Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Esta dissertação apresenta uma pesquisa que teve por objetivo descobrir qual a relação das crianças com a Internet e mais especificamente com os sites. Tendo como interlocutores cinco crianças que moram em uma mesma Vila Residencial, a pesquisa, que aconteceu neste espaço, pautou-se em questões do cotidiano, para investigar os usos que as crianças fazem dos sites que acessam. Os desafios de pesquisar em espaços particulares, onde questões como amizade, autoridade e metodologia de pesquisa ganharam destaque, fizeram-se presentes em todo o processo: do campo à escrita do texto. Uma grande questão que perpassa a discussão metodológica é sobre como, ao pesquisar através dos jogos, surge o desafio em conciliar os papéis de pesquisadora e jogadora. As reflexões sobre a construção de uma metodologia de pesquisa em espaços particulares contou com a contribuição de autores como Nilda Alves, Mikhail Bakhtin, Marília Amorim, Angela Borba, Fabiana Marcello dentre outros. As questões do cotidiano foram feitas a partir do debate principalmente com Michel de Certeau. As reflexões mais específicas sobre a Internet foram feitas a partir do que emergiu em campo, com as crianças, e contaram com o auxílio de, entre outros, André Lemos, Edméa Santos, Lucia Santaella e Marco Silva. / This dissertation presents research on the relationship between children and the Internet, specifically their relationship with websites. It interviewed children living in a Vila Residencial (Residential Village) about their day-to-day lives in order to investigate how they used the websites they access. Researching private spaces where questions of friendship, authority and research methodology played a central role provided challenges that were present throughout the process; from field work to writing the results. An additional issue which goes beyond methodological discussions involved how to manage the roles of researcher and playmate when conducting research through games and play. The reflections on how to create an appropriate research methodology in private spaces received contributions from authors such as Nilda Alves, Mikhail Baktin, Marília Amorin, Angela Borba, Fabiana Marcello, and others. The questions about the childrens daily life were built mainly from the debate with Michel de Certeau. More specific reflections on the Internet emerged from the work in the field and with the children, and were assisted by André Lemos, Edméa Santos, Lucia Santaella, Marco Silva and others.

Indigenous values, epistemologies, and indicators have always been ways of teaching and learning about change, and planning for the future. Indigenous food systems are central capacities supporting social-ecological resilience and resistance. Settler-colonialism and environmental degradation are two drivers of rapid and cumulative change over the past century that are at the root of health challenges experienced by Indigenous people and impacts to Indigenous food systems. Indigenous food sovereignty is a framework many Indigenous communities have been working within to support the restoration of Indigenous food systems, knowledges, and relationships to land in this time of resurgence. Recent scholarship highlights the importance of biocultural and culturally grounded values frameworks, aligning with Indigenous epistemologies, for measuring social-ecological resilience and resistance. Indigenous scholars and communities are also calling for more respectful and meaningful research practices in alignment with Indigenous priorities and worldviews. The Neskonlith Band’s Switzmalph community near Salmon Arm, British Columbia, has been working towards restoring Secwépemc plants and food systems through land-based education projects and collaboration in multi-scalar partnerships. This study highlights two cultural concepts or values related to Secwépemc food systems restoration and land based education in Switzmalph and Secwépemc territory more broadly, and their role in guiding future pathways and multi-scalar relationships supporting Secwépemc food systems restoration. This study also highlights the role of storytelling as a method and context for teaching and learning about cultural concepts and values in land-based settings. This study discusses the importance of process-oriented approaches to research for demonstrating how Indigenous ways of knowing can guide ongoing and embodied applications of ethical frameworks. The results of this work highlight the importance of culturally-grounded values in measuring, guiding, and reflecting on change, as well as the vital importance of Indigenous ways of knowing in guiding ethical research processes, and participatory and community-led research throughout all stages of research design. / Graduate

Background and Objectives Oral anticoagulants (OACs) are among Canada's most frequently prescribed drugs and a top cause of medication-related serious harm leading to emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and fatalities. During the preparation to launch a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-funded randomized controlled trial (RCT) called "Improving Anticoagulant Safety at Hospital Discharge: A Randomized Trial," we faced some issues. First, as the RCT addresses OAC management, we needed to determine the barriers and facilitators for optimal OAC management, which were not identified in our literature search. Second, there is no core outcome set (COS) specific for OACs and the choice of outcomes and their measurement for the trial was not obvious. Finally, the drug-drug interactions between the OACs and other medications are not fully understood, particularly with regards to important clinical outcomes. Identifying the interacting medications and their interaction effect size, is vital to guarantee the safety of patients. To address these issues, the objectives of this thesis were: (1) to determine the barriers and facilitators for optimal OAC management, (2) to define the potential list for the COS of OACs, and (3) to explore the drug-drug interaction of OACs. Methods Several research approaches, including a systematic review, a systematic survey, a scoping review, a population-based retrospective cohort study with time varying methods, and a qualitative study were applied in this thesis. First, we applied both a synthesis review and qualitative research to explore the barriers and facilitators for OACs management to guarantee the evidence's robustness. Next, we used a systematic survey to address the lack of consensus on outcomes used and their v definitions for OAC treatment clinical trials. Finally, we used a systematic review and planned a population-based study to address drug-drug interaction related to OACs. Methodologic challenges and innovation In the scoping review (Chapter 2: Barriers and facilitators to optimal oral anticoagulant management: a scoping review) and the focus group study (Chapter 3: Perceptions on patient education to improve oral anticoagulant management) we employed a qualitative approach. The main methodological challenge for both the scoping review and the focus group focused on the rigorous way to synthesize the themes. In Chapter 4, we used a systematic survey to explore the outcome list for OAC management research. The primary methodological challenge referred to the outcome reporting in the included studies. Not all outcomes performed in the trials can be reported for the space limitation or potential publication bias. In Chapters 5 and 6, a systematic review with meta-analysis and an observational protocol were used to explore the drug-drug interaction for OACs. The main methodological challenge for Chapter 5 was how to evaluate the drug-drug interaction (DDI) evidence systematically. The main methodological challenge for Chapter 6 is to address confounding and bias in a population-based protocol on DOACs drug-drug interaction. Conclusion In summary, this standard thesis describes five different background projects to prepare for an OAC management RCT. The papers contribute to the literature by using several research methodologies to provide useful evidence for OAC management and OAC research. / Thesis / Candidate in Philosophy / Oral anticoagulants (OACs) (blood thinners) are among Canada's most frequently prescribed drugs and a top cause of severe medication-related harm. The objectives of this thesis include (1) to determine the barriers and facilitators for optimal OAC management, (2) to define a potential list for the core outcome set of OACs, and (3) to explore the drug-drug interaction of OACs. First, we applied a scoping review and a qualitative study to explore the barriers and facilitators for OACs management. Then we conducted a systematic survey to address the lack of consensus on outcomes and their definitions for OAC treatment clinical trials. Finally, we used a systematic review and planned a population-based study to address drug-drug interaction related to OACs. Different research approaches, including a systematic review, a systematic survey, a scoping review, a population-based study, and a qualitative study, were involved in this thesis.

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This research was simultaneously collective and individual. In this dissertation, my team and I inquired into what it means to undertake playbuilding as qualitative research and be a practitioner, specifically focusing on the roles of artist, researcher, and educator from an applied theatre graduate student perspective. I drew upon the methodological and theoretical frameworks of playbuilding as qualitative research and a/r/tography. Playbuilding as qualitative research offers creative methods for un/re/covering collective and affective ways of knowing. A/r/tography offers the opportunity to explore self and roles through art-making and reflexivity. For me, both are manifestations of the same creative impulse to make meaning and generate new understandings expressed through different perspectives and processes. This research consisted of a cohort of applied theatre graduate students who collectively explored and devised a play on what it means to be an artist/researcher/educator. The play, To Spin a Red Yarn: Enacting Artist/Researcher/Teacher stands as an artefact to the collectives’ generation, interpretation, and performance of research. In addition, I wrote an exegesis that spins my individual story within our collective. The exegesis, Behind the Curtain, extends the world of the play into the text by taking the reader on a dramatic journey through soliloquizing as dialogue. As a result of this study, I theorized a translated a/r/tographical framework into theatre- based language for the use by practitioners that is rooted in theatre practitioner praxis (theory and practice). This praxis-based study was intended to provide knowledge for artist-researchers, educators, and theatre-makers. This research offers artists/researchers/educators access to more stories, insights, and ideas about what it means to be a theatre-based artist/researcher/educator undertaking playbuilding as qualitative research. This research opens up rich possibilities that are commonplace to theatre-makers and performing artists on how different theatrical conventions could be used in playbuilding as qualitative research. For theatre-makers who are interested in combining theatre with academic research, it offers another paradigm to consider, expand, and interconnect the work that they do. Likewise, for a/r/tographers who are theatre-based, this research offers a way to conceive the work they do rooted in theatre-based language. / Graduate / 0465 / 0516 / 0727 / bishopk@uvic.ca

Esta dissertação é fruto da inserção da pesquisadora na Rede-Observatório do Programa Mais Médicos, cujas pesquisas permitiram conhecer além do que os objetivos de um projeto são capazes de prescrever. Composta por narrativas, esta dissertação tem por objetivo tornar visíveis os conhecimentos evocados pela experiência de pesquisa que tendem a não compor os relatórios finais e que não são reconhecidos como produções científicas. Trata-se, então, da visibilidade da dimensão micropolítica do fazer pesquisa e do conhecimento sobre a implantação do Programa, de fragmentos sobre o pesquisar e sobre o próprio Programa Mais Médicos. É com inspiração nas produções brasileiras no campo da Saúde Coletiva, nas proposições de pistas metodológicas da cartografia, na Análise Institucional de Lourau, na narratividade de Benjamin, na Esquizoanálise de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, entre outras obras e autores, buscando disjunções e interfaces entre eles, que esta dissertação constrói seu alicerce teórico. Flanando por Brasília, pelos interiores das salas da universidade e pela imensidão da Floresta Amazônica, as narrativas que compõem esta dissertação foram construídas a partir de quatro cenas-narrativas, que buscam apontar o desvio do majoritário na ciência, descolar a produção de conhecimento de uma subordinação ao cartesiano. As cenas-narrativas tornaram visíveis efeitos do Programa Mais Médicos na produção de cuidado e no cotidiano de trabalho das equipes de saúde, que os indicadores epidemiológicos não conseguiram revelar, bem como dimensões do fazer pesquisa que são apreendidas em ato. / This work is the result of the researcher’s participation in the Observatory-Network of the More Doctors Program (Rede-Observatório do Programa Mais Médicos), whose studies allowed me to encounter more than what the objectives of a project can prescribe. Composed by narratives, this work aims to make visible the knowledge evoked by the research experience which tend not to compose the final reports and which is not recognized as scientific production. It regards, therefore, to the visibility of the micropolitical dimension in research practices and the knowledge about the implementation of the Program, fragments of the act of researching and of the More Doctors Program itself. It is inspired by Brazilian productions in the field of Saúde Coletiva (Public Health), the cartography’s indications of methodological tracks, Lourau’s Institutional Analysis, Benjamin’s narrativity, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s schizoanalysis, among other works and authors, pursuing disjunctions and interfaces between them, that this work builds its theoretical grounds. Wandering through Brasília, the interiors of university rooms or the immensity of the Amazon Forest, these narratives aim to indicate a detour from the majoritary in Science, liberating the production of knowledge from a subordination to the Cartesian.

Esta dissertação é fruto da inserção da pesquisadora na Rede-Observatório do Programa Mais Médicos, cujas pesquisas permitiram conhecer além do que os objetivos de um projeto são capazes de prescrever. Composta por narrativas, esta dissertação tem por objetivo tornar visíveis os conhecimentos evocados pela experiência de pesquisa que tendem a não compor os relatórios finais e que não são reconhecidos como produções científicas. Trata-se, então, da visibilidade da dimensão micropolítica do fazer pesquisa e do conhecimento sobre a implantação do Programa, de fragmentos sobre o pesquisar e sobre o próprio Programa Mais Médicos. É com inspiração nas produções brasileiras no campo da Saúde Coletiva, nas proposições de pistas metodológicas da cartografia, na Análise Institucional de Lourau, na narratividade de Benjamin, na Esquizoanálise de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, entre outras obras e autores, buscando disjunções e interfaces entre eles, que esta dissertação constrói seu alicerce teórico. Flanando por Brasília, pelos interiores das salas da universidade e pela imensidão da Floresta Amazônica, as narrativas que compõem esta dissertação foram construídas a partir de quatro cenas-narrativas, que buscam apontar o desvio do majoritário na ciência, descolar a produção de conhecimento de uma subordinação ao cartesiano. As cenas-narrativas tornaram visíveis efeitos do Programa Mais Médicos na produção de cuidado e no cotidiano de trabalho das equipes de saúde, que os indicadores epidemiológicos não conseguiram revelar, bem como dimensões do fazer pesquisa que são apreendidas em ato. / This work is the result of the researcher’s participation in the Observatory-Network of the More Doctors Program (Rede-Observatório do Programa Mais Médicos), whose studies allowed me to encounter more than what the objectives of a project can prescribe. Composed by narratives, this work aims to make visible the knowledge evoked by the research experience which tend not to compose the final reports and which is not recognized as scientific production. It regards, therefore, to the visibility of the micropolitical dimension in research practices and the knowledge about the implementation of the Program, fragments of the act of researching and of the More Doctors Program itself. It is inspired by Brazilian productions in the field of Saúde Coletiva (Public Health), the cartography’s indications of methodological tracks, Lourau’s Institutional Analysis, Benjamin’s narrativity, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s schizoanalysis, among other works and authors, pursuing disjunctions and interfaces between them, that this work builds its theoretical grounds. Wandering through Brasília, the interiors of university rooms or the immensity of the Amazon Forest, these narratives aim to indicate a detour from the majoritary in Science, liberating the production of knowledge from a subordination to the Cartesian.

Esta dissertação é fruto da inserção da pesquisadora na Rede-Observatório do Programa Mais Médicos, cujas pesquisas permitiram conhecer além do que os objetivos de um projeto são capazes de prescrever. Composta por narrativas, esta dissertação tem por objetivo tornar visíveis os conhecimentos evocados pela experiência de pesquisa que tendem a não compor os relatórios finais e que não são reconhecidos como produções científicas. Trata-se, então, da visibilidade da dimensão micropolítica do fazer pesquisa e do conhecimento sobre a implantação do Programa, de fragmentos sobre o pesquisar e sobre o próprio Programa Mais Médicos. É com inspiração nas produções brasileiras no campo da Saúde Coletiva, nas proposições de pistas metodológicas da cartografia, na Análise Institucional de Lourau, na narratividade de Benjamin, na Esquizoanálise de Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari, entre outras obras e autores, buscando disjunções e interfaces entre eles, que esta dissertação constrói seu alicerce teórico. Flanando por Brasília, pelos interiores das salas da universidade e pela imensidão da Floresta Amazônica, as narrativas que compõem esta dissertação foram construídas a partir de quatro cenas-narrativas, que buscam apontar o desvio do majoritário na ciência, descolar a produção de conhecimento de uma subordinação ao cartesiano. As cenas-narrativas tornaram visíveis efeitos do Programa Mais Médicos na produção de cuidado e no cotidiano de trabalho das equipes de saúde, que os indicadores epidemiológicos não conseguiram revelar, bem como dimensões do fazer pesquisa que são apreendidas em ato. / This work is the result of the researcher’s participation in the Observatory-Network of the More Doctors Program (Rede-Observatório do Programa Mais Médicos), whose studies allowed me to encounter more than what the objectives of a project can prescribe. Composed by narratives, this work aims to make visible the knowledge evoked by the research experience which tend not to compose the final reports and which is not recognized as scientific production. It regards, therefore, to the visibility of the micropolitical dimension in research practices and the knowledge about the implementation of the Program, fragments of the act of researching and of the More Doctors Program itself. It is inspired by Brazilian productions in the field of Saúde Coletiva (Public Health), the cartography’s indications of methodological tracks, Lourau’s Institutional Analysis, Benjamin’s narrativity, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s schizoanalysis, among other works and authors, pursuing disjunctions and interfaces between them, that this work builds its theoretical grounds. Wandering through Brasília, the interiors of university rooms or the immensity of the Amazon Forest, these narratives aim to indicate a detour from the majoritary in Science, liberating the production of knowledge from a subordination to the Cartesian.

abstract: This study examines the genesis, practice, and Native experiences of stakeholders with two Arizona kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) statute that mandate instruction of Native American history. The research questions relate to the original intent of the policies, implementation in urban school districts, how Native American parents experienced Native American history in their own education and their aspirations for this type of instruction in their children's education. Lomawaima and McCarty's (2006) safety zone theory was utilized to structure and analyze data. Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies (CIRM) (Brayboy, Gough, Leonard, Roehl, & Solym, 2012; Smith, 2012) was used in this interpretive policy analysis and phenomenological research study. Interviews were conducted with policymakers, a department of education official, urban school district personnel, and Native American parents with children in the pertinent school districts. Data included in-depth interview and legislative committee meeting transcripts, artifacts including bill versions, summaries and fact sheets, school board manuals, and the state social studies standards. The findings indicate that the intent of the statutes was to foster a better understanding among students (and hence, the state's citizenry) leading toward reciprocal government-to-government relationships between tribal nations and non-tribal governments. Teaching sovereignty and self-determination were fundamental. Although the school-based participants had limited knowledge of the policies, the district personnel believed they implemented the mandates because the state social studies standards were utilized to frame instruction. However, the 45 social studies standards related to Native Americans focus on extinct (referred to as historic in the standards) Native societies. The social studies standards ignore contemporary tribal nations and are thus inefficacious in supporting the goal of a better understanding of sovereignty, or in supporting Native American self-determination. The Native parent participants defied stereotypical images; they were involved in their children's educational attainment and were reintroducing cultural and tribal capital. Recommendations include allocating funds to support implementation of the policies at the local school and state levels, establishing culturally responsive curriculum that recognizes and promotes tribal nations and tribal sovereignty, and strengthening relationships between tribal nations, school districts, and the state department of education. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ed.D. Educational Administration and Supervision 2014

Historically, most research on Indigenous peoples has been framed by Western empirical positivism which fundamentally conflicts with Indigenous circular ways of knowing. Current research governing bodies, scholars, and Indigenous communities have generated new theories and guidelines for research structures that support respectful and meaningful practices with Indigenous peoples. Participatory action research (PAR) attempts to address the unequal power structures inherent in research relationships: participants set the agenda for the research and are co-researchers in the project. In this study, I placed PAR theory into action to problematize research practices and to generate new discourses for research within an Indigenous context. The Lil’wat Nation and I collaborated on a PAR project in 2006-2007 that led to the formation of the Lil’wat Girls’ and Women’s Affirmation Group. Through the process of reflection-in-action we identified several opportunities for growth as we examined PAR theory in practice. Using decolonizing research methods and a metaphor of the Lil’wat s7istken (pit house), the model of practice wove between three distinct worlds with divergent protocols and pedagogies: the worlds of the Lil’wat, academia, and the researcher’s racialized lived experiences. This model of practice aimed to disrupt the essentialized dichotomies of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships and to problematize research practices for the academic and research communities to consider for their practice. The findings exposed several lessons at sites of praxis pertaining to the intersection of PAR theory and practice: definition of the community; ethics in the community; racialized researcher space; and PAR incongruence. The model was intended not as a “how to” manual, but as an entry point for discussions to advance respectful decolonizing research practices.