Thesis (MEd)--University of Stellenbosch, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Education systems are in a constant change, more so now in the post-modern global era that we live in. With change comes the stressors associated with it. Some of us are able to cope while others are unable. This thesis focuses on the effect of stress on educators who have learners with physical disabilities in their classroom as well as the coping methods used by these educators to manage these learners in the classroom. Participants were five female educators from disadvantaged areas of the Western Cape. A qualitative research approach was taken and the results indicate the following: Major stress experienced by educators is caused by the fact that educators do not know how far to sustain, let alone challenge an active learning environment, because of lack of experience and relevant in-service training relating to learners with physical disabilities. It was found that the nature of the disability and its severity influences the attitudes of the educators in inclusive practice. The absence of communication or rather the lack of information about the learner from the parent and other parties involved caused stress amongst the participants. Participants identified that improving their self-esteem was one of the key coping methods in dealing with stress. It is clear that educators need some form collaborative support to know they are on the right path or in order to progress in the right direction. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Opvoedkundige stelsels is gedurig onderworpe aan verandering, veral tans in die post-modêrne globale era waarin ons leef. Verandering word vergesel deur stressors wat daarmee geassosieer word. Sommige van ons is instaat om hierdie te hanteer en ander nie. Hierdie tesis fokus op die effek van stres op opvoeders wat leerders met fisies gestremde in hul klaskamers het, asook die hanteringsstrategieë wat deur hierdie opvoeders gebruik word om hierdie leerders in die klaskamer te hanteer. Deelnemers was vyf vroulike opvoeders uit agtergeblewe areas in die Wes-Kaap. 'n Kwalitatiewe navorsingsbenadering is gevolg en resultate dui op die volgende. 'n Belangrike stressor wat deur opvoeders ervaar word, is dat hulle nie weet hoe om 'n aktiewe leeromgewing te volhou of uit te daag nie. Dit is die gevolg van 'n tekort aan ondervinding en relevante indiensopleiding aangaande leerders met fisiese gestremdhede. Daar is gevind dat die tipe en graad van gestremdheid die ingesteldheid van die opvoeders in 'n inklusiewe praktyk beïnvloed. Die afwesigheid van kommunikasie of liewer die gebrek aan informasie deur die ouer of ander betrokke partye aangaande die leerder, het stres onder die deelnemers veroorsaak. Deelnemers het die verbetering van hulle eie selfbeeld as 'n belangrike hanteringstategie geïdentifiseer. Dit is duidelik dat opvoeders 'n vorm van samewerking en ondersteuning benodig om te weet of hulle op die korrekte weg is óf om hulle in die regte rigting te stuur.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-10-18T12:04:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Caldas de Azevedo.pdf: 2025107 bytes, checksum: dbf1f69bdaa4229e25c62adbf9f3ffa0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-18T12:04:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Caldas de Azevedo.pdf: 2025107 bytes, checksum: dbf1f69bdaa4229e25c62adbf9f3ffa0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-22 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This doctoral thesis analyses the job conditions of the social workers in the Special Children and Juvenile Courts of Law in the State of São Paulo. The goal of the present thesis is to prove that the workload intensification process has become one of the most decisive and crucial element to be tackled by the social workers class if they want to work fewer hours. Consequently, time and working activities are presented as vital aspects to be examined carefully when dealing with the inherent financial characteristics of the capital used in the productive and service sectors as well as in the restructuring of the public policies and working classes conditions. Within this context, the professional activity in the Court of Law was understood as the job performed itself and the social worker as the employee who performs a paid job and suffers the consequences of the economic conditions and working tendencies of all over the world. The relationship between the Law and the Legal System were objects of this study because they have a strong influence on the performance of the social workers’ daily activities due to the frequent law requisitions resulted from infringement acts which are treated at the Special Children and Juvenile Court of Law every single day. All the data collected for this paper were analysed in terms of their quality and quantity worth. Based on a semi-structured guide, ten social workers from the Court staff were interviewed face to face and asked to answer a written survey. Among the research findings, it was realised that the employees have been working under pressure due to the huge intensification of their workload and harmful working conditions, worsened by the organisational structure, rhythm and pace of the Court of Law, which reaffirm that the private sector entanglements are influencing the state public sector. Furthermore, it was also discovered that new social workers are not being hired because of the workload intensification of the current employees due to the reduction in the number of social workers who leave the job either from removal or retirement. Therefore resilience strategies are being held individually and collectively as well as internally and externally as an effective way to avoid the workload intensification of the social workers. However, it is still a challenge to be faced. In conclusion, this study shows that it is essential for the ones involved in this process to discover innovative legal means to prevent the social workers to be overloaded by work and give them useful tools to fight against capitalist exploitation / Essa tese analisa as condições de trabalho das Assistentes Sociais no Fórum das Varas Especiais da Infância e Juventude do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo, com o objetivo de apreender o seu processo de intensificação nesse espaço sócio-ocupacional, conferindo centralidade à categoria tempo de trabalho como um elemento determinante da luta histórica da classe trabalhadora pela redução da jornada de trabalho. Por isso, tempo e trabalho se apresentaram como dimensões relevantes a serem analisadas, notadamente na atual etapa de financeirização do capital que se refrata no setor produtivo, nos serviços, na reconfiguração das políticas públicas e nas condições de trabalho. Nesse âmbito, o exercício profissional no Tribunal de Justiça foi apreendido como trabalho e o/a assistente social como trabalhador/a assalariado/a, sofrendo as injunções das tendências gerais do mundo do trabalho. As relações entre Direito e Sistema de Justiça foram objeto de tematização por atravessarem e condicionarem o trabalho desenvolvido pelas assistentes sociais, por meio das interfaces com as requisições decorrentes do ato infracional a partir do fluxo de atendimento no Fórum das Varas Especiais da Infância e Juventude. A metodologia da pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa e quantitativa, envolveu a aplicação de questionários e entrevistas, com base em roteiro semiestruturado, com dez Assistentes Sociais que compõem a equipe técnica. Entre os achados da pesquisa constatou-se forte presença da intensificação do trabalho, percebida pela maioria das trabalhadoras por meio das precárias condições de trabalho e também pela própria estrutura do Judiciário em seus ritmos, velocidade e carga de trabalho, que reafirmam os ditames privados adentrando o espaço público-estatal. Identificou-se também a ampliação da jornada de trabalho, ainda mais estimulada pela redução do número de assistentes sociais na equipe técnica do Serviço Social em função do processo de remoção e de aposentadoria, que não têm levado a novas contratações. Estratégias de resistência - individuais e coletivas, internas e externas - são mobilizadas, mas resta o desafio de avançar com novas propostas contra a intensificação do trabalho, por meio de dispositivos no contrato de trabalho que possam vincular previamente o grau de intensidade do trabalho a ser realizado, a depender do fortalecimento das lutas coletivas do trabalho contra o capital

Объектом исследования является субъективное благополучие детей. Предметом исследования являются выявление особенностей субъективного благополучия учителей, работающих с нормотипичными учащимися и учителей, работающих в коррекционных школах с особенными детьми. Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, двух глав, заключения, списка литературы (57 источников) и приложения, включающего в себя бланки применявшихся методик. Объем магистерской диссертации 87 страниц, на которых размещены 8 рисунков и 12 таблиц. Во введении раскрывается актуальность проблемы исследования, разработанность проблематики, ставятся цель и задачи исследования, определяются объект и предмет исследования, формулируются основная и дополнительные гипотезы, указываются методы и эмпирическая база, а также этапы проведения исследования, научная новизна, теоретическая и практическая значимость работы. Первая глава включает в себя обзор иностранной и отечественной литературы по теме субъективное благополучие учителя. Представлены разделы, посвященные исследованию показателей структурных составляющих субъективного благополучия и их взаимосвязей у учителей работающих с нормотипичными и особенными детьми. Выводы по первой главе представляют собой итоги по изучению теоретического материала. Вторая глава посвящена эмпирической части исследования. В ней представлено описание организации и методов проведенного исследования и результатов, полученных по всем использованным методикам: Методике диагностики субъективного благополучия личности Шамионова Р.М. и Бесковой Т.В., шкале (тест-опросник) депрессии Бека А.Т., тест на эмоциональный интеллект Холла Н.. Также в главе представлены результаты описательной статистики, корреляционного и сравнительного анализа исследования. 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, обоснована практическая значимость исследования и описаны возможные перспективы дальнейшей разработки данной проблематики. / The object of the study is the subjective well-being of children. The subject of the study is to identify the features of the subjective well-being of teachers working with normotypic students and teachers working in correctional schools with special children. The master's thesis consists of an introduction, two chapters, a conclusion, a list of references (57 sources) and an appendix, which includes forms of the applied methods. The volume of the master's thesis is 87 pages, which contain 8 figures and 12 tables. The introduction reveals the relevance of the research problem, the development of the problem, sets the goal and objectives of the research, defines the object and subject of the research, formulates the main and additional hypotheses, specifies the methods and empirical base, as well as the stages of the research, scientific novelty, theoretical and practical significance of the work. The first chapter includes a review of foreign and domestic literature on the subject of subjective well-being of the teacher. The sections devoted to the study of indicators of the structural components of subjective well-being and their interrelationships among teachers working with normotypic and special children are presented. The conclusions of the first chapter are the results of the study of the theoretical material. The second chapter is devoted to the empirical part of the study. It describes the organization and methods of the study and the results obtained by all the methods used: Methods of diagnostics of subjective well-being of the individual Shamionova R. M. and Beskova T. V., scale (test-questionnaire) of depression Beck A. T., test for emotional intelligence Hall N., Also in the chapter the results of descriptive statistics, correlation and comparative analysis of the study are presented. The conclusions of chapter 2 include the main results of the empirical study. In conclusion, the results of the theoretical and empirical parts of the work, as well as conclusions on the hypotheses put forward, are summarized, the practical significance of the study is justified and possible prospects for further development of this problem are described. Keywords: subjective well-being, teachers, normotypic children, special children, emotional well-being, ego-well-being, hedonistic, socio-normative well-being, emotional intelligence.

This paper deals with forms of compensatory care of unprovided children, taking in consideration their specific needs from the architecture-type point of view. The target group is that of big foster families, evaluation of their life requirements and defining their requirements of the living space, preparing the ground for legislative introduction of professional foster care.