Une équipe multidisciplinaire et intersectorielle a implanté en 2009 une recherche-intervention novatrice : Spot, un service de dépistage rapide du VIH en milieu communautaire offert aux hommes ayant des relations sexuelles avec d’autres hommes de Montréal. Une étude de cas a été menée afin de décrire le processus d’implantation de Spot et les facteurs contextuels qui l’ont affecté. L’analyse par théorisation ancrée des entrevues, l’observation participante et l’analyse documentaire ont permis d’identifier un processus d’implantation dynamique en plusieurs phases. Elles sont modulées par des facteurs liés aux motivations des acteurs à s’engager dans le projet, à la complexité des dynamiques partenariales et aux défis de la coordination en contexte d’équipe multidisciplinaire et intersectorielle et à d’autres facteurs ayant affecté l’organisation de l’équipe terrain et leurs pratiques au quotidien. Des motivations telles l’occasion unique de contribuer à la mise en place d’un projet de prévention novateur et pertinent, ont eu une influence favorable constante, ralliant les acteurs autour du projet et maintenant leur implication malgré les difficultés rencontrées. Sur le plan des dynamiques partenariales, une définition floue des rôles et tâches a ralenti l’implantation du projet, alors qu’une fois clarifiée, chacun a pu se sentir légitime et participer activement à la réussite de l’implantation. Des difficultés à la coordination du projet, entre autres concernant la gestion des fonds interinstitutionnels, sont un facteur ayant ralenti le processus d’implantation. Cette étude a permis de tirer des leçons sur l’implantation et la pérennisation d’un service de dépistage rapide du VIH en milieu communautaire gai. / In 2009, a multidisciplinary and intersectoral team implemented an innovative research-intervention project: Spot, a community-based rapid HIV testing service for men who have sex with men in Montreal. A case study was undertaken to describe the implementation process of Spot and the contextual factors that affected it. Grounded theory analysis of interviews, participant-observer, and a document analysis allowed the identification of a multistage dynamic implementation process. These stages were influenced by stakeholders’ motivations, the complexity of partnership dynamics, the challenges surrounding coordination and organization of staff members, as well as factors influencing staff members’ daily practices. Motivations like the unique opportunity to contribute to the implementation of an innovative and relevant prevention project, had a constant and positive influence, which united stakeholders in the project and maintained their involvement despite the difficulties. In terms of partnership dynamics, vague definitions of roles and tasks delayed the implementation of the project, although once clarified, everyone felt legitimate and actively participated in the success of the implantation. The management of interinstitutional funds was mentioned as one of the difficulties of coordinating the project and a factor that caused delays in the implementation process. This study allowed learning about the implementation and sustainability of a gay community-based rapid HIV testing service.

Through a case study about the impact of IT adoption in a residential aged care organisation, this thesis examines the increasing pressure for service integration as mainstreamed through reform policies. Specifically, the research investigates the role of IT in facilitating the 1997 aged care reform agenda of 'ageing in place' focusing on the levels of transformation from the policy context to the organisational/management context, and to the context of service provision by care staff. A single embedded case study (Yin, 1993) is used in order to meet the general objective to capture the dynamics of the impact of ageing in place in the three social contexts. The research is informed by social constructionism, a theoretical framework that emphasises the significance and effects of language in shaping social realities (Ainsworth, 2001; Hosking, 1999). The framework, therefore, justifies the qualitative analysis of both written (i.e., policy documents) and spoken (i.e., interviews with staff) texts to address meaning in relation to context. Changing technologies can result in altered societal structures (Betz, 2003) at all levels, from the very complex to the very basic. As such, it is important to understand a few basic premises of technology. First, technology is a human invention to improve the well-being of society (Ayres, 1996). Consequently, technological inventions that improve the quality of life are seen by people as a necessity for modern living. In the case of ageing, modernisation and technological advances effectively resulted in people becoming healthier and living longer (Department of Health and Aged Care [DHAC], 2000). Second, technology is a human means to control nature (Betz, 2003). As such, technological advances can be seen as a modernising process of predicting and regulating the effects of the trends existing in the environment, such as ageing. Ageing in the twenty first century presents a challenge to government's development policies because ageing is depicted as a steady force with a long-term economic impact (Johnson, 1999). Third, a technology becomes powerful when it is sponsored by the market (Betz, 2003; Hughes, 1983). Unless a technology is backed by business, it lacks the influence on a large scale. Fourth, technology is used to enable change. By using IT, governments, business and the community are co-operating through a paradigm similar to the business sector. As a result, the service environment is shifting towards more business-like approaches. To sustain the changes brought by a different paradigm and modes of operation, the rhetoric of technology is employed. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate the use of IT in processes of organisational adaptations to reform, which requires the examination of: a) specific meaning of IT as used in long-term care policies for older people since the last structural reform, b) the rationale behind the introduction of a new IT system into a residential care organisation, and c) the meaning of IT as articulated by care staff who have experienced a change in technology. The first paper represents a rhetorical analysis at the macro or policy level. There is a significant influence of a global political actor in developing proactive strategies on ageing, which results in a new, multi-organisational approach in delivering government-subsidised services, such as residential care. Three key institutional texts were selected to represent international to local policy development since the time ageing became a global concern. Since then, ageing is also viewed as a human rights issue. Using Burke's pentad, an analytic framework to analyse rhetoric in texts (Stillar, 1998), these institutional texts are seen to employ the rhetoric of 'technology for sustainability' to justify changes to policy approaches that seek long-term viability. Technology, in the name of sustainable development ensures support for economic growth, which balances the long-term effects of population ageing. The existence of a global force, such as population ageing, allows the intervening powers of the UN in mainstreaming ageing into development policies. Accordingly, it initiates corresponding actions at national (Australian Commonwealth Government) and state (Queensland Government) levels. IT is a medium of communication, knowledge transfer, and standard practice at these levels of actions. The second paper represents a qualitative analysis at the meso or organisational level. This paper explores the cogent rationale in the introduction of a computer-based, care documentation system in a large residential aged care organisation. Twenty two staff, from every level of the organisation, were interviewed to get an insight into the role of IT in substantive changes to organisational structure and modes of service provision. Responses from staff indicate external and internal influence that pressured the organisation to change. In the bid to sustain the future of aged care, the industry is changing through the introduction of new structure of service delivery. The Aged Care Structural Reform instigated a shift towards sustainable service provision that is consumer-driven, with a fixed cost compliance mechanism and performance criteria that are tied to funding. Facing the requirement for evidence to corroborate funding, a residential care organisation changed its structure of service delivery by introducing a new strategic direction. IT is part of this new strategic direction, planning, and operations of a changed service environment. The third paper represents a qualitative analysis at the micro or individual level to examine the impact of IT at frontline service delivery. This study is also based on interviews with twenty-two staff, across the organisational structure; however, this time the focus is more on staff who are involved in providing direct care to older residents at the organisation. The reason behind this is that IT has always been a management tool which handles management priorities such as financial planning and performance monitoring. The themes arising from the interviews indicate discord at the level of service delivery from the introduction of a new technical system. It also points to the idea that staff generally refer to ethical ideas and future promise of the new system. In summary, these three papers attached to this thesis support the notion that the meaning of technology is socially constructed. First, technology in the aged care sector has particular reference to improving or enhancing the well-being of older people, and in this case, the provision of high quality services that fulfil the needs of older people. Second, IT has an important role in meeting the evidence-based requirement, such as in the use of information in manipulating the use of resources required for the ageing population. Third, the meaning of IT is conceived from the context requiring its use such as the need to use resource efficiently to ensure long-term sustainability, which were emphasised in the last reform. Fourth, IT is used to enable structural changes in organisations to implement generic practices originated from the business sector, requiring the use of strong rhetoric such as balance and future. The limit of this case study is that these dimensions of technology can only be applied to the specific context of aged care and is not generalisable to other political contexts. However, the strength of the study rests on the macro-, meso- and micro-analysis of the meaning of technology. Therefore, future studies should investigate and compare the dimensions of technology in other contexts.

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Iran's foreign policy is consistent and is fundamentally realist with a revolutionist vision while the means are rationalist is the central argument of this dissertation. I make use of the English Schools three traditions of realism, rationalism and revolutionism in analyzing the speeches of Iranian statesmen to identify the ways in which the dynamics of the three traditions have evolved since 1997 and what it means for interpreting the developments of Iran's foreign policy ventures. I utilize both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis in examining the speeches of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, the presidents since 1997. The quantitative method employs a customized software generating figures that represent the recurrence of realist, rationalist and revolutionist terminologies in all the documents downloaded from the official websites of the Iranian statesmen as well as the United Nations and select news agencies and affiliates. The quantitative phase of the analysis, meanwhile, carefully examined selected statements of the supreme leader and the presidents uncovering the foreign policy argumentations and justifications, which were studied alongside foreign policy actions and classified under the three traditions. The findings suggest that Iran's foreign policy is the same as in the other states of international society – it is consistent and dynamic. It is simultaneously realist, rationalist and revolutionist with each tradition serving a specific purpose, which cannot be disentangled from the other two.

The objective of the present thesis entitled The creation of the Soviet union's ideal and its media image in the Czechoslovak media in 1950's is to show the effort of the major daily newspaper of that time - i.e. Rudé právo - to describe Soviet science. Creating a positive image of the Soviet Union through the presentation of scientific breakthroughs represents a significant way of building the ideal image of the USSR. More than fifty years later, it may be well analyzed which scientific fields were glorified by right, wherein the Soviet Union really excelled; and the rest, glorified only for propagandistic purposes. The theoretical part of this paper deals with the political situation in the USSR at the end of 40's and in the 50's as well as with the overall scientific environment during the same period. It characterizes the position of Rudé právo and describes the method of investigation. The paper however centers on the media analysis of ten separate time periods. The basic research method consists in historical and content- related analysis. The areas to be analyzed include the most important military research event of the decade under investigation - the successful test of the Soviet H-bomb, as well as the first successful use of nuclear energy for civilian purposes in the world - the startup...

Thesis "Presentation of trends in aesthetic medicine in selected specialized Czech magazines Estetika and Health & Beauty" deals with representation and media portrayal of female beauty and a current lifestyle to which more and more women adhere. It is a lifestyle in which body care plays a significant role. This paper analyzes trends in the two most famous Czech magazines devoted to aesthetic dermatology and plastic surgery - Estetika and Health & Beauty. The work aims to analyze these two magazines and find out how they portray these selected trends and which methods they most frequently use to persuade women to undergo surgery. It also tries to expound media representations of ideal beauty and the influence of the media on people. With regard to the objectives the work is divided into three parts: theoretical part, methodological part and empirically analytical part, or more precisely, the research part. The theoretical part comprises the conception of beauty in connection to human body. It examines the development of ideal beauty and the perception of the female body throughout the centuries. All of this is observed in regard to contemporary influence of media on people. It deals with social and medial constructions of reality and the possible influence of media on female self-esteem. The...

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No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseECMH.pdf: 5016372 bytes, checksum: 1ae169c4a370a647c5616953817c07a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais (INEP) / Usually, experimental studies that are conducted to generate evidences on the different scientific fields produce many qualitative data to be analyzed by researchers. For instance, this is the case of defects lists generated from the software inspection activity, which defects consist of qualitative data that should be discussed and classified. This scenario was experienced during the Readers Project, where defects lists have token long time to be analyzed, sometimes hours or days, making the decisions about defects difficult. Moreover, feedback questionnaires deserved a careful analysis, since they carried relevant information about the experimental study. Aim: Driven by the described situation this research aimed to support the qualitative analysis conduction in an information-guided way, using visualization and text mining techniques to enable it. This approach allows software inspection defects described similarly be analyzed together, due to the use of these techniques, which may allow the homogeneity of the decisions about them. The same happens in the context of feedback questionnaires. Methodology: Based on the objective, the ways that visualization and text mining could contribute to become qualitative analysis more effective and efficient were investigated and designed. Considering it, the Insight tool was developed to enable the information-guided qualitative analysis. Experimental studies were conducted to validate and evaluate the approach on different contexts. Results: Four experimental studies were conducted: (i) a feasibility study conducted with text documents which gave evidences that the use of visualization and text mining met previous expectations and was feasible to be employed; (ii) a study in the context of software inspection which, although the quantitative data did not present statistical significance, the descriptive statistics and feedback questionnaires analysis gave evidences that visualization and text mining makes the qualitative analysis effective and efficient; (iii) a study in the context of questionnaires, which results were similar to the previous study; (iv) a case study in the context of qualitative analysis of long text documents which gave evidences about the utility and ease of use of the approach. Conclusion: Under the different contexts of evaluation, the Insight, an information-guided qualitative analysis approach that is based on visualization and text mining, gave evidences about the improvements on efficiency and effectiveness. Adding to its relevance in software engineering area, this research also contributes to other scientific fields, which often claim for technological support to conduct their research. / Em geral, os estudos experimentais, que são responsáveis pela construção de evidências nas várias áreas da ciência, geram grande volume de dados qualitativos que devem ser analisados. Esse é o caso, por exemplo, de listas de defeitos derivadas de atividades de inspeção, cujos defeitos correspondem a dados qualitativos que devem ser discutidos e analisados. Esse cenário ocorreu no Projeto Readers, em que as listas de defeitos consumiam horas e dias para serem analisadas, o que dificultava a decisão sobre eles. Além disso, os questionários de feedback também mereciam análise cuidadosa, pois traziam informações relevantes sobre o estudo experimental. Objetivo: Motivado pela situação descrita, esta pesquisa teve o objetivo de apoiar a condução da técnica Coding de forma que a análise dos dados seja feita guiada pela informação, utilizando para isso visualização e mineração de texto. Isso possibilita que, no contexto de inspeção de software, relatos de defeitos semelhantes sejam tratados em um mesmo momento, em decorrência do uso dessas técnicas, fazendo que as decisões sejam homogêneas. O mesmo acontece com informações do questionário de feedback. Metodologia: Com base no objetivo estabeleceram-se as formas com que a visualização e mineração de texto poderiam contribuir para tornar a análise dos dados mais efetiva e eficiente. Com base nessas definições a ferramenta Insight foi desenvolvida para tornar viável a codificação guiada pela informação. Estudos experimentais foram conduzidos para validar e avaliar a tese em diferentes contextos. Resultados: Foram realizados quatro estudos experimentais: (i) estudo de viabilidade conduzido com documentos textuais que evidenciou que o uso de visualização e mineração de texto atendia à expectativa e era viável de ser adotado; (ii) estudo realizado no contexto de reunião de inspeção que, embora não tenha apresentado significância estatística dos resultados, evidenciou por meio das análises descritivas e análise dos questionários de feedback que o uso de visualização e mineração de texto para esta atividade a torna mais efetiva e eficiente; (iii) estudo realizado no contexto de questionários, cujos resultados foram semelhantes ao anterior; (iv) estudo de caso feito no contexto de análise qualitativa que evidenciou a utilidade e facilidade de uso da abordagem para analisar documentos textuais extensos. Conclusão: Nos diferentes contextos em que foi avaliada, a abordagem de análise qualitativa guiada pela informação, baseada em visualização e mineração de texto, evidenciou melhorias na efetividade e eficiência da atividade. Além da relevância da pesquisa para a área de Engenharia de Software, ressalta-se que ela é uma contribuição para outras áreas do conhecimento, muitas vezes carentes de suporte tecnológicos para a condução de suas pesquisas.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-03-10T12:45:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1129934 bytes, checksum: a8d893fdd082e81d120f9afbe0400889 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-10T12:45:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1129934 bytes, checksum: a8d893fdd082e81d120f9afbe0400889 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-23 / The complexity of the health problems that are presented to family health teams requires more strongly the need for interdisciplinary actions, aiming at integral care. However, the formation of professionals that make up these teams, the overload work with which they live and the own organization of the work process does not always favor the achievement of these practices. This is the problem in which this study focuses. The objective of this study is to analyze the limits, and possibilities of interdisciplinary actions in professional practice of nurses, doctors and dentists in family health units. This is a cross-sectional study, exploratory, descriptive and inferential, developed from the qualitative and quantitative approaches. The sample consisted of Nurses, Physicians and Surgeon dentists of Family Health Teams in João Pessoa city. The questionnaire was constructed, validated and applied to all professionals by lot of the Family Health Teams. The qualitative part was made from participant observation during two months. The results of the questionnaires were submitted to Cluster Analysis. While the observation, thematic analysis was performed and the data were compared with quantitative results. The three professions had limitations on the interdisciplinary practice. The findings of this study show that the exercise of interdisciplinary professional practice depends on the objective order factors related to the labor process, and subjective factors inherent to the worker himself. / A complexidade dos problemas de saúde que se apresentam às equipes de saúde da família impõe mais fortemente a necessidade de ações interdisciplinares, visando ao cuidado integral. No entanto, a formação dos profissionais que compõem essas equipes, a sobrecarga de trabalho com a qual convivem e a própria organização do processo de trabalho nem sempre favorecem a realização dessas práticas. Esse é o problema sobre o qual o presente estudo se debruça. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar os limites e possibilidades de realização das ações interdisciplinares na prática profissional de enfermeiros, médicos e cirurgiões dentistas nas unidades de saúde da família. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, exploratório, descritivo e inferencial, desenvolvido a partir das abordagens qualitativa e quantitativa. A amostra foi composta por Enfermeiros, Médicos e Cirurgiões dentistas das Equipes de Saúde da Família do município de João Pessoa. O questionário foi construído, validado e aplicado mediante sorteio das Equipes de Saúde da Família. A parte qualitativa foi realizada a partir de Observação Participante, com duração de dois meses. Os resultados dos questionários foram submetidos à Análise de Agrupamento. Enquanto que para observação, foi realizada análise temática e os dados foram confrontados com os resultados quantitativos. As três profissões apresentaram limitações quanto à prática interdisciplinar. Os achados deste estudo evidenciam que o exercício da interdisciplinaridade na prática profissional depende de fatores de ordem objetiva, relacionados ao processo de trabalho, e de fatores subjetivos, inerentes ao próprio trabalhador.

Submitted by Viviane Lima da Cunha (viviane@biblioteca.ufpb.br) on 2017-06-20T13:19:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2389568 bytes, checksum: c07c306ad4b494cef4765969decfafbb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-20T13:19:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2389568 bytes, checksum: c07c306ad4b494cef4765969decfafbb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-15 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The training of health professionals in an interdisciplinary perspective is considered a premise for a care reorganization model, aiming to reach teamwork and a more integral and resolutive approach of the human being, based on the principles and guidelines of Brazil’s Unified Public Health System (SUS). The aim of this study is to know the professional training in an interdisciplinary perspective of the following higher-degree courses: Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, and Occupational Therapy. The study was held in João Pessoa – Paraíba, whose research was based on cross-sectional, exploratory, descriptive, and inferential model, developed from qualitative and quantitative approaches. The sample was composed by scholars enrolled in the last academic year of Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, and Occupational Therapy higher-degree courses from two Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) and also by Physiotherapists, Speech Therapists, and Occupational Therapists who compose the rehabilitation team from two specialized services of these HEI’s. For this purpose, the “Assessment of Training to Interdisciplinary” questionnaire adapted for rehabilitation context, aiming to know the profile of scholars and their position about approximations and distancing in training related to interdisciplinarity. For the qualitative phase with professionals, it was utilized a semi-structured interview guideline, aiming to analyze the facilitations and problems of an insertion in a rehabilitation team on professional practice scenario. The results of the questionnaires were submitted to Cluster Analysis by R statistical software; and the interviews’ content were organized and analyzed by Nvivo software, thus enabling the construction of Collective Subject’s Speech. Therefore, there were clear signs, in the higher-degree courses researched, limitations on the training in health professionals for interdisciplinarity, with the restriction of activities which contemplate and favor the join action of students, having a negative effect in professional practice. Professionals’ attitude facing the interdisciplinary actions highlighted the limitation in training, reflected on their difficulties, recognizing other professions’ duties and competencies within rehabilitation team. The discussion was utilized as strategy for overcoming in the search of interdisciplinarity achievement. The findings of this study evinced the changes in training process of future rehabilitation professionals, which requires planning and reorganization of academic practices in the perspective of interprofissional education. / A formação dos profissionais da saúde numa perspectiva interdisciplinar é considerada um pressuposto para a reorganização do modelo assistencial, visando o alcance do trabalho em equipe e uma abordagem mais integral e resolutiva do ser humano, tendo como base os princípios e diretrizes do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). O objetivo desse estudo é conhecer a formação profissional na perspectiva interdisciplinar dos cursos de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupacional em uma capital do Brasil, e perceber as facilidades e dificuldades de inserção desses profissionais numa equipe de reabilitação no cenário de prática profissional. Trata-se de um estudo realizado na cidade de João Pessoa-PB, cuja pesquisa pautou-se no método transversal, exploratório, descritivo e inferencial, desenvolvido a partir das abordagens qualitativas e quantitativas. A amostra foi composta por discentes matriculados no último ano letivo dos cursos de graduação em Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupacional de duas Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) e por Fisioterapeutas, Fonoaudiólogos e Terapeutas Ocupacionais que compõem a equipe de reabilitação de dois serviços especializados egressos dessas IES. Para tanto, foi aplicado com os estudantes o questionário “Avaliação da Formação para a Interdisciplinaridade”, adaptado para o contexto da reabilitação com a finalidade de conhecer o perfil dos acadêmicos e o posicionamento dos mesmos sobre as aproximações e os distanciamentos da formação em relação à interdisciplinaridade. Já para os profissionais foi utilizado um roteiro de entrevista semiestruturada, a fim de analisar as facilidades e as dificuldades de inserção numa equipe de reabilitação no cenário de prática profissional. Os resultados dos questionários foram submetidos à Análise de Agrupamento por meio do software estatístico R; e os conteúdos das entrevistas foram organizados e analisados pelo software Nvivo, possibilitando assim, a construção de Discursos do Sujeito Coletivo. Nesse sentido, evidenciaram-se, nos cursos investigados, limitações quanto à formação em saúde para a interdisciplinaridade, com restrição das atividades que contemplam e favorecem a atuação conjunta dos estudantes, repercutindo na prática profissional. O posicionamento dos profissionais quanto às ações interdisciplinares enfatizou a limitação na formação, refletida com a dificuldade dos mesmos em (re)conhecerem as atribuições e competências das outras profissões dentro da equipe de reabilitação. O diálogo foi utilizado como estratégia de superação na busca da concretização da interdisciplinaridade. Os achados deste estudo evidenciam a necessidade de mudanças no processo de formação de futuros profissionais da reabilitação, com necessidade de planejamento e de reorganização das práticas acadêmicas na perspectiva da educação interprofissional.

nÃo hà / No cenÃrio de rÃpidas mudanÃas planetÃrias do sÃculo XXI, à necessÃrio priorizar a importÃncia da EducaÃÃo Ambiental (EA), face as ameaÃas empreendidas pelo homem junto à natureza. No Brasil, tal efeito torna-se mais crÃtico, devido fragilidades do sistema educacional, citando-se o analfabetismo funcional e a formaÃÃo nos campos das ciÃncias naturais e humanas. Em contrapartida, as Tecnologias da InformaÃÃo e ComunicaÃÃo (TIC) progressivamente contribuem junto ao desenvolvimento da educaÃÃo, socializaÃÃo da informaÃÃo e construÃÃo de novos saberes. Se fundamentadamente utilizadas, as TIC podem favorecer a construÃÃo colaborativa de novos conhecimentos e saberes, relacionados à EA e conscientizaÃÃo ecolÃgica, quer atravÃs do currÃculo prescrito ou oculto. A presente Tese investiga como cursistas, colaborativa e assincronamente, atravÃs da construÃÃo de narrativas, postadas em fÃruns de discussÃo, constroem conhecimentos, e se apropriam de saberes pedagÃgicos e tecnolÃgicos, vinculados ao estudo da EA e coaprendizagem significativa, no espaÃo de desenvolvimento de prÃticas pedagÃgicas de uma Disciplina de InformÃtica na EducaÃÃo, do Curso de Licenciatura em Pedagogia de uma Universidade pÃblica. A pesquisa classifica-se como aplicada, qualitativa, coinvestigativa, descritiva e apresenta traÃos de pesquisa-aÃÃo. Sua sustentaÃÃo teÃrica ancora-se: quanto aos saberes docentes em Tardif; no caso da EA, educaÃÃo CTSA e conscientizaÃÃo ecolÃgica, em Chrispino et al. e Jacobi e TristÃo; na coaprendizagem assÃcrona e mapeamento cognitivo, em Ausubel e Okada; quanto à integraÃÃo das TIC, desenvolvimento da EA e transdisciplinaridade, em Almeida e Valente, Leff, Moraes, e Ribeiro et al. Os dados coletados na pesquisa corresponderam aos conjuntos de narrativas elaboradas e discutidas pelos cursistas, em fÃruns de discussÃo TelEduc, relacionados aos temas: mapas conceituais; uso pedagÃgico das TIC; EA e conscientizaÃÃo ecolÃgica. Os dados foram analisados adotando-se a tÃcnica da AnÃlise Textual Discursiva (ATD), segundo Moraes e Galiazzi, quanto Ãs unidades de anÃlise, categorizaÃÃo e (re)construÃÃo de metatextos interpretativos. Posteriormente, atravÃs dos pressupostos da AnÃlise Qualitativa Multidimensional (AQM), foi utilizado o software de anÃlise de dados multidimensionais CHIC, segundo, Almeida, Moraes e Valente, para se investigar, sob uma Ãtica de transdisciplinaridade, relaÃÃes hierÃrquicas e relacionais entre as categorias, organizadas em Ãrvores de similaridade, obtidas nas saÃdas de dados do CHIC. Em seguida, estes dados obtidos foram (inter)relacionados Ãs narrativas dos alunos, e analisados à luz do referencial teÃrico e objetivos da Tese,surgindo indÃcios preliminares que, elementos vinculados à conscientizaÃÃo ecolÃgica na escola revelam-se desafiadores, pois hà uma limitada oferta: de prÃticas pedagÃgicas interdisciplinares; de currÃculos CTSA, o que pode limitar uma discussÃo aprofundada de questÃes socioambientais. TambÃm, emergiram evidÃncias que a EA pode ser viabilizada por meio do uso pedagÃgico e cognitivo das TIC, desde que haja a devida formaÃÃo dos docentes, para que estes se apropriarem de seu uso, no intuito de mediar discussÃes telecolaborativas, sobre EA e conscientizaÃÃo ecolÃgica. Para futuras pesquisas, sugerem-se: renovar os cursos de formaÃÃo docente, no que trata da discussÃo das questÃes socioambientais; investigar a presenÃa de discussÃes da temÃtica ambiental nas escolas, e do desenvolvimento de currÃculos do tipo CTSA; desenvolver-se pesquisas sobre o uso das TIC na EA e em cenÃrios de conscientizaÃÃo ecolÃgica.