Every 66 seconds, someone develops Alzheimer’s disease. Because of the baby boomer generation, this number will continue to rise significantly in the coming years (2016 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures). As a result, it is essential to consider memory impaired individuals when creating space; specifically, those spaces in which patients receive long term care. Though there are claims that a wide range of options exist for memory impaired assisted living, types of care can be easily sorted into three groups: home care, institution care, or for few select individuals, care in specialized communities known as dementia villages. While there is a spectrum of care for each of these categories, more often than not, the main stream option is a typical nursing home or assisted-living facility. The direct influence of traditional hospital typologies is evident in the layout of the building, and is in part due to the use of government funding (Day). Specialized dementia and Alzheimer’s care does exist in some cities, though generally memory units differ in patient demographic and programing, and not in the way that spaces are formed. The idea of a dementia village, an isolated community that encompasses all aspects of living and social life, has proved successful in increasing patient autonomy; however, such facilities often exist outside of the urban realm and are built on the foundation of imitation and replication. Through historical analysis of medical building typologies and formal investigation of spatial relationships, this thesis aims to explore the opportunities within built space that allow aging and memory-loss patients to feel comfort. By flipping the relationship between the private and public realms of the building, it is possible to generate increased social interaction, improving the overall quality of life of the patients. / 0 / SPK / specialcollections@tulane.edu

Magistro baigiamajame darbe analizuotas gyventojų dalyvavimas nusikalstamumo prevencijoje. Pirmame darbo skyriuje teoriniu aspektu nagrinėjamos prevencijos, nusikalstamumo sampratos. Antrame skyriuje analizuojamos nusikalstamumo prevencijos formos, kuriose dalyvauja ar gali dalyvauti gyventojai. Pateikiama užsienio šalių patirtis. Trečiame skyriuje pristatomas tyrimas, kuriame atskleidžiamas Mažeikių rajono savivaldybės gyventojų dalyvavimas, požiūris į nusikalstamumo prevenciją. / Final master work analyzes citizenry’s participation in delinquency prevention. The first part in theory studies conceptions of prevention and delinquency. The second part analyzes forms of delinquency prevention, where the citizenry participate or can participate. The countries’ experience is supplied. The third part supplies the research, where citizenry‘s participation of Mažeikiai city and region municipalities, citizenry‘s attitude towards delinquency prevention are displayed.

Ghana's democracy has been hailed by scholars, practitioners, and the international community in recent years as a shining example in the West African subregion as a result of the country's record of organizing successive elections with minimal or no violence. However, the evaluation of Ghana's democracy has predominantly focused on the elections and disproportionately captures the views of the political elite; conspicuously missing is the perspective of the ordinary Ghanaian. This presents an incomplete picture of Ghana's democracy, given the relevance of citizens' participation in democratic societies. To address this gap in knowledge, this qualitative case study explored the practice of democracy in Ghana under the fourth republic from the perspective of the citizenry. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews with purposefully sampled ordinary Ghanaian citizens (n = 15), observation, and documents review. The data were then subjected to thematic and content analysis to reveal themes, categories, and patterns. The results revealed that the participating Ghanaians had dichotomous views, opinions, and experiences of democracy. Their experiences and opinions of the electoral system were generally positive, while their experiences and opinions of governance in the intervening years were generally negative. The study's results should inspire a paradigm shift in the responsiveness of government to citizens and how the government engages with citizens on policy formulation and implementation. This study's results can encourage positive social change with respect to the manner in which democratic performance is evaluated in Ghana by scholars, practitioners, and the international community.

The intention of the study is to come into a better understanding of the way in which the Diasporic body comes to know and understand its subjectivity within the governing contemporary public sphere. I suggest that this knowledge is diverse and that it can assist us to re-conceptualize learning in the context of schooling and education. I am interested in this seemingly mundane thing of ‘blackness’ and the way in which the signifying power of ‘blackness’ has come to constitute the conditions of possibility for the formation of a certain humanism. I trace somewhat abstract historical trajectories in order to better understand how contemporary everyday Diasporic life comes to be classified, organized, self-regulated and inscribed through particular intersections of race by way of gender, ableism, class, and sexuality. I seek to ascertain ways in which race is interpreted as the ‘Truth’ in order to impute the ethic of colonialism onto the Diasporic body. With this study my interest concerns understanding my lived experiences within the context of Diaspora and about how I come to make sense of race/racism/blackness through the cultural location of the colonial West. I am seeking to understand how, at certain moments, abject bodies of the Diaspora become predisposed to socialize in specific ways through these protean subjectivities. My interest involves coming to know critical pedagogies immanent to African Diasporic spaces that are germane for re-imagining schooling and education. I am interested in the school as a Diasporic space, the pedagogical and instructional implications for the teacher/educator, and about the ways in which meaning is made of Diaspora. I am suggesting writing Diaspora for schooling and education presents alternative ways of making sense of one’s subjectivity, citizenry, identity, about coming to know and understand how belonging, power and privilege come to be inscribed within the governing nation-state.

The intention of the study is to come into a better understanding of the way in which the Diasporic body comes to know and understand its subjectivity within the governing contemporary public sphere. I suggest that this knowledge is diverse and that it can assist us to re-conceptualize learning in the context of schooling and education. I am interested in this seemingly mundane thing of ‘blackness’ and the way in which the signifying power of ‘blackness’ has come to constitute the conditions of possibility for the formation of a certain humanism. I trace somewhat abstract historical trajectories in order to better understand how contemporary everyday Diasporic life comes to be classified, organized, self-regulated and inscribed through particular intersections of race by way of gender, ableism, class, and sexuality. I seek to ascertain ways in which race is interpreted as the ‘Truth’ in order to impute the ethic of colonialism onto the Diasporic body. With this study my interest concerns understanding my lived experiences within the context of Diaspora and about how I come to make sense of race/racism/blackness through the cultural location of the colonial West. I am seeking to understand how, at certain moments, abject bodies of the Diaspora become predisposed to socialize in specific ways through these protean subjectivities. My interest involves coming to know critical pedagogies immanent to African Diasporic spaces that are germane for re-imagining schooling and education. I am interested in the school as a Diasporic space, the pedagogical and instructional implications for the teacher/educator, and about the ways in which meaning is made of Diaspora. I am suggesting writing Diaspora for schooling and education presents alternative ways of making sense of one’s subjectivity, citizenry, identity, about coming to know and understand how belonging, power and privilege come to be inscribed within the governing nation-state.

In 2015, more than 160.000 people sought asylum in Sweden, twice as many as the year before and a number that far exceeded the Swedish Migration Agency’s estimation. This event tested society’s resilience capacities, as several Swedish institutions’ had to cope and adapt to the situation. By conducting a case study analysis of the local community’s response to the “refugee crisis” in a small Swedish municipality, this thesis aims to explore the pathways of rural resilience in a small Swedish municipality in response to unforeseen events, such as the “refugee crisis”. Drawing from Stenbacka’s (2013) work on rural resilience, this thesis identifies three converging pathways that contributed to forming a resilient rural community: 1) rural ties 2) open spaces for civil society, and 3) building on best practices. The findings illustrate how rural processes of learning and adapting to prevailing challenges help communities cope and adapt to unforeseen events and demonstrate how the prevailing planning discourse can benefit from adding a rural perspective. The findings also suggest a relationship between rural resilience and emotional citizenry, as the pathway to rural resilience enables spaces that unfold feelings of inclusion and belonging through interpersonal encounters.

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Die Dr.-Wilhelm-André-Gesellschaft unterstützt als gemeinnütziger Verein im Rahmen bürgerschaftlichen Engagements die Arbeit mit benachteiligten Gruppen unserer Gesellschaft wie pflegebedürftigen Personen und Jugendlichen mit einem schwierigen sozialen Hintergrund. Zusätzlich werden Projekte zur sozialen Geschichte der Stadt Chemnitz unterstützt. Der Vortrag gibt einen Überblick über die Arbeit des Vereins.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 carolinaalvesfonseca.pdf: 2548272 bytes, checksum: 5bbb2e74462d41c89d9b36f0bba37c05 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-11 / CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho dissertativo - vinculado ao macroprojeto Práticas de Oralidade e Cidadania (MIRANDA, 2007/ - ; FAPEMIG - APQ- 02405-09; PNPD/CAPES, 2011-2014; PPG Linguística/UFJF) e ao projeto Lexicográfico FrameNet Brasil (http://www.ufjf.br/framenetbr/) em sua linha Frames e Cidadania - objetiva mapear, a partir da perspectiva discente, os indicadores de sucesso presentes em um projeto de dramaturgia de uma escola pública na periferia de Juiz de Fora – MG reconhecida por gestores e professores pelo sucesso de seus projetos. Uma segunda meta investigativa da pesquisa consiste no aprofundamento de uma proposta de análise do discurso ancorada na categoria frame, bem como no modelo de anotação de texto corrido no Desktop da FrameNet Brasil. A base de dados constituiu-se por documentação em áudio (e posterior transcrição) de entrevistas semiestruturadas (LABOV, 2008 [1972]) com os alunos do 6º ano que participam do referido projeto de teatro (total de 7 participantes), antecedidas de um processo de imersão na comunidade investigada (6 meses, totalizando 15 visitas) registrado em um diário de campo. Esta pesquisa elegeu como metodologia o estudo de caso (YIN, 2001) em uma abordagem mista, adotando procedimentos analíticos quantitativos e qualitativos (SCHWANDT, 2006). As escolhas teóricas centram-se nas contribuições da Linguística Cognitiva (LAKOFF, 1987; FELDMAN, 2006; GEERAERS & CUYCKENS, 2007; CROFT & CRUSE, 2004; SALOMÃO, 2012) e em seu principal modelo semântico: a Semântica de Frames (FILLMORE 1982, 1895, 2007; RUPPENHOFER et al, 2010; SALOMÃO, 2009) e seu projeto de anotação lexicográfica FrameNet (www.framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu). Para análise hermenêutica, valemo-nos da Sociologia (BAUMAN, 2007, 2008; JARES, 2004); da Filosofia Educacional (PRAIRAT, 2011; FREIRE, 2011; ARAGON & DIEZ, 2004); da Antropologia Evolucionista (TOMASELLO, 1999, 2003); além dos distintos olhares no campo da Ética e da educação cidadã (CLARCK, 1996; LA TAILLE, 2008, 2006; TOGNETTA & VINHA, 2008; COSTA, 2004; RIBAS, s.d; MIRANDA, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012; ULISSES, 2008; PEREIRA, 2004; ROCHA, 2008); que nos auxiliaram na compreensão dos indicadores de sucesso desvelados nos resultados analíticos. A análise de dados desenvolveu-se a partir do conceito de frame, que nos permitiu identificar de maneira segura as perspectivas instauradas pelo discurso discente. Sendo assim, foi possível estabelecerem-se duas redes hierárquicas de frames: uma cujo macroframe é Agir_intencionalmente (86 ocorrências – 74% do total) e outra relacionada aos frames Atributos_graduáveis e Comunicação (25 ocorrências – 26% do total). O exercício hermenêutico interdisciplinar dessas redes permite-nos afirmar que o professor de artes cênicas, de acordo com o discurso discente, conquista sua autoridade, em tempo de autoridade perdida, a partir: (i) da autoria de sua prática; (ii) do protagonismo juvenil e (iii) da afetividade. Os resultados, portanto, apontam caminhos para a superação da crise da sala de aula vivenciada atualmente e revelam significativo comprometimento dos alunos com o processo de ensino-aprendizagem de que são partícipes. / This dissertation project – bridged to the macro project Citizenship and orality practices (Práticas de Oralidade e Cidadania, MIRANDA, 2007/ - ; FAPEMIG - APQ- 02405-09; PNPD/CAPES, 2011-2014; PPG Linguística/UFJF) and to the lexicographic project FrameNet Brazil (http://www.ufjf.br/framenetbr/) in its lines Frames and Citizenship - it aims to mapping, through the student body, the indices of success found in a public school in the outskirts of Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais, acknowledged by administrators and teachers by the achievements in their projects. A second investigative goal of the research is the further development of a discourse analysis proposition anchored in the frame category, as well as the note-taking model on FrameNet Brazil Desktop. The database was made of audio files (and further transcription) of semi-structured interviews (LABOV, 2008 [1972]) with students from the 6th year taking part in the aforementioned theater project (seven participants total), preceded by an immersion process in the investigated community (fifteen visitations in six months) logged in a journal. This research has chosen the case study as methodology (YIN, 2001) in a mixed approach, taking both quantitative and qualitative analytical procedures (SCHWANDT, 2006). The theoretical choices are focused on the Cognitive Linguistics contributions (LAKOFF, 1987; FELDMAN, 2006; GEERAERS & CUYCKENS, 2007; CROFT & CRUSE, 2004; SALOMÃO, 2012) and its main semantic model: Frames Semantics (FILLMORE 1982, 1895, 2007; RUPPENHOFER et al, 2010; SALOMÃO, 2009) and its lexicographic project for noting FrameNet (www.framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu). For the hermeneutic analysis, we based on the contributions of Sociology (BAUMAN, 2007, 2008; JARES, 2004); Educational Philosophy (PRAIRAT, 2011; FREIRE, 2011; ARAGON & DIEZ, 2004); Evolutionist Anthropology (TOMASELLO, 1999, 2003); and also the unique view on Ethics and citizenry education (CLARCK, 1996; LA TAILLE, 2008, 2006; TOGNETTA & VINHA, 2008; COSTA, 2004; RIBAS, s.d; MIRANDA, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012; ULISSES, 2008; PEREIRA, 2004; ROCHA, 2008); that have aided in the understanding of the success indicators unveiled on analytical results. The data analysis came through the concept of frame, which has allowed safely identification of the drawn perspectives on the student body. Being so, it was possible to establish two hierarchical frames networks: one which macroframe is Intencionally_act (86 occurrences – 74% total) and another related to frames Graduables_atributes and Comunication (25 ocurrences – 26% total). The hermeneutic interdisciplinary exercise from these networks allows saying that the Arts professor, in the course of his teaching career, has created a particular methodology that lies on valuing his student. Thus, he acquires his authority, in times of authority loss, through: (i) the authoring of his practice; (ii) the youth protagonism and (iii) affectivity. The results, therefore, lead to ways of overcoming classroom crysis currently seen and show substantial commitment from the students to the teaching/learning process they are taking part.

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