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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudio Luiz de Souza Silva.pdf: 624448 bytes, checksum: 6747492cc35b7d9403254701436d3285 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-08 / The technological evolution extended connections, made a big quantity of information available and revolutionalized knowledge, creating new possibilities for storage, management and transmission. The drawbacks concerning adaptability of the organizational traditional structures related to College Education institutions to the new challenges, are leading the organizations to break up with traditional patterns of management and structure, which are still attached to the industrial society of development pattern. The quest is for the lessening of the gap between the technological transformation speed and the changes in the organization, in a new society coined as the knowledge society. This article, besides being a circumstantial description, aims at accurately analyzing an experience related to exploiting and constructing a new methodology of management. It looks forward to bringing light on a tension generated among the new social environment - caused by higher density of knowledge in productive processes-, and transformation difficulties in universities. This study was put forward through documental analysis, questionnaires and interviews with professors, coordinators and the board of directors of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Santos campus. Conclusions point to the possibility of reasoning the proposal to a new pattern of management, according to an aspect shown by the study, as peculiar to Unifesp Santos proposal, as follows: flexible organizations work better in the knowledge society, since decisions can be made at the end or at any point of the net. Hierarchical organizations work better during periods of constant and stable markets, despite being totally inadequate during periods of flow, like the one that identifies the society of knowledge. Its managerial procedures are way too rigid to adapt to quick changes under market conditions / A evolução das tecnologias ampliou as conexões, tornou disponível uma grande quantidade de informações e revolucionou o conhecimento, com novas possibilidades para sua estocagem, gestão e transmissão. As dificuldades de adaptação das estruturas tradicionais de organização das Instituições de Ensino Superior aos novos desafios estão levando as organizações a romper com os tradicionais modelos de gestão e estrutura, que ainda atendem ao modelo de desenvolvimento da sociedade industrial. A busca é pela diminuição crescente no vão entre a velocidade da transformação tecnológica e das mudanças na organização, numa nova sociedade cunhada como sociedade do conhecimento. Este trabalho é uma descrição circunstanciada e uma análise apurada sobre uma experiência de exploração e construção de uma nova metodologia de gestão. O objetivo é trazer esclarecimentos para a tensão gerada entre o novo ambiente social, em função da maior densidade do conhecimento nos processos produtivos, e as dificuldades de transformação das universidades. Este estudo foi realizado por meio de análise documental, questionário e entrevistas junto a professores, coordenadores e direção do campus de Santos da Universidade Federal de São Paulo. As conclusões indicam que é possível fundamentar a proposta de um novo modelo de gestão no seguinte aspecto, apontado pelo estudo como característico da proposta da Unifesp Santos: na sociedade do conhecimento funcionam melhor as organizações flexíveis, em que a decisão pode ser tomada na ponta ou em qualquer ponto da rede. As organizações hierárquicas funcionam melhor em períodos de mercados constantes e estáveis, mas são totalmente inadequadas em períodos de fluxos, como o que caracteriza a sociedade do conhecimento. Seus procedimentos administrativos são rígidos demais para se ajustar às rápidas mudanças nas condições de mercado

Submitted by Cleide Dantas (cleidedantas@ufpa.br) on 2014-10-15T13:44:22Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) Dissertacao_AvaliacaoFormativaLicenciatura.pdf: 1785993 bytes, checksum: adef2bab4c1e28ec82cc2a661b1e11d5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Rosa Silva (arosa@ufpa.br) on 2014-10-21T20:48:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) Dissertacao_AvaliacaoFormativaLicenciatura.pdf: 1785993 bytes, checksum: adef2bab4c1e28ec82cc2a661b1e11d5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-21T20:48:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) Dissertacao_AvaliacaoFormativaLicenciatura.pdf: 1785993 bytes, checksum: adef2bab4c1e28ec82cc2a661b1e11d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Neste trabalho discute-se uma experiência com a avaliação formativa voltada para a autoavaliação e autorregulação das competências linguageiras e das estratégias de aprendizagem. A pesquisa aqui relatada tinha por objetivo identificar o que estudantes de Licenciatura de Espanhol Língua Estrangeira (E/LE) autoavaliam e autorregulam em sua aprendizagem, que impacto tem a autoavaliação e autorregulação efetivas em suas competências de comunicação e de aprendizagem e, por fim, que atividades didáticas favorecem a autoavaliação e autorregulação dessas competências. Para alcançarmos os objetivos propostos, optamos por realizar uma pesquisa-ação, que foi desenvolvida na disciplina Língua Espanhola III da Licenciatura em Letras Espanhol da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) - Campus de Castanhal, com base em suporte teórico de autores pesquisados, como Allal (1986; 2007), Bonniol e Vial (2001), Perrenoud (2007), entre outros. Para a análise dos dados obtidos, foi observado como três estudantes da turma tinham lidado com as atividades formativas propostas ao longo do curso e relacionando seu desempenho na disciplina com sua atitude no tocante a essas atividades. Os resultados revelam que inicialmente os objetos mais avaliados e autorregulados pelos alunos diziam respeito às competências linguísticas. No entanto, conforme os aprendentes eram induzidos a refletirem sobre outras dimensões da aprendizagem da língua estrangeira, alguns deles passaram a incluir em suas autoavaliações e autorregulações outros aspectos, como os metacognitivos, o que favoreceu uma melhoria das competências comunicativas e de aprendizagem. As atividades formativas que propiciaram uma autoavaliação e autorregulação mais eficazes foram o roteiro de autoavaliação, o diário de aprendizagem, a elaboração de objetivos comunicativos e de critérios de avaliação, bem como situações que envolviam práticas de autoavaliação, coavaliação e avaliação mútua. / This paper discusses an experience with formative assessment focused on self-assessment and self-regulation in language competences and learning strategies. The research reported here aimed to identify what students of Bachelor of Spanish Foreign Language (S/FL) self-assess and self-regulate in their learning, what is the impact of the self-assessment and self-regulation effective in their communicative language competence and ability to learn and, finally; what are the educational activities that promote self-assessment and self-regulation of these competences. To achieve the proposed objectives, we chose to conduct an action research, which was developed in the subject Spanish Language III of the Bachelor’s degree in Spanish at the Federal University of Para (UFPA) - Campus Castanhal. The theoretical framework is based on authors like Allal (1986; 2007), Bonniol and Vial (2001), Perrenoud (2007), among others. For data analysis, it was noted how three students in the class dealt with the proposed formative activities during the course and it also was related their performance in the subject with their attitude regarding those activities. The results show that initially, the language competences were the most assessed and self-regulated objects by the students. However, as the learners were induced to think about other dimensions of foreign language learning, some of them began to include the metacognitive aspects in their self-assessments and self-regulations, which favored an improvement of their communicative language competence and their ability to learn. The formative activities that provided the most effective self-assessment and self-regulation were the self-assessment guideline, learning dairy, the development of communicative goals and assessment criteria, as well as situations involving self-assessment, co-assessment and mutual assessment practices.

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This report analyzes the current greenhouse gas emissions inventory for The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), reviews the carbon reduction strategies being implemented at UT-Austin and other peer institutions, and offers recommendations for strategies that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions at UT-Austin in the future. / text

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The resident feral cat (Felis catus) population on the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Howard College campus (HCC) in Durban, South Africa was studied from March 2004 to November 2005. This study was initiated as the HCC is an registered as an urban conservancy and so should be removing alien invasive flora and fauna and conserving the indigenous biodiversity of the campus. This research was undertaken to assist with recommendations for the control and management of feral cats on the HCe. A survey to determine public perceptions and opinions regarding the feral cats was conducted among various communities on the campus. Feral cats from the resident population on the HCC were trapped and fitted with radio-collars in order that their home range sizes and distribution could be determined. Monthly census counts were also carried out in an attempt to calculate population densities of the feral cats on campus, while data on behaviour patterns was collected opportunistically throughout the study period. The survey showed that two extreme views existed on campus regarding the presence of feral cats. The university is a registered conservancy which some feel is no place for this exotic species. However, it is also situated within an urban surrounding and there are some cat enthusiasts among the public who feel that resources should be provided for the feral cats, both nutritionally and financially. While many people were unaware that the feral cats were a cause for concern on the HCC, the majority concluded that a management policy needed to be adopted to control feral cat numbers. Most were against the suggestion of eradicating the cats and strongly agreed with the implementation of a university funded feral cat IV sterilising and feeding programme. Feeding the feral cats, however, needs to be stringently controlled. In this study, the availability of an abundance of food resources was shown to be the primary influencing factor for home range size, cat distribution and population densities. It also had an overriding effect on the feral cats' behaviour patterns and activity levels. Once these had been initially established, other factors such as human activity, reproductive status and gender then came into play. Distribution of the feral cats around campus was not homogenous, and densities differed according to areas on campus. Highest cat densities were recorded in those areas on the HCC where permanent cat feeding stations had been established (usually the developed areas on campus), while no feral cats were sighted in the Msinsi Nature Reserve, a natural bush area on campus were no food resources (other than prey species) is available. Home range sizes of the feral cats were relatively small with a considerable amount of overlap between and within the sexes. There were also no seasonal differences in range sizes and diurnal ranges were only marginally smaller than nocturnal range sIzes. In terms of behaviour, the HCC feral cats were generally inactive, with passive behaviour such as lying down and sitting being most often observed. Although hunting activity was very rarely witnessed, the combined effects of feral cats supported at high densities by supplemental feeding may exert predation pressures that could be detrimental to both local prey and predator populations. Little social interactions were observed by the cats on the HCC. Other studies show that competition is greatly reduced if food is available in abundance and there is no need for territorial disputes if both food and a potential mate are located in close proximity. In the present study, this also means that immigrating feral cats from surrounding neighbourhoods are tolerated; another factor contributing to the increase in feral cat numbers on the campus. These findings suggest that the feral cat population on the HCC is being maintained at higher population densities than would be expected and management initiatives are needed to control the feral cat population at a minimum density through a sterilising and low key feeding programme so that it is acceptable to all concerned parties. However, the decisions need to favour the status of the HCC as a conservancy in an urban area as well as consider the well-being of the students and staffmembers in a public place. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.

This body of work began as an exploration of the University of Manitoba’s Southwood Lands (a former eighteen-hole golf course), with the intention of proposing something new for the site. However, analysis and critical thinking led to the realization that there was a need to not only look at the Southwood Lands, but also the entire Fort Garry Campus. The work evolved through a process of discovery, using a variety of methods from walking the site, documentation through photography, visits to the archives to uncover history, and mapping from afar. One of the underlying objectives was to highlight the importance of taking additional time to understand a place prior to making decisions, revealing what makes a place unique, where the opportunities are, and what has been hidden over time. The idea of a site being a blank slate is dismissed, drawing on the importance of found conditions in decision making. Looking deeper into a place also leads to a greater respect for what is already there. It is what we already have that is so often discarded, and seen as having no value in decision making (the natural areas in a city or the trees on a former golf course for example). It is also the ecosystems that are seen as scrubby and unkept that are the most complex systems and richest spaces for life. Once complex, biologically rich systems are erased there is no going back to them. It is the existing conditions that are worth taking the extra time to investigate, a process that must occur prior to making design decisions that seek to remove or make new. It is only though looking, and looking carefully with un-objective eyes, and an open mind, that design can truly enhance what we already have. This practicum works under the premise that landscape has value in its own right. The landscape is not empty space, not just a place to put buildings, not a luxury that can easily be cut from budgets, and certainly not something that can be considered an afterthought. Instead, landscape is valued as something which is working and active, an essential part of life on this planet that is becoming increasingly important with a rapidly changing climate. The intellectual foundation for organizing ideas around approaching the site have been interpreted from Christophe Girot’s ‘Four Trace Concepts in Landscape Architecture’. They are in this order: landing, grounding, finding, and founding. While Girot’s four trace concepts organize ideas around approaching the site, there are three underlying principles that guide the entire body of work: 1. Landscape as infrastructure and organizing system; 2. Design as a process of discovery; 3. Investigation through multiple scales of inquiry. A strategy for the Fort Garry Campus is where this work concludes, followed by reflections on the importance of context in design and the lessons learned throughout the practicum process.