<p>This study aimed to explore the gender imbalances that exist in access to education and participation in schooling of the female orphans and vulnerable children, and also how this relates to the continuing feminisation of the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Zambia. The study was based on the premise that the girl child is disadvantaged in this area, and the HIV and AIDS pandemic in worsening the situation for female orphans and vulnerable children.</p>

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 210-223).

The study aims to explore the role of children’s homes in the educational performance of primary school learners. It employed qualitative approach which follows a case study design. It was conducted in three schools and children’s home. The participants consisted of six caregivers, six teachers and six learners whose responses were collected using in-depth interviews as an instrument. They were all purposefully selected as they possess information that is rich and relevant to my study. Participants were told that their interview was voluntary and they were free to withdraw at any time if they feel uncomfortable. The confidentiality in order to protect the identity of the participants was maintained. The data were collected by writing response from participants and using tape recorder. It was then transcribed, organised, marked by hand, and coded to produce themes. The major findings are that children’s homes can affect the performance negatively or positively; positively, if homes create enough time for children to study and have more access to people and resources in support of their studies and negatively in that there are numerous educational barriers that the caregivers in the children’s home face daily when it comes to assisting the orphaned and vulnerable learners in their school work. Based on the findings, the study gives a number of recommendations, namely, there is need to strengthen collaborative efforts between government and other non-governmental organisations to ensure increased availability of necessary resources to the orphaned and vulnerable learners; caregivers in children’s homes need to receive proper training and assistance in order to be able to handle the psychological difficulties experienced by the orphaned and vulnerable learners; education and legal campaigns must be put in place to eliminate stigma associated with orphan-hood. / Inclusive Education / M. Ed. (Inclusive Education)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-26T14:53:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 OldimarCantuPinho.pdf: 350335 bytes, checksum: 391c5f7a6348d79a7068817d263190de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-04-10 / The process of substitution of queen for Plebeia catamarcensis involves one strong attractiveness of the queen just emerged, and specify reactions of the workers, who if alternate between attacks and court the queen, the workers had still presented behaviors related to the construction and oviposition of cells in the absence of the queen. Despite this species having constructed two royal cell, all (36) normal or dwarfed virgin queens, who had emerged had happened of common cells. Although it has a regular production of queens, the colony alone accepted queens after virgin 26º day of orphaned. The tax of emergency of Rv was bigger in the months most cold (April the September) of that in the months hottest (October the March), already the workers and the males had presented with constant emergencies during the year. The frequency of emergency of Rv was around 0 and 4,64%, of the workers between 68,48% and 99,26%, and for the males were between 0,74% and 30,04%. The frequency of emergency of caste of the queens just fertilized it was enters 90,54% the 100%, 0% and 0% 14.96%, for the workers, males and Rv respectively. It was possible also to evaluate time of oviposição of queens and workers, time of life cycle, minimum age to beginning of the position, as also give metric of some structures of chaste after the its birth to its differentiation / O processo de substituição de rainha para Plebeia catamarcensis envolve uma forte atratividade da rainha recém emergida, e reações especificas das operárias, que se alternam entre ataques e corte à rainha. As mesmas apresentaram ainda comportamentos relacionados à construção e oviposição de células de cria na ausência da rainha. Apesar de ter sido construídas duas realeiras, todas as rainhas virgens (Rv) normais ou anãs, emergiram de células comuns. Embora houve uma produção regular de rainhas, a colônia só aceitou as rainhas virgens após o 26º dia de orfandade. A taxa de emergência de Rv foi maior nos meses mais frios (abril a setembro) do que nos meses mais quentes (outubro a março). Já as operárias e os machos apresentaram emergências constantes durante o ano. A freqüência de emergência de Rv esteve em torno de 0 e 4,64%, das operárias entre 68,48% e 99,26%, e para os machos esteve entre 0,74% e 30,04%. A freqüência de emergência de castas das rainhas recém fecundadas esteve entre 90,54% a 100%, 0% e 0% a 14,96%, para as operárias, machos e Rv respectivamente. Foi possível também avaliar tempo de oviposição de rainhas e operárias, tempo de ciclo de vida, idade mínima para início da postura, como também dados métricos de algumas estruturas das castas após seu nascimento para sua diferenciação

Orientador: Heloísa Helena Pimenta Rocha / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T04:09:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bastos_AnaCristinadoCantoLopes_D.pdf: 1245119 bytes, checksum: daba420a79ce4e08d0ee7aad46263ee2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Este estudo tem como objetivo principal compreender questões relativas aos órfãos pobres, por meio do exame de autos cíveis de tutoria e contrato, problematizando as intervenções das instâncias jurídicas sobre a vida desses "menores", em Bragança-SP. Fazemos uso, também, da legislação do período - Código Criminal de 1830, Código Penal de 1890, compilação de leis sobre o processo orfanológico dos anos de 1912 e 1915 e o Código de Menores de 1927 - com o intuito de verificar suas alterações relacionadas às questões envolvendo os menores. Ressalta-se que nesta pesquisa os menores pobres são denominados órfãos pelo judiciário, não necessariamente por não terem pais, mas sim por viverem em condições de pobreza, abandono moral e material ou mesmo por serem considerados delinquentes. Analisamos nossa principal fonte interrogando sobre suas características, modo de organização e conteúdo, considerando que as informações contidas nessa documentação podem constituir rica fonte de estudos para a história da educação e da infância brasileira, priorizando as últimas décadas do século XIX e primeiras do XX, mais especialmente entre os anos de 1889 e 1927. / Abstract: The main objective of this thesis is to understand the presence of poor orphans in tutorship and contract lawsuits, questioning the intervention of the law on the lives of these "menores" in Bragança-SP. In order to verify the changes in the relevant legislation relating to the orphans, we also used the laws of that time, especially the Criminal Code Act of 1830, Criminal Code Act of 1890, the law compilation of the orphans' process of 1912 and 1915, as well the Code of Childhood of 1927. It's important to emphasize that poor children were called orphans in the law instances, not necessarily because they had no parents. The reason is they lived in poverty, moral and material abandonment, or even when they were considered dangerous. The main sources were analyzed in their characteristics, organization and contents. Considering that the information in these documents are a high authority for the history of education and childhood in Brazil, emphasizing the last decades of the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries, especially between 1889 and 1927. / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutor em Educação

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:47:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Magda_Abreu_Vicente_Dissertacao.pdf: 3731885 bytes, checksum: 8a75ebbce6a4061b25ac4ddd7f066ddb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-15 / This research has been developed in the Program of Post-Graduation in Education of the Federal University of Pelotas, in the field of Philosophy and History of Education, and focuses on the education in the city of Pelotas-RS at the beginning of the twentieth century. It analyzes a specific educational institution: the Agricultural Patronate Visconde da Graça. The investigation was developed by means of a socio-historical approach, using documental analysis whose main sources were the institutional annual reports and students‟ registration forms, the local newspaper Diário Popular, the Pelotas Almanac, the Correio do Povo Almanac (of Porto Alegre city, the capital of the state), as well as Brazilian laws and decrees, all referring to the Patronates. This research aims to analyze the genesis, the educational practices and the profile of the Patronate students. The theoretical foundations took into consideration some discourses about agricultural modernization, professional teaching and medicalhygienist policies. The study emphasized the education offered to the poorer population in Brazil. The research findings led us to conclude that the Pelotas Patronate was an institution which gathered students from all the south region of Rio Grande do Sul. It applied severe educational practices which focused on learning for the professional, agricultural and civic work. Thus, many students evaded either in order to make a living for themselves and their families or because they could not adapt to the disciplinary rules. Therefore, it provided precariously the professional education background, although it has been and is still an institution which guarantees boarding school for a wide range of the population in the south region of Rio Grande do Sul / Esta pesquisa, desenvolvida junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, na linha de Filosofia e História da Educação, tem como enfoque principal a educação em Pelotas-RS no início do século XX, analisando, especificamente, uma instituição escolar: o Patronato Agrícola Visconde da Graça. A investigação foi realizada por meio de uma abordagem sócio-histórica, utilizando a análise documental, cujas principais fontes foram os Relatórios Anuais e Fichas dos Alunos da Instituição, o jornal pelotense Diário Popular, o Almanaque de Pelotas, o Almanaque Correio do Povo (da cidade de Porto Alegre/RS) e as Leis e Decretos do Brasil referentes aos Patronatos. Dessa forma, visa analisar a gênese, as práticas educativas e o perfil dos alunos do Patronato. O embasamento teórico levou em consideração alguns discursos sobre modernização agrícola, ensino profissional e políticas médico-higienistas, e enfatizou a educação que era destinada à população mais pobre no Brasil. Os elementos de pesquisa levaram a concluir que o Patronato de Pelotas foi uma instituição que aglutinou alunos de toda a região sul do Rio Grande do Sul. Administrou práticas educativas rígidas, voltadas ao aprendizado para o trabalho profissional agrícola e cívico. Dessa forma, muitos alunos evadiam, ou para ajudar no sustento familiar ou porque não conseguiam se adaptar às normas disciplinares. Assim, atendeu de forma precária à formação de educação profissional, mas foi e continua sendo uma Instituição que garante o estudo em regime de internato de uma ampla gama da população desta região

The master thesis investigates the care of orphans and abandoned children paying special attention to how the care was executed in Prague in the 1st half of the 20th century. First, the thesis describes the general development of care of these children and of legislation. It then focuses on Prague social care of children. The orphans and abandoned children could be provided either in foster families (this form of care was more frequent) or in orphanages. Prague children were often placed outside of Prague to the so called family colonies, where the foster families were concentrated and where it was easier to control the quality of care those children attained in foster families. The other option was care in orphanages. Those could be established by the city, by the church or by an independent charity association. For each option I chose one Prague orphanage as an example. I also tried to describe the everyday life in these institutions. The last chapter focuses on the period view on advantages and disadvantages of both forms of care. Keywords: orphans, abandoned children, social care, Prague, children's homes, foster care, family colonies

The phenomenon of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Zambia is a consequence of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Many of these children are orphaned at a critical developmental stage of their lives when parental care and nurture is most needed. In the African world view, children’s opinions in matters concerning them including care are rarely sort or heard. The main aim of this research was to gain a holistic understanding of the silent voices of children affected and/or infected by the HIV and AIDS, and specifically about their experiences of care and/or lack of it. The other aims were: 1) to research alternative means of getting the silent stories of the marginalized children heard by the Zambian society; and 2) to disseminate the research findings to policy makers. Ten children orphaned by AIDS and vulnerable children, who are the core-searchers, drawn from three Lusaka urban based NGOs participated in the study. The research process and experience was reflected upon by the researcher, co-researchers and the care givers. The research was carried out from a Practical Theology perspective and the narrative approach within the postmodern social-constructionist paradigm. The ABDCE model for fiction writing as a metaphor for doing narrative research was used. This approach enabled the researcher to carry out the research in a systematic manner. It also allowed the researcher and the co-researchers to begin and work together throughout the research process, as the researcher listened to the co-researchers’ stories and experiences of care and/or lack of it and was drawn into them. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Practical Theology / unrestricted

In Mexico there are officially 1.8 million orphaned children, without counting non-orphaned children deprived of family, who also need care; of these, only 657,000 are living in 703 orphanages. Mexico's government invests less than 2% of its budget toward protection of children. There is a lack of substantive research or official assessment of orphanages. According to the scant research found, the children's human rights most frequently violated in Mexican orphanages are the rights to nutrition and health care, to be protected from further victimization, to free expression and participation, and to not be exploited. This study was carried out through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the manager and five staff members of a respected orphanage in Mexico. It aimed to determine how they attempt to fulfill the aforementioned rights, and how their work relates to six prerequisites for efficient group-care formulated by Wolins after his vast research on the matter. Results indicate that the staff members of this orphanage view their work as spirituality in action, becoming the children's family, caring for their health through special vegetarian nutrition. They teach the children that they are the masters of their own lives and happiness, and not to see themselves as victims. From results I also suggest well supervised facilities, coupling between staff and professionals to screen children's health; a vegetarian diet based on scientific research; children's participation in rules, learning about, from and for their human rights and the idea of children being masters of their life and happiness.

The study focused on the exploration of the implication of partnership between the government and civil society organizations in the implementation of the Zimbabwe National Orphan Care Policy (ZNOCP). The study was carried out in Masvingo District in Zimbabwe to explore on the feasibility of inter-organizational interaction in policy implementation and how it affects the service delivery system. The study incorporated government departments, civil society organizations and ward councillors who stood as the custodians of the people. The study was intended on unveiling the different contextual aspects that exist between government departments and civil-society organizations (CSOs) as individual and separate entities and how the compromising of their values would affect the partnership. Looking at the hierarchical and bureaucratic features of government institutions, the study also intended to understand how this could be concealed and compromised with CSOs‟ open agendas in public policy implementation to ensure effective service delivery to the people. The 5C protocol, critical variables in policy implementation which are policy content, context, capacity, commitment of those entrusted with the implementation process and also clients and coalitions were used as the yardsticks. These variables acted as a yardstick on which to analyze the partnership between the Zimbabwean government and the civil society in the implementation of the Z.N.O.C.P, their different attitudes, bureaucratic settings, organizational culture, values, norms, and how their readjustments or failure affect the service delivery system. It also became imperative to look at the government legislations that govern the CSO space of operation and financial aspects to understand the implications of partnership between government and civil society. An understanding of these aspects leads to an increased understanding of the feasibility of state-CSO partnerships and its implications on policy implementation.