When directors in professional Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) practice inclusive casting, or, in other words, cast an actor with a disability in a role that is not written with a disability, several provocative questions emerge: What are the social implications of inclusive casting? How might stories on stage change due to inclusive casting? What does inclusive casting mean for professional TYA companies and directors? How might performers with disabilities examine their personal and professional relationship to disability when participating in inclusive casting? How might a young audience’s perspective change when inclusive casting is implemented? This thesis examines these questions through interviews with directors, performers, and young audience members. / text

MultipliCities: The Infrastructure of African American Literature, 1899-1996 explores intersections between black fiction and canonical sociology through two extended case studies focusing on the authors Richard Wright and Paul Beatty. The formation of disciplinary sociology in the early twentieth century had a profound influence on the production and reception of African American literature. Sociologists at the University of Chicago were among the first to teach black fiction and poetry in the academy, and institutionalized a social scientific framework for comprehending black culture. This framework, which assumes that black writing produces racial knowledge about black experience, continues to pressure contemporary African American authors through the demands of the publishing industry today. At the same time, though, African American authors throughout the twentieth century have resisted sociological expectations for their work and responded critically to the social scientific study of the black community more broadly. MultipliCities studies black writers whose fiction is specifically critical of sociological conceptions of black personhood and place. While Richard Wright's best-selling Native Son (1940) has been canonized as a type of sociological fiction, I read against this critical tradition for the ways in which his juvenile delinquent protagonist, Bigger Thomas, evades his production as a social scientific object. I locate further evidence for Wright's revision of sociological knowledge production in his final, posthumously published novel, A Father's Law (1960; 2008), in which the main character is a sociologist and a serial killer who violently deforms the mastery of the social scientific expert. In my second case study, I turn to contemporary novelist Paul Beatty's post-civil rights era novel The White Boy Shuffle (1996), which I read as a mock ethnography in its description of a postindustrial ghetto that exceeds the sociological imagination of the so-called "culture of poverty." Though rap music is often interpreted as evidence of the alleged impoverishment of inner-city black community, in my final chapter I read Beatty's "hip hop novel" as challenging the social scientific expectations for black popular culture that are part of the ongoing legacy of the canonical sociology of race. / text

The Diploma thesis is divided into two big separate structures. The first one deals with a complete summary of history of music with focus on the representation of boy and male choir singing in different eras of musical evolution. It also gives an overview of the most important authors (and their works), who worked in time of male choirs' greatest expansion in our country - period of national renaissance. Also, it offers an overview of the choir ensembles of this type, which work in Czech Republic and abroad nowadays. The second structure is focused on professional work with boy's voice in time before mutation and during mutation and on the way which choirs function and the way of boys' motivation. Because there is not much Czech literature dealing with boys' voice during mutation, this part of diploma thesis is composed mainly from practical point of view. In purpose of practical assessment of this subject, a method of written questionnaire was used, given to choirmasters of the choirs in Czech Republic of such type. Choir directors also summarize their opinions from perspective of cooperation and concurrence between each boy choirs in Czech Republic.

Moje diplomová práce se věnuje tomu, jakým způsobem přistupují vyučující na druhém stupni základních škol k dívkám a chlapcům, kteří jsou genderově atypičtí. Tedy k dětem, kteří nesplňují představu "správné" dívky či "správného" chlapce z hlediska genderového řádu společnosti a nějakým způsobem se těmto představám vymykají (v rovině osobnostní, vzhledové či behaviorální). Ve výzkumu se zajímám o zkušenost vyučujících s těmito dětmi, o charakteristiky, jenž jsou podle nich genderově atypické, jak tyto děti podle nich přijímá kolektiv či učitelský sbor, apod., avšak podstatou mého zkoumání je zjistit, jaký postoj vůči těmto dětem učitelé a učitelky zaujímají a co jej ovlivňuje. Z výsledků výzkumu pak vyplývá, že existuje určitá typologie postojů vyučujících k genderově atypickým dětem, přičemž jednotlivé postoje vyučujících jsou ovlivňovány mnoha faktory. Faktor, který se ukázal jako nejdůležitější, protože významně ovlivňuje to, zda se bude jedna spíše o pozitivní či negativní přijetí dítěte, je to, zda projevy atypického dítěte narušují či znesnadňují vyučování a práci vyučujícího, nikoliv pouhá skutečnost, že je dítě genderově atypické. Tato práce je tvořena dvěma částmi: teoretickou a empirickou. V teoretické části se zabývám informacemi, které jsou základem pro můj výzkum a v rámci celé práce z...

The aim of this thesis is to find out the level of physical abilities of girls and boys of sports and non-sport class in the 6th year of the Chodovická Elementary School, their matching and comparison. We will examine the level of physical abilities of individuals in selected disciplines. The results will be compared between pupils of the same and opposite sex and with standardized norms of physical tests for the common population. Key words: Physical ability, comparison, a girl, a boy, sports class, elementary school, older school age, motor skills

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 O Rolfing como agente restaurador.pdf: 553433 bytes, checksum: 2fe72cb811f4ab9d0e3facbb600c9eea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-04-28 / Pontificia Universidade de São Paulo / The objective os this research is to show that there is an intrinsic, unequivocal and specific communication between body and environment. When silences and blockages occur it is because cognition and perceptual processes are interrupted. For this reason, we will study Communication Theory related to the Bodymidia concept (Katz and Greiner, 2001 and 2003), concepts developed by cognitive scientist referring to perception, conscience and body image (e.g: Damásio 2000, Ramachandran 2001) and the Rolfing procedures. Rolfing is a postural and moviment re-educational system that seeks to produce functional changes in the muscle skeleton system, changes in the body-processed sensations and perceptions and alterations in the environment relationship. Our hypothesis is that Rolfing may work as a restorative element of the blocked communication between body and environment. / O objetivo desta pesquisa é mostrar que existe comunicação intrínseca, inequívoca e específica entre corpo e ambiente. Quando surgem silêncios e bloqueios é porque os processos de cognição e os processos perceptivos estão corrompidos. Para tanto, serão estudadas teorias da comunicação relativas ao conceito de corpomídia (Katz e Greiner, 2001 e 2003), conceitos desenvolvidos por cientistas cognitivos referentes à percepção, consciência e imagem corporal (e.g: Damásio 2000, Ramachandran 2001) e procedimentos de Rolfing, que é um método de reeducação postural e do movimento que apresenta uma abordagem sistêmica. O Rolfing busca produzir alterações funcionais do sistema músculo-esquelético, mudanças na percepção e na sensação processada do corpo, e mudanças no relacionamento com o ambiente. A hipótese da pesquisa é que o Rolfing pode funcionar como elemento restaurador da comunicação entre corpo e ambiente.

This study addresses questions of gender and genre in early writing by drawing on systemic linguistic theory, It is a longitudinal case study that compares the writing development of two children, a boy and a girl/ who learned to write in classrooms that adopted an approach to writing known in Australia as 'process writing1, The children's written texts were analysed using the systemic functional grammar as developed by MAK, Hallidey and the models of genre and register as proposed by J,R, Martin. The children were followed for the first two and a half years of their schooling, from the first day of kindergarten to the middle of grade two. They were observed weekly during the daily ‘writing time’ and all texts were collected. Although the children were ostensibly 'free’ to determine both the writing topics and text types they produced, systemic analysis revealed that: 1) the majority of texts written were of one genre, the Observation genre, in which the children reconstructed their personal experience with family and friends and offered an evaluation of it. 2) a significant pattern of gender differences occurred within this genre, such that the boy reconstructed experience in terms of the male cultural stereotype of being an active participant in the world, while the girl reconstructed experience in terms of the female stereotype of being a more passive observer of experience. It is the strength of systemic linguistic analysis that it revealed how the choices the children made in language were constrained by a number of social and cultural contexts, including: a) the teacher's theoretical orientation to literacy; b) the models of spoken and written language available to the children; and c) the ideology of gender in the culture. In particular, the analysis made visible how children appropriate the meanings of their culture and socialise themselves into gender roles by constructing the ideology of gender in their writing. The study contributes to an understanding of genres by offering a revised description of the Observation genre, which derives from the Observation Comment genre originally identified by Martin and Rothery (1981). It also raises a number of implications for teacher training and classroom practice, including the need for: 1) increased teacher consciousness about gender and genre, especially an understanding that choices in language are socially constructed 2) a critical reassessment of the notion of 'free topic choice’ promoted by 'process writing' pedagogy, a practice which may limit choice and tacitly support the gender status quo.

In the United States, there are advocacy groups that support sexual relationships between adults and children. These groups use justifications that make pedophile behaviors seem normal and appropriate. This thesis describes the physical, emotional, and psychological harms that result from child sexual abuse. The reader will understand how prominent child sexual abuse is and how it takes a lot of effort for abusers to take advantage of children. There are many psychological resources available to children and their families, but it does not make sexual abuse okay for society to ignore. The justifications used by pedophile advocates are irrational and should be fought against by society.

Estudio sobre la influencia benéfica , para paliar el miedo y aumentar la autoestima, de los cuentos en niños y adolescentes hospitalizados de cinco a trece años .Trabajo de investigación a través observación y cuestionarios para niños y padres sobre gustos literarios y miedos hospitalarios.Experiencia realizada a nivel grupal, en aulas hospitalarias, y a nivel individual con alumnos oncológicos. Diario de tres casos sesiones de cuentos con niños oncológicos.Canon literario a través de las siguientes categorías: Aceptación diferencias, Enfermedad-Hospitalización, Miedo, Sentimientos, Humor, Maravillosos. / A study about the beneficial influence of children stories on hospitalized children and adolescents aged from 5 to 13 in reducing fear and increasing self-esteem. Research based on direct observation and questionnaires for children and parents about their literary preferences and hospital fears. Research carried out both at group and individual level with oncological pupils in hospital classrooms. Diary of three reading sessions with oncological children. Literary bibliography of the following categories: Acceptance of differences, Illness-Hospitalization, Fear, Feelings, Humour and Fairy Tales.

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