A presente pesquisa propõe uma discussão sobre o impacto que o uso de novas ferramentas de comunicação pode provocar no telejornalismo e nos modos de produzir de seus profissionais, bem como estes últimos têm lidado e enxergam essas modificações. Tais ferramentas permitiram que os antes chamados receptores aqui compreendidos como os indivíduos que assistiam ao telejornal e não tinham nenhuma relação com os seus modos de produção se tornassem também produtores de conteúdo. Discutimos um novo modelo de comunicação, que obriga as teorias que dão conta deste fenômeno a dar um passo adiante e construir novos modelos para explicar esse processo. Este novo fenômeno também exige que os jornalistas produtores de telejornais lidem com uma nova realidade e buscamos neste estudo compreender se estão preparados para este desafio. / The following research proposes a discussion on how the use of new communication tools can influence TV journalism and on the way it is produced, as well as on how the producers have been dealing and seeing these changes. Such tools allowed the former known receptors here understood as those individuals who watch TV newscasts and didnt have any relation with its ways of production to also become content producers. We discussed a new communication model, which makes former theories dealing with this phenomenon to take a step further and construct new models to explain this process. This new phenomenon also demands that the TV newscasts journalist producers deal with a new reality and we intended in this study to comprehend if they are prepared for this challenge.

Introdução: O ser humano na sua condição social, precisa necessariamente da intervenção de outro ser nas suas funções. Na área da saúde, o profissional, vivencia situações e diante do acúmulo de informações recuperadas na Internet, necessita de um mediador que torne possível transformar essa informação em conhecimento. Nos últimos 20 anos, temos verificado um aumento gradativo e descontrolado na quantidade de documentos bibliográficos em todas as áreas do conhecimento, mas especialmente na biomédica. Objetivo: Considerando que a internet e a tecnologia da informação são amplamente disponíveis atualmente, alguns estudos sugerem que as bibliotecas e os bibliotecários podem vir a se tornar instituições obsoletas no cenário acadêmico. O objetivo do presente estudo foi analisar o perfil de usuários da biblioteca em nossa instituição, além de tentar verificar o papel da mediação informal desempenhada pelos bibliotecários neste contexto. Métodos: 570 usuários da Biblioteca da FMUSP, que visitaram nossa biblioteca no período de dezembro de 2012 a Abril de 2013, foram convidados a responder um breve questionário, sobre seus hábitos de busca de conhecimentos na literatura. O questionário foi mandado e respondido por e-mail. O perfil destes usuários foi analisado e a seguir, os participantes foram divididos em 2 grupos. Grupo 1 (n=190): receberam qualquer auxilio do bibliotecário durante suas buscas, grupo 2 (n= 52): acessaram a informação de maneira independente, sem a mediação do bibliotecário. Analisamos algumas características destes dois grupos. Resultados e conclusões: O presente estudo permitiu caracterizar que a maioria dos usuários que compareceu à biblioteca era do sexo feminino e que estão na faixa etária entre trinta e quarenta anos, sendo na maioria médicos jovens e estudantes de medicina, habituados a usar as bases de dados. A maioria recebeu algum tipo de mediação formal ou informal dos bibliotecários no acesso à informação. Sendo que este auxílio pode ter influenciado no uso de descritores em suas buscas. Com esta pesquisa, foi possível avaliar algumas das necessidades informacionais dos respondentes. Tais informações aliadas à extensa revisão da literatura podem ser úteis para balizar futuras intervenções dos profissionais da biblioteca para otimizar seu papel na mediação. Não foram observadas diferenças entre os grupos / Introduction: Human beings in their social condition necessarily need the intervention of another being in his duties. In healthcare, professional, experiences and situations before the accumulation of information retrieved on the Internet, you need a broker that makes it possible to transform this information into knowledge. Over the past 20 years, we have seen a gradual and uncontrolled increase in the amount of bibliographic documents in all areas of knowledge, but especially in biomedical. AIMS: Considering that the internet and the information technology are widely available nowadays, some studies suggest that libraries and librarians may become obsolete in the academic scenery. The purpose of the present study was to access the profile of library users in our institution, as well as to evaluate the need for mediation by the librarians in a Medical School. METHODS: 570 individuals that visited our library from December 2012 to April 2013 were invited to respond to a brief questionnaire addressing their habits when pursuing scientific information. The questionnaire was sent and responded by email. 419 participants were post graduate students and the others were physicians from our institution. The population was divided in two groups. Group 1 (n= 190): submitted to library training in searching information, group 2 (n= 52): accessed information by themselves without mediation. We analyzed the differences in behavior between those two groups. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The majority of individuals that used our library were, females, with a mean age of 39 years and most of them physicians or medical students. The great majority were frequent users and had personal experience in the library before. No differences in behavior were observed between groups in terms of frequency, data base, or use of key words. The present work has inumerous limitations, but may useful inhelping librarians improve their technique facing the new era of information

Background: Stroke is the second leading cause of disability and mortality in the U.K., therefore research investigating stroke has been highlighted by the National Stroke Strategy to develop studies which are longitudinal and focus on outcome. A comprehensive systematic review (Study One) was undertaken to investigate the role of psychological factors on stroke recovery. This informed the development of the research study (Study Two). The aim of this study was to investigate the role of psychological and cognitive factors on psychological and physical recovery from acute stroke, in a longitudinal study as directed by the National Stroke Strategy. The current study additionally incorporates cognitive neuropsychological elements along with measures of mood, personality and coping. This is the first study to the authors’ knowledge which has investigated repressive coping and Type D personality with stroke. Method: Longitudinal data collection was conducted in two NHS hospitals, with a clinical sample at Time 1 (0-6 weeks post stroke), followed up at Time 2 (3 months post stroke) and Time 3 (6 months post stroke), in the participants’ homes or in nursing homes. Measures used to test independent variables were: Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Short Depression Scale (CES-D 10), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MPSS), Standard Assessment of Negative Affectivity, Social Inhibition, and Type D Personality (DS 14, Type D personality), Marlowe-Crowne Form B & 6 Item STAI (for repressive coping), 3 item Sense of Coherence (SoC) scale, line bi-section & Bells cancellation task (visual neglect), forward digit span (verbal short term memory), Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (visual short term memory) and the colour word Stroop test (executive function), along with demographic data, stroke markers and health behaviours. Dependent variables were: Quality of life (measured by the SF-36) and physical recovery (modified Rankin Scale). Results: The main analysis used hierarchical multiple regression analyses and mediation analysis to test a series of hypotheses. Physical recovery outcome was predicted by stroke severity, age, stress, repressive coping, social support and visual neglect at different time points. Depression and visual memory were reported as mediators at Time 2. Quality of life outcome was predicted by stroke severity, age, stress, social support, depression and visual neglect at different time points. Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that psychological factors do have an impact on both physical and psychological outcome from stroke. Stress, repressive coping and visual neglect were the most consistent predictors of outcome. Depression and social support played a smaller role, whereas Type D personality was nonsignificant across analyses.

中介效應和調節效應分析在心理學研究中廣泛存在。調節效應發生時，自變量和因變量的關係的強度或方向會因調節變量的水平而有所改變。另一方面，中介效應發生時，自變量會通過中介變量對因變量來產生影響(Baron& Kenny,1986) 。心理學家經常結合這兩種效應以處理更複雜的問題，例如:調節作用是如何發生或中介作用在什麼情況會有所改變。研究學者定義前者為有中介的調節作用，後者為有調節的中介作用。儘管在文獻中有許多關於中介的調節效應和有調節的中介效應的分析方法的討論，對於理解這兩種效應的混亂仍然存在。此外，結構方程模型分析方法雖然比傳統的迴歸分析方法更靈活和有效地處理這兩種效應的分析，但是文獻上卻甚少討論如何應用結構方程模型於有中介的調節作用和有調節的中介作用的分析上。本論文回應以上提出的問題，主要討論如何把結構方程模型的分析方法應用在有中介的調節效應和有調節的中介效應的分析上，論文的第一部份會透過闡明五種常見有關於有中介的調節效應和有調節的中介效應的概念模型以消除研究橕者對這兩種效應定義的誤解。在論文的第二部分將會提出一個用以轉換有中介的調節效應和有調節的中分效應的概念模型為能應用於結構方程模型分析法上的模型的統一方法，讓研究學者能統一方法中提出的規則簡易地把假設模型變成為可為結構方程模型作分析的模型。模擬實驗來比較迴歸方法和結構方程模型方法的實際效用。結果顯示，這兩種分析方法發現相近。論文最後的部份，引人用於潛變量調節作用分析上的unconstrained indicant product approach (Marsh et al., 2004) ，並結合本文提出的統一方法來分析有中介的調節作用和有調節的中介作用，模擬實驗結果顯示這種方法在大多數的模擬情況下表現令人滿意。然而，以評估模型擬合度的卡方檢定在模擬實驗的大多數情況中都並不準確，因此研究學者應謹慎處理卡方檢定。 / Moderation and mediation analyses are widespread in psychological research. Moderation occurs when the direction and/or strength of the relation between an independent variable and a dependent variable depends on the level of a moderating variable. Mediation, on the other hand, occurs when the effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable is transmitted through a mediating variable (Baron & Kenny, 1986). Psychologists often move beyond these two processes and ask more complex questions such as how a moderating effect takes place or when a mediating process varies in different contexts. The former question has been referred as mediated moderation while the latter one has been referred as moderated mediation. Despite the fact that there are many discussions about the analysis of mediated moderation and moderated mediation in the literature, the confusion over the interpretation of these two processes persists. In addition, the SEM method, which is known to be more flexible than traditional egression method for the analysis of mediated moderation and moderated mediation is rarely discussed in the literature. In response to these issues, the main objective of the present study was to examine the methods for the analysis of mediated moderation and moderated mediation in the SEM framework. The first part of this study resolved the confusion over the current interpretation of the mediated moderation and moderated mediation by demonstrating these two processes using five typical conceptual models of mediatedmoderation and moderated mediation. In the second part, a new unified method was proposed to provide some general rules for translating the conceptual models of mediated moderation and moderated mediation into the SEM working models. The empirical performance of SEM analysis against regression analysis was assessed by a simulation study. Results showed the two methods performed similarly across different model conditions. In the last part, the unconstrained indicant product approach (Marsh, et al., 2004) for latent moderation analysis was introduced and combined with the unified approach for the analysis of latent variable mediated moderation and moderated mediation models. Simulation findings suggested that this method performed satisfactorily for testing mediated moderating and moderated mediating effects in most simulation conditions. However, chi-square statistics for the evaluation of model fit should be used with cautious as simulation results indicated that they were not accurate in most cases. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Kwan, Lok Yin. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-114). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.iii / ABSTRACT --- p.v / CHINESE ABSTRACT --- p.vii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.ix / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Moderation --- p.2 / Mediation --- p.2 / Moving Beyond Moderation and Mediation --- p.4 / Objectives of This Study --- p.6 / Outline of the Following Chapters --- p.8 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- MEDIATED MODERATION AND MODERATED MEDIATION --- p.10 / Mediated Moderation --- p.11 / Moderated Mediation --- p.13 / Critical Issues Related to the Current Interpretations --- p.14 / Moderated Mediation within a Mediation Context --- p.19 / Mediated Moderation within a Moderation Context --- p.21 / Summary of This Chapter --- p.25 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- ANALYSIS OF MEDIATED MODERATION AND MODERATED MEDIATION --- p.27 / Models --- p.27 / Regression-based Methods --- p.33 / Structural Equation Modeling Approach --- p.39 / A Unified Approach for Model Specification in SEM --- p.42 / Regression-based Method Versus SEM Approach --- p.49 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- SIMULATION STUDY 1: REGRESSION-BASED VERSUS SEM-BASED METHODS --- p.51 / Design of the Simulation Study --- p.51 / Procedure --- p.54 / Results --- p.55 / Discussion and Conclusion --- p.63 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- LATENT VARIABLES MEDIATED MODERATION AND MODERATED MEDATION --- p.68 / Unconstrained Indicant Product Approach --- p.69 / Model Specifications of Latent meMO and moME Models --- p.76 / Simulation Study 2: Methods --- p.83 / Simulation Study 2: Results --- p..88 / Discussion and Conclusion --- p.94 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DIRECTION --- p.97 / Practical Significance of This Study --- p.98 / Limitations and Future Direction --- p.99 / REFERENCES --- p.104 / ENDNOTES --- p.115 / LIST OF TABLES --- p.117 / TABLES --- p.119 / FIGURE CAPTION --- p.153 / FIGURES --- p.154

Orientador: Fernanda Mello Sant'Anna / Resumo: O problema habitacional no Brasil não é recente; os conflitos sobre posse e propriedade estão presentes historicamente no cotidiano do país. Na cidade de São Paulo o déficit habitacional de grandes proporções provoca litígios, invasões e confrontos impactando diretamente o direito de propriedade e o direito a moradia digna. O objetivo geral do presente estudo é analisar a resolução do conflito no processo de regularização fundiária no assentamento urbano informal e consolidado na cidade de São Paulo; e especificamente, entender o processo histórico de habitação e regularização fundiária, as leis e as políticas habitacionais no Brasil e no município de São Paulo; compreender a resolução de conflitos fundiários e seus impactos no direito de propriedade e direito à moradia e identificar e analisar os impactos da regularização fundiária no assentamento urbano Santa Marcelina através de uma empresa mediadora. Optou-se pelo método qualitativo para analisar os dados e informações que fundamentam esse estudo. Em sua parte fundamental, pretende-se utilizar-se da pesquisa analítica como base para os fundamentos teóricos; pelo levantamento bibliográfico através de livros, legislação, dos preceitos e princípios fundamentais que permeiam e positivam o direito de propriedade, direito social e a dignidade à moradia, bem como a avaliação e implantação de políticas públicas na regularização fundiária urbana. Conclui-se que a mediação realizada pela Terra Nova foi imprescindível para a conclus... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Mestre

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-03-30T13:56:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 religiao_2.0.pdf: 1993537 bytes, checksum: 07622ef78415fed4d79849a05a040ed1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-30T13:56:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 religiao_2.0.pdf: 1993537 bytes, checksum: 07622ef78415fed4d79849a05a040ed1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho busca analisar os processos de interação entre igreja e fiéis a partir do blog do bispo Edir Macedo, líder da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD). Hospedado através do portal Arca Universal, o blog é um ambiente potencializador de novas formas de contato entre o mundo religioso e o mundo dos credos. Por meio das possibilidades interacionais da chamada web 2.0, permite aos fiéis internautas coparticiparem desta plataforma digital oferecendo a eles a oportunidade de manifestarem suas religiosidades em caráter multimídia. Nesse sentido, analisamos como o blog de Macedo reconfigura as práticas religiosas com seus fiéis no ambiente interacional da internet. A partir desta questão central, estuda-se o processo de interação estabelecido e os sentidos em circulação por meios das postagens e comentários. O estudo configura-se como uma pesquisa do tipo descritiva de cunho qualitativo em que a metodologia compreende consultas bibliográficas, observação e descrição do objeto empírico. A análise evidencia que o blog fomenta um sentimento de participação criando uma rede de reconhecimento, aproximação, visibilidade e legitimidade. / This research seeks to analyze the processes of interaction between church and faithful from the blog of Bishop Edir Macedo, leader of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD). Hosted by Arca Universal portal, the blog is an environment-enhancing new forms of contact between the religious world and the creeds world. Through the interaction possibilities of so-called Web 2.0, allows Internet users to the faithful co-participate in this digital platform offering them the opportunity to express their religiosity in multimedia character. Accordingly, we analyze how the blog of Macedo reconfigures religious practices with their faithful in the interactive environment of the Internet. From this central question, studies the interaction process and the meanings established in circulation by means of posts and comments. The study appears as a descriptive and qualitative research methodology that includes bibliographic, observation and description of the empirical object. The analysis shows that blog fosters a sense of ownership by creating a network of recognition, approach, visibility and legitimacy.

OBJECTIVES: Despite declining tobacco consumption in the U.S., it remains a public health concern. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of tobacco consumption, different tobacco products and smoking duration on dental caries risk among different populations. METHODS: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data were used in an epidemiological cross-sectional study of a representative sample of U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population to investigate the influence of tobacco use and different tobacco products on caries prevalence among adolescents and adults. The outcomes were DMFT and DFT indices. Data from the Dental Longitudinal Study (DLS), a closed-panel prospective cohort study of oral health and aging, was used in longitudinal design to determine if changes in tobacco use status change the risk of developing new caries in adult men. Caries increment was used as an outcome. In addition, a cross-sectional study, using DLS, evaluated the association between smoking duration and caries prevalence, and to determine if it is mediated by unstimulated saliva flow rate. DMFS was used as an outcome. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were conducted on dental caries outcomes by tobacco use status and product consumption. Multiple regression, GEE, and mediation analyses were conducted controlling for confounders. RESULTS: Active tobacco use was significantly associated with dental caries, with the highest caries prevalence compared to passive or non-use among adolescents and adults (P-value <.0001). Among adolescents, passive tobacco users had higher caries prevalence than non-tobacco users. In the DLS, continuous use, quitting and starting/ restarting tobacco use between examinations were all associated with higher caries increments (p-value <0.01). Smoking duration was significantly associated with caries prevalence as long smoking duration (31- 70 years) had on average 14 more DMFS than nonsmokers (p-value= 0.0002) and USFR may partially mediate this relation by about 8.70%. CONCLUSION: Dental caries was significantly associated with active tobacco use among adolescents and adults. Caries prevalence is also high among adolescents passively exposed to tobacco. In adult men, continuous tobacco use was associated with higher caries increments. Long-term smoking was associated with high caries prevalence and this relation could be partially mediated by unstimulated saliva flow rate. / 2019-09-26T00:00:00Z

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T20:31:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bettina Heerdt.pdf: 2736768 bytes, checksum: 5cfe8d95ec4f233f1799353c864baac3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-26 / Biology teaching must prioritize the learning tending to research, and in this field we can count with technology, such as the internet and the computer which contribute to this process. The WebQuest can be considered a methodology to organize the teaching process using all the internet resources, which help students in the construction of knowledge in a mediated learning environment. What we look for answering in this research is what the contributions from the WebQuest to learning Biology are. For answering this question the WebQuests were made, from names “The fascinating world of cells” and “Web-classification”, and proposed to the first and second years of high-school in the process of teaching and learning Biology. The goal is to evaluate the process of pedagogical mediation by WebQuests. The methodological approach of this investigation fits into the perspective of the qualitative research, an ethnographic study. While analyzing the obtained data, the analysis of contents was used. The propose about the hypertext organization considering it as a space for building knowledge by Lévy (2006), supported and helped us reaching the objectives aimed. We also considered the historical-cultural learning theory from Vygotsky, in which the cognitive development results from the interaction between man and his social-cultural environment, the mediation is one of the fundamental concepts in this theory. Since it is the learning that promotes the intellectual development and it occurs from an intervention process of an intermediate element between the subject and the object of knowledge, this relation stops being straight and direct and passes to a mediated one. In the present investigation we focused in the process of pedagogical mediation, which has specific characteristics of systematization and intentionality. Once that the mediation helps in the student’s intellectual development it must advance to the development processes, acting in the Proximal Development Zone (ZDP), which corresponds to the intellectual condition of the subject in the moment of learning. The ZDP refers to what the subject does not do on his own but to what he can do with the help of a grown up or an efficient companion. According to Vygotsky, the good teaching acts in the proximal development zone and qualitatively modifies its concepts. In this research the WebQuest was used as a mediator between the subject and the object of knowledge, and it showed to be an efficient tool in this process, since the scientific concepts were remade by the students and, mostly, it improved significantly their comprehension and meanings related to the cells contents and the classification of live beings. / O ensino de Biologia deve priorizar uma aprendizagem voltada à pesquisa e, nesta direção contamos com as tecnologias, como a internet e o computador que contribuem com este processo. A WebQuest pode ser considerada uma metodologia para organizar o processo de ensino utilizando recursos da internet, que auxilia os estudantes na construção do conhecimento em um ambiente de aprendizagem guiado. A questão que procuramos responder nesta pesquisa é: quais são as contribuições da WebQuest para a aprendizagem de Biologia? Para responder a essa questão foram elaboradas as WebQuests, de nomes “O Fascinante mundo das células” e “Web-classificação”, propostas no processo de ensino e aprendizagem de Biologia para estudantes da 1ª série e 2ª série do ensino médio. Busca-se como objetivos avaliar o processo de mediação pedagógica a partir da utilização de WebQuests e investigar a possibilidade de avanços conceituais dos objetos de conhecimento da Biologia, a partir de um processo de ensino mediado por WebQuests. A abordagem metodológica dessa investigação enquadra-se na perspectiva da pesquisa qualitativa, um estudo do tipo etnográfico. Para análise dos dados obtidos utilizamos a análise de conteúdo. Para alcançar os objetivos propostos nos apoiamos na proposta de Lévy (2006) sobre a organização do hipertexto considerado como um espaço para a construção do saber. Também levamos em consideração a teoria de aprendizagem histórico-cultural elaborada por Vygotsky para o qual o desenvolvimento cognitivo resulta de interações entre o homem e seu meio sócio-cultural, a mediação é um dos conceitos fundamentais dessa teoria. Visto que é a aprendizagem que promove o desenvolvimento intelectual e ela ocorre por meio de um processo de intervenção de um elemento intermediário entre sujeito e objeto do conhecimento, essa relação deixa de ser direta e passa a ser mediada. Na presente investigação nos fixamos no processo de mediação pedagógica, que possui características de sistematicidade e intencionalidade. Uma vez que a mediação colabora no desenvolvimento intelectual do estudante ela deve se adiantar aos processos de desenvolvimento, atuando na Zona de Desenvolvimento Proximal (ZDP), que corresponde à condição intelectual do sujeito no momento da aprendizagem. A ZDP se refere ao que o sujeito não faz sozinho, mas consegue fazer com a ajuda de um adulto ou companheiro mais eficaz. Para Vygotsky, um bom ensino é aquele que atua na zona de desenvolvimento proximal e modifica qualitativamente conceitos. Nesta pesquisa a WebQuest foi utilizada como uma mediadora entre o sujeito e o objeto de conhecimento, mostrou-se uma ferramenta eficiente neste processo pois os conceitos científicos foram reelaborados pelos estudantes e, a maioria, melhorou significativamente suas compreensões e significações em relação aos conteúdos de células e classificação dos seres vivos.

Submitted by Eunice Novais (enovais@uepg.br) on 2018-07-31T17:20:19Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Jessica_Caroline_.pdf: 3405300 bytes, checksum: 5df9c3e05ec78625764bac36162fb7ed (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-31T17:20:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Jessica_Caroline_.pdf: 3405300 bytes, checksum: 5df9c3e05ec78625764bac36162fb7ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-20 / Fundação Araucária de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Paraná / Pensando nas formas de interpretação e representação das nações indígenas, esta pesquisa tem por intuito investigar um conjunto de itinerários de viagens publicados na Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, conhecido como as Jornadas Meridionais. Este mosaico de experiências e percepções, legou à informações referentes à localização, dinâmicas cotidianas e descrições acerca da fisionomia e personalidade de grupos nativos. Face a essas colocações, o marcante nestas narrativas se deve ao fato de desvelarem as estratégias utilizadas por seus interlocutores a fim de criar laços de sociabilidade e, por assim dizer, alcançar o sucesso nos seus intentos particulares e vinculados à sociedade indigenista. Deste modo, John Henry Elliott, Joaquim Francisco Lopes e José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira, a partir de seus vínculos com o barão de Antonina, embrenharam-se pelos sertões meridionais a fim de mapear, descrever e catalogar dados referentes às rotas terrestres e fluviais que ligavam Curitiba ao Baixo Paraguai e, no decorrer deste processo, observar as formas, as cores, as gentes que coloriam as paisagens de seus (des)caminhos. Dialogando com os interesses e estratégias indigenistas, as representações delineadas por estes agentes revelam que a aproximação com os grupos nativos foi fruto de práticas ligadas à persuasão e brandura, as quais utilizavam-se de elementos tradicionais para mediar as situações de fronteira e contato intercultural. Partindo destes pressupostos, os instrumentos de mediação cultural oportunizaram não só o encontro e trocas entre universos distintos, como também, uma ressignificação ao papel criado às nações indígenas que, resultado do contexto social e político do oitocentos, era pensado de formas múltiplas, oscilando suas figurações no cenário nacional. Logo, dentro deste caleidoscópio, o objeto central é analisar as referências realizadas às nações indígenas e, mais do que isso, demonstrar os mecanismos de mediação cultural adotados para desenvolver e alicerçar alianças. Além disso, por meio destas descrições, podem-se revelar os sertões meridionais enquanto um espaço de possíveis diálogos e não só permeado de tensões, perigos e conflitos, como era comum se apresentar. / Thinking about the ways of interpretation and representation of indian nations, this research intends to investigate some travel itineraries published in Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute Magazine, known as Southern Journeys. This collection of experiences and perceptions bequeathed data about the native group's localization, daily dynamics and descriptions referring to the physiognomy and personality. Therefore, it's remarkable in these narratives, the fact that they reveal the strategies used by their interlocutors to create social bonds and, so to speak, succeed in their personal attempts linked to the indigenous society. Thereby, John Henry Elliot, Joaquim Francisco Lopes e José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira, stem from their relationship with the Baron of Antonina, enter the southern backwoods in order to map, describe and catalog data regarding terrestrial and fluvial routes that connected Curitiba to the Lower Paraguay and, in the process, observe the shapes, the colors, the peoples that color those landscapes in their paths. Dialoguing indigenous interests and strategies, the representations outlined by these agents reveal that the approach with the native groups was a result of practices related to persuasion and mildness, witch, used traditional elements to mediate the boundary situations and intercultural contact. Stem from these suppositions, the instruments of cultural mediation enable not only the gathering and exchanges between different universes, as well as a resignification of the role given to the indigenous nations that, as a result of the social and political context in the 1800's was thought in multiple ways, oscillating its figurations in the national scenario. Hence, in this kaleidoscope, the main objective is to analyze the references made about the indian nations and, more than that, demonstrate the mechanisms of cultural mediation adopted to develop and support alliances. Moreover, through these descriptions, it's possible to reveal the southern backwoods as a space of potential dialogues and not only permeating tensions, dangers and conflicts, as it was commonly reported.

This paper examines dialogue between disputing students and the teacher/facilitator in conflict mediation meetings, and discusses what kind of teacher/facilitator’s actions help disputing students find a constructive solution, or even relational transformation. Key theories that inform my research are taken from Martin Buber and Carl Rogers. Buber argues that a human needs to set him/herself at a distance to see the other as an independent existence, and that humans enter relationship through self-becoming, and confirmation of the other’s existence. This is very difficult to achieve in a conflict situation, but Rogers’ core conditions of Person Centred Therapy: Unconditional positive regard; Empathy; Genuineness, fill this gap. The conflict mediator can help this process. Data for the study is taken from twenty video recordings in a secondary school in England, where diversified students, including those who were born abroad, learn together. I examine the outcomes of twenty video-recorded meetings, grouped into three categories: Relational Transformation; Resolution Only; Conflict not transformed. I describe how I have selected three meetings each (nine in total) for thematic coding and conversation analysis. Elicitive and empathetic facilitation appeared most frequently in Relational-Transformation cases, whereas judgmental and directive facilitation were observed most frequently in Conflict-not-transformed cases. As for student’s actions, openness and expansiveness appeared most frequently in Relational-Transformation cases, and attacking and defiance appeared most frequently in Conflict-not-transformed cases. Resolution-Only cases lie between these two categories. These findings suggest that conflict mediation favours elicitive and empathetic facilitation, and leads to the transformation of students’ relationships. When the facilitator/teacher shows judgment and directiveness, students respond with attacking and defiance, which impairs transformative process. It was also revealed that students were only able to acknowledge the other student’s feelings and experiences after their own feeling had been acknowledged.