This research explored older Slovenians’ occupations, including the ways in which the transition into a care home influenced their occupational engagement. The research encompassed three stages. Stage 1 investigated Slovenian older people’s individual experiences of occupational engagement, with a particular emphasis on their personally meaningful occupations. Stage 2 aimed to enhance understanding of the impact of transition into a care home on older Slovenians’ meaningful occupations. Finally, Stage 3 sought to provide an insight into older people’s occupational engagement in one Slovenian care home. The first two stages of this research took a phenomenological approach; focusing on the participants’ individual experiences of occupational engagement; using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to approach and analyse the data. Ten older adults were interviewed in Stage 1 and six older adults were interviewed in Stage 2 at three time points: before the relocation into a care home, one month after and six months after the relocation. The final stage was ethnographic in nature; exploring occupational engagement among Slovenian care home residents as a culture-sharing group; using observations for collecting the data and analysing the resulting field notes using Thematic Analysis. The findings consistently highlighted the significance of occupations and routines in participants’ everyday lives as important parts of their identities. The first two stages highlighted the importance of a continuous experience of meaning in occupation, across participants’ lives and throughout their transition into a care home. Some of these meanings were specific to Slovenian socio-cultural, historic and geographical context. The participants especially valued productive occupations such as gardening, family-related occupations such as looking after and passing knowledge to younger generations and occupations related to particular places, such as spending time at their weekend cottages and home surroundings, walking familiar pathways or hiking Slovenian mountains. These Slovenian older adults purposefully engaged in health-promoting occupations in order to maintain their health, in turn influencing their occupational engagement. Since their everyday routines were related to particular places, Stages 2 and 3 highlighted that some of these occupations were disrupted by their new living environment. The care home residents managed this situation by trying to maintain their engagement in occupations that they perceived personally meaningful and enjoyable. This research is foundational in the Slovenian context, with the findings also being transferrable to individuals and contexts outside Slovenia. From exploring the impact of older people’s living environments on their meaningful occupational engagement, the findings contribute original knowledge to occupational science regarding the link between occupation, place, identity and the transactional perspective of occupation. This indicates the need to develop further therapeutic programmes and services for older people making the transition to care home living.

O presente trabalho possui como tema a importância da presença de sentido nas aulas de Geografia. Nossa delimitação analítica está pautada na relação do sentido) como facilitador ou não do processo de ensino-aprendizagem em Geografia. O caminho investigativo emprega o Paradigma da Complexidade como desafio para a compreensão do mundo pautado nas técnicas da Pesquisa Qualitativa. As lentes desta pesquisa estão projetadas a partir do estudo do Espaço Geográfico, da Paisagem e do Lugar. A pesquisa possui como preocupação inicial o estudo de caminhos metodológicos que propiciem a percepção do sentido nas aulas, por meio da criação, vivência e atitude dos estudantes, a fim de que tenhamos clareza epistemológica para buscarmos aproximações com as demandas da área do ensino de Geografia. A partir disso, problematizamos os desafios que encontramos nas salas de aula, as proximidades que esta ciência pode possuir com o estudo do sentido e investigamos as possibilidades que favorecem maior atribuição do mesmo por parte dos alunos. Utilizamos como referência para o trabalho, as contribuições da linha psicanalítica denominada Logoterapia, formulada pelo psicoterapeuta vienense Viktor E. Frankl (2008), seu trabalho aponta para a superação das dificuldades a partir do encontro com o sentido que os sujeitos atribuem às suas vidas. Após tais aproximações teóricas, apresentamos atividades pedagógicas, baseadas nas contribuições da Logoterapia, nas teorias de Ensino da Geografia e na Epistemologia Genética de Piaget (1974), que consideramos apresentar elementos que favoreçam a atribuição de sentido pelos sujeitos envolvidos em suas aulas e propiciem a construção do conhecimento. O trabalho indica a necessidade de repensarmos nossas práticas, a fim de que nossas aulas possam ir ao encontro da vida de quem estuda Geografia, para que esses alunos desenvolvam habilidade de análise, de reflexão e aplicação do conhecimento estudado para com a vida. / The present work has as theme the importance of the presence of meaning in Geography‟s classes. Our analytical delimitation is based on the relationship of meaning as a facilitator or not of the teaching-learning process in Geography. The investigative path applies the Complexity‟s Paradigm as a challenge for understanding of the world based on Qualitative Research Techniques. The lenses of this research are projected from the study of Geographic Space, Landscape and of Place. The research has as initial concern the study of methodological ways that enable the sense‟s perception in the classes, through the creation, experience and attitude of the students, in order that we have epistemological clarity to seek approximations with demands of the Geography teaching‟s area. From this, we problematize the challenges that find in the classrooms, the proximities that this science can possess with the study of meaning and we investigate the possibilities that favor a large attribution of the same on the part of the students. We have like contributions of the psychoanalytic line named Logotherapy, it was developed by the Viennese psychotherapist Viktor E. Frankl (2008), his work aims at overcoming the difficulties from the encounter with the sense that the subjects attribute to their lives. After these theoretical approaches, we show pedagogical activities, based on the contributions of Logotherapy, in Geography‟s Teaching and the Piaget Genetics‟ Epistemology by Piaget (1974), which we consider as showing elements that favor the attribution of meaning by subjects involved in their classes and allow knowledge‟s construction. The work indicates the necessity to rethink our practices, so our classes can come to the meeting of life of those who study Geography, and these students develop analysis‟ ability, reflection and knowledge‟s application studied to life.

Esta tese tem como objetivo analisar o folhado textual da crônica jornalística de Antônio Maria e de Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos, investigando os operadores que agem na produção de sentido, sobretudo os aspectos enunciativos, como as vozes presentes na situação discursiva e os contextos em que se dão tais relações, e ainda atentar para a importância da palavra que desperta a paixão pelo texto, que leva a uma reflexão crítica sobre o seu tempo e sua história.Por meio da crônica desses dois autores, investigar a importância deste gênero textual nos atuais veículos midiáticos, reconhecendo neste gênero um importante papel de identidade cultural da sociedade brasileira. Perceber que, de certa forma, a função catártica da crônica jornalística de Antônio Maria e de Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos pode levar o leitor a sua própria identificação com o mundo que o cerca e com o espaço em que está inserido papel, afinal, da leitura de um texto, mais ainda, de um texto com traços literários. Sabendo, certamente, que é a língua, a palavra, a sustentação de todo esse processo / This thesis aims to analyze the rolling text of journalistic chronicle of Antonio Maria and Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos, investigating the operators acting in the production of meaning, especially aspects of enunciation, like the voices in the present situation and the discursive contexts in which give such relationship, and still pay attention to the importance of the word that arouses a passion for the text, which leads to a critical reflection upon their time and history. Through these two chronic authors investigate the importance of this genre in today's media vehicles, recognizing this genre an important role of cultural identity of Brazilian society. Realize that, somehow, the cathartic function of journalistic chronicle of Antonio Maria and Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos can lead the reader to identify himself with the world around him and with the space in which it appears the role, after all, the reading a text, even more, with traces of a literary text. Knowing, of course, that is the language, the word, to support this process

Esta pesquisa tem como problema de investigação o sentido de vida na adolescência. E os objetivos a alcançar foram: discutir questões atuais relativas à adolescência; analisar questões centrais da Logoterapia, propostas por Viktor Frankl; e investigar empiricamente o sentido de vida na adolescência. Na pesquisa ex post facto realizada, foram submetidas à corroboração cinco conjecturas, relacionando adolescência, sexo, orientação confessional da escola e sentido de vida. Os participantes foram 230 alunos, cuja idade variou de 16 a 18 anos, sendo 91 do sexo masculino e 139 do sexo feminino, todos eles matriculados em escolas públicas e privadas do Ensino Médio da cidade de Petrópolis, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Foram selecionadas duas escolas públicas, uma estadual e uma municipal, além de quatro escolas privadas, sendo duas leigas e duas confessionais, que atendem alunos de classe sócio-econômica diferenciada. Utilizamos o Logo-Teste, originalmente elaborado por Elizabeth Lukas, como instrumento de medida do sentido de vida dos participantes. Das cinco conjecturas testadas, duas foram corroboradas: a de que não há diferença significativa no sentido de vida entre adolescentes do sexo masculino e do sexo feminino e a de que não há diferença significativa no sentido de vida entre adolescentes de escolas públicas e particulares leigas. Além disso, observou-se que as médias obtidas por todos os grupos de participantes situam-se na faixa da estabilidade psíquica, sem riscos de ocorrência de neurose noógena ou depressão noógena. / This research aims at investigating the meaning of life in the adolescence. And the objectives to be achieved were: to discuss present questions relative to adolescence; to analyse core questions of Logotherapy, proposed by Viktor Frankl, and to investigate empirically the meaning of life in adolescence. In the research made ex post facto, five conjectures have been submitted to corroboration, relative to adolescence, sex, school confessional orientation, and the meaning of life. The participants were 230 students aged between 16 and 18, of those 91 males and 139 females, all of them attending public and private high schools in the city of Petropolis, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two public schools have been selected, one belonging to the state and the other to the municipality and also four private schools, two laic and two confessional private high schools which cater for students belonging to middle class and the upper middle class. We have used the Logo-test, originally devised by Elizabeth Lucas, as an instrument for measuring the meaning of life of the participants. Of the five conjectures that have been tested, two have been corroborated: the fact that there is no significant difference among male and female adolescents, and that there is no significant difference in the meaning of life among adolescents attending public schools and private laic schools. Furthermore it has been observed that the average marks obtained by all groups of participants belong to the rank of psychic stability, without any risk of noogenous neurosis or noogenous depression.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / O objetivo desta tese consistiu em saber se os sentidos compartilhados e os significados construídos sobre o choro das crianças nas creches públicas do município de Juiz de Fora, durante as sessões reflexivas com as coordenadoras/diretoras, produzem espaços de reflexão teórica sobre as práticas capazes de criar uma prática de reflexão. Pelo tipo de problema formulado optei por trabalhar a perspectiva metodológica a partir do paradigma crítico de pesquisa, concretizado na modalidade de pesquisa crítica de colaboração, com enfoque sócio-histórico-cultural. Isto se justifica porque busco compreender o lugar do choro das crianças nas práticas das coordenadoras/diretoras, procurando identificar se a consciência das ações institucionalizadas pode produzir mudanças nas práticas no interior das creches. O corpus discurso da tese constitui-se de 10 sessões reflexivas, cujos dados produzidos foram organizados e analisados a partir da perspectiva teórico-metodológica dos Núcleos de Significação de Aguiar e Ozella (2006). O campo teórico está circunscrito no diálogo entre Vigotski, Bakhtin e Wallon. Isso porque estes autores contribuíram, sobremaneira, para a discussão sobre sentido, significado; linguagem e consciência, zona de desenvolvimento proximal, além do estudo da emoção, em especial, sobre a manifestação do choro da criança no contexto da creche. A arquitetura dos Núcleos de Significação revelou a necessidade de aprofundar questões relacionadas aos diversos olhares para o choro da criança; estratégias para lidar com o choro a partir da visão das coordenadoras/diretoras; o controle/descontrole/não controle do choro; a inter-relação do choro, da creche e da família e, finalmente, a reflexão teórico-prática como possibilidade de reverberação no cotidiano da creche. As análises confirmaram três premissas básicas: a) que a emoção constitui-se como o primeiro recurso de interação com o outro, que antecede a própria representação simbólica e por isso é valioso o aprofundamento deste assunto em cursos de formação; b) quando tornamos a cena vivida mais clara, essa clareza pode trazer elementos para outras possíveis intervenções, para outros possíveis diálogos sobre o choro da criança. A perspectiva de transformação pode acontecer exatamente no diálogo entre o cotidiano, a história e espaços de reflexão; c) que o fundamental, nos contextos de formação, é não focalizar apenas o conteúdo a ser transmitido sem possibilidade de reflexão sobre o próprio contexto a que se destina porque é pelo possível distanciamento e necessário estranhamento das práticas rotineiras, esporadicamente ou quase nunca questionadas, que a reflexão e a crítica se estabelecem. / The objective of this thesis is to find out whether shared feelings and constructed meanings for childrens crying in public nursery schools of the city of Juiz de Fora, during reflection sessions with coordinators/principals, produce theoretical reflection spaces on practices that may create a reflection practice. Based on the type of problem formulated, I chose to work the methodological perspective from a critical research paradigm achieved in the critical collaboration research modality with a social-historical-cultural focus. This is justified by the fact that I seek to understand the place childrens crying occupies in the practices of coordinators/principals, and try to identify if awareness of institutionalized actions can produce changes in a nursery schools internal practices. The thesis discourse corpus consists of 10 reflecting sessions; all resulting data was organized and reviewed from the Aguiar and Ozella (2006) Signification Nuclei theoretical-methodological perspective. The theoretical field is included in the dialogue among Vigotski, Bakhtin, and Wallon. This is because these authors have immensely contributed to the discussion on meaning, significance, language and conscience, the proximal development zone, as well as the study of emotion, especially on the manifestation of childrens crying in the context of a nursery school. The Signification Nuclei architecture revealed the necessity to go deeper into these questions relating to the different outlooks on childrens crying; strategies to deal with the crying from the view of coordinators/principals; the control/uncontrol/non-control of crying; the interrelation of crying, nursery school, and family, and finally the theoretical-practical reflection as a possibility to reverberate in a nursery schools everyday life. Analyses confirmed three basic premises: a) that emotion constitutes the first interaction resource with the other, which antecedes the symbolic representation itself and therefore it is of great value to go deeper into this subject in educational courses; b) that when we make the experienced scene clearer, this clearness can bring elements for other possible interventions, for other possible dialogues on childrens crying. The transformation perspective can happen exactly in the dialogue between everyday life, history and reflection spaces; c) that the fundamental aspect, in the context of education, is not to focus only on the context to be transmitted without the possibility of reflection on the target context itself, because it is through the potential withdrawal from and necessary strangeness of routine practices, sporadically or almost never questioned, that reflection and critique are established.

abstract: My job in this thesis is to explore a supposedly dragon-filled area of philosophy, tropology. By 'tropology,' I only mean the study of figurative speech, or, more particularly, metaphors. It seems clear to most people that metaphors have meaning. But this fact flies in the face of several different theories of meaning. Such as, the meaning of a metaphor can't be properly conveyed by Possible Worlds Semantics or Truth-Conditional Semantics. Tropology is also an area of philosophy with very few commonly accepted theories. It is not like the study of reference, where there are two theories, each having a large following. The the various theories in tropology are so radically different, with each having relatively few followers, that the it is widely unexplored in philosophy. Some theories claim that metaphors is the exact same as another use of speech (namely, similes). Another claims that metaphors lack “meaning.” And a third claims that metaphors do 'mean' but getting at that meaning requires some special mental operations. By the end of this thesis, you will not only have my map of tropology, my theory of metaphors, but also some experimental philosophy about them to help put to rest some theories. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Philosophy 2016

There is a paucity of literature into the first-person account of hearing voices (HV)1, particularly from diverse cultural groups. This research aimed to explore the meaning-making of African-Caribbean men who have heard voices, within a social constructionist framework. Five participants were recruited via community networks and individually interviewed. Narrative analysis was employed to illustrate both individual and collective stories of HV. Four emerging storylines were constructed: 'Storylines of the changing understandings of hearing voices over time', 'Recovery: Reformation, Redemption and Restoration', 'Storylines of family life and understandings of culture and race', and 'From Silence to Freedom: Speaking Out and Reaching Out'. Findings of this research suggest re-storying HV outside of a medical framework, with voice-hearers' meaning-making of the voices an integral part of understanding the phenomenon, in the context of psycho-social and cultural factors. Implications for de-mystifying voice-hearing, particularly in African-Caribbean communities, are considered in the context of promoting education and awareness of HV through community-based approaches, cross-cultural working and supporting the voice of expert by experience, in the hope of challenging dominant discourses attached to HV. Future research suggestions are discussed and researcher reflexivity concludes the study.

Are maximizers less satisfied with their choices than satisficers? This research provides a novel perspective on this question by distinguishing between two types of consumer goals: autotelic, when choice is a goal in itself, and instrumental, when a choice is a means to achieving other goals. Study 1 showed that maximizers value autotelic experiences more than satisficers. Study 2 experimentally manipulated the choice goal and found that maximizers compared to satisficers experience higher choice satisfaction when the choice goal is autotelic rather than instrumental. Additionally, evidence is provided for the underlying mechanism (perceived ease of choice) as well as downstream consequences (consumers' willingness to pay for their chosen option). These findings advance a conceptualization of maximizers as consumers seeking self-contained meaning in choice and provide new insights into the relation between maximizing and choice satisfaction. Theoretical and practical implications for consumer decision-making are discussed.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2002-10-23Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:09:01Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 santos_jls_me_mar.pdf: 262276 bytes, checksum: 93d60345dc900d1ac4bddebf047709c7 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Neste trabalho propomos a análise da natureza dos estados mentais, um tema central nos estudos em Filosofia da Mente. Para isso, sugerimos um percurso investigativo que começa com a análise da noção cartesiana de dualismo substancial definido por postular uma mente distinta do corpo e responsável pela produção de estados mentais. Em seguida, procuramos problematizar a concepção cartesiana tendo como base as críticas que Ryle dirige à por ele denominada 'doutrina oficial'. Com esse propósito, é considerado, em especial, o conceito de disposição sugerido por Ryle (2000) para combater o que ele denomina concepções intelectualistas de mente. Por fim, analisamos algumas das principais teses externalistas, iniciadas com o trabalho de Putnam (1975), sobretudo a perspectiva representacional concebida por Dretske (1997) a respeito da relação do indivíduo com o meio ambiente. Procuramos mostrar que o conceito de disposição sugerido por Ryle fornece subsídios para uma teorização externalista dos estados mentais, servindo como base para uma concepção externalista de indivíduo muito diversa da cartesiana. / In this dissertation we propose the analysis of the nature of the mental states that is a very main issue in the studies of Philosophy of Mind. In order to this, we suggested doing a research which begins with the analysis of the cartesian notion of the substantial dualism, defined by postulating a distinct mind from the body and responsible for producing mental states. Afterwards we tried to argue about the cartesian conception based on the criticisms whose Ryle refers himself as being designated official doctrine. With this purpose, it is considered, in special, the concept of disposition, suggested by Ryle (2000) in opposition to what he designates as intellectual conceptions. Finally, we analysed some of the main externalists theses which were started with Putnam (1975), above all the representational perspective conceived by Dretske (1997) as far as the relationship between the person and the environment is concerned. All things considered we tried to show that the concept of disposition suggested by Ryle supports an externalist theorisation of the mental states, considering itself as the basis for an externalist conception of the person which is very different from the cartesian conception.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-07-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:48:09Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 costa_ftb_me_assis.pdf: 587365 bytes, checksum: 6e9b231a8b05653413e5a30722490978 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Governo de Angola / O objetivo principal deste trabalho é investigar o significado do trabalho docente comparando as percepções dos professores de duas escolas públicas, a Escola do I Ciclo nº 152 localizada em Angola, no município dos Gambos e o Colégio Brasileiro, Ernani Rodrigues, localizado em Assis/SP. Para análise dos dados seguiu-se o procedimento proposto por Bardin (1999), que se organiza em três fases: préanálise, exploração do material e tratamento dos resultados (inferência e interpretação), em função dos objetivos propostos inicialmente obtiveram-se alguns dos seguintes resultados relativamente às categorias definidoras do significado do trabalho para os professores: o propósito social é construído mais sobre a base ocupacional e menos sobre a cultural e por isso, não difere entre os professores angolanos e brasileiros, que sofrem muito mais com a indisciplina e desrespeito dos alunos devido à diminuição da sua autoridade como conseqüência da introdução do estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente; apesar das oportunidades de aprendizagem fazerem parte da realidade dos professores dos dois países, elas cumprem funções diferentes, afetadas pelos respectivos contextos sociais recentes; a autonomia do professor angolano é minada por um arranjo cultural que mistura comunitarismo e assistencialismo; a centralidade do trabalho para os professores é mais determinada pelo valor e qualidade do tempo gasto com o trabalho, do que pelo seu volume e finalmente, a diminuição da autoridade docente está relacionada com um intervencionismo maior do estado nas questões da escola. No decurso da análise que se pretendeu fazer sobre os principais resultados conseguidos com o estudo, foram produzidas as seguintes conclusões: para que o trabalho docente tenha sentido, ele precisa de: permitir que o professor ofereça a sua contribuição social; ser um trabalho no qual ele possa seguir... / With this work, we want to study the meaning of work for teachers, comparing their perception in two public schools of two different countries (I Cycle, School nº 152 from Angola located in Gambos and College Ernani Rodrigues, from Brazil located in Assis/SP). To analyze the data we use Bardin’s (1999) procedure that has been organized in three fases: pre-analyses, material exploration and data treatment (inference and interpretation). Fowling the goals proposed we get some of this results to the categories that define the meaning of work more on the occupational base and less on cultural, because of this, it’s not different in both countries, but Brazilians suffer more with student’s indiscipline and disrespect, caused by a decrease of authority after the children and teenager status; even if the opportunities of learning are part of Angolan and teacher’s work, they have different functions for them, affected by a especial cultural arrangement that mixed comunitarism and assitencialism in Angola. The centrality of work is determinate by the value and quality of the working time, more than its volume, finally, the decrease of the teacher’s authority in Brazil; it’s related with a government more interventional in school issue. During the analyses of the main results of the study, we produce the fowling conclusions: teachers work can be meaningful if let them make a contribution, be a work were he can teach an practice moral qualities with students, if offers him different opportunities of tasks, if he can work freely, have contact with partners, students, parent’s students and it happen in a good environment, honest and cooperative; don’t use the space of family, friends and pleasure, were he is recognized by his contribution for long time, let’s him work with pleasure and uses his experience