The following thesis describes and analyses the representation of lung cancer in the Canadian print media. The thesis employs a theoretical framework comprised of Giddens’ theory of reflexivity and Goffman’s theory of framing, to understand the social dynamics of negotiation behind the disease’s portrayal in the media, in a late modern context. Late modernity was defined by institutional reflexivity and a focus on understanding and mitigating risk. The research was conducted through a content analysis and examined quantitative trends that contributed to a subsequent qualitative interpretation. The results show that the coverage of lung cancer decreased over time. The analysis shows a discourse of a biomedical institution that has unsuccessfully controlled the disease, a lack of patient advocacy, particularly among celebrities, and a continued conflation of smoking behaviour and lung cancer, all of which contributed to the decreasing coverage. The framing processes point to a society focused on understanding risk through studying the disease’s causes, as well as one concerned with legislative debate and behavioural prevention. The emergence of a frame focused on the patient’s lived experience might contribute to an improved representation of the disease.

Orientador: Ana Maria Falcão de Aragão / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T09:04:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lopretti_TamaraAbraoPina_D.pdf: 10931680 bytes, checksum: 652d8ff96380c864498924361253e22f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O presente trabalho se inscreve no campo de investigação sobre a formação de professores e o processo de produção, mobilização e significação dos saberes e conhecimentos docentes e discentes. Pautado na Teoria Histórico-Cultural e na abordagem narrativa e autobiográfica em pesquisa, o objetivo do estudo foi compreender o diálogo entre os saberes docentes e discentes decorrentes do processo reflexivo da professora-pesquisadora e de seus alunos, bem como as implicações desse processo para o desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional da docente. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir do trabalho desenvolvido pela professora com seus estudantes, localizado em duas escolas públicas do Município de Campinas: sendo uma da Rede Estadual e outra da Rede Municipal de ensino. Os dados foram produzidos a partir de todo o material pedagógico elaborado pela professora e o grupo de alunos nos anos de 2009 e 2010, além da realização de nove sessões de autoscopia com a professora e seus estudantes, nesse mesmo período. Essa produção resultou em um conjunto de narrativas acerca dos sentidos de ensinar e de aprender na escola, correspondendo aos dados de análise. As narrativas foram analisadas sob a luz do Paradigma Indiciário e da proposta dos Núcleos de Significação, o que permitiu indiciar um conjunto de saberes reveladores de importantes dimensões do trabalho e do desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional docente configurando os seguintes núcleos: - das relações interpessoais - sentidos da afetividade, dos diálogos e histórias (com)partilhadas; - das (não) coincidências nas relações de ensino - sentidos de aprendizagem, desenvolvimento e formação; - das fragilidades do trabalho docente - sentidos de uma militância em construção. A compreensão de cada um dos núcleos de significação permitiu a construção de um olhar sensível e, ao mesmo tempo, apurado para o processo de desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional docente inscrito nas relações de aprendizagem tecidas pela professora com seus estudantes, o que possibilitou defender a tese de que há uma especificidade do movimento de produção dos saberes docentes que se dá no intenso diálogo/confronto com os saberes discentes, fruto da vida que acontece na sala de aula e que precisa ser investigado, compreendido e explicitado como uma importante dimensão do processo de trabalho e formação docente, de constituição de uma identidade profissional e que se faz nos espaços-tempos cotidianos da escola. / Abstract : This study is about teacher training and the process of knowledge production for teachers and students. Based on the Social-Historical Psychology and Autobiographical Narrative research, the objective of this study was to understand the dialogue between teacher knowledge and student, made possible by the process of reflective teacher with students, as well as the implications of this process for personal and professional teachers 'development. The survey was conducted from the work of the teacher with his students at two public schools located in the city of Campinas. As a source of data production were performed nine sessions autoscopy with the teacher and his students , in the years 2009 and 2010, and all the teaching materials produced by the group , which resulted in a set of narratives about the way of teaching and learn in school . Data were analyzed from the Evidential Paradigm and the proposal of "Nucleus of Meaning", allowing indicate a set of knowledge that expose important dimensions of work and personal and professional teacher¿s development. Were created three analysis nucleus: - interpersonal relationships - senses of affection , dialogues and stories shared with students; - the coincidence relationships education - ways of learning, development and training; - the weaknesses of teaching - senses a militancy under construction. Understanding each axis will make us able to contribute to the construction of a sensitive and at the same time , determined for the process of personal and professional teachers¿ development, which stand out as elements of this fundamental development process: the teacher reflexivity and the role that students perform privileged as trainers of teachers. / Doutorado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Doutora em Educação

In recent years various factors have contributed to the dissolution of the traditional family and the subsequent emergence of alternative family systems like the single parent family. Single parent families have become a reality in our society, a fact reflected by statistics which indicate an increase in the occurrence of single parent families over the last couple of years. However, the single parent family is still mostly perceived as consisting of the mother and her children, rather than the father and his children. Research narratives seem to support the single-parenthood-equals-single-motherhood plot in that there is an abundance of single parent accounts in the literature that mostly tell the stories of single mothers. Thus, fathers who find themselves in the position of single father seem to be marginalised in society and stories regarding their experiences are few and far between. The aim of this project was to explore and describe how single fathers in South Africa experience fatherhood by focussing on their personal narratives. Therefore the research inquiry for this project took the form of a narrative inquiry which provides a way to understand people’s experiences by privileging their stories. The researcher conducted unstructured interviews with participants to produce languaged data which were analysed using a narrative analysis strategy. A narrative analysis aims to investigate not merely the content of the story, but rather the story itself and the way in which it is told within a specific cultural and historical context. Hopefully, in the telling, listening and retelling of their stories these fathers’ voices will become more pronounced in the research narratives and thus contribute to the body of knowledge pertaining to single fatherhood. Copyright / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Psychology / Unrestricted

This paper is about a process of a nascency of new doctors, and how it is possible to approach this topic from the viewpoint of social anthropologist. As a starting point, I use actor-network theory, which is one of the social science paradigms focusing on materiality. I consider it (on the basis of work by Bruno Latour and other scholars, who are dealing with this field), to be a remarkable actor in matters connected with human action, and thus an appropriate subject for an anthropological inquiry. Since the topic concerns medicine in the Czech Republic nowadays, I contribute to the knowledge of medical anthropology, which does not have such a strong academic base here as in the Anglo-Saxon world. Special attention is dedicated to a detailed description of activities leading to the formation of the text of this thesis. Reflexivity, on which I put emphasis, shall serve as the foundation of the context of genesis of an anthropological knowledge and also to describe the ethical concerns of the research. The main methods are observation and semi-structured in-depth interviews with twelve informants, who were medicine students or medicine faculty graduates.

How can we understand the innovativeness of firms or organizations in general, and how should we assess it in terms of nontechnological innovation? My paper deals with these two questions. The “ability” of companies to adapt to new circumstances, to create new products, processes and new knowledge, has been conceptualized in many approaches. Some of them simply define a list of “(critical) success factors” or “(key) performance indica-tors”, as tools for ranking and evaluation, without any theoretical reference. Others, like the resource-based or capability-based approach(es), work with theoretical references, but are still very weak in operationalizing of what they call “capability”. My paper gives a critical description of this situation and offers a new proposal to classify and to measure the “inclination” of organizations to innovate in all dimensions. This proposal roots in pragmatistic thinking as represented in the theory of reflexive modernization and in the pragmatist version of organizational learning theory. Empirically, it has been applied merely in case studies yet. A survey project is in preparation.

This thesis explores how research is implicated in the constitution of post-war environments, and gives an account of being and becoming a researcher in post-war Bosnia. My main contention is that when peace and conflict researchers conduct research in post-war contexts, their presence, practices, and the consequential production of knowledge and representations, have political effects. I argue that the implications of this have not been fully explained, acknowledged, or problematised within Conflict Resolution, which tends to rely on research approaches and assumptions taken from ‘normal’ science. This thesis suggests how reflexivity and alternatives methodologies, including visual research might be used to represent the emotional, sensory, and often intangible elements of post-war realities. It enacts an engagement in the politics of research and uses reflexive writing and visual methods to draw attention to the importance of the relational aspects of research in postwar environments. Visual journeys are also used to argue that visual methods can provide a way of revisiting the epistemological and ontological assumptions about lived experiences and realities in post-war settings. The thesis is based upon one year of ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Bosnia, and is also informed by eighteen months of volunteer work with a Bosnian Community Centre in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. / Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Объектом исследования является психологическая разумность. Предметом исследования стали личностные корреляты психологической разумности. Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, двух глав, заключения, списка литературы (68 источников) и приложений, включающих в себя фрагмент программы исследовательского тренинга, бланки применявшихся методик и таблицы с результатами сравнительного анализа на сокращенной выборке испытуемых. Объем магистерской диссертации 119 страниц, на которых размещены 4 рисунка и 15 таблиц. Во введении раскрывается актуальность проблемы исследования, разработанность проблематики, ставятся цель и задачи исследования, определяются объект и предмет исследования, формулируются гипотезы, указываются методики и эмпирическая база. Первая глава включают в себя обзор иностранной и отечественной литературы по теме исследования. В ней представлены модели психологической разумности, методики ее измерения, а также зарубежные и отечественные исследования психологической разумности. Выводы по первой главе представляют собой итоги по изучению теоретического материала. Вторая глава посвящена эмпирической части исследования. В ней представлено описание организации и методик проведенного исследования, а также результатов сравнительного анализа, корреляционного исследования, регрессионного анализа и исследовательского тренинга психологической разумности. Выводы по главе 2 включают в себя основные результаты эмпирического исследования. В заключении в обобщенном виде изложены результаты теоретической и эмпирической частей работы, а также выводы по выдвинутым гипотезам. / The object of the study was psychological mindedness. The subject of the study was personality correlates of psychological mindedness. The master's thesis consists of an introduction, two chapters, conclusion, a list of literature (68 sources) and applications, including the fragment of the research training program, forms of applied techniques and tables with the results of the comparative analysis on a reduced sample of subjects. The volume of the master's thesis is 119 pages, on which are placed 4 figures and 15 tables. The introduction reveals the relevance of the research problem, the development of the problem, the purpose and objectives of the research, the object and subject of the research, the hypothesis are formulated, the techniques and the empirical base are specified. The first chapter include a review of foreign and domestic literature on the topic of the study. It presents models of psychological mindedness, techniques of its measurement and foreign and domestic studies of psychological mindedness. Conclusions on the first chapter are the results of the study of theoretical material. The second chapter is devoted to the empirical part of the study. It describes the organization and techniques of the study and the results of the comparative analysis, the correlational research, the regression analysis and the research training of psychological mindedness. The conclusions of chapter 2 include the main results of the empirical study. The conclusion includes the results of the theoretical and empirical parts of the work, as well as conclusions on the hypotheses put forward.

In this dissertation the author embarks on a journey of storying and re-storying her life. Autoethnographic evocative personal narratives are used as the method of presentation. Congruent with a postmodern stance, the text repositions the reader as a co-participant in dialogue. In this journey there is a move from a reductionistic understanding of "self" to an understanding of "self" as socially constructed, multiple and changing processes. The author's process of differentiation is embodied and informed by this changing view of "self" as part of, being informed by, shaping and being shaped by the conversations she co-creates in dialogical contexts. This means taking a double-sided, reflexive view of relationships and systems, opens a space for a flexible way of being and imparts sensitivity to the discourses she co-creates. This journey entails taking action that keeps a self-reflexive dialogue going, allowing for different voices to emerge and various encounters to become possible. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

This qualitatively oriented Practical Theology research project was based on a narrative enquiry into the spiritualities of five Christ-followers. These conversations occurred within a small group context, and were aimed at enabling the participants to co-author preferred spiritual ways of being. Because of my commitment to reflexive research practice, other voices and perspectives were invited into the research process. Besides sharing in numerous reflexive conversations with my supervisors, I brought into the group three 'outside voices'. By sharing their stories, these 'outside voices' challenged privatised expressions of spirituality, introducing a 'hermeneutic of suspicion' into the research process and enabling the research participants to wrestle with the challenges of a compassionate and ethical spirituality. In this conversational journey I was able to engage the central research question of whether a group narrative approach can facilitate the intention of Practical Theology to transform human life. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematical Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy)

This thesis argues that the debate over the relationship between Theory and political practice has reached a dead-end in IR. Most scholars taking part in this debate based their claims on meta-theoretical assumptions, which explains the inability to settle the debate. This logic not only discouraged empirical enquiries, but also undermined reflexivity. Instead, this thesis calls for the translation of these meta-theoretical assumptions into a methodology and into methods to produce empirical knowledge by which to explore the relationships between Theory and political practice on specific issues. To this end, the thesis investigates relationships between American IR academic discourse and senior officials discourse and their effects on US foreign policy towards Iran between 1998 and 2014. The thesis provides a typology to map and to assess the gaps in the debate over the relationship between Theory and political practice in IR. This typology is composed of four ideal-types: Theory to political practice, Theory vs. political practice, Theory as political practice and practice to political practice. The thesis also translates meta-theoretical assumptions drawn from Wittgenstein and Foucault into a methodology to generate empirical knowledge on specific relationships between Theory and political practice. This methodology enables to trace an evolving system of thoughts expressed in the Theory and political practice of the Iranian nuclear crisis and to expose what this system does to US society and foreign policy. Three elements compose this system: the certainty of democratic teleology, the certainty of uncertainty and the certainty of smart power. The thesis claims that IR knowledge production on Iran mostly acted as symbolic knowledge morphing uncertainties about Iran into certainties for US governmental power. Only then could senior officials produce a judgement against Iran and implement disciplinary measures in the form of sanctions, covert actions, and military threats.