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An important element in the preparation of students for positions in the field of recreation has been an adequate field work experience. Additionally, the quality of an orientation to field programs was seen as an important variable to be evaluated. The purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes about a preparation for field work training programs. The study involved forty undergraduate recreation majors registered for summer quarter 1978 recreation field work course and their respective forty recreation agency supervisors. The study population was assigned to either the experimental or control condition. The experimental group received a treatment (training program) and the control group received no treatment. Attitudes were analyzed through the use of a Field Work Preparation Questionnaire, using an adapted Likert Method of Summated Ratings Scale (1932). Data were gathered from two posttests and evaluated schematically on a revised Weber Model of Educational Evaluation (1973). Responses were tallied; means and t-test differences were used, as appropriate. Eighteen attitude items about a field work preparation program were measured in terms of their respective effectiveness, approval and usability. Based on the findings and within the limitations of the study, it was concluded that significant differences do occur between student experimental and control groups in their attitudes about the relative effectiveness, approval of, and usability of the respective field work preparation programs. Significant differences were found on seventeen of the eighteen attitude items between the recreation agency supervisor experimental and control groups. It was recognized that a long range evaluation program would be required to consistently assess the relative effectiveness of a field work preparation program. In recognition of the constraints imposed by a short term study, a system had to be developed which would accommodate the highest level of evaluative input within existing limitations. / Ed. D.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science. Johannesburg 2014 / Field trips to museums have been shown to achieve important learning outcomes and promote scientific literacy. However, the success of museum visits relies, in part, in the ability of teachers to effectively mediate the museum experience. A critical analysis of the literature on teacher-led field trips has shown that they are not always conducted in optimal ways and the use of worksheets is a good illustration of this dilemma. Characteristics of effective museum worksheets are described in best-practice literature; however there is a mismatch between researcher recommendations and teacher practices. Clearly there exists a need to improve teacher practice in informal educational settings. This study sought to provide insight on the ability of a teacher to follow recommendations outlined by the literature and create a best-practice worksheet. It involved two visits to the Johannesburg Zoo, with two different groups of Grade eight learners, where they were observed and audio-recorded whilst completing one of two museum worksheets. The first worksheet was designed before the teacher was aware of best-practice recommendations. The second worksheet attempted to improve on the first using researcher recommendations. The worksheets were analysed, using a worksheet analysing instrument, which showed that both contained more factors that would hinder learning and few factors that would facilitate learning. These findings suggest that, even with knowledge of best-practice recommendations, the teacher was not able to construct a worksheet that completely facilitated free-choice learning – barriers to the process included: the context of the zoo i.e. the plethora of information boards that rendered most observation-dependent questions as text-dependent; the tendency of the teacher to take advantage of the zoo setting and therefore the use of questions with a high site specificity; an increased use of orientation cues needed to reduce the ‘novelty factor’; and the use of the worksheet as an assessment tool that, therefore, provided little choice in where and how learners applied tasks asked of them. The study also investigated insight on whether or not the worksheets promoted curriculum related conversations among a group of learners. Learner conversations were coded, focusing on both nature of discourse as well as type of discourse, and analysis showed that learners cognitively and affectively engaged with worksheet tasks. However, the nature of cognitive engagement tended to be on a superficial level, suggesting learners do not have the necessary ii skills - e.g. language, argumentation and critical analysis - to initiate and conduct exploratory discussions. In view of these findings, it was concluded that it is difficult to translate best-practice recommendations into actual field trip experiences. The agenda of the teacher as well as the ability of his or her learners strongly influence how a worksheet is conducted and the worksheet is used.

This study explored the risk that social workers face in the field while serving vulnerable adults to determine if there is need to implement mandated safety training based on social worker experiences and their desire for initial safety training. There needs to be a clear understanding of risks faced by social workers and their desire for safety training to implement safety standards and training for social workers across the board in social service agencies and academic institutions. There is minimal research currently on this topic and thus this study is paving the way for future research, as well as providing insight to risks faced by social workers who conduct field visits. This quantitative study presents different field situations that have put the social worker’s personal safety at risk and desire for safety training based on their personal experience. The results show a desire and need for mandatory safety training prior to entering the field. The results show a positive correlation between years in the field and risks faced in the field. Additionally, there was a positive correlation between age and desire for field safety training. There were differences found in risks experienced and desire for safety training by gender, education and ethnicity. This study is the start to understanding safety risks faced by social workers in the field and suggests developing safety training policy to ensure social worker safety in the field in both social service agencies and academic institutions.

published_or_final_version / Applied Geosciences / Master / Master of Science

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Orientador: Laymert Garcia dos Santos / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T16:09:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Junqueira_JoanaBenetton_D.pdf: 2135599 bytes, checksum: 7428703bffe17d9132b37cd9579f1844 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Este estudo é uma etnografia do contato. Os cineastas, produtores culturais, paulistanos localizados na zona centro-oeste da cidade, com as pessoas, lugares e histórias que escolhem abordar em seus filmes. Direcionado principalmente pela análise, observação e escuta sobre três filmes produzidos na cidade, como também por uma pesquisa de campo intensa e extensa da cena cultural de São Paulo, revela como os parâmetros técnicos envolvidos na produção audiovisual e na elaboração de uma narrativa mediam as relações que os moradores da zona centro-oeste estabelecem com outros mundos possíveis. Relações que são necessariamente mediadas pelas máquinas de sons e imagens com capacidade mimética de reprodução e revelação de um mundo. Que mundo potencializam em seus filmes? Como são afetados por esses mundos? O que fica da experiência do contato nos filmes que assistimos nas grandes telas da cidade? E o que transborda para o seu cotidiano na zona oeste paulistana? São algumas das perguntas que procuramos abordar / Abstract: This study is a ethnography of contact. Of filmmakers and cultural producers from São Paulo to the people, places and stories they address in their films. Guided by the analysis, the observation and the attention on three films produced in the city, as well as by an intensive and extensive fieldwork in São Paulo¿s cultural scene. Reveals how the technical parameters in audiovisual production mediates the relationships that the inhabitants of the centre-west region of the city establish with other possible worlds; relationships that are necessarily mediated by machines that register sounds and images with capacity to reproduce mimetically and to reveal worlds. What worlds they potentialise in their films? How are they affected by these worlds? What remains of the experience of contact with extreme alterity in the films we watch in the big screen? And what floods into their daily lives in São Paulo? Are a few of the questions we unravelled / Doutorado / Ciencias Sociais / Doutora em Ciências Sociais

Thesis (MSocialWork)--Stellenbosch University, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Finding practice education placements for undergraduate social work students is becoming increasingly difficult in the Western Cape Metropolis, because many welfare agencies have either closed down or do not have the capacity to accommodate students for field placement. As a result of this situation, this research was undertaken with the aim to investigate the feasibility of the corporate sector as a field placement for undergraduate social work students. By using the corporate sector as a field placement an opportunity can be created whereby the university and the corporate sector could establish a workable partnership, with mutual benefits for each. The corporate sector can benefit by services offered by the students in the form of case-group and community work that can be rendered to the employees. The university will benefit because a new option for student placements will become available to them. The domain of social work in the corporate sector was explored by defining occupational social work; the nature of service rendering on micro, meso and macro levels and discussing occupational social work in the 21st century. Field placements of undergraduate students in the corporate sector were examined in order to establish what the theoretical background for field placements in a corporate setting ought to be. To this end, the nature and purpose; formats; settings and key role players in field placements were explored. Social work methods in social work per se and occupational social work in general were investigated. An investigation was also made into the management of the field placement programme for undergraduate social work students in the corporate sector. The following were facets were explored: the requirements of the department of social work at the University of the Western Cape for fourth year students as well as the requirements for field placements in the corporate sector, in order to establish the suitability of the corporate sector for field placements. Existing literature and empirical findings were used to collect data for this study. Exploratory and descriptive research designs were applied in this study. Data was collected through questionnaires and interviews and conclusions and recommendations were based on the findings of the study. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Dit word al hoe moeiliker om praktykonderrigplasings vir voorgraadse maatskaplike werk studente in die Wes-Kaapse Metropool te vind, aangesien baie welsynsagentskappe of gesluit het of nie die vermoë het om studente in posisies vir praktykonderrigplasings te akkommodeer nie. As 'n gevolg van hierdie situasie is hierdie navorsing onderneem met die doel om vas te stel of menslike hulpbron personeel binne die korporatiewe sektor gewillig sal wees om voorgraadse studente vir praktykonderrig te akkommodeer. Deur die korporatiewe sektor vir praktykonderrigplasings te gebruik, kan 'n geleentheid geskep word waardeur die universiteit en die korporatiewe sektor 'n uitvoerbare vennootskap, met wedersydse voordele vir albei, tot stand kan bring. Die korporatiewe sektor kan voordeel trek uit die dienste wat deur die studente aangebied word, soos gevalle-, groep- en gemeenskapswerk wat aan die werknemers gebied kan word. Die universiteit se voordeel sal daarin lê dat nuwe opsies vir praktykonderrigplasings vir die studente beskikbaar word. Die sfeer van maatskaplike werk in die korporatiewe sektor is ondersoek deur beroepsmaatskaplike werk en die aard van dienslewering op mikro-, meso- en makrovlakke te definieer, en deur die aard van beroepsmaatskaplike werk in die 21ste eeu te bespreek. Praktykonderrigplasings van voorgraadse studente in die korporatiewe sektor is ondersoek om te bepaal wat die teoretiese agtergrond vir praktykonderrigplasings in die korporatiewe omgewing behoort te wees. Vir hierdie doel is die aard en doel, formate, omgewings en sleutel rolspelers in praktykonderrigplasings verken. Maatskaplike werkmetodes in maatskaplike werk per se en beroepsmaatskaplike werk in die algemeen is ondersoek. 'n Ondersoek is ook gedoen na die bestuur van die praktykonderrigplasingsprogram vir voorgraadse maatskaplike werkstudente in die korporatiewe sektor. Die volgende fasette is verken: die vereistes wat die Departement Maatskaplike Werk van die Universiteit van Wes- Kaapland aan vierdejaarstudente stel, sowel as die vereistes vir praktykonderrigplasings in die korporatiewe sektor, met die doel om die gewilligheid van die korporatiewe sektor vir praktykonderrigplasings te bepaal. Bestaande literatuur en empiriese bevindings is gebruik om data vir hierdie studie te versamel. Verkennende en beskrywende navorsingsontwerpe is in hierdie studie benut. Deur middel van vraelyste en onderhoude is data versamel en afleidings en aanbevelings op grond van die bevindinge van die ondersoek is gemaak.

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education