Thesis (DPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / Identity reflects and aims to control one’s experience. It is an act of consciousness which is neither essential nor immutable but a social construct open to change as circumstances, strategies and interactions fluctuate. It needs therefore to be situated historically and relationally, as identity is a matter of social context. This thesis sets out to investigate processes of identity formation in post-apartheid South Africa, i.e. a context marked by deep changes at both symbolic/material structural levels, in particular within the urban setup. On the basis of focus group discussions with residents of Cape Town, various, and at times contradictory, strategies of identification are explored. Residents’ discourses are analysed on the basis of two entry points, that of the context or the ‘scale’ within which discourse occurs (from the local, to the urban, the national and the continental) and that of the traditional categories of class, race and culture. The narratives that urban citizens draw upon to make sense of their lives and environment illuminate the emergence of new social boundaries among citizens which, though volatile and situational, reveal a changing picture of South Africa as a nation.

This research examines the sense-making activities of women who engage in intimate relationships with women following a significant period of heterosexual marriage. Using data gathered through interviews with 36 women, the study explores how subjects use common cultural ideas about sexuality to frame the stories they tell to explain their sexual histories. The idea that sexuality is something one is born with, rather than a choice is on the rise in the United States. This essentialist view in conjunction with cultural ideas about the timing at which sexuality is supposed to emerge implies that people should be "aware" of their sexuality at adolescence. For many of the women in the study that "normal" timing was not the case. In addition to the essentialist supposition is the notion the sexuality is binary. One is either heterosexual or one is the particular type of person known as the homosexual, a construct created in the 19th century that continues to be an important part of modern understandings of sexuality. Women who have spent significant time as heterosexuals and go on to have intimate relationships with women must contend with these cultural understandings as they try to make sense to themselves of a sexual story that seems to lie outside the bounds of that hegemonic narrative. Using modified grounded theory to analyze the collected interviews, four story types emerged. These four story types evinced different levels and types of commitment to the views of sexuality that exist in both the mainstream culture and the gay and lesbian community. They include "Always Knew" and "Retrospective" stories, which demonstrated a close commitment to the dominant narrative. The other two types - "Shifter" stories and "Left Fielder" stories - were more loosely connected to the ideas of essential and binary sexuality. As these stories emerged additional insights were provided in the form of the women's discussions of the impact of the social world in terms of lesbian invisibility, lesbian imagery, homophobia, and group or individual support for telling certain types of stories and/or taking on a lesbian identity. This study builds on, and adds to, scholarship in a number of areas. These include: narrative and identity; the social construction of sexuality; the changing nature of biography as people strive to make the past make sense of the present; and the influence of hegemonic cultural ideas in important areas of social and personal life. Additionally the study provides some insight into how heterosexuality is both a "goes without saying" sexuality route as well as a sometimes problematic achievement. / Sociology

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No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Rozilene de Morais Sousa.pdf: 1923396 bytes, checksum: 62fb33e17d0e6245834166fa953418eb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-06 / CAPES / A presente pesquisa está vinculada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da UFMT, Campus de Rondonópolis, sendo um produto de projeto aprovado no Observatório da Educação/2013 intitulado “Egressos da Licenciatura em Pedagogia e os Desafios da Prática em Narrativas: a Universidade e a Escola em um processo interdisciplinar de inserção do professor iniciante na carreira docente”. O objetivo dessa pesquisa consistiu em analisar a inserção do professor iniciante na escola, acompanhado por um professor experiente investigando como esse egresso vai constituindo sua identidade profissional docente nos anos iniciais da profissão. Insere-se na abordagem qualitativa, ancorando-se no método (auto) biográfico, com a adoção de memoriais da trajetória de formação profissional e entrevistas narrativas produzidos por cinco professoras iniciantes, três egressas do curso de Pedagogia da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso e duas de outras Instituições de Ensino Superior, as quais atuam em escolas públicas na cidade de Rondonópolis – MT. Ainda como sujeitos dessa pesquisa acrescentou-se duas professoras experientes, as quais produziram os memoriais de formação, com foco no processo de acompanhamento dessas iniciantes nas mesmas instituições de ensino. Para tanto, elencou-se como questões de investigação: Que dilemas e desafios as narrativas dos professores iniciantes descreveram acerca do início da carreira docente? O que narraram sobre a possibilidade de apoio de um professor experiente que os auxiliassem nos dilemas e embates vivenciados nos primeiros anos de docência? Como descreveram sua participação nos processos de formação propiciados pelo projeto OBEDUC/2013? De que forma este os auxiliou no processo de constituição da identidade docente? Os resultados das análises dos dados evidenciaram os principais dilemas e desafios desses egressos no processo de inserção no ambiente escolar. Também destacou-se a relevância e as contribuições do acompanhamento de um professor experiente como forma de apoio nas escolas onde trabalhavam. Além disso, ressaltou-se a importância da atuação do grupo de pesquisa do OBEDUC na realização da formação desses iniciantes, minimizando suas dificuldades por meio de um acompanhamento sistematizado e reflexivo do processo de ensino e aprendizagem desenvolvidos no ambiente escolar, contribuindo assim, para a constituição da identidade docente desses egressos. / This research is linked to the UFMT Post Graduate Program in Education, in Rondonópolis’ Campus, with a project product approved in the Observatory of Education / 2013 entitled "Egress in Pedagogy and the Challenges of Narratives Practice: the University and the School in an interdisciplinary process of beginning teacher's inclusion in the teaching profession". The objective of this research consisted in analyzing the insertion of the beginning teacher in school, accompanied by an experienced teacher, investigating how the egress will constitute the teaching professional identity in the early years of the profession. It is settled in the qualitative approach, and anchoring in the method (auto) biographical, with the adoption of professional formation trajectory memorials and narrative interviews produced by five beginning teachers, three egress of the Federal University of Mato Grosso’s Pedagogy and two other of Higher Education Institutions’ Pedagogy, wherein act in public schools in Rondonópolis – MT. Even as subjects of this research was added two experienced teachers, which produced the formation memorials, focusing on the monitoring process of these beginners in the same educational institutions. Therefore, it was listed as research questions: What dilemmas and challenges the narratives of beginning teachers reported about the beginning of the teaching profession? What was narrated about the possibility of support from an experienced teacher who should assist the dilemmas and conflicts experienced in the first years of teaching? How was described their participation in the training processes propitiated by OBEDUC / 2013 project? How did it help in the process of constitution of teacher identity? The results of the data analyzed showed the main dilemmas and challenges of the egress in the process of integration in the school environment. It also highlighted the relevance and contributions of the monitoring of an experienced teacher in support in schools where the egress work. In addition, it showed the importance of the role of the OBEDUC research group in carrying out the formation of these beginners, minimizing their difficulties through a systematic and reflective monitoring of teaching and learning process developed in the school environment, thus contributing to the constitution of the teaching identity of the egress.

The aim of the dissertation is to understand how Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) elaborated a musical narrative of the nation through his compositions. Therefore, were selected some works that we consider representative and which are, respectively, part of the Chôros series from the 1920s and the Brazilian Bachian-pieces elaborated between the 1930s and 1940s, besides the material organized by the composer for the teaching of orpheonic singing. Our research problem lies in investigate the ways how the several intellectual, artistic and historiographical contexts from the first half of the 20th century acted on the composer‘s sound thinking. Therefore, some dialogues will be established with the field of musicological research with the intent of formulating a methodological orientation of a dialogical and propositional character that will allows us to evaluate Villa-Lobos‘ work beyond its textual content, although it is not ignored. In this regard, a notion of ―musical texture‖ comes into play. Starting from it, will be possible to demonstrate how the composer sought to represent the ―imagined‖ nation according to its ―soundscapes‖, revealing, at the same time, a one and diverse perspective about the Brazilian identity. The work of Villa-Lobos is equivalent to the sense given by Gilberto Freyre in the expression ―balanced antagonism‖: a permeable, miscegenated music, in which contrasting elements of Brazilian musical culture are superimposed in harmony. At last, include Villa-Lobos in the list of interpreters of Brazil is fundamental to evaluate the scope and the outspread of identity narratives from the intellectual scenario of the first half of 20th century. / O objetivo da dissertação é compreender como Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) elaborou uma narrativa musical da nação através de suas composições. Para tanto, foram selecionadas algumas obras que consideramos representativas e que fazem parte, respectivamente, do ciclo de Choros da década de 1920, das Bachianas Brasileiras elaboradas entre as décadas de 1930 e 1940, além do material organizado pelo compositor para o ensino de canto orfeônico. Nosso problema de pesquisa reside em investigar as maneiras como atuaram os diversos contextos intelectuais, artísticos e historiográficos, da primeira metade do século XX, no pensamento sonoro desse compositor. Para tanto, serão estabelecidos alguns diálogos com o campo da pesquisa musicológica, com o intuito de formular uma orientação metodológica de caráter dialógico e propositivo que permitirá avaliar a obra de Villa-Lobos para além do seu conteúdo textual, embora esse não seja ignorado. Nesse sentido, entra em cena a noção de ―textura musical‖. A partir dela, será possível demonstrar como o compositor buscou representar a nação ―imaginada‖ segundo as suas ―paisagens sonoras‖, revelando uma perspectiva, ao mesmo tempo, una e diversa da identidade brasileira. A obra de Villa-Lobos se equivale ao sentido dado por Gilberto Freyre na expressão ―equilíbrio de antagonismos‖: uma música permeável, miscigenada, em que são sobrepostos, em harmonia, elementos contrastantes da cultura musical brasileira. Por fim, incluir Villa-Lobos no quadro de intérpretes do Brasil é fundamental para avaliar a abrangência e os desdobramentos das narrativas identitárias no cenário intelectual da primeira metade do século XX.

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