<p>The study&rsquo / s main starting premises is that there is a disjuncture between the rich educational engagements of these students in their environmental space and how their learning practices are framed, informed and positioned in the institutional space. My study is underpinned by an interpretivist paradigm in terms of which I set out to describe and understand the meanings that the student respondents assign to their learning practices when they are involved in discursive practices of speaking, knowing, doing, reading and writing. Qualitative research instruments: field notes, participant and non-participant observations and formal and informal interviews were used in order to answer my research question and achieve the desired research aims of this thesis. The findings are presented in a narrative format after deriving at categories and themes using narrative analysis. Finally, my research shows how these students are positioned in and by their lived spaces (whether environmental or institutional) in specific ways, and they, based on their own resources, networks and interactions, and by exercising their agency, actively construct their own spaces of learning. I describe these active constructions by these students as their &lsquo / conceptual space of learning&rsquo / to highlight the complex ways in which they go about to establish their learning practices in their lived spaces. The study provides an analysis of the basis upon which each of these four students go about constructing their learning practices.</p>

The current political dispensation in South Africa has, as was the case in the past, undoubtedly had a major influence on the language patterns of the country. The 1996 Constitution now provides official recognition of the main indigenous languages. Despite this entrenchment, there is evidence that English is seen as the vehicle to the future. This study focuses on the factors that may influence the learning and teaching of Afrikaans as a second additional language in black schools in the Potchefstroom district. In order to achieve this task, a triangulation approach was used. A literature study was done to provide prior information to understanding the current language situation. Interviews were conducted with the respondents as well as the teachers of Afrikaans and the classes were observed and recorded. Questionnaires followed which were completed by the learners as well as their teachers. The objectives of the empirical study were to determine which factors might influence the teaching and learning of Afrikaans as an additional language for both the learners and the teachers, as well as to determine what the implications of such findings for the teaching and learning of Afrikaans as an additional language are. The findings of this study confirm the influence of several factors (socio-political, socio cultural and individual) on Afrikaans. The results indicated that there is a positive attitude towards Afrikaans and that the learners are eager to learn Afrikaans. What is clear, is that it is imperative to take note of these factors to guide the learners towards self regulated study, especially Afrikaans as an additional language. The results also revealed that the education of the teachers need to be addressed to prevent irrevocable damage to Afrikaans and to the relationships between the diverse cultures in our country. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

Submitted by Daniele Cristina Godoy (dani.god@uol.com.br) on 2018-08-03T01:40:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ultima versão com a ficha.pdf: 3431595 bytes, checksum: c3c2eab7b0c45902572a0640010feb63 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Sulamita Selma C Colnago null (sulamita@btu.unesp.br) on 2018-08-03T13:44:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 godoy_dc_dr_bot.pdf: 3431595 bytes, checksum: c3c2eab7b0c45902572a0640010feb63 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T13:44:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 godoy_dc_dr_bot.pdf: 3431595 bytes, checksum: c3c2eab7b0c45902572a0640010feb63 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A crise contemporânea da medicina e os desafios à educação médica tem sido objeto de um grande debate internacional nas últimas décadas. Dentre estes desafios destacam-se a desumanização da prática, a fragmentação do cuidado médico individual e a desigualdade de acesso a atenção à saúde. Diante deste contexto têm se recomendado inúmeras medidas de mudança da formação médica para superar tais problemas dentre as quais uma maior aproximação desta formação com os sistemas públicos de saúde. A estruturação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) no Brasil, ainda que tardiamente, vem produzindo uma nova agenda de reorientação da formação profissional a partir de programas, do Ministério da Saúde e da Educação, de incentivo à mudança das graduações das profissões da saúde. A Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (FMB), com uma longa trajetória de ensino médico na comunidade vem participando dos referidos programas de incentivo à reestruturação do ensino médico. Dentro deste escopo de mudanças foi criado o Programa Interação Universidade-Serviços-Comunidade (IUSC) em 2003. Em seu desenvolvimento estruturou-se como um conjunto de disciplinas dirigidas à graduação em medicina e enfermagem, tendo como cenário de ensino-aprendizagem o território, equipamentos públicos, em especial as unidades básicas de saúde, e instituições comunitárias. As práticas destas disciplinas se desenvolvem orientadas pela metodologia da problematização e pelas concepções da humanização da prática e a integralidade do cuidado. Este estudo tomou como campo a disciplina IUSC III, ministrada aos alunos do 3º ano de graduação médica, que tem como atividade principal a consulta médica supervisionada e orientada pela concepção da “Clínica Ampliada”. Para alcançar seu objetivo de “desenvolver competências e habilidades para a atenção e promoção da saúde da comunidade” a IUSC III tem como estratégias pedagógicas: o vínculo longitudinal, o uso de roteiro de “anamnese ampliada”, discussões de casos com diferentes profissionais dos serviços de saúde e o uso de diário de campo. Esta pesquisa se propõe a reconhecer a prática de professores-tutores e alunos no processo de ensino-aprendizagem da Clínica Ampliada na Atenção Primária à Saúde, mediante estudo etnográfico do cotidiano desta disciplina. O campo desenvolveu-se durante 14 meses por meio de estudo bibliográfico e documental e observação participante com registro em diário de campo dos seguintes momentos: módulo de introdução, atividade de observação e reconhecimento da unidade de saúde pelos alunos, consulta médica supervisionada, reuniões de discussão de casos, supervisão clínica e reuniões da coordenação da disciplina com os professores-tutores. A partir da análise dos diários de campo e do estudo documental e bibliográfico das estratégias pedagógicas da IUSC III elaborou-se uma descrição densa do seu cotidiano, mediante diálogo com o referencial da Clínica Ampliada e estudos do trabalho médico e da Clínica. O estudo mostra a potência das estratégias pedagógicas para o desenvolvimento de um olhar ampliado do aluno sobre as necessidades de saúde dos usuários. Em que pese a significativa receptividade dos alunos a uma disciplina de prática clínica na qual o aluno tem um papel ativo já no terceiro ano, parte deles mostram-se resistentes à produção de narrativas dos encontros clínicos. A experiência da clínica na atenção primária é desafiadora para os alunos, diante de uma demanda que se coloca numa fronteira entre os problemas da vida e o diagnóstico bem definido, a qual se soma a ambiguidade e a incerteza do próprio conhecimento e da prática médica. A análise desta experiência de alunos e professores-tutores com o ensino da Clínica Ampliada na Atenção Primária à Saúde, embora ocupe um pequeno espaço no currículo, mostra-se fértil para a reflexão sobre o ensino médico e possíveis caminhos e estratégias para a mudança da graduação. Palavras-chave: Educação Médica; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Clínica Ampliada; Pesquisa Etnográfica; Estratégias Pedagógicas para o Ensino. / The contemporaneous crisis in the medicine and the challenges to the medical education have been issue for a huge international debate in the last decades. Among those challenges, there are some highlights: practice dehumanization, the individual health care fragmentation and the inequality of access to health care. In the light of this context, it has been recommended several measures to change medical training, in order to overcome such problems, among which, a closer approximation of this training with the public health systems. The structuring of the Unified Health System (SUS) in Brazil, although late, has been producing a new reorientation schedule of professional training from programs of Ministry of Health and Education, of incentives to change the graduations of the health professions. The Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu (FMB), with a long history of medical education in the community has been participating of the before mentioned programs of incentive to the restructuring of medical education. Within this scope of changes, the University-Services-Community Interaction Program (IUSC) was created in 2003. In its development, it was structured like a set of disciplines directed to undergraduation in medicine and nursing, having as teachinglearning scenario the territory, public facilities, especially basic health units, and community institutions. The practices of these disciplines are developed guided by the problematization methodology and by the conceptions of the practice humanization and the integrality of care. This study took as a field the discipline IUSC III, given to the students of the 3rd year of medical undergraduation, whose main activity is supervised medical consultation and guided by the design of the "Expanded Clinic". To achieve its goal of "developing skills and abilities to care for and promote community health" IUSC III has as pedagogical strategies: the longitudinal link, the use of the "extended anamnesis" script, case discussions with different health professionals and the use of field diaries. This research proposes to recognize the practice of professors and students in the teaching-learning process of the Expanded Clinic in Primary Health Care, through an ethnographic study of the daily life of this discipline. The field was developed during 14 months by means of bibliographical and documentary study and participant observation with record in field diary of the following moments: introduction module, observation activity and health unit recognition by the students, supervised medical consultation, case discussion meetings, clinical supervision and coordination meetings of the discipline with the professors. From the analysis of the field diaries and the documentary and bibliographic study of IUSC III pedagogical strategies, a dense description of his daily life was elaborated through dialogue with the framework of the Expanded Clinic and studies of the medical and clinical work. The study shows the power of pedagogical strategies for the development of a broader student’s view about the health needs of the users. Besides the significant receptivity of the students to a discipline of clinical practice in which the student has an active role already in the third year, part of them are resistant to the production of narratives from clinical encounters. The clinical experience in primary care is challenging for students, faced with a demand that is placed on a border between the problems of life and the well-defined diagnosis, Abstract which adds to the ambiguity and uncertainty of knowledge itself and medical practice. The analysis of this experience of students and professors with the teaching of the Expanded Clinic in Primary Health Care, although takes just a little space in the curriculum, it is fertile for reflection on medical teaching and possible paths and strategies for graduation change. / CAPES: 024/2010-40

Orientador: Rosamaria Giatti Carneiro / Abstract: The contemporaneous crisis in the medicine and the challenges to the medical education have been issue for a huge international debate in the last decades. Among those challenges, there are some highlights: practice dehumanization, the individual health care fragmentation and the inequality of access to health care. In the light of this context, it has been recommended several measures to change medical training, in order to overcome such problems, among which, a closer approximation of this training with the public health systems. The structuring of the Unified Health System (SUS) in Brazil, although late, has been producing a new reorientation schedule of professional training from programs of Ministry of Health and Education, of incentives to change the graduations of the health professions. The Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu (FMB), with a long history of medical education in the community has been participating of the before mentioned programs of incentive to the restructuring of medical education. Within this scope of changes, the University-Services-Community Interaction Program (IUSC) was created in 2003. In its development, it was structured like a set of disciplines directed to undergraduation in medicine and nursing, having as teachinglearning scenario the territory, public facilities, especially basic health units, and community institutions. The practices of these disciplines are developed guided by the problematization methodology and by the conceptions of the p... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Resumo: A crise contemporânea da medicina e os desafios à educação médica tem sido objeto de um grande debate internacional nas últimas décadas. Dentre estes desafios destacam-se a desumanização da prática, a fragmentação do cuidado médico individual e a desigualdade de acesso a atenção à saúde. Diante deste contexto têm se recomendado inúmeras medidas de mudança da formação médica para superar tais problemas dentre as quais uma maior aproximação desta formação com os sistemas públicos de saúde. A estruturação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) no Brasil, ainda que tardiamente, vem produzindo uma nova agenda de reorientação da formação profissional a partir de programas, do Ministério da Saúde e da Educação, de incentivo à mudança das graduações das profissões da saúde. A Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (FMB), com uma longa trajetória de ensino médico na comunidade vem participando dos referidos programas de incentivo à reestruturação do ensino médico. Dentro deste escopo de mudanças foi criado o Programa Interação Universidade-Serviços-Comunidade (IUSC) em 2003. Em seu desenvolvimento estruturou-se como um conjunto de disciplinas dirigidas à graduação em medicina e enfermagem, tendo como cenário de ensino-aprendizagem o território, equipamentos públicos, em especial as unidades básicas de saúde, e instituições comunitárias. As práticas destas disciplinas se desenvolvem orientadas pela metodologia da problematização e pelas concepções da humanização da prática e a integralidade do cui... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Doutor

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-03-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:13:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 redigolo_fm_me_mar.pdf: 886793 bytes, checksum: 01475c1dab3161d65daad0d65af52317 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / A análise de assunto é um processamento intelectual que depende da cognição profissional e o domínio do contexto físico, psicológico e sociocognitivo são necessários para que o catalogador realize a leitura, identificação e seleção de conceitos na concepção orientada para conteúdo e para a demanda. A investigação do contexto profissional de tratamento de conteúdo em bibliotecas universitárias é necessária para coleta de dados e observação dos processos dos profissionais catalogadores de assunto com vistas à futura elaboração de metodologia para catalogação de assunto de documentos. Propõe-se a análise dos processos de análise de assunto na catalogação de documentos e a visão dos participantes sobre os significados dos resultados obtidos em sua prática cotidiana a partir de pesquisa etnográfica e uso da técnica de Protocolo Verbal Individual e entrevistas em contexto de diferentes Bibliotecas Universitárias no domínio de Ciência da Computação. Possui como objetivo geral contribuir para estudos de aprimoramento da prática de análise de assunto na catalogação em contexto de Bibliotecas Universitárias com intuito de otimizar os resultados da recuperação da informação em catálogos.Tendo em vista a concretização da proposta apresentada acima, a presente pesquisa possui como objetivos específicos: a) Realizar estudo teórico e metodológico sobre o processo de análise de assunto no tratamento temático com enfoque no contexto da catalogação em bibliotecas universitárias; b) Investigar processos de análise de assunto na catalogação de documentos, com Protocolo Verbal, realizados pelo catalogador em contexto de diferentes Bibliotecas Universitárias; e c) Identificar aspectos, funções, processos e ações da prática cotidiana da análise de assunto na catalogação a partir da visão do catalogador. Foram realizadas as seis coletas de... / The subject analysis is an intellectual process that depends on the professional cognitive and the domain of physical, psychological and sociocognitive contexts are necessary for the cataloger achieve the reading, identification and selection of concepts in the design oriented for content and the demand. The research of professional context of content treatment in university libraries is required for data collection and observation of the processes of professional subject catalogers with a view to further development of methodology for the subject cataloging of documents. It proposes the analysis of the procedures of subject analysis for examining on documents cataloging and the views of participants about the meanings of the results obtained in their daily practice from ethnographic research and use of the technique of Individual Verbal Protocol and interviews in the context of various university libraries in the field of Computer Science. It has as main objective to contribute to improving studies of the practice of subject analysis on cataloging in the context of university libraries in order to optimize the results of information retrieval in catalogs. In a view to implementing the proposal presented above, this research has as specifics objectives: a) provide theoretical and methodological study on the process of subject analysis in the thematic treatment with emphasis on the context of cataloging in university libraries, b) investigate processes of subject analysis on cataloging of documents, with Verbal Protocol, made by the cataloguer in the context of several university libraries, and c) identify issues, functions, processes and actions of daily practice of subject analysis on cataloging from the perspective of the cataloguer. Were performed six collections of data with the Individual Verbal Protocol, in the university libraries, whose observation provided the obtaining of ...(Complete abstract click electronic address below)

Orientador: Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita / Banca: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes / Banca: Luciana de Souza Gracioso / Resumo: A análise de assunto é um processamento intelectual que depende da cognição profissional e o domínio do contexto físico, psicológico e sociocognitivo são necessários para que o catalogador realize a leitura, identificação e seleção de conceitos na concepção orientada para conteúdo e para a demanda. A investigação do contexto profissional de tratamento de conteúdo em bibliotecas universitárias é necessária para coleta de dados e observação dos processos dos profissionais catalogadores de assunto com vistas à futura elaboração de metodologia para catalogação de assunto de documentos. Propõe-se a análise dos processos de análise de assunto na catalogação de documentos e a visão dos participantes sobre os significados dos resultados obtidos em sua prática cotidiana a partir de pesquisa etnográfica e uso da técnica de Protocolo Verbal Individual e entrevistas em contexto de diferentes Bibliotecas Universitárias no domínio de Ciência da Computação. Possui como objetivo geral contribuir para estudos de aprimoramento da prática de análise de assunto na catalogação em contexto de Bibliotecas Universitárias com intuito de otimizar os resultados da recuperação da informação em catálogos.Tendo em vista a concretização da proposta apresentada acima, a presente pesquisa possui como objetivos específicos: a) Realizar estudo teórico e metodológico sobre o processo de análise de assunto no tratamento temático com enfoque no contexto da catalogação em bibliotecas universitárias; b) Investigar processos de análise de assunto na catalogação de documentos, com Protocolo Verbal, realizados pelo catalogador em contexto de diferentes Bibliotecas Universitárias; e c) Identificar aspectos, funções, processos e ações da prática cotidiana da análise de assunto na catalogação a partir da visão do catalogador. Foram realizadas as seis coletas de ...(Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The subject analysis is an intellectual process that depends on the professional cognitive and the domain of physical, psychological and sociocognitive contexts are necessary for the cataloger achieve the reading, identification and selection of concepts in the design oriented for content and the demand. The research of professional context of content treatment in university libraries is required for data collection and observation of the processes of professional subject catalogers with a view to further development of methodology for the subject cataloging of documents. It proposes the analysis of the procedures of subject analysis for examining on documents cataloging and the views of participants about the meanings of the results obtained in their daily practice from ethnographic research and use of the technique of Individual Verbal Protocol and interviews in the context of various university libraries in the field of Computer Science. It has as main objective to contribute to improving studies of the practice of subject analysis on cataloging in the context of university libraries in order to optimize the results of information retrieval in catalogs. In a view to implementing the proposal presented above, this research has as specifics objectives: a) provide theoretical and methodological study on the process of subject analysis in the thematic treatment with emphasis on the context of cataloging in university libraries, b) investigate processes of subject analysis on cataloging of documents, with Verbal Protocol, made by the cataloguer in the context of several university libraries, and c) identify issues, functions, processes and actions of daily practice of subject analysis on cataloging from the perspective of the cataloguer. Were performed six collections of data with the Individual Verbal Protocol, in the university libraries, whose observation provided the obtaining of ...(Complete abstract click electronic address below) / Mestre

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo principal a análise e a discussão das contradições das concepções de bons professores de Inglês como língua estrangeira. Para tanto, realizamos uma pesquisa em que procedemos à coleta de dados, constituídos de observações de aulas de Língua Inglesa (18 horas) e entrevistas com alunos, professores e diretores (20 horas) de duas escolas públicas da grande São Paulo. O quadro teórico-metodológico que fundamenta nosso estudo é baseado na perspectiva etnográfica de pesquisa aplicada à sala de aula, a qual ressalta, principalmente, os aspectos intersubjetivo e ideológico que estruturam os fenômenos sociais. Abordamos, igualmente, o conceito de habitus pedagógico elaborado por Bourdieu e Passeron a fim de investigarmos a nossa hipótese, a saber: como concepções heterogêneas e conflitantes de bons professores de Inglês como língua estrangeira emergem das experiências dos sujeitos que compõem as comunidades escolares estudadas. Dado o caráter instável e conflitante do habitus pedagógico, concluímos que não há evidências de uma interpretação monolítica que possam ser depreendidas dos repertórios discursivos dos alunos, professores e diretores das comunidades escolares. Concluímos, também, a partir das críticas e das re-visões do conceito de habitus, que as questões relacionadas às mudanças sociais e à democracia na educação devem ser entendidas fora da imobilidade social apregoada pelo conceito de habitus, tornando-se necessário ir além dos preceitos difundidos pelas perspectivas reprodutivistas em educação. Propomos esse deslocamento levando em conta os pressupostos da pedagogia crítica e da possibilidade, os quais vislumbram uma conscientização mais democrática e transformadora do processo de ensino/aprendizagem no ensino público. / The main purpose of the present dissertation is the analysis and discussion of the contradictory conceptions of good teachers of English as a foreign language. To carry this study out, we focused on the data research analysis which is based on English Language classes observation (18 hours) and interviews with students, teachers and school directors (20 hours) from two state school communities in the greater São Paulo region. Our theoretical and methodological framework includes the ethnographic research perspective and attitude applied to the classroom which postulates principally the inter subjective and ideological character of social phenomena. The concept of pedagogical habitus proposed by Bourdieu and Passeron is put forward in order to investigate our hypothesis, namely, how heterogeneous and conflicting good teachers of English conceptions emerged from the subjects experiences which shape the investigated pedagogical cultural loci. On account of the unstable and conflicting character of the pedagogical habitus, we reach the conclusion that neither a safe ground nor a monolithic interpretation can be visualized in students, teachers and school directors discourse repertoires. It is concluded, through the questioning and re-vision of the habitus concept, that issues of social changes and democracy in education has to be understood out of the social immobility which the habitus concept suggests; furthermore, it is relevant to go beyond the educational reproductive perspectives assumptions as well. Consequently, we propose such a dislocation taking into account the critical and possibility pedagogies insights as a wider response to a more democratic and transformative public schooling education consciousness.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T13:59:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dassuem Nogueira.pdf: 666518 bytes, checksum: a804d0765f40cc4e05a7c7494921f662 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-07-19 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / The purpose of this research is to understand the health / disease process and the ways of attention to malaria in the Nossa Senhora do Livramento Community, at the rural area of Manaus, Amazonas. This is an ethnographic job (the field work was realized during September 2009) and we connected the representations and practices about the sickness of malaria as a process in the particular context of the social organization of this community. This dynamic process is about the way that people think and act diant the occurrence of malaria. We use the concept of social representation, understood as the different kinds of cultural reference that explain and give meaning to malaria. Among these references, it s way that the medicine treat and explain the disease along the history and the ways wich the inhabitant of Livramento Community interact with the professionals of control and attendance of malaria. This different forms of understanding the disease coexist and are appropriated making sense in the social reality and context of life of Livramento people. The concept of therapeutic itinerary is used to understand handling process of these social-cultural references by observing the individual practices. In the Livramento Community the way of people understanding their own social reality has a direct influence with the ways of thinking and to act about the malaria and the health attendance. / Esse trabalho tem como objetivo compreender o processo saúde/doença e atenção dirigidos à malária na comunidade Nossa Senhora do Livramento, zona rural de Manaus, Amazonas. Nosso trabalho tem caráter etnográfico (a pesquisa de campo foi realizada no mês de setembro de 2009), articulamos práticas e representações a cerca do adoecimento da malária de modo processual e contextualizado à organização social particular do Livramento. Esse processo consiste no modo dinâmico pelo qual as pessoas pensam e agem diante da ocorrência da malária. Utilizamos os conceitos de representações sociais, entendido como os diferentes quadros de referências culturais que explicam e dão sentido à malária. Dentre eles, estão as formas pelas quais a medicina explicou e tratou a doença no decorrer de sua história, com os quais os moradores do Livramento interagem por meio da atuação dos profissionais do serviço de atendimento e controle da malária. Essas diferentes formas de compreender a doença coexistem e são apropriadas pelos moradores do Livramento para fazer sentido no contexto de sua realidade social. O conceito de itinerário terapêutico é utilizado para compreendermos o processo de manuseio desses quadros sócio-culturais por meio da observação das práticas dos indivíduos. No Livramento, o modo como os moradores compreendem sua realidade social influi diretamente sobre o que pensam e fazem a respeito da malária e do serviço de saúde que os atende.

Magister Educationis - MEd / The study's main starting premises is that there is a disjuncture between the rich educational engagements of these students in their environmental space and how their learning practices are framed, informed and positioned in the institutional space. My study is underpinned by an interpretivist paradigm in terms of which I set out to describe and understand the meanings that the student respondents assign to their learning practices when they are involved in discursive practices of speaking, knowing, doing, reading and writing. Qualitative research instruments: field notes, participant and non-participant observations and formal and informal interviews were used in order to answer my research question and achieve the desired research aims of this thesis. The findings are presented in a narrative format after deriving at categories and themes using narrative analysis. Finally, my research shows how these students are positioned in and by their lived spaces (whether environmental or institutional) in specific ways, and they, based on their own resources, networks and interactions, and by exercising their agency, actively construct their own spaces of learning. I describe these active constructions by these students as their 'conceptual space of learning' to highlight the complex ways in which they go about to establish their learning practices in their lived spaces. The study provides an analysis of the basis upon which each of these four students go about constructing their learning practices. / South Africa

This dissertation applies anthropology analysis to study a specie of a tree frog, living in the northern Amazonia, called Kambo. The wax-like substance, which the frog releases upon irritation, is used for its healing potential around the world. A basic conceptual framework is used to analyse the frog from the perspective of modernity, globalisation, and diffusion of cultural dimensions. The dissertation anticipates their influences on multiple parties. The geographical scope of the dissertation is limited on Amazonia and the Czech Republic. Kambo is a host of numerous biochemical interactions; in addition, it is used in socio-material context; in rituals; for gaining, or circulation of experience; or it is part of various techniques of understanding oneself, as described in later works of Michel Foucault. Due to Kambo's alleged participation on creation of human's subjective thinking, the dissertation answers the question on the extent to which Kambo could be responsible, through ethnographic lens. The results show that for those respondents who were experienced Kambo users; using the substance as a potion for treating physiological and mental issues and who were subsequently influenced by New Age movement; Kambo stands as a milestone in their life trajectories. Through the ethnographic research,...