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In these latter years a lot of countries try to call people’s attention to education of the disabled. Special attention is paid to education of students with noticeable disability. Pupils with strongly noticeable disability are integrated into special classes of general education as well as educated in education centers, special boarding schools, specialized foster homes or children and youth boarding schools. An educator plays a very important part in the system of education. The attitude of a headmaster towards their functions is very important still very often opinion of a headmaster and an educator is quite different. It shows the existing problem between educators and headmasters. Nowadays we lack ways of solving this problem. It’s difficult to understand why educators and headmasters try to get round and not to solve this problem. One of the most important functions of every educator is taking care of individual’s education and maturity. Other functions are very important as well. They are: helping and taking care of pupils health and safety, looking for participants and pedagogical briefing. The main problem of the research study consists of one component – it is educators’ and headmasters’ attitude towards functions performed by educators. I tried to review activities done by educators teaching students with strongly noticeable disability and specificity of their activities and functions. I also tried to understand the priorities given... [to full text]

This thesis presents a case study, exploring a Tibetan boarding class in inland China from a Tibetan learner’s perspective. As one of a number of forms of Chinese minority education, Tibetan boarding schools/classes are little known internationally (Wang & Zhou, 2003). To respond to the need for more research in this area, this case study gives voice to a Tibetan learner who experienced the boarding class. An attendee of a Tibetan boarding class in Jiahe served as the particular “case” in this study. Underpinned by a theoretical framework of language ecology, this study centers on a learner, considers the impacts of his referential contexts, and explores a particular Tibetan boarding class as an example of Chinese minority education in practice. Data collected through interviews, observations, and document review reveal that language learners constantly negotiate with multiple identities and interact with their referential contexts. Meanwhile, the multilayered and multifaceted referential contexts play an influential role in learners’ experiences and learning outcomes. Tibetan Education, as exemplified by the Tibetan boarding class, facilitates and encourages minority learners to participate in the mainstream education and the majority cultural practice. However, Tibetan education also impedes the maintenance and preservation of their indigenous languages. In conclusion, Chinese minority education endeavors to ensure that various ethnic and linguistic learners have educational opportunities and qualities to develop individuals’ ability; to strengthen their competence; to upgrade their social, educational, and economic situations; and to invest in what they define as worthwhile and valuable in a way that they view as effective. The present study is informed by multicultural education, a notion grounded and well studied in North American discourse. In addition, suggestions for further improvement of Tibetan boarding classes are also discussed. Yet in view of the variations between North American discourse and Chinese context, the notion of multicultural education can not be entirely applied to Chinese minority education. Therefore, future studies could aim to develop theories grounded in Chinese minority education context.

This thesis presents a case study, exploring a Tibetan boarding class in inland China from a Tibetan learner’s perspective. As one of a number of forms of Chinese minority education, Tibetan boarding schools/classes are little known internationally (Wang & Zhou, 2003). To respond to the need for more research in this area, this case study gives voice to a Tibetan learner who experienced the boarding class. An attendee of a Tibetan boarding class in Jiahe served as the particular “case” in this study. Underpinned by a theoretical framework of language ecology, this study centers on a learner, considers the impacts of his referential contexts, and explores a particular Tibetan boarding class as an example of Chinese minority education in practice. Data collected through interviews, observations, and document review reveal that language learners constantly negotiate with multiple identities and interact with their referential contexts. Meanwhile, the multilayered and multifaceted referential contexts play an influential role in learners’ experiences and learning outcomes. Tibetan Education, as exemplified by the Tibetan boarding class, facilitates and encourages minority learners to participate in the mainstream education and the majority cultural practice. However, Tibetan education also impedes the maintenance and preservation of their indigenous languages. In conclusion, Chinese minority education endeavors to ensure that various ethnic and linguistic learners have educational opportunities and qualities to develop individuals’ ability; to strengthen their competence; to upgrade their social, educational, and economic situations; and to invest in what they define as worthwhile and valuable in a way that they view as effective. The present study is informed by multicultural education, a notion grounded and well studied in North American discourse. In addition, suggestions for further improvement of Tibetan boarding classes are also discussed. Yet in view of the variations between North American discourse and Chinese context, the notion of multicultural education can not be entirely applied to Chinese minority education. Therefore, future studies could aim to develop theories grounded in Chinese minority education context.

This study challenges a popular Canadian national myth that characterizes Settlers as "benevolent" peacemakers - not perpetrators of violence in our relations with Indigenous peoples. I trace this foundational myth from its historical roots in 19th century treatymaking to a contemporary discourse of reconciliation that purports to be transformative, but simply perpetuates colonial relations. I argue that Settler violence against Indigenous peoples is woven into the fabric of Canada's national history in an unbroken thread from past to present that we must "unsettle" and "restory." making substantive space for Indigenous history: counternarratives of diplomacy, law and peacemaking practices, on transformative pathways to decolonizing Canada. This requires a better understanding of what role myth, ritual and history play in perpetuating or transforming Indigenous-Settler conflict. I propose a pedagogical strategy for "unsettling the Settler within" to explore the unsettling, potentially decolonizing and transformative power of testimony in public acts of restitution, apology. truth-telling and remembrance; and restorying- the making of space for Indigenous history. diplomacy. law, and peacemaking practices enacted in story, ceremony and ritual. I suggest that Settlers must confront our real identity as perpetrators - a deeply unsettling task. Dislodging the false premise of the benevolent peacemaker myth requires a paradigm shift that moves Settlers from a culture of denial that is the hallmark of perpetrators of violence towards an ethics of recognition that guides our attempts to become authentic peacemakers and Indigenous allies. The study mirrors this process. linking theory to my own critical. reflective practice. I critique reconciliation discourse in a case study of Canada's approach to settling Indian residential school claims. I describe my personal experience in an apology feast held for Gitxsan residential school survivors as an example of unsettling the Settler within and restorying that, despite its specificity, has broader applicability for designing truth-telling and reconciliation processes.

The English Public Boarding School is considered from a sociological perspective, and more particularly in the context of research in the field of complex organizations, as a residential organization. Concepts are used which have been developed in studies of other residential organizations such as military units, hospitals and prisons. The account is of an exploratory, descriptive case study of 'the research school', using a variant on the method of participant observation as the principal technique of data collection supplemented with data collected during visits to certain other public schools and an examination of published and unpublished documents by staff and past pupils. The size of these schools and their residential nature, which involves them in the custody of their pupils, give rise to certain specific organizational problems to which similar solutions have been devised by most of the schools. Certain aspects of the social process in the education provided by the schools are indicated in the examination of their admission procedures, processes of socialization on entry and the concomitants of organizational membership, of the agents and means of social control, together with a discussion both of the boys' perception of relative gratifications and deprivations with respect to various reference groups both within and without the school system and of the boys' different modes of adaptation to life in the socio-cultural context of the school. These schools belong to that category of complex organization which in addition to working through and with people work on them. The role of the school in socializing the boy and regulating his behaviour while a member of the school is emphasized, as education in the public boarding school is as much the attempt to socialize its pupils as to enable them to pass formal examinations or otherwise achieve academic ends, and it is with this former aspect of the schools that this account is primarily concerned. The schools' combined custodial and educational commitments make the maintenance of social order within them of fundamental significance. By anticipatory socialization in the home and at 'preparatory' school, and by their recruitment selection and admission procedures, by a formal system of control exercised partly through the prefect system, by the privilege system and certain ritualistic activities and ritualistic symbolization, the staff combine a high degree of organizational control with high scope and pervasiveness. During term a boy is engaged almost exclusively in activities involving other members of his school and organizational status embraces his life to an extent which is approached by few other types of organization in English society. Aspects of life at these schools are described which involve the pupils experiencing, rather than a sense of relative gratification, one of relative deprivation. The extent to which a particular boy experiences this is discussed in terms of disparities between his presenting culture on entry and the way of life associated with organizational membership, and in terms of his expectations and of the mode of adaptation and constellations of reference groups he has adopted at the time. The boys' responses to life in the socio-cultural context of the public boarding school are presented within the framework of a revised form of Merton's Typology of Individual Adaptation, and discussed in relation to the availability of the various modes of adaptation and to some of the determinants of their adoption by particular boys at certain stages of their school careers.

Mental health services in Australia (and in most western countries) have undergone considerable changes in the past 20 years. These changes have included the closing or downsizing of the old tertiary institutions and a move towards community treatment of people with a mental illness (consumers). Consumers no longer live in hospitals; as a consequence housing has become an important aspect of their lives. Research has demonstrated that when consumers live in good quality housing of their own choosing they report improved quality of life, more satisfying supportive social relationships, and have fewer admissions. People with schizophrenia are the largest psychiatric diagnostic group treated by the public health system in Australia. As a result of their illness people with schizophrenia often have difficulty in maintaining reasonable quality accommodation and supportive social relationships. A review of the available literature on housing options indicates that, for people with a mental illness, boarding houses are the least desirable type of community housing and that living in their own home is the most desirable. These were the two types of housing chosen for the study. Aims of the study This study aimed to explore the impact of housing on the mental health of people with schizophrenia. Study Design Stage 1 For the initial stage of the project archival data was used to investigate the relationship between types of accommodation and illness patterns of people with schizophrenia. The hypotheses for stage 1 of the project were: 1. Admission rates will be significantly different for people with schizophrenia who are discharged to a private home when compared to those discharged to a boarding house. 2. Length of stay in hospital will not be significantly different for people with schizophrenia discharged to a private home when compared to those discharged to a boarding house. 3. Symptoms, as measured by scores on HoNOS scale, will be significantly different for people with schizophrenia living in a private home when compared to those living in a boarding house. 4. The level of functioning, measured using an LSP 16, will be significantly different for people with schizophrenia living in a private home when compared to those living in a boarding house. Inclusion Criteria The subjects included were between 18 and 65 years of age and had a principal diagnosis of schizophrenia. Findings Findings indicate that people with schizophrenia are more likely to be admitted to hospital if discharged to a boarding house. Surprisingly, results also indicated that while there were no differences in the level of psychiatric symptoms experienced, people with schizophrenia living in boarding houses had less access to social support, meaningful activities and work and had lower levels of global functioning. These findings contradict the conventional wisdom that people with schizophrenia resort to living in boarding houses because of their level of disability. Stage 2 Stage 2 of the study further explored the impact of housing type on the mental health of people with schizophrenia by examining the experience of thirteen people living independently in private homes or in a boarding house. The study aimed to use the experiences of the participants to develop a grounded theory explanation of the impact of housing on people with schizophrenia. Findings from Stage 2 indicated a strong desire amongst all participants to live in their own home. Participants living in their own home had access to more opportunities and resources for staying well than participants living in boarding houses. Those participants who lived in their own home felt they belonged, they felt safe and most importantly they had greater opportunities to make and maintain supportive social relationships with friends and family. Participants reported that stable housing and supportive relationships helped them to stay well.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2000. / Adviser: Elizabeth Ammons. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-282). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis, PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

323f. / Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-09T17:56:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE Educar para internar. Colégios-Internatos no Brasil (1840-1950).pdf: 7166951 bytes, checksum: b7e39d81f7c93e8fd7d8580ba722ca79 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2013-10-30T17:59:42Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE Educar para internar. Colégios-Internatos no Brasil (1840-1950).pdf: 7166951 bytes, checksum: b7e39d81f7c93e8fd7d8580ba722ca79 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-30T17:59:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE Educar para internar. Colégios-Internatos no Brasil (1840-1950).pdf: 7166951 bytes, checksum: b7e39d81f7c93e8fd7d8580ba722ca79 (MD5) / Este estudo trata dos internatos na sociedade brasileira e, especialmente, sergipana, tomando como objeto os colégios-internatos, no período que se estende de 1840 a 1950. A pesquisa, utilizando abordagens culturais da história social, destaca os escolares na condição de internos (pensionistas), os espaços de internamento, as práticas culturais, os debates e as funções sociais dos internatos. A operação historiográfica consistiu em separar, reunir e transformar em documentos históricos as informações coletadas, efetuando os cruzamentos entre essas informações e/ou indícios encontrados. Para responder aos questionamentos propostos foram utilizadas fontes diversas, como relatórios, teses doutorais, almanaques, revistas, prospectos e estatutos de colégios, livros de viajantes, romances, entre outras. O internato brasileiro não ficou imune a críticas. Entre os problemas apontados pelos intelectuais, as condições físicas e de higiene do internato, especialmente os dormitórios, ocupavam um lugar de destaque. Os médicos, preocupados com questões higienistas, em suas teses de doutoramento do século XIX e início do século XX, alertavam para as insalubridades físicas e moral dos internatos e apresentavam propostas para o funcionamento higiênico destes. Os internatos foram defendidos e até utilizados na instrução pública, principalmente visando ao desenvolvimento do ensino secundário. Contudo, foi na instrução particular onde os internatos se desenvolveram utilizados por famílias ricas e médias da população para promover a instrução de seus filhos. Nos internatos, os estudantes encontravam cama, comida (pensionato) e instrução (aulas, repetições, exercícios suplementares e direção dos estudos). No século XIX, existiam pequenos internatos constituídos como uma empresa familiar e grandes internatos, instalados em casas residenciais adaptadas, em sobrados ou em prédios planejados para servirem como colégios-internatos, com vastos cômodos capazes de acomodar um grande número de pensionistas. Em Sergipe, no século XX, a história dos internatos é marcada pela permanência de pequenos internatos de organização ―familiar‖ e pelo surgimento de colégios-internatos instalados em prédios adaptados ou em edifícios-internatos. Enfim, a educação dispensada nos internatos, apesar das críticas desfavoráveis, serviu como estratégia educativa de famílias ricas e classes médias e estabeleceu distinção a esses segmentos sociais por meio de constante formação de princípios culturais que contribuíram para a perpetuação de privilégios de classe. This study is about boarding schools in Brazilian society and especially, sergipana society, taking as an object the boarding schools, from 1840 to 1950. The research which uses cultural approaches of social history emphasizes the scholars under the condition of resident students (pensioner), the spaces in boarding schools, the cultural practices, the debates and the boarding school students‘ social jobs. The historical operation consisted of separating, organizing and transforming the collected information into historical documents, and crosschecking such information with other facts found. As to answer the proposed questions several sources were used like reports, doctors‘ dissertations, almanacs, magazines, prospects, schools‘ internal rules, travelers‘ books, novels, among others. The Brazilian boarding school system was also criticized. Among the problems mentioned by intellectuals, the boarding school‘s physical and hygiene conditions, especially the dormitories were on spot. The doctors, worried about hygiene aspects, in their doctorate dissertations from XIX century and beginning of XX century, used to mention the resident students‘ physical and moral hazards and they used to propose suggestions for a better hygienic environment. The resident students were defended as well as used in public instruction, mainly aiming at developing the secondary schools teaching. However, it was in private instruction where resident students developed themselves used by rich and middle-class families‘ population to promote their children‘s education. In the boarding schools, the scholars used to have accommodation, food and instruction (classes, repetitions, supplementary exercises and instructions on how to study). In the XIX century, there were small boarding houses like a family company and big boarding schools, located in adapted houses, old houses or buildings planned to be used like boarding schools with a lot of rooms which could house a great number of pensioners. In Sergipe, in the XX century, the boarding houses‘ history is characterized by the existence of small family boarding houses and by the appearance of boarding schools located in adapted buildings or in boarding school buildings. So, education given to boarding schools students, despite the unfavorable criticism, served like an educational strategy of rich and middle-class families and established a distinction to such social groups through constant development of cultural principles which contributed to the class privileges perpetuation. / Salvador