This study examined the effects of specially designed thinking journal activities that have been attributed with encouraging reflective thinking, on instruction using generic, or content-free problem solving software. Sixty-three fourth grade students participated in four instructional sessions using a software package called Moptown Hotel. Students completed separate posttests that measured (1) performance on problems of the same kind as those used in instruction, and (2) transfer of skills to other kinds of problems. Scores of students who wrote thinking journals prior to testing were compared with scores of students who did not. Results indicate that students who wrote thinking journals performed the same as students who did not when tested on problems similar to those practiced in class. Tests in which students transferred their skills to word problems, however, produced significant differences. There was no significant difference between scores when averaged over all four weekly occasions. However, for the final session alone, students who wrote thinking journals scored higher on tests of problem solving transfer than students who did not (p < .01). The study also examined the relationship between the degree of metacognitive thought displayed in students' journal entries, and their measured problem solving ability. Results indicate that students who had higher average reflectivity scores also had higher average problem solving performance and transfer scores (p < .05). It was also noted that the significant relationship between reflectivity and scores of problem solving ability was only observed in male students. It was concluded that under the right conditions, and for the right kinds of problems, thinking journal writing can help students understand their own thinking processes, resulting in improved problem solving behavior. The study also raises the question of whether there are differences between the ways that male and female students apply metacognitive awareness gained through journal writing experiences.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Maria Fachin Soares.pdf: 1233717 bytes, checksum: 1175614c6bd909cef0d60b3bd7017f3b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-05 / This research aims at investigating the phenomenon of identity construction of first year students from a Brazilian university Languages Course. Nine students produced reflexive diaries about their learning experiences in the English language classes. Written in the foreign language they were in the process of learning, the students texts are narratives of their contradictions and doubts, but also of their discoveries in relation to their learning in general, to their learning of the foreign language, and in relation to themselves. The theoretical underpinnings for the work are studies in the areas of identity construction (Wenger, 1998; Moita Lopes, 1998, 2002; Gee, 2000; Orlandi, 1998); education (Dewey, 1938/1963; 1916/1967; Giussani, 2004; Bruner, 1976, 1995); genres and reflexive diaries (Machado, 1998, 2005; Liberali, 1999). Equally relevant are authors such as van Manen (1990), Frankl (1997) e Quintás (1995, 2003) who, under different perspectives, also contribute to a better understanding of factors involved in the construction of the students as people and as authors. Based on the hermeneutic-phenomenological paradigm (Ales Bello, 2004; van Manen, 1990; Gadamer, 1975; Ricoeur, 2002), the data were analysed with the purpose of understanding and interpreting the learning stories present in the diaries, and the effect of the lived experiences on the students identities. Individual and shared learning stories are found, which point to three kinds of relations that help construct their identities as students: the interactions they live or seek with the teacher and their classmates; with the materials and activities proposed; with their own (present and past) learning experiences in the foreign language / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar o fenômeno de construção da identidade de alunos de primeiro ano de um curso de Letras: inglês. Durante um semestre, nove alunos produziram diários reflexivos sobre suas experiências de aprendizagem nas aulas de Língua Inglesa. Escritos na própria língua estrangeira que estavam aprendendo, seus textos são narrativas de suas contradições e dúvidas, e de descobertas e constatações que fizeram sobre o aprender, sobre seu aprender inglês, sobre si mesmos. Ajudam a compor a fundamentação teórica do trabalho autores que discorrem sobre a formação da identidade (Wenger, 1998; Moita Lopes, 1998, 2002; Gee, 2000; Orlandi, 1998); sobre educação (Dewey, 1938/1963; 1916/1967; Giussani, 2004; Bruner, 1976, 1995); sobre o gênero diário reflexivo (Machado, 1998, 2005; Liberali, 1999). Entre muitos outros, destacam-se ainda van Manen (1990), Frankl (1997) e Quintás (1995, 2003) que, sob perspectivas diversas, colaboram para a compreensão de fatores envolvidos na constituição da pessoa do aluno e de seu dizer. A análise dos dados, desenvolvida dentro da perspectiva hermenêutico-fenomenológica (Ales Bello, 2004; van Manen, 1990; Gadamer, 1975; Ricoeur, 2002), buscou compreender e interpretar as histórias de aprendizagem contadas nos diários, e o efeito das experiências vividas sobre a identidade dos alunos. Histórias de aprendizagem individuais e compartilhadas são encontradas, as quais apontam para três salientes tipos de relações que contribuem para compor a identidade dos alunos: as interações que vivem ou buscam com o professor ou colegas; com os materiais e atividades propostos; e com as próprias experiências (presentes e passadas) de aprendizagem da língua estrangeira

Duzentos anos após seu falecimento, as obras de Jane Austen ainda ecoam nas pessoas. Elas têm sido adaptadas das formas mais variadas, nas mais diferente mídias. Os Diários de Lizzie Bennet é um projeto transmidiático que transpõe o romance Orgulho e Preconceito (1813) para uma vídeo-série veiculada no YouTube de 2012 a 2013 de forma serializada. Esta pesquisa analisa de que forma temas que influenciam a vida das mulheres, como casamento, classe social e dinheiro, foram transpostos do período regencial inglês para a Califórnia-EUA do século vinte-um. Esta análise considera que ambas as obras são compostas por duas camadas de significado: a primeira é constituída pela comédia romântica que dialoga com a cultura popular; a segunda é mais profunda, através da qual a crítica social é revelada. No que tange ao referencial teórico, a relação entre a noção de subjetividade na virada do século dezenove e a expansão da vida privada na esfera pública no século vinte-um, conforme Jon Dovey (2000), é base para compreender como a estrutura de ambas as narrativas contribui na produção de significado. As discussões sobre feminismo e pós-feminismo na cultura popular de Angela McRobbie (2009) e Imelda Whelean (2010) tornam possível a observação da construção dos temas. Em Orgulho e Preconceito, as instituições sociais estabelecidas não são amplamente questionadas. Em vez disso, a composição da subjetividade dos personagens, especialmente das mulheres, revela a crítica a elementos sociais da época. Os Diários de Lizzie Bennet, a seu turno, desafiam as representações da mulher provenientes da cultura popular pós-feminista. A análise da adaptação revela que as mulheres ainda estão restritas a determinados papéis sociais assim como aquelas situadas no romance. Ainda há a necessidade de se encontrar equilíbrio. / Two hundred years after her demise, Jane Austen’s works still resonate with people. They have been adapted in numerous ways through different media. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a transmedia project, which transposes the novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) to a videoblog series aired on YouTube from 2012 to 2013 in a serialised mode. This investigation analyses the ways issues concerning the lives of women, such as marriage, money and social class, were adapted from Regency England to twenty-first century California-USA. The analysis understands both works as consisting of two layers of meaning: a romantic comedy layer which converses with popular culture, and a deeper one through which social criticism is revealed. In theoretical terms, the relationship between the notion of subjectivity in the turn of nineteenth century and the spread of private life into the public sphere in the twenty-first century, as proposed by Jon Dovey (2000), informs the analysis of the structural elements of both narratives which contribute to the production of meaning. The discussions on feminism and post-feminism in popular culture by Angela McRobbie (2009) and Imelda Whelehan (2010) make it possible to observe the construction of the themes. In Pride and Prejudice, the established social institutions are not overtly questioned. Instead, it is the composition of the characters’ subjectivities, especially those of women, which reveals criticism on the social context of the time. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, for its part, challenges the established representations of women as informed by postfeminist popular culture. In the end, it seems to propose that women are, in fact, still restrained by social roles, just as the ones in the novel are. There is yet a need to find balance.

Philippe Lejeune, ao examinar a produção autobiográfica em língua francesa, identificou um traço constante nas obras de sua leitura, ao qual ele deu o nome de pacto autobiográfico. Em uma de suas formulações, o pacto autobiográfico seria a manifestação do engajamento pessoal do autobiógrafo, por meio de uma construção textual (prefácio, nota introdutória, preâmbulo) ou paratextual (título e subtítulo, informações de contracapa e orelhas do livro), que permite ao leitor admitir o texto como expressão da personalidade daquele que escreve, em seu valor de verdade. A construção teórica se mostra insuficiente: de um texto a outro, Lejeune revê e rediscute o pacto, aplicando nuances, levantando as ambiguidades em que o gênero está envolvido. Nessas tentativas de se aproximar mais do gênero, ele se expressa de maneira autobiográfica. Com isso, seu texto torna-se ele mesmo um objeto de estudo. Busco, em minha pesquisa, evidenciar o caráter relacional do pacto autobiográfico, na conjugação de atos de escrita e leitura. Parto de uma leitura de seus estudos sobre o gênero autobiográfico, colocando-os em diálogo com sua própria trajetória de pesquisador. Indo além, interessa-nos observar as leituras que Lejeune empreende em torno das Confissões de Rousseau, em paralelo aos primeiros textos teóricos. Em seguida, considerar os pactos lançados nos estudos em torno de diários, realizados num momento posterior às teorizações do pacto autobiográfico. Importa colocar em evidência as maneiras pelas quais o pacto se manifesta no próprio texto crítico de Lejeune. Nesse sentido, busco articular a dimensão autobiográfica e a dimensão crítica de seus textos. / Philippe Lejeune, examining the autobiographical production in French, identified a constant feature in the readings he did, to which he named autobiographical pact. In one of his formulations, the autobiographical pact would be the manifestation of the personal engagement of the autobiographer through a textual construction (prologue, introductory note, preamble) or para-textual (title and subtitle, information on the inside cover and book flaps), allowing the reader to admit the text as an expression of the personality of the writer, in its true value. The theoretical construction has proved insufficient: from one text to another Lejeune reviews and re-discusses the pact, applying nuances, raising the ambiguities in which the genre is involved. In those attempts to get closer to the genre, he expresses himself in an autobiographical manner. With that, his text becomes an object of study in itself. With my research, I intend to make evident the relational character of the autobiographical pact, in the conjugation of acts of reading and writing. I start with my readings of his studies about the autobiographical genre, putting them in dialogue with his own trajectory as a researcher. Besides that, we are also interested in observing the readings Lejeune undertake around the Confessions by Rousseau, in parallel to the first theoretical texts. After that, consider the pacts cast in the studies of the diaries, made after the theorizations of the autobiographical pact. It is important to make evident the ways in which the pact is expressed in Lejeune\'s critical text itself. In that sense, I expect to articulate both the autobiographical and the critical dimensions in his texts.

This study examines Ludwig Zinzendorf’s political economy and the intellectual inspiration of his thinking. Zinzendorf, a protégé of Kaunitz, was a sophisticated economic thinker in the mid eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy who was part of the wider intellectual movement in Europe dedicated to understanding political economy and presenting it as an independent and important activity. Self- educated, polyglot and hard-working, Zinzendorf was formidably well read and impressively numerate. His output was detailed and analytical. With an exceptionally wide knowledge, he offered a more original way to discuss the economy than the essentially didactic approach of cameralist writers. He was a reformer dedicated to propagating the most advanced European ideas and practices. This study is divided into five chapters: chapter one covers the relationship between Zinzendorf and Kaunitz and Zinzendorf’s formative years in France from 1750 to 1752. The influence of French economic thinkers on Zinzendorf’s intellectual development, Jean-François Melon and Vincent de Gournay in particular, is the subject of chapter two. Chapter three is devoted to Zinzendorf’s German translation of John Law’s Money and Trade. The development of Zinzendorf’s ideas on state credit, notably the creation of a new stock exchange and political bank in the monarchy, modelled on the Bank of England, is discussed in chapter four. The final chapter examines how Zinzendorf operated as a sophisticated financial expert in the monarchy. He sought to provide a different kind of economic advice and attempted to open-up government to new concepts on the economy. He was influenced by the important contribution in France made by Gournay and his circle of writers in disseminating foreign ideas by publishing in French a range of economic texts from rival nations. Zinzendorf, it is argued, attempted to apply a moderate format of Gournay’s initiative in the monarchy.

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[Truncated abstract] This thesis is concerned with the representation of madness in three texts by modernist women: Dorothy Richardson' Pilgrimage, Leonora Carrington's

Bibliography: leaves 466-497. / x, 497 leaves : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 2001

"Submitted by Simon Charles Nepean Pockley ... as a partial requirement for Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Project 18th July, 1998". "WARNING culturally sensitive material". Available [on line] http://www.cinemedia.net/FOD/FOD0043.html Archived at ANL http://purl.nla.gov.au/nla/pandora/FOD http Text, graphics, sound and animation The Flight of ducks is a multi-purpose on-line work built around a collection of archival material from a camel expedition into the central Australian frontier in 1933. This journey was revisited in 1976 and retraced in 1996."- leaf 1.

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