O objetivo deste estudo foi conhecer as percepções sobre justiça social dos adolescentes, de acordo com a Psicologia Crítica e o paradigma da justiça social de Isaac Prilleltensky. Buscou-se verificar também a relação percebida entre as condições de justiça social (pessoal, relacional e coletiva) e o bem-estar, analisar o protagonismo dos adolescentes frente às questões de justiça social e, também, conhecer como os adolescentes relacionam a atual conjuntura sociopolítica e cultural brasileira com os princípios de justiça social. Foram realizados 7 grupos focais, com 46 participantes no total, com idades entre 14 e 17 anos, estudantes do ensino médio de escolas públicas e particulares da rede de ensino da cidade de Lajeado/RS. O roteiro de debate dos grupos focais considerou como questão-chave a percepção dos adolescentes sobre o conceito de justiça social. Os dados coletados foram analisados qualitativamente. Foram identificados indicadores relacionados às categorias: poder, capacidade, oportunidade, classe social, dinheiro, raça, cultura, educação e aparência. Observaram-se a naturalização com relação à cultura sobre questões de preconceito racial e a necessidade de educação em valores humanos através da implantação de políticas governamentais. / The purpose of this study was to understand the adolescents‟ perceptions about social justice based on Critical Psychology and social justice paradigm. In addition, this study sought to investigate the relationship between the perceived conditions of social justice (personal, relational and collective) and well-being. The work also examined the role of adolescents facing issues of social justice and (also to know) how teens relate the current sociopolitical and cultural Brazilian context with the principles of social justice. Seven focus groups were conducted with 46 total participants of both sexes, aged between 14 and 17 years. The adolescents are high school students from public and private schools of teaching network of Lajeado/RS. The script of debate in the focus groups considered as a key issue the adolescents‟ perception about the concept of social justice. The collected data were analyzed qualitatively by the method of analysis of the content. Indicators have been identified related to the categories: power, ability, opportunity, social class, money, race, culture, education, and appearance. It is observed the naturalization of culture on issues of racial prejudice and the need for education in human values through the implementation of government policies.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:17:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sheila de Souza Backx.pdf: 2035447 bytes, checksum: 27eebb0907e89aaa1b22d32fec9ad466 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-28 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work highlights different conceptions of social justice, and its objective is to supply basic tools to make social workers able to place themselves in the contemporary debate about the theme. From one side it is justified due to the denominated social political reconstruction which comes from global context transformations in the end of the 80 s; transformations involving debates about public matters redefinition in the present, and it has a main role in the social political field inserting points related to the State and its relation with civil society as much in deliberation as in social politic execution, interfering in the social protection standard configuration. From the other side the need of inciting this professional category- which takes social justice as their sign to think about the theoretical content given to the expression. The main supported idea is that the social justice expression application conceals the production social relations; despite the importance of Marx contribution to the justice theory widening, his work, certainly, is beyond justice (HELLER, 1998), what means that thinking of distributive or social justice means to be situated strictly in the middle-class society boundaries. The work introduction recuperates general points related to the theme, aspects from the ancient and medieval thought about justice, as well as the justice principles; the objective of this part is to clean the area , denying certain concepts in the common sense field which disturbs even more the discussion understanding about the theme. The rest of the work was structured in three parts which recuperate the great themes supported inside each of these concepts theories, like: the classic and modern liberalism, the denominated equalitarianism, as well as the radical liberalism and the denominated liberal-equalitarianism. It's important to inform that this work has no intention to inscribe in the philosophy history field, but it goes back to the ancients having as main idea the contemporary debate, over all John Rawls contribution. The last part besides summarising the topics that give support to the hypothesis defended, it retakes some points to the Social Work nowadays / O presente trabalho enfoca diferentes concepções de justiça social, objetivando fornecer aos assistentes sociais instrumentos mínimos para situarem-se no debate contemporâneo sobre o tema. Justifica-se, por um lado, pela denominada reestruturação das políticas sociais que decorrem das transformações que se processam a partir do contexto global do final dos anos 80; transformações que implicam em debates sobre a redefinição da esfera pública no mundo atual e, no campo da política social, têm significado central, pois se inserem nas questões relativas ao papel do Estado e sua relação com a sociedade civil, tanto na deliberação como na execução da política social, interferindo na configuração do padrão de proteção social. Por outro, pela necessidade sentida de provocar essa categoria profissional - que faz da justiça social quase que sua marca registrada - a pensar o conteúdo teórico que atribui à expressão. Defende-se, principalmente, que: o uso da expressão justiça social oculta as relações sociais de produção; apesar da importância da contribuição de Marx para o alargamento das teorias da justiça, sua obra, a rigor, se coloca além da justiça (HELLER, 1998), o que significa que pensar em termos de justiça social ou distributiva é situar-se estritamente nos marcos da sociedade burguesa. Na introdução do trabalho recupera-se questões gerais em relação ao tema, aspectos do pensamento antigo e medieval sobre a justiça, bem como os princípios de justiça; o objetivo desta parte é limpar o campo , refutando-se determinadas concepções correntes no âmbito do senso comum que turvam ainda mais a compreensão da discussão sobre o tema. O restante do trabalho foi estruturado em três seções que recuperam as grandes temáticas defendidas dentro de cada uma dessas concepções/teorias, a saber: o liberalismo clássico e moderno, o chamado igualitarismo, bem como o liberalismo radical e o chamado liberal-igualitarismo. Cabe esclarecer que este trabalho não tem a pretensão de se inscrever no campo da história da filosofia , mas remonta aos antigos tendo como fio condutor o debate contemporâneo, sobretudo a contribuição de John Rawls. A última parte - considerações finais além de sumariar o conjunto de questões que sustentam as hipóteses defendidas, retoma algumas implicações para o Serviço Social hoje

The aim of this thesis is mainly to describe a trade union as a legal entity and provide through an empirical approach a closer look at the social reality surrounding a trade union. This thesis also analyses the impact of the social reality on the trade union and, on the contrary, consequences of the trade union behaviour, which can directly influence the social mood. The thesis also examines the current position of the trade union from its rich historical context. That is the main reason, why this thesis contains a very detailed overview of the historical fight for good working conditions in the Czech territory. I personally consider this part as very important, as good working conditions are main indicator of willingness to unionize into a trade or a labour union. The thesis likewise focuses on the description of the current legal regulation of a trade union competence at an employer. It is important for better understanding functionary work, which is not only about collective bargaining. The trade union topic is very actual due to the recent recodification of private law and the emerged issue of new classification model of legal entities. The issue is very often subject to doctrine and judicial decisions (especially in case of a trade union). Generally speaking, we can say that not all subjects...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the state of adult literacy in Tennessee. The field of adult education underwent a transition as the testing procedure and the test changed to correlate with the induction of the Common Core standards in public schools. Adult students face many barriers to overcome to be successful. The research questions posed guided the analysis of demographic data on student who completed the GED prior to the changes. Data were provided from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development database. The demographics and scores included those of adults who had passed the GED test from 2008 through 2013. A series of 2-way chi square analysis were used to examine pass rates using the characteristics of race and ethnicity, gender, and age. A sample of 2,000 was randomly selected from a population of 60,000. The data showed that in the state of Tennessee there are significantly more males than females who pass the test each year. Although all ethnicities are permissible to take the GED, more Caucasians and African Americans take and pass the test in this state. Takers of the GED in the state of Tennessee are to identify their age while completing the exam. The majority of adults taking the GED from 2008 through 2013 were in the age group of 19 to 24. Many test takers only need to attempt to pass the test the first time. Out of 2,000 randomly sampled males and females, the data showed that a higher proportion of males than females pass the test in the first attempt. There was no significant difference between the randomly sampled age groups on number of attempts. The data did indicate that Caucasian testing candidates pass the GED significantly more often on the first try than African American candidates.

This qualitative study addresses teacher perceptions of indigenous peoples representation in United States history. This phenomenological study was conducted within a school district in East Tennessee. For the purpose of this study, teacher perceptions of indigenous representations in history were defined as teacher beliefs towards the inclusion and representation of indigenous peoples in United States history. To gather data, both one-on-one and focus group interviews were conducted from a purposeful sample of United States history teachers from the high schools in the school district. Through an analysis of data derived from interviews and qualitative documents the researcher was able to identify themes such as systemic challenges to multiculturalism within state course standards and textbooks, teachers’ perceived self-efficacy in teaching their students using indigenous perspectives, and the perpetuation of indigenous stereotypes. Furthermore, the qualitative data derived from the study reveals that U.S. history courses in the district perpetuate both the notion of indigenous peoples as historical bystanders and the racial stereotypes of Native Americans. Findings from this study will be useful in evaluating both teacher training and instructional practice in regard to indigenous representations in history.

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With Common Core State Curriculum, surface level comprehension of a text will no longer suffice. Attendees of this session will acquire information about how to use text sets and children's literature to expose students to social justice and globalization and encourage critical thinking about the issues in a text. Several practical strategies will be provided which support social justice education as well as digging deeply into a text and citing evidence. These strategies include: implementing a book pass for multiple exposure to text, taking on multiple perspectives when reading a text, book clubs focused on critical thinking, and moving from a localized to a global perspective.

abstract: Despite the societal importance of activism, the understanding of activist intentions remained limited (Liebert, Leve, & Hu, 2011; Klar & Kasser, 2009). The current study used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to examine two structural models of low-risk activist intentions and high-risk activist intentions (Ajzen, 1991). The traditional TPB model was tested against a hybrid commitment model that also assessed past activist behaviors and activist identity. Participants (N = 383) were recruited through social media, professional list-serves, and word of mouth. Results indicated a good model fit for both the traditional TPB model (CFI = .98; RMSEA = .05; SRMR = .03; χ2(120) = 3760.62, p < .01) and the commitment model (CFI = .97; RMSEA = .05; SRMR = .04; χ2(325) = 7848.07, p < .01). The commitment model accounted for notably more variance in both low-risk activist intentions (78.9% in comparison to 26.5% for the traditional TPB model) and high-risk activist intentions (58.9% in comparison to 11.2% for the traditional TPB model). Despite this, the traditional TPB model was deemed the better model as the higher variance explained in the commitment model was almost entirely due to the inclusion of past low-risk activist behaviors and past high-risk activist behaviors. A post-hoc analysis that incorporated sexual orientation and religious affiliation as covariates into the traditional model also led to a good-fitting model (CFI = .98; RMSEA = .04; SRMR = .04; χ2(127) = 217.18, p < .01) and accounted for increased variance in low-risk activist intentions (29.7%) and high-risk activist intentions (18.7%) compared to the traditional model. The merits of each of the structural models and the practical implications for practice and research were discussed / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Counseling Psychology 2019

abstract: The thesis for this study is that structural racism within the U.S. criminal system causes Black mothers to assume the emotional work of caring for incarcerated sons. This project was designed using an interpretive approach that employed a combination of qualitative and auto-ethnographic methods, drawing on grounded theory principle. Six interviews were conducted with mothers in order to gain in-depth insight into their lived experiences. An auto-ethnographic method was used to analyze the author’s own personal experiences as a family member of the incarcerated in dialogue with the experiences of the broader research population. Studies on the key finding of the psycho-social impacts on mothers with incarcerated sons have explored the relationship between the mental depression of mothers and their son’s incarceration. They have found that financial challenges, dwindling social connections, lousy parenting evaluations, as well as the burden of care of the grandchildren of the incarcerated sons are some of the mediating factors of this relationship. A second key finding also showed that incarceration have had social-economic effects on the prisoner’s families. These families experience extreme financial hardship as a result of incarcerated loved ones. Another finding showed the unique coping strategies for mothers included assuming care taking responsibility, maintaining family relationships, and budget control. Finally, this study found that there are challenges to re-entry experienced by mothers with incarcerated sons when their released. Research findings and original contribution to scholarly knowledge uncovered that Black mothers of the incarcerated in addition to working the Second Shift, are experiencing the phenomena of what is coined to be the “Third Shift.” / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Social Justice and Human Rights 2019