O presente estudo buscou problematizar as possibilidades de produção de novas formas de educar e de trabalhar em saúde a partir do dispositivo da educação permanente em saúde. A confecção do objeto de investigação originou-se da perspectiva de que o trabalho e a educação em saúde são dispositivos de afirmação-resistência do modo de sujeição capitalista que enuncia quem é um “bom trabalhador” e que determina e legitima os sujeitos que possuem saberes sobre o trabalho. A questão que orientou o estudo foi: como a educação permanente se torna dispositivo estratégico para o trabalho no/do Sistema Único de Saúde? Este estudo foi realizado junto ao Ambulatório Básico, um serviço da rede pública de saúde do Município de Porto Alegre. Os participantes da pesquisa foram as trabalhadoras do ambulatório, as técnicas de enfermagem e a enfermeira. A proposta metodológica deste estudo é orientada pela Pesquisa Intervenção, ancorada na Análise Institucional. Compondo essa metodologia utilizamos a Intervenção Fotográfica que incluiu oficinas de fotografias e de confecção de uma câmera artesanal, Pinlux, e em seguida, a produção de fotografias pelas trabalhadoras. O momento das oficinas reconfiguram a dinâmica das reuniões centradas na chefia e com uma pauta administrativa para o movimento de produção e trocas de saberes. O processo do grupo evidência o (não) lugar do Ambulatório Básico e as fragilidades desse serviço; a tecnologia do trabalho em saúde na tensão com os saberes produzidos pelas técnicas de enfermagem no fazer do seu trabalho; e a gestão dos espaços, das tecnologias do trabalho em saúde e dos saberes produzidos no cotidiano. A partir desse estudo, vislumbramos a educação permanente em saúde tensionada pela formação permanente em saúde que evoca os saberes do trabalhados acerca da atividade e gestão dos micro espaços do trabalho. / This study sought to problematize the production possibilities of new ways of educating and working in health through the health‟s permanent education device. The confection of the investigation‟s object originated from the perspective that health work and education are affirmation-resistance devices of the capitalist subjugation mode, which tells who is a “good worker” and determines and legitimates they who own knowledge over work. The study‟s guiding question was: how permanent education becomes a strategic device for the work on/of the Sistema Único de Saúde, problematized from the Basic Ambulatory Unit staff‟s experience? This study was done with the Basic Ambulatory Unit, more specifically, area eight, a public health service from the city of Porto Alegre. The research‟s participant people were this Unit‟s workers, the Infirmary Technicians and the Nurse. Interventional research, based in Institutional Analysis, orients this study‟s methodological proposal. Compounding this methodology, we utilized the Photographic Intervention, which included photography and a camera confection workshops, Pinlux, and afterwards, the production of photographs by the workers. The workshop‟s moment reconfigures the dynamic of the meetings centered on the leaders and with administrative subject for the idea of production and knowledge exchanges. The group‟s process shines a light on the (non) role of the Basic Ambulatory Unit and the fragilities of this service; the labor‟s technology in health against the knowledge generated by the Infirmary Technicians through their work; and the management of the spaces, the labor‟s technology in health and the knowledge produced every day. Through this study, we glimpse the permanent education in health tensioned by the permanent formation in health that evokes the work‟s knowledge around the activity and management of the work‟s micro-spaces.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Alex Mendes - 2013.pdf: 3755532 bytes, checksum: 3da91991edc340fb3f778e23d3aed862 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-11-18 / This research work aims on subjectification practises presents on literature read by teachers under the process of professional education to work with deaf students in basic education in public schools. Since middle 90‟s of twentieth century in Brazil, efforts are made to maintain deaf students in regular schools. This action presupposes prepared teachers to take care and teach people who historically were apart from the school, starting from getting knowledge about characteristics and specifications about how these students learn. At this point, this research analysis begins when it takes as corpus some pedagogic literature works that aims to explain to the teacher under formation facts about deafness, starting with political and pedagogical aims that are diverse and even dissonant. The work begins with a historical approach about Inclusive Education, its definition and pedagogical/theoretical basis until it gets to the educational laws that authorise the existence of an educational modality oriented to a group that has specific characteristics of learning. Starting from this, the work goes to analysis of Foucault‟s archaeology that unravels by its categories of comprehension of enunciative function, the basic organization of discursive practises, its objects, modalities and the relations with the possible subjects that are authorized to discourse about deafness and the kind of subjects this kind of sayings intend to form. At this point, the research corpus is referred to know how these theories are worth to the analysis process. The next step, the analysis goes on the process of subjectification, spreading to the corpus the discussion of Foucault about discourse and its interdicts, the genealogy of power and the formation of subjectivities. The analysis also occupies itself with the notion of identity in nowadays, in according to the philosophical and sociological approach of Hall and under the concepts of life, politics and liquid modernity of Bauman. Finally, there is a specific analysis of subjectification practises that are possible to highlight from the anterior approaches, to demonstrate the production of educational professional subjects that have a certain notion of identity. / Este trabalho de pesquisa objetiva investigar as práticas de subjetivação presentes na literatura utilizada na formação de professores para trabalhar com alunos surdos na Educação Básica pública. Desde os meados da década de 1990 do século XX, no Brasil, esforços vêm sendo realizados para que surdos possam se incluir na escola regular, ação que pressupõe a preparação dos professores para cuidar ensinar uma clientela historicamente apartada da escola, a partir do conhecimento sobre as características e especificidades de aprendizagem desses alunos. Nesse ponto é que a análise desse trabalho se inicia ao tomar como corpus obras de literatura pedagógica que buscam explicar ao professor em formação fatos sobre a surdez, a partir de objetivos políticos e pedagógicos diversos e até mesmo divergentes. A começar pela abordagem histórica a respeito da Educação Inclusiva, a sua definição e embasamento teórico/pedagógico até a legislação educacional que autoriza a existência de uma modalidade educacional voltada para um grupo que possui características específicas de aprendizagem. O trabalho passa à discussão da arqueologia foucaultiana, que desvenda, a partir de suas categorias de compreensão da função enunciativa, a organização básica das práticas discursivas, seus objetos, modalidades e as relações com os possíveis sujeitos que são autorizados a dizer sobre a surdez e os tipos de sujeito que esses ditos pretendem formar. Nesse ínterim, o corpus da pesquisa é referenciado para que se possa saber qual o valor, a utilidade dessas teorias na construção da análise. Em seguida, a o trabalho prossegue sobre os processos de subjetivação, estendendo ao corpus a discussão de Foucault a respeito do discurso e suas interdições, a genealogia do poder e a formação das subjetividades; a noção de identidade no momento atual, segundo a abordagem filosófica e sociológica de Hall e nas abordagens sobre vida, política e modernidade líquida de Bauman. Por fim, há uma análise específica das práticas de subjetivação possíveis de se ressaltar a partir das abordagens anteriores, para que se demonstre a produção de sujeitos profissionais da educação que tenham uma determinada noção de identidade.

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E que esse processo estaria vinculado à emergência de possíveis padrões construcionais (TRAUGOTT, 2003, 2008, 2009). A fim de comprovar tais hipóteses, realizamos também um levantamento diacrônico, o qual buscou comprovar, com maior propriedade, quais usos seriam anteriores e [- (inter)subjetivos]. Os dados sincrônicos recobrem tanto a modalidade oral quanto a modalidade escrita da língua. Os dados orais foram coletados em três corpora distintos, a saber: o corpus do “Projeto Mineirês: a construção de um dialeto”, o corpus do projeto “PEUL - Programa de Estudos sobre o Uso da Língua” e o corpus do projeto “NURC/RJ - Projeto da Norma Urbana Oral Culta do Rio de Janeiro”. Já os corpora sincrônicos escritos foram compostos por textos disponíveis na Internet, retirados de blogs e de revistas de grande circulação nacional (“Revista Veja”, “Revista Isto é”, “Revista Época”, “Revista Caras”, “Revista Cláudia” e “Revista Ana Maria”). Os dados diacrônicos, por sua vez, foram selecionados do corpus do projeto “CIPM – Corpus Informatizado do Português Medieval” – e do corpus do projeto “Tycho Brahe”. Na análise dos dados, descrevemos pontualmente os diferentes usos do verbo “esperar”, bem como seus possíveis padrões construcionais. Além disso, consideramos a distribuição e a frequência de uso do verbo “esperar”, uma vez que assumimos que o levantamento da frequência pode atuar como um subsídio relevante na definição de processos de gramaticalização (BYBEE, 2003). Os resultados apontam que o verbo “esperar”, na língua portuguesa, partiu da acepção inicial e [- subjetiva] de “aguardar do tempo” e desenvolveu os usos [+subjetivos] de “volição” e “ter expectativa/contraexpectativa”. Nesse processo, o verbo “esperar” deixa de atualizar a noção aspectual de duratividade, que caracteriza sua acepção inicial. Atuando como volitivo, “esperar” se configura como um verbo modal, passando a projetar o futuro e, por sua vez, ao manifestar as expectativas (ou não) do falante, passa a indicar suas crenças no campo da hipótese. O verbo “esperar”, conforme verificamos, também figura em outras construções, como a construção “espera aí/peraí”, a qual, dentre as diferentes funções que pode exercer, se apresenta como marcador discursivo, revelando um uso [+ intersubjetivo] do verbo. / The present work describes the synchronic and diachronic uses of the verb “esperar” in the Portuguese language, by assuming the hypothesis that the new grammaticalized uses would reveal an increasing way of (inter)subjectification (FINEGAN, 1995; TRAUGOTT, 1995; TRAUGOTT & DASHER 2005; DAVIDSE, VANDELANOTTE & CUYCKENS, 2010). And it also assumes that this process would be related to the emergence of possible constructional patterns (TRAUGOTT, 2003, 2008, 2009). In order to prove these hypotheses, we also accomplished a diachronic survey that tried to demonstrate, more appropriately, which uses would be earlier and [- (inter)subjective]. The synchronic data cover both the oral and written modalities. The oral data have been collected in three different corpora: the corpus of the “Projeto Mineirês: a construção de um dialeto”, the corpus of “PEUL - Programa de Estudos sobre o Uso da Língua” and the corpus of “NURC/RJ - Projeto da Norma Urbana Oral Culta do Rio de Janeiro”. The diachronic corpora were composed of written texts available on Internet, taken from blogs and magazines of wide national circulation (“Veja”, “Isto É”, “Época”, “Caras”, “Cláudia” e “Ana Maria”). The diachronic data, in its turn, were selected from the corpus of “CIPM – Corpus Informatizado do Português Medieval” and the corpus of “Tycho Brahe” project. In data analysis, we described the different uses of the verb “esperar”, as well as its possible constructional patterns. Moreover, we considered the distribution and use frequency of the verb “esperar”, since we assume that frequency can be an important tool to define processes of grammaticalization (BYBEE, 2003).The results indicate that the verb “esperar”, in the Portuguese language, came from the earlier and [- subjective] meaning of "waiting time" and developed the [+ subjective] uses of "volition" and "have expectations/counterexpectations”. In this process, the verb “esperar” restricts the durative aspect, which characterizes its original meaning. As a volitive verb, “esperar” acts as a modal verb, expressing an idea of future and, in its turn, when it presents the notion of expectation/counterexpectation, it indicates speaker’s hypothetical beliefs. As we could verify, the verb “esperar” can also appear in other constructions, such as the construction “espera aí/peraí”, which, among different functions, is presented as a discourse marker, revealing an [+ intersubjective] use of the verb.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present research presents the subjectification processes which arise from the self-biographic narrative of a visual arts teacher. Based on Hernández and Rifà (2011)‟s referential, I have tried not to talk about me‟ but to talk from myself‟ in order to produce narratives which involve incompleteness and a provisory nature, because they are always open to new connections, perceptions and inventions. Thus, the narratives that constitute the research are not understood as visual arts teachers‟ descriptions with a confession nature or with the intention of clarifying who we really are in relation to teaching. It is not about discovering, apprehending the totality, but it is about gathering what we have already heard, read, and said about this context, aiming at keeping making ourselves‟. The authors Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari and Rolnik led me through a distant way of the idea of universal features in human existence, by pointing to a constant production of the profession, full of fixed lines and representational in several moments, but that also consists of unstable lines and is open to new courses. / Esta pesquisa apresenta os processos de subjetivação que emergem da narrativa autobiográfica de uma professora de artes visuais. A partir do referencial de Hernández e Rifà (2011), experimentei falar não de mim, mas a partir de mim, de modo a produzir narrativas que compreendem a incompletude e o caráter provisório, pois estão sempre abertas a novas conexões, percepções e invenções. Desta forma, as narrativas que constituem a pesquisa não são entendidas como descrições dos professores de artes visuais, com um caráter de confissão ou com a intenção de esclarecer quem realmente somos na docência. Trata-se não de descobrir, apreender a totalidade, mas de reunir o que já ouvimos, lemos e dissemos sobre este contexto no intuito de seguirmos nos fazendo. Os autores Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari e Rolnik impulsionaram-me para um caminho distante da ideia de características universais na existência humana, apontando para uma produção constante da profissão, abarrotada de linhas fixas, e em muitos momentos representacionais, mas que também se compõe com linhas inconstantes e abertas a novos percursos.

I denna undersökning tittar jag närmre på arbetet med självporträtt i skolan, en återkommandeuppgift i alla åldrar, som upprepas efter givna mönster. Det kan uppstå känsliga situationer i arbetetmed självporträtt och i uppvisandet av dem under redovisningar. Kanske för att utövandet avsjälvporträtt innehåller ett specifikt moment då man måste förhålla sig till sig själv som objekt ochsubjekt/konstnär och modell - på en och samma gång. Självporträtts-uppgifter i skolan är ofta starktkopplade till identitet då porträttet förväntas berätta något om en själv. Jag förhåller mig i dettaarbete till subjektet och till lärandet som någonting rörligt och utgår från Gert Biestas teorier omsubjektifiering. På så vis förskjuter jag diskursen kring identitet till diskursen kring subjektetstillblivelse. Min frågeställning har varit: Vilka dolda kunskaper kan uppstå i tecknandet avsjälvporträtt och varför uppstår de?, samt; Vad händer i tecknande-processen då den somtecknar är både subjekt och objekt? Hur påverkar det subjektets tillblivelse?För att söka svar på min frågeställning gör jag fältstudier hos en sjundeklass på en skola iStockholm under deras arbete med en självporträttsuppgift som heter Insida-utsida. Min empiribestår i transkriberat material från en intervju med elevernas lärare, fältanteckningar från deltagandeobservation i klassrummet och material från en workshop som jag själv höll med några av eleverna.Som avstamp till min undersökning har jag utgått från en auto-etnografisk studie, i vilken jag underfyra veckors tid tecknade ett självporträtt om dagen och simultant antecknade tankar som for genommitt huvud. Detta för att få förståelse för vad eleven kan uppleva i sin process.På Konstfacks utställning, som detta år är digital på grund av Covid- 19, gör jag en slutliggestaltning i form av ett filmat performance inspirerat av citat från eleverna som uppkom underderas arbete med självporträtt. Även delar av min auto-etnografiska undersökning och elevexempelfrån workshopen visas. Jag använder mig av ett a/r/togrfiskt förhållningssätt och skiftar självsubjektposition mellan konstnär, forskare och lärare för att se vad som uppkommer i mellanrummenmellan dessa positioner. Genom att undersöka självporträtt i skolan ur ovan nämnda teorier ochperspektiv ämnar jag bidra med nya sätt att se på uppgiften.

Cette thèse étudie les formes de subjectivation produites au cours des parcours de soins de femmes enceintes primo-arrivantes – étrangères arrivées depuis moins de cinq ans sur le territoire français. L’enquête de terrain s’appuie sur des observations au sein de structures de soins à Paris et en Seine-Saint-Denis, ainsi que sur une soixantaine d’entretiens semi-directifs menés avec des professionnelles de la périnatalité et des femmes primo-arrivantes enceintes ou ayant accouché récemment en Île-de-France. À partir de ce travail ethnographique, la thèse analyse de manière intersectionnelle les effets subjectivants de l’entrée dans des dispositifs médico-sociaux dédiés aux femmes enceintes primo-arrivantes. Alors que dans un premier temps, l’annonce de la grossesse fragilise les conditions de vie de ces sujets déjà exclus en France, les femmes primo-arrivantes acquièrent en revanche une légitimité auprès des institutions médicales du fait de leur grossesse. Identifiées comme public à risque prioritaire par les politiques de santé publique, ces femmes sont orientées vers des prises en charge spécifiques, qui participent à les reconnaitre en tant que sujets. La thèse interroge les effets réifiants de cette reconnaissance : reconnues uniquement grâce à leur corps enceint, ces femmes connaissent une forme d’assignation racialisée à la maternité. Dans ce contexte, les femmes enceintes primo-arrivantes peuvent en venir à mobiliser leur corps enceint comme ressource pour limiter les effets de la domination. En définitive, la thèse donne à voir les mécanismes d’altérisation ethno-raciale opérés par les professionnelles de santé et les pratiques de résistance des usagères au sein des dispositifs dédiés. / This thesis studies subjectification’ process produced during the care path of pregnant newly arrived immigrants – foreigners who arrived for less than five years in France. The field study is based on observations in health care structures in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis, and sixty semi-directive interviews with perinatal health professionals and newly arrived immigrant women, pregnant or who have just given birth, in Île-de-France. From this ethnographic study, the thesis analyses, with an intersectional perspective, the entrance in perinatal dedicated health structures and their effects on newly arrived immigrants’ subjectivities. At first, the announcement of pregnancy can degrade their living conditions in a context where they are excluded in France. However, they acquire a legitimacy with health care institutions because of their pregnancy. Targeted as public at risk by the perinatal public policies, these women are guided into dedicated healthcare facilities, which recognize them as subjects. The thesis interrogates the reifying effects of this type of recognition. The newly arrived immigrant women are recognized only through their pregnancy; they experience a racialized assignment to maternity. They develop incorporated strategies to counter mechanisms of domination, by using their pregnant body as a resource. Finally, the thesis analyses racialization mechanisms inside the health care structures and users’ practices of resistance.

This study is written in the light of the ongoing debate in Sweden about the school's purpose, and the political will to enhance the schools focus on factual and subject knowledge. This study aims to explain how this purpose can be read in today's syllabus for the civics subject for school years 4-6. It also intends to explain how this purpose has developed since 1980. This is done by using an ideal type analysis together with professor Gert Biestas theoretical framework, where he distinguishes three functions of education; qualification, socialisation, and subjectification. Qualification refers to the educational purpose to mediate knowledge in preparation for a future working life, socialisation to integrate the pupils into existing cultural-, social- or political orders and subjectification about promoting the pupils autonomy. The results show that today's syllabus for the civics subject is primarily focussed on the qualification function, while the socialisation- and subjectification functions are less apparent. Further, it shows that the syllabuses for the civics subject have developed since 1980. From a syllabus mediating qualification and socialisation equally, to today's focus on qualification. The analysis also shows that in some cases there are conflicts between the functions. These conflicts have however decreased in the syllabuses since 1980.

In a third space, the boundaries between educational contexts and school disciplines are blurred to look at content from multiple perspectives. Out-of-school organisations, like museums, can offer educational resources that launch a museum-school partnership into a third space. This thesis describes the conceptualisation and validation of such a third space. An interdisciplinary museum programme that supports the cooperation between museum educators and teachers to encourage students in an art-based exploration of science issues is presented. A systematic comparison of the museum programme with the established Framework for Museum Practice resulted in applicable design recommendations for informal educators and schools that strive for a third space. Within an art-based science teaching strategy, this thesis additionally analysed students’ transformative aesthetic experiences and what role imagination plays in those. A newly developed visual analysis indicates how the museum programme offers students opportunities to look at complex aspects of the world depicted by contemporary art and to discern and value their intricacy. The results show how the interdisciplinary approach to science issues allows links between the conceptual and the emotional. By using their own eyes and each other’s company, students observe and create science-related art, expanding their knowledge, perceptions, values, and feelings. It is the imagination that drives cognitive operations, enabling students to envision other perspectives while at the same time considering their own subjectivity. With the conceptualisation of a third space, this thesis coins a suggestion to put the purpose of ‘subjectification’ into science education practice. In addition, it strengthens the position of Arts (A) in Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education by indicating the benefits of combining the cognitive with the affective and using the hands in conjunction with the head. / Students can discover the complexities of images, objects, and aspects of the world with their powerful eyes. With their imaginative minds, they can envision diverse perspectives while at the same time considering their own subjectivity. This thesis shows that by using their eyes and imagination in an art-based exploration of science issues, students can expand their knowledge, perceptions, values, and feelings. The presented art-based teaching approach is enveloped by an interdisciplinary museum programme that allows links between the conceptual and the emotional. Its design is conceptualised in this thesis as a third space, crossing boundaries between educational contexts and school disciplines. Guidelines are offered to support museum-school partnerships and an instructional design that builds on the framework of transformative aesthetic experiences. In addition, embodied and intuitive aspects of the imagination in conjunction with rationality about science issues, direct a discussion about the purpose of ‘subjectification’ in science education.

The aim of this study is to explore how young people are influenced by the work society, what the subjectification process looks like and how the subject position affects their experience of them self and their agency. Moreover, this study has a discourse analytical approach as well as a critical approach to work and work society. We conducted semi-structured interviews with five youths between 18 and 24 years old. Thematic analysis and Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach have been used to analyze the data, which resulted in five themes. The themes represent different aspects of how young people form themselves as subjects of value and labour in the work society. The main findings are that there is a fear of failure included in the subject position, as well as a perceived need to work on yourself to achieve the goals that are formulated through the current neoliberal discourse of modern work society. Thus, in the modern labour market, young people must cultivate themselves as subjects of labour.

As the title of this essay suggests, Paul Auster’s 2003 novel Oracle Night is studied with regard to what is here considered to be a search for a way out of estrangement. This search, as narrated from the point of view of the protagonist, is followed by a certain recognition of the limits of human existence – which may be essentially meaningless but is nevertheless portrayed as an intentional state of being, not least through the act of writing as a means of subjectification. Thus, the novel is read with a special focus on the thematic representation of writing and human subjectivity. These overarching themes may be approached with reference to two different philosophies or theoretical positions – postmodernism and existentialism. The purpose of the essay is to study the extent to which Oracle Night may be understood in terms of an existentialist (reconstructive) critique of, or challenge to, a postmodernist (deconstructive) perspective. In order to follow this line of inquiry, the analytic method rests on narrative thematics. This kind of narratological study answers the question what Auster’s novel is about and in what ways the theoretical perspectives in question are expressed in the novel. Thematic motifs are examined within the frame of a six-step model of narrative units. These units are based on Carsten Springer’s (2001) elaboration on the theme of identity crisis in Auster’s fiction and made it possible to put different motifs into a context and convey the point of view of the text in a systematic way.