abstract: This mixed methods classroom research examined if accountability groups in the lower proficiency levels of a university intensive English program would improve students’ language acquisition. Students were assigned partners for the study period with whom they completed assignments inside and outside of class, as well as set goals for use of language in their own context. Based in the ecological perspective and socio- cultural theory, activities reinforced social bonds, scaffolded the learning objectives in a communicative way, modeled the transfer of knowledge to the world outside the classroom, and allowed students to create new affordances in which to practice and use the language. Analysis of qualitative data from interviews, text messages, exit slips, and field notes, as well as quantitative data from student academic records, pre and post tests of curricular objectives, and pre and post attitudinal surveys, showed that students were developing a stronger sense of autonomy in their language learning. They viewed their peers and themselves as knowledgeable others, helping one another to learn vocabulary and structures in each student’s zone of proximal development. Learner engagement in the treatment groups, as measured by classroom attendance, increased over a control group, as did overall grade averages in all courses. Students with no previous time in the program showed more improvement than those who had been in the program for at least one session prior. Students also showed increased fluency, as measured by the word count on a constructive task in the pre- and post-test of curricular objectives. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2017

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-08Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:51:35Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 soler_mna_me_bauru.pdf: 2469933 bytes, checksum: c1d0ab4db8a69cd526c510ea9b3fcc0e (MD5) / Os meios de comunicação em geral, e a televisão em particular, têm sido objeto de muitos trabalhos acadêmicos. O telejornal comunitário, um fenômeno muito difundido, ainda tem sido pouco estudado. Embora se possa considerar que há uma influência forte da TV Regional sobre comportamentos e opiniões dos telespectadores, essa perspectiva teórica supõe que o vetor de influência opera num único sentido, mídia- comunidade, pressupondo um comportamento apático da sociedade civil ante as mensagens do noticiário regional. Deixa de perceber, assim, que movimentos em direção contrária também acontecem: a comunidade também pauta a TV Regional. O modo pelo qual se dá a transmissão de informação entre TV e comunidade, e a forma como a pauta prioriza os temas, não estão bem elucidados. É preciso, pois, um estudo dessa relação, sobretudo do modo pelo qual a comunidade influencia a agenda do telejornalismo. Escolhi para análise o telejornal Tem Notícias, Primeira Edição, veiculado em São José do Rio Preto, pela rede TV Tem. Utilizarei a hipótese do Agenda-Setting, proposta originalmente por McComs e Shaw em 1972, e aprofundada por outros pesquisadores, como Mauro Wolf, Clóvis de Barros, Nelson Traquina e Antônio Hohlfeldt. Por meio deste estudo de caso, procurarei verificar a hipótese de que a TV, ao menos em seu formato comunitário em São José do Rio Preto, é tão pautada quanto pauta a opinião pública. / Media and television has been subject of a large set of scholarship. Despite of that, the communitarian broadcast, a very spread phenomenon, received until now little attention of students in the field. Although the regional TV has a strong influence over assistance s behavior and opinions, this way of thinking supposes that influence goes just one way out - media-community. In doing that, it supposes a passive consume of news by civil society and do not see that the movement also goes in the other way around: community also makes the regional TV's agenda. The relationship between TV and community in the process of setting agendas, as well as the hierarchy of subjects included, has not been very explained. Hence, a study of this topic is necessary, mainly about the community's influence over regional news programmingþ agenda. My case study will focus on the regional news Tem Notícias, Primeira Edição, from TV Tem of São José do Rio Preto. It will be investigated taking as point of view the ideas of Agenda-Settingþs theoreticians, such as McComs and Shaw, the pioneers in this field, Mauro Wolf, Clóvis de Barros, Nelson Traquina and Antônio Hohlfeldt. I will try to check the hypothesis that the communitarian TV, in this case, works in both ways: it helps to make the public opinion agendas as well as it is influenced by it.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T12:45:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000478767-Texto+Completo-0.pdf: 1426453 bytes, checksum: d940c5c3a877e2e5157a4b1ed02c8a62 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / This study aims to carry out an analysis of fear and how it can influence society from a media coverage of social facts which most affect citizens, the news that more thrill. It proposes an analysis of fear from individual and collective points of view, trying to narrow a conceptualization of this emotion, inherent to all men, relating the process of thinking as a binary matter of emotion-reasoning. A relationship between risk and violence, this qualified as what society understands as crime, carried out to determine the beacons of what is feared, the risk of crime and, in consequence, the indiscriminate search for security. Thus, it presents criminal law as the rescue mechanism to achieve this desired security, safety above all things and needs, with the background of a fear that numbs the search for other solutions. The media issue is addressed from the theory of agenda-setting, also by analyzing a sensationalist journalism prism, which influences the entire construction of a culture and a society. / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo realizar uma análise sobre o medo e sua influencia na sociedade a partir do fenômeno da midiatização de fatos sociais que mais afetam os cidadãos, as notícias que mais nos emocionam. Assim, é realizado um estudo sobre o medo do ponto de vista individual e coletivo, tentando-se restringir uma conceituação desta emoção inerente a todos os homens, relacionando o processo de pensamento como uma questão binária de emoção-razão. Ainda, é proposta uma relação entre risco e violência, esta qualificada como aquilo que a sociedade entende como crime, realizada para determinar as balizas daquilo que se teme, o risco do crime e, em decorrência disto, a busca indiscriminada por segurança. Do mesmo modo, também se trabalha o direito penal como o mecanismo de socorro para alcançar essa segurança pretendida, uma segurança acima de todas as coisas e necessidades, tendo como plano de fundo um medo que entorpece a busca de outras soluções. A questão midiática é abordada a partir da teoria da agenda-setting, também se analisando por um prisma de jornalismo sensacionalista, que influenciam toda a construção de uma cultura e de uma sociedade.

Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-07T18:46:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000390080-Texto+Completo-0.pdf: 12875992 bytes, checksum: bc980660acd72e0401bb159ad554b831 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / The goal of this study is to know the Press and Judiciary understanding about the limits on freedom of speech, based mainly on the judicial decision of “Editora Revisão Case”. The purpose was to perceive, through the interlocution between the two powers responsible for the social access to information, the adopted perspectives about the limits of freedom of speech. The research question is constituted by the identification of similarities and differences of those two areas in relation to the subject, as well as the discussion of relevant topics in Communication and Law. This study followed the qualitative methodology, acting in a systemic view, aiming to contribute, through empirical evidences, with knowledge to deepen the understanding on information rights guarantees and the means to enable them: the Journalism. The development of the study was supported by Laurence Bardin (2004) for its content analysis. The theoretical background on Communication is supported the Communication Research studies and their imbrications, in Theory of the School of Chicago, and in the agenda setting hypothesis, formulated by Maxwell McCombs (1972), which is presented by Clóvis de Barros (1995), Nelson Traquina (2001) e Antonio Hohlfeldt (2001). It was also verified the changes on the freedom of speech concept and its variables in time and space, through a historical view, from classics of free expression to up-to-date studies of the constitutionality of information’s right, based on John Milton (1644, 1999), Stuart Mill (1859, 1978), Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (1977, 1980), Freitas Nobre (1968, 1998), Darcy Arruda Miranda (1994), Alberto André (2000), José Marques de Melo (1973, 2004) and Norberto Bobbio (1999, 2002, 2003).The understanding of the Judiciary – in all its processional instances – was based upon Revista de Jurisprudência published by the Law Court of Rio Grande do Sul, in a special edition about the case. The resultant interferences of the content analysis by judicial decision - interpreted by Freitas Nobre’s (1998), Alberto André’s (2000), Nilson Lage (2001) and Nelson Traquina’s (2001) studies – enable the understanding of certain articulations and influences, as well as the awareness of the limits of Freedom of Speech in “Editora Revisão Case”, which is considered paradigmatic by both academic fields cited previously. / Este estudo tem como objetivo conhecer a compreensão da Imprensa e do Poder Judiciário sobre os limites da liberdade de expressão, tomando por base a Decisão Judicial sobre o “Caso Editora Revisão”. A finalidade foi perceber, através da interlocução entre os dois poderes responsáveis pelo acesso social à informação, as perspectivas adotadas sobre os limites à livre expressão. Constituiu-se questão de pesquisa a identificação das semelhanças e divergências das duas áreas em relação ao tema, bem como a discussão de temáticas relevantes na Comunicação e no Direito. O trabalho seguiu a metodologia de investigação qualitativa, operando com uma visão sistêmica, buscando contribuir, através das evidências empíricas, com conhecimentos para o aprofundamento da compreensão sobre as garantias do direito à informação e o meio que viabiliza esse direito, o Jornalismo. O desenvolvimento do trabalho apoiou-se em Laurence Bardin (2004) para análise de conteúdo. O embasamento da Comunicação está alicerçado nos estudos norte-americanos da Comunicação e seus desdobramentos, na teoria da Escola de Chicago, e na hipótese de agendamento, formulada por Maxwell McCombs (1972), apresentada nas leituras de Clóvis de Barros (1995), de Nelson Traquina (2001) e de Antonio Hohlfeldt (2001).Verificou-se, também, as transformações do conceito da liberdade de expressão e suas variáveis no tempo e no espaço, através de uma revisão histórica a partir dos clássicos da livre expressão até os estudos atuais sobre a constitucionalização do direito à informação, com base em John Milton (1644,1999), Stuart Mill (1859, 1978), Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (1977, 1980), Freitas Nobre (1968, 1998), Darcy Arruda Miranda (1994), Alberto André (2000), José Marques de Melo (1973, 2003a, 2003b) e Norberto Bobbio (1999, 2002, 2003). O entendimento do Poder Judiciário ─ em todas as instâncias processuais ─ fundamentou-se na Revista de Jurisprudência, publicada pelo Tribunal de Justiça do Rio Grande do Sul, em edição especial sobre o caso, em 2004. As interferências resultantes da análise de conteúdo da Decisão Judicial ─ interpretadas com base nos estudos de Freitas Nobre (1998), de Alberto André (2000), de Nilson Lage (2001) e de Nelson Traquina (2001) ─ possibilitaram o entendimento das articulações e influências, bem como a compreensão dos limites da liberdade de expressão na Decisão Judicial sobre o “Caso Editora Revisão”, considerado paradigmático para as duas áreas de pesquisa.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação Processos de Desenvolvimento Humano e Saúde, 2009. / Submitted by Thaíza da Silva Santos (thaiza28@hotmail.com) on 2010-03-07T16:23:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_FredericoFlosculoPinheiroBarreto_reduzida.pdf: 2216219 bytes, checksum: b16d4f342b3941e0bd3fe5dfcc673e53 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Carolina Campos(carolinacamposmaia@gmail.com) on 2010-03-09T14:23:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_FredericoFlosculoPinheiroBarreto_reduzida.pdf: 2216219 bytes, checksum: b16d4f342b3941e0bd3fe5dfcc673e53 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2010-03-09T14:23:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_FredericoFlosculoPinheiroBarreto_reduzida.pdf: 2216219 bytes, checksum: b16d4f342b3941e0bd3fe5dfcc673e53 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-16 / A Teoria dos Behavior Settings, criada pelo psicólogo Roger Barker, explica a fenomênica integração entre padrões estáveis de comportamento grupal e individual, e o ambiente físico onde esse comportamento ocorre. Esses padrões são a base comportamental das sociedades organizadas, urbanas, e devem ser considerados no planejamento e projeto de edifícios, vizinhanças urbanas e cidades. Contudo, essa teoria ainda apresenta sérias limitações quanto à sua aplicação no projeto físico, em diversos níveis ecológicos. Este estudo pretende desenvolver uma abordagem mais compreensiva, com o objetivo de integrar os fenômenos relacionados aos behavior settings individuais e às redes de behavior settings num só corpo teórico, como um passo na direção de uma teoria que explique as relações entre os comportamentos individual e grupal e o ambiente físico no nível ecológico das cidades. Na atualidade, a Teoria dos Behavior Settings ainda não explica as redes de settings como estruturas ecológicas molares de um nível abrangente, com dinâmicas específicas. Um discípulo de Barker, Allan Wicker, propôs que as redes de settings em organizações mostrariam padrões dominantes de inter-relações formais, oferecendo uma homologia hipoteticamente forte entre as redes de settings e seus componentes. No entanto, essa avançada hipótese não se relacionava com os aspectos dinâmicos e estruturais das redes de settings numa escala mais ampla, da organização urbana. A hipótese de Wicker apresentava uma importante lacuna do esforço de pesquisa de Barker para estudar comunidades humanas em sua integridade, em sua vida cotidiana nas vilas, vizinhanças e cidades. Este estudo busca aplicar a abordagem de Barker a organizações de vizinhança reais, através de uma hipótese de homologia fraca entre as redes de settings domiciliares e os behavior settings abrigados nos domicílios. Essa homologia fraca permitiria a constatação de uma clara influência dos aspectos físicos sobre determinados padrões de comportamento dos participantes. O estudo se baseia em uma amostragem de 1.188 behavior settings domésticos localizados em 298 edifícios residenciais pertencentes a um grupo de 28 Superquadras de Brasília. Em cada edifício, quatro behavior settings foram aleatoriamente escolhidos (dois nos primeiros andares, dois nos sextos). Foram enviados quarto conjuntos de correspondências a cada setting domiciliar escolhido, ao longo de 70 dias do procedimento de survey, e foi possível obter 421 questionários respondidos pelos sujeitos que os representavam. A análise dos dados obtidos permitiu a inferência de três tipos de padrões de sinomorfismo entre os settings domiciliares e as redes de settings: (a) uma comunalidade de percepções relacionadas à extensão da rede local de settings residenciais, (b) a identificação de díades de vizinhos que compartilhavam espaços de acesso comuns, expondo um aspecto ecológico da estrutura da rede de settings, e (c) um conjunto de estratégias de relações inter-pessoais e de percepções da vizinhança em que moravam os respondentes. A hipótese de uma homologia fraca entre os settings domiciliares e as redes de settings revelou-se de significativo valor heurístico, embora a pesquisa se restringisse ao exame possível pelo comportamento de ajuda dos participantes a um pesquisador que demandava essa ajuda. As relações formais existentes entre essas definidamente hierarquizadas redes de settings domiciliares, e que fundamentam a hipótese de Wicker de uma forte homologia entre as redes e seus componentes, mostrou-se um preditor inconsistente dos padrões de respostas obtidas. __________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / The Behavior Settings Theory, created by the psychologist Roger Barker, explains the phenomenal integration between stable patterns of group and individual behavior and physical settings. Those patterns are the behavioral basis to organized, urban societies, and they must be taken into account in the design of buildings, neighborhoods and cities. However, that theory still has serious limitations when its application to physical projects at several ecological levels is to be engendered. This study intends to develop a more comprehensive approach that integrates individual settings and setting networks phenomena theory, as a step to create a theory that is able to explain the relationship between group and individual behavior and physical environment at an urban ecological level. Nowadays, the Behavior Settings Theory still does not explain the networks of settings as molar or ecological structures in a broad level with a specific dynamics. A Barker’s disciple, Allan Wicker, proposed that settings networks inside organizations would show dominant patterns of formal relationships, offering a hypothetically strong homology between the settings networks and their components. However, that advanced hypothesis was not related to the settings networks dynamic and structural features in a wider ecological and urban organization scale. Wicker’s hypothesis shows an important gap from Barker’s research effort to study whole human communities as they live in their villages, neighborhoods and towns. This work aims to apply the Barker’s approach to research real neighborhood organizations through the hypothesis of a weak homology between the networks of domiciliary settings and the behavior settings held by domiciles. That weak homology would confirm the influence of physical features on some of the participants’ behavior patterns. The study sampled a group of 1.188 domestic behavior settings at 298 residential buildings inside a sorted group of 28 Superquadras of Brasília. Four behavior settings were randomly chosen at each residential building (two settings on the first floors, two settings on the sixth floors). Four mailings were sent to each selected domiciliary setting, during the 70 days of the survey process, and 421 answered questionnaires were sent back from the subjects in charge of each domiciliary setting. From the data analysis features of three types of synomorphical patterns at the settings network level were inferred: (a) a communality of perceptions related to the extension of the local domiciliary settings network; (b) dyad clusters of neighbors which share common adjacent entrances as an ecological instance of settings network structure, and; (c) physical placement-related neighborhood perceptions and strategies of interpersonal relationships among neighbors. The hypothesis of a weak homology between domiciliary settings and settings networks revealed a compelling heuristic value, although the research was restricted to the examination of the participants’ helping behavior to the researcher. The formal relationships inside those hierarchically arrayed domiciliary settings networks (Wicker’s hypothesis of a strong homology between networks and their components) was a very poor predictor of the response patterns.

Out of many, media is one of our important sources from where we know the world, we learn about society, about our surroundings, about the others. Regardless of time and space media is shaping our knowledge, changing the horizon of our imagination each and every moment.  This study is about representation. How a country as the other is represented in Swedish media landscape. I tried to know -How is Bangladesh represented in Swedish newspapers? I have collected reports about Bangladesh that was published in four main stream Swedish newspapers and conducted a quantitative content analysis through the lenses of Agenda setting, Priming and Framing theory from the post colonial perspective to know how Bangladesh is represented in Swedish newspapers. The results found in this study are more similar to the earlier studies conducted by researchers and further suggests that the framing of Bangladesh, ‘the others as a country’ in the foreign news in Swedish newspapers are dominated by pre-framed notions and images of the source; which is subjected to conduct further study in general or for any particular country.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Introduction: This study was conducted because of a gap in information on the factors influencing the health promoting schools (HPS) implementation process in South Africa (SA) specifically and in secondary schools globally. The aim of this context- sensitive, practice-based study was to explore and understand the complexity of the factors that influenced the implementation process of HPS in three secondary schools in a resource-limited setting in Cape Town, SA. This research drew on a five year project that initiated the implementation of HPS in these schools. Methodology: An exploratory qualitative study was used, adopting a multiple case study design. The sample included two principals, ten teachers and 30 students involved in HPS implementation at their schools, and the three school facilitators, who served as mentors to the schools. The data collection methods included: individual interviews, focus group discussions, documentary review, secondary data and observations. A conceptual framework was developed drawing on the settings approach and various implementation frameworks and was used to analyse the findings. Thematic analysis was employed and the data for each case were analysed separately first before undertaking cross case analysis. Findings: A combination of several internal and external factors influenced the ability of the schools to implement and integrate HPS as a whole school approach. A key factor was the degree of understanding of the HPS concept by all key actors and where there was lucid understanding, there was better integration. Significant school factors included the schools’ readiness for change; a culture of collaboration and cooperation; existing school structures, practices and workload; the leadership style and management role of the principals; the role and influence of HPS champion teachers; and the role that students played. The major external factors included the role of the education district; the role of project team as external catalysts for change; and the community context. The main achievements in all schools were discrete activities, including co-curricular activities rather than changes to routine school functions. This highlighted the difficulty in implementing HPS as a whole school approach, a challenge typical of all health promoting settings. Conclusion: The findings illustrate the challenge of achieving full integration of HPS, although the influencing factors, and hence level of integration varied mainly according to context. This highlights the complexity of the different factors and their impact. The study demonstrates the paradox of HPS implementation. In that, despite the recognition of the value of HPS, the challenges to address the complexity of factors that would have brought about change through a whole school approach were too great. It was too difficult to change the status quo from what was routinely done to a more radical way of working due to the conservatism of traditional ways of working and extent of adjustment that it would have resulted. It was therefore only possible to put simple, discrete, strategies in place and that was not too resource intensive. The study concluded that this does not imply that HPS should not be attempted, particularly where there are adverse conditions that would benefit from HPS. Starting with marginal changes, it can be effective in increasing the schools’ readiness for change, building on the achievements both in activities and structures, and the resultant commitment by those involved. Once they experience these changes it will more likely enable schools to incrementally attempt more complex changes. The key recommendations for within the school include: building the understanding and capacity of relevant actors to actively support the implementation of HPS; building the capacity of the principal to create an environment which is conducive to change; and providing support for the HPS champions and students. Recommendations for those external to the school include: support from external catalysts who can provide expertise and mentorship; support from the education district, especially in terms of policies on integration, resources, and raising the profile of HPS; and better collaboration between the education and health sectors. Although most of the literature on HPS implementation identifies similar issues to those found in this study, the complexity has not, to date, been sufficiently described. The contribution of this study, therefore, is to take the debate on the complexity of the factors influencing HPS implementation forward.

The goal of this diploma thesis is setting value of Agrostroj Pelhřimov a.s., machinery company. This thesis consist theoretic and practical part. The first part contains the analysis of valuations methods included detailed analysis of income method, which is applied. Next follow financial plan, which result from strategic, financial and macroeconomics analysis. In practical part are used entering data which are evaluated by applied calculations support. Subsequently is a company analyzed complexly and planed its own development. In last part is set the total value of the company.