This is a qualitative study based on interviews with professionals who are cooperating at a children advocacy center, in swedish called “Barnahus”. The center, Barnahus, pulls together law enforcement, criminal justice, child protective service, medical and mental health workers in to one coordinated team. Children suspected to be victims of any kind of violence or sexual abuse shall, at Barnahus, be offered coordinated efforts and support all the way from suspicion to possible intervention.   The aim of the study is to examine how the participants involved relate to collaboration in Barnahus. The study will also present the success factors and barriers to collaboration that identifies by the participating actors, who are mentioned above. The study will provide insight and understanding of how collaboration can be represented in multiprofessional activities in practice.

The goal of the research study was to explore the cognitive, social, and affective factors that contribute to the development of 8th grade writing skill. The central research question for this study was: How does a collaborative model of teaching writing prepares students for high achievement on Florida Writes? The researcher successfully answered this inquiry by asserting the following supporting questions: How does school culture impact teacher collaboration and student engagement in teaching writing? What is the relationship between engaging in a collaborative model of teaching writing and improvement of writing skill in middle level students? The study determined how and why the writing skill was developed at an urban, rural middle school in a Central Florida School District. The rationale for completing research at Horizon Middle School was to provide an exemplar in the teaching of writing skill, a phenomenon. Horizon Middle School presented a learning community that was entrenched in the same challenging demographics, but distinctly showed a high level of academic achievement in writing. Instead of teaching through a formulaic, test-generated approach, students learned through discovery, personal relationship, and engagement. Not only did 97% of 8th grade students passed the Florida Writes examination, but in the process of preparing for the standardized assessment was an embedded foundation laid for students and their future learning. The review of literature focused on: school culture, models of teaching at the middle level, models of teaching writing at the middle level and the standardization found within the FCAT Writes. Data collection was completed through classroom observations, one-on-one interviews and participation in faculty meetings. Data analysis was completed by addressing each research iv question through the conceptual framework. The study determined that this was a model for developing the writing skill for all middle level students, an exemplar within the field. Suggested uses for the study included the development of future studies focus on successful schools that were challenged by the same demographics and consideration of the partnership that Horizon had with the University of Central Florida as a model for other educational communities to consider.

O universo de estudo desta pesquisa configura-se em torno dos processos de elaboração e construção da Agenda 21 Escolar de Embu das Artes, cujo percurso pautou-se pela adoção de técnicas e estratégias da pesquisa-ação integral e sistêmica de André Morin, buscando o envolvimento dos participantes do processo como co-autores de conhecimentos e prática engajadas, numa abordagem interativa, colaborativa. Nutriu-se do diálogo com uma diversidade de autores aliados ao pensamento crítico-transformador numa perspectiva emancipatória, entre eles Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, Michael Apple, Jürgen Habermas, e dos aportes da psicologia sócio-histórica de Vygotsky, enfatizando-se nessa linha as contribuições de González Rey sobre a subjetividade e processos de subjetivação. Este trabalho pretende contribuir com a práxis da Educação Ambiental crítica na escola, por meio da investigação de processos colaborativos de construção de agendas 21 escolares, que como a pesquisa indicou, revelaram-se de grande potencial sensibilizador, indutor de participação, mobilizador de sujeitos comprometidos com propostas de transformação da escola e do bairro. Procurou-se verificar em que medida e se a escola pública, como instituição formal, portanto, instituída e burocratizada, pode se tornar mediadora e fomentadora de espaços horizontalizados de diálogos, do exercício da escuta e reconhecimento do outro. Um espaço de vivência democrática, de reflexão e ações coletivas, capaz de impulsionar e capilarizar processos educativos-formativos em educação ambiental, para além de seus limites institucionais, atingindo o contexto de relações e sujeitos que se inserem dentro e fora de seus contornos, na construção de comunidades socioambientalmente conscientes, educativas e co-responsáveis. / The universe of this research is configured around the processes of design and construction of School Agenda 21 of Embu das Artes, whose route was marked by the adoption of techniques and strategies of André Morin\'s integral and systematic research-action, seeking involvement of participants in the process as co-authors of engaged knowledge and practice in an interactive approach, collaborative. Nourished from the dialogue with a diversity of authors allied to critical-transformer thinking in an emancipatory perspective, including Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, Michael Apple, Jürgen Habermas, and the contributions of social-historical psychology of Vygotsky, emphasizing in that line the contributions of González Rey on subjectivity and subjective processes. This work aims to contribute to the practice of critical Environmental Education in school, through the investigation of collaborative processes for the construction of school Agenda 21, which as the research indicated, proved to be of great potential sensitizer, inducing participation, mobilizing of individuals committed with proposals to transform the school and neighborhood. It was sought to ascertain to what extent and if the public school, as a formal institution, therefore, established and bureaucratized, can become a mediator and fomenter of horizontalized spaces of dialogue, the practice of listening and recognition of each other. An area of democratic experience, reflection and collective action, able to boost and disseminate educational-formative processes in environmental education, beyond their institutional boundaries, reaching the context of relations and subjects that fall within and outside its boundaries, in building of social-environmentally conscious, educational and co-responsible communities.

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Abstract The purpose of this study was to analyze the idea of ¡§professional development schools (PDSs)¡¨ which was a new school setting and one of collaborative models with universities developed in the past decade in USA. The researcher inquired into PDS¡¦s goals, functions, operations, major influential factors, and ¡§PDS Standards¡¨ in depth, and aimed to explore the collaborative models and the developing stages of Taiwan¡¦s PDSs according to the five standards, which was the key concept of PDS model and was designated by National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. These five standards are ¡§learning community¡¨, ¡§accountability and quality assurance¡¨, ¡§collaboration¡¨, ¡§equity and diversity¡¨, and ¡§structures, resources and roles¡¨. The researcher selected six staffs as the participants from each partnership of university/affiliated high school and used qualitative research methods to collect research data, including documentary reviews and semi-structured interviews. After careful examination and analyses of the data collected, the following conclusions are reached: 1. About professional development schools: (1) PDSs are innovative school settings and establishments which were initiated and refined progressively along the educational reform movements. (2) PDSs are not only the ¡§learning communities¡¨; but also the settings for the professional development of participants. (3) The establishment of PDSs needs support in terms of structure and system building from both sides of the partnership. They also need more resources to be invested in. (4) ¡§PDS Standards¡¨ are both guidelines and criterion for the assessment of the PDSs. 2. About the collaborative models between universities and affiliated high schools: (1) The cases actually demonstrate the function of ¡§learning community¡¨, but the degree of ¡§collaboration¡¨ is not close enough. (2) The standard of ¡§accountability and quality¡¨ for the collaborative models can¡¦t be presented due to lack of evaluation measures for the partnership. (3) Two case high schools have developed some supportive activities for low-achievement students by their own. The involvements of two universities on this aspect are apparently not enough. (4) Two cases need to enhance their support for the partnership in terms of structure and system building. (5) According to the ¡§PDS Standards¡¨, the developing stages of two cases are between beginning level and developing level. (6) The collaborative models between universities and affiliated high schools are influenced by internal and external factors. According to the conclusions of this study and the related problems encountered, suggestions to government, two case partnerships, universities, high schools and future researchers have been proposed.

Traditional models of conversation treat the participants as autonomous; ideally, speakers convey information to listeners in alternating turns. In contrast, the more recent collaborative model emphasizes moment-by-moment collaboration between participants in dialogue (Clark, 1996). Two computer-mediated communication (CMC) experiments tested these models by questioning the utility of strict turn exchanges (a central feature of autonomous models) versus more flexible moment-by-moment collaboration (a central feature of Clark’s model). A novel feature of these experiments was the development of three new process measures that are relevant to the autonomous versus collaborative comparison. Conversational coherence was a quantitative measure of the adjacency of all semantically related utterances, that is, how well the conversation maintained an orderly sequence of topics. Collaborative topic development was a quantitative measure of how much participants built on one another’s ideas (versus contributing independently on separate topics). That is, to what degree did the conversations take the form of loosely related alternating monologues versus an integrated dialogue? The third measure assessed the contributions of listeners. Each process measure required detailed analysis of all messages in each conversation. Experiment 1 compared three CMC formats, ranging from highly autonomous to highly collaborative: IRC (Internet Relay Chat), in which participants compose and send messages independently; ICQ (I-Seek-You) with an imposed turn marker; and ICQ-free with no turn rules. Sixty University of Victoria students in 30 unacquainted dyads completed a brainstorming and a joint recall task in one randomly assigned condition. As predicted by the collaborative model, all dependent measures confirmed that the ICQ-free format was significantly superior to the IRC and ICQ-turn maker conditions. That is, the format without an imposed turn structure produced more coherent, more collaborative conversations, with higher performance scores and better task efficiency. Qualitative analysis revealed that, in the absence of familiar turn cues, the ICQ-free dyads used timing and text space to manage their interaction, which often did not involve strict turn taking. Experiment 2 was a replication and extension with two new communication conditions, a new measure of listener responses, and the use of three-person groups. In a within-subjects design, participants completed two tasks in a face-to-face (FTF) condition, the previous IRC condition, and an electronic bulletin board (BB) condition, which also imposed turn taking. These three conditions varied in the degree of reciprocity possible, with FTF permitting the maximum and fastest reciprocal interaction and BB the least and slowest. Twenty-seven University of Victoria students formed nine randomly assigned, unacquainted triads. Together, each triad completed a brainstorming task and a debating task with different topics in each condition. The results again showed that flexible moment-by-moment interaction was superior to the two formats that enforced turn taking. The FTF conversations were more coherent, with more collaborative topic development. Also, the rate of listener responses was significantly higher, indicating a higher rate of feedback to speakers, and the number of words used per turn was lower, suggesting more rapid turn-around (i.e., finer granularity). In sum, the FTF participants tightly intertwined their contributions to ensure understanding, maintain coherence, and develop their joint topics. Taken together, the results clearly support a collaborative model of conversation and raise new questions about the functional utility of strict turn taking. In both process and performance measures, the conditions that maximized collaboration were superior to those that favoured autonomous individual action. At the practical level, these results should inform the design of mediated communication systems by identifying the affordances that may help or hinder online interaction.

O universo de estudo desta pesquisa configura-se em torno dos processos de elaboração e construção da Agenda 21 Escolar de Embu das Artes, cujo percurso pautou-se pela adoção de técnicas e estratégias da pesquisa-ação integral e sistêmica de André Morin, buscando o envolvimento dos participantes do processo como co-autores de conhecimentos e prática engajadas, numa abordagem interativa, colaborativa. Nutriu-se do diálogo com uma diversidade de autores aliados ao pensamento crítico-transformador numa perspectiva emancipatória, entre eles Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, Michael Apple, Jürgen Habermas, e dos aportes da psicologia sócio-histórica de Vygotsky, enfatizando-se nessa linha as contribuições de González Rey sobre a subjetividade e processos de subjetivação. Este trabalho pretende contribuir com a práxis da Educação Ambiental crítica na escola, por meio da investigação de processos colaborativos de construção de agendas 21 escolares, que como a pesquisa indicou, revelaram-se de grande potencial sensibilizador, indutor de participação, mobilizador de sujeitos comprometidos com propostas de transformação da escola e do bairro. Procurou-se verificar em que medida e se a escola pública, como instituição formal, portanto, instituída e burocratizada, pode se tornar mediadora e fomentadora de espaços horizontalizados de diálogos, do exercício da escuta e reconhecimento do outro. Um espaço de vivência democrática, de reflexão e ações coletivas, capaz de impulsionar e capilarizar processos educativos-formativos em educação ambiental, para além de seus limites institucionais, atingindo o contexto de relações e sujeitos que se inserem dentro e fora de seus contornos, na construção de comunidades socioambientalmente conscientes, educativas e co-responsáveis. / The universe of this research is configured around the processes of design and construction of School Agenda 21 of Embu das Artes, whose route was marked by the adoption of techniques and strategies of André Morin\'s integral and systematic research-action, seeking involvement of participants in the process as co-authors of engaged knowledge and practice in an interactive approach, collaborative. Nourished from the dialogue with a diversity of authors allied to critical-transformer thinking in an emancipatory perspective, including Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, Michael Apple, Jürgen Habermas, and the contributions of social-historical psychology of Vygotsky, emphasizing in that line the contributions of González Rey on subjectivity and subjective processes. This work aims to contribute to the practice of critical Environmental Education in school, through the investigation of collaborative processes for the construction of school Agenda 21, which as the research indicated, proved to be of great potential sensitizer, inducing participation, mobilizing of individuals committed with proposals to transform the school and neighborhood. It was sought to ascertain to what extent and if the public school, as a formal institution, therefore, established and bureaucratized, can become a mediator and fomenter of horizontalized spaces of dialogue, the practice of listening and recognition of each other. An area of democratic experience, reflection and collective action, able to boost and disseminate educational-formative processes in environmental education, beyond their institutional boundaries, reaching the context of relations and subjects that fall within and outside its boundaries, in building of social-environmentally conscious, educational and co-responsible communities.

Interactivity is a factor on which cyber journalism is based and summarizes participation options between a user and the medium, a user with other users, and a user with editors. In this study, we focus on the latter in three countries-Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador-, which have been identified owing to their technological gap and the emerging importance of online communication for their respective societies. Through 35 in-depth interviews with journalists from these countries, we analyzed the concept of interactivity of these professionals and their relationship with users. The results revealed that the journalists positively valued civic contributions as a space for diagnosis, although they do not perceive its informational value, as they relate them to the context of opinions. These results verify the prevalence of journalism as strongly influenced by conventional offline production routines. / Revisión por pares

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