The importance of motivation in language learning has been emphasised and paid more attention to the last decades, and the topic of student motivation has also been touched upon in the Swedish school system. The issue of low results in the vocational programmes have been scrutinised both in media and the National Agency of Education, which resulted in an integration between the character subjects and the core subjects. The idea is to increase the students' motivation to the core subjects by integrating them with the character subjects in the vocational programmes. Therefore, integration is executed by teachers in vocational programmes, and included in the curriculum for upper secondary schools. The aim of this study is to investigate students' attitudes toward integrated and non-integrated English, and how it influences their motivation. 10 interviews have been carried out in the Electric and Construction programme, and the data has been analysed using a thematic analysis. Themes have been selected and discussed in relation to the aim and research question. The result shows that the students feel that the integrated English is useful, but that non-integrated English within their personal interests is the most motivating content in the English course. Students want to be more involved in their education and the need to express their unique personalities seems to be of importance when it comes to learning English. The results indicate that the concept of integration might not be the most motivating aspect to focus on, but rather the individual aspects of the students and what they feel is motivating

p. 1-85 / Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-04-30T17:41:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 333333333.pdf: 250715 bytes, checksum: d0725f7bc52614bbf53110aff0346099 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Creuza Silva(mariakreuza@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-05-04T17:40:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 333333333.pdf: 250715 bytes, checksum: d0725f7bc52614bbf53110aff0346099 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-04T17:40:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 333333333.pdf: 250715 bytes, checksum: d0725f7bc52614bbf53110aff0346099 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar o absenteísmo numa população de trabalhadores, submetidos as ações de um programa de consultoria e diagnóstico em saúde, implantado numa instituição financeira estatal, para reduzir o absenteísmo por doença, através da mensuração dos afastamentos do trabalho por doença e das principais causas de afastamento. A população de trabalhadores foi avaliada em dois momentos distintos, antes da implantação do programa e a partir de dois anos após seu início. Foram avaliados 438 trabalhadores num estudo seqüencial do tipo case crossover, onde cada trabalhador foi controle dele mesmo. Cada trabalhador, para participar da população do estudo, precisou ter sido submetido as ações do programa e ter pelo menos duas avaliações de saúde, através dos exames do PCMSO (Programa de Controle Médico e Saúde Ocupacional), antes e depois da implantação do programa. Verificou-se uma redução no número de afastamentos, após a implantação do programa, passando de 29,0% no momento anterior ao programa, para 25,0% na segunda avaliação (um declínio de 1,2 %). As doenças osteomusculares apareceram como maior responsável pelos afastamentos do trabalho no grupo estudado, seguido pelas doenças do aparelho respiratório, tanto no momento anterior quanto no posterior à intervenção. Esses achados foram discutidos à luz da importância da implantação desses programas pelas empresas, assim como da necessidade de serem avaliados sistematicamente, para medir o alcance dos objetivos propostos, buscando garantir melhores condições de trabalho e saúde para os funcionários. Também são discutidas as proporções de doenças osteomusculares nessa categoria, associados às características das atividades desempenhadas. / Salvador

Title: Incidence of injuries at top badminton players depending on physiotherapy and compensatory programmes Objectives: The main aim of this study is to find out what are the most frequent injuries at top badminton players taking part in the Czech extra league and in the first league in the season 2017/2018. Besides, the aim is also to find out if physiotherapy and compensatory programmes influence the decrease of the incidence of these injuries. And then, if badminton players devote thein time to compensatory programmes and use the possibilities of physiotherapy. Methods: For finding out the most frequent injuries at top badminton players we used a non-standardised questionnaire. The research had the character of a correlative - predilective study which studied the relationship between the incidence of injuries in badminton depending on physiotherapy and compensatory programmes. Results: The most frequent injuries among the Czech badminton players occur in the area of an ankle (47%), knee (34%) and shoulder joint (22%). According to the results, physiotherapy and compensatory programs proved a positive effect on reducing the incidence of injury. 25% of players working with a physiotherapist since childhood have never suffered injury. 68% of players who started to cooperate with a physiotherapist...

UNESCO has been a forerunner in the field of mainstreaming of gender which is evident in countless conferences and publications, notably in its Checklist for the Integration of Gender Issues in the Evaluation of UNESCO’s Programmes (UNESCO 1999b ). The branch with special responsibility for questions of Adult Literacy has been the UNESCO Institute of Education (UIE). Careful historical-comparative analysis of its publications reveals a varied picture on the question of gender. On the one hand it has published evaluation manuals (Bhola 1990, Easton 1996) in which gender goes virtually unnoticed. And on the other there are collected essays of workshops organised and published by the UIE which present some of the strongest voices on the subject, notably Sara Longwe (1997, 1999a), the exponent of the evaluation tool, Women’s Empowerment Framework. While personnel changes in the UIE in the course of the nineties may be a partial explanation, there are other ambiguities in its policies and practice which are not as easily explained. When the evaluation reports of literacy programmes published as exemplary practice by the UIE are examined they reveal some striking differences. Two evaluations of literacy programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa were analysed, one in Oyo State, Nigeria (Omolewa et al. 1998) and the other being the National Literacy Programme of Namibia (Lind 1996). The methods of analysis were both the UNESCO Checklist and the Women’s Empowerment Framework. They both have received wide acceptance within this particular field. Furthermore, their use provides a means of internal comparison. What the study reveals is a striking discrepancy between such policy and the actual practice of evaluation, and at the same time it becomes clear that the Women’s Empowerment Framework is the more rigorous of the two. Particularly in the analysis of the Oyo programme evaluation it becomes evident that such a gender approach is able to uncover significant failures, particular with regard to its patriarchal notion of “empowerment”. Although it too falls short of the standards, the evaluation of the Namibian programme comes a lot closer to the requirements. An explanation for the discrepancy between the two may be located in the fact that whereas the Oyo evaluation was conducted by a team of local consultants, all of whom were male, the Namibian evaluation was a joint local-international initiative with an equal male-female balance. Further study of UIE’s other published evaluation reports would however be necessary in order to confirm such a conclusion. What the study does succeed in establishing is the way in which the role of UNESCO through the UIE’s has been that of a facilitator. By bringing different emphases into dialogue with one another it has served to open up new directions in the field of gender and literacy programme evaluation. / Public Administration and Management / M.A.

The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the meaning employees attributed to the lived experiences of having been declared in excess in the Gauteng Health Department during restructuring. A qualitative, phenomenological research design was selected as the most appropriate approach in conducting this study. Phenomenology offers both methodological and philosophical perspectives with the aim of developing a greater understanding through description, reflection and awareness of the meaning of having “been declared in excess”. Purposive sampling was implemented. A total of ten (10) female professional nurses participated in the study. Data were collected using one common ontological question that enabled the researcher to gain a greater understanding of what it means to be declared in excess from the participants’ perspective. Data were collected until saturation was reached. Unstructured audio-taped interviews were conducted with study participants. Data were analysed using the method developed by Giorgi (1985). The study highlighted different reactions from different participants despite being exposed to the same experience. / Health Studies / Thesis (D. Litt. et Phil.)

The last 15 years have seen governments in a number of mature welfare states attempting to reintegrate people out of work for reasons of sickness and disability into employment, principally through changes to the value and conditions of incapacity benefits and the provision of active labour market programmes. Whilst the academic interest in these changes has been considerable, this thesis begins by arguing that these studies hitherto have been satisfied to categorise these emerging regimes according to a familiar Work-first v Human Capital Development activation typology (for example, Peck & Theodore, 2001), or a variation upon that, according to the presence or absence of different activation services. They largely do not apply the insights that the broader activation literature has provided in recent years, particularly those on the governance of activation. Instead, this thesis proposes that it is better to examine recent changes through the lens of institutionalisation: how well-embedded employment-related support for sick and disabled claimants has become in the structure and functioning of welfare-to-work regimes for sick and disabled benefit claimants. Though not a concept much used in academic analysis of Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP), a case is made for the value of looking at, firstly, how well activating sick and disabled claimants becomes a national government labour market policy priority and secondly, how well the organisation and governance of active labour market programmes for this group support this, in additional to analyses of the services themselves. Working from what is already known about the factors that can influence a workless benefit claimant's access to employment support, the contention of such a framework is that the successful embedding of an activation strategy for sick and disabled claimants into national Labour Market Policy (LMP) is a function of the interaction of a range of factors. Crucial here is the distinction between ALMP for these claimants, and for other activation target groups – there is good evidence to believe that the changes made to activation governance to promote active work-search for the unemployed may, however unintentionally, militate against a comprehensive system of support for 'non-employed' jobseekers considered to be further from the labour market, claimants of incapacity benefits included. Alongside this framework, a case is made for being much clearer and more precise in describing what measures apply to which parts of the incapacity benefit claimant pool. In most countries, this is a very diverse population with several distinct sub-sets with different levels of distance from the labour market, ranging from those with very severe disabilities or health conditions; others with multiple employment barriers not all stemming directly from their condition (outdated skills, for example), and those whose employability is high, their disability or health condition notwithstanding. As a small number of studies have pointed out (Evans, 2001, for example), activation regimes – defined in this study as the set of services that are provided to help nonemployed sick and disabled benefit claimants back to work; and how these are organised; delivered; targeted and financed – 'sort and select' claimants, applying different types or more or less intensive support for different categorisations of claimants. An activation regime for the claimant group can thus be very inclusive or rather narrow, depending on the extent to which these sub-pools are catered for. To demonstrate the value of this framework in reaching a more accurate understanding of the nature of these emerging regimes relative to extant approaches, a cross-national comparison of activation of sick and disabled claimants in Denmark and the United Kingdom is offered. Whilst they are considered to be very nearly diametrically opposed in a number of key ways – their approaches to activation; benefit generosity and broader welfare regime contexts – when looked at using the institutionalisation framework, they emerge as more similar than expected. Regardless of their quite different starting points, they experience many of the same challenges in creating a system in which the employment activation of the full extent of the claimant group is a priority and where a sick or disabled benefit claimant's right to back-to-work support is secure.

Child abuse has become more recognised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), after many years of receiving very little attention. Since 2014 domestic violence, including child abuse, has been made a criminal offence in KSA. This study takes place against a background where protection laws (2013 Legislation) have been introduced, where there are cultural limitations, and where professional child protection agencies are requiring their practitioners to deal with child abuse in the light of these new laws. The aim of this study was to identify the issues for social workers and other professionals in responding to child abuse and how these responses can be improved in KSA. There are two phases to this study. The first phase examines developments in child protection practices and policy through the analysis of newspaper reports and through a series of interviews with professionals, practitioners and managers in the Social Protection Department (SPD) in Riyadh, KSA. The findings of this initial study suggest that KSA is in the early stages of developing and implementing programmes in child protection practice. It was found that training was a major issue, in particular the provision of training that was accessible and relevant to the needs of the practitioners. The second phase focused on ways that professional child protection training programmes for practitioners may be improved to increase both their quality and relevance to child protection professionals and trainees. In order to achieve these objectives, interviews, written responses and surveys were conducted with child protection practitioners, training providers and social work educators and trainees in the (SPD), the National Family Safety Programme (NFSP), Al-Wafa Association (AWA), Ministry of Social Affairs (MSA) and three universities in Riyadh, KSA. The findings provide more understanding of how child protection training, teaching and learning for practitioners can be improved to enable them to respond more effectively to child abuse in KSA. Findings are discussed with reference to the current practices as England and in other Arab countries and recommendations are offered with a view to their suitability in KSA.

Cette recherche vise à déterminer comment la télévision française représente les mondes de l’art contemporain de 1960 à nos jours. Grâce à une analyse sémiologique et pragmatique d’un corpus d’émissions sur l’art contemporain, nous avons constaté, d’une part, que l’évolution des programmes télévisés dits « culturels » montre une diminution de la part de ces derniers ainsi que leur relégation dans des heures creuses de la programmation depuis les années 1980. Alors que les programmes des années 1960 à 1980 visent à transmettre l’expérience esthétique des œuvres d’art depuis le terrain, les années 1980 à 2000 voient des programmes plus dialogiques où experts et artistes discutent sur le plateau. Ces échanges présentant peu de critique négative relèvent principalement de la promotion culturelle. D’autre part, depuis les années 2000, les émissions sur l’art contemporain s’inspirent des formes divertissantes de la télé-réalité. Des contradictions idéologiques surgissent entre la mission de médiation culturelle portée par l’ORTF puis les chaînes publiques et ces nouveaux récits de compétition. L’art contemporain se trouve alors au cœur des conflits de définition de la culture. D’un côté, sa médiatisation montre un monde de l’art hégémonique où les inégalités socioculturelles sont légitimées. De l’autre, la médiation opérée par les programmes continue de promettre un idéal de démocratisation de l’art contemporain à travers des récits d’accès au savoir, source d’égalité. La médiation des œuvres d’art, de l’exposition filmée à une télévision « curatoriale », promet plus d’immédiateté tout en multipliant les dispositifs de médiation. C’est dans cette indécidabilité que les programmes sur l’art contemporain ne peuvent tenir leurs promesses. / This research aims to determine how French television has been representing the worlds of contemporary art from the 1960’s to nowdays. Through a semiological and pragmatic analysis of a corpus of television programs about contemporary art, we have observed, on the one hand, a decrease of their share and their relegation to less favorable hours of programing since the 1980’s. Whereas the programs from 1960 to 1980 aimed to transmit the aesthetic experience of the artworks as seen from the field, the programs between 1980 and 2000 were more dialogical and hosted discussions between experts and artists in the television studio. Showing few negative critiques, they fell under the discourse of cultural promotion. And on the other hand, since the 2000’s, television shows about contemporary art have been taking on the entertaining forms of reality shows. Ideological contradictions arise, between the cultural mediation mission carried on by the ORTF and later public channels and those new narratives of competition. Contemporary art finds itself at the heart of conflicts regarding the definition of culture. On one side, its media coverage shows a hegemonic world of art where sociocultural inequalities are legitimated. And on the other side, those programs continue to promise an ideal of democratization of contemporary art through narratives of accessing knowledge, source of emancipation and equality. Moreover, the mediation of the artworks, from the filmed exhibition to a “curatorial” television, promise more immediacy while multiplying the dispositifs of mediation. It is within this impossibility to decide what their purpose is that television programs about contemporary art can’t hold their promises.

The aim of my diploma thesis, which is both theoretical and research work, is to describe possibilities of some of the available bullying prevention schemes for the basic schools in Svitavy and its surroundings. In the first theoretical part, the reader is acquainted with the problem of bullying and then the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention approaches to this pathological behaviour are explained. The thesis focuses especially on introduction of the methods, or the particular prevention projects, in use that contribute much to decreasing the danger of bullying emerging. The second practical part, which was done at six chosen basic schools of the Svitavy district, comprises the results of the questionnaire research. Pupils at the age of 14 and 15 as well as the schools prevention methologists and pedagogical advisers participated in the research - there were 108 pupils, comprising 63 girls and 45 boys, 5 prevention methodologists and 1 pedagogical adviser examined on the whole.

Magister Curationis - MCur / Early infant diagnosis (EID) programmes offer diagnosis of HIV, which facilitates provision of life-saving care to infants infected with HIV. Implementing programmes for EID and treatment has proved challenging in Malawi. Many infants access EID late or not at all. Previous studies have shown that lack of knowledge among health care providers (HCPs) is a challenge to effective EID. Little is known on the knowledge and skills of health care providers in Malawi. Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the knowledge and skills of HCPs on EID of HIV in Mzuzu, Malawi. Objectives: (i) to examine the knowledge of HCPs on EID of HIV; and (ii) to determine the skills of HCPs on EID of HIV. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional survey design with a quantitative approach was used. The study was conducted in three hospitals in Mzuzu, Malawi. The population was HCPs (doctors, nurses/midwives, clinical officers and medical assistants) working in maternity, paediatric wards and under-five clinics. A total of 68 HCPs participated in the study. A closed-ended self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science version 23. Descriptive statistics were used to present the frequency tables of observations. Ethical approval was sought from the University of the Western Cape Senate Research Committee and Malawi National Health Research Council. Results: The results on the knowledge of HCPs demonstrate that 38% of them had a score of <69% (poor), 25% scored within 70–79% (fair), and 37% scored >80% (good). Results on the skills showed that 69% of the HCPs scored <69% (poor), 15% scored within 70–79% (fair), and 16% scored >80% (good). The results also showed a correlation between the knowledge of HCPs and their level of education achievement (certificate, diploma and degree) as well as the skills of HCPs and their department of work. Conclusion: The study found that more than one-third of the HCPs lacked knowledge and skills on EID of HIV. These findings reflect the need to address the practical challenges of EID service delivery. Recommendations: There is a need to increase the efforts that are being put in place to train HCPs on EID of HIV in order to scale up EID. Training should assess the needs of HCPs regarding the knowledge and skills required in the delivery of EID services.