The purpose of this study is to determine the exact power that public school officials may exercise and yet remain within the limits of the law. Associated with this purpose is the effort to show that the legal status of their public school officials is not static.

Previous research suggests that careproviders' attitudes and perceptions significantly influence the type and quality of services received by institutionalized adults with developmental disabilities (IADD). This study explored attitudes careproviders hold concerning training needs of the IADD and their service model orientation. It traced the history of training people with developmental disabilities and provided a brief review of the medical, developmental, and normalization models of service delivery. The conceptual framework upon which this study was based proposed that staff perceptions and orientation concerning service delivery to the IADD can be conceptually related to five factors in a research model. They were identified as: (a) careprovider's characteristics; (b) working environment; (c) previous careprovider experience; (d) developmental disability history within the careprovider's family; and (e) self-reporting of a service delivery orientation. This study examined only a portion of this model (factors a, b, and e). The response sample included 370 professionals and paraprofessionals, aged 17 to 72 years, who were employed at a large residential facility serving individuals with developmental disabilities in Denton, Texas. The respondents were predominantly female (76.5%), Caucasian (72.2%) with slightly less than 75% having more than a high school diploma. The instrument, a self-administered questionnaire, consisted of three parts; Careprovider's Service Model Orientation; Careprovider's Perception of Training Needs; and, Demographic Information. Data were analyzed through the use of regression, chi square, and analysis of variance tests. Findings revealed several significant relationships between: professional status and perceptions of training needs of the IADD; professional status and service model orientation; professional status and reported service model orientation; professional status and attitude toward the medical model; and, professional status and attitude toward the developmental model. Significant relationships were not found for four additional hypotheses that were included the study.

This study assessed the predictive validity of four independent factors (Rotter Locus of Control Scale, Safety Locus of Control, Organizational Attribution Style Questionnaire, and Rosenburg Self-Esteem Scale) in the establishment of a measure of safety consciousness in predicting on-the-job injuries and the filing of workers' compensation claims. A 125-item questionnaire was designed and administered to assess participants' disposition on each of the four psychological dimensions, demographic data and on-the-job injury information.

nÃo hà / Os funcionÃrios nÃo-docentes das escolas pÃblicas do ensino bÃsico, segmento no Ãmbito da categoria dos trabalhadores em educaÃÃo estiveram, durante muito tempo, ausentes das polÃticas de incentivo à qualificaÃÃo profissional. Em 2007, o Programa de FormaÃÃo Inicial em ServiÃo dos Profissionais da EducaÃÃo BÃsica dos Sistemas de Ensino PÃblico (ProfuncionÃrio) foi instituÃdo, como polÃtica de governo, para ofertar cursos tÃcnicos de nÃvel mÃdio aos funcionÃrios escolares que atuam nas escolas pÃblicas municipais e estaduais do Brasil. Este trabalho apresenta, como objeto de investigaÃÃo, a avaliaÃÃo do referido programa, a partir da coordenaÃÃo do Instituto Federal de EducaÃÃo, CiÃncia e Tecnologia do Cearà (IFCE), analisando especificamente o curso TÃcnico em Secretaria Escolar, ofertado no Polo Caucaia, vinculado ao campus QuixadÃ, no estado do CearÃ. A pretensÃo investigativa compreende uma dupla dimensÃo: refletir sobre o processo de implementaÃÃo do ProfuncionÃrio no estado do CearÃ, procurando circunscrever as razÃes de possÃveis tensÃes nesse percurso, com base nas normativas legais e narrativas dos atores envolvidos; analisar repercussÃes nas trajetÃrias profissionais dos funcionÃrios nÃo-docentes atendidos na condiÃÃo de alunos(as) do programa. A escolha do curso e do polo justifica-se pela concentraÃÃo do maior nÃmero de alunos(as) matriculados e formados do referido programa, no estado. O recorte temporal vai do inÃcio do ano de oferta dos cursos pelo IFCE, qual seja, segundo semestre de 2012 atà o primeiro semestre de 2017, ano de previsÃo de conclusÃo das Ãltimas turmas, ofertadas para alunos(as) ingressos em 2015. Esta pesquisa avaliativa foi desenvolvida com inspiraÃÃes em duas matrizes: a avaliaÃÃo em profundidade na proposiÃÃo de LÃa Rodrigues (2008,2011); a formulaÃÃo de Ozanira Silva e Silva (2008), na articulaÃÃo orgÃnica das dimensÃes tÃcnica e polÃtica. Para desenvolver este processo avaliativo do ProfuncionÃrio, no Ãmbito do objeto de estudo, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, a partir da anÃlise das narrativas dos sujeitos envolvidos no programa, sem prescindir das bases quantitativas relacionadas ao perfil socioeconÃmico e o fluxo escolar dos (as) alunos (as), com Ãnfase nas situaÃÃes de conclusÃo e nÃo-conclusÃo dos estudos. O nosso campo empÃrico foi constituÃdo por 258 alunos(as) do curso TÃcnico em Secretaria Escolar do Polo Caucaia, conseguindo desenvolver um estudo especÃfico, via questionÃrio, com 50 alunos(as), e entrevistas semiestruturadas com 12 integrantes. A pesquisa avaliativa foi tambÃm desenvolvida com gestores em nÃvel nacional e local por meio dos seus discursos e percepÃÃes, sobre o processo de implantaÃÃo do programa no paÃs, e em particular, no Cearà considerando os pontos de ajuste e tensÃo desse processo. Do contingente total de alunos(as), cujos dados acadÃmicos foram levantados na pesquisa, 42% dos matriculados evadiram-se. Os principais motivos de tal evasÃo foram, justamente, o deslocamento do aluno(a) ao polo presencial e a dificuldade em conciliar o tempo entre o trabalho e os estudos. A pesquisa avaliativa, na Ãtica dos alunos(as), revela que apesar dos desafios ocorridos e a baixa efetivaÃÃo da ascensÃo profissional e financeira, o programa propiciou uma formaÃÃo significativa sob o ponto de vista da qualificaÃÃo das atividades realizadas no ambiente escolar.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2010. / Title from screen (viewed on May 3, 2010). School of Social Work, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Margaret E. Adamek, Valerie N. Chang, Nancy Chism, Rebecca S. Sloan, Lorraine Blackman, Matthew C. Aalsma. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 216-241).

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Bully victimization takes place within a social context of youths’ parents, peers, teachers, school administrators, and community. Victims often rely on parents, educators, or peers for support. However, there is a gap in the literature in understanding parents’ experiences of what occurs before, during, and after reporting bullying to school officials. Therefore, this dissertation study examined parents’ experiences in discovering, reporting, and living through the aftermath of their child being bullied. This study used a purposeful sample that was criterion-based. Nine mothers and one mother/father pair were tape-recorded using face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Follow-up phone interviews followed. Key themes and patterns were analyzed using the philosophical method of interpretive phenomenology based on Heidegger’s philosophy of being. Exemplars were used to illuminate several themes. Results suggest three unique stages. In the first stage, discovery, parents often noticed psychosocial changes in their child related to bullying. Parents often responded initially by providing advice to their children. When signs of their schoolchildren being bullied persisted, parents decided to report the incidents to school officials. Nine parents reported incomplete interventions that let their youths’ victimization continue. One parent, a paradigm case, shared understandings of how her son’s school official provided a full intervention that was restorative. However, all other parents who received an incomplete intervention found themselves rethinking how to protect their children from bullying. In this aftermath, several parents moved their children out of the school into a new district or began to home school. However, half the parents were left unable to move their child and therefore could not provide protection. Indiana’s anti-bullying law was unknown to eight parents and was unsuccessful in leveraging protection for one parent who used it with school officials as a threat. School official’s responses to bullying were incongruent with student handbook procedures. Recommendations from a parent’s perspective indicate school officials must: 1) have a clear process in place for parents to report, 2) follow through by calling parents back with results from investigating and procedures that will be taken to intervene, and 3) call the bullies’ and victims’ parents to notify what has occurred and what will be done to ensure safety. Discussed are implications for school officials, including social workers, and state policymakers. There is a proposed intervention model (Appendix J) that addresses how parents can respond to school officials who are hesitant to provide bullied youth protection.