This dissertation project researched sudent mobility-- school changes not due to customary promotion-- and its educational correlates, for students and schools in Vermont. Student mobility research in other states has found that the majority of these students are disadvantaged youth from low-income families, and they lag behind their peers academically. Academic consequences of student mobility affect not only students, but also their schools since NCLBA implementation sanctions influence school enrollments by increasing student transfers. The need for information about rural student mobility during early NCLBA implementation is significant in predominantly rural Vermont. This was the first statewide study of outcomes of mobility for students and schools in a rural state. Three basic research questions were: (a) What is the incidence of mobility among Vermont students and schools? (b) What is the impact of mobility, i.e., how does the incidence of mobility vary according to educational correlates for students and schools? (c) What do multilevel analytical models reveal about variation in mobility from student and school perspectives that may be useful for educational policy and practice? To address these questions, the study analyzed data for Vermont public school students, grades 1 through 12, during school years 1999-2004. Data sources included: (a) the Vermont Department of Education Student Census and Demographic Update; (b) student New Standards Reference Examination English Language Arts and Mathematics tests, grades 4, 8, and 10; (c) Vermont School Report indicators, and (d) NCES-US Census public school location information. In-depth cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of mobility, performance, sociodemographic, and educational correlates revealed significant and disturbing relationships that merit policy and prevention follow-up programming. School-level mobility incidence indicated that while in-migration was 20% on average, over 30% of the schools experienced much higher rates, mirroring urban-based mobility incidence. Academically, mobile students performed 3-10 percentile ranks lower than their stable counterparts did across grade levels and content areas on standardized tests, for longitudinal cohorts as well as cross-sectional grade groups. Risk factor analyses revealed that mobile students, relative to their stable peers, were (a) more likely to participate in free or reduced lunch programs at school, (b) less likely to have a 504 plan in place, (c) more likely to have kept a writing portfolio for 0-1 years (versus 2-5 years), (d) more likely to have kept a mathematics portfolio 0-1 years (versus 2-5 years), and (e) more likely to not meet the standard on mathematics performance tests. Hierarchical generalized nonlinear modeling analyses indicated that between 8% and 32% of the variation in student mobility was attributable to school-level composition and resources. This project aimed to benefit the Vermont educational community in several ways. Analytical methodology will provide the framework for developing a longitudinal monitoring system with mobility incidence, impact, and relevant educational information. Information from analytical results will inform a case study during spring 2005 to address student mobility by raising public awareness of associated issues that affect not only the students and their families, but also classrooms, schools and communities.

Nosso objeto de estudo é o processo de reorganização do mercado de trabalho, durante as últimas décadas da escravidão, em São Paulo e no Pará. Através da análise dos relatórios dos presidentes de província e de artigos publicados em jornais, principalmente, procuramos interpretar a formulação de representações acerca do trabalhador imigrante. Argumentamos que estas imagens não dizem respeito apenas a seus referentes imediatos, ou seja, os trabalhadores estrangeiros, que os grupos dominantes desejavam como substitutos para os escravos, mas também aos próprios trabalhadores aqui existentes, cativos ou não. Através de um jogo de imagens, invertendo qualidades e defeitos que atribuíam à força de trabalho existente no país, jornalistas e administradores de província não estavam aludindo a um trabalhador real, mas construindo representações que guardavam relações com as dificuldades que os proprietários rurais enfrentavam para conseguir uma força de trabalho numerosa, disciplina e dependente. Em termos historiográficos, corroboramos uma tendência verificada nas produções mais recentes, que concebem a existência de um pacto político entre as elites dirigentes do Governo Imperial e as elites regionais, e não uma subordinação destas por aquelas. A comparação entre semelhanças e especificidades das duas províncias pesquisadas evidenciou que os grupos envolvidos na produção agro-exportadora procuravam conseguir a adesão de setores mais amplos ao seu projeto político. Ao investirem na idéia da properidade futura da nação, condicionando-a ao desenvolvimento da agricultura de exportação, tentavam evitar que propostas alternativas de desenvolvimento fossem gestadas, prejudicando seus interesses. / Our object of study is the process of rearrangement of the work market, during the last decades of the slavery, in São Paulo and Pará provinces. Through the analysis of two kinds of sources, like Presidents of Provinces’ reports to the assembly and several articles published in local periodicals – in São Paulo and Pará – we studied the construction of representations concerning immigrant worker. We argue that these images were not only related to the foreign workers, which were wanted by dominant groups of society as substitute for the slave-workers. In according to our analysis, those representations were also related to Brazilians workers, captives or not. Through a game of images, inverting qualities and defects that they attributed to the work force existed in the country, journalists and administrators of provinces made up the image of an ideal worker that kept relations with the difficulties that the agricultural proprietors faced to obtain a numerous force of work, disciplined and dependent. In History terms we corroborate a trend verified in the recent productions which conceive the existence of a politician pact between the elite controllers of the Imperial Government and the local elites, and not a subordination of these for those. The comparison between similarities and specificities of the two provinces evidenced that the groups involved in the agro-exporter production looked for to obtain the adhesion of great sectors to its politics projects. Those groups invested in the idea of the prosper future of the nation, conditioning that idea to the development to the exportation of agriculture products to prevent that other alternatives proposals to the development of the country gained force, harming its interests.

O objetivo dessa pesquisa é analisar os fundamentos históricos do debate intelectual francês sobre a presença muçulmana no país e traçar suas características principais em um mapa crítico do debate. O estudo visa fornecer elementos de compreensão acerca dos desafios atuais e das possíveis conseqüências políticas desses projetos intelectuais para o futuro da integração ou da segregação dos muçulmanos franceses. / This research aimed at analyzing the historical foundations of the French intellectual debate on the muslim presence in the country, as well as forging a critical map of this debate. This study intends to provide tools for understanding both the current challenges involved and the possible political consequences of those intellectual projects to the future of integration or segregation of French muslims.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Carlos Luna Chorro.pdf: 3518136 bytes, checksum: c820b441c0fe4bef1e3296c5a3d8b9d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-14 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present research aims to study the Spanish cultural practices that make up the Fiesta de Andalucía, held at the Sociedade Hispano Brasileira located in Sao Paulo, Brazil , as well as the daily lives of a group of Spaniards and their descendants. The Oral History has helped us in trying to understand how the Fiesta intervenes in the lives of this group who attends it in order to socialize. Through the newspaper Alborada, published by the Sociedade Hispano Brasileira, we have tried to learn how the party, as well as the Flamenco dance, are perceived by its editors and its importance in the calendar of activities of the Sociedade Hispan Brasileira. The experiences of this group and its values in everyday life have enabled us to observe that the Spanish culture and its dimensions occur in different ways for each Spaniard or descendent. The interviews enabled us to realize that the experiences shared by the group indicate that the party has undergone some changes over the years. The narratives of their experiences at the party and in the Sociedade Hispano Brasileira have been very important for us to understand how the group perceives itself as a Spanish/Brazilian, living in a Hispanic/Brazilian culture / A pesquisa tem por objetivo estudar as práticas culturais espanholas que se constituem na Fiesta de Andalucía, realizada na Sociedade Hispano Brasileira em São Paulo, assim como no cotidiano de um grupo de espanhóis e descendentes. A História Oral auxiliou-nos na tentativa de compreender como a Fiesta intervém na vida deste grupo que dela participa, no intuito de se sociabilizar. Através do periódico publicado pela Sociedade jornal Alborada, buscamos apreender de que forma a festa, bem como a dança flamenca são percebidas por seus redatores e qual sua importância no calendário de atividades do Clube Hispano. As experiências deste grupo no cotidiano e seus valores possibilitaram-nos vislumbrar que a cultura espanhola e suas dimensões ocorrem de maneiras distintas para cada espanhol ou descendente. As entrevistas permitiram-nos perceber que as experiências compartilhadas pelo grupo indicam que a festa sofreu algumas transformações ao longo dos anos. As narrativas de suas experiências na festa e na Sociedade foram muito importantes para conseguirmos entender como o grupo se percebe como espanhol/brasileiro, vivendo uma cultura hispano/brasileira

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Henry Albert Yukio Nakashima.pdf: 4431633 bytes, checksum: f7761e5503bb09d0beaaf8424da129a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / From the second half of the 19th Century, migratory movements brought to Brazil people called "Arabs". Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians and other nationalities who, due to social political economic conjunctures in their region, decided to come into other lands adventures. They left behind their families, they brought in the luggage longings, hopes, culture and religion. In Brazilian land - specifically in Sao Paulo, the case of this work they were established, they remained longer, they were adapted. This study investigated the adapting process, by which one of the immigrants religious practices, Islam, from the second half of the 20th Century, to São Paulo City. In the same way, as this practice, so different from local cultures, served as identity contribution for these people, besides being their Allah connection. The used instrument was the Muslims memory who lived in such period. From their interviews, the goal was to disclose this process. I take a place for history and fundamentals of this religion, and their presence in the Iberian peninsula, and also among African slaves in Brazil, stating that relationship between Islam and ourselves goes beyond any assumption. Among the whole existing Paulicéia cultural richness, Islam can not be ignored. The title in Arabic means: the religion is in the heart . This sentence is a quote from an immigrant who thinks that religion is beyond the adjustments which it has to pass through during the history. The idea summarizes the work / A partir da segunda metade do século XIX, as levas migratórias trouxeram para o Brasil os povos chamados "árabes". Sírios, libaneses, palestinos, além de outras nacionalidades que, em face das conjunturas sociais-econômicas-políticas de sua região, decidiram aventurar-se por outras terras. Deixaram para trás sua família; trouxeram na bagagem anseios, esperança, cultura e religião. Em terras brasileiras especificamente em São Paulo, no caso deste trabalho estabeleceram-se, permaneceram, adaptaram-se. Este trabalho investigou o processo pelo qual uma das práticas religiosas desses imigrantes, o Islamismo, a partir da segunda metade do século XX, passou para se adaptar à cidade de São Paulo. Da mesma forma, como essa prática, tão distinta das culturas locais, serviu de aporte identitário a essas pessoas, além de ser seu vínculo com Allah. O caminho utilizado foi a memória de muçulmanos que viveram o período em questão. A partir de suas entrevistas buscou-se desvelar esse processo. Reservo espaço para a história e os fundamentos dessa religião, além de sua presença na península ibérica e entre os negros escravizados no Brasil, demonstrando que nossa relação com o Islam vai além do que se pode supor. Dentro de toda riqueza cultural existente na Paulicéia, o Islam não pode ser ignorado. O título em árabe significa "a religião está no coração", afirmação de um imigrante ao dizer que ela está além das adaptações pelas quais passa, e que resume a ideia deste trabalho

O objetivo dessa pesquisa é analisar os fundamentos históricos do debate intelectual francês sobre a presença muçulmana no país e traçar suas características principais em um mapa crítico do debate. O estudo visa fornecer elementos de compreensão acerca dos desafios atuais e das possíveis conseqüências políticas desses projetos intelectuais para o futuro da integração ou da segregação dos muçulmanos franceses. / This research aimed at analyzing the historical foundations of the French intellectual debate on the muslim presence in the country, as well as forging a critical map of this debate. This study intends to provide tools for understanding both the current challenges involved and the possible political consequences of those intellectual projects to the future of integration or segregation of French muslims.

Este trabalho pretende tratar a música caipira, nosso objeto da pesquisa, sob um ponto de vista transcultural, onde, além de evidenciarmos a relação desta com as manifestações portuguesas, indígenas e negras - já largamente comentadas na bibliografia sobre o assunto, vamos procurar também traços, ou reminiscências, de música italiana. O fenômeno da imigração italiana no início do século XX fez parte de um projeto político que visava o aprimoramento das condições morais da sociedade brasileira. Por outro lado havia os habitantes dos espaços rurais do estado de São Paulo, os caipiras, que concentravam grande parte das características consideradas indesejáveis para os intelectuais urbanizados que visavam o progresso do país. Assim, graças à expansão das grandes fazendas na região rural do estado e do assentamento de colônias italianas também no interior, os caipiras estiveram expostos à convivência com estes trabalhadores italianos. Passamos a nos perguntar a respeito de como teria se dado o encaminhamento deste amálgama de culturas (nativo x italiano), especificamente na música. Propusemo-nos a procurar o quê de italiano haveria na música dos nativos. Escolhemos a música caipira por ser um gênero que entrou em ascensão em um momento próximo da chegada dos imigrantes ao país, portanto era a manifestação musical de um grupo que esteve diretamente ligado aos italianos. Acreditamos que estes eventos mereçam ainda mais dedicação por parte dos pesquisadores, uma vez que manifestado o alto grau de possibilidades envolvidas na interação de diversas culturas, estas ainda necessitem de mais colaborações que tratem de elucidá-las. / This work intends to treat the caipira music, our object of research, from a transcultural point of view, where, in addition to showing its relation with the Portuguese, Indian and Black manifestations - already widely commented on in the bibliography on the subject, we will also look for traces , Or reminiscences, of Italian music. The phenomenon of Italian immigration in the early 20th century was part of a political project aimed at improving the moral conditions of Brazilian society. On the other hand, there were the inhabitants of the rural areas of the state of São Paulo, the Caipiras, who concentrated much of the characteristics considered undesirable for the urbanized intellectuals that aimed the progress of the country. Thus, thanks to the expansion of the large farms in the rural area of the state and the settlement of Italian colonies also inland, the Caipiras were exposed to coexistence with these Italian workers. We began to wonder how the referral of this mixture of cultures (native x Italian), specifically in music, would have taken place. We set out to find out what Italian would be in the music of the natives. We chose caipira music because it was a genre that came on the rise at a time when immigrants arrived in the country, so it was the musical manifestation of a group that was directly connected to the Italians. We believe that these events deserve even greater dedication on the part of the researchers, since they expressed the high degree of possibilities involved in the interaction of diverse cultures, these still need more collaborations that try to elucidate them.

The dissertation ?Vietnamese Immigrants in the Czech Republic and their medial image? deals with present intercultural current issues. Journalistic texts in tabloids and also in quality press give media depiction to Czech citizens about the effect of Vietnamese community living in the Czech Republic. The dissertation contains eight chapters. The first chapter deals with the history and the formation of Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic from the beginning till the present. The second chapter gives information about the independent mentality and culture of Vietnamese ethnic group including information about Vietnamese language. The third chapter deals with the world of the mass media primarily the printed media. It gives information about their functions and their influence on the recipients. The next chapter characterizes particular periodicals which are bases of this dissertation. The fifth chapter includes basic information about persuasion in journalism. Journalistic functional style would be nonsensical without it. It contains verbal and also non-verbal devices. The sixth chapter deals with analysis of thematic?contextual components of journalistic texts about Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. The seventh chapter focuses on analysis of titles of journalistic texts of Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic. The final chapter of this dissertation addresses the most frequent persvazive verbal devices which are used when journalistic texts about the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic are being made. The aim of that analysis is to raise awareness about the complex verbal scene regarding the Vietnamese community which is presented in printed mass medias in the Czech Republic.

Nosso objeto de estudo é o processo de reorganização do mercado de trabalho, durante as últimas décadas da escravidão, em São Paulo e no Pará. Através da análise dos relatórios dos presidentes de província e de artigos publicados em jornais, principalmente, procuramos interpretar a formulação de representações acerca do trabalhador imigrante. Argumentamos que estas imagens não dizem respeito apenas a seus referentes imediatos, ou seja, os trabalhadores estrangeiros, que os grupos dominantes desejavam como substitutos para os escravos, mas também aos próprios trabalhadores aqui existentes, cativos ou não. Através de um jogo de imagens, invertendo qualidades e defeitos que atribuíam à força de trabalho existente no país, jornalistas e administradores de província não estavam aludindo a um trabalhador real, mas construindo representações que guardavam relações com as dificuldades que os proprietários rurais enfrentavam para conseguir uma força de trabalho numerosa, disciplina e dependente. Em termos historiográficos, corroboramos uma tendência verificada nas produções mais recentes, que concebem a existência de um pacto político entre as elites dirigentes do Governo Imperial e as elites regionais, e não uma subordinação destas por aquelas. A comparação entre semelhanças e especificidades das duas províncias pesquisadas evidenciou que os grupos envolvidos na produção agro-exportadora procuravam conseguir a adesão de setores mais amplos ao seu projeto político. Ao investirem na idéia da properidade futura da nação, condicionando-a ao desenvolvimento da agricultura de exportação, tentavam evitar que propostas alternativas de desenvolvimento fossem gestadas, prejudicando seus interesses. / Our object of study is the process of rearrangement of the work market, during the last decades of the slavery, in São Paulo and Pará provinces. Through the analysis of two kinds of sources, like Presidents of Provinces’ reports to the assembly and several articles published in local periodicals – in São Paulo and Pará – we studied the construction of representations concerning immigrant worker. We argue that these images were not only related to the foreign workers, which were wanted by dominant groups of society as substitute for the slave-workers. In according to our analysis, those representations were also related to Brazilians workers, captives or not. Through a game of images, inverting qualities and defects that they attributed to the work force existed in the country, journalists and administrators of provinces made up the image of an ideal worker that kept relations with the difficulties that the agricultural proprietors faced to obtain a numerous force of work, disciplined and dependent. In History terms we corroborate a trend verified in the recent productions which conceive the existence of a politician pact between the elite controllers of the Imperial Government and the local elites, and not a subordination of these for those. The comparison between similarities and specificities of the two provinces evidenced that the groups involved in the agro-exporter production looked for to obtain the adhesion of great sectors to its politics projects. Those groups invested in the idea of the prosper future of the nation, conditioning that idea to the development to the exportation of agriculture products to prevent that other alternatives proposals to the development of the country gained force, harming its interests.

Este trabalho pretende tratar a música caipira, nosso objeto da pesquisa, sob um ponto de vista transcultural, onde, além de evidenciarmos a relação desta com as manifestações portuguesas, indígenas e negras - já largamente comentadas na bibliografia sobre o assunto, vamos procurar também traços, ou reminiscências, de música italiana. O fenômeno da imigração italiana no início do século XX fez parte de um projeto político que visava o aprimoramento das condições morais da sociedade brasileira. Por outro lado havia os habitantes dos espaços rurais do estado de São Paulo, os caipiras, que concentravam grande parte das características consideradas indesejáveis para os intelectuais urbanizados que visavam o progresso do país. Assim, graças à expansão das grandes fazendas na região rural do estado e do assentamento de colônias italianas também no interior, os caipiras estiveram expostos à convivência com estes trabalhadores italianos. Passamos a nos perguntar a respeito de como teria se dado o encaminhamento deste amálgama de culturas (nativo x italiano), especificamente na música. Propusemo-nos a procurar o quê de italiano haveria na música dos nativos. Escolhemos a música caipira por ser um gênero que entrou em ascensão em um momento próximo da chegada dos imigrantes ao país, portanto era a manifestação musical de um grupo que esteve diretamente ligado aos italianos. Acreditamos que estes eventos mereçam ainda mais dedicação por parte dos pesquisadores, uma vez que manifestado o alto grau de possibilidades envolvidas na interação de diversas culturas, estas ainda necessitem de mais colaborações que tratem de elucidá-las. / This work intends to treat the caipira music, our object of research, from a transcultural point of view, where, in addition to showing its relation with the Portuguese, Indian and Black manifestations - already widely commented on in the bibliography on the subject, we will also look for traces , Or reminiscences, of Italian music. The phenomenon of Italian immigration in the early 20th century was part of a political project aimed at improving the moral conditions of Brazilian society. On the other hand, there were the inhabitants of the rural areas of the state of São Paulo, the Caipiras, who concentrated much of the characteristics considered undesirable for the urbanized intellectuals that aimed the progress of the country. Thus, thanks to the expansion of the large farms in the rural area of the state and the settlement of Italian colonies also inland, the Caipiras were exposed to coexistence with these Italian workers. We began to wonder how the referral of this mixture of cultures (native x Italian), specifically in music, would have taken place. We set out to find out what Italian would be in the music of the natives. We chose caipira music because it was a genre that came on the rise at a time when immigrants arrived in the country, so it was the musical manifestation of a group that was directly connected to the Italians. We believe that these events deserve even greater dedication on the part of the researchers, since they expressed the high degree of possibilities involved in the interaction of diverse cultures, these still need more collaborations that try to elucidate them.