<p>This aim of this study was to highlight the major learning perspectives discernible from five adult African immigrants’ experience of learning Swedish as a second language. The focus was on the analysis of the challenges that these immigrants encountered in the learning process and the factors that supported their learning. This study revealed two dominant perspectives in adult African immigrants’ experience of learning Swedish as a second language. These perspectives which hinge on social participation and individual responsibility complement each other and are geared toward the same goals: the acquisition of the Swedish language and integration into the Swedish society.</p>

This aim of this study was to highlight the major learning perspectives discernible from five adult African immigrants’ experience of learning Swedish as a second language. The focus was on the analysis of the challenges that these immigrants encountered in the learning process and the factors that supported their learning. This study revealed two dominant perspectives in adult African immigrants’ experience of learning Swedish as a second language. These perspectives which hinge on social participation and individual responsibility complement each other and are geared toward the same goals: the acquisition of the Swedish language and integration into the Swedish society.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:42:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GilberlandioNS_DISSERT.pdf: 1649647 bytes, checksum: 34b4c44283fc70f12bbd88843af8f3cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-27 / The aiming of this work is linked to chemical education, focusing organic chemistry classes of Chemical Engineering, Pharmacy and Zootechny graduate courses of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. For that, teaching-learning process related to basic chemical subjects which support the understanding of organic chemistry concepts was evaluated in a research period of two years. The education proposal linked to the theoretical content of the cited classes, pointed out the process of knowledge construction, in which educational commitment as well as dedication in the teaching-learning process was also valued. In that approach several didactic tools were applied, among them scientific articles were used as supplementary studies of the basic organic chemistry concepts and related. The acceptability of students, as well as their motivation, performance and learning process was justified by the data collection of the applied teaching methodology. The acceptability and commitment of the students facing this teaching interactive approach, which transversely contributed to the intellectual maturity growth of the students, as well their professional development, were evidenced by satisfactory obtained results that will be herein discussed / O enfoque deste trabalho est? vinculado ao ensino de qu?mica, com abordagem espec?fica para disciplinas de Qu?mica Org?nica ministradas nos cursos presenciais de gradua??o em Engenharia Qu?mica, Farm?cia e Zootecnia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Para tanto, realizou-se uma pesquisa com dura??o de dois anos consecutivos, objetivando-se a avalia??o do processo ensino e aprendizado referente aos conceitos qu?micos b?sicos que d?o suporte ao entendimento da qu?mica org?nica. A proposta de ensino vinculada aos conte?dos te?ricos dessas disciplinas valorizou o processo de constru??o do conhecimento, que sinaliza para a necessidade de comprometimento educacional no processo ensino e aprendizado. Neste estudo, diversas ferramentas did?ticas foram aplicadas, dentre elas, destaca-se leituras complementares de artigos cient?ficos que abordam assuntos pontuais ou correlatos aos conhecimentos b?sicas de qu?mica org?nica. A proposta para o instrumento de coleta de dados consistiu em avaliar o desempenho e aprendizado dos alunos. De acordo com os resultados obtidos foi poss?vel comprovar que os ?ndices satisfat?rios de aprova??o nas turmas avaliadas, demonstram o comprometimento do aluno diante da metodologia aplicada, que de forma transversal contribui para a forma??o profissional e o amadurecimento intelectual do estudante