Résumé : Confrontées à un environnement toujours plus turbulent et compétitif et à la nécessité de s'adapter avec souplesse et agilité, les entreprises ont de plus en plus recours aux technologies et aux applications informatiques collaboratives afin de créer et de mobiliser des équipes de projet. L'objectif sous-jacent est de les rendre aussi efficaces et efficientes que possible, indépendamment du lieu et du temps de travail. Dans ce contexte, les équipiers doivent s'approprier les technologies qui sont mises à leur disposition afin de se soutenir mutuellement et d'assurer la gestion des ressources dont ils disposent, de façon à produire leurs livrables efficacement et suivant le rendement attendu. L'objectif de cette thèse de doctorat est d'analyser si l'appropriation d'une technologie virtuelle de travail contribue effectivement à soutenir le fonctionnement interne et l'efficacité d'équipes de travail à durée déterminée, ainsi qu'à analyser le rôle médiateur du fonctionnement interne entre l'appropriation d'une part, et l'efficacité d'autre part. L'appropriation renvoie ici à la mesure dans laquelle les équipiers s'entendent a) sur les modalités d'utilisation (accord sur l'usage) de la technologie collaborative de travail qu'il partage et l'environnement virtuel qu'elle constitue, b) sur l'usage qu'ils en font, c) sur le sentiment de possession (appropriation psychologique) qu'ils peuvent exprimer à son égard. La présente recherche a été réalisée grâce à l'administration d'un questionnaire d'enquête auprès d'un échantillon de 304 personnes regroupées en 34 équipes de travail à durée déterminée. Les résultats obtenus permettent de constater que deux variables, soit l'appropriation psychologique et l'accord sur l'usage, sont liées positivement aux deux dimensions du fonctionnement interne de l'équipe, à savoir au soutien interpersonnel et à la gestion du travail d'équipe. L'accord sur l'usage est de surcroît lié aux trois critères d'efficacité, soit à la qualité de l'expérience groupale, à la pérennité et au rendement. L'appropriation psychologique n'est toutefois pas liée au troisième critère, soit au rendement. L'usage est lié uniquement au soutien interpersonnel et à la qualité de l'expérience groupale, et ce, de manière négative. Par ailleurs, les tests de médiation réalisés permettent de constater que le fonctionnement interne de l'équipe semble effectivement jouer un rôle médiateur entre, d'une part, l'appropriation psychologique et l'accord sur l'usage et, d'autre part, les trois critères d'efficacité. Cette thèse de doctorat contribue de plusieurs manières au développement de la connaissance. Elle permet d'abord de constater qu'il est possible de s'approprier psychologiquement un environnement virtuel de travail, et que cette appropriation est en lien avec le fonctionnement interne et l'efficacité des équipes de travail. De plus, elle permet aussi de constater que cette variable se distingue bien d'un autre construit, soit de l'accord sur l'usage. Il s'agit à ces égards d'une première qui a permis l'élaboration d'un instrument de mesure doté de propriétés psychométriques intéressantes. Elle contribue aussi à la généralisation possible d'une conception multidimensionnelle du fonctionnement interne et de l'efficacité des équipes de travail à durée déterminée. Le constat d'un rôle médiateur du fonctionnement interne entre deux formes d'appropriation et certains des critères d'efficacité constitue aussi une observation intéressante et inédite dans le contexte de l'usage d'une technologie collaborative au sein des équipes à durée déterminée. Ce cadre de mesure semble donc pouvoir s'appliquer aussi aux équipes de projet.||Abstract : Faced with an ever changing and compétitive environment, and with the necessity of adapting with agility and rapidly, companies rely more and more on technology and Groupware to create and mobilize project teams. The underlying objective is to make them as efficient and effective as possible, regardless of the time and place that members add their collaborations. In order to collaborate in such a context and to produce their work efficiently and according to the desired outcome, team members must first appropriate the technologies that are made available to them, whose purposes are mutual support and proper management of resources. The goal of this research is to analyze if the appropriation of a virtual office contributes effectively to support the team and the efficiency of project teamwork, as well as to analyze the mediating rôle of the internai functioning between appropriation and efficiency. In this case, appropriation refers to the measure of the team members' consent a) on the consensus on appropriation of the Groupware that they will be using and the virtual environment that it constitutes, b) on actual Groupware use, c) and on psychological appropriation towards the Groupware. This research was carried out by handing out a survey to a sample of 304 people grouped into thirty-four teams working on projects with fixed terms. The results of this study indicate that the two variables, psychological appropriation and consensus on appropriation, are positively correlated to the two dimensions of the internai functioning; interpersonal support and management of work. Moreover, the consensus on appropriatio is also linked to the three criteria for efficiency: the quality of the group work experience, the durability and the output. However, there is no indication of a corrélation between the psychological appropriation and the third factor of efficiency, output. The results do indicate that actual Groupware use is negatively connected to interpersonal support and to the quality of the group work experience. Indeed, the test for the mediating rôle of the internai functioning of the group indicate that there is, in fact, a relationship between the psychological appropriation and the consensus on appropriation, and the three factors of efficiency. This doctoral thesis contributes in many ways to the development of knowledge on this topic. Firstly, there is a clear démonstration that psychological appropriation is, in fact, possible for a virtual work environment, and that this appropriation has a link with the internai functioning and efficiency of a project team. Moreover, the research also helps to demonstrate that the psychological appropriation is distinct from other variables such as consensus on approproation. Indeed, this unique factor allowed for the création of an interesting new measuring device with psychometric attributes. The research also contributes to a certain généralization of the multidimensional conception of the internai functioning and efficiency of group work. Finally, the récognition of the mediating rôle of the internai functioning between two types of appropriation and some of the efficiency criteria is both interesting and un-heard of in the context of the use of Groupware by work group with fixed terms. So, it would seem that the measurement framework could also be applied to project teams.

Hensikt: Formålet med dette MPH-arbeidet var å få innsikt i deltagernes erfaringer fra prosjektet ”Treningskompis”. Prosjektets hensikt var å utvikle, prøve ut og evaluere en ordning med frivillige hjelpere som treningskompiser for kreftpasienter. Målet var å hjelpe pasientene i gang med fysisk aktivitet gjennom eksisterende, egnede treningstilbud i nærmiljøet. Metode: Det ble gjennomført fire fokusgruppeintervju med til sammen 14 informanter. Det var to fokusintervju medkreftpasienter(n=5) og to medfrivillige treningskompiser(n=9). Datamaterialet ble analysert med fenomenografisk metode. Resultat: Fire kategorier ble identifisert: (i) opplæring i å bli treningskompis, (ii) opplevelser med ”Treningskompisprosjektet”, (iii) fysiske og psykiske aspekter ved å ha en treningskompis og (iv) tro på fortsatt å være fysisk aktiv. Påvirkningsfaktorer ble identifisert internt, mellom brukerne og treningskompisene og fra sentrale myndigheter. Konklusjon: Forpliktende avtaler, sosial støtte og hjelp til å finne aktiviteter man trives med, er viktig for å øke aktivitetsnivået og etablere varige aktivitetsvaner hos kreftpasienter. En treningskompis kan derfor være en tjeneste som tilbyskreftpasienteri ulike faser i pasientforløpet, og somkan ”treffe” de som ikke klarer å komme seg ut på egenhånd. En viktig forutsetning for en god ”Treningskompistjeneste” er imidlertid at organisasjoner og dedikerte personerveilederog følgeropp treningskompiser, brukere og avtaler. / Purpose “The Training Buddy Project”develops, tests and evaluates a system that provides volunteer training buddies to assist post-treatment cancer patients increase physical activity. This thesis aimed to provide new insight into participant’s experiences with the project. Method: Four focus groupsinterviews with 14 informantswereconducted. Two focusgroups withcancer patients(n=5)and two with volunteer buddies(n=9). Data was analysed using phenomenography. Result: Four categories were identified: (i) volunteer training, (ii) experiences with the"Training Buddy Project", (iii) physical and psychological aspects of having a workoutbuddy and (iv) confidence to continuephysically activity. Influencing factors were identified internally, between users and training buddies and central authorities. Conclusion:  Binding agreements, social support,andassistance infindingpleasurable activities contribute importantly to cancer patient’s ability to re-establish physical activity and develop lasting activity habits after diagnose. Training buddies can help cancer patients in different phases of patient care, particularly for patients who lack the abilityto re-establish physical activityby themselves. A good training buddy service requires dedicated supervisors and individuals to track the appointments and activity of training buddies and their clients / <p>ISBN 978-91-86739-74-4</p>

This study problematizes how the history, theory, and practice of art education (as documented) have predominantly focused on visually-based artworks and on visual aspects of other, multi-sensory artworks. I posit that existing pedagogical approaches become particularly limiting when addressing contemporary artworks that engage multiple senses and question how art educators might adapt such paradigms to consider individual learners’ multi-sensory experiences—particularly, aural, bodily, and spatial, as well as visual, experiences—as they operate in relation to video art in installation. To offer a point of reference for subsequent discussion, I narrate and interpret my own multi-sensory experience of Krzysztof Wodiczko’s "...OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project" (2009), and then situate both visual and non-visual aspects of my experience in relation to various possible experiences of time, still and changing images, sound, the static or mobile body, other bodies, and space. By synthesizing and building upon recent scholarly literature pertaining to interpretation, multi-sensory and bodily experience, and learner-centered pedagogy, I consider theoretical and practical implications for teaching and learning with video art in installation, and recommend art educators’ mediation through creating communities of questioning, listening, and “speaking with,” in addition to looking. Throughout this study, I argue that encouraging learners to interpret their individual bodily and sensory experiences of artworks should be considered an essential part of the process of making meaning of those artworks in art education environments and, more importantly, of the process of helping learners to become more critically aware of their own sensory experiences in the world. / text

A pesquisa tem como objetivo geral analisar em que condições a inserção do projeto Lugares de aprender: a escola sai da escola contribui com a democratização da cultura na formação escolar dos estudantes, a partir da abordagem dos estudos culturais. Partindo dos objetivos específicos que pretendem apresentar e caracterizar os estudos culturais como campo teórico e político, que trata das relações na sociedade, e situar o programa Cultura é Currículo nas políticas contemporâneas de educação, a indagação a ser respondida por esse estudo é: em que condições a inserção do projeto Lugares de Aprender: a escola sai da escola contribui com a democratização cultural na formação dos estudantes? Em nossa hipótese preliminar supomos que a inserção do turismo no currículo escolar permite a aproximação dos estudantes a diferentes espaços culturais, ampliando e diversificando as referências culturais em sua formação. Como metodologia, realizamos pesquisa teórica recorrendo a fontes bibliográficas e documentais, e pesquisa de campo. Nesta, utilizamos o método observacional com o enfoque preponderantemente qualitativo, e técnicas de observação direta, entrevista e questionário. Os dados obtidos foram categorizados para análise dos conteúdos. Os resultados alcançados representam a complexidade apreendida nas diversas relações entre os participantes e planejadores do projeto. / This research mainly aims to describe on which conditions the insertion of the project Lugares de aprender: a escola sai da escola (Places for learning: schooling leaves school) contributes to the democratization of culture in the schooling of students due to its use of a cultural studies approach. Starting with the specific objectives that firstly intend to present and characterize cultural studies as a theoretical and political field, which covers relations in society, and secondly propose to situate the program Cultura é Currículo (Culture is Curriculum) in contemporary educational policies the question to be answered by this study is, In which conditions the insertion of the project Lugares de aprender: a escola sai da escola (Places for learning: schooling leaves school) contributes to cultural democratization in students\' education? In our preliminary hypothesis, we assume that the inclusion of tourism in the school curriculum allows students to approach different cultural spaces, expanding and diversifying the cultural references in their education. As methodology, we have conducted theoretical research using bibliographic and documentary sources as well as field research. In such research, we have made use of the observational method with a predominantly qualitative approach, as well as techniques of direct observation, interview and questionnaire. Data were categorized for content analysis. The achieved results represent the complexity perceived in different relationships between participants and project planners.

A pesquisa tem como objetivo geral analisar em que condições a inserção do projeto Lugares de aprender: a escola sai da escola contribui com a democratização da cultura na formação escolar dos estudantes, a partir da abordagem dos estudos culturais. Partindo dos objetivos específicos que pretendem apresentar e caracterizar os estudos culturais como campo teórico e político, que trata das relações na sociedade, e situar o programa Cultura é Currículo nas políticas contemporâneas de educação, a indagação a ser respondida por esse estudo é: em que condições a inserção do projeto Lugares de Aprender: a escola sai da escola contribui com a democratização cultural na formação dos estudantes? Em nossa hipótese preliminar supomos que a inserção do turismo no currículo escolar permite a aproximação dos estudantes a diferentes espaços culturais, ampliando e diversificando as referências culturais em sua formação. Como metodologia, realizamos pesquisa teórica recorrendo a fontes bibliográficas e documentais, e pesquisa de campo. Nesta, utilizamos o método observacional com o enfoque preponderantemente qualitativo, e técnicas de observação direta, entrevista e questionário. Os dados obtidos foram categorizados para análise dos conteúdos. Os resultados alcançados representam a complexidade apreendida nas diversas relações entre os participantes e planejadores do projeto. / This research mainly aims to describe on which conditions the insertion of the project Lugares de aprender: a escola sai da escola (Places for learning: schooling leaves school) contributes to the democratization of culture in the schooling of students due to its use of a cultural studies approach. Starting with the specific objectives that firstly intend to present and characterize cultural studies as a theoretical and political field, which covers relations in society, and secondly propose to situate the program Cultura é Currículo (Culture is Curriculum) in contemporary educational policies the question to be answered by this study is, In which conditions the insertion of the project Lugares de aprender: a escola sai da escola (Places for learning: schooling leaves school) contributes to cultural democratization in students\' education? In our preliminary hypothesis, we assume that the inclusion of tourism in the school curriculum allows students to approach different cultural spaces, expanding and diversifying the cultural references in their education. As methodology, we have conducted theoretical research using bibliographic and documentary sources as well as field research. In such research, we have made use of the observational method with a predominantly qualitative approach, as well as techniques of direct observation, interview and questionnaire. Data were categorized for content analysis. The achieved results represent the complexity perceived in different relationships between participants and project planners.

Title: The effect of material demands and socio-economic status of families on the choice of sport Objectives: Find out if material support in the form of renting hockey gear enables families to overcome the barrier of financial demands when choosing ice hockey as a sport for children. Using the material support may be related to level of socioeconomic status. Therefore, the dependence of using material support and level of the socioeconomic status will be examined. Results can be utilised for better planning of projects which aim at supporting and expanding the membership base of ice hockey or other sports. Methods: In the thesis secondary data analysis method will be used. Moreover, primary data will be collected, using quantitative method of questioning. Results: Failure to provide material support is not a significant barrier for choosing ice hockey as a sport for children. The possibility of material support rather allows parents to easily and quickly provide their kids with hockey equipment in one place. Thanks to this, their children can try ice hockey for the first time. Possibility of renting equipment free of charge means that parents do not primarily look for a reduction of costs on purchasing of hockey gear. The socio-economic status of families whose children play ice hockey is rather...

Cooperation between the volunteer, the client and o. s. Lata - Programy pro ohroženou mládež Abstract: The thesis deals with issues of a voluntary work on field of programmes focused on working with threatened children, adolescents and young adults by form one to one. It's focused on a mentors project running by the citizens' association LATA - Programmes for Threatened Adolescents. It pays attention especially to factors, which can influence the relationship between a volunteer, a client and an organization. It follows up mainly involved volunteers, it puts an aim to description of ways, how the volunteers percieve their work with clients and their organization. Research part of the thesis is focused on analysis of volunteers' statements and has an ambition to catch and reveal important factors, which affect their activities in the organization. This thesis conducts a survey, what motivation and aim the volunteers have, how they percieve their relationships with clients, what helps them to maintain a mentoring role and how they percieve at all the organization they work in

This thesis is about a special type of institutional treatment called family-work. It can be described as different ways to involve the families of the youth in their treatment programme. The locus of the study are special treatment homes which provide treatment for youth with serious social and behavioural problems. The study concerns three units at three institutions. The thesis has a qualitative and interpretative approach with using of observations, field studies, combined with interviews and field notes. The study focuses at the pre-conditions for the local "family projects" run by the care workers. With "project" means a process where different actions take place. The Theory of Action concept facilitates the understanding of these types of process and the importance of the internal(subjective) and external(objective) conditions in proportion to the space of action. Several local conditions influenced the pre-requisites for the staff to be able to carry out a "family project" and decide how to realize an intention. Important conditions were commissions given by the social services and the treatment focus at the units. The units are functioned as kinds of overall social "project contexts" with four basic characteristics: the treatment focus and structure, the professionalism and the organisation of the work. The conclusion from the study is that none of the "project contexts" at the three units provided good pre-requisites for family-work. "Family projects", realised by care workers were however professional and seem to have helped both the parents and the young persons, but "the project" were, in total, relatively few. It appeared that a successfully completed "family project" is the last step in a long process in which many different conditions contribute to the destiny of the "project". A clear family focused structured treatment at a unit can provide the employees with good conditions for realising the opportunities they see for working with families.

The presented study maps the topic of oral history development in the Czech Republic. The research, conducted mainly via oral history method, reflects the period since 1989 as this method could only be developed after the fall of the communist regime. The first part of the thesis deals with the chosen methodology, introduces the research topic and its objectives and clarifies the historical background. The second part of the thesis presents the analysis and interpretation of the collected material. I focus on the research projects that have been conducted via oral history and publication outputs. I try to put the researches within the broader context as well. Finally, I focus on the development of institutional background in the Czech Republic and mention central institutions where oral history method is being used. I emphasize on insights and views of my narrators who are themselves active participants in the process of establishing oral history in the Czech Republic. Key words Oral history, qualitative methods, project Sto studentských revolucí, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Oral History Association