Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin, School of Nursing. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Nursing. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-71). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, May 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-147).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Divinity School, March 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

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The aim of phase one was to explore the self-concept of young carers and to identify school staff awareness regarding young carers. Eleven young carers (aged 11 to 14) participated in a single session involving a self-concept activity and a demographic questionnaire. The self-concept activity was designed to elicit salient aspects of self in the form of twenty statements. These statements subsequently formed a card sorting exercise to identify which statements were most important to the young carer, and considered positive or negative. Through thematic analysis, salient aspects of self were identified, which included reference to individual traits, interests, competencies, social relationships and family, as well as to helping and the caring role. Statements related to traits and family were found to be most important to young carers. Statements regarding traits and competencies were identified as most positive. 39 school staff respondents completed a questionnaire on defining young carers, internal and external support and perceived effectiveness in supporting young carers. Descriptive statistics were used and analysis was carried out on these data. School staff demonstrated a basic awareness of young carers although some inconsistencies regarding knowledge of the young carer experience still remain. School staff provided detail of internal and external support but felt they could still be more effective in supporting young carers. The findings from young carers and school staff are discussed in relation to relevant literature and strengths and limitations of phase one have been noted. In phase two, five young carers participated in three focus group sessions, seeking to identify valued support. Thematic analysis identified key areas of support that are summarised in an information booklet for school staff. The findings are discussed in the context of relevant literature and strengths and limitations of phase two are identified. An overall discussion situates the research in a wider context, reflecting on future directions for research and implications for educational psychologists.

Denmark's (1979) functional definition of profound deafness is adopted. Deaf individuals are aware of sound and may detect vibration but they have a limited facility of speech. Conrad (1979) and Rodda (1970) have shown the low level of scholarly achievement of such individuals. Denmark suggests that as young adults, they face the hearing world largely isolated from their parents, their friends and the professionals who advise them. This study is an attempt to explore the social problems brought about by such isolation. The thesis investigates the individual profoundly deaf young adult's self concept in relation to others. A unique form of Repertory Grid interview (Kelly, 1955)using sign language was developed, and was successfully employed with the majority of individuals. However, it became apparent that a substantial minority were lacking, sometimes wholly, in a structured form of language. A pre-interview routine was used to determine the form of investigation appropriate to the individual - an interview using sign language, or one placing heavy dependence on non verbal communication (such as mime and body language). Both forms of investigation enabled an 'existential phenomenological' description of the self-awareness of the individual to be produced. In the larger group, the procedure followed was near to the orthodox analysis of Rep Grids; in the smaller group, analysis involved a greater degree of interpretive intuition. Justification for the judgements made in each case is provided. The findings are reported in the form of case studies: 40based on Rep Grids, 10 on non-verbal interviews. Thematerial provides an advance in the understanding of the experience of the profoundly deaf young adult. Exuberance and vitality feature in the majority group interviewed by Repertory Grid method. Examples of isolation and of intense personal relationships are found in the minority group. The deaf have a special concern with: those whoaccept them and those rejected by them; dependence upondeaf peers rather than hearing adults; the apprehension of success and personal failure. The main finding of this research is that the young adult deaf do possess a self-awareness and this self-awareness is that of the normal individual. Theidiosyncracies of deaf behaviour are especially wellrepresented in the smaller group. This research confirms the suggestion of Denmark that the majority of deaf individuals referred for psychiatric help are not suffering from mental illness. The study also provides research evidence for necessary changes in the early education and upbringing of the deaf.

Depuis les guerres de conquête, l'esclavage et la colonisation, en passant par la première et la Seconde Guerre mondiales, les guerres de leadership que se livrent les grandes puissances, les guerres de domination culturelle, les guerres économiques, d'occupation et d'annexion des terres étrangères, de pillages des ressources naturelles, ensemencées par la mondialisation qui ambitionne de reformater l'Humanité, ont causé et continuent à causer non seulement la mort de plusieurs millions de personnes, mais aussi la destruction et la disparition de plusieurs traditions et cultures, le plus souvent au nom de nobles idéaux comme la liberté, la démocratie et le développement, entraînant la perte des valeurs les plus caractéristiques de l'être humain et de son authenticité. Mais, la philosophie possède en elle-même la puissance de les recréer en vue de la réalisation du projet humain de « l'être », qui ne requiert ni reniement, ni abandon, si elle s'inspire de l'histoire de ses idées et de ses combats. Pour conjurer la menace de disparition de l'être authentique dont Martin Heidegger avait rêvé du projet, Mukulumanya wa N'Gate Zenda invite les philosophes et les politologues à redécouvrir ici les idées philosophiques qui, depuis Socrate, ont cheminé jusqu'à donner naissance à l'Authenticité que, dans cette thèse, il définit et leur propose comme philosophie et comme idéologie politiques favorables à « l'être » et à l'Humanité qu'à partir de ce 21è siècle, il est si urgent de sauver. / Since the wars of conquest, slavery and colonization, through the first and the second world war, the wars of leadership between the great powers, wars of cultural domination, economic wars, occupation and annexation of foreign lands, looting of natural resources, seeded by globalization which aims to reformat humanity, have caused and continue to cause not only the death of millions of people , but also the destruction and disappearance of many traditions and cultures, most often in the name of ideals such as freedom, democracy and development, resulting in the loss of values of the human being and its authenticity. But philosophy has itself the power to recreate for the realization of the human project of 'being', which requires neither denial nor abandonment, if it is inspired by the history of his ideas and his fights. To ward off the threat of disappearance of being authentic Martin Heidegger had dreamed project, Mukulumanya wa N’Gate Zenda guest philosophers and political scientists to rediscover here the philosophical ideas that, since Socrates, walked up to give birth to the authenticity that, in this thesis, it defines and offers them as philosophy and political ideology favorable to 'being' and humanity from the 21st century It is so urgent to save.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T16:00:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo6833_1.pdf: 3902838 bytes, checksum: 5f9917cd956026ff5be1ce69cbe06f27 (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / No universo do entretenimento, os jogos digitais movimentam milhares de dólares todos os anos e, de fato, consistem num mercado promissor. No entanto, essa realidade no Brasil é bem diferente, tendo o país a parcela de 0,16% da renda mundial. Esta baixa representação do Brasil, no cenário mundial, indica que neste segmento, o país é pouco desenvolvido. Por outro lado, estatísticas recentes apontam o Brasil como mercado emergente, caracterizado pela população jovem e numerosa, pela estabilidade econômica e pela ascensão da classe média. Diante dessas evidências, para se ajustar ao difícil cenário instalado com pirataria, pouco incentivo e altas cargas tributárias e, galgando as possibilidades do mercado local, empresas focam-se no desenvolvimento de jogos de menor complexidade de produção. O presente estudo se desenvolve com base em duas considerações fundamentais: a primeira, assume que o processo de desenvolvimento de jogos digitais é composto por três fases distintas, sendo elas: briefing, concepção e produção; e a segunda, que entre as fases de concepção e produção há um universo pouco compreendido, que pode impactar no resultado do processo de desenvolvimento de jogos digitais, influenciando diretamente no percentual pouco representativo do Brasil. Sendo assim, o objetivo desta investigação foi responder como automatizar a integração entre as fases de concepção e produção de jogos; nesse norte, elencou-se e reestruturou-se as informações geradas na fase de concepção, propondo um mecanismo para melhor integrá-la com a fase de produção. Este mecanismo foi intitulado Concept Backlog e proporciona a importação das informações de conceito de jogo, em um software de desenvolvimento ágil, criando um fluxo estruturado entre a concepção e a produção. Por fim, a pesquisa almejou contribuir para o processo de desenvolvimento de jogos digitais no Brasil, tomando como escopo o arranjo produtivo local de Pernambuco