Globalization and technological advancements continue to challenge contemporary organizations’ aims to balance stability and change. As a response to this challenge, organizations often turn to empowerment and participatory processes. Current research emphasizes the need for enhanced communication in these processes. However, there is a lack of research studying how organizations practically enact this idea that these processes require more communication. This dissertation is aligned with the Montreal School’s CCO perspective and departs from communication theory seen as a dialogic of conversation and text, thus directing attention to coorientation and how organizational members coordinate in organizing processes. Based on this theoretical framework, the study aims to contribute to a better understanding – empirically as well as analytically – about the variety of texts that are a part of communicative initiatives aiming at enhancing communication, encouraging participation and empowerment processes. The empirical material is based on how two organizations explicitly emphasized communicative initiatives throughout each organization’s empowerment process attempts. One organization mainly used workshops to provide opportunities for communication, while the other organization incorporated an interactive video website for the same purpose. This dissertation acknowledges that managers and subordinates are not equally capable of discursively constructing the organization. However, enhanced communication through empowering processes has been shown to facilitate members’ abilities to contribute to the organizing process. Hence, the study combines two theoretical frameworks, the empowerment process model and the Montreal School’s CCO perspective, extending both and thereby accentuating the communication-power relationship. To further explore how conversations and text interact in the case organizations, the study enacts a tension-centered approach, arguing that tensions are produced, co- and reproduced and enacted through organizations’ wills to empower their members through communication. The findings indicate a recursive and reflexive relationship between the empowerment process, coorientation, tensions and participation. In practice, this means that organizational members who have the opportunity to engage in conversations about matters of concern while perceiving themselves as taking part in an empowerment process tend to more actively identify and co-produce tensions. Tensions increase participation and lead to new insights. As members realize the value of their input, this further enhances the empowerment process.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:47:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariangela_Faria_Faria_Dissertacao.pdf: 1124844 bytes, checksum: 4125853169cc079a1eb26a74c2b9b143 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-12 / The study aims at analyzing how the management staff from two public schools, named respectively as Innovation and Tradition, recontextualizes the policy of management democratization, established by the Municipal Secretary of Education (SME) of Jaguarão, in 2009. Initially, it presents historical aspects of Jaguarão City showing the recent history of the Municipal Secretary of Education, in order to understand the local context of the two schools investigate. Secondly, the theme of school research. In a second moment, we approach the theme of democratic management, supported by studies of Brazilian researchers, as Vitor Paro and Naura Ferreira, as well as the process of recontextualization inspired by the sociological theory of Bernstein, and the policy cycle, as of contributions of Stephen Ball. We focus, in this sense, the participation and the autonomy as conductor shafts of democratization of school management. In the sequence, we focus on the process of policy recontextualization of the Municipal Education, two schools within the network. To accomplish this research of qualitative approach and descriptive character, we have adopted the methodology of case study. We used as research techniques, document analysis, observations in two public schools in the city of Jaguarão and interviews with directors, vice-directors and pedagogical supervisors, educational counselors, teachers, staff and parents. At the end, it is clear that schools recontextualize in different way the politics of democratization of management proposed by the Education Department. The Innovation School shows have no apparent resistance to the text of the SME, performing a kind of reading in line with the interests of the school community, in search of a way of democratic management, differently, the Tradition School demonstrates resistence to the politics in focus and so in its process of recontextualization distances itself from that, according to the SME, it means, in pratice, democratize the management, once th in this institution predominate values little democratic, rooted in the history of the city, very close to a traditional management / O estudo tem por objetivo analisar como as equipes gestoras de duas escolas municipais, designadas, respectivamente, como Inovação e Tradição, recontextualizam a política de democratização da gestão, instituída pela Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Jaguarão, no ano de 2009. Inicialmente, apresentamos o município de Jaguarão e o resgate realizado acerca da história recente do trabalho da respectiva Secretaria Municipal de Educação, de forma a contribuir para entender o contexto local ao qual se vinculam as duas escolas eleitas para a pesquisa. Em um segundo momento, abordamos o tema da gestão democrática, com apoio em estudos de pesquisadores brasileiros, como Vitor Paro e Naura Ferreira, bem como o processo de recontextualização, inspirado na teoria sociológica de Bernstein, e o ciclo das políticas, a partir das contribuições de Stephen Ball. Enfocamos, neste sentido, a participação e a autonomia como eixos condutores da democratização da gestão escolar. Na sequencia, focalizamos o processo de recontextualização da política da Secretaria Municipal de Educação, no âmbito das duas escolas da rede. Para realizar esta investigação, de abordagem qualitativa e caráter descritivo, adotamos a metodologia de estudo de caso. Como técnicas de pesquisa, utilizamos a análise documental, observações em duas escolas municipais da cidade de Jaguarão e entrevistas com os diretores, vice-diretores e supervisores pedagógicos, orientadores educacionais, professores, funcionários e pais. Ao final, fica evidenciado que as escolas recontextualizam de forma diferente a política de democratização da gestão proposta pela Secretaria de Educação. A Escola Inovação mostra não ter resistências aparentes ao texto da SME, realizando um tipo de leitura em sintonia com os interesses da comunidade escolar, na busca de um modo de gestão democrático; diferentemente, a Escola Tradição demonstra distancia-se daquilo que, de acordo com a SME, significa, na prática, democratizar a gestão, uma vez que nessa instituição predominam valores pouco democráticos, enraizados na historia do município, muito próximos de uma gestão tradicional

Makt är ofta negativt associerat och förknippat med någonting auktoritärt. Speciellt tydligt blir detta i en skandinavisk kultur där det finns ett vardagligt tal kring “jantelagen” som förkastar när man skryter om sina egna framgångar. Således kan en ledande position i en organisation bli utmanande eftersom positionen kan uppfattas som framträdande och iögonfallande. Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie är att få en djupare förståelse för butikschefer inom livsmedelshandelns subjektiva upplevelser av att påverkas av sociala maktrelationer i en svensk arbetslivskontext. Med utgångspunkt i ett socialpsykologiskt synsätt så studeras detta teoretiskt genom De fem maktformerna, Kulturdimensionsteorin, Approach Inhibition Theory of Power och Normativ makt. Tio semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med butikschefer. Slutsatserna visade på en mångfacetterad syn på makt där makt både kunde skildras som något ouppskattat såväl som en källa som bidrar till motivation och samhörighet. Därmed främjades ett relationsorienterat chefskap och butiksmedarbetarnas egenmakt. Att anpassa sitt beteende efter förväntningar var en viktig del i hur chefer använde makt i positiv bemärkelse. Det kunde uttryckas i att anpassa både sin kommunikation och sina chefsegenskaper. / Power is often negatively associated with and addressed as something authoritarian. This becomes apparent in a Scandinavian culture where there is a colloquial term called "janteloven" that disapproves of bragging regarding one's success. Therefore, having a leading position in an organization may be challenging since the position may be regarded as prominent and conspicuous. The purpose of this qualitative study is to achieve a deeper understanding of grocery managers' subjective experiences of being influenced by social power relationships in the Swedish employment context. Based on a social psychological approach, this is theoretically studied with The Five Bases of Power, Cultural Dimensions Theory, Approach Inhibition Theory of Power, and the Normative Theory of Power. Ten semi-structured interviews with grocery managers were conducted. The findings emphasized a multifaceted approach to power, which could be depicted as undesirable or seen as a source of encouragement and unity. Thus, relationship-oriented leadership and empowering grocery personnel were promoted. Adapting one's behavior according to presumptions was a compelling aspect of how managers' used their power in a positive light. This has been depicted in their adaptation of communication and their traits as managers.

The focus of this qualitative, arts-based inquiry was to understand how disabling illness might be transformed through art. A/r/tography -- art/research/teaching and writing, was the method used to explore and understand the meaning(s) held within the art: Border Crossings -- a conceptual, figurative, sculptural installation. The installation embodied the experience of disabling illness, symbolically depicting power relationships, identities, subjectivities and the multi-dimensional nature of being, of one coming up against the institution, the illness and the self. Guided by the work of Heidegger (Hermeneutic Circle), Deleuze and Guatarri (Rhizome and The body without Organs) and Foucault (Power Relationships), the A/r/tographer examined the installation through the lens of the poststructural feminist writers Grosz, Davis, Gatens, Weedon, Moss and Dyck with a focus on the body/subjective to explore notions central to understanding being in a body. A further analysis through art theorists Eisner, Allen and A/r/tographers Irwin and Springgay’s aesthetic perspectives, explicated the nuance of how art transformed the ill researcher and larger community. The results of the inquiry revealed a multi-dimensional, generative process of opening multiple thresholds of complexity, understanding and transformation of the experience of disabling illness for inquirer, and the art participant/observers/larger community. The research illuminates the value of A/r/tography as a potent means of inquiry into lived experience and how art enhances the understandings and possibilities for the transformation of the experience of disabling illness/lived experience. / Graduate

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T16:15:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CLAUDIA ALENCAR LOPES CRUZ.pdf: 999060 bytes, checksum: 69d10487f53e314510d50c360f65d53b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-24 / The research presents an analysis of power relations within the Early Childhood Education of Ribeirão Pires, focused on the work of teachers and non-Educators Teaching Child Development from two schools located in two distinct regions: one in the central region and the other in a village away from the center. The main focus is the conflict between these two groups of professionals, a secondary and complementary are the malfunctions that contribute to the existence of conflict between groups. The hypothesis that guides the research is that, not educators-teachers, while veteran group, relies on the old, asserting itself through its tacit and empirical knowledge, and PDI, in turn, rely on titration/diploma. The survey was conducted through interviews and observation at schools, aimed to understand the differences between the established groups of educators and teachers, but above all, understand the way that both express the power relations in space and time in school.The research required as a base, three analytical frameworks: Norbert Elias (2000), which deals with power relations; the Study of the Sociology of Deviance Becker (2008) and Erving Goffman's Stigma (1891). From the three authors of the study was observed within the power relations between groups of educators and teachers, some trends and collective provisions, such as assertion of superiority by tradition, affirmation of superiority of securities, inclinations stigmatization, feelings of victimization and low institutional bureaucracy, we can see properly, with respect to the secondary focus of the research, studied in schools The presence of a low level of institutional bureaucracy, which helps to stimulate faculty conflicts between groups analyzed. The research could contribute to the debate around issues related to the mode Childhood Education and their agents, such as it takes shape in Brazil. / A pesquisa apresenta uma análise das relações de poder, no espaço da Educação Infantil do Município de Ribeirão Pires, focada no trabalho das Educadoras não-docentes e das Professoras de Desenvolvimento Infantil de duas escolas, localizadas em duas regiões distintas: uma na região central, e a outra em um vilarejo afastado do centro. O foco principal é o conflito entre esses dois grupos de profissionais, um foco secundário e complementar são as deficiências de funcionamento, que contribuem para a existência de conflito entre os grupos. A hipótese que norteia a pesquisa é a de que, as educadoras não-docentes, enquanto grupo veterano, valem-se da antiguidade, afirmando-se por meio de seus saberes tácitos ou empíricos, e as PDI, por sua vez, valem-se da titulação/diploma. A pesquisa foi realizada por meio de entrevistas e da observação na unidade escolar, visou apreender as diferenças estabelecidas entre os grupos de educadoras e professoras, mas, sobretudo, entender a forma com que ambas expressam as relações de poder no espaço e no tempo escolar. A pesquisa requereu como base, três referenciais analíticos: Norbert Elias (2000), que aborda as relações de poder; o Estudo de Sociologia do Desvio de Becker (2008) e o Estigma de Erving Goffman (1891). Partindo do estudo dos três autores foi possível observar, dentro das relações de poder entre os grupos de educadoras e professoras, algumas tendências e disposições coletivas, como: afirmação de superioridade pela tradição, afirmação de superioridade por títulos, inclinações a estigmatização, sentimentos de vitimização e a baixa burocratização institucional, corretamente podemos constatar, no que diz respeito ao foco secundário da pesquisa, a apresença nas escolas estudadas, de um baixo nível de burocratização institucional, o que contribui para estimular conflitos entre grupos docentes analisados. A pesquisa poderá contribuir para o debate em torno de assuntos relacionados com a modalidade Educação Infantil e seus agentes, tal qual ela se configura no Brasil.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-02-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:23:46Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 marinofilho_a_me_mar.pdf: 1096041 bytes, checksum: fec25030e9303acf92679737ffcd7b18 (MD5) / Esse trabalho de pesquisa examinou as relações de poder e dominação no processo educativo, com o objetivo de estudar possibilidades de alteração nas relações de dominação, por meio da produção coletiva de um regulamento orientador das relações sociais no interior da sala de aula. Foi realizado em uma escola pública, em uma classe de Ensino Fundamental, com 30 alunos e um professor como sujeitos da pesquisa. Desenvolveu-se como uma pesquisa-ação, pela utilização de entrevistas, observações durante as aulas e com a colaboração do professor, em uma intervenção no processo de regulamentação da atividade em sala de aula. A fundamentação teórica do presente estudo foi a teoria Histórico- Cultural, baseada essencialmente em Vygotski e Leontiev, inspirada pelo Materialismo Histórico e Dialético marxista, além de outras fontes da psicologia, antropologia, sociologia e pedagogia. Foi observado o desenvolvimento de um processo de estruturação das atividades na sala de aula, que reproduz a estrutura de relações de poder e dominação presentes na sociedade. Também foi possível observar que as relações de dominação aparecem como contradição nas relações no interior da sala de aula e que, portanto, podem ser objetos de reflexão conjunta de aluno e professor. Nota-se que as contradições da regulamentação só aparecem para os alunos e para o professor no processo de produção coletiva da regulamentação quando as necessidades afetivas e emocionais dos alunos são consideradas. Isto não ocorre quando mecanismos de dominação prevalecem na construção das regras; nesta situação, verifica-se uma aparente concordância ou submissão a elas. / The present study examined power and domination relationships in the educational environment, aimed to investigate mechanisms of change in these relationships through collective production of rules for social behavior in the classroom. The study was carried out in a public elementary school, with a teacher and his 30 students as subjects, using an action research approach with the aid of recorded interviews and assistematic observations during the process of rule building in the classroom. The theoretical foundations of the present analysis was the Cultural Historical theory , based essentially on Vygotski and Leontiev’s work (inspired by the marxist historical and dialectic materialism), as well as other psychological, anthropological, sociologicaland pedagogical sources. It was observed that the development of a rule production process mainly reproduces the structure of power and domination relationships present in the surrounding society. It was also noted that domination relationships appear as contradictions in the classroom, which can thus be object of collective reflection by teacher and students. These contradictions appear to the students and teacher only during the collective production of rules, when the student´s affective and emotional needs are considered. They are absent when domination mechanisms are used, leading to an apparent acceptation of, or submission to, the rules produced so far.

I can t say if this dissertation is the story I will tell or if this story is the dissertation I will present. Both story and dissertation are too imbricated to be distinguished. I aim at narrating and analyzing the attempt to propose an experience of learning in Tandem practice through MSN Messenger in a public school in the Triangulo Mineiro region, based on the principles of Narrative Inquiry, according to Connelly; Clandinin, 2000, 2004, 2005) and Ely (2007). I relate throughout this report mainly studies on, and experiences with, tandem practice, according to Migliorança (2007), Telles (2006), Telles; Vassallo (2005), and Brammerts and Calvert (2003); teaching and learning languages and new technologies, based on Moita Lopes (2005), Paiva (2006) and Warschauer (1996, 1997); and language and power, according to Fairclough (1989, 2009). The stories lived during the research were analyzed from the sense making principles, based on Ely, Vinz, Downing, e Anzul (2001). I could notice that the relations of power present in the research field, including assumptions I had about the use of new technologies, influenced on the research routing, resulting on the non-occurrence of the tandem practice according to the former plan and on the change of the analysis perspective after the qualification session. Despite of the (un)expected aspects what Narrative Inquiry always foresees -, technology had a meaningful role in the discovery of English learning resources by the student participants and to the beginning of a possible process of change in the teacher s practice. Furthermore, technology enabled the participants to contact students of a foreign school and moments of a cultural tandem, which seemed to have a possible impact on their learning in relation to motivation, autonomy and understanding of cultural aspects. / Não sei dizer se este trabalho é a história que vou contar, ou se esta história é o trabalho que vou apresentar. As duas coisas estão muito imbricadas para sofrerem esta distinção. Tenho como objetivo narrar e analisar a tentativa de uma experiência de aprendizagem em prática de Tandem via MSN Messenger em uma escola pública da região do Triângulo Mineiro, com base nos pressupostos da Pesquisa Narrativa, de acordo com Connelly; Clandinin, 2000, 2004, 2005) e Ely (2007). Relaciono, ao longo deste relato, principalmente, estudos sobre, e experiências com, prática de tandem, de acordo com Migliorança (2007), Brammerts e Calvert (2003), Telles; Vassallo (2005) e Telles (2006); ensino e aprendizagem de línguas e novas tecnologias, segundo Warschauer (1996, 1997), Moita Lopes (2005) e Paiva (2006); e linguagem e poder, com base em Fairclough (1989, 2009). As histórias vividas durante a pesquisa foram analisadas pela composição de sentidos, com base nos estudos realizados por Ely; Vinz; Downing; Anzul (2001). Pude perceber que as relações de poder presentes no campo de pesquisa, incluindo pressuposições que fiz sobre o uso das novas tecnologias, tiveram influência no encaminhamento da pesquisa, resultando no não acontecimento da prática de tandem conforme inicialmente planejado e na mudança de perspectiva de análise após a qualificação. Apesar dos (im)previstos que a Pesquisa Narrativa sempre prevê -, a tecnologia exerceu um papel significativo para os participantes na descoberta de recursos para aprendizagem de língua Inglesa e no início de um possível processo de mudança na prática da professora participante. Além disso, a tecnologia possibilitou aos alunos participantes o contato com alunos de uma escola estrangeira e momentos de tandem cultural, o que pareceu ter um possível impacto na aprendizagem dos alunos em relação à motivação, à autonomia e à compreensão de aspectos culturais. / Mestre em Estudos Linguísticos

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:47:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Herberto Peil Mereb_Dissertacao.pdf: 3631795 bytes, checksum: 0ebb2d8eb674d9b6300c2a308a92eb72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-21 / This study analyzes the practices of implementation of the Urban PRORENDA, in Dunas Allotment, and how this experience has interfered in the power relationships in that community, especially in the period between 1996 and 2001, and which its consequences and effects were. It also analyzes the ascension of Dunas Allotment from the perspective of the third sector: local autonomy and empowerment, as well as the disarticulation of the neighborhood association: struggle for housing. It also brings into discussion the issue of traditional projects which are thought and executed by technicians of government management (top-down perspective) and projects which promote local participation and empowerment, taking as reference the Urban PRORENDA. Finally, it presents a framework of Dunas Allotment, since its constitution, in four important moments which made it possible to move that community from a peripheric and subordinated position into a situation of empowerment in what concerns local and global power relationships. / Esta Dissertação analisa as práticas de implementação do PRORENDA Urbano no Loteamento Dunas e como esta experiência interferiu nas suas relações de poder, em especial no período de 1996 a 2001, e quais foram os seus desdobramentos e efeitos. Analisa a ascensão no Loteamento Dunas da perspectiva do terceiro setor: autonomia e empoderamento local, bem como a desarticulação do associativismo de moradores: luta por moradia. Também problematiza a perspectiva de projetos tradicionais pensados e executados por técnicos das gestões governamentais (de cima para baixo) e projetos que fomentam a participação e empoderamento local, tendo como referência o PRORENDA Urbano. Por fim, apresento uma moldura do Loteamento Dunas desde sua constituição em quatro grandes momentos que operacionalizaram o deslocamento do Loteamento Dunas de uma posição periférica e subordinada para uma situação de empoderamento nas relações de poder locais e globais.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att granska hur genus och genusrelationer uttrycks i svenska, medeltida ballader. Genom att förstå balladkaraktärernas handlingar som performativa, ämnar uppsatsen undersöka hur maskulinitet och femininitet etableras och omförhandlas i balladernas narrativ genom att kartlägga handlingsmönster. Av betydelse är att belysa hur karaktärernas handlingsmöjligheter påverkas av faktorer såsom kön, social status och familjerelationer, men även jämföra hur genusmönster i balladen reflekterar eller utmanar normer och ideal i det senmedeltida samhället. Uppsatsen åskådliggör hur män och kvinnor har möjlighet att utöva och förhandla om makt på olika sätt. Genom detta rör man sig bort från uppfattningen om passivitet och maktlöshet som analogt med femininitet, och aktivitet och makt som synonymt med maskulinitet. Resultaten uppvisar därmed en problematisering och nyansering av genusuttryck i medeltida ballader som saknas i tidigare forskning, och framhäver fördelarna att bedriva ett mer inkluderande synsätt gentemot den här typen av källmaterial inom historievetenskapen.