Submitted by Eliane Katayama Pricoli Amaro (elianekatayama@gmail.com) on 2018-02-06T21:49:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Mestrado_Amaro_EKP.pdf: 9105084 bytes, checksum: 660a9876a6ea9b24ad63ca1dac641217 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Marlene Zaniboni null (zaniboni@bauru.unesp.br) on 2018-02-07T12:40:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 amaro_ekp_me_bauru.pdf: 9105084 bytes, checksum: 660a9876a6ea9b24ad63ca1dac641217 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-07T12:40:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 amaro_ekp_me_bauru.pdf: 9105084 bytes, checksum: 660a9876a6ea9b24ad63ca1dac641217 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-14 / Tendo em vista os grandes desafios que as cidades enfrentam atualmente relacionados à sua sustentabilidade, este trabalho estuda três casos de vivências de bioconstrução realizadas em Bauru e Campinas, de forma participativa, em três escalas urbanas, três tipos de organização social e diferentes graus de participação, no período de 2009 a 2017. Utilizou-se a metodologia da Pesquisa - Ação Participativa (PAP), que tem como premissas básicas a vivência, práxis e conscientização (VPC) para a realização das vivências, abordando assuntos como permacultura e bioconstrução de forma co-laborativa. Desta forma, teve-se por objetivo pesquisar, estudar e descrever as vivências de bioconstrução obtendo a leitura da paisagem a partir do método do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC) e verificando se houve reflexão e conscientização sobre questões ambientais e coletivas a partir das ações realizadas, com o intuito de contribuir para o equacionamento de um problema coletivo. Os resultados apontam para uma metodologia integrada que possibilitou, a partir da coleta de entrevistas e tratamento dos dados, a formulação de um discurso coletivo, remontando a leitura da paisagem do objeto de estudo segundo a ótica dos seus participantes. / Considering the major challenges that cities currently face in relation to their sustainability, this paper studies three cases of bioconstruction experiences held in Bauru and Campinas, in a participatory manner, in three urban scales, three types of social organization and different degrees of participation, in the period from 2009 to 2017. Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology was used, whose basic premises are the vivencia, praxis and awareness (VPC) for the realization of the experiences, dealing with subjects such as permaculture and bioconstruction of form co-labor. In this way, the objective was to research, study and describe the experiences of bioconstruction obtaining the landscape reading from the method of the Discourse of the Collective Subject (DCS) and verifying if there was reflection and awareness about environmental and collective issues from the actions carried out, with the purpose of contributing to the solution of a collective problem. The results point to an integrated methodology that enabled, through the collection of interviews and data treatment, the formulation of a collective discourse, tracing the landscape reading of the object of study according to the optics of its participants.

abstract: The dissertation focuses on one Truku (Indigenous) village in eastern Taiwan and aims to understand the processes and possibilities of bottom-up language revitalization. In 2012, the National Geographic Genographic Legacy Fund supported the village to start a community-driven language revitalization initiative. Drawing on scholarship guided by critical Indigenous research methodologies, critical sociocultural approaches to language policy and planning, and sociocultural approaches to learning, this study is an attempt to generate qualitative ethnographic research to facilitate local praxis. The major findings are four: Firstly, after decades of colonialism, villagers' lived experiences and language ideological standpoints vary significantly across generations and households, which constraints the possibility of collective endeavors. Secondly, building on previous scholars' emphasis on "ideological clarification" prior to language revitalization, I identify the dimension of embodied ideological differences, using cultural historical activity theory to illustrate how certain "mainstream" artifacts (e.g. orthography) can confine orally dominant elders' capacity to contribute. In a similar vein, by closely examining children's voices and language performances, I highlight children's theory of language as relationship-building and a theory of learning as participation in communities of participation, which stand in stark contrast to adult educators' constructs of acquisition and proficiency in traditional SLA. Finally, inspired by children and elders' voices, methodologically I argue for a relational conceptualization of agency and propose a relationship-oriented language revitalization framework. Such framework values and incorporates existing social relationships in praxis, and requires researchers and practitioners to humbly recognize the work of power in social relations and develop a trusting, reflective bond with the villagers before rushing to impose agendas. This dissertation contributes to the scholarship of language policy and planning by incorporating sociocultural learning theories designed to generate praxis-oriented analysis. By contextualizing identity and SLA processes in an Indigenous context, the study also illuminates the affective dimension of language learning and education. Overall this study offers valuable insights for scholars, educators, and practitioners interested in community-based language education. Equally important, this research represents the voices of multiple generations of Truku people, deeply committed to ensuring that future generations remain connected to their heritage language, knowledge system, and ways of being. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. English 2014

e-learning, as defined to be the use of information and communications technology (ICT) for supporting the educational processes, has motivated Tanzania to apply ICT in its education system. Tanzania secondary schools in rural areas are geographically and socially isolated. Rural Tanzania secondary schools face a number of problems including ways in getting learning materials, as well as inadequacy in qualified teachers. The impact of these problems is poor performance in National Examinations. This poor performance however is highly noted in science and mathematics subjects. The problem in getting learning materials can be reduced by employing ICT in secondary school education system. This research develops an interactive e-learning management system (e-LMS) to be used by Tanzanian secondary schools. The research is aiming to support teaching and learning functions by allowing creation and storage of learning materials, making them available, easily accessed and sharable among students from different secondary schools in Tanzania in a more organized way. Tanzania has only one curriculum for all secondary schools registered under the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT). During development stage it will not be easy to involve all scattered Tanzanian secondary schools. The research is focusing to two selected pilot schools; Kibaha secondary school and Wali-ul-Asr girls’ seminary in Kibaha town, Pwani region. Features of the e-LMS will represent the standard form of any other secondary school registered by the MoEVT. The complete implementation of the e-LMS to these selected pilot schools will later be extended to all other secondary schools in Tanzania. The development uses Object-Oriented System Analysis and Design (OOSAD) approach along with the power of modeling as it has been emphasized by Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Unified Modeling Language (UML) is mainly used in both cases. To create an interoperable system, UML is integrated with extensible markup language (XML) during model transformation from e-LMS Platform Independent Model (PIM) to e-LMS Platform Specific Model (PSM). Development will make use of open source software. For context specific development, participatory action research methodology is adopted and the inputs are well presented in developing e-LMS. Customization of open source learning management system (LMS) platforms is employed to help generate a timely solution to e-LMS development. Finally, this thesis also considers the need for replication and mirroring of the database for the purpose of making learning materials highly available to end-users.

This dissertation covers the subject of how abstract concepts and complex situations can be concretized through research together with practitioners. The dissertation is based on four empirical studies. The researcher role, the practitioner participation and the methods for data collection and analysis have varied. In study I the concept ‘Närsjukvård’ was explored to understand how practitioners, managers and politicians in hospitals, primary health care and municipalities interpreted the concept. The researcher acted as consultant who collected data by interviews and questionnaires. Practitioners’ participation was limited. ‘Närsjukvård’ was interpreted as accessibility to hospital beds, accessibility to primary health care, collaboration between care providers and continuity and developed home care. Study II aimed to explore how people experienced leg ulcer care. The researcher acted as a consultant who performed the interviews and  analysed the data. Although the informants experienced their encounters with the nurses as satisfying, the study illuminated low participation in the care and low practitioner involvement in issues about daily living with the leg ulcer. The findings were brought back to the informants and the practitioners. The project did not proceed towards development and change. In study III the aim was to explore the Swedish concept ‘trygghet’ by using stories from daily life. Four older women were interviewed and the Story Dialogue method was used together with assistant nurses and registered nurses who participated in data collection and analysis. Two themes emerged: Sense of Security and factors strengthening the Sense of Security. Together with the assistant nurses, areas for improvements were identified. Study IV aimed to explore the discharge planning situation in order to     generate ideas for development. Members from a discharge planning network participated in the whole research process. Conditions for a successful coordinated discharge planning situation were a system including: the participation of the patient, the competence of the staff and the support from the organisation. The group arranged a workshop about communication and interdisciplinary   collaboration. The findings resulted in a form with self-evaluation questions. In conclusion, this thesis illustrates that it is possible to clarify abstract concepts and complex situations together with practitioners. To do this successfully, sense making activities and to start from practitioners’ experiences and their own context are key factors. The studies illuminate that building trust, relationship and sense of participation are essential in health and social care in general and specifically in the participatory action research process.

Abstract This doctoral thesis focuses on children’s participation in a Finnish reception centre. Using participatory action research (PAR) as the research methodology, the study engaged 12 unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls from Somalia, Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo to consider children’s participation during the asylum process, and to explore the ways in which the girls’ participation and wellbeing could be promoted. The research questions, which were formulated during the process in cooperation with the girls, were the following: How do the unaccompanied asylum-seeking girls view participation, its relevance and the possibilities for it during their asylum period? How does the liminality of their life situation promote or hinder their participation? How do the intersecting social categories affect their participation? Methodologically, the study focused on how PAR can be applied to promote children’s participation in institutional care in a culturally and gender-sensitive way. The conceptual framework consists mainly of critical pedagogy and intersectionality. Critical pedagogy made the foundations for the PAR, whereas intersectionality helped to comprehend the liminality of the girls’ life worlds. Both theoretical perspectives contributed to understanding and implementing the participatory paradigm. The findings show that the unaccompanied girls’ experiences of participation cannot be explained only through the girls’ vulnerability or their resilience, as they clearly belong to both categories and move within them. The participation, which was meaningful for the girls, reflected their fluid positions in relation to their gender, age and status as asylum seekers. Participation meant both the right to voice opinions and the possibility to choose silence, as well as the opportunity to include ‘ordinary things’ into their lives. / Tiivistelmä Tämä väitöstutkimus keskittyy lasten osallisuuteen suomalaisessa vastaanottokeskuksessa. Yhteensä 12 yksin maahan tullutta turvapaikanhakijatyttöä Somaliasta, Angolasta ja Kongon demokraattisesta tasavallasta osallistui toimintatutkimuksen keinoin pohtimaan lasten osallisuutta turvapaikkaprosessin aikana, ja miettimään keinoja miten lasten osallisuutta ja hyvinvointia voisi edistää. Tutkimuskysymykset, jotka muotoiltiin prosessin edetessä yhdessä osallistujien kanssa olivat seuraavat: Miten yksin maahan tulleet turvapaikanhakijatytöt käsittävät osallisuuden merkityksen ja mahdollisuudet heidän turvapaikkaprosessinsa aikana? Miten elämäntilanteen liminaalisuus heikentää tai edistää heidän osallisuuttaan? Miten ristikkäiset sosiaaliset kategoriat vaikuttavat heidän osallisuuteensa? Tutkimus pureutuu myös siihen, miten osallistavaa toimintatutkimusta voidaan käyttää kodin ulkopuolella asuvien lasten osallisuuden tukemiseen kulttuuri- ja sukupuolisensitiivisellä tavalla. Tutkimuksen käsitteellinen viitekehys rakentuu pääosin kriittisen pedagogiikan ja intersektionaalisuuden teorioista. Toimintatutkimus pohjautuu kriittiselle pedagogiikalle, kun taas intersektionaalisuus auttaa ymmärtämään tutkimuksen tyttöjen elämäntilanteen liminaalisuuden. Molemmat teoreettiset näkökulmat auttoivat tulkitsemaan ja toteuttamaan osallistavaa paradigmaa. Tulokset osoittavat, että yksin maahan tulleiden turvapaikanhakijatyttöjen osallisuuden kokemukset ovat moninaisia ja muuttuvia. Turvapaikanhakijastatuksen mukanaan tuoma haavoittuvaisuus ei riitä selittämään tyttöjen kokemuksia, kuten ei myöskään heidän elämänkokemuksensa mukanaan tuoma sinnikkyys ja vahvuus. Tutkimuksen tytöt olivat sekä haavoittuvaisia että vahvoja, ja heidän asemansa näissä kategorioissa oli joustava. Merkitykselliseen osallisuuteen vaikuttivat myös tyttöjen muuttuvat positiot, jotka liittyivät heidän sukupuoleensa, ikäänsä ja turvapaikanhakija-asemaansa. Osallisuus tarkoitti tytöille sekä oikeutta ilmaista mielipiteensä että vaieta, kuten myös arkisten asioiden sisällyttämistä jokapäiväiseen elämään.

This dissertation documents the everyday lives and spaces of a population of youth typically constructed as out of place, and the broader urban context in which they are rendered as such. Thirty-three female and transgender street youth participated in the development of this youth-based participatory action research (YPAR) project utilizing geo-ethnographic methods, auto-photography, and archival research throughout a six-phase, eighteen-month research process in Bogotá, Colombia. This dissertation details the participatory writing process that enabled the YPAR research team to destabilize dominant representations of both street girls and urban space and the participatory mapping process that enabled the development of a youth vision of the city through cartographic images. The maps display individual and aggregate spatial data indicating trends within and making comparisons between three subgroups of the research population according to nine spatial variables. These spatial data, coupled with photographic and ethnographic data, substantiate that street girls’ mobilities and activity spaces intersect with and are altered by state-sponsored urban renewal projects and paramilitary-led social cleansing killings, both efforts to clean up Bogotá by purging the city center of deviant populations and places. Advancing an ethical approach to conducting research with excluded populations, this dissertation argues for the enactment of critical field praxis and care ethics within a YPAR framework to incorporate young people as principal research actors rather than merely voices represented in adultist academic discourse. Interjection of considerations of space, gender, and participation into the study of street youth produce new ways of envisioning the city and the role of young people in research. Instead of seeing the city from a panoptic view, Bogotá is revealed through the eyes of street youth who participated in the construction and feminist visualization of a new cartography and counter-map of the city grounded in embodied, situated praxis. This dissertation presents a socially responsible approach to conducting action-research with high-risk youth by documenting how street girls reclaim their right to the city on paper and in practice; through maps of their everyday exclusion in Bogotá followed by activism to fight against it.

abstract: This study employed Participatory Action Research (PAR) which applied critical pedagogy, actor-network theory, and social network theory to create and implement an Application Framework for Critical Pedagogy (AFCP) with the goal of making critical pedagogy more broadly accessible to a wider range of faculty in higher education. Participants in the study included faculty, staff, and students from Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions of Arizona State University, and data was collected in the form of surveys, interviews, written interactions, and video observations of multidisciplinary committee meetings to build the framework. The study concluded with a functional framework from which faculty and instructional designers alike can work to create better, more effective courses. Including participants of diverse backgrounds, varying power levels, and sometimes opposing perspectives in the study created a diversity of thought and experience which offered the opportunity to refine the purpose, expectations, and specific language of the tool. While the framework is not intended to be a definitive source of critical pedagogy application, this refinement allows the possibility that more faculty, instructional designers, and other higher education stakeholders may find utility in the revised framework as a tool for self-advocating and for professional pedagogical growth. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Leadership and Innovation 2020

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This thesis investigated the education support services provided by occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Changes in the education policy in South Africa to an inclusive education system have major implications for the way therapists provide support. Therapists have been challenged to move from a medical model of support with a focus on highly specialised treatment for a small number of individual learners with disabilities, to a systemic and health promoting model which focuses on support for the education system, including all learners, teachers and parents. The aim of this research was to develop an appropriate and integrated approach for therapists to support schools within an inclusive and health promoting schools framework in South Africa. Participatory action research using quantitative and qualitative methodology was used. Two surveys were conducted in the Western Cape Province. The first was a survey of all therapists to determine who was working with pre-school and school-aged learners and where. The second survey was of all therapists working in special schools and a small number of private practitioners to identify the roles of the therapists in providing direct and indirect support. In two of the seven education districts in the province, focus group discussions were held with 45 teachers from special and ordinary schools, and 21 parents of school-aged learners - to identify the support they needed. Workshops, incorporating focus groups, were also held with the therapists to, firstly, identify the support they needed to give to learners, teachers, parents and the education system and, secondly, to identify the competencies they needed to give this support. The data from the surveys were subjected to simple descriptive statistical analysis. These analyses reveal that therapists have a very wide range of roles relating to direct support, including: assessment, intervention with individual learners and learners in groups, and evaluation. Interventions include the development of hearing, speech and communication skills; skills for activities of daily living; life skills; home management skills; work related skills; motor function skills; and play and leisure skills. Therapists from different disciplines frequently provide the same type of support. Indirect support provided includes support for the schools system, teachers and parents. Thirty six percent of the therapists in this study want to increase the proportion of time they spent on indirect support. The study also revealed that multidisciplinary collaboration and teamwork were Teachers involved in the study identified that they need an enormous amount of support in fulfilling their crucial roles in identifying barriers to learning; identifying the support learners need; and addressing the barriers. This includes the need for support to teach a diverse group of learners; adapting content, presentation and evaluation of the curriculum; adapting the physical environment; accepting new roles of teachers and therapists; making changes to the school system; developing relationships with the parents; addressing challenges related to socio-economic problems; networking with the community; facilitating positive attitudes to diversity; developing supportive relationships with therapists; and further training poorly developed. Teachers involved in the study identified that they need an enormous amount of support in fulfilling their crucial roles in identifying barriers to learning; identifying the support learners need; and addressing the barriers. This includes the need for support to teach a diverse group of learners; adapting content, presentation and evaluation of the curriculum; adapting the physical environment; accepting new roles of teachers and therapists; making changes to the school system; developing relationships with the parents; addressing challenges related to socio-economic problems; networking with the community; facilitating positive attitudes to diversity; developing supportive relationships with therapists; and further training. Parents in this study indicated that they need access to education and support for their children, including direct support for their children; effective means of communicating with their children; specific competencies to facilitate caring for their children; emotional support; advocates to work with them in support of their children addressing environmental physical and attitudinal barriers, and developing a supportive community; and supportive relationships with therapists.

The main theme in this licentiate thesis is the focus on strengthening institutional capacities to promote cooperation within a cluster initiative between public and private sectors in Latin American contexts, especially in Bolivia. The argument is the need to generate spaces for interaction through participatory practices in order to incorporate different points of view, academic and non-academic, which can lead to a more critical production and appropriation of knowledge. In the particular case of Bolivia, the pilot development of cluster initiatives was used as an interaction mechanism between the university, industry and government, which means developing skills in innovation among stakeholders, instead of starting immediately with the search for solutions. This licentiate thesis focuses on practices based on collective and dynamic interactions generated in an emerging cluster based on the Triple Helix framework in the leather productive sector in Bolivia. This as a result of seven years of participatory action research participating in cluster initiatives promoted by a public university, the case of the Universidad Mayor de San Simon - UMSS (trans. San Simon University). In the case of the Leather Cluster Cochabamba experience presented in this licentiate thesis, I found that the introduction of concepts such as cluster development, Triple Helix and knowledge production in Mode 2 as fieldwork by a public university (UMSS), participation is a positive ingredient and contributor to the improvement of democratizing innovation. The generation of collaborative relationships on a participatory and democratic basis is a time-consuming process that needs to begin with reflection and accountability of researchers to their direct involvement in participatory processes and practices.

With the ever-growing market of six-axis robots in the previous years, many different kinds of robots have been introduced into the market. A smaller group of so-called collaborative robots have during this time gotten increased popularity. One of the inconveniences with this type of smaller robot is the lack of internal pneumatic capabilities, which leads to external cables and tubing. This can cause problems with the cables attaching into unintended things and coming loose which could result in production stops, machine failure or other potential damage. Another part of this is that the external cabling hinders the robots sixth axis of rotation. The need for air pressure is to supply the common pneumatic grippers that the robots often use to gain pick-and-place capabilities. Cobotech Kalmar AB is a company based in Kalmar which specializes in robot integration with these collaborative robots. The purpose of this project is to together develop a product concept that can minimize the external cabling needed on the robot while still allow full rotation in the sixth axis. On top of this, the product should have plug-and-play capabilities to decrease the installation time of a robot unit. The method to develop the results is the participatory action research (PAR), with the five different steps that the method includes: problem approach, design/planning, acquiring data, analysis and reflection. The result of the thesis shows that it is possible to decrease the external air tubes and installation time of a collaborative robot. This can be achieved while not decreasing the robots range of motion. By developing an innovative end-effector for the robot the main problems caused by pneumatic grippers can be eliminated. The conclusion of this thesis is a concept product that has one air input and five outputs. This allows for the minimization of the external air tubes needed to only one. The product has a swivel function incorporated which allows full rotation of the robots sixth axis. This together with having the valves seated in the end-effector makes this conceptual product plug-and-play. / Med en ständigt växande marknad för sexaxliga robotar de senaste åren har många olika robotar introducerats till marknaden. Av dessa har mindre kollaborativa robotar vuxit i popularitet. Ett problem med många av dessa mindre robotar är att de inte har tryckluft inbyggt i armen som många av sina större bröder vilket leder till att tryckluftslangar måste dras externt på roboten istället. Detta kan leda tillatt kabeln fastnar och rycks loss vilket i sin tur kan leda till produktionsstopp, att maskiner skadas eller annan potentiell skada på antingen maskiner eller människor.Ett annat problem med att externt dra kabel är att den hindrar robotens sjätte rotationsaxel. Anledningen till att ha tryckluft på roboten är för att ha möjlighet att installera pneumatiska gripdon. Cobotech Kalmar AB är ett företag bosatt i Kalmar som specialiserar sig på att integrera kollaborativa robotar i olika tillverkande industrier. Syftet med detta projekt är att tillsammans utveckla ett produktkoncept som minimerar de externa kablarna på roboten och ser till att roboten får full rörlighet i sin sjätte rotationsaxel. Utöver detta ska produkten arbeta mot att ha plug-and-play kapacitet för att minska installationstiden ute hos kunden. Metoden som används för att få fram resultaten var deltagande aktionsforskning,som innehåller de följande fem stegen: problemformulering, design/planering, in-samling av data och reflektion. Resultatet av denna rapport visar att det är möjligt att minska externa luftslangar samt minska installationstid på kollaborativa robotar. Detta kan göras utan att minska robotens funktion. Genom att utveckla en innovativ end-effector till Universal robots produktutbud kan man eliminera de främsta problemen med pneumatiska gripdon. Projektet har resulterat i en nära färdig konceptuell produkt som innovativt använder magnetiska miniatyrventiler tillsammans med en svivelfunktion för att enbart ha en tryckluftkabel som input till produkten. Produktens swivelfunktion frigör robotens sjätte rotations-axel. Detta tillsammans med ventilerna som sitter i produkten gör att den får plug-and-play funktion.