Thesis (M. Min.)--Canadian Baptist Seminary, Trinity Western University, 1992. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-161).

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 1998. Graduate Programme in Geography. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-147). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ27351.

Thesis (D. Miss.)--Asbury Theological Seminary, 2008. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-291).

Having been the target country of the international non-governmental organization for the past decades, Taiwan has survived and strived to be the giver in the international community. During the process, education has played an important role. The study used comparative method proposed by Bereday in addition to a qualitative data analysis software, NUD*IST. Three major purposes were identified as follows: (1) Discuss the conception and importance of international education aid. (2) Compare the experience of international education aid of Tzu Chi Foundation and World Vision Taiwan. (3) Give suggestions for other organizations to promote international education aid. Finally, the researcher concluded that the idea of international aid had developed from economic aid toward social development project with an emphasis on the sustainable development. In addition, there existed several common features between the Tzu Chi Foundation and World Vision Taiwan and terms of general conception and model of education aids. Even though, the Tzu Chi Foundation more on the logistic equipment of educational practices, whereas the World Vision Taiwan proclaimed the human right for children as their focus of aid.

This research focuses on civil society’s efforts to reduce poverty in Lesotho. The primary focus is on the networks that are formed in this process through a case study of World Vision International in Lesotho. According to the Millennium Development Goals Report (2008:9), the majority of Basotho live in increasing poverty, deprived, among others, of incomes that cover basic necessities like food, shelter and clothing. Although Lesotho is a relatively small Southern African country, it is faced with challenges that include chronic poverty (Bello, Letete, Rapapa and Chokobane, 2008:2). Both the State and civil society are concerned with alleviating this problem. In efforts to reduce poverty in Lesotho, a number of programmes and strategies have been applied, including the Millennium Development Goals operational artefact: Poverty Reduction Strategies. According to the MDG Report (2008:2), the prospects of Lesotho achieving the goal of reducing hunger and poverty by half by the year 2015 ranges from unlikely to potential. In the efforts of reducing poverty, both civil society and government ministries network to achieve this goal. In the current study, eleven organisations in a network, including government ministries, are discussed. Of the eleven organisations, seven are civil society organisations, while the remaining four are government ministries. This study is of a qualitative nature. Primary data was used in the form of structured in-depth interviews. Furthermore, a social network analysis was used for data analysis. The findings of this paper showed evidence of the role played by ‘networking’, in other words, although there was insufficient information concerning the ways in which World Vision International networks with other organisations in Lesotho, the findings from the interviews pointed at the importance of partnering and ‘networking’ with other organisations, as well as the role played by shared resources in the poverty reduction process. This research hopes to add to the literature on poverty in Lesotho generally and the importance of networking for poverty alleviation specifically. Furthermore, this study examines the networked involvement of World Vision Lesotho in development initiatives and poverty reduction approaches in Lesotho. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2013.

Thesis (M. Env. St.)--University of Adelaide, Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-94).

Orientador: Fadel David Antonio Filho / Banca: Vânia Rúbia Farias Vlach / Banca: Bernadete Aparecida Caprioglio de Castro Oliveira / Resumo: A presente pesquisa tem como propósito realizar uma análise do pensamento geográfico embutido na visão do mundo de Monteiro Lobato em sua obra literária infantil. Com isso, promoveremos a inserção dessa obra na História do Pensamento Geográfico, buscando preencher uma lacuna nessa linha de pesquisa, que tem dado pouca atenção às obras desse gênero literário. Para analisar essa visão do mundo, amparamo-nos em Lucien Goldmann que propõe o estudo das obras-primas de literatura na perspectiva do método estruturalista genético. A partir de suas orientações, analisamos o contexto histórico vivido por Lobato e as correntes de pensamento que o influenciaram a propor uma reconstrução do espaço geográfico brasileiro, pautado na ideologia de sua classe social: a burguesia industrial. Esse panorama contextualizou a análise do discurso geográfico de Lobato presente em três histórias: Geografia de Dona Benta (1935), O poço do Visconde (1937), A Chave do Tamanho (1942). Os pontos marcantes neste discurso são industrialização, integração e identidade nacional, exploração dos recursos naturais, potencialidades e problemas regionais, valorização da educação e da ciência, e uma visão ambígua do povo e do progresso, ora vistos com otimismo, ora com pessimismo, caracterizando a visão do mundo contraditória do escritor. Também detectamos nesse discurso uma Geografia pautada em concepções deterministas e darwinistas sociais e, eventualmente, uma postura possibilista, o que nos levou a crer que a obra infantil lobatiana refletiu a conjuntura da ciência geográfica da década de 1930. / Abstract: This academic research has the purpose of making an analysis of the geographic thought embedded in Monteiro Lobato's world vision in his literary child. With this, we will intend to insert this work in the History of Geographic Thought, seeking for filling a gap in this line of research, which has given little attention to works of this gender. To analyze this world vision, we lean on Lucien Goldmann's that suggests the study of works of literature primary in the perspective of the genetic structuralist method. From the guidelines of his proposal, we analyse the historical context lived by Monteiro Lobato and the currents of thought that had influenced him to propose a reconstruction of a Brazilian geographical space, based on the ideology of his social class: the industrial bourgeoisie. This overview contextualized the analysis of his geographic speech in the three stories: Geografia de Dona Benta (1935), O poço do Visconde (1937), A Chave do Tamanho (1942). The remarkable points in this speech are industrialization, national integration and identity, exploitation of natural resources, regional potentialities and problems, enhancement of education and science and an ambiguous seen of the people and progress, now seen with an optimism now with pessimism, characterizing the writer contradictory world vision. We also detected in this speech a Geography based on deterministic concepts and social darwinists, and, possibly, a possibilist behaviour, that led us to believe that Lobato's literary child reflected the conjuncture of science geographic of the decade of 1930. / Mestre

This dissertation is an evaluation of the programme of World Vision Tanzania. It examines the work of the Mpunguzi Area Development Programme (ADP) in the Dodoma region in two ways. Firstly it looks at it from the perspective of WVT itself, through reading the reports and minutes of the organisation and interviewing key informants. Secondly it looks at it from the perspective of the local people in Mpunguzi, through a series of interviews and group discussions. It is clear that the ADP has made a good contribution that is appreciated by local inhabitants in the areas of primary health, primary education, agriculture and animal husbandry, water and sanitation, the environment, gender inequity, income generating activities, spiritual development, advocacy on child rights and leadership development. However, there were concerns expressed about a range of on-going life and livelihood struggles that the ADP is not able to address. These issues include housing, storage and marketing of agricultural produce, conditions of loan facilities, lack of other skills and employment, drought, lack of alternative livelihoods, gender issues and the impact of HIV/AIDS. The dissertation argues that World Vision Tanzania and the ADP approach will need to make some changes to the development approach in order to meet these concerns. Four important issues are then identified and explored. These are:(i)participation of the poor in shaping their livelihoods; (ii) promotion of Asset Based Community Development; (iii) advocacy in terms of public policy; and (iv) a deeper theological understanding of development. The hope of the research and dissertation is to enable World Vision and other Christian groups continue to make a lasting difference in the lives of the poor in Tanzania. / Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.

Ao identificar a existência de uma procura significativa pela prática do teatro, através da qual um número expressivo de pessoas objetiva o reencontro consigo e com a vida ao invés da preparação do ator e montagem de espetáculo, passei a considerar a possibilidade de o Jogo Teatral constituir-se uma alternativa terapêutica que possa responder a esta expectativa. Ao buscar referências que pudessem somar à minha própria experiência como professor e oficineiro de teatro, encontrei em algumas Práticas Corporais Alternativas, especialmente, na Formação Pessoal, material e estímulo para esta investigação. De certa maneira, aspectos como as interações, a espontaneidade, a criatividade e a expressividade, entre outros, são comuns ao Jogo Teatral e à Formação Pessoal. No Brasil, são poucos os teóricos e estudiosos do teatro que se debruçam sobre esta possibilidade terapêutica do teatro, além de Augusto Boal. Entretanto, em razão das características empregadas nesta investigação, usei como suporte teórico não somente o pensamento de Boal, como os de Koudela e Spolin sobre o Jogo Teatral. Outros autores como Santin, Bertherat, Ceccin, Stanislawski, Arendt, Chekhov, Barba, Negrine, Paín e Mariotti serviram-me muito com seus estudos sobre o teatro, a corporeidade, o lúdico, as interações e entrelaçamentos do ser humano com o outro e com o mundo, levando-me a reflexões e inquietações profundas. A partir destes referenciais teóricos e da experiência prévia, esta investigação definiu-se como descritiva, interpretativa e de corte qualitativo. A metodologia da investigação envolveu a criação de dois grupos de trabalho em caráter livre e voluntário, integrados por participantes vinculados por suas sensações de prazer e desprazer durante as vivências. O primeiro grupo reuniu-se durante quatro meses, duas vezes por semana. O segundo grupo reuniu-se durante um mês e meio, uma vez por semana. Em função das características específicas, selecionei 12 integrantes do 1º grupo e 6 integrantes do 2º grupo para objeto da coleta e análise das informações. As características fundamentais dos encontros foram as vivências e as práticas dos jogos e exercícios teatrais realizadas em dinâmicas individuais, em pequenos grupos e no grande grupo. Em razão disso, os instrumentos de coleta de informações utilizados devem refletir, da melhor maneira possível, estas mesmas vivências e práticas por parte dos participantes. Assim, a observação, o memorial descritivo, a verbalização e a entrevista semi-estruturada são os principais instrumentos empregados. Soma-se à criação dos dois grupos, a experiência no Estágio Docente que realizei com três turmas da graduação durante a investigação e que me serviu como fonte complementar de coleta de informações em uma experiência diferenciada. Impulsionado pelas reflexões teóricas dos diversos autores e pelas experiências prévias e similares, através desta investigação, procurei desvendar um caminho que o indivíduo pudesse lançar-se a abrir, em trocas permanentes com o outro, em busca da consciência do “eu”, do outro e de sua inserção no mundo através do Jogo Teatral. / When identifying the existence of a significant search for the practice of the theater, through the one which an expressive number of people aim the find of yourself and with the life instead of the actor's preparation and assembly of show, I started to consider the possibility of the Theatrical Game to constitute a therapeutic alternative that can answer to this expectation. When looking for references that could add to my own experience as theater teacher, found in some practices corporal alternatives, especially, in the Personal Formation, material and incentive for this investigation. In a certain way, aspects as the interactions, the spontaneity, the creativity and the expressiveness, among other, are common to the Theatrical Game and to the Personal Formation. They are few the theoretical and studious of the theater that bend on this therapeutic possibility of the theater, besides Augusto Boal. However, in reason of the characteristics used in this investigation, I used as theoretical support not only the thought of Boal, like the one of Koudela and Spolin about the Theatrical Game. Other authors as Santin, Bertherat, Ceccin, Stanislawski, Arendt, Chekhov, Beard, Negrine, Paín and Mariotti served me a lot with its studies about the theater, the corporality, the ludic, the interactions and the human being interlacement with the other and with the world, taking me to reflections and deep inquietudes. From these theoretical referential and of the previous experience, this investigation was defined as, descriptive, interpretative and of qualitative cut. The methodology of the investigation involved the creation of two work groups in free and voluntary character, integrated by participants linked by its pleasure sensations and displeasure during the existences. The first group met for four months, twice a week. The second group met during one and a half month, once a week. In function of the specific characteristics, I selected 12 components of the 1st group and 6 components of the 2nd group for object of the collection and analysis of the information. The fundamental characteristics of the encounters were the existences and the practices of the games and theatrical exercises accomplished in individual dynamics, in small groups and in the great group. In reason of that, the used instruments of collection of information should contemplate, of the best possible way, these same existences and practices on the part of the participants. Thus, the observation, the descriptive memorial, the verbalization and the semi-structured interview are the main instruments employees. It is added to the creation of the two groups, the experience in the Educational Apprenticeship that accomplished with three groups of the graduation during the investigation and that served me as complementary source of collection of information in a differentiated experience. Impelled by the theoretical reflections of several authors and for the previous and similar experiences, through this investigation, I tried to unmask a way that the individual could rush to open, in permanent changes with the other, in search of the conscience of the " self ", of the other and of its insertion in the world through the Theatrical Game.

Ao identificar a existência de uma procura significativa pela prática do teatro, através da qual um número expressivo de pessoas objetiva o reencontro consigo e com a vida ao invés da preparação do ator e montagem de espetáculo, passei a considerar a possibilidade de o Jogo Teatral constituir-se uma alternativa terapêutica que possa responder a esta expectativa. Ao buscar referências que pudessem somar à minha própria experiência como professor e oficineiro de teatro, encontrei em algumas Práticas Corporais Alternativas, especialmente, na Formação Pessoal, material e estímulo para esta investigação. De certa maneira, aspectos como as interações, a espontaneidade, a criatividade e a expressividade, entre outros, são comuns ao Jogo Teatral e à Formação Pessoal. No Brasil, são poucos os teóricos e estudiosos do teatro que se debruçam sobre esta possibilidade terapêutica do teatro, além de Augusto Boal. Entretanto, em razão das características empregadas nesta investigação, usei como suporte teórico não somente o pensamento de Boal, como os de Koudela e Spolin sobre o Jogo Teatral. Outros autores como Santin, Bertherat, Ceccin, Stanislawski, Arendt, Chekhov, Barba, Negrine, Paín e Mariotti serviram-me muito com seus estudos sobre o teatro, a corporeidade, o lúdico, as interações e entrelaçamentos do ser humano com o outro e com o mundo, levando-me a reflexões e inquietações profundas. A partir destes referenciais teóricos e da experiência prévia, esta investigação definiu-se como descritiva, interpretativa e de corte qualitativo. A metodologia da investigação envolveu a criação de dois grupos de trabalho em caráter livre e voluntário, integrados por participantes vinculados por suas sensações de prazer e desprazer durante as vivências. O primeiro grupo reuniu-se durante quatro meses, duas vezes por semana. O segundo grupo reuniu-se durante um mês e meio, uma vez por semana. Em função das características específicas, selecionei 12 integrantes do 1º grupo e 6 integrantes do 2º grupo para objeto da coleta e análise das informações. As características fundamentais dos encontros foram as vivências e as práticas dos jogos e exercícios teatrais realizadas em dinâmicas individuais, em pequenos grupos e no grande grupo. Em razão disso, os instrumentos de coleta de informações utilizados devem refletir, da melhor maneira possível, estas mesmas vivências e práticas por parte dos participantes. Assim, a observação, o memorial descritivo, a verbalização e a entrevista semi-estruturada são os principais instrumentos empregados. Soma-se à criação dos dois grupos, a experiência no Estágio Docente que realizei com três turmas da graduação durante a investigação e que me serviu como fonte complementar de coleta de informações em uma experiência diferenciada. Impulsionado pelas reflexões teóricas dos diversos autores e pelas experiências prévias e similares, através desta investigação, procurei desvendar um caminho que o indivíduo pudesse lançar-se a abrir, em trocas permanentes com o outro, em busca da consciência do “eu”, do outro e de sua inserção no mundo através do Jogo Teatral. / When identifying the existence of a significant search for the practice of the theater, through the one which an expressive number of people aim the find of yourself and with the life instead of the actor's preparation and assembly of show, I started to consider the possibility of the Theatrical Game to constitute a therapeutic alternative that can answer to this expectation. When looking for references that could add to my own experience as theater teacher, found in some practices corporal alternatives, especially, in the Personal Formation, material and incentive for this investigation. In a certain way, aspects as the interactions, the spontaneity, the creativity and the expressiveness, among other, are common to the Theatrical Game and to the Personal Formation. They are few the theoretical and studious of the theater that bend on this therapeutic possibility of the theater, besides Augusto Boal. However, in reason of the characteristics used in this investigation, I used as theoretical support not only the thought of Boal, like the one of Koudela and Spolin about the Theatrical Game. Other authors as Santin, Bertherat, Ceccin, Stanislawski, Arendt, Chekhov, Beard, Negrine, Paín and Mariotti served me a lot with its studies about the theater, the corporality, the ludic, the interactions and the human being interlacement with the other and with the world, taking me to reflections and deep inquietudes. From these theoretical referential and of the previous experience, this investigation was defined as, descriptive, interpretative and of qualitative cut. The methodology of the investigation involved the creation of two work groups in free and voluntary character, integrated by participants linked by its pleasure sensations and displeasure during the existences. The first group met for four months, twice a week. The second group met during one and a half month, once a week. In function of the specific characteristics, I selected 12 components of the 1st group and 6 components of the 2nd group for object of the collection and analysis of the information. The fundamental characteristics of the encounters were the existences and the practices of the games and theatrical exercises accomplished in individual dynamics, in small groups and in the great group. In reason of that, the used instruments of collection of information should contemplate, of the best possible way, these same existences and practices on the part of the participants. Thus, the observation, the descriptive memorial, the verbalization and the semi-structured interview are the main instruments employees. It is added to the creation of the two groups, the experience in the Educational Apprenticeship that accomplished with three groups of the graduation during the investigation and that served me as complementary source of collection of information in a differentiated experience. Impelled by the theoretical reflections of several authors and for the previous and similar experiences, through this investigation, I tried to unmask a way that the individual could rush to open, in permanent changes with the other, in search of the conscience of the " self ", of the other and of its insertion in the world through the Theatrical Game.