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Making a successful Christian marriage is a major challenge that faces the Seventh Day Adventist church (SDA Church) of Malawi. The colonial government of Nyasaland (Malawi) created weak marriages, promoting high divorce rates by its own practices during its era, which have remained to this day. The failure of secular marriages endangers the success of SDA Christian marriages. Little has been done by the Church to educate its members concerning successful Christian marriage. This study focuses on educating the church to deal with the problems that cause marriage failure in the SDA Church. The Malawi government is another tool that the church could use to address marriage failure. I have used the Bible, and scientific research methods to suggest workable solutions for Christian marriage. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M.Th. (Practical Theology)

Diploma thesis includes information about percentages, mathematical olympiad, mathematical corresponding seminars and PISA ant TIMSS tests. The first, theoretical part describes historical development of mathematical olympiad and its organization, the history of mathematical corresponding seminars and list of current seminars for primary school students. The second part of the diploma thesis consists of the collection of tasks examples with percentages that appear in mathematical olympiad, mathematical corresponding seminars and PISA and TIMSS tests.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-10-20T12:41:14Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) noadia-definitiva.pdf: 2789193 bytes, checksum: 30e39964299371932fc7cb790aa1a744 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-20T12:41:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) noadia-definitiva.pdf: 2789193 bytes, checksum: 30e39964299371932fc7cb790aa1a744 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-25 / CAPES / Este estudo aborda o processo de letramento acadêmico de graduandos da área de Saúde cujo acesso à Universidade Federal de Pernambuco foi favorecido pelo sistema de reserva de vagas, adotado nessa instituição por força da Lei no 12.711/12. Objetivamos investigar como esses sujeitos se engajam em práticas letradas na academia no sentido de assumir identidades sociais relacionadas a tais práticas. A natureza multidisciplinar do tema foi contemplada através de um construto teórico-metodológico transdisciplinar característico de pesquisas em Linguística Aplicada (ROJO, 2006). Assim, recorremos a uma gama de autores para situar histórica e espacialmente nosso objeto, tais como: Pereira (2011), Pinto (2005; 2006), Feres Júnior & Zoninsein (2008), Santos A. (2012), Moehlecke (2004a; 2004b), Arruda & Gomes (2011). Além desses, nos fundamentamos nos conceitos de discurso como a associação entre os modos de usar a linguagem e modos de pensar, valorizar, atuar e interagir em situações socialmente reconhecidas e o de letramento como o controle de um discurso secundário, ambos propostos por Gee (1996; 2001 [1989]; 2006). Nossas análises são também consubstanciadas por resultados de estudos ligados à Perspectiva dos Letramentos Acadêmicos, segundo autores como Barton & Hamilton (2000), Lea & Street (2008), Street (2010), Ivanič (2004; 1998; 1994), Bezerra (2012) Dionísio & Fischer (2010). Em conformidade com tais abordagens, elegemos procedimentos indicadores de uma metodologia qualitativa de pesquisa, mais especificamente, estudos de casos etnográficos (ANDRÉ, 2003). Assim, ganham destaque instrumentos como entrevistas e observação de aulas, priorizando as atividades relativas à participação dos estudantes em seminários acadêmicos que aqui foram compreendidos como eventos de letramento (VIEIRA, 2005; SILVA, M. 2007; MEIRA & SILVA, 2013a, 2013b). Nossos resultados fornecem evidências de efeitos controversos neste primeiro ano de vigor da Lei de Cotas, da existência de identidades sociais relacionadas à forma de ingresso à universidade e da necessidade de alterações no ensino de práticas letradas na academia. / This study addresses the academic literacy‘s process of undergraduate students of Health Area whose access to Federal University of Pernambuco was favored by the quota system adopted in this institution by force of Law 12,711 / 12. We aimed to investigate how they engage in literacy practices in the academy to take up social identities related to such practices. The multidisciplinary nature of the topic was covered through a transdisciplinary theoretical and methodological construct characteristic of Applied Linguistics‘ research (ROJO, 2006). Then, we resort to a range of authors to situate historically and spatially our object, such as: Pereira (2011), Pinto (2005; 2006), Feres Júnior & Zoninsein (2008), Santos A. (2012), Moehlecke (2004a; 2004b), Arruda & Gomes (2011). In addition, we have considered the concepts of discourse as the association between ways of using the language and ways of thinking, value, act and interact in socially recognized situations, and, the literacy as the mastery of or fluent control of a secondary discourse, both proposed by Gee (1996; 2001 [1989]; 2006). Results of studies by Barton & Hamilton (2000), Lea & Street (2008), Street (2010), Ivanič (2004; 1998; 1994), Bezerra (2012) Dionísio & Fischer (2010), related to the Academic Literacies perspective also substantiate our analyzes. According with such approaches, we selected procedures of a qualitative research methodology, more specifically, ethnographic case studies (ANDRÉ, 2003). In this sense, we highlight instruments such as interviews and classroom observation, prioritizing activities related to student participation in academic seminars that have been understood as literacy events (VIEIRA, 2005; SILVA, M. 2007; MEIRA & SILVA, 2013a, 2013b). At once, our results provide evidences of controversial effects in this first year of Quota Law, the existence of social identities related to the form of admission to the university, and, the need for changes in the teaching of academic literacies.

The introduction of new information technology (IT) in an organisation is one way of changing the conditions for how tasks and work processes can be designed and performed, as well as how people in the organisation interact with each other. Today, many Swedish workers rely completely on IT to be able to perform their jobs, while experiencing a combination of continuous and intermittent IT-related changes that affect this ability. The introduction of new or updated IT systems in an organisation is an example of what is referred to as an IT-related change process in this thesis. Because IT has become such an integral part of modern organisations, many change processes in organisations are simultaneously enabled and constrained by the IT systems involved in a change process. In this thesis, I introduce the concept of inertia in sociotechnical systems to analyse IT-related change processes in organisations, and how achieving the goals of these processes is complicated by organisational, social, and physical aspects in addition to technology. The context of this thesis is the Swedish public sector domains of health-care and higher education, and the result of research studies and experiences from four action research projects in these settings. The contribution of this thesis adds to the contributions of the included papers through the definition of inertia in sociotechnical systems and its subsequent application. The thesis shows that the concept of inertia in sociotechnical systems can be used to understand IT-related change processes as changes to the characteristics of a sociotechnical system, and, in the context of organisations, how these processes affect and are affected by an organisation’s characteristics. This is illustrated in the thesis through the application of the concept on examples of IT-related change processes from the included papers and research projects. In addition, the thesis shows that the use of vision seminar methods can benefit Swedish organisations, since new IT is often introduced without clearly defined, expressed, understood, and accepted goals.

This thesis deals with the system of schools in Waldorf and the education of Waldorf kindergarten teachers in the Czech republic. The theoretical part is focused on the personality of Rudolf Steiner and his philosophy, followed by the formation and spread of Waldorf-type schools in the Czech republic. Next, it is focused on the Association of Waldorf schools and the Association of Waldofrn kindergartens, which support the education of Waldorf teachers. An element of the theoretical part is also an analysis of the education of teachers for Waldorf kindergartens. The goal of the practical part is to determine the continuity of each individual grade of education of Waldorf schools in the Czech Republic, and a focus on research, whose goal is to find out the continuity of the individual grades of education of Waldorf schools in the Czech Republic.The next part is dedicated to an analysis of the 'School educational programs' of selected Waldorf kindergartens and their comparison thereafter. Organisation and the content of educational seminars for Waldorf kindergarten teachers and a task 'Association of Waldorf kindergartens in organising educational seminars' is described in the next part. The conclusion of the practical part is based on a survey among teachers of Waldorf kindergarten teachers. The goal...

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