Despite being considered as the most social infection, there is little data on HIV infection in women. Women have not been considered beyond their reproductive role as subjects with a sexuality that transcends the historical mandate of biological reproduction, maintaining a secondary role in the infection. At the same time, society seems to have forgotten that the infection is still present. This thesis explores the voice of a group of positive women who, with their stories and through the digital narrative, will challenge the discourses that are established as hegemonic. In order to illustrate the potential of new tools as digital storytelling to disrupt and challenge the hegemonic herstory around women with HIV, the starting point for this thesis is Podcast Positivos: Mujeres VIHvas project. Engaging with the theories of intersectionality, performativity and cyborg, it will be argued the use of language, voice and the role of listening. Phenomenological research and narrative discourse analysis will be applied as methodologies to, on the one hand, address the experience of HIV as an important dimension in women's lives and, on the other hand, use their stories as a way to understand the meaning of those experiences. This thesis also discusses the creation of a cyber self, a viralized voice that is introduced into the already institutionalized podcast platform, to construct, deconstruct and challenge silences. Further, this thesis calls for an effort to listen, feel and write the stories of resistance of positive women and to put them into conversation within feminist academic debates.

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Over the last decades, there has been a decline in the recognition and prevalence of communication and interaction between people of different age groups. This change can be perceived as a loss of value in societies on several different levels while this societal segregation continues to create larger divisions within societies. These divisions in generations may have different causes such as different interests, lifestyles, values, technological developments, politics and so forth.  This dissertation focuses on exploring the social dynamics, connections and interactions between older and younger generations and the project is situated in Sweden. The project adopts a user-centred design approach with several participatory design methods such as omnipresent workshops with focus groups, anecdotes and interviews with participants from different age groups. It proposes urStory, a platform that enables individuals to share life experiences, stories and memories with their voices only. The concept also discovers the accessibility and usability of such tools across generations.      Findings from the workshops and interviews indicated the awareness and the recognised value of intergenerational interactions are limited. Addressing the reacquaintance between generations and mutual respect were requirements to foster meaningful connections. Results from the testing sessions and the follow-up discussions provided valuable insights including the aspects from alternative use cases and accesibility to moderation and safety of the platform.

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School safety is one of the most important issues facing administrators, teachers, and parents. Several risk factors have been identified as antecedents to aggression including poor social skills, difficulty dealing with anger and frustration, and inadequate problem solving abilities. No Child Left Behind requires all schools receiving Title IV funds to implement research based violence interventions. Second Step, an internationally recognized violence prevention curriculum published by Committee for Children was implemented in an urban elementary school with 66 African American students in grades 3 through 5 for 9 weeks. This study employed a randomized control group design with two treatment conditions; Second Step instruction and Second Step instruction with digital role-playing, an adaptation of digital storytelling, to increase program effectiveness and intensify student motivation. The School Social Behavior Scales-2 (Merrell, 2002) was used to assess differences in aggression and prosocial skills. MANOVA indicated significant differences for grade only. Older students had higher prosocial behavior scores and younger students had lower scores on the program's content assessment. Results indicated that the Second Step curriculum did not affect behavior. Although the benefits of teaching students to respond empathetically to others, solve problems, and control anger have been documented in the literature, the use of Second Step to accomplish these goals has not been supported. / Educational Psychology

Cette recherche exploratoire vise à documenter, du point de vue des intervenants, les conditions nécessaires à la mise en place de projets utilisant des outils de narrativité numérique, de même que les principaux apports de ces outils à l’intervention. Ces outils peuvent être des récits numériques qui sont de courtes vidéos (deux à cinq minutes) intégrant images, musique, texte, voix et animation, ou encore de courts fichiers audio, aussi appelés podcasting ou baladodiffusion. Il peut aussi s’agir de jeux vidéo interactifs ou d’un montage vidéo à partir d’extraits de témoignages. Dans un contexte où les pratiques d’intervention, dans les services publics en particulier, sont de plus en plus normées et standardisées, une recherche qui explore des outils d’intervention recourant à la créativité s’avère des plus pertinentes. Par ailleurs, ce champ n’a été que très peu exploré en service social jusqu’à maintenant. Des entrevues semi-dirigées ont été menées auprès de huit intervenants ayant utilisé ces outils dans leur pratique. L’analyse de leurs propos met d’abord en lumière les conditions nécessaires à la réalisation de ce type de projet, de même que les questions éthiques qui les accompagnent. Ensuite, du côté des principaux apports de ces outils, ils se situent, d’une part, dans le processus créatif collaboratif. Celui-ci permet d’enrichir l’intervention en donnant un espace de parole plus libre où intervenants et usagers créent des liens qui modifient le rapport hiérarchique entre aidant et aidé. D’autre part, l’attention professionnelle accordée à la réalisation des produits et à leur diffusion contribue à donner une plus grande visibilité à des personnes souvent exclues de l’espace public. Ainsi, en plus d’explorer les apports d’un outil artistique à l’intervention, cette recherche permet également d’analyser les enjeux de visibilité et de reconnaissance associés à l’utilisation de médias participatifs. / This exploratory study describes, from the viewpoint of social workers and other support workers, the conditions needed to set up a project that makes use of digital storytelling tools, as well as the main contributions of these tools as part of an intervention. The tools may be digital stories in the form of short, two-to-five minute videos (with music, text, voice, and/or animations), or short audio files (i.e., podcasts). They may also be interactive video games or a video montage created from extracts drawn from personal stories. A study exploring intervention tools that encourage creativity becomes all the more pertinent in a context where, particularly in public health and social services, intervention practices are becoming increasingly standardized. As yet, this field has been only minimally explored. Semi-directed interviews were conducted with eight workers who used these tools in their practice. Analysis of their statements sheds light on the conditions necessary to carry out this type of project, as well as the ethical questions that arise in the process. The analysis also reveals that one of the main contributions of these tools lies within the collaborative creative process. The process enriches the intervention by providing a space for freer speech where support workers and the people they help create ties that modify the hierarchical relationship between them. Moreover, the professional attention given to creating and sharing the products helps provide greater visibility to people who are often excluded from the public arena. Thus, in addition to exploring the contributions of an artistic tool to interventions, this study also makes it possible to analyze the issues of visibility and recognition associated with using participatory media.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-09-17T12:17:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Cavaletti Toquetão.pdf: 2844861 bytes, checksum: cdf436e1fbf904fd7906a0e677e6d0ad (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-17T12:17:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Cavaletti Toquetão.pdf: 2844861 bytes, checksum: cdf436e1fbf904fd7906a0e677e6d0ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-17 / The present study aims to investigate how multimodal digital narratives are produced in a nursery school, as well as to understand the potential of these narratives as a resource in teacher education, in a critical-collaborative perspective. It is argued that multimodal digital narratives are the digital pedagogical records that combine different media and multimodal resources that narrate educational processes. This research is linked to the professional performance of the researcher as pedagogical coordinator in early childhood education. The theoretical contribution is based on the socio-historical-cultural theory of Vygotsky (1934/2008), the contributions of authors who study educational documentation in early childhood education, conceptions of childhood, multimodalities and digital narratives in their varied forms, such as typography, image, writing, gestures, postures, expressions, environments or other possible combinations, besides the modes of discourse organization that circulate in audiovisual materials. The research was based on the theoretical-methodological approach of the Collaborative Critical Research, which aims to create collaborative relationships between the participants to produce critical knowledge about the theoretical bases of school practices and the interests they serve. The context of this research is a municipal public school of early childhood education in São Paulo. The participants are a manager and ten teachers who make up a training group of the school in question. The data were produced from the three collection instruments: semi-structured questionnaire on registration and pedagogical documentation; excerpts from the audio recording of reflexive sessions, and the production by teachers of multimodal digital narratives with cuts of scenes of specific themes. The data analysis was carried out by the process of describing, informing, confronting and reconstructing pedagogical practices and by multimodal analysis based on enunciative, descriptive and linguistic categories. Because of the critical-collaborative focus, the results indicated a deconstruction of teachers' common sense about audiovisual productions that permeate early childhood education. The reflective process proposed in this research suggested the development of participants through a new Creative Chain formation plan to produce new meanings for shared narratives / O presente estudo tem por objetivo investigar como são produzidas as narrativas digitais multimodais em uma escola de educação infantil, bem como compreender o potencial dessas narrativas como recurso na formação de professores, numa perspectiva crítico-colaborativa. Defende-se que narrativas digitais multimodais são os registros pedagógicos digitais que combinam diferentes mídias e recursos multimodais que narram processos educativos. Esta pesquisa está vinculada à atuação profissional da pesquisadora como coordenadora pedagógica na educação infantil. O aporte teórico fundamenta-se na teoria sócio-histórico-cultural de Vygotsky (1934/2008), nas contribuições de autores que estudam a documentação pedagógica na educação infantil, concepções de infância, multimodalidades e narrativas digitais em suas formas variadas, como tipografia, imagem, escrita, gestos, posturas, expressões, ambientes ou outras combinações possíveis, além dos modos de organização do discurso que circulam nos materiais audiovisuais. A pesquisa baseou-se na abordagem teórico-metodológica da Pesquisa Crítica de Colaboração, a qual visa criar relações colaborativas, entre os participantes, para a produção de conhecimentos críticos sobre as bases teóricas das práticas escolares e os interesses a que servem. O contexto desta pesquisa é uma escola pública municipal de educação infantil de São Paulo. Os participantes são uma gestora e dez professores que compõem um grupo de formação da escola em questão. Os dados foram produzidos a partir dos três instrumentos de coleta: questionário semiestruturado sobre registro e documentação pedagógica; os excertos da gravação de áudio das sessões reflexivas e a produção, pelos professores, das narrativas digitais multimodais com recorte das cenas de temas específicos. A análise dos dados foi realizada pelo processo de descrever, informar, confrontar e reconstruir práticas pedagógicas e pela análise multimodal com base nas categorias enunciativas, descritivas e linguísticas. Por conta do foco crítico-colaborativo, os resultados indicaram uma desconstrução do senso comum, pelos professores, sobre as produções audiovisuais que permeiam a educação infantil. O processo reflexivo proposto nesta pesquisa sugeriu o desenvolvimento dos participantes por meio de um novo plano de formação em Cadeia Criativa para produzir novos significados às narrativas compartilhadas

This research study was designed to explore the effectiveness of pedagogical practices on student literacy learning within a student television context. The study was undertaken in response to practitioner inquiry into the value and worth of school television for student literacy learning. Over the research period this project evolved into a deeply reflective self-study of teaching practice within a technological environment. This research took place in a suburban primary school where school television had been created by students for the previous two years. Twenty-two students aged between 10 and 12 participated in three cycles of action research to investigate how pedagogy influences learning within this context. A range of pedagogical actions designed to influence students’ critical thinking were implemented into action research cycles. The selection of actions for intervention was influenced by an investigation into current literature from the field, and an analysis of existing multi-literacy learning, pedagogical conditions and student views of teaching and learning within student television at the beginning of the research cycles. This study gathered information during research cycles using student learning conversations and student interviews, which provided insight into learning from the point of view of students. Supporting this information were daily researcher observations and end-of-cycle interviews with classroom teachers. Through careful monitoring, analysis and reflection on each research cycle it was clear that strategic pedagogical interventions did positively influence multi-literacy learning. Rather than attempt to measure differences in student learning, this study explored how multi-literacy learning, strategic pedagogy and learning within student television inter-related with one another. This research study identified and explored the complex inter-relationships between pedagogies and multi-literacy learning.