thesis explores two research questions that formed the first part of the study, namely: “How can we improve the functioning of Itsoseng Psychology Clinic?” and “How can we increase our research output?” The second part of the study was a self-study action research project in which I examined my attempts to improve my academic practice by inquiring into my practice of facilitating the collaborative action research project as a peer support initiative. In the form of my living theory, this thesis therefore also explored my answers to the questions: “How can I facilitate a peer support research initiative?” and “How can I improve my academic practice through facilitating such an initiative?” I take a macro-level view of the relationship between a university and surrounding communities and discuss within the South African context three discernable mandates or tasks that universities fulfil: teaching, research and community engagement. I discuss the relevance of this study to psychology and specifically university psychology clinics as potential interface between the university and the surrounding community when enacting community engagement as the third academic task. I also discuss the implications of this study to action research methodology and the concept of transformation in emancipatory research. The main argument of my living theory of my academic practice is that the formation and nurturing of a regular, supportive and critical audience in the form of peer support research meetings contributed to the transformation of resources into assets when we worked towards improving the service delivery and local relevance of a university psychology clinic. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Psychology / unrestricted

Bakgrund: Öppenhet om psykisk ohälsa är något som har fått allt mer medial uppmärksamhet. Konceptet öppenhet är brett och innefattar flertal definitioner såsom transparens, som i att vara ärlig och inte gömma information, samt ett förhållningssätt som präglas av bland annat tolerans och förmågan att acceptera nya perspektiv och idéer. Öppenhet avhandlas i denna studie från perspektivet av sjuksköterskor med egen erfarenhet av psykisk ohälsa. Syfte: Denna studie syftar till att utforska sjuksköterskors upplevelser och erfarenheter av öppenhet gällande psykisk ohälsa samt att avtäcka öppenhetens meningsbärande enheter utifrån ett omvårdnadsperspektiv. Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ studiedesign med en fenomenologisk hermeneutisk forskningsansats. Information samlades in via semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i 3 övergripande teman: öppenhet som transparens, öppenhet som förhållningssätt och öppenhetens kraft och fundamentala växelverkan. Helhetstolkningen  visade att öppenhet är en förutsättning för all typ av medmänsklig interaktion och kommunikation. Att dela med sig av erfarenheter av psykisk ohälsa är transparens med intentionalitet kopplat till både strävan efter en bättre värld och ett sätt att visa omsorg. Helhetstolkningen mynnade ut i att sjuksköterskors öppenhet gällande egen erfarenhet av psykisk ohälsa i hög grad påverkades av upplevd stigma. Slutsats: Öppenhet har en inre självförstärkande kraft: öppenhet leder till öppenhet. Att dela med sig av egna erfarenheter av psykisk ohälsa ter sig har en stor potential i att skapa relationer präglade av ömsesidighet och medmänsklighet. Att bemöta med öppenhet är nyckeln till att ge transparensen en möjlighet att skapa en mer humanistisk och rättvis vård. / Background: Openness around mental health issues has gained increased media attention. The concept of openness is vast and includes multiple definition like transparency, as in to be honest and not hiding information, and also an approach characterized by, among others, tolerance and the ability to accept new perspectives and ideas. In this study openness is presented from the perspective of nurses with own experience of mental health issues. Aim: This study aims to explore nurses’ experiences and knowledge of openness regarding mental health issues and also uncover the meaning entities within the concept of openness from a nursing perspective. Method: The study uses a phenomenological hermeneutical method. Information was gained through semi-structured interviews. Findings: The analysis resulted in 3 main themes: openness as transparency, openness as an approach and the power and fundamental interactions of openness. The comprehensive understanding exposed openness as a postulate to all human interaction and communication. To share own experiences of mental health issues is transparency with intentionality including striving for a better world and mediate caring. The comprehensive understanding also indicated that nurses’ openness in sharing own experiences of mental health issues was impacted negatively by stigma experiences. Conclusion: Openness has an inner amplifying power: openness leads to openness. To share experiences regarding mental health issues appears to possess a great potential in creating relationships characterized by mutuality and compassion. To approach with openness is the key to give transparency the ability to create a more humane and just health care.

The purpose of this master thesis is to increase knowledge of facilitators´ and participants´ learning experiences in online drama. Semi-structured interviews with 14 informants were conducted. After that an analyzation based on Mezirow´s transformative learning theory was carried out. By using an abductive approach and a thematic analysis, the results show that the informants have experienced both opportunities and obstacles in learning. The opportunities that are being mentioned are around individual-, team-, and collective learning, methodology and technical developments. The obstacles that are being mentioned are within methodology and technical developments. Some examples that come up as both learning opportunities and learning obstacles are around time, amount of people and attention span, how to use the camera, accessibility and connection, bodily aspects, safety, security and confidentiality, knowledge, and possible bias around technical developments. To create learning opportunities in online drama, facilitators need to have instrumental learning around the methodology, setting, and what artefacts-, technical applications- and other technical features to use. Traumatic and embodied learning can create further learning opportunities that can lead to a transformation in online drama. Online drama can be viewed as an emancipatory education and a sustainable transformative pedagogy where mind, body and spirit can connect. The results are reasonably consistent with previous research. The discussion problematizes the need for further research to develop the domain of online drama further. / Syftet med detta examensarbete är att öka kunskapen om lärares och deltagares lärandeupplevelser inom online drama. Semistrukturerade intervjuer med 14 informanter genomfördes. Därefter analyserades resultaten utifrån Mezirow´s transformativa lärandeteori. Genom att använda ett abduktivt förhållningssätt och en tematisk analys visar resultaten att informanterna har upplevt både möjligheter och hinder i lärandet. De möjligheter som nämns handlar om individuellt, team- och kollektivt lärande, metodik och teknisk utveckling. De hinder som nämns finns inom metodik och teknisk utveckling. Några exempel som dyker upp som både lärandemöjligheter och lärande hinder är kring tid, antal människor som deltar och uppmärksamhetsförmåga, hur man använder kameran, uppkoppling, kroppsliga aspekter, säkerhet och konfidentialitet, kunskap och eventuell bias kring teknisk utveckling. För att skapa lärandemöjligheter i online drama bör lärare ha instrumentell kunskap kring metodiken, miljön, artefakter samt tekniska applikationer och funktioner. Traumatiskt och förkroppsligat lärande kan skapa ytterligare lärandemöjligheter som kan leda till en transformation av online drama. Online drama kan ses som en emancipatorisk utbildning och en hållbar transformativ pedagogik där sinne, kropp och själ sammankopplas. Resultaten överensstämmer relativt väl med tidigare forskning. Diskussionen problematiserar behovet av ytterligare forskning för att utveckla domänen online drama ytterligare.

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The evidence from the literature suggests that Information Technology adoption (IT) governance in organisations is still a challenge. The diversity of application and the ever-increasing use of IT results in making decisions on IT adoption a major challenge for organisations. The decision about using a particular technology from an organisational perspective is problematic since individual users have different worldviews. The implicit assumption in IT adoption literature is that stakeholders always reach consensus during IT adoption decision making in organisations. This study explored the existing models and frameworks in order to develop a preliminary improved IT adoption governance framework. This study used a case study sequential explanatory mixed methods research approach to validate the preliminary IT adoption governance framework. The first validation phase of the framework was done using a quantitative approach followed by the second validation phase based on qualitative interviews. The last validation was done after integrating the quantitative and qualitative results to produce the refined framework. The results suggest that the developed framework may improve IT adoption governance in organisations. The results showed that the framework components facilitate IT adoption governance in organisations. The results also suggest that the components have an association with each other except for the Technology Acceptance Model component. The results indicate that stakeholder participation and hard systems thinking components have a strong predictive impact on IT governance framework component perception in organisations. The study results suggest that IT adoption decision makers need to balance different stakeholders’ demands during IT adoption decision making in organisations. The framework helps in that regard by reconciling different stakeholders’ demands through collective IT adoption decision making. The strength of the framework is its integration of theories from various disciplines in understanding stakeholder expectations. On that basis the framework is in a better position to offer more insight into understanding challenges of IT adoption decision making than existing frameworks and models. The framework offers a potentially valuable basis for future research in IT adoption decision making in organisations. The results suggest that the framework may facilitate IT adoption in organisations using different components. / Information Science / D. Litt. et Phil. (Information systems)

Background: People who use illegal drugs are disproportionately affected by HIV and hepatitis C, stigmatization and social exclusion. Health inequities are worsened by drug policy of criminalization, which thwarts health promotion efforts and hinders access to services. To address these inequities, people who use drugs are increasingly included in decisions that affect them by sitting on policy, service delivery and research committees. This study addressed a gap in understanding how power inequities are transformed in committees where people who use drugs are at the table. Methods: In partnership with the Drug Users Advocacy League and the Society of Living Illicit Drugs Users, this participatory critical emancipatory inquiry explored power relations in four committees in Ontario and BC. Data were collected in 2013 through meeting observations, interviews, demographics surveys and document reviews. Data analysis was guided by theoretical frameworks grounded in critical theory and transformative learning theory. Results: Findings confirmed striking socioeconomic inequities between people who use drugs and others at the table. Inconsistent measures were taken by committees to alleviate barriers to inclusion. Despite openness to inclusion, committee members tended to underestimate people who use drugs. The presence of local organizations of people who use drugs ensured a more democratic selection of their representatives to sit on committees. Once at the table, creating a safe space entailed building trust, authentic relationships, relational and reflective dialogue, and skilled facilitation. Democratic practices of negotiated relationships and consensus-based decision-making enhanced meaningful inclusion. A structural environment in which drug policy criminalizes people who use illegal drugs hindered capacity to transform power inequities by feeding stigma, which worsens health and social inequities. Committees were committed to inclusion of people who use drugs though capacity to do so varied due to budgetary and human resources constraints. Study limitations, practice implications and future research directions are offered. / Graduate / 0700 / 0680 / lynnebel@uvic.ca

A presente dissertação de mestrado registra as atividades de pesquisa aplicada em três experiências de formação profissional da Construção Civil em diferentes escolas. Os trabalhos de pesquisa visam contribuir com as ações pedagógicas dialógicas inseridas nos três processos formativos. O objetivo dessas ações é a contribuição com a ampliação da autonomia, a emancipação coletiva e a liberdade dos educandos, no sentido da busca pela \'desalienação\' do trabalho que realizam. As ações pedagógicas dialógicas abordadas inserem-se nas: 1. Atividades de Formação Integral do Ser, e Organização da Produção da Construção Civil - experiências de elaboração de desenhos e projetos de construção e a problematização das condições de desigualdade social e exploração do trabalho - nos cursos de pintura, alvenaria, instalações elétricas e hidráulicas e decoração, da Escola Municipal de Ensino Profissional em Construção Civil / Madre Celina Polci, Prefeitura de São Bernardo do Campo, SP. 2. Atividades de aproximação do processo de produção da arquitetura - experiências de elaboração coletiva de projeto executivo de arquitetura e sua construção, com as próprias mãos, como parte do futuro espaço de apoio do Canteiro Experimental da escola - como exercícios da disciplina optativa \'Técnicas Alternativas de Construção\' do curso de graduação da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, SP. 3. Atividades de re-união e re-integração dos trabalhos de projeto e construção por meio da \'assembleia de obra\', como contribuição a formação dos integrantes da brigada de construção - composta por educandos da Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), brigadistas permanentes e coordenadores da ENFF, profissionais assentados convidados e coletivo de estudantes e profissionais de arquitetura e urbanismo da USP - para a reforma da casa da brigada permanente, \'casa do teto verde\' da Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes - Guararema, SP. As ações pedagógicas dialógicas demonstraram efetividade ao passo que, ao mesmo tempo em que eram apreendidas as diversas atividades profissionais da construção, ampliava-se, em graus variados, a compreensão dos educandos e egressos sobre os limites e barreiras impostas pelo Capital sobre a classe trabalhadora. Nesse sentido, é que se mantém a busca pela \'desalienação\' do trabalho, já que sua realização plena só será possível por meio de transformações sociais de ampla e irrestrita democratização dos direitos de acesso à apropriação, pela sociedade como um todo, dos produtos, dos processos e da fruição social resultantes do trabalho coletivo. / This master thesis describes the activities of research applied to three experiences of professional learning of Civil Construction in different schools. The research work is expected to contribute to the pedagogical actions dialogicaly inserted in the three formative processes. The purpose of these actions and contributions are the expansion of autonomy, collective emancipation and the freedom of the students, in the sense of a search for \'desalienation\' of the work they carry out. The pedagogical actions dialogical addressed are as: 1. Activities for \'integral formation of being\', and \'organization of production of Civil Construction\' - experiments in preparation of drawings and construction projects and the questioning of the conditions of social inequality and exploitation of labor - in courses in painting, masonry, electrical, hydraulic installations and decoration, at the Municipal School of Vocational Education in Civil Construction / Madre Celina Polci, Prefecture of São Bernardo do Campo, SP. 2. Activities of approximation of the production process of architecture - experiences of drawing up collective of executive project of architecture and construction, with their own hands, as part of the future area of support of Experimental Construction from the school - as exercises of optional discipline \'Alternative techniques of construction\" of the Graduate School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo, SP. 3. Activities of re-union and re-integration of the work of project and construction by means of \'house of work\', as a contribution to the training of members of the brigade of construction - composed by students of the National School Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), permanent brigadiers and coordinators from ENFF, professionals guests and collective of students and professionals from the architecture and urbanism school, USP - for the reform of the house of permanent brigade, \'house of green roof\' of the National School Florestan Fernandes - Guararema, SP. The pedagogical actions dialogical demonstrated effectiveness to the step that, at the same time that were seized the various professional activities of construction, it broadened, to varying degrees, the understanding of students and alumni on the limits and barriers imposed by capital on the working class. In this sense, and that remains the search for work \'disalienation\', now that its full realization is possible only by means of social transformation of broad and wide and unrestricted democratization of access rights to ownership, by the society as a whole of products, processes and social enjoyment resulting from the collective work.