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Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Christian University, 2009. / Includes abstract and vita. Bibliography: l. 134-140.

The study explored the cultural care beliefs, values and attitudes among Shangaans relating to hypertension. The study aimed to describe the cultural values, beliefs and practices such as taboos, rituals and religion within the world view of the Shangaan. The study was undertaken in the Mopani region of the Greater Giyani area, with the purpose of making recommendations on patient care. Data collection was done by conducting focus group and individual interviews. The five themes that emerged were: + Hypertension + The traditional healer: the instrumental role + Traditional medicine versus Western medicine + Magico-religious healings + Experiences of hypertensive patients with regard to traditional healers and hypertension / Health Studies / M. A. (Health Studies)

The aim of this paper is to get a deeper understanding if research about international relations has any practical meaning. The main focal point is about the importance of the scholar idea soft power, and its meaning on foreign policy actions through expressions. A quantity and quality method is used. The point of the main theory that concerns international relations takes a rationalistic perspective, and expands it to the notion that ides can have an impact on policy outcomes. Three different types of research utilization can be traced to determine in which way an idea is getting implemented. Why certain ideas can be used lies in the foreign policy preferences with the political institutions and its policymakers. In the last ten years, policymaking preferences in the USA, Great Britain and Sweden have shifted due to change of governments, challenges by expanding institutions as the European Union (EU) and terror alerts. Soft power is an upcoming idea that can be traced in the countries policies. In conclusion, the concept is expressed in the political agendas on the margins. For the American and the British policy the importance with the idea seems to be utilized for mediation for the retention and the legitimating of there existing policies regarding hard power. The main purpose with the idea for Sweden seems to be the utilization for guidance to promote EU: s ability to act as a prominent actor in international relations. The idea is, acts and expressed foremost as a positive symbol for the countries, rather than a ground-breaking new idea that changes policies. Due to is variables already exist in the policymaking processes.

[pt] O atual contexto mundial de profundas mudanças ambientais globais, e impactos dos humanos sobre o meio ambiente cada vez mais complexos, requer uma mudança de comportamento e educação para conter tais impactos e seus efeitos. A sustentabilidade como conceito, representando as diversas visões e formas de conhecimento e de sustentabilidades existentes no mundo, ganha cada vez mais destaque neste contexto, como forma de enfrentamento a estes problemas. Nesse sentido, uma educação para sustentabilidade torna-se cada vez mais necessária para lidar com as questões da sociedade moderna. Contudo, para se propor a isso, a própria educação precisa de uma renovação estrutural, tendo em vista a construção de uma educação participativa, não apenas para alunos e professores em sala de aula, mas também trazendo para dentro do ambiente acadêmico atores, experiências e vivências da sociedade civil, de grupos tradicionais e de grupos marginalizados, historicamente não incluídos nestas construções. Portanto, a construção da educação para sustentabilidade, e da própria sustentabilidade em si, de forma participativa, passa por uma desconstrução e reconstrução do formato de educação majoritariamente presente no ambiente universitário brasileiro, e para isso é importante entender quais são os preceitos, pilares e competências fundamentais que devem servir como base para construção de uma educação para sustentabilidade. / [en] The current global context of profound environmental changes, and increasingly complex human impacts on the environment, requires a change in behavior and education to contain such impacts and their effects. Sustainability as a concept, representing the various visions and forms of knowledge and sustainability existing in the world, is increasingly highlighted in this context, as a way to deal with these problems. In this sense, an education for sustainability becomes increasingly necessary to deal with the issues of modern society. However, in order to propose this, education itself needs a structural renovation, aiming at the construction of participatory processes, not only for students and teachers in the classroom, but also by bringing into the academic environment actors, and experiences from civil society, indigenous and other traditional and marginalized groups, historically not included in these constructions. Therefore, the development of education for sustainability, and of sustainability itself, in a participatory way, goes through the deconstruction and reconstruction of the education format mostly present in the Brazilian university environment, and for this it is important to understand which are the precepts, pillars, and fundamental competencies that should serve as a basis for the construction of an education for sustainability.

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