Subjects designated by the neologism 'disability' typically experience various forms of marginality, discrimination and inequality. The response by social scientists and professionals engaged in social policy and service delivery has been to combat the 'disability problem' by way of implementing anti-discrimination protections and various other compensatory initiatives. More recently, with the development of biological and techno-sciences such as 'new genetics', nanotechnologies and cyborgs the solution to 'disability' management has been in the form of utilizing technologies of early detection, eradication or at best, technologies of mitigation. Contemporary discourses of disablement displace and disconnect discussion away from the 'heart of the problem', namely, matters ontological. Disability - based marginality is assumed to emerge from a set of pre-existing conditions (i.e. in the case of biomedicalisation, deficiency inheres in the individual, whilst in the Social Model disablement is created by a capitalist superstructure). The Great Divide takes an alternative approach to studying 'the problem of disability' by proposing that the neologism 'disability' is in fact created by and used to generate notions and epistemologies of 'ableism'. Whilst epistemologies of disablement are well researched, there is a paucity of research related to the workings of ableism. The focal concerns of The Great Divide relate to matters of ordering, disorder and constitutional compartmentalization between the normal and pathological and the ways that discourses about wholeness, health, enhancement and perfection produce notions of impairment. A central argument of this dissertation figures the production of disability as part of the tussle over ordering, emerging from a desire to create order from an assumed disorder; resulting in a flimsy but often unconvincing attempt to shore up so-called optimal ontologies and disperse outlaw ontologies. The Great Divide examines ways 'disability' rubs up against, mingles with and provokes other seemingly unrelated concepts such as wellness, ableness, perfection, competency, causation, productivity and use value. The scaffolding of the dissertation directs the reader to selected sites that produce epistemologies of disability and ableism, namely the writing of 'history' and Judeo-Christian renderings of Disability. It explores the nuances of ableism (including a case study of wrongful life torts in law) and the phenomenon of internalized ableism as experienced by many disabled people. The study of liberalism and the government of government are explored in terms of enumeration, the science of 'counting cripples' and the battles over defining 'disability' in law and social policy. Additionally another axis of ableism is explored through the study of a number of perfecting technologies and the way in which these technologies mediate what it means to be 'human' (normalcy), morphs/simulates 'normalcy' and the leakiness of 'disability'. This analysis charts the invention of forearms transplantation (a la Clint Hallam), the Cochlear implant and transhumanism. The Great Divide concludes with an inversion of the ableist gaze(s) by proposing an ethic of affirmation, a desiring ontology of impairment.

This research investigates the formation of visual as discursive practice. Discourses that celebrate, denigrate and omit visual are examined with a particular focus on discourses of the child and technology in art education. This thesis applies poststructural methodologies of discourse analysis to disrupt traditional accounts of discipline configurations determined in histories of art education. With a particular focus on Michel Foucault???s methods of history, archaeology and genealogy, art education as discipline is mapped through an investigation of visual as concept and practice. This research contends that the emergence of current practices in visual culture, as configured within the constraints of art education amplifies the conditions of visual to define art education as a field. It examines the mobilisation of discourse, verified by discipline formations in art education, and the way in which such formations distribute and categorise knowledge that is sequenced within power structures. Therefore, visual, as a discursive practice is one way through which to trace the conditions of the field, including the structure of discipline as knowledge and subject in art education.

Bibliography : leaves 347-364. / xvi, 364, [58] leaves, [15] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / A stratigraphically-based study of the nature of the shelf succession and its relationship to surrounding successions of the central Carpentaria Basin and the Great Artesian Basin as a whole. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1995

A number of studies of Bali emerging in the last three decades have come to read Balinese culture as a cultural construct that has been invented and reinvented as a means to legitimate power relations on the island (e.g. Schulte Nordholt 1986, 1996, 1999; Vickers 1990; Picard 1996, 1999). Constructions of ‘Balinese culture’ have been explored and identified as central projects within the island’s internal contestation of dominance as well as within the establishment of colonial and postcolonial orders. Despite this scholarly exploration of the discursive nature of ‘authentic Balinese culture’, public obsession with a traditional Balinese architecture, conceived as an apolitical, exotic, and pre-existing architectural other, prevails. Architecture has been and continues to be an arena within which the notion of authentic Bali is convincingly authorised by its diverse proponents: the Dutch colonial government, the orientalist scholars, the travellers, the architects, and the local elites.This thesis explores the role of architectural discourses within the construction of identity in 20th century Bali. It investigates the way writings on Bali’s architecture and contemporary formations of domestic architecture on the island are implicated by the political imagining of an ‘authentic Balinese’ cultural identity. Invoking the architecture of Balinisation, this thesis argues that writings and domestic architectural realms are productive fields in which and by which identity and power relations are continuously formulated by those who observe Bali and by the observed ‘Balinese’ people.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987. / Typescript. Bibliography: leaves 448-477. Also available online.

The aim of the research focuses on characterizing heavy mineral assemblages and interpretation of the provenance of the Ecca Group of in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. In South Africa, the Ecca Group outcrops extensively in the Main Karoo Basin. Mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, minor conglomerate and coal are the major constituent lithologies within the group. For descriptive purposes, the Ecca is categorized into three different geographical areas: the southern area, the western and northwestern area and the northeastern area. Six of the sixteen geological formations, namely the Prince Albert, Whitehill, Collingham, Ripon, Fort Brown, Waterford and Koonap Formations are present in the study area and are best exposed in road cuttings. For purposes of comparison, the underlying Witteberg Group, the Dwyka (which has Formation status here), and the overlying Koonap Formation of the Beaufort Group, are included in the study. This study is motivated by the relatively little information that is available on the heavy minerals of the Ecca Group, and that research of this nature had not been undertaken in the study area before. Another contributing motivation was to determine whether heavy mineral assemblages could be used to identify formations of the Ecca Group and for correlating between different localities in accordance with studies done elsewhere. Additionally, diagnostic heavy mineral assemblages could aid with stratigraphic selection of future boreholes in the Ecca Group. Heavy minerals are natural provenance tracers because of their stable nature and hydrodynamic behaviour. They are both non-opaque and opaque, with apatite, epidote, garnet, rutile, staurolite, tourmaline and zircon being good examples of non-opaque grains while ilmenite and magnetite are the most common opaques. Heavies are either derived from stable minor accessory minerals or from abundant but unstable mafic components of the host rock. They are very useful in interpreting the provenance due to the fact that some minerals are diagnostic of certain source rocks. However, sediments are exposed to several factors (conditions) such as weathering, erosion, breakage due to abrasion, mixing and recycling during transportation from the source to the depositional area. This implies that there are parameters other than the parent lithology that determine their final composition.

Submitted by Diego dos Santos Borba (dborba@uffs.edu.br) on 2017-04-12T19:21:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MALDANER.pdf: 1048251 bytes, checksum: a6d832eb6388213d4c7610570e755f65 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-12T19:21:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MALDANER.pdf: 1048251 bytes, checksum: a6d832eb6388213d4c7610570e755f65 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-12 / Esta pesquisa tem como aporte a perspectiva te?rica da An?lise de Discurso que considera a l?ngua como constitutiva do sujeito e como inscrita na hist?ria. O objetivo deste trabalho ? compreender como emergem representa??es de l?ngua inglesa e como elas s?o sustentadas por diferentes discursividades que circulam em uma institui??o universit?ria (Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul), a partir do lugar social servidor p?blico. Nesse sentido, para an?lise das sequ?ncias discursivas que articulamos neste estudo, tomamos como refer?ncia um question?rio de dimensionamento respondido por servidores, cuja finalidade inicial foi a participa??o em um curso de capacita??o em l?ngua inglesa, oferecido pela institui??o. A partir disso, com base nas regularidades, as principais propriedades discursivas que problematizamos s?o: a l?ngua inglesa como instrumento de ascens?o pessoal/profissional; o tempo e o espa?o em conson?ncia com a mobilidade do sujeito na contemporaneidade; e a emerg?ncia do sujeito em rela??o ? flu?ncia e ao ?dom?nio? da l?ngua designada como universal. Com base nas tramas mobilizadas, interpretamos que o discurso sobre a l?ngua inglesa aponta para uma l?ngua-instrumento que sustenta diferentes demandas, posi??essujeito e cujo ilus?rio ?dom?nio? funciona como uma ponte entre o tempo e os espa?os fluidos. Ainda, como efeito das for?as pol?ticas vigentes, entendemos que nesse processo h? uma tentativa constante de apagar a heterogeneidade, para que essa l?ngua universal se sustente na ilus?ria homogeneidade / This dissertation has as its background the theoretical perspective Discursive Analysis, which considers language as constitutive of the subject and, at the same time, embedded in history. The main goal is to get to understand how English Language representations emerge and how they are sustained by different discourses, that surround a university (Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul), from the social place public server. Thus, for the analysis of the discourse strings that we have articulated in this study, our reference is a dimensioning questionnaire answered by servers, whose objective was to take place in an English Language Course, provided by the institution. Furthermore, based on the regularities, the main discursive properties that we questioned are: English Language as a tool for personal/professional rising; the time and space linked to the subject mobility in contemporary times; and the emerging subject in relation to the fluency and domain of the language named as universal. Based on the net mobilized, we interpreted that the discourse about English Language points out a toollanguage that supports different demand, subject-position, whose illusionary 'domain' works as a bridge between time and fluid spaces. Still, as an effect of current policies strength, we understand that in this process there is a frequent attempt to decline the heterogenic, so that this universal language can be supported in the illusionary homogeny.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2017-12-27T16:41:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FRANCIVÂNIA CASIMIRO SARMENTO - DISSERTAÇÃO PROFLETRAS - 2015.pdf: 3524376 bytes, checksum: 717d59b5ede525722fa30b952a7453f5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-27T16:41:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FRANCIVÂNIA CASIMIRO SARMENTO - DISSERTAÇÃO PROFLETRAS - 2015.pdf: 3524376 bytes, checksum: 717d59b5ede525722fa30b952a7453f5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Esta dissertação trata das formações imaginárias dos alunos do 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental II, de uma escola pública do município de Marizópolis, em relação aos sujeitos “nordestino” e “homossexual” abordados no gênero textual piada. Além disso, apresenta como proposta de intervenção, a desconstrução de preconceitos em relação aos sujeitos abordados nesse gênero. A Análise do Discurso foi a teoria-base deste trabalho. Também realizamos leituras referentes a Gêneros Textuais e Discursivos, Discurso Humorístico, Teoria da Desconstrução, Nordeste e Homossexualidade. Alguns conceitos-pivô desta teoria serviram de ancoragem, a fim de compreendermos de que forma as formações imaginárias se materializam nos discursos dos alunos participantes desta pesquisa. O corpus analisado resultou da aplicação de uma sequência didática contendo atividades em torno do gênero piada. A principal estratégia metodológica foi a roda de piadas, na qual os alunos puderam contar piadas referentes aos sujeitos abordados na pesquisa. Em linhas gerais, as atividades relacionadas ao gênero piada envolveram contação, discussão e compreensão. As piadas utilizadas ao longo da sequência didática foram pesquisadas em sites da internet. Os objetivos deste foram: discutir acerca do interesse dos alunos em contar e ouvir piadas; identificar as formações imaginárias recorrentes nas piadas discutidas em sala de aula; discutir as razões pelas quais os sujeitos “nordestinos” e os sujeitos “homossexuais” são ridicularizados em detrimento de outros grupos; compreender que o humor não reside apenas em fazer o interlocutor rir do texto ouvido ou lido, mas em propor a ruptura com o previsível; desenvolver atitudes de não preconceito em relação aos sujeitos-alvo retratados nas piadas. A pretensão deste trabalho foi identificar as formações imaginárias elaboradas pelos sujeitos participantes concernentes aos sujeitos “nordestino” e “homossexual”, mais precisamente no gênero piada. Este trabalho visou também contribuir para a desconstrução de preconceitos instituídos socialmente e presentes no espaço escolar. Normalmente, quando se fala sobre sujeito “nordestino”, na mídia, há muito preconceito; no ambiente escolar tal realidade é recorrente em se tratando do sujeito “homossexual”. No decorrer da sequência didática, percebemos que os alunos também possuem essas imagens acerca desses sujeitos. Ao sujeito “nordestino” associam-se as ideias de pobre, miserável, atrasado, desinformado. Ao sujeito “homossexual” estão associadas as ideias de anormal, esquisito, fora da lei. Nos dois casos temos imagens cristalizadas internalizadas pelos sujeitos, as quais, cientificamente, sem comprovação científica; logo, pretexto para a consolidação do preconceito. / This dissertation deals with the imaginary formations of students of the 6th grade of elementary school II, a public school in the city of Marizópolis, compared to subjects "Northeast" and "homosexual" covered in the genre joke. In addition, presents as a proposal for intervention, the deconstruction of prejudices regarding the subjects addressed in this genre. The discourse analysis was the theory base of this work. We also do readings regarding Text Genre and Discourse, Humorous Speech, Theory of Deconstruction, Northeast and Homosexuality. Some concepts pivot of this theory served as the anchor in order to understand how the imaginary formations materialize in the speeches of students participating in this research. The analyzed corpus resulted from the application of a didactic sequence containing activities around the joke genre. The main methodological strategy was the wheel of jokes, in which the students could tell jokes related to the subjects covered in the survey. In general, the activities related to gender joke involved telling, discussion and understanding. The jokes used throughout the teaching sequence were searched in the internet sites. The objectives of this were: discuss about the students' interest in telling and hearing jokes; identify the applicants imaginary formations in jokes discussed in class; discuss the reasons why the subject "Northeast" and the subject "homosexuals" are ridiculed at the expense of other groups; understand that humor lies not only in making the listener laugh at the heard or read text, but to propose a break from the predictable; develop non-biased attitudes towards target subjects portrayed in the jokes. The intention was to identify the imaginary formations developed by the participating subjects concerning the subject "Northeast" and "homosexual", specifically in the genre joke. This work also aimed to contribute to the deconstruction of prejudices instituted socially and gifts at school. Usually, when talking about the subject "Northeast" in the media, there is a lot of prejudice; in the school environment such a reality is recurrent in the case of the subject "homosexual." During the didactic sequence, we find that students also have these pictures on these subjects. The subject "Northeast" are associated with the poor of ideas, miserable, backward, uninformed. The subject "homosexual" are associated with the abnormal ideas, weird, outlaw. In both cases we have crystallized images internalized by the subjects, which, scientifically, without scientific evidence; hence pretext for consolidation of prejudice.

Submitted by Roselaine Cristini Alves Paredes null (belbelcris@hotmail.com) on 2017-08-03T18:06:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Leitura-Análise de Discurso.pdf: 1914311 bytes, checksum: c51f865557160702cbc68f29eed1c61d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-08-03T18:15:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 paredes_rca_me_bauru.pdf: 1914311 bytes, checksum: c51f865557160702cbc68f29eed1c61d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-03T18:15:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 paredes_rca_me_bauru.pdf: 1914311 bytes, checksum: c51f865557160702cbc68f29eed1c61d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-28 / Esta dissertação tem como tema central a leitura e o leitor na escola e tem como objetivo compreender parte do processo discursivo em jogo na relação do professor e do aluno com os objetos discursivos leitura e leitor. Parte da constatação de que a função da escola é formar sujeitos leitores que possam fazer a relação entre explícitos e implícitos e inter-relacionar o dito e o não-dito, relacionando língua com história. Para atingir tal objetivo, analisamos enunciados produzidos por professores e alunos, dos anos finais de cada ciclo da Educação Básica, dentro do espaço escolar a respeito da leitura e do leitor, em situação de entrevista. O corpus é de caráter experimental e foi constituído por recortes de dezoito entrevistas feitas com professores e alunos. Levamos em consideração, para a análise destas entrevistas a questão do jogo de imagens, isto é, as relações imaginárias que estão sendo produzidas entre os interlocutores, de uma entrevista (professores e alunos), resultantes de projeções. A análise dos objetos de pesquisa foi fundamentada no dispositivo teórico-analítico da Análise de Discurso Francesa, principalmente a partir dos trabalhos de Pêcheux e Orlandi publicados no Brasil. Como resultado, pontuamos os vários sentidos de leitura e de leitor que circulam no espaço escolar e descrevemos os jogos de imagens e os mecanismos de antecipação que ocorrem nas enunciações. / This dissertation has as central theme the reading and the reader in the school and has as objective understand the part of the discursive process at stake in the relation of the teacher and the student with the reading and reader discursive objects. It begins with the realization that the function of the school is to form readers who can make the relationship between explicit and implicit and interrelate said and unsaid, relating language with history. For the purpose, we analyzed statements produced by teachers and students, of the final years of each cycle of Education, within the school space regarding reading and reader, in an interview. The corpus is of experimental feature and was composed of eighteen interviews with teachers and students. We take into consideration, for the analysis of these interviews, the question of the game of images, that is, the imaginary relations that are being produced between the interlocutors of an interview (teachers and students), resulting from projections. The analysis of the objects of research was based on the theoretical-analytical device of the French Discourse Analysis, mainly from the works of Pêcheux and Orlandi published in Brazil. As the result, we punctuate the various senses of reading and of reader that circulate in the school space and we describe the games of images and the mechanisms of anticipation that occur in the enunciations.

Submitted by (lucia.rodrigues@ufrpe.br) on 2016-11-23T14:58:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Robson Oliveira Queiroz.pdf: 1091558 bytes, checksum: b90982c61fbca2c45d859e0b6369dc89 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-23T14:58:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Robson Oliveira Queiroz.pdf: 1091558 bytes, checksum: b90982c61fbca2c45d859e0b6369dc89 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-28 / This research was carried out in order to examine how a group of three chemistry teachers of a federal educational institution experienced in the classroom at work a rather abstract content called the stereoisomerism or isomerism (3D), a term used in the research, aiming to contribute to the formation of this teachers class. This content involves geometrical isomerism and optical isomerism. This analysis involved the determination of educational models through the use of analogies used by teachers and the determination of knowledge mobilized by them during their classes or at least the knowledge that should be mobilized. Theteachers have given two lessons each on the isomerism (3D). These lessons were observed and shooted by a third agent and then the speeches of teachers were transcribed, and some observations were made about their ways of doing things in the classroom and the way theyexplained the contents. Preliminary analysis of the transcribed speech was carried out by an association between the steps taken by teachers in their classes using analogies and a rational use of methodology of analogies, the TWA (Teaching With Analogies). After an initial analysis of the teachers’ speeches a supplementary questionnaire was drawn up so that the teachers could answer itbased on these lines in the classroom and aiming to bring relations between the knowledge mobilized by teachers and analog models used in classes on the isomerism (3D). The results showed, in general, that teachers have used three types of analog models for their explanation of the isomerism (3D), concrete, operational and the model with multiple analogies. The teachers have used such models without rigor spontaneously and they have used analogies without worrying about the students' prior knowledge, for example, if they know the difference between the analogy used and the subject of the lesson. It was determined also that knowledge of the content, according to Shulman, presented by teachers is very significant; however, the curriculum knowledge and teaching are at lower levels than one would expect for such teachers who are experienced. Finally, we found some shortcomings regarding the training of these teachers, through the fault pointing the pedagogical reasoning that should have developed over the years, according to Shulman, as some steps you should follow and which relate to assessment during the process of reflection and teaching to resume the process, present in the pedagogical reasoning. / Esta pesquisa foi realizada com o objetivo de analisar o modo como um grupo de três professores de Química de uma instituição federal de ensino vivencia em sala de aula, em ação, portanto, um conteúdo de caráter bastante abstrato, denominado de estereoisomeria ou isomeria (3D), termo utilizado na pesquisa, objetivando-se contribuir para a formação dessa classe de professores. Esse conteúdo envolve a isomeria geométrica e a isomeria ótica. A análise envolveu a determinação dos modelos de ensino através da utilização de analogias, usada pelos professores, e a determinação dos saberes mobilizados por esses durante suas aulas ou, pelo menos, os saberes que deveriam ser mobilizados. Os professores ministraram duas aulas, cada um, sobre a isomeria (3D). Essas aulas foram observadas através da filmagem por um agente terceiro e depois foram transcritas as falas dos professores. Além disso, foram realizadas algumas observações sobre o modo de atuação dos professores em sala, bem como de suas explicações sobre o conteúdo. A análise preliminar das falas transcritas foi realizada fazendo uma associação entre os passos dados pelos professores em suas aulas, utilizando as analogias, e uma metodologia de uso racional das analogias, a TWA (Teaching With Analogies). Após uma primeira análise das falas dos professores, elaborou-se um questionário complementar para que os professores respondessem, baseando-se nessas falas em sala de aula e objetivando trazer as relações entre os saberes mobilizados pelos professores e os modelos analógicos utilizados nas aulas sobre a isomeria (3D). Os resultados indicaram, em linhas gerais, que os professores fazem uso de três tipos de modelos analógicos para suas explicações sobre a isomeria (3D): o concreto, o operacional e o modelo com múltiplas analogias. Os dados também mostram que os professores utilizam tais modelos desprovidos de rigor, de uma forma espontânea e que fazem uso das analogias sem se preocupar com o conhecimento prévio dos alunos, ou seja, se os estudantes sabem diferenciar a analogia que foi feita pelo professor do assunto alvo. Determinou-se também que o saber do conteúdo, segundo Shulman, apresentado pelos professores é bastante expressivo, todavia, os saberes do currículo e pedagógico estão aquém do que se esperaria para tais professores, que são experientes. Por fim, foram encontradas algumas deficiências com relação à formação desses professores, através do registro de problemas no raciocínio pedagógico. Esse procedimento pedagógico deveria ter sido desenvolvido ao longo dos anos, conforme Shulman, com alguns passos que deveriam ser seguidos. Esses passos estão relacionados à avaliação durante o processo de ensino e também à reflexão para retomar o processo, presentes no raciocínio pedagógico.