In recent decades, there has been recognition that children and young people have considerable knowledge about their own lives that merits academic attention. The overall aim of this study is to reflexively engage with children and young people who have been affected by parental (or significant carer) alcohol problems and to explore, from their perspectives, the perceived impact on their lives and their experiences of support. Given the common secrecy and potential stigma of problematic alcohol use, the experiences of children and young people living in families where one or both parents (or carers) have an alcohol problem often remains hidden. My interest in using a participatory research approach with children has led to my further aim: to critically explore and develop research methods with children and young people to explore this potentially sensitive topic. As part of my commitment of conducting research with, rather than on, children, I involved two groups of children and young people already accessing support services for parental alcohol problems in the research design. The research built from this foundation and, in total, 30 children and young people aged from nine to 20 years old participated in individual, pair or small group interviews or a group work programme via a range of voluntary support services across Scotland. This study reflexively explores the commonalities, diversities and complexities across and within children and young people’s lives when affected by, to use their own frequently used term, parental alcohol problems. Emergent themes of knowledge, emotion, trust and difference are presented in four findings chapters. Many children and young people had extensive knowledge about the impact of parental alcohol problems on their lives and I describe their own nuanced ways of choosing to communicate this knowledge in the research context. I critically discuss the importance, yet experienced complexities, of understanding children and young people’s emotions about parental alcohol problems. Children and young people’s conceptualisations of trust, whether declared, demonstrated or alluded to, were central in their decisions to talk ‘outside of the family’, including to myself. I consider whether the concept of stigma can sufficiently explain the perceived and experienced differences that children and young people shared. In recognising that knowledge is co-constructed in a particular social context, I demonstrate that a reflexive and critical exploration of research methods and relationships can further contribute to our understanding about the heterogeneity of children and young people’s lives when affected by parental alcohol problems. Finally, I discuss the theoretical, methodological and policy and practice implications derived from engaging with children and young people affected by parental alcohol problems.

Abstract This research is to distinguish the Kaohsiung City resident by the level of their community sense from the view of social psychology. Due to the society changes and the high living density of urban caused by urbanization, the problems related to the collective life of residents are increasing. Besides, how much do they join the public event also control the success of promoting the collective event. This research is to discuss the community sense and the main effecting factor of different resident attribute and the issue of public event under the increasing of people joining the issue of public event. Furthermore, the suitable participation skill for different community sense and resident attribute is discussed This research expects to construct the suitable people participation skill while the different community sense and resident attribute faces the public event and take it as the reference for people participation in the future. The result shows, that the participation skill of different resident attribute and different issue of public event is clearly related; moreover, the high-low categorization of community sense and the skill of different issue of public event is also related. Additionally, according to the related statistics and analysis, the corrupt practises of current people participation skill are presented; the people participation skill that suitable for the residents of Kaohsiung City and the people participation skill that suitable for different community sense categorization are concluded. Furthermore, the suggestion of people participation and community sense and the comment for the later researcher is presented. Keywords: Sense of community, Civil participation skill, Discussion of public affair.

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Orientador: Nilson Antonio Modesto Arraes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T02:29:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Myrrha_MarcoAureliodeLimae_M.pdf: 3479148 bytes, checksum: 681cd7b365e3de6883adae7b04421b86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A descentralização político-administrativa ocorrida no Brasil a partir da Constituição de 1988 ampliou a autonomia de decisão, o poder e o controle sobre os recursos e responsabilidades dos municípios. Por outro lado, a União e os Estados reduziram seu apoio aos programas de financiamentos e de assistência técnica municipais. Também são conhecidas as dificuldades econômicas e administrativas de boa parte dos municípios brasileiros, notadamente aqueles com baixa população e distantes das capitais administrativas. A partir desse panorama, tem-se buscado novos modelos de governança que possibilitem maior cooperação intermunicipal, uma vez que diversos problemas e potencialidades são comuns a maioria deles. Há exemplos de sucesso desse tipo de cooperação em diversos países. No Brasil, a maioria das iniciativas em curso tem encontrado dificuldades quanto à continuidade das ações. O problema desta pesquisa é discutir "como implementar planos de desenvolvimento regional sem a constituição de autoridade político administrativa para sua gestão?" O objetivo é avaliar as condições que favorecem e dificultam a gestão e implementação de planos regionais e a consequente consolidação das microrregiões. A hipótese é que as associações intermunicipais podem se constituir importantes opções para a gestão e implementação dos planos de desenvolvimento regional em Minas Gerais. A metodologia abrangeu as etapas de: (i) Revisão bibliográfica; (ii) Coleta de dados sobre os Planos Regionais em estudo; (iii) Sistematização e análise de três iniciativas já consolidadas de Governos Estaduais para promover o Desenvolvimento Regional e do recém concluído Plano de Desenvolvimento Regional em Minas Gerais, que foi utilizado como fonte de exemplos; (iv) Apresentação e discussão dos resultados, a partir da idéia central de que a institucionalização de uma região envolve quatro aspectos para aferição das experiências de planejamento regional. Na etapa (v) são apresentadas as principais conclusões: (1) os Governos Estaduais têm grande dificuldade em atuar como agentes de implementação das ações de planejamento e tendem a descontinuar programas de governos anteriores, caso não se consolide instância de governança local; (2) a existência de associações de municípios já consolidadas em Minas Gerais tais como a AMEG, aliada às novas possibilidades institucionais como os consórcios intermunicipais, constituem importantes passos para o início do processo de gestão territorial microrregional no Estado mineiro / Abstract: The political/administrative decentralization in progress in Brazil since the Constitution 1988 amplified decision autonomy, empowerment and control on the resources and duties of the cities. Nevertheless, both federal and states administrations diminished their backing to the finance and municipal technical assistance programs. To aggravate the situation, widespread are the economic and managerial constraints faced by a great deal of brazilian cities, noticeably those which have few inhabitants and are distant from major administrative capital cities. Given such perspective, new managerial structures/patterns which enable greater inter-municipal cooperation have been pursued, since various problems and potentialities are common to the majority of those cities. There are examples of similar successful cooperation actions carried out in many countries. In Brazil, the majority of the initiatives to establish inter-municipal cooperation in progress have been facing difficulty in terms of continuity. The proposition of this study is "how to implement plans of regional development without resorting to political/administrative authorities constituted to their management?" The objective is to evaluate conditions which favor or hinder the management and implementation of regional planning and the consequent consolidation of the "micro-regions". The hypothesis is that the inter-municipal associations might represent important options for the management and implementation of regional development plans in Minas Gerais. The methodology ranged the stages: (i) bibliographic revision; (ii) Collection of data on the Regional Plans in study; (iii) Systematization and analysis of three currently consolidated initiatives by states administrations to foster regional development and the recently concluded Regional Development Plan in Minas Gerais, which will be utilized as a source of examples; (iv) Presentation and discussion of the results based on the premise that the institutionalization of a given region involves four aspects to assess the experiences on regional planning. At stage (v) the main findings are presented: (1) the state governmental authorities experience great difficulty to act as agents for the implementation of planning actions and tend to discontinue programs implemented by previous administrations, in case an instance of governance is not consolidated. (2) the existence of currently consolidated municipal associations in Minas Gerais, such as AMEG, together with new institutional possibilities like inter-municipal consortia represent important steps to the commencement of the process of territorial management in Minas Gerais State / Mestrado / Planejamento e Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável / Mestre em Engenharia Agrícola

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:50:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leonardo Pimenta Cury.pdf: 2151055 bytes, checksum: 5daf4c908804c7bf1d7c547a4eccbbee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-04-06 / Cities and their citizens ever had an intimate relationship, one modifying the habits and characteristics from the other. Since State began to interfere in this relationship, and the development caused social conflicts because of exclusion and economical disparity, the city also received the influence of these process, not reflecting any more the citizens face and changed to an imposed reality. As State became weakness, the society began to move, fighting to rescue rights and to participate on political decisions. Laws has changed by those groups influence, opening new spaces where people can recover its right to opine, to intervene and to control cities management. The aim of this paper is to describe this historical process, since urban centers arise to the conquest of popular participation instruments on cities planning and government. The results and problems of the these new way of management in Brazil are also described. / Desde seu surgimento, sempre houve uma ligação íntima entre a cidade e seus moradores, fazendo com que um interaja e modifique as características do outro. A partir do momento em que o Estado começou a interferir nessa relação, e que o processo de desenvolvimento provocou conflitos sociais causados pela exclusão social e pelas disparidades econômicas, a cidade também sofreu o resultado desse processo, deixando de ser um lugar construído para ser uma realidade imposta. Com o enfraquecimento do Estado e com a movimentação da sociedade para resgatar seus direitos de participação política, a legislação foi sendo reformada e influenciada por esses grupos, abrindo espaço para que a população possa recuperar, ao menos em parte, seus direitos de opinar, intervir e fiscalizar a administração das cidades. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo fazer um levantamento do surgimento dos primeiros núcleos urbanos à conquista dos instrumentos de participação popular no planejamento e na gestão das cidades, bem como dos resultados e problemas que essa nova forma de administração tem produzido em nosso país, contrapondo o Estatuto da Cidade com o Direito Social e a crise do Direito Positivo.

Children from armed forces families are identified internationally as a group facing challenging situations, circumstances which can have a negative impact on their educational experiences. The main focus in existing research has been on measuring children's outcomes, but these studies generate little insight into how children themselves make sense of their experiences. There are only a few in-depth qualitative studies, mostly conducted outside the UK, exploring the lived experiences of children from armed forces families. This study explores how children of armed forces personnel from schools across Scotland expressed their experiences. It aims to better understand approaches to the provision of inclusive educational support. A suite of methods - object elicitation, video diaries, peer interviewing, drawing, and vignettes - was employed, to generate expressions from a total of 41 children and young people aged eight to 14 years, from three primary and two secondary Scottish schools. A post-qualitative orientation supported the inquiry to look beyond children's voices in isolation. An assemblage approach was taken to the analysis of the audio/video recordings, transcripts, artefacts, and field notes from the research encounters. The analysis showed how the different and shifting conditions of the research led to the creation of ongoing productive encounters. A key insight was that schools have much unrealised capacity to positively contribute to the experiences of these children. Methodological insights alongside empirical findings are used to generate signposts for the provision of improved educational support. The thesis argues that, ultimately, any improvement will involve entering into reciprocal, experimental, and socio-materially mediated dialogues with children in ways that both align with children's lived experience of armed forces life but also allow for the exploration of change and becoming-different as outcomes of those dialogues.

Ältere Menschen bilden vor dem Hintergrund der demografischen Entwicklung einen großen und wachsenden Teil in unserer Gesellschaft, Kultur und Wirtschaft. Damit verbunden sind nicht nur Herausforderungen für das Sozial-, Pflege- und Gesundheitswesen, sondern im Sinne einer gelingenden Integration stellen sich unweigerlich Fragen nach Teilhabe und Mitwirkungsmöglichkeiten für diese Personengruppe. ... Demnach stellt sich die Frage, wie vor dem Hintergrund der gebotenen Chancen eine positive Transformation im Hinblick auf „Altern und Technik“ gelingen kann – eine Transformation, die digitale Teilhabe und Teilgabe i. S. von Partizipation fördert und gleichzeitig die digitale Souveränität und die digitalen Kompetenzen älterer Menschen erhöht? Diesen Fragen wird sich im Folgenden interdisziplinär und multiperspektivisch angenähert. Methodisch wird auf ein Scoping Review zurückgegriffen. Ausgehend von vergangenen und aktuell von der BAGSO vorrecherchierten Projekten und Modellvorhaben im Kontext von Digitalität und älteren Erwachsenen werden erste Gelingensbedingungen skizziert. Anschließend werden exemplarisch drei Modellvorhaben vorgestellt, die mehrere dieser Faktoren (u.a. Erfolgs- und Qualitätsfaktoren und Rahmenbedingungen) aufgreifen. Im Anschluss erfolgt eine Diskussion, um relevante Gelingensbedingungen und zukünftige Handlungsfelder explizit für Akteure, die Angebote für diese Zielgruppe bereitstellen, zu untersetzen. [Aus: Einleitung]

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:26:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 joao.pdf: 773060 bytes, checksum: ec38a1a6af60328e954a7bc1f199263e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-26 / This Dissertation aims to talk about dwelling and housing, concerning social aspects, social rights, applicability and efficiency in their environment. This project shows the idea of Master Degree in Social Politics, knowing that it analyzes the social function of property at the III Development Plan of Pelotas City and the way it came to be. From the concept of social function of property, you can find a wider concept of habitat, the right to city and urban field, how the outlook for urban development is influencing new horizons that cover the social function of property. The right to city, which is a relatively new issue to the Brazilian context, have a direct influence on how the social function or property should be looked at. And this is the reason why we should take into consideration a study of urban development, distribution around habitable areas and ways of spatial segregation. For the last ten years, Brazil has been going through substantial changes in the dwelling field, with social programs for different social classes regarding buying a home or building a home. However, the right of property and its social function remains slacked when it comes to efficiency, even though there is an on going changing in the social environment. This project intends to analyze how the III Development Plan of Pelotas City dealt with not only the social function or property and preservation of the right to city, but also the way the issues have been discussed, the way the context influences the housing deficit in the city, and if it has been done democratically / A presente Dissertação busca como norte a moradia, a habitação, visualizadas no aspecto social, no âmbito dos direitos sociais, aplicabilidade e eficácia dos mesmos no meio em que se inserem. O trabalho se coaduna com a ideia do mestrado de Política Social, tendo em vista que se volta à análise da função social da propriedade no III Plano Diretor da cidade de Pelotas e a forma como o mesmo restou elaborado. Ao partir-se da concepção de função social da propriedade encontra-se amparo em um conceito mais amplo de habitat, o Direito à Cidade e o campo urbanístico, como estas atuais visões de desenvolvimento do espaço urbano estão influenciando nos novos horizontes que abarcam a função social da propriedade. Tema relativamente novo no contexto brasileiro, o Direito à Cidade influencia diretamente como a função social da propriedade deve ser pensada, motivo pelo qual uma análise do aproveitamento urbano, distribuição em áreas habitáveis e formas de segregação espacial devem ser levadas em consideração. O país vem atravessando nos últimos dez anos, mudanças substanciais no âmbito da habitação, com programas direcionados às várias classes sociais, principalmente, no que diz respeito aos financiamentos para aquisição da casa própria como também para construção desta. Entretanto, no que concerne ao direito de propriedade em si e sua função social, encontra-se estagnação, ausência de aplicação de seu conceito e muito embora haja inclusão em documentos de planejamento urbanístico planos diretores não se encontra efetividade, apesar da transformação constante do meio social. O presente estudo busca analisar como o III Plano Diretor da cidade Pelotas tratou da questão da função social da propriedade e defesa do Direito à Cidade, aliada à forma como foram discutidos e definidos os assuntos, se através de democracia participativa ou não e, ainda, como estes contextos influenciam no déficit habitacional do Município