This thesis explores mothers' reactions to, and methods of dealing with, the sudden death of a child, using a constructivist approach. The study focusses on the meanings that mothers construe in relation to the sudden death of their child and the role of these constructions in her "recovery" from this loss. It also explores the grieving process, the effect of the loss on the mother, including a focus on changes in her value system, her role as a mother and as a wife, as well as the impact of this loss on the family system. The study was conducted on the basis of qualitative research methodology, making use of the case study method. The sample consisted of three mothers, selected purposively. The data gathered was analysed inductively. / Psychology / M.A.(Clinical Psychology)

The theories of social cognition and personal constructs compose the theoretical backdrop to this dissertation which deals with people's expectations regarding romantic partners and relationships.Five women were interviewed and a qualitative analysis undertaken and discussed with a view to elucidating the influence of one's parents, cultural background and individual identity on the development and functioning of expectations. These expectation are based on beliefs about men and relationships in general and about healthy and unhealthy relationships in particular. Attension is given to the role of relationship beliefs and expectations in evaluations of romantic relationships and the consequences of such evaluations for relationship satisfaction and commitment. It is concluded that expectations play an important role in the process of partner and relationship eva,uation and thus, in the outcome of relationships. Parental and cultural influences are found to play an important part in shaping individual values and expetations, albeit in an indirect manner. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

This thesis explores mothers' reactions to, and methods of dealing with, the sudden death of a child, using a constructivist approach. The study focusses on the meanings that mothers construe in relation to the sudden death of their child and the role of these constructions in her "recovery" from this loss. It also explores the grieving process, the effect of the loss on the mother, including a focus on changes in her value system, her role as a mother and as a wife, as well as the impact of this loss on the family system. The study was conducted on the basis of qualitative research methodology, making use of the case study method. The sample consisted of three mothers, selected purposively. The data gathered was analysed inductively. / Psychology / M.A.(Clinical Psychology)

The theories of social cognition and personal constructs compose the theoretical backdrop to this dissertation which deals with people's expectations regarding romantic partners and relationships.Five women were interviewed and a qualitative analysis undertaken and discussed with a view to elucidating the influence of one's parents, cultural background and individual identity on the development and functioning of expectations. These expectation are based on beliefs about men and relationships in general and about healthy and unhealthy relationships in particular. Attension is given to the role of relationship beliefs and expectations in evaluations of romantic relationships and the consequences of such evaluations for relationship satisfaction and commitment. It is concluded that expectations play an important role in the process of partner and relationship eva,uation and thus, in the outcome of relationships. Parental and cultural influences are found to play an important part in shaping individual values and expetations, albeit in an indirect manner. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

Submitted by (lucia.rodrigues@ufrpe.br) on 2016-11-16T13:01:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Laurentino Goncalves da Rocha.pdf: 2473080 bytes, checksum: a312b7cf684b2319db33b7f540b308f9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-16T13:01:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Laurentino Goncalves da Rocha.pdf: 2473080 bytes, checksum: a312b7cf684b2319db33b7f540b308f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-08-15 / The current research deals with the constructive revision – in the cognitive structure of first year students in a public high school state, in the Uniform Rectilinear Motion (URM) conception, evolving from the Aristotelian to Galilean thinking. Students have a natural difficulty in understanding the existence of motion without a prime mover action – a Galilean concept – since they can only observe it in complex laboratory experiments or as a result of mental idealization. Differently, the Aristotelian conception permits an easier comprehension since it can be demonstrated from the sensorial observation of everyday experiments. In this work, through pedagogical activities based in the Kelly’s Experience Cycle (KEC), part of the Personal Constructs Theory (PCT), formulated by George Kelly, examined the URM concepts, as per Galileo and Aristotle and revised basic concepts of Physics related to the research topics of concern to the students, we intend to investigate whether the KCE is appropriate for the desired conceptual revision asking the following question: how to promote, among first year students in a public high school, the revision of Aristotelian thinking introducing Galilean logic? In order to reach our objective we did a didactic intervention based in moments of Cycle. The results obtained, indicate a quantity considerable of students that change from aristotelian’s conception to galilean’s conception. At the end of the research we came to the conclusion that the KEC method is appropriate to promote a change of students’ conception / Trata a presente pesquisa da revisão construtiva, na estrutura cognitiva dos alunos do 1º ano do ensino médio de uma escola pública estadual, da concepção de movimento retilíneo uniforme (MRU), do pensamento aristotélico para o galileano. Observa-se a dificuldade dos estudantes em compreender a existência de movimento sem a ação da força, oriunda da dificuldade de sua visualização no cotidiano, pois sua ocorrência exige condições laboratoriais de alta complexidade ou mentalmente idealizadas. A concepção aristotélica é de mais fácil verificação, pois origina-se da observação de eventos do nosso cotidiano. Neste trabalho, através de atividades fundamentadas no Ciclo da Experiência Kellyana (CEK), que faz parte da Teoria dos Construtos Pessoais (TCP), de George Kelly, nas concepções de MRU, segundo Galileu e Aristóteles e em conceitos básicos de Física, pretendemos investigar se o CEK é adequado para a desejada revisão conceitual, respondendo à seguinte indagação: Como promover entre alunos, a revisão do pensamento aristotélico para o de Galileu? Para a consecução da mudança, realizamos uma intervenção didática, baseada nos momentos do Ciclo. Os resultados obtidos indicaram uma quantidade relevante de alunos que passaram de uma concepção aristotélica para uma concepção galileana. Ao final do trabalho concluímos que o CEK é um método apropriado para promover uma mudança de concepção dos estudantes.

The purpose of this study was to see how meaningful and practically challenging a combined and structured arts therapy approach can be for an island-style counselling scenario. The overarching rationale with this particular arts therapy approach was to enable the client to gain self-insight by means of constructing a holistic view of present concerns and aspirations by capturing them in personal, functional and professional-looking artefacts conveying relevant self-messages. The client self-generated the content of each exercise, according to a manual and strategic interventions, and was guided by the counsellor in the user-friendly application of the arts. Apart from the unique combination of arts therapies in this study, another factor that may contribute to counselling practice is the attempt to make use of video as a non-threatening integrating medium. Throughout the process, the client made rehearsed video appearances to consolidate personal gains. At the end of the counselling process, the respondent enjoyed an “objective” screening of the process and he left with the personal constructs, a video tape and a CD-Rom application of the recorded process. The literature study reveals the numerous techniques, exercises and most common combinations spread across the domain of the 26 expressive modalities that were scrutinised to gain insight into this vast field. The empirical process revealed that it is possible to utilise the arts therapy approach meaningfully to enable a client to build a “visual narrative”. To optmise the potential this approach holds, the environment facilitating the process needs to be adequately equipped and the counsellor needs to be skilled in the application of particular electronic media or, alternatively, a group of experts need to co-operate. / Dissertation (MEd (Learning Support, Guidance and Counselling))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Educational Psychology / unrestricted

Inom vård av personer med demenssjukdom är vårdarens bekräftelse av personens värdighet och välbefinnande grundläggande. Bekräftelsens effekt avgörs av vad och hur vårdaren väljer att bekräfta. Då den inte är anpassad riskerar personens värdighet och välbefinnande att reduceras, skadas eller gå förlorad. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva vårdpersonals föreställningar om att bekräfta värdighet och välbefinnande hos personer med demenssjukdom. Vårdarens synsätt och antagande om personen med demenssjukdom, om att vårda samt innebörd av värdighet och välbefinnande antogs ha en betydande roll för vårdarens val att bekräfta. Metod: Tio informanter intervjuades kring sina uppfattningar av att bekräfta värdighet och välbefinnande hos personer med demenssjukdom. Analysen genomfördes utifrån fenomenografisk metod i fyra steg där informanternas uppfattningar presenterades i ett utfallsrum av beskrivningskategorier med underkategorier. Resultat: Resultatet visade att bekräftelse uppkommer i ett samspel av faktorer, vilka kan påverka bekräftelsen både positivt och negativt. Vårdarnas bekräftelse skedde med utgångspunkt i vårdarens föreställningar via sekundära värden, mot övergripande värden, i en kontext av omgivningsfaktorer och utifrån ett kommunikativt feedbacksystem. Vårdarna hade såväl underlättande som hindrande förställningar vilka kopplades till tid och organisatoriska förutsättningar, till vårdtagarens förmågor, kommunikation och uttryck. Reflektion och klinisk implikation: Studien ger kunskap om hur vårdpersonal tänker kring värdighet och välbefinnande.  Skillnader i vårdens utförande kan förstås utifrån ett livsvärldsperspektiv och kan användas som underlag för utbildning, handledning och reflektion. / In caring for people with dementia confirmation of dignity and wellbeing is essential. How and in what way the nurse chooses to confirm determines the effect on the confirmation itself. If not individually adjusted to the person with dementia there’s a risk of dignity and wellbeing being reduced, damaged or lost. Aim: The aim of the study was to describe nurses’ personal beliefs and constructs on confirming dignity and wellbeing in people suffering from dementia. The nurses views on the person with dementia, personal beliefs on caring and on the meaning of dignity and wellbeing was predicted to have a significant role on the way he or she confirms the person. Method: Ten informants were interviewed on their personal experiences on confirming dignity and wellbeing. The narrations were analysed using a phenomenographic methodology in four different steps. The informants’ experiences were presented in an outcome space consisting sets of categories and subcategories of description. Result: Confirmation takes place within an interplay of factors with the potentiality to effect in a positively or negatively way. The nurses’ confirmation took place on the basis of their personal beliefs and constructs through secondary values, towards overall values, within a context of external factors and from a communicative system of feedback. The nurses had both enabling and hindering personal beliefs and constructs which were linked to time and organisational factors and to cognitive and physical abilities, communication and expression of the patient. Reflections and clinical implications: The study brings knowledge on nurses’ personal beliefs and constructs on confirming dignity and wellbeing. The differences in nursing among the nurses can be further viewed and understood from a life-world perspective and contribute to nursing education, supervision and reflection.

Submitted by Mario BC (mario@bc.ufrpe.br) on 2016-08-17T13:12:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Teixeira Bruno Silva.pdf: 4289257 bytes, checksum: a4020350198fbf89dbea947a71b7890b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T13:12:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Paula Teixeira Bruno Silva.pdf: 4289257 bytes, checksum: a4020350198fbf89dbea947a71b7890b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-31 / Distance Education is a mode of delivering education that allows new opportunities of access to higher and continuing education. In this context, the supervised curricular stage requires the compulsory presence, according to the legislation. This research presents a methodological proposal based on George Kelly's Theory of Personal Constructs, whose objective is to analyse the contributions of the experience of the Supervised Curricular Stage V, organised and based on Kelly's Experience Cycle (KEC), towards the construction of a reflexive teacher's practice, as well as to relate the conceptions of managers and classroom teachers of stage field schools, about aspects that favor and/or difficult the performance of the graduate students in the school. Participated in the study a representative of the Executive Secretary of Education, six school principals and six classroom teachers from stage field schools, who took part in the first phase. Besides these, nineteen licentiate students from the course of Licentiate in Physics from UFRPE/UAB also participated in the second phase. The methodology used was organised as a KEC, which has five phases, allied to the work of Cooperative Group. The analysis of the results showed the need for integration between the institutions involved in the formation process of the future teacher. The reflective process started by the KEC enabled the evolution of conceptions of licentiate students/trainees, contributing to their learning. / A Educação a Distância (EAD) apresenta-se como uma modalidade de educação que proporciona novas oportunidades de acesso a cursos superiores e formação continuada. Nesse contexto, o Estágio Curricular Supervisionado precisa da obrigatoriedade de momentos presenciais, de acordo com a legislação. Esta pesquisa apresenta uma proposta metodológica, baseada na Teoria dos Construtos Pessoais de George Kelly, que tem como objetivo analisar as contribuições da vivência do Estágio Curricular Supervisionado V, organizado com base no Ciclo da Experiência Kellyana (CEK), para a construção de uma prática docente reflexiva, assim como relacionar as concepções de gestores e professores regentes de escolas campo de estágio, acerca de aspectos que favorecem e/ou dificultam a atuação do licenciando/estagiário na escola. Participaram do estudo um representante da Secretaria Executiva de Educação, seis diretores de escolas e seis professores regentes de escolas campo de estágio, que fizeram parte da primeira etapa. Além desses, dezenove licenciandos do curso de Licenciatura em Física da UFRPE/UAB também participaram na segunda etapa. A metodologia utilizada foi organizada como um CEK, que possui cinco fases, aliado ao trabalho de Grupo Cooperativo. A análise dos resultados revelou a necessidade da integração entre as instituições envolvidas no processo de formação do futuro professor. O processo reflexivo desencadeado pelo CEK possibilitou a evolução das concepções dos licenciandos/estagiários, contribuindo para sua aprendizagem.

Submitted by (lucia.rodrigues@ufrpe.br) on 2016-10-21T12:13:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alceu Domingues Alves.pdf: 2706251 bytes, checksum: b08b282eb347f2211c929e290db2c050 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-21T12:13:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alceu Domingues Alves.pdf: 2706251 bytes, checksum: b08b282eb347f2211c929e290db2c050 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-29 / The present work of research proposes to teach the fractal geometry in high school classroom, with approach in the forms the objects natural and build by the man. Despite of the utility of the fractal geometry for description of the natural objects, this geometry is a subject that has been taught poor in the last series of the high school. The objective of the work is: i. to identify as the students conceive the geometric forms of objects and processes of the nature, without previous knowledge of fractal geometry; the procedure methodological is to carry the students for to apply the Euclidian and fractal in the description of the different shape natural an build by the man. Educational software of dynamic geometry will be used to work with the Euclidean and fractal geometry. The object used will be some students the last year of the high school from a public school of the state of Pernambuco. The theory of the Kelly personal constructs were be used in the analysis of the data. / O presente trabalho propõe introduzir o conceito e propriedades da Geometria Fractal no Ensino Médio, com enfoque numa abordagem baseada nas descrições das formas dos objetos construídos pelo homem e pela natureza. A Geometria Fractal é um tema que tem sido explorado de maneira bastante superficial nas séries finais do ensino médio, apesar da sua extrema utilidade na descrição das formas construídas pela natureza. O principal objetivo do trabalho é investigar como os alunos concebem as formas geométricas dos objetos e processos da natureza. A proposta metodológica para a realização da pesquisa consistiu em utilizar objetos construídos pela natureza e pelo homem e levar os alunos a descreverem suas formas a partir da geometria euclidiana (estudada previamente) e da geometria fractal (discutida numa oficina realizada durante a pesquisa). Softwares educacionais de geometria dinâmica foram usados para trabalhar com os alunos as duas geometrias. A amostra trabalhada foi constituída de alunos de uma turma de terceiro ano do ensino médio de uma escola pública da rede oficial de ensino do Estado de Pernambuco. A teoria dos construtos pessoais de George Kelly foi usada para analisar os dados.

Submitted by (lucia.rodrigues@ufrpe.br) on 2016-11-22T12:12:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria do Carmo da Silveira Xavier.pdf: 2981610 bytes, checksum: 8f296c9522d8a863e14670d85db94332 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-22T12:12:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria do Carmo da Silveira Xavier.pdf: 2981610 bytes, checksum: 8f296c9522d8a863e14670d85db94332 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-26 / In this research we investigate the construction of concepts, through technological material of artistic production of Conceptual Art, a transdisciplinary procedure with Science. It is confirmed the potential of continuing towards art, and its contribution to the learning of scientific concepts for students in high school. As expressive materials for the conceptual artistic productions, it is mentioned: the PET (Ethylene Politereftalate) and a bioplastics (made by students). These materials support the discussions and conceptual constructions about the curriculum content of high school to the Chemistry of Materials, to Biology and Ecology (environment), with the themes: polymers, synthetic and natural biopolymer, and transversal issues as: garbage, recycling, reuse, sustainability, environmental aesthetics and new technologies. As theoretical and methodological we have Kelly’s, Theory of Personal Constructs with emphasis on the Cycle of Experience is had. The hermeneutic-dialectic methodology the research’s methodology, seek refuge alteration of CHD and enables the structuring of interactive methodology/constructive, new learning tool, from proposed changes of CHD, allows you a closer cross between areas of knowledge, Art and Science. Personal Constructs that allows the simultaneous participation of all involved in the project and it grants primordial speech of freedom for the students through the spoken language and the conceptual constructions of art;collected data and allowing following the attitude and cognitive process of students. The project involves a group of 10 students from 1st year grade of high school of CODAI, institution associated to UFRPE, in the City of SAO LOURENCO DA MATA, State of Pernambuco, Brazil. The research results presents a satisfactory development from the participants and it also presents in the consensus final constructions, a very approach of the formal definition that could be found in the sciences literature as well as in the conceptual art. / Nesta pesquisa investiga-se a construção de conceitos através do material tecnológico da produção artística de Arte conceitual, em procedimento transdisciplinar com a Ciência. Verifica-se a potencialidade do material expressivo utilizado na produção conceitual da arte e na sua contribuição para a aprendizagem de conceitos científicos de alunos do ensino médio. Como materiais expressivos têm-se: o PET (Politereftalato de etileno) e um bioplástico (confeccionado pelos alunos). Esses materiais auxiliam nas discussões e construções conceituais sobre conteúdos curriculares do Ensino Médio relativos à Química dos Materiais, à Biologia e à Ecologia (meio ambiente), com o tema: polímero (sintético, naturais e biopolímero), e abordagens transversais como: lixo, reciclagem, reaproveitamento, sustentabilidade, estética ambiental e novas tecnologias. Como aporte teórico e metodológico tem-se a Teoria dos Construtos Pessoais de Kelly, com destaque para o Ciclo da Experiência. A metodologia hermenêutica-dialética fundamenta a metodologia da pesquisa. Também ampara as modificações efetivadas no círculo hermenêutico-dialético (CHD) e viabiliza a estruturação da metodologia interativo/construtiva como um novo instrumento pedagógico, eficiente tanto para construir dados em pesquisa qualitativa, quanto, como ferramenta pedagógica para construção da aprendizagem. O novo instrumento proposto a partir das modificações do CHD facilitou a aproximação transdisciplinar entre as áreas do conhecimento, Arte e Ciência, e possibilitou a participação simultânea de todos os pesquisados na mostra. Assim, envolveu: entrevistados e observadores, privilegiando a liberdade de expressão dos envolvidos através da fala e das construções e reconstruções conceituais durante as fases do instrumento. O CHD modificado viabilizou a construção dos dados da pesquisa e também facilitou acompanhar os processos atitudinais e cognitivos dos envolvidos durante a construção da aprendizagem. Foram pesquisados 10 alunos do 1º Ano do Ensino Médio do CODAI, Instituição vinculada a UFRPE situada no Município de São Lourenço da Mata, PE. Os resultados da pesquisa indicaram satisfatório desenvolvimento das construções conceituais dos participantes e mostraram nos resultados consensuais finais, muita proximidade às definições formais encontradas na literatura da área de Ciência, bem como da Arte Conceitual.