Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 21, 2010). Advisor: Marilyn Norconk. Keywords: Ontogeneny; white-faced saki; resource partitioning; intraspecific; mechanical properties; feeding ecology; pithecia. Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-80).

Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 16, 2010). Advisor: Marilyn Norconk. Keywords: White-faced sakis; goal-directed foraging; spatial memory; mental maps; arboreal pathways; distance-minimization; topographical mental mapping; preference. Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194).

Black-faced Spoonbill (BFS), Platalea minor, numbers during the non-breeding season increased steadily from 1990 to 2004 in Taiwan. Numbers of the BFS in Taiwan accounted for more than 50% of the total population, with 96% of the BFS in southwestern Taiwan at the town of Chi-Ku and Tainan City. The percentage of adult BFS remained constant from 2000-2003. Relatively constant high survey counts, with similar ratios of adult to non-adult birds, suggested that the BFS has a healthy population. With the exception of avian botulism resulting in 73 BFS deaths in the 2002 winter, several other mortality factors were documented with no more than four birds lost in a year from 1849-2004. I counted numbers of BFS at the town of Chi-Ku and Tainan City almost daily during the winter months from September 1998 to May 2001. Although variable, overall population numbers increased sharply from September to October. From November to February, the BFS maintained a high, stable population-level. Migration began during March, and population numbers decreased from March to May. I used visual observations and radio-telemetry data to locate, count and monitor BFS during the day and night, respectively, and also to assess nocturnal habitat use. Information obtained through these methods showed that habitat use was not in direct proportion to its availability. Activity ranges obtained from radio tracking and visual observations showed an increase in activity range size by BFS just prior to migration with more of the study area used north of the core-roosting area. Sizes and weights of potential prey items were measured at fish ponds used by BFS. Available prey in fish ponds was dominated by fish prey less than 5 cm in length and at least 30 gm in size. Similar size classes of prey items were selected by a captive BFS. Biomass of prey in fish ponds around the primary roosting site declined sharply in the pre-migration stage (March-April), compared to the middle winter stage (November-February). I suggest that this low biomass of prey items may have stimulated the northward movement of BFS in the late stage of winter. In addition, the activity range expansion may have related to preparation for migration.

Black-faced Spoonbill (BFS), Platalea minor, numbers during the non-breeding season increased steadily from 1990 to 2004 in Taiwan. Numbers of the BFS in Taiwan accounted for more than 50% of the total population, with 96% of the BFS in southwestern Taiwan at the town of Chi-Ku and Tainan City. The percentage of adult BFS remained constant from 2000-2003. Relatively constant high survey counts, with similar ratios of adult to non-adult birds, suggested that the BFS has a healthy population. With the exception of avian botulism resulting in 73 BFS deaths in the 2002 winter, several other mortality factors were documented with no more than four birds lost in a year from 1849-2004. I counted numbers of BFS at the town of Chi-Ku and Tainan City almost daily during the winter months from September 1998 to May 2001. Although variable, overall population numbers increased sharply from September to October. From November to February, the BFS maintained a high, stable population-level. Migration began during March, and population numbers decreased from March to May. I used visual observations and radio-telemetry data to locate, count and monitor BFS during the day and night, respectively, and also to assess nocturnal habitat use. Information obtained through these methods showed that habitat use was not in direct proportion to its availability. Activity ranges obtained from radio tracking and visual observations showed an increase in activity range size by BFS just prior to migration with more of the study area used north of the core-roosting area. Sizes and weights of potential prey items were measured at fish ponds used by BFS. Available prey in fish ponds was dominated by fish prey less than 5 cm in length and at least 30 gm in size. Similar size classes of prey items were selected by a captive BFS. Biomass of prey in fish ponds around the primary roosting site declined sharply in the pre-migration stage (March-April), compared to the middle winter stage (November-February). I suggest that this low biomass of prey items may have stimulated the northward movement of BFS in the late stage of winter. In addition, the activity range expansion may have related to preparation for migration.

Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As the pace of climate change has begun to accelerate so too has it become clear that the direct impacts thereof are likely to have profound consequences for many island systems. Moreover, it has also been suggested that climate change will exacerbate the effects of many invasive species, so further impacting both diversity and ecosystem functioning. Forecasts for such interactions have been most pronounced for the Southern Ocean islands, which are home to a wide variety of endemic species. This thesis is about such interactions and their specific impacts on a key endemic, the black-faced sheathbill (Chionis minor) on the Prince Edward Islands. Of increasing concern is how invasive rodent populations in the Southern Ocean may be responding to global climate change, as ameliorating conditions on these islands are forecast to decrease thermal and resource restrictions on rodents. However, firm evidence for changing rodent populations in response to climate change, and demonstrations of associated impacts on the terrestrial environment, are entirely absent for the region. In Chapter 2 of this thesis, these relationships are explored for invasive house mice (Mus musculus) on Marion Island. Using spatially explicit capture-recapture modeling, it is determined that mouse populations across a range of habitats have increased over time. Owing to an extended breeding season, made possible by ameliorating conditions brought on by climate change, the total number of mice on the island at annual peak density more than doubled over the past decade. It is also demonstrated that mice directly reduce invertebrate densities, with biomass losses up to two orders of magnitude in some habitats. Because of the importance of invertebrates to nutrient cycling on the island, such changes are likely to have significant ecosystem-level impacts. In Chapter 3 the focus expands to examine how increasing mouse impacts and other outcomes of climate change are affecting the ecology of the black-faced sheathbill. It has been established that invasive house mice are capable of suppressing the populations of several seabird species in the Southern Ocean. However, mouse impacts on the region’s few island endemic land-birds remain largely unexplored. Further, a significant effect of climate change may be realized by altering interspecific interactions, specifically food webs. A significant portion of sheathbill diets is derived from rockhopper penguins, a species currently under a climate-change-driven decline, which may have significant effects on sheathbills. The study found that terrestrial invertebrates are no longer a significant prey resource for sheathbills on Marion Island, and that sheathbills have effectively been displaced from a formerly important winter food resource by mice. In response, the number of sheathbills foraging in king penguin colonies increased. Moreover, a reduced rockhopper penguin population lead to significant declines in both the number and proportion of sheathbills foraging in rockhopper penguin colonies. The sum result was a significant decline in the body condition of female sheathbills. Rather than decrease reproductive output, sheathbills responded by decreasing clutch size and producing significantly fewer male nestlings. While population estimates did not detect a reduction in the number of sheathbills, population projections suggest that the population is in decline, with the reproductive population declining faster than the absolute population. There is need for greater study of island species, as for even relatively well-studied taxa such as birds many aspects of ecology remain significantly less studied when compared to species occurring on continents. For example, basal metabolic rate (BMR) is a fundamental characteristic of all endotherms, yet only a handful of island birds have had their BMR measured, and fewer still to a level that allows intraspecific analysis. In Chapter 4 the BMR of black-faced sheathbills on Marion Island was measured to determine whether the unique phylogenetic position and ecology of sheathbills equate to a unique BMR when allometrically compared to other birds. It was found that the BMR of sheathbills is typical for a bird of its size. However, significant intraspecific variation was found to occur, with differences in habitat quality a likely driver. The results of the study show that the combined effects of climate change and invasive species can have significant consequences for terrestrial endemics in the Southern Ocean. Further, the long-term changes observed in sheathbills make clear the need for improved documentation and study of island species in general, as many of the responses observed in this study are significant but subtle and would not have been evident without detailed knowledge of species ecology and vital rates. Giving greater focus to insular biota is imperative to understanding their current status and ecology as well as establishing a barometer against which further global change can be measured and mitigation measures evaluated. Specific conservation responses for the black-faced sheathbill on Marion Island include the provision of nest boxes at king penguin colonies, and eradication of house mice. The latter would have long-term benefits for the species, invertebrates, ecosystem functioning generally, and likely also for important seabirds such as several species of albatrosses whose chicks are being increasingly preyed on by mice. Eradication would, however, be difficult and expensive, and with substantial potential non-target effects, including on sheathbills, that would have to be carefully managed. In the absence of local mouse eradication, and with ongoing climate change, specific management of the sheathbill population through the provision of supplementary nesting sites seems the most appropriate conservation action. It should therefore be examined in small-scale trials to ascertain the likelihood of unintended consequences. Importantly, the maintenance of Prince Edward Island as largely free of invasive species is key to the conservation of the local black-faced sheathbill subspecies, Chionis minor marionensis, endemic to the Prince Edward Island group. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Soos die tempo van klimaatsverandering begin om te versnel, het dit ook duidelik geword dat die direkte impak daarvan waarskynlik ernstige gevolge vir baie eilande gaan hê. Verder word dit is ook voorgestel dat klimaatsverandering die gevolge van baie indringerspesies sal vererger, so ʼn verdere impak het op beide diversiteit en die funksionering van die ekosisteem. Voorspellings vir sulke interaksies is die meeste uitgespreek vir die Suidelike Oseaan-eilande, wat ook die tuiste van 'n wye verskeidenheid van endemiese spesies is. Hierdie tesis is oor sulke interaksies en hul spesifieke impak op 'n sleutel endemiese spesie is, die swart gesig skedebek (Chionis minor) op die Prince Edward-eilande. ʼn Groter bron van bekommernis is hoe uitheemse knaagdier bevolkings in die Suidelike Oseaan kan reageer teenoor globale klimaatsverandering, aangesien toestande op die eilande voorspel word om hitte en hulpbron beperkings vir knaagdiere te verminder. Maar, ferm bewyse vir die verandering van knaagdier bevolkings in reaksie op klimaatsverandering, en demonstrasies van gepaardgaande impakte op die terrestriële omgewing, is heeltemal afwesig vir die streek. In Hoofstuk 2 van hierdie tesis, word hierdie verhoudings ondersoek vir indringende huis muise (Mus musculus) op Marion-eiland. Ruimtelik vang-terugvang modelle word gebruik om vas te stel dat die muis bevolkings oor 'n verskeidenheid van habitatte mettertyd toegeneem het. As gevolg van 'n uitgebreide broeiseisoen as gevolg van die verligting van toestande gebring deur klimaatsverandering, het die totale aantal muise op die eiland by die jaarlikse hoogtepunt digtheid meer as verdubbel oor die afgelope dekade. Dit is ook getoon dat muise die digtheid van ongewerweldes direk verminder het, met biomassa verliese tot twee ordes in sommige habitatte. As gevolg van die belangrikheid van die ongewerweldes vir voedingstof sirkulering op die eiland, behoort sulke veranderinge waarskynlik 'n beduidende ekosisteem-vlak impak te hê. In Hoofstuk 3 word die fokus verbreed om te sien hoe die verhoging van die muis impakte en ander uitkomste van klimaatsverandering die ekologie van die swart gesig skedebek beïnvloed. Daar is vasgestel dat indringende huis muise in staat is om die bevolkings van verskeie spesies seevoëls te onderdruk in die Suidelike Oseaan. Maar die muis impak op die streek se paar eiland endemiese land voëls bly grootliks onverken. Verder kan 'n beduidende uitwerking van klimaatsverandering verwesenlik word deur die wysiging van interspesifieke interaksies, veral voedselwebbe. 'n Beduidende gedeelte van skedebek dieet word gekry van Geelkuifpikkewyne, 'n spesie wat tans onder 'n klimaat-veranderinggedrewe agteruitgang is, wat ook 'n beduidende uitwerking het op die skedebek. Die studie het gevind dat terrestriële ongewerweldes nie meer 'n beduidende prooi hulpbron vir die skedebek op Marion-eiland is nie, en dat die skedebek effektief is verplaas uit 'n voorheen belangrike winter kos hulpbron deur muise. In reaksie hierop het die aantal skedebekke wat kos soek in die koning pikkewyn kolonies toegeneem. Verder, 'n verlaagde Geelkuifpikkewyn bevolking lei tot 'n beduidende afname in beide die aantal en persentasie van skedebekke wat kos soek in Geelkuifpikkewyn kolonies. Die gevolg was 'n beduidende afname in die liggaamstoestand van die vroulike skedebekke. Eerder as ʼn afname van reproduksie, het skedebekke gereageer deur 'n vermindering in die aantal eiers en produseer aansienlik minder manlike kuikens. Terwyl bevolking skattings nie 'n afname in die aantal skedebekke kan vind nie, dui bevolking projeksies daarop dat die bevolking besig is om af te neem, met die voortplanting bevolking wat vinniger daal as die absolute bevolking. Daar is 'n behoefte vir 'n groter studie van eiland spesies, omdat selfs vir betreklik goed bestudeerde groepe soos voëls baie aspekte van die ekologie aansienlik minder bestudeer bly in vergelyking met spesies op die vastelande. Byvoorbeeld, basale metaboliese tempo (BMT) is 'n fundamentele kenmerk van alle endotermiese diere, maar net 'n handjievol van die eiland voëls het hul BMT laat meet, en nog minder tot 'n vlak wat dit moontlik maak intraspesifieke analise. In Hoofstuk 4 was die BMT van die swart gesig skedebek op Marion-eiland gemeet om te bepaal of die unieke filogenetiese posisie en ekologie van skedebekke gelyk aan 'n unieke BMT wanneer allometries vergelyk word met ander voëls. Daar is gevind dat die BMT van skedebekke tipies is vir 'n voël van sy grootte. Daar is egter belangrike intraspesifieke variasie gevind, met verskille in habitat kwaliteit as 'n waarskynlike verduideliking. Die resultate van die studie toon dat die gekombineerde effek van klimaatsverandering en indringerspesies beduidende gevolge vir terrestriele inheemse spesies in die Suidelike Oseaan kan hê. Verder maak die lang-termyn veranderinge waargeneem in skedebekke dit duidelik dat die behoefte aan verbeterde dokumentasie en studie van die eiland spesies in die algemeen, omdat baie van die reaksies waargeneem in hierdie studie betekenisvol is, maar subtiel en sou nie gewees het sonder gedetailleerde kennis van die spesies ekologie van die spesie nie. Om ʼn groter fokus op die insulêre biota te plaas is noodsaaklik om hul huidige status en die ekologie te begryp, sowel as om 'n barometer waarteen verdere globale verandering gemeet kan word en versagtende maatreëls geëvalueer. Spesifieke bewaring antwoorde vir die swart gesig skedebek op Marion-eiland sluit in die voorsiening van nes bokse by koning pikkewyne, en die uitwissing van huis muise. Laasgenoemde sou lang-termyn voordele vir die spesie en ongewerweldes hê, asook funksionering van die ekosisteem in die algemeen, en waarskynlik ook vir belangrike seevoëls soos verskeie spesies van albatrosse wie se kuikens toenemend geëet word deur muise. Uitwissing sou egter moeilik en duur wees, en het 'n aansienlike potensiaal vir nieteiken effekte, insluitend op skedebekke, wat sal versigtig moet bestuur word. In die afwesigheid van plaaslike muis uitwissing, en met voortdurende verandering van die klimaat, spesifieke bestuur van die skedebek bevolking deur die voorsiening van aanvullende broeiplekke blyk die mees geskikte bewaringsaksie. Dit moet dus ondersoek word in 'n kleinskaal proewe om die waarskynlikheid van onbedoelde gevolge te bepaal. Wat belangrik is die instandhouding van Prince Edward Eiland as grootliks vry van indringerspesies en is die sleutel tot die bewaring van die plaaslike swart gesig skedebek subspesie, Chionis minor marionensis, endemies aan die Prince Edward Eiland groep.

The purpose of this study is to determine the challenges O-level students face and other factors that contribute to poor reading-comprehension and it further seeks to establish the strategies that teachers employ in teaching reading-comprehension to O-level students. This study applied the qualitative case study methodology at a rural secondary school in Zimbabwe with twenty-nine participants purposively sampled. The students were first given two texts to read; one narrative and the other expository to provide information about the strategies they use to comprehend texts using a thinkaloud protocol to determine the challenges they face before, during and after reading narrative or expository texts. Further, the researcher conducted observation as a nonparticipant observer, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions (FGD) and documentary evidence from class and exams' records about students' work. The results of the study reveal that O-level students face challenges in readingcomprehension as they are unable to approach written texts actively to interact meaningfully with texts and are incapable of setting specific goals for reading hence face challenges with word meanings, resulting in them unable to make connections with new vocabulary. When reading-comprehension gets difficult, students are only able to monitor their reading-comprehension using the clarifying strategy, which is only one of the monitoring strategies used to repair reading-comprehension failure. The main conclusion about students is that they lack vocabulary synonym-language to handle reading-comprehension tasks; they have not been availed reading materials to expand their vocabulary through extensive reading. Findings indicate that teachers are contradictory in their use of strategies that help students activate their prior knowledge and they use less effective methods such as lecturing and testing. They do not make use of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approaches to process-teach reading-comprehension. Therefore, the researcher recommends a reflection upon current reading-comprehension teaching methods so as to improve instruction and that the government should buy textbooks and library books for students and reduce class sizes. Teachers also should conduct a formative assessment to improve teaching and draw up detailed schemes and organise school training days and also acquire old magazines and newspapers to provide students' extra reading material and give timely feedback to inform and monitor student progress in reading-comprehension.

The main objective of this work was to develop a framework to predict the fracture toughness degradation of highly toughened adhesive joints using fracture test data obtained by accelerated open-faced degradation method. First, the mixed-mode fracture resistance (R-curve) behavior of two rubber-toughened epoxy-aluminum adhesive systems was measured and could be fit in a bilinear R-curve model. Then, open-faced DCB (ODCB) specimens of the same adhesive systems were aged over a relatively wide range of temperature, relative humidity (RH) and time, dried and tested to characterize the irreversible evolution of the mixed-mode fracture R-curves. The R-curve bilinear model parameters of adhesive system 1 varied significantly with degradation while that of adhesive system 2 remained unchanged. The absorption and desorption of water in the adhesives cast wafers was measured gravimetrically. The absorption data were fitted to a new sequential dual Fickian (SDF) model while water desorption was modeled accurately using Fick’s law. A significant difference was observed between the amounts of retained water in the two adhesives after drying. An exposure index (EI) was defined as the integral of water concentration over time and calculated at all points in the ODCB and closed DCB joints. The fracture toughness of the closed joints was then predicted from these calculated EIs by making reference to fracture toughness data from the ODCB specimens degraded to various EI levels. To verify the predictions, fracture experiments and analyses were carried out for closed DCB joints. Good agreement was found between the predicted and experimentally measured fracture toughness values for the degraded closed DCB joints. Furthermore, the crack path and fracture surface characteristics were evaluated as a function of the degree of aging using optical profilometery. The unexpected crack path in the mixed-mode fracture of unaged open-faced DCB specimens was addressed. The results showed a strong relationship between fracture surface parameters and the critical strain energy release rate, Gcs, irrespective of the type of adhesive and exposure condition.

The main objective of this work was to develop a framework to predict the fracture toughness degradation of highly toughened adhesive joints using fracture test data obtained by accelerated open-faced degradation method. First, the mixed-mode fracture resistance (R-curve) behavior of two rubber-toughened epoxy-aluminum adhesive systems was measured and could be fit in a bilinear R-curve model. Then, open-faced DCB (ODCB) specimens of the same adhesive systems were aged over a relatively wide range of temperature, relative humidity (RH) and time, dried and tested to characterize the irreversible evolution of the mixed-mode fracture R-curves. The R-curve bilinear model parameters of adhesive system 1 varied significantly with degradation while that of adhesive system 2 remained unchanged. The absorption and desorption of water in the adhesives cast wafers was measured gravimetrically. The absorption data were fitted to a new sequential dual Fickian (SDF) model while water desorption was modeled accurately using Fick’s law. A significant difference was observed between the amounts of retained water in the two adhesives after drying. An exposure index (EI) was defined as the integral of water concentration over time and calculated at all points in the ODCB and closed DCB joints. The fracture toughness of the closed joints was then predicted from these calculated EIs by making reference to fracture toughness data from the ODCB specimens degraded to various EI levels. To verify the predictions, fracture experiments and analyses were carried out for closed DCB joints. Good agreement was found between the predicted and experimentally measured fracture toughness values for the degraded closed DCB joints. Furthermore, the crack path and fracture surface characteristics were evaluated as a function of the degree of aging using optical profilometery. The unexpected crack path in the mixed-mode fracture of unaged open-faced DCB specimens was addressed. The results showed a strong relationship between fracture surface parameters and the critical strain energy release rate, Gcs, irrespective of the type of adhesive and exposure condition.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Lídia Alves da Silva.pdf: 650850 bytes, checksum: 82e71b3a229f34d6e64940e41d8d823d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-11-16 / Não Informada / The study to which refers this dissertation, when doing a reflection about the pedagogue's identity, describes the constitution of the history of the course of Pedagogy of the University of Education – FACED of Federal University of Amazonas – UFAM, emphasizes the historical sources linked to different aspects of the conditionings of emergency of a corpus of Educators in Amazonas. It contextualizes the recent history of the course of Pedagogy of the UFAM. The theoretical-methodological option was the Qualitative Study of Case, necessary expression to the analysis of the debates about the educators' formation in the course of Pedagogy in the first perspective of contextualizing in the time and space the place of the tendencies in their social-politics dimensions. When considering the debates about the educators' formation in the course of Pedagogy from their origins, they reveal that the course of Pedagogy of UFAM, is facing one of its worst crises, being reaffirmed the verification that, despite of the ambiguities that, sometimes, befall the debates about the base of the professional identity, what exists indeed is an old subject that is the definition of the area of the pedagogue's actuation. This subject comes as a national challenge to the education entities: ANFOPE, ANPED, ANPAE, FORUNDIR, and National Forum in Defense of the Teacher's formation, which mobilized, elaborates a Document of united Positioning, in which they reaffirm the Curriculum Guidelines for the course of Pedagogy, having the teaching as base. There was emerged a possibility so that the teachers interviewed in this study could express a better understanding in the perspective that they can put their perceptions about the Knowledge of the history of the current project of the course; Base of the educating professional's identity; The kind of pedagogue that FACED is forming; The objectives of the Thematic Nucleus; Nucleus' Articulation with the teaching-research-extension; Personal position in face of the curriculum. Such perceptions were rich in observations, elucidating for the direction of the urgency of (re) taking of the political-pedagogic project of the course of Pedagogy, which was reformulated in 1995 receiving successive alterations. Finally, although verifying the challenges that emerge to every historical moment of the Brazilian education and, consequently Amazonian, the study points to the need of an urgent and necessary changing of position of the University of Education, while locus of educators' formation, for the responsibility and involvement of their managers, (management, collegiate of course, leaders of departments, educational, administrative technicians and students) related to the formation that interests to the course of Pedagogy of FACED/UFAM. / El estudio a que se refiere esta disertación hace una reflexión sobre la identidad del pedagogo, describe la constitución de la historia del curso de Pedagogía de la Facultad de Educación – FACED de la Universidad Federal del Amazonas – UFAM, le da relieve a las fuentes históricas vinculadas a diferentes aspectos de los Condicionantes de Emergencia de un corpus de educadores en el Amazonas. Contextualiza la historia reciente del curso de Pedagogía da UFAM. La opción teórico metodológica fue el Estudio de Caso Cualitativo, expresión necesaria al análisis de los debates sobre la formación de educadores en el curso de Pedagogía en el sentido de contextualizar en el tiempo y en el espacio, el lugar de las tendencias en sus dimensiones socio políticas. Al considerar los debates sobre la formación de educadores, en el curso de Pedagogía, desde sus orígenes, se revela que el curso de Pedagogía de la UFAM, viene enfrentando una de sus mayores crisis, reafirmándose la constatación de que, las ambigüedades, que a veces, pasan por los debates sobre la base de la identidad profesional, que hay de hecho es una cuestión antigua que es a la definición del área de actuación del pedagogo. Esta cuestión se presenta como desafío nacional para las entidades educacionales: ANFOPE, ANPED, ANPAE, FORUNDIR, y Foro Nacional en Defensa de la formación del profesor, que movilizados, elaboran un Documento de Posicionamiento Conjunto, en el cual reafirman las Directrices Curriculares para lo curso de Pedagogía, teniendo la docencia como base. Se abrió la posibilidad, para que los profesores entrevistados en este estudio, pudiesen expresar una mejor compresión en el sentido en que se coloquen sus percepciones sobre: el conocimiento dela historia del actual proyecto del curso; base de la identidad profesional del educador; el tipo de pedagogo que la FACED está formando; los objetivos de los núcleos temáticos; la articulación de los núcleos con la enseñanza, la investigación y la extensión; la posición personal frente al currículo. Tales percepciones fueran ricas en observaciones, clarificadoras con respecto al encaminamiento de urgencia de la retomada del proyecto político pedagógico del curso de Pedagogía, que pasó por una reformulación en 1995, con sucesivas alteraciones. Finalmente, aunque constatando los desafíos que surgen a cada momento histórico de la educación brasilera y por consiguiente amazónica, el estudio apunta para la necesidad de una urgente y necesaria tomada de posición de la Facultad de Educación, en cuanto locus de formación de educadores, por responsabilidad e interés de sus administradores (dirección, colegiado de curso, jefes de departamentos, docentes, técnicos administrativos y alumnos) en relación con la formación que interesa al curso de Pedagogía da la FACED/UFAM. / O estudo a que se refere esta dissertação, ao fazer uma reflexão sobre a identidade do pedagogo, descreve a constituição da história do curso de Pedagogia da Faculdade de Educação – FACED da Universidade Federal do Amazonas – UFAM, ressalta as fontes históricas vinculadas a diferentes aspectos dos Condicionantes de Emergência de um corpus de Educadores no Amazonas. Contextualiza a história recente do curso de Pedagogia da UFAM. A opção teórico-metodológica foi o Estudo de Caso Qualitativo, expressão necessária à análise dos debates sobre a formação de educadores no curso de Pedagogia na perspectiva primeira de contextualizar no tempo e no espaço o lugar das tendências em suas dimensões sócio-políticas. Ao considerar, os debates sobre a formação de educadores no curso de Pedagogia desde as suas origens, revela que o curso de Pedagogia da UFAM, vem enfrentado uma de suas maiores crises, reafirmando-se a constatação de que, não obstante às ambigüidades, que, por vezes, perpassam os debates sobre a base da identidade profissional, o que há de fato é uma questão antiga que é a definição da área de atuação do pedagogo. Esta questão se apresenta como desafio nacional às entidades educacionais: Associação Nacional pela Formação do Profissional da Educação – ANFOPE, Associação Nacional de Pesquisadores da Educação – ANPED, Associação Nacional de Políticas e Administração da Educação – ANPAE, Fórum de Diretores – FORUMDIR e Fórum Nacional em Defesa da Formação do Professor, que mobilizados, elaboram um Documento de Posicionamento conjunto, no qual reafirmam as Diretrizes Curriculares para o curso de Pedagogia, tendo a docência como base. Abriu-se a possibilidade para que os professores entrevistados neste estudo pudessem expressar uma melhor compreensão na perspectiva em que se coloquem as suas percepções sobre: o Conhecimento da história do atual projeto do curso; Base da identidade profissional de educador; Tipo de pedagogo que a FACED está formando; Objetivos dos Núcleos Temáticos; Articulação dos Núcleos com o ensino-pesquisa-extensão; posição pessoal frente ao currículo. Tais percepções foram ricas em observações, elucidativas quanto ao encaminhamento da urgência de (re) tomada do projeto político-pedagógico do curso de Pedagogia, que passou por uma reformulação em 1995 e sucessivas alterações. Finalmente, embora constatando os desafios que emergem a cada momento histórico da educação brasileira e, por conseguinte amazônica, o estudo aponta a necessidade de uma urgente e necessária tomada de posição da Faculdade de Educação, enquanto locus de formação de educadores, pela responsabilização e envolvimento de seus gestores, (direção, colegiado de curso, chefes de departamentos, docentes, técnicos administrativos e discentes) em relação à formação que interessa ao curso de Pedagogia da FACED/UFAM.

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