Selection and selection procedures play a key role in the ability of organisations to compete successfully in the complex global and local environment. South Africa is experiencing a serious artisinal and technical skill shortage. Given the unemployment issues and the quest for people to fill the skill shortage gap it is important for organizations to find possible solutions to ensure that they stay competitive and effective in the labour market. Research suggests that at least 12 500 artisans need to be produced each year from 2006 to 2010 to meet the demand for skilled workers. To address above mentioned challenge organizations have to develop strategies to assist them to select individuals with the best chance to succeed in training. Unfortunately, the solution is not simple as organisations have a multitude of influences and pressures which affect their decisions regarding selection procedures. Selection of individuals is becoming an increasingly complex science as organisations have to select a capable and representative workforce. They must thus select candidates that are most likely to benefit from what is offered educationally, meet the requirements stipulated in South Africa's Labour legislation, and will perform most successfully in the specific trade. Bad practice can lead to costly litigation. The objectives of this mini-dissertation were to assess the empirical validity of the Technical Test Battery (TTB), as ability test and the Learning Potential Computerised Adaptive Test (LPCAT) as learning potential test as predictors of academic success of first year apprentice electrician students at a South African technical college serving a mining community. The study explored the current local employment issues that affect selection for training in the technical fields. The difference between the measurement of cognitive ability and learning potential were examined and the nature of the constructs of cognitive ability and that of learning potential were discussed. In the empirical study one of the objectives was to determine whether there was a relationship between the TTB and the LPCAT as two different predictors of the academic success of first yar apprentice electrician students. The difference in the empirical (predictive) validity of the two psychometric selection instruments, if only one of the tests as opposed to if both were used in combination, were examined. Another objective was to determine if there were any differences regarding the scores on the TTB and LPCAT of students from the designated group as opposed to that of students from non-designated groups. Finally this study explored whether the TTB and LPCAT were valid predictors to be used as selection instruments for apprentice electrician students in the South African context The research method consisted of a literature review and an empirical study. The empirical validity of the two predictor tests was validated in terms of the accuracy with which the selection instruments predicted the students' future performance. This research can be categorized as descriptive quantitative research. The TTB and LPCAT scores of a sample of 89 selected apprentice electricians were compared with the number of attempts they used to pass a phase test. Data was analysed by means of descriptive statistics. Pearsons Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, t-tests, ANOVAs as well as discriminant analysis were also used to reach the research objective. Statistically significant relationships were found between the predictor and criterion variables. The results confirm that the TTB and LPCAT are indeed empirical valid tests that can be used in the selection of apprentice electricians. / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T15:08:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArquivoTotalLuciano.pdf: 18355637 bytes, checksum: 27a50f2cb35f4d12dc1b41d0f1219c02 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / With the advent of the Republic and on the first decades of the twentieth century, education has taken more and more space on the agenda of concerns of the Brazilian State. The effort to teach literacy and educate the people, following the principles of the present nationalism in vogue, has taken even more precise definitions. In this context, the school takes one of the most important roles, and especially the apprentice ones, have the challenge to teach literacy and discipline the fortune disadvantages. From that point of view, this research whose title is Mente amore pro patria docere: the School of Apprentice Craftsmen at Paraíba and the formation of useful citizens to the nation, is constituted by a reflexion on the trajectory of one of these apprentice schools, which is located in the city of Parahyba (present João Pessoa), between 1909, when it was created, and 1942, when it did not exist anymore, after a whole process of remodelations promoved by the Federal Government. In this space we defend the thesis that the School of Appretices at Paraíba, whose creation aimed to professionalize the disadvantaged of the luck and to produce disciplined workers, was a place of learning knowledge and inculcation of behaviors where socially excluded young people had their bodies and minds educated by the logic of the rationality of the work and of construction of the Brazilian nationality. The thesis is based on the theory of the historic materialism (MARX, 1980; MARX; ENGELS, 1984; 2004; LUKÁCS, 2003; PINTO, 1969), and in the use of the category of totatlity, dialoguing, still with the idea about school culture when we consider the closing approach of the internal functioning and the everyday in the institution analysed here. In this perspective, we consider the suggestions of Goodson (1995), Julia (2001), Frago (1995; 2005) e Souza (2000; 2010) who assure that the internal processes at the school cannot be ignored. In the present analysis we think about the set of transformations which make the changes in the Brazilian education and, more particularly, in the School of Apprentice Craftsmen at Paraíba as a place where these changes took place even being marked by conflicts and tensions. In this way we have worked with all the available legislation about professional education in the period (creation of the apprentice schools, remodelations and their extinction) as well as the management reports. Articulately we analysed the collection of fotography of the school as a possible exercise in the direction of understanding the intentions of inculcating the ideas and discussing the publications of the lectures which were organized by the teachers in the years of 1925 and 1936. / Com o advento da República, e nas primeiras décadas do século XX, a educação ocupou cada vez mais espaço na pauta de preocupações do Estado brasileiro. O esforço para alfabetizar e educar o povo, seguindo os princípios do nacionalismo em voga, ganharam contornos cada vez mais precisos. Nesse contexto, a escola assume papel dos mais importantes, e as escolas de aprendizes, em particular, assumem o desafio de alfabetizar e disciplinar os desfavorecidos da fortuna . Nessa perspectiva, este trabalho, intitulado Mente amore pro patria docere: a Escola de Aprendizes Artífices da Paraíba e a formação de cidadãos úteis à nação, constitui uma reflexão sobre a trajetória de uma dessas escolas de aprendizes, localizada na então cidade de Parahyba (atual João Pessoa), entre 1909, ano em que foi criada, e 1942, quando deixou de existir após processo de remodelações promovidas pelo Governo Federal. Aqui, defendemos a tese de que a Escola de Aprendizes da Paraíba, criada com os objetivos de profissionalizar os desfavorecidos da sorte e produzir operários disciplinados, foi um lugar de aprendizagem de saberes e de inculcação de comportamentos, onde jovens socialmente excluídos tinham seus corpos e mentes educados, segundo a lógica da racionalidade do trabalho e de construção da nacionalidade brasileira. Fundamentamos a tese nos pressupostos teóricos do materialismo histórico (MARX, 1980; MARX; ENGELS, 1984; 2004; LUKÁCS, 2003; PINTO, 1969) e na utilização da categoria de totalidade, dialogando, ainda, com a ideia de cultura escolar, no sentido de nos aproximarmos do funcionamento interno e do cotidiano da instituição aqui em estudo. Nessa perspectiva, consideramos a sugestão de Goodson (1995), Julia (2001), Frago (1995; 2005) e Souza (2000; 2010) de que os processos internos da escola não podem ser ignorados. Na análise desenvolvida, pensamos o conjunto das transformações que assinalam as mudanças na educação brasileira e, mais particualrmente, na Escola de Aprendizes Artífices da Paraíba, como um local onde tais mudanças se materializaram, ainda que marcadas por conflitos e tensões. Daí trabalharmos com toda a legislação disponível sobre educação profissional no período (criação das escolas de aprendizes, remodelações e extinção dessas), bem como dos relatórios de gestão. Articuladamente, analisamos o acervo de fotografias da Escola como um exercício possível na direção de compreendermos as pretensões de inculcar ideias e, para além disso, discutimos as publicações das palestras que foram realizadas pelos professores da Escola nos anos de 1925 e 1936.

This study has the objective of analyse and understand the process of (not) teach and (not) learn Mathematics in the first year of elementary school in a rural school from Uberlândia city. We organized the present work in five parts; in the first on we elaborated a discussion about the rural school to understand a little bit about the history of that institution and we could note that since its beginning, in the first decades of the twentieh century, till nowadays that institution has been coming marginalized. In the second part, we presented our conception around the Mathematics learn and teaching process based in a historic-cultural emphasis, including teachers and students like historic subjects and emphasizing the interaction between those ones in the process of learning and teaching. We also discussed the daily school as fundamental space-time of the educative work. Because of that, we considerate the not learning, hardly ever pointed as a failure of the students, as a complex school phenomenon that requires a deep analyses of the daily school and the class room. The process of construction of the methodological route from this present works is presentend in the third part. We chose for a qualitative approach and developed the following steps: observation in class, rooms with field notes, production and analysis of exercises used by the research participants teachers in the class rooms with their students. In the fourth part, we told a little of the story of Jardim das Flores , school in wich we made the field search during the second half of 2005 and first half of 2006. In that part we presented the 3 teachers and the students with who we worked; with the description of those subjects and their relationships we tried to substantiate the discussion about the process of learning and teaching Mathematics. We noted that there are a lot of variations in the relation of learning and teaching and evidenced that one that took our attention by the most in the school: the not teaching and the not learning. We, although, selected other variations as axis of analysis: the teaching and learning, the not teaching and the learning, the teaching and the not learning, and the not teaching and the not learning. We could note that there is a deep relation between the way used by the teacher to teach and the way of learning of the student and, to teach Mathematics is necessary considerate the students as culture subjects and the daily school as a learning space for the teachers. Finally, we also salient the importance of the collaborative work for the continued formation of teachers. / Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar e compreender o processo de (não) ensinar e (não) aprender Matemática em um 1º ano do ensino fundamental de uma Escola Rural do município de Uberlândia. Organizamos o presente trabalho em cinco partes; na primeira parte elaboramos uma discussão acerca da escola do campo para compreender um pouco sobre a história dessa instituição e constatamos que desde seus primórdios, nas primeiras décadas do século XX, até os dias atuais tal instituição vem sendo marginalizada. Na segunda parte, apresentamos nossa concepção do processo de ensino e aprendizado da Matemática fundamentada num enfoque histórico-cultural, compreendendo professores e alunos como sujeitos históricos e enfatizando a interação entre tais sujeitos no processo de ensinar e aprender. Enfatizamos também o cotidiano escolar como espaço-tempo fundamental do trabalho educativo. Por isso, consideramos o não aprender, quase sempre tido como fracasso dos alunos, como um fenômeno escolar complexo que requer uma profunda análise do cotidiano escolar e da sala de aula. O processo de construção do percurso metodológico da presente pesquisa é apresentado na terceira parte. Optamos por uma abordagem qualitativa e desenvolvemos os seguintes procedimentos: observações em sala de aula com produção de notas de campo e análise de exercícios utilizados pelas professoras participantes da pesquisa em sala de aula com seus alunos. Na quarta parte, contamos um pouco da história da Jardim das Flores, escola em que realizamos a pesquisa de campo durante o segundo semestre de 2005 e primeiro semestre de 2006. Nesta parte apresentamos as 3 professoras e os alunos com os quais trabalhamos; com a descrição desses sujeitos e de suas relações buscamos fundamentar a discussão sobre o processo de ensinar e aprender Matemática. Por fim, na quinta parte, analisamos alguns aspectos de histórias escolares constituídas no dia-a-dia da sala de aula que culminaram no fracasso em aprender Matemática. Constatamos que há muitas variações na relação do ensinar e aprender e ressaltamos aquela que nos chamou mais a atenção em nossa (con)vivência na escola: o não ensinar e o não aprender. No entanto, selecionamos outras variações como eixo de análise quais sejam: o ensinar e o aprender, o não-ensinar e o aprender, o ensinar e o nãoaprender e o não-ensinar e o não-aprender. Constatamos que há uma relação profunda entre o jeito de o professor ensinar e o jeito de aprender do aluno e, que para ensinar Matemática é necessário considerar os alunos como sujeitos de cultura e o cotidiano escolar como um espaço de aprendizado para professores. Enfim, ressaltamos também a importância do trabalho colaborativo para a formação continuada de professores. / Mestre em Educação

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Essa tese objetiva conhecer as trajetÃrias de jovens empobrecidos na cidade de Sobral-CearÃ, a partir de suas experiÃncias no/pelo mundo do trabalho na referida realidade, procurando compreender como essas experiÃncias sÃo mobilizadas a favor de seus projetos sÃcio profissionais. A pesquisa propÃe-se a perscrutar os modos como esses jovens vÃm desenhando suas experiÃncias profissionais, no enfrentamento das (im) possibilidades cotidianas no mundo do trabalho, nas tensÃes gestadas nas relaÃÃes com a profissionalizaÃÃo, com o mundo do trabalho e com a prÃpria cidade. Portanto, constitui um esforÃo de compreensÃo da relaÃÃo com o trabalho na vida de jovens, aqui reconhecidos como âjovens das periferias do mundo do trabalhoâ, a partir de vÃrias experiÃncias de inserÃÃo, institucionalizadas, regulares ou nÃo, marcadas pela provisoriedade e precariedade. Trata-se de uma construÃÃo analÃtica direcionada a adentrar nos sentidos do mundo do trabalho para jovens, que estÃo a vivenciar processos de formaÃÃo no Ãmbito de polÃticas pÃblicas voltadas para a inserÃÃo de juventudes empobrecidas no universo laboral, em tempos contemporÃneos. Buscou-se encontrar os jovens, sujeitos da investigaÃÃo, em diferentes lÃcus: nas agÃncias de formaÃÃo e intermediaÃÃo de empregos, destacando-se: a Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Social (SDS), a Secretaria da Tecnologia e Desenvolvimento EconÃmico (STDE), a AgÃncia de InclusÃo Produtiva de Sobral, o ServiÃo Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (SENAI); nos projetos de inserÃÃo de jovens no mundo do trabalho, tomando especificamente: o Projovem Trabalhador, o Projovem Adolescente, o Primeiro Passo e o Jovem Aprendiz; nos espaÃos das ruas no centro de Sobral, a desenvolverem trabalhos informais. O percurso trilhado foi orientado pelos seguintes objetivos: conhecer a versÃo institucionalizada dos fatos, no chÃo onde os jovens escrevem suas primeiras experiÃncias profissionais; adentrar em suas trajetÃrias profissionais, circunscritas nas encruzilhadas do mundo do trabalho, de modo a configurar seus sonhos e projetos a partir de suas narrativas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, de inspiraÃÃo etnogrÃfica, a trabalhar com narrativas de jovens e de agentes institucionais, desenvolvendo percurso metodolÃgico a partir de observaÃÃo direta, registro sistemÃtico em diÃrio de campo e em fotografias, entrevistas narrativas, grupos focais e grupos de discussÃo. Os fios da escrita e os capÃtulos da tese articulam-se em torno da Ãtica dos acontecimentos que ecoam das narrativas profissionais de jovens pobres e dos agentes institucionais na simultaneidade do tecido social. As anÃlises empreendidas fizeram-se no entrecruzamento dos aportes teÃrico-metodolÃgicos advindos, principalmente, dos encontros com Walter Benjamin, Gilberto Velho, Howard Becker, Machado Pais, Larrosa Bondia, Claude Dubar, FranÃois Dubet, Pierre Bourdieu, Ãlrich Beck, Giovanni Alves, MÃrcio Pochmann, dentre outros. As histÃrias aqui narradas por jovens visam resgatar a luta pelo trabalho, pelo reconhecimento e pelo engajamento, circunscrita nas trajetÃrias nÃo-lineares de jovens das periferias da cidade de Sobral-CearÃ, mostrando o que foi e à reprimido, esquecido e intencionalmente escondido, por todos aqueles que pelejam e narram, à sua maneira, as lutas cotidianas. / This thesis aims at evaluating life trajectories of poverty-ridden youngsters in the city of Sobral, State of Ceara, based on their experiences within the job market and according to their reality, while searching to understand how such practical knowledge is summoned to help with their social and professional projects. The research tries to investigate thoroughly how those youths have been designing their professional experiences to tackle daily challenges related to tensions generated by the qualification effort raised not only by the job market but by the city itself. It is, therefore, an attempt to understand how young people relate to work, here identified as âyoung people from the periphery of the job marketâ considering their insertion experiences, promoted or not by the State, regular or not, and marked by short-term and precarious aspects. It is an analytic construct directed towards determining how youngsters perceive the job market at a time when they are experiencing formation processes fomented by public policies aimed at placing poor young people in the job market. The research aimed at young people as the investigationâs subjects, at different loci: training agencies that also act as a go-between, highlighting the Social Development Secretariat (SDS), the Technology and Economic Development Secretariat (STDE), the Productive Inclusion Agency of Sobral, the National Service for Industrial Training (SENAI), projects for insertion of young people in the job market, citing specifically the Projovem Worker, the Projovem Adolescent Worker, The First Step and The Young Apprentice, and in the street spaces of downtown Sobral where informal jobs are found. The path followed by the research was based on determining the institutional version of facts that take place within the ground where youths write their first professional experiences; and evaluating their professional trajectories, circumscribed by the job market, to measure their expectations and projects as delineated by their narratives. It is a qualitative effort of ethnographic inspiration that deals with narratives from youths and government agents whence a methodological path was devised based on direct observation, systematic appointment on field journals, analysis of photographs, and interviews involving the groups. The main lines and chapters of the thesis are developed around the ethical interpretation of facts found in the professional narratives of poor youths and government agents found together in the same social tissue. The resulting analyses considered cross-crossing of theoretical and methodological inputs that came mostly from investigation of Walter Benjamin, Gilberto Velho, Howard Becker, Machado Pais, Larrosa Bondia, Claude Dubar, FranÃois Dubet, Pierre Bourdieu, Ãlrich Beck, Giovanni Alves, MÃrcio Pochmann, among other. The histories told here by young people aim at rescuing the struggle for work, recognition and engagement as circumscribed to non-linear trajectories from young people in the periphery of the city of Sobral, State of Ceara, showing the extent of current and past repression that is intentionally forgotten and hidden by those that face daily struggles and now tell about them.

This qualitative study explored the overall impact of training HVAC technicians using the SightPros-VirTechs system for remote, wireless, internet video assistance at a small HVAC company, Metro Environmental. John Thomason, the president/co-owner developed a website and a new SightPros communication tool that allows wireless, one-on-one, just-in-time, high-quality, video-monitored instructions between an expert at one site and a technician at another site. Metro Environmental successfully used the SightPros-VirTechs system to train a new apprentice remotely. The apprentice and expert changed their normal and routine physical activities because the expert worked remotely and the apprentice worked on-site. Within just a few months, the apprentice proved competent enough to go to customer accounts without more experienced technicians nearby. The technicians express excitement about the SightPros communication tool as a way to contact remote experts whenever needed. The customer and business contacts also give good reviews and suggest other benefits. The expert permanently captures the communications so the company can use the saved video for many applications, especially training. The dissertation provides a list of recommendations to trainers/educators for similar applications.

Este estudo tem como objetivo identificar, analisar e descrever os impactos do programa Jovem Aprendiz, a inserção no mercado de trabalho e a consequente influência no desenvolvimento da carreira, desse jovem. Tendo como local de estudo a cidade de Imperatriz (MA), onde o Programa está sob a responsabilidade de instituições educativas, como o Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial (SENAC) e o Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (SENAI), bem como de empresas parceiras que se configuram como campo para as atividades práticas dos alunos. A pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa, adota como procedimento metodológico questionários, com questões abertas e fechadas, aplicados aos gestores de empresas parceiras do Programa e aos aprendizes. Do ponto de vista taxionômico, a pesquisa se classifica de campo. Em função da importância do tema, esta investigação contribui para o aprofundamento da política de inserção do adolescente e do jovem, no mercado de trabalho, de forma que pode interessar aos planejadores de políticas públicas de juventude, a pesquisadores da área, assim como a professores e acadêmicos de áreas como psicologia, sociologia, administração de empresas e as áreas relacionadas ao desenvolvimento local e regional. Os principais resultados obtidos mostram que os gestores das empresas, que colaboraram com a pesquisa percebem o programa Jovem Aprendiz como importante tanto para os jovens beneficiários quanto para os aprendizes. Ao participar do Programa, as empresas contribuem para a qualificação profissional de jovens e têm a oportunidade de agregar novos valores ao seu quadro de recursos humanos. Quanto aos jovens participantes, afirmam que se beneficiam com a qualificação profissional e o desenvolvimento de novas habilidades, permitindo-lhes mais acesso e permanência no mercado de trabalho. / This study aims to identify, analyze and describe the impacts of the Young Apprentice program, the insertion in the labor market and the consequent impact on the development of the career of this young man. With the study site the city of Imperatriz (MA), where the program is under the responsibility of educational institutions such as the National Service for Commercial Education (Senac) and the National Industrial Apprenticeship Service (SENAI), as well as partner companies that constitute the field for the practical activities of students. The research, qualitative, adopts as methodological procedure questionnaires with open and closed questions, applied to managers of Program partners and learners. The taxonomic point of view, research is classified field. Due to the importance of the topic, this research contributes to the strengthening of adolescent integration policy and youth in the labor market, so that may be of interest to public policy planners youth, researchers in the field, as well as teachers and academic areas such as psychology, sociology, business administration and areas related to local and regional development. The main results show that the managers of the companies, which cooperated with the research perceive the Young Apprentice program as important for both the young beneficiaries as for apprentices. By participating in the program, companies contribute to the professional training of young people and have the opportunity to add new values to its human resources framework. As for the young participants, they claim that benefit from the professional skills and the development of new skills, allowing them more access and remain in the labor market.

The topic of this thesis is dedicated to trade enterprise in Rakovník in the first half of the20th century with a focus on clothing and tailoring trade. In the first half of the 20th century the general politically-economical situation in Rakovník and its political district proved great changes in the development of the town, which also influenced the development of the trade enterprise. Local specialised trade authorities such as The Guild of Clothing, The Guild of the Dressmakers and The District Unity of Trade Guilds have been taken into consideration. Final conclusions, regarding the operation and the structure of the above mentioned authorities, have been assessed and compared to the results of a probe to the same domain in Beroun. Summarization of the results, achieved from the regional topics, might be classified among the complex schemes of general economic and social history. Processing this thesis has been built on heuristic analysis of the archival sources of The State District Archives in Rakovník and Beroun.

[pt] Este trabalho tem como objetivo reler vida e obra de Gonzaguinha a partir da perspectiva do moleque, voltando se para o gesto político pedagógico que o artista faz ao colocar o seu guerreiro me nino na rua principal da vida e como protagonista de seu fazer artístico. Ao enaltecer a sua proposta musical de sempre começar tudo ou tra vez, analisamos como essa filosofia de vida reverbera em alguns de seus escritos , percorrendo por entrevistas, matéri as de jornais, biografia, produções acadêmicas, canções, rastros e vestígios. Nesse contexto, esta pesquisa se debruça sobre a espontan eida de do Gonzaguinha moleque tão presente nas suas vivências da infância e adolescência no Morro de São Carlos. Em segui da, apresenta a postura de eterno aprendiz adotada pelo artista, bem como a importância das histórias, das lições diárias e dos ensinam ento s que aprende no encontro com as pessoas pela estrada a fora. Assim, ao se jogar na vida de viajante, Gonzaga Junior se coloca como sujeito da experiência, sempre disposto a dobrar novas esquinas e a recomeçar. Por fim, pensa se uma arte de recomeçar encarnada profundamente em vida e obra de Gonzaguinha, que só é possível pela sua postura de moleque. / [en] This work aims to reread life and work of Gonzaguinha from t he moleque s perspective that drives the artist s political pedagogical gesture by placing his guerreiro menino (warrior fighter/ labor kiddo in the main street of life and as protagonist of his artistic work. T o understand his life philosophy while praising his musical proposal of always start ing over, I choose to analy ze interviews, newspaper articles, biography, academic productions, songs, tracks and traces . In this search to perceive the knowledge delivered by the artist, I focus on the so present kid do s pontaneity learned from Gonzaguinha s boyhood experiences in the streets and alleys of Morro de São Carlos . Then I br ing out his position ing as an eternal apprentice as well the significance of his stories, daily lessons teachings, and learning s by en coun tering people down the road Thus, wishing to throw himself into a traveler s life , he faces multiple experiences , an d doubt s as the subject of experience always willing to take new turns and start all over again. Finally, I think of an art of starting aga in incarnated deeply in the life and work o Gonzaguinha , which is only possible because of his moleque s standing

Traditional healers are one among professionals that are viewed as the most significant people in African Society. They are accorded the highest esteem because of the role they play in saving people’s lives and promoting cultural aspects such as ukuhlonipha amasiko in isiZulu. It should be remembered that this word ukuhlonipha which means to respect, is used across cultures to maintain peace within family and society. It all depends on which culture promotes it more than others. It is sociolinguistic truism that ukuhlonipha is essentially linked to the ubuntu philosophy of African people. However, traditional healers more than other people follow ukuhlonipha culture in numerous ways, especially when they meet, being consulted and during traditional ceremonies. They serve and promote what in IsiZulu is known as ukuhlonipha, which to the uninitiated and sometimes even to the scholars of this philosophy is a mystery. It is for this reason and others that people view them as the soul of society. This study looks at relevant sociolinguistic theories especially the politeness theory to analyze most of the hlonipha features shown by traditional healers, apprentice and people during consultation. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:07:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JOANEDE APARECIDA XAVIER DE SOUZA FE.pdf: 827799 bytes, checksum: 02cfaa63df3aa48cf2381c6c3109fee0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-10-23 / This study aims to analyze the works and The Sorcerer s Apprentice Magic Mirror to present Mario Quintana as a sorcerer s apprentice magician able to transform images into concepts and everyday life in language. The intention in this work is to reveal the poetic to Mario Quintana, seeking to understand and explain how the poet manipulates the imagery of incitement and as evidenced by his poetic concepts. To this end, the work The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary (2001), and the imaginary, of Gilbert Durand (1994), will provide the theoretical basis and the poetics of reverie, of Gaston Bachelard (2009). Therefore, consider the style and the plurality of styles in Quintana, making a foray into the poetic to prove that the author is not attached to any literary style, though, has it left contaminated by the surreal beauty as a means to seek the freedom of creation, escaping the limitations imposed by so-called literary schools, because the author walked against material society. Thus, his poems explore dreams, fantasies, visions and hallucinations. This dissertational work will be guided by a simple language, even in the case of the theories explored here, since another goal that will guide is to make it work in a research material for teachers and high school students. Therefore, the didactic character will be a goal to be achieved at the end. Thus, it is expected to instigate the reader of this work to pursue the work of Mario Quintana and her make object pleasant and constant reading. / Este estudo objetiva analisar as obras O Aprendiz de Feiticeiro e Espelho Mágico para apresentar Mario Quintana como um feiticeiro aprendiz de mágico capaz de transformar imagens em conceitos e o cotidiano em linguagem. A pretensão nesse trabalho é desvendar o fazer poético de Mário Quintana, buscando entender e explicitar a forma como o poeta manipula a incitação do imaginário e como evidencia seus conceitos poéticos. Para atingir essa finalidade, as obras As estruturas Antropológicas do Imaginário (2001), e O imaginário, de Gilbert Durand (1994), servirão de aporte teórico, bem como A poética do devaneio, de Gaston Bachelard (2009). Para tanto, consideraremos o estilo e a pluralidade de estilos em Quintana, fazendo uma incursão pelo poético para comprovar que o autor não se prendeu a nenhum estilo literário, muito embora, tenha se deixado contaminar pela beleza surreal como meio de buscar a liberdade da criação, fugindo das limitações impostas pelas chamadas escolas literárias, pois o autor caminhou na contramão da sociedade material. Assim, seus poemas exploram sonhos, fantasias, visões e alucinações. Este trabalho dissertativo será pautado por uma linguagem simples, mesmo em se tratando das teorias aqui exploradas, uma vez que outro objetivo que o norteará é fazer com que resulte num material de pesquisa para professores e estudantes do Ensino Médio. Para tanto, o caráter didático será uma meta a ser conquistada ao final. Dessa forma, espera-se instigar o leitor desta dissertação a buscar a obra de Mario Quintana e dela fazer objeto de leitura prazerosa e constante.