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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Ciberintimidade: a escrita de si na era digital / Cyber intimacy: a writing is in the digital age

BEDÊ, Fayga Silveira January 2010 (has links)
BEDÊ, Fayga Silveira. Ciberintimidade: a escrita de si na era digital. 2010. 223f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2010. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-06-15T13:43:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_tese_fsbede.pdf: 970119 bytes, checksum: bc66d6b257903e5c0553842e339ff791 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-06-15T14:10:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_tese_fsbede.pdf: 970119 bytes, checksum: bc66d6b257903e5c0553842e339ff791 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-15T14:10:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_tese_fsbede.pdf: 970119 bytes, checksum: bc66d6b257903e5c0553842e339ff791 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / This work deals with the attempt to understand a public intimacy that is at the same time paradoxical, mediatic and technological, emerging under the sign of postmodernity, through intensive and extensive practice of writing itself in cyberspace, which have caused the disruption of boundaries between public and private in modernity - called by us cyberintimidade. Accordingly, we intend to map out what are the possible reasons why the post-moderns subjects constitute themselves by means of a self-referencial written, that launches new terms of levels of exposure to each other. The methodology of work was: (i) study of texts concerning the areas of interest, (ii) historical and comparative analysis between the different forms of subjectivity that are composed by means of the self-referential writting and the various ways of thinking about relations between the public and private sectors, (iii) discourse analysis of virtual diaries found on blogs, (iv) qualitative research through interviews semi-structured interviews with the writers of blogs (v) quantitative research, using sample that are probabilistic and not intentional, with students and professors in order to map some pre-understandings about the imaginary cibercultural. We conclude that cyberintimidade not imply a lack of filter in relation to the exposure of intimacy, but only the introduction of a new mindset about the desired levels of the limits of this filter, in view of the secondary gains stemming from this privacy loss. Among which are: the strengthening of ties of sociability, resulting in greater possibility of interactions between blog writers and their readers, the possibility of drawing up new forms of subjectivity, through arrangements arising from a naturaly writing cathartic, who is also a way to listen itself, and, finally, the possibility of lift guards flank against the ruins of oblivion, guarding for themselves and for posterity a reliquary of memories of life in the memory guard of the blog. / O presente trabalho temos como intuito a compreensão acerca de uma intimidade pública, paradoxal e tecnomidiática, que emerge sob o signo da pós-modernidade, por meio de práticas intensivas e extensivas de escrita de si na cibercultura, as quais vêm provocando o deslizamento e a ruptura das fronteiras que separavam o público e o privado na modernidade – a que convencionamos chamar de ciberintimidade. Nesse sentido, pretendemos mapear quais possíveis motivações levam esses sujeitos pós-modernos a se constituírem por meio de uma escrita intimista, auto-referente e confessional, que põe em curso uma nova mentalidade acerca dos níveis desejáveis de exposição de si. Como metodologia de trabalho, valemo-nos de: (i) pesquisa bibliográfica concernente às áreas de interesse; (ii) análise histórico-comparativa entre os diferentes modos de subjetivação por meio da escrita de si, bem como dos distintos modos de pensamento acerca das relações entre o público e o privado; (iii) análise do discurso de diários virtuais vertidos em blogs; (iv) realização de entrevistas semi-estruturadas junto a escritores de blogs com feição de diários virtuais; (v) aplicação de questionário junto a estudantes e professores universitários, a fim de mapear algumas pré-compreensões acerca do imaginário cibercultural. Ao final, concluímos que a ciberintimidade não implica a ausência de filtro em relação à exposição da intimidade, mas tão somente a instauração de uma nova mentalidade acerca dos níveis desejáveis quanto aos limites desse filtro, tendo em vista os ganhos secundários que decorrem dessa “perda” de privacidade. Entre os quais se destacam: o fortalecimento de vínculos de sociabilidade, que resultam numa maior possibilidade de troca nas interações entre escritores de blog e seu público leitor; a possibilidade de compor novos modos de subjetivação, por meio de arranjos singulares decorrentes de uma escrita catártica, que é também uma escuta de si; e, por fim, a possibilidade de erguer guardas de flanco contra as ruínas do esquecimento, resguardando para si e para a posteridade um relicário de lembranças de vida pessoal no “guarda-memória” do blog.
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Da pornografia: os di?rios de Bruna, Marise e Gabriela: as prostitutas letradas

Bittencourt, Gustavo Henrique Ferreira 30 June 2008 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:19:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GustavoHFB.pdf: 803709 bytes, checksum: d59339943d60a29624384cbdc2cea2a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-30 / This dissertation establishes some reading, in the field of social sciences, which has pornography and prostitution as subject - having as main reference the diaries of the prostitutes Bruna Sufistinha, Marise and Gabriela. We have accessed some other literary works through Marquee de Sade, Henry Miller, Georges Bataille and Michel Houellebecq, in order to understand some aspects of the pornographic language. We also analyzed other contemporary discourses on the experience of pornography in cinema and on internet. It is a reflection about sexuality and what is considered obscenity. With observations on the literature of Ana?s Nin, Pauline R?age, and Hilda Hilst we tried to understand the feminine poetic point of view so that we can think about pornography and prostitution / Esta disserta??o estabelece uma leitura, no campo das ci?ncias sociais, tomando como assunto a pornografia e a prostitui??o. Tendo como ponto de refer?ncia os di?rios das prostitutas Bruna Surfistinha, Marise e Gabriela. Recorremos a algumas obras liter?rias atrav?s do Marqu?s de Sade, Henry Miller, Georges Bataille e Michel Houellebecq, para entendermos alguns aspectos da linguagem pornogr?fica. Analisamos tamb?m outros discursos contempor?neos sobre a experi?ncia da pornografia no cinema e na internet. Trata-se de reflex?es em torno da sexualidade e do que se considera obscenidade. Com observa??es na literatura de Ana?s Nin, Pauline R?age, e Hilda Hilst procuramos entender o ponto de vista po?tico feminino para pensarmos sobre a pornografia e a prostitui??o
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Os diários de Langsdorff: prelúdios paisagísticos / Diaries of Langsdorff: landscaped preludes

Rodrigo Luvizotto 21 November 2012 (has links)
Nessa pesquisa analisamos os diários de campo de Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff, naturalista, médico, diplomata e chefe da expedição russa que esteve no Brasil na primeira metade do século XIX. De 1824 a 1829, Langsdorff realizou uma ampla viagem científica pelo interior do Brasil, desde o Rio de Janeiro até o Amazonas, passando por Minas Gerais, São Paulo e Mato Grosso. Tais diários formam um inigualável tesouro sobre o Brasil. Devido ao caráter exploratório da viagem, os diários do chefe da expedição se estabelecem como um lugar privilegiado na constituição das paisagens geográficas. Dessa forma, foi realizada uma análise que cotejou tais diários de modo interdisciplinar. Para tanto, aproximamos os estudos da paisagem geográfica e os parâmetros teóricos da Semiótica de linha francesa, tendo como convergência o estudo da paisagem. Perscrutamos as representações simbólicas da paisagem que emergem dos relatos, constatando que tais representações se constituem em um legado de sensíveis e perspicazes registros sobre as diferentes porções do território brasileiro. Por fim, constatamos que essas representações exerceram significativa contribuição para a formação de uma identidade nacional. / We analyse in this research programme the field diaries of Georg Heinrich von Lagnsdorff. He was a Prussian naturalist, physician, diplomat and leader of a Russian scientific expedition launched in Brazil in the first half of the 19th century. From 1824 to 1829, Langsdorff went on a long scientific expedition into the interior of Brazil, travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Amazonas, including Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Mato Grosso. Langsdorffs diaries constitute an unparalleled treasure about Brazil. Mainly because of the exploratory character of the journey, the diaries of the expedition leader act as a privileged spot in the constitution of geographic landscapes. As a result, a careful analysis was performed through the interdisciplinary comparison of such diaries. For this reason, we brought together the studies of geographic landscapes and the theoretical parameters of French semiotics, having the landscape study as a convergence point. We closely scrutinized the symbolic representations of the landscapes that emerged from Langsdorffs accounts, and concluded that such representations comprise legacies of sensitive and shrewd records from different parts of the Brazilian territory. Finally, we have observed that those representations made a significant contribution towards the development of a national identity.
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Uma análise dos exercícios com sílabas em Diários de Classe de professoras alfabetizadoras (1973 - 2010) / An analysis of activities with syllables in Class Diaries from literacy teachers (1973-2010)

LIMA, Gisele Ramos 16 September 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:47:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gisele Ramos Lima_Dissertacao.pdf: 9536721 bytes, checksum: d0e79c5fa880ab43b9ffc12bdc70fbe9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-09-16 / The present Master Degree Paper presents an analysis about the types and the recurrence of activities involving syllables, observed in 68 Class Diaries that belonged to literacy teachers from a period between the years of 1973 and 2010. These Diaries belong to the collection from the Research Group HISALES, linked to the Universidade Federal de Pelotas /Faculdade de Educação. The objective of the research is to understand why the activities with syllables are recurring and were kept during the studied period. This study is inserted in the field of history of the literacy, which in Brazil, according to Maciel (2003), groups mainly the problematization around two axis: os métodos de leitura e escrita e os manuais escolares cartilhas ( The methods of writing and reading and the school manuals primer ) (MACIEL, 2003, p. 233). The nature of this research is qualitative (LÜDKE & ANDRÉ, 1986), having as epistemological model the evidentiary paradigm proposed by Ginzburg (2011), that presents as presupposition the search for traces , clues , evidences in the researched documents, aiming to find in the details what is possible to consider as relevant elements to answer the questions from the research. In relation to the results found, among other observed questions, it was possible to contrast the predominance of traditional methods of literacy in the planning registered in the Diaries. In relation specifically to the work with syllables, the most frequent activities worked by the literacy teachers were those that privilege the copy and the memorization of such structure. The study also showed that the divulgation of studies of the Psicogênese da Língua Escrita (FERREIRO; TEBEROSKY, 1985) seems to have had little influence in the planning of great part of the researched Diaries. Such results aim to the need that the activities with syllables must be rethought and resignified, considering the studies about the Psicogênese da Língua Escrita and other studies in the field that reference the writing as a notational system and not a code to be deciphered. / A presente Dissertação de Mestrado apresenta uma análise sobre os tipos e a recorrência de atividades envolvendo sílabas, observados em 68 Diários de Classe pertencentes a professoras alfabetizadoras no período compreendido entre os anos de 1973 a 2010. Esses Diários pertencem ao acervo do Grupo de Pesquisa HISALES, vinculado à Universidade Federal de Pelotas/Faculdade de Educação. O intuito da pesquisa é compreender por que razão as atividades com sílabas são recorrentes e se mantiveram ao longo do período de abrangência. Este estudo está inserido no campo da história da alfabetização, que, no Brasil, segundo Maciel (2003), agrupa principalmente a problematização em torno da alfabetização em dois eixos: os métodos de leitura e escrita e os manuais escolares cartilhas (MACIEL, 2003, p. 233). A pesquisa é de cunho qualitativo (LÜDKE & ANDRÉ, 1986), tendo como modelo epistemológico o paradigma indiciário proposto por Ginzburg (2011), que apresenta como pressuposto a busca de vestígios , pistas , indícios nos documentos pesquisados, objetivando encontrar nos detalhes o que é possível considerar como elementos relevantes para responder às questões da pesquisa. Em relação aos resultados encontrados, entre outras questões observadas, foi possível constatar a predominância dos métodos tradicionais de alfabetização nos planejamentos registrados nos Diários. Em relação especificamente ao trabalho com sílabas, as atividades mais recorrentes trabalhadas pelas professoras alfabetizadoras foram aquelas que privilegiam a cópia e a memorização de tais estruturas. O estudo também mostrou que a divulgação dos estudos da Psicogênese da Língua Escrita (FERREIRO; TEBEROSKY, 1985) parece ter tido pouca influência nos planejamentos de grande parte dos Diários pesquisados. Tais resultados apontam para a necessidade de que as atividades com sílabas sejam repensadas e resignificadas, considerando os estudos sobre a Psicogênese da Língua Escrita e os demais estudos na área da alfabetização que referenciam a escrita como um sistema notacional e não como um código a ser decifrado.
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Writing in hostile spaces: a critical examination of South African prison literature.

Oswald, Eirwen Elizabeth 01 October 2007 (has links)
Prison, a place that no one can call home, a place where all that was familiar no longer exists, a place where a friendly face is nowhere to be seen, a place that is full of hostility. That which becomes ‘home’ is nothing more than a concrete space, a hole in which one is expected to live. Those with whom the prisoners come into contact are hostile, unkind and unfair. Thus, as a means by which to retain sanity and show the world what happens on the ‘inside’, prisoners begin to write – they begin to write in hostile spaces. This study will argue that the body of writings that constitute ‘South African prison literature’ is both substantial and under-researched. For both of these reasons it warrants closer examination. Another argument that this thesis will advance is that specific authors have made major contributions to this collection of works, with Herman Charles Bosman being the foremost of these. Bosman not only pioneered the prison novel in South Africa, but also set the mould within which most of the other prison-authors have patterned their works. Herman Charles Bosman is often referred to as the ‘father’ of South African prison literature. Such a statement of course presupposes that there is a discernible body of writing that can be called ‘prison literature’. This study will attempt to show that within the larger corpus of South African literature there is indeed a body of writing that can usefully be categorized under the broad rubric ‘prison literature’. Undertaking such a categorization, however, requires generating certain criteria, and then applying these criteria to determine whether specific works adhere to them. For the purposes of this study, the most important criterion is that, for a work to be considered as belonging to the corpus of South African prison literature, it must be about the writer’s personal experience of prison. In other words, fictional (imaginative) narratives about prison life will fall beyond the purview of this study. While it must be conceded that this criterion is not unarguable and self-evident, as the study proceeds it will, I believe, be seen that there is good sense in excluding purely fictional works. (Chapter Three advances the argument for this criterion in more detail.) Other variables have been accommodated – for example, from which prison the prisoner is writing, whether the prisoner writes about his or her experience during or after imprisonment, the nature of the crime committed and when the imprisonment took place. In addition, there is no rigidity about the number of criteria a particular work must fulfil in order to be included in this study (Chapter Three also discusses these criteria at length). One of the questions this thesis will attempt to answer is why prisoners write in the first place. Society’s stereotypical view of a criminal – someone lacking in morals and education – is no doubt dominant, and the notion of a ‘criminal’ adding value to the study of literature is not often conceptualized by many. Writing becomes a powerful tool for the authors examined here, often for different reasons and purposes, but a tool nonetheless. Paul Gready says that, “the word is a weapon that both inflicts pain and secures power. Prisoners are relentlessly rewritten within the official ‘power of writing’… Within this process the prisoner’s sense of self and world is undermined, pain is made visible and objectified in writing and converted into state power [but] prisoners write to restore a sense of self and world, to reclaim the ‘truth’ from the apartheid lie, to seek empowerment in an oppositional ‘power of writing’ against the official text of imprisonment” (1993: 489). The thesis will attempt to show that, notwithstanding their considerable diversity, individual works within the corpus of South African prison literature share many common characteristics. Despite this the study will show also that, even though the prison writings have many common threads running through them, there are many differences within individual writings and the body of literature as a whole. It could be argued that, in earlier years, the works that are the subject of this study were quite satisfactorily regarded as part of other genres (for example, autobiography). So is the whole process of reclassification necessary? In other words, is there any point in attempting to argue for a distinct category of writing (‘prison literature’)? One of the points that will be made in detail later is that frequently the prison writings of a particular writer are only a small aspect of his or her larger oeuvre, and these writings have merely been included in more general discussions of the author’s body of work as a whole. Clearly, this does not do justice to the distinct nature of such a writer’s prison writings. It is the purpose of this study to give the works that make up the corpus of South African prison literature their due. The thesis begins with a brief summation of the prison system in South Africa. This chapter puts the experiences that follow into context. Many of the laws under which these writers were held no longer exist and so, in the interest of better understanding, these are explained in the first chapter as well. This is followed by a brief survey of prison literature. Chapter Two attempts to provide a concise and up-to-date list of the primary and secondary sources that make up the category ‘prison literature.’ Chapter Three introduces the term ‘prison literature’. The chapter includes many of the common characteristics found in prison writing, and outlines the essential criteria of this body of writing. This is followed by a brief examination of the various theories of literature that can be found in prison literature. Chapter Four introduces a vital aspect of the thesis and the argument provided within it. An examination of the theories of Foucault takes place in this chapter. He offers a thread that binds all prison literature together when he states that the prison system is put in place to punish an offender. Modern power to punish is based on the supervision and organization of bodies in time and space. The thesis will then argue that it is in this very space that prisoners write. Thus the hostile space of prison and prison life provides the context in which the literature under examination can be created.The second section of the thesis contains the close examinations of the prison writings of various authors. This section begins with a fairly comprehensive chapter on Cold Stone Jug (Chapter Five), and attempts to describe the foundation that Bosman laid in the writing of this novel. The chapters thereafter include comparisons between each individual prisonauthor’s work and Bosman’s seminal novel, noting the similarities and differences. Each of these chapters (Chapters Six to Nine) also provides a justification for the selection of each of the authors discussed and attempts to show why their writing must be considered some of the greatest prison literature produced in South Africa. Chapter Six examines the prison novel as exemplified in the writings of Breyten Breytenbach and Hugh Lewin. Chapter Seven introduces the concept of prison poetry. It is shown how poets like Jeremy Cronin and Dennis Brutus have also followed the example of Bosman, despite the generic difference in their work. This chapter also attempts to show why poetry must be considered an important part of this novel-dominated category of writing. This argument continues in Chapter Eight, in which prison letters and diaries are discussed and shown to be a vital part of prison literature. The main focus of this chapter is the writings of Ahmed Kathrada. Chapter Nine introduces the writing of women prisoners. This writing shares the typical characteristics found in the works of the prisoners’ male counterparts. No one novelist or poet is examined in detail. This section rather examines women’s writing as a topic in terms of the study as a whole. Importantly, however, it shows that prison writing is not gender- or race-specific. The thesis concludes by discussing the notion that these authors wrote and lived in hostile spaces not only during their imprisonment, but also afterwards: life after imprisonment becomes a hostile space too. The conclusion argues that a clear development can be found in this writing – vii from the publication of Cold Stone Jug in 1949 up until the publication of the final documents from Robben Island in the 1990s.
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The diary of James Brownlee

Brown, Alastair Graham Kirkwood January 1981 (has links)
James Brownlee was born in April 1824. He was the second of three sons (and five daughters) born to the missionary John Brownlee, and his colonial born wife Catharine. The importance of James as an historical character is obscured by that of his father and elder brother Charles. James had a varied career which was cut short by his untimely death in March 1851 at the youthful age of twenty-six years and eleven months. We are fortunate that he has left a vivid account of several aspects of the seventh Frontier War in a diary which he kept from April to September 1846. The diary also points to the significance of his family in the history of the Eastern Cape. Thesis, p. 1.
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Deník Vincence Karla Auersperga z cesty do Velké Británie roku 1837 / The Travel Diary of Vincenc Karl Auersperg from his Journey to Great Britain in the Year 1837

Rejha, Adam January 2016 (has links)
(in English): This diploma thesis introduces Prince Vincenz Karl Auersperg's travel diary from his journey to Great Britain undertaken in summer 1837 (title on title page: "Vincenz Carl Fürsten v. Auersperg's Reise nach England"). Diploma thesis has theoretical and practical part (in which there is Auersperg's diary edited). Vincenz Karl (1812-1867) was member of wealthy landed nobility. Thesis tries to describe his education, as well as important educator Alexis Du Rieux. Mature work (after 1837) is addressed as well: He is known as owner of Žleby Castle during castle's romantic renovation. He published two political (anonymous) brochures. Importance of the British journey (or traveling in general) in Auersperg's biography has been recognised for a long time, but was not known in detail. Most of the information about his particular British travel we have in diary (it has form of transcripts of letters addressed to his mother): Prince began his journey at the beginning of May in Vienna; stayed in Bruxelles for a week; he stayed in London between May 25th - June 28th ; after that he visited Scotland and Wales; he left Great Britain August 3rd ; he stayed in Paris from August 7th for a few weeks. This thesis also tries to put journey into a broader context. Firstly, it tries to describe it as a grand...
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Writing religious communities : the spiritual lives and manuscript cultures of English women, 1740-90

Aalders, Cynthia Yvonne January 2014 (has links)
This thesis examines the spiritual lives of eighteenth-century English women through an analysis of their personal writings. It explores the manuscripts of religious women who practised their faith by writing letters, diaries, poetry, and other highly personal texts—texts that give unique access to the interior, spiritual lives of their authors. Concerned not only with the individual meaning of those writings but with their communal meanings, it argues that women’s informal writing, written within personal relationships, acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities in vital and unexplored ways. Through an exploration of various significant personal relationships, both intra- and inter-generationally, this thesis demonstrates the multiple ways in which women were active in ‘writing religious communities’. The women discussed here belonged to communities that habitually communicated through personal writing. At the same time, their acts of writing were creative acts, powerful to build and shape religious communities: these women wrote religious community. A series of interweaving case studies guide my analysis and discussion. The thesis focuses on Catherine Talbot (1721–70), Anne Steele (1717–78), and Ann Bolton (1743–1822), and on their literary interactions with friends and family. Considered together, these subjects and sources allow comparison across denomination, for Talbot was Anglican, Steele Baptist, and Bolton Methodist. After an introductory chapter, Chapter Two focuses on spiritual friendship, showing how women used personal writings within peer relationships to think through religious ideas and encourage faith commitments. Chapter Three considers older women as spiritual elders, arguing that elderly women sometimes achieved honoured status in religious communities and were turned to for spiritual direction. Chapter Four explores the ways in which women offered religious instruction to spiritual children through the creative use of informal writings, including diaries and poetry. And Chapter Five considers women’s personal writings as spiritual legacy, as they were preserved by family and friends and continued to function in religious communities after the death of their authors.
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The journal of Roberto da Sanseverino (1417-1487) : a study on navigation and seafaring in the fifteenth century

Vidoni, Tullio 11 1900 (has links)
Roberto da Sanseverino went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1458. He travelled from Venice to Jaffa on a galley and made his return, from Acre to Ancona, on a three-masted sailing ship. During both voyages he kept very accurate logs of distances, courses and wind directions. He described the sails employed for different modes of sailing and other activities pertaining to the safe operation of the vessels. These logs are contained in Sanseverino's diary of his pilgrimage and are an essential part of an original manuscript kept at the University of Bologna. This diary is the first documentation, and the only one known to exist up to this time, which presents a complete description of the methods employed by medieval shipmasters to navigate and handle their ships overlong voyages. The accuracy and reliability of the numeric data and of the other facts contained in the logs are such that, among other unusual findings, they make it possible to deter-mine the length of the Venetian sea mile, the angles of tack of medieval ships to windward and the speeds attainable under various conditions of sailing. Other original descriptions encompass the handling of ships in anchorages and some of the technical considerations that were essential to ensure ship seaworthiness under different conditions of cargo. Further reflections on all these data make it possible to arrive at certain conclusions about the economic constraints of sea ventures in different seasons of the year. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate
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The role of journal writing in initiating reflection on practice of tutors in a college learning centre

Robinson, Julia Margaret January 1900 (has links)
A discrepancy appears to exist between the value placed on reflective journal writing by the writers of journals and the value seen by educators of that same journal writing. In this study, I explored the journal writing of six tutors working in a learning centre at a two-year community college in western Canada. I examined: (1) tutors' perspectives on the journal writing task; (2) the content and reflectivity of tutors' journals; and, (3) the accuracy of the journals in representing tutor thinking initiated by the journal writing task. The initial data collection for the study included observation of weekly in-service training sessions and examination of tutor journal entries. Tutors were interviewed about their perceptions of journal writing and their thinking around issues they wrote about in their journals. The tutor trainer was interviewed about his expectations of tutor journal writing, his reactions to tutors' journals and his perceptions of the journal writing task. After the initial data collection, the participants were given summaries of data collected in the initial phase. Tutors read the summaries and as a group discussed issues raised by the data. I interviewed the trainer about insights he had gained from the summaries. Content choices and levels of reflectivity in the tutors' journals varied widely. Factors affecting the content and levels of reflection in the tutors' journals were affected by tutors’ understanding of the journal writing task, their motivation for journal writing, their feelings of vunerability, their personal histories, their tutoring experience, their preference for writing as a mode of learning, and their purposes for writing journals. Most tutors perceived their journals as useful to them, but the tutor trainer regarded the journals as less useful. This difference in perception of the benefits of journal writing can be attributed, at least in part, to the differing levels of access of the trainer and the tutors to the benefits of journal writing. The trainer based his understanding of the benefits of journal writing on the journals themselves whereas the tutors were aware of benefits that were not apparent from studying the journals. Interviews with the tutors showed that tutors reflected more as a result of the journal writing task than was evident from their journals. The trainer’s view of the reflection initiated by the journal writing task was obscured in tutors’ journals due to the fact, that tutors reported prior reflection, provided incomplete representation of their reflective thinking, made rhetorical choices which masked their levels of reflection, and continued to reflect after completion of journal entries. Implications of the study for educators include the importance of a process approach to journal writing, the risks of assuming that journals provide an accurate picture of the reflection the task initiates, and factors for consideration in the construction of the prompt for journal writing. Implications for researchers focus on the risks of assuming that journals provide an accurate measure of the benefits of the journal writing task. Collaboration with journal writers is seen as essential for any such measure to be achieved. / Education, Faculty of / Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of / Graduate

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