The purpose of this study was to explore the relations between preschool children'sschool readiness, young children's social emotional development, and teacher-studentrelationships. Of interest, was whether social-emotional competence and teacher-studentrelationships made unique contributions to young children school readiness. Participantswere 58 three and four year old children (31 boys and 27 girls) who attended 3 inner-citypreschool programs. Thirty-five percent of the sample was African American, with theremainder being Caucasian, Asian, or Hispanic. Social-emotional and teacher-studentrelationship measures collected during the year were associated with school readiness atyear's end. Children's emotional competence was assessed using child interviews.Social competence and teacher-student relationships were measured using teachersurveys.After controlling for age, bivariate correlation revealed that emotional competence and social competence were positively related to one another. Emotional competence and close teacher-student relationships were related to school readiness. Regression analyses showed the emotional competence added to the prediction of school readiness after controlling for age. Children more ready for school, were more emotionally competent. Children having close relationships with preschool teachers were also more emotionally competent.

This thesis is based on local normative written sources as well as interviews with selected people living in the town of Slušovice. The aim is to analyse the various topics these people mentioned in the interviews in connection with their lives in Slušovice and in what way they remembered them. The main focus of the analysis deals with special visits to Slušovice, the cultural events connected to them, as well as the way in which these events were depicted in the media at that time. A microhistorical approach has been used when focusing on the type of content of the interviews. When dealing with the ways of remembering this thesis draws material from the work of Maurice Halbwasche and his follower, Wulf Kansteiner; i.e. the impact of individual and historical memory on collective memory. This leads to an explanation of what factors may have influenced the specific memories. Key words Slušovice, memory, interview, life story, rural Anthropology

Master of Arts / Department of Communications Studies / Soo-Hye Han / The rise of partisan political news over the past two decades has influenced how political candidates discursively construct their image. While there is an extensive literature devote to presidential discourse, little is known about what gubernatorial discourse looks like and how they construct their image. This study examines how gubernatorial candidates discursively construct their image in a hyperpolarized electoral environment. An extensive content analysis of gubernatorial political interviews (n = 94), and specifically the utterances arising from those interviews (n = 1,524), was conducted. Findings show that gubernatorial candidates discursively construct their own image as a savior to the state, while creating their opponent’s and the DC elite’s image as a villain. Additionally, gubernatorial candidates do not adhere to the image bound by their party, and construct an image that is unique to their environment. Consequently, the environment that a gubernatorial candidate is situated influences how they communicate and construct their image and their opponent’s image. By examining gubernatorial discourse through political interviews, this study offers theoretical implications into understanding the influence of polarization, issue ownership, and tone in gubernatorial discourse. Practical implications examine the role of media outlets in gubernatorial discourse. This study contributes to scholarly understanding of gubernatorial discourse in a changing and polarizing political environment.

This study examines how teachers view the use of peer assessment of pupils’ texts in grade 3. Six teachers were interviewed about how they work with peer assessment and the possibilities and challenges they see in using peer assessment in grade 3. The result showed that five of the teachers in the study worked with peer assessment by giving the pupils clear criteria for things they were supposed to respond to. The potential that the teachers saw in peer assessment was that pupils become aware of their own development and their learning. They also saw that the pupils’ social skills were positively affected by peer assessment. The greatest challenge the teachers saw lay in pairing the pupils together best as regards their zone of proximal development and ensuring that pupils developed through peer assessment. The conclusions of this study are that teachers need training in peer assessment so that they will feel comfortable using the method and be able to meet pupils’ development needs.

It is unclear if staff at career centers use, or are willing to use, empirically-supported procedures like behavioral skills training (BST) when teaching interview skills to college students. The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which the typical career center training consisted of BST, to evaluate staff-implemented BST, and to measure student performance as a result of both training. Using non-concurrent multiple baseline design, three staff were taught to use BST to teach three students to answer interview questions. First, staff used their typical training procedure, and then, they used BST to teach student interview skills; their use of BST steps was measured during training with students. Student performance was measured as percentage of appropriate answers provided during simulated interviews conducted with the experimenter after training. Results showed limited use of BST in staff’s typical training and increased use after BST training. One student improved after a typical career center training and two students showed improvement after staff-implemented BST. Social validity reports from staff showed acceptance for some steps, but not all. Limitations to this study included small selection of interview questions, time constraint, and self-reported social validity measures. Future studies can evaluate alternative methods of BST delivery including computerized BST.

This study aimed to describe the educational experiences of deaf adolescent learners attending a school for the deaf in South Africa. The specific objectives of the current study included: (a) obtaining a detailed description of the educational experiences of deaf adolescent learners; (b) establishing with which rhetoric (medical vs. cultural) the deaf adolescents could best identify; (c) establishing the potential influence on individual identity development of the established affiliations with the opposing models of deafness. Ten deaf adolescents ranging between 14 and 16 years, attending a single school for the deaf were selected as participants for the current study. A basic research design and a qualitative approach, embedded within the theory of social constructivism were employed. Two pilot studies were conducted in order to establish the feasibility of the current study. Thereafter, interviews as per the ‘interview guide approach’ were administered. Field observations within the school context and file reviews were also conducted. Thematic content analysis was employed and the identified themes were described qualitatively. Results revealed the emergence of three themes. Within these themes, the adolescents’ experiences included: limited SASL role models both at home and at school, negative educational encounters as well as positivity and hope for the future. Experiences characteristic of the medical model and socio-cultural model of deafness were reported and factors affecting these affiliations were described. The researcher concluded that a level of affiliation with both the medical and the sociocultural models of deafness existed for the participants. The impact of these affiliations on identity construction was explored and a model of identity development, the multiculturalexperience model, was proposed. The education of deaf individuals in South Africa shows room for significant growth. By adjusting government education policies for deaf education as well as supporting the goals of early intervention, deaf learners can reach their full potential regardless of the mode of communication favoured.

Esta pesquisa pretende ser um estudo em psicologia social sobre os caminhos e perspectivas de militância de estudantes do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo. A entrevista aberta com um roteiro norteador foi utilizada como método de pesquisa. Dois estudantes de graduação do Instituto de Psicologia da USP envolvidos de maneira profunda com algum tipo de militância estudantil foram entrevistados. O tema central destas entrevistas foi a militância e engajamento estudantil. A partir deste grande tema e de algumas perguntas norteadoras referentes à militância estudantil os entrevistados foram convidados a contar o percurso de envolvimento na militância estudantil. Os assuntos abordados pelos entrevistados foram divididos em três grandes eixos: Os caminhos: Onde relatam os fatos, memórias e lembranças pertinentes ao engajamento político que desembocaram na militância estudantil. A atuação: Contam aqui os caminhos percorridos na própria militância. Futuro e reflexões: Onde discorrem sobre a perspectiva de futuro para eles mesmos no movimento estudantil e na política em geral e trazem pensamentos e reflexões sobre a militância. A análise teórica dos relatos centra-se em acompanhar o percurso contado pelos militantes dentro de duas grandes perspectivas. A da memória e o do devir. A partir delas tentaremos mostrar as transformações de identidade dos entrevistados ao longo do caminho e as transformações conquistadas no espaço coletivo. Este estudo pretende contribuir para a reflexão da militância estudantil / This research intends to be a study in social psychology on the paths and perspectives of student militancy of the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo. The open interview with a guiding script was used as a research method. Two undergraduate students from the Institute of Psychology at USP deeply involved in some kind of student activism were interviewed. The central theme of these interviews was militancy and student engagement. From this great theme and some guiding questions regarding student militancy, the interviewees were invited to tell the story of involvement in student militancy. The subjects addressed by the interviewees were divided into three main axes: The paths: Where they report the facts, memories and memories pertinent to the political engagement that led to student militancy. The performance: They count here the paths covered in the own militancy. Future and reflections: Where they discuss the perspective of the future for themselves in the student movement and politics in general and bring thoughts and reflections on militancy. The theoretical analysis of the reports focuses on following the path counted by the militants within two great perspectives. The perspectives of memory and of becoming. From these we will try to show the identity transformations of the interviewees along the way and the transformations conquered in the collective space. This study aims to contribute to the reflection of student militancy

Este estudo teve como objetivo desvelar a percepção de profissionais que atuam em Organizações de Procura de Órgãos sobre a entrevista familiar no processo de doação de órgãos e tecidos para transplante. Para desvelar essa percepção optou-se por realizar uma pesquisa qualitativa, na vertente fenomenológica, segundo a modalidade estrutura do fenômeno situado. Como forma de desvelar o fenômeno foram entrevistados dezoito profissionais, dos quais doze passaram a fazer parte do estudo. As entrevistas foram norteadas pelas questões: Fale sobre a entrevista familiar no processo de doação de órgãos e tecidos para transplante considerando desde o preparo para a realização da entrevista até a decisão da família pela doação ou não; Fale sobre o significado da entrevista familiar no processo de doação; O que deve ser considerado na realização da entrevista familiar?; Fale sobre os fatores que facilitam e que dificultam a entrevista familiar?; Quais propostas você faria para o aprimoramento da entrevista?. Após a obtenção das descrições, os discursos foram analisados individualmente, sendo feita a análise ideográfica, resgatando os seguintes temas: Relatando o processo de entrevista; Atribuindo significado à entrevista; Apresentando os aspectos relevantes da entrevista; Apresentando os aspectos que facilitam a entrevista; Apresentando os aspectos que dificultam a entrevista; Identificando as características da entrevista; Identificando os aspectos relativos ao entrevistador; Identificando os aspectos relativos ao entrevistado; Identificando os aspectos relativos ao local da entrevista; Apresentando propostas para o aprimoramento da entrevista e Acrescentando outras considerações. Buscou-se desvendar, pela análise nomotética, as convergências e divergências das unidades de significado interpretadas, em direção à estrutura geral do fenômeno. As proposições que emergiram, revelaram que a entrevista familiar é uma etapa importante, pois trata da possibilidade da doação de órgãos e tecidos para salvar e/ou melhorar a qualidade de vida de pessoas que necessitam de um transplante, e é complexa, pois envolve aspectos relativos ao entrevistador, ao entrevistado, ao local da entrevista, além de questões éticas e legais evidenciando a necessidade de capacitação profissional para conhecer, identificar e lidar com fatores que facilitam e dificultam o diálogo com os familiares. / This study is aimed at revealing the perception of professionals who act in Organ Procurement Organizations on the family interview in the donation process of organs and tissues for transplant. In order to reveal such perception a qualitative research was chosen to be carried out, within the phenomenological side, according the situated phenomenon structure modality. In order to unveil the phenomenon, eighteen professionals were interviewed, out of whom twelve of them started to comprise the study. The interviews were guided by the questions: Talk about the family interview in the donation process of organs and tissues for transplant considering since preparation for holding of the interview up to the familys decision for donation or not; Talk about the meaning of the family interview in the donation process; What should be considered when holding the family interview?; Talk about the factors which make the family interview easy and difficult?; What proposals would you make to improve the interview process?. After obtaining the descriptions, the speeches were individually analyzed, with the ideographic analysis, restoring the following subjects: Reporting the interview process; Giving meaning to the interview; Presenting the relevant aspects of the interview; Presenting the aspects which make the interview easy; Presenting the aspects which make the interview difficult; Identifying the interview characteristics; Identifying the aspects related to the interviewer; Identifying the aspects related to the interviewee; Identifying the aspects related to the interview location; Presenting proposals to improve the interview and Adding other considerations. The purpose was unveiling, by the nomothetic analysis, the convergences and divergences of the interpreted meaning units, aimed at the general phenomenon structure. The propositions derived, showed that the family interview is a major stage, since it deals with the possibility to donate organs and tissues to save and/or improve the quality of life of people who need a transplant, and is complex, since it involves aspects related to the interviewer, the interviewee, the interview location, in addition to ethical and legal matters attesting the need for professional qualification to know, identify and deal with factors which make the dialogue with relatives easy and difficult.

TITLE: The problematic of Fungi in the education on the primary level of the elementary school AUTHOR: Eliška Lucie Sochůrková DEPARTMENT: Department of Biology and Environmental Studies SUPERVISOR: RNDr. Jana Skýbová, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: This diploma thesis includes a summary of historical development in teaching natural science at the elementary school level, an analysis of the curricular documents, an analysis of the textbooks for 4th and 5th grade from different publishers with the focus on the topic Fungi, as well as nine interviews with the teachers about the specific realization of this topic in their lessons and a project Antibiotics - different kind of Fungi, which introduce a function of the antibiotics, their historical development and current challenges to the students. The aim of this paper is to find out the actual placement of the topic Fungi in the education on the primary level of the elementary school and to inspire teachers to use the great variety of this kingdom, for example by implementing the mould, yeast cells or wood-destroying fungi into their curriculum. The topic Fungi was in the Framework Education Program for Elementary Education and in some of the School Education Programs as well as in all the textbooks. It is part of the curriculum for most of the teachers, they concentrate...

For companies and organizations there's an ongoing battle to maintain reputation, by actively taking a stance in the public debate companies and organizations maintain their position on the market. SJ, Statens Järnvägar, is a Swedish train operating company owned by the Swedish state. In 2017 SJ released the first commercial from their advertising campaign ‘Vem du än är, vart du än ska’ that portray norm-breaking people on their rail travel. The purpose of this essay is to analyze, on the basis of three commercials that are part of SJ's advertising campaign ‘Vem du än är, vart du än ska’ how norms are maintained and challenged through the campaign. The study also aims to investigate how the commercials are being received among younger (22-25 years) and older (58-72 years) age groups, with particular focus on the group's perception of the campaign in relation to norms and corporate responsibility in society. Using tools based in the multimodal analysis we analyzed the commercials and through focus group interviews we gathered thoughts about the commercials from the older and the younger age groups. The theoretical framework based on representation, stereotypes, myths, norms and Corporate Social Responsibility has helped us analyze the commercials and distinguish the respondents thoughts about norms and corporate responsibility. The analysis showed that the respondents understood the message that everyone is welcome to travel with SJ, but they thought the shape of the commercials were weak. Although SJ wants to break norms and stereotypes, we could see that they consolidate certain stereotypes. The respondents stated that they saw a ‘designation’ and meant that by allowing a person to represent a whole group, others within the group may feel designated. The two age groups had similar opinions and we could not determine any major difference based on age. The two age groups did however differ in which subject they discussed most. All respondents expressed how important it was that everyone got a place in the media and that companies have a great responsibility over our social development.