This study aims at investigating the process of expanding the higher education in the state of Alagoas, having as its starting point the law 9.394/96 (Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional) We adopt the historical/ dialectic materialism method in order to analyze the inner relations evolving the phenomenon. From that perspective, we consider the materiality of social relations in the capitalist society to explain the essence of such local expansion. Having the referred theoretical support, we therefore analyse the educational politics within the neo-liberal Brazilian state and its consequences concerning Alagoas. The whole process has been observed regarding data from Censo de Ensino Superior and also from national and local speeches, through significant utterances, specially those taken from interviews with the former Education Minister Paulo Renato Souza and leaders/owners of five different private educational institutes, which were founded after the upsurge of LDBEN. To stablish this relationship between the objective and simbolic dimensions on the phenomenon, we will be working with Discourse Analysis (DA), from the French research line. We conclude then that the higher education market in Alagoas nowadays represents a cultural conflict concerning the institutions managament and at the same time it follows the trend of higher education mercantilism. We also argue that the local socioeconomic reality singles out contradictions as to the own maintenance of this market/field, however, its growth takes place through a strategy of market expansion in the Northeast, supported by the ideology that preaches higher education as essential to employment. With that purpose, the market bets on the continuity of such educational politics which does not invest in the broadening of the public space and also that guarantees the institutions sustainability via financing needy students, in other words, reducing even more the frontiers between the public and the private. / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas / O presente trabalho tem como proposta investigar o processo de expansão do ensino superior em Alagoas a partir da promulgação da Lei 9.394/96 (Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional) até os dias atuais. Para tratar as relações existentes no fenômeno, utilizamos como método o materialismo histórico dialético, partindo da materialidade das relações sociais no modo de produção capitalista para explicar a essência da expansão local. Com essa sustentação teórica, analisamos as políticas educacionais no estado neoliberal brasileiro e seu desdobramento em Alagoas. Esse desdobramento é analisado por meio de dados do Censo de Ensino Superior e do discurso nacional e local, através de enunciados significativos, retirados de entrevistas do ex-ministro da educação Paulo Renato Souza, e dirigentes e donos de cinco Instituições de Ensino Superior privadas de Alagoas, criadas após a LDBEN. Para estabelecer essa relação entre as dimensões objetivas e simbólicas do fenômeno, trabalhamos com a Análise do Discurso (AD) de linha francesa. Concluímos que o mercado de ensino superior existente em Alagoas hoje apresenta um conflito cultural no que se refere ao gerenciamento das instituições, ao mesmo tempo em que segue as tendências atuais de mercantilização do ensino superior. Entendemos ainda que a realidade socioeconômica alagoana aponta contradições quanto às possibilidades de manutenção desse mercado, mas seu crescimento se efetiva por meio de uma estratégia de expansão do mercado educacional no Nordeste, apoiando-se na ampliação da ideologia da formação superior como necessária para a empregabilidade. Para isso, o mercado aposta na continuidade de uma política educacional que não invista na ampliação do espaço público e garanta a sustentabilidade das instituições através do financiamento de alunos carentes, reduzindo ainda mais as fronteiras entre o público e o privado.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceived effectiveness of a multimedia tutorial for first year undergraduate students (FTICs) using a university course registration system; to determine if a relationship existed between perceived effectiveness of the multimedia tutorial, gender, major, ICT usage, ICT education, ICT fluency, and ICT comfort; and to describe the transfer of learning, if any, that resulted from viewing the multimedia tutorial. The study was both quantitative and qualitative in design addressing 10 research questions. The instruments used in this study consisted of the Registration Tutorial which included: (1) an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Fluency Questionnaire (Hilberg, 2007), (2) a multimedia tutorial designed by the researcher demonstrating the university course registration system, and (3) the Registration Video Questionnaire (RVQ) also designed by the researcher measuring perceived multimedia tutorial effectiveness. A Registration Video Tutorial Transfer of Learning Questionnaire (TLQ) was also developed by the research to measure perceived proficiency with the registration system three months after initially viewing the multimedia tutorial. The sample included 1,196 freshmen students from a large public university in the southeastern United States. Results of the study showed that students perceived the multimedia tutorial to be effective (M = 4.19, SD = .756) and seven themes emerged through qualitative analysis as to why the tutorial was or was not effective. Results also showed there was no relationship between multimedia tutorial effectiveness and gender, major, or ICT education. / There were however significant weak relationships between multimedia tutorial effectiveness and ICT usage (r = .095), multimedia tutorial effectiveness and ICT fluency (r = .286), and multimedia tutorial effectiveness and ICT comfort (r = -.133). Furthermore, transfer of learning occurred for students (n = 66) who completed the TLQ (M = 4.01, SD =.777) and as suggested by qualitative analysis of student responses. Implications of this study suggested that providing first year undergraduate students with a web-based multimedia tutorial is just the beginning and the need may be to focus upon the development of these students as adult learners so they can feel successful in the early stages of their academic career, thus building the self-confidence they need to effectively navigate the university environment. / by Merideth I. Dee. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Submitted by Maria Dulce (mdulce@ndc.uff.br) on 2014-08-27T19:40:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao CI_Catarina Silveira-2013.pdf: 649306 bytes, checksum: f399b36d022fed4b01388e8318d4ec4d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Dulce (mdulce@ndc.uff.br) on 2014-08-27T19:41:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao CI_Catarina Silveira-2013.pdf: 649306 bytes, checksum: f399b36d022fed4b01388e8318d4ec4d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-27T19:41:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao CI_Catarina Silveira-2013.pdf: 649306 bytes, checksum: f399b36d022fed4b01388e8318d4ec4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Universidade Federal Fluminense / Este estudo tem por objetivo identificar se os procedimentos adotados pelos Centros de Memória das Instituições de Ensino Superior estão em consonância com as Políticas de Preservação do Patrimônio Documental no Brasil. A metodologia utilizada pautou-se na pesquisa bibliográfica e na análise documental para fundamentação dos conceitos relacionados ao tema. O campo empírico teve como alvo o Núcleo de Memória da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) e o Projeto Memória do Sistema de Bibliotecas e Informação (SiBI) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Os resultados demonstraram que a preservação e acesso aos documentos contribui para fortalecer a identidade, a história e a memória das Instituições, pois facilitam a recuperação de informações que dificilmente seriam encontradas em outros documentos. Concluiu-se que na ausência de uma política governamental para garantir a preservação documental, as Universidades devem incorporar esses centros em sua estrutura e criar, a nível institucional, políticas de seleção, preservação e acesso à sua produção documental de caráter histórico/memorialístico. / This study aims to identify if the procedures adopted by Memory Centers of Highter Education Institutions are in keeping with the Policies for the Preservation of Documentary Heritage in Brazil. The methodology used was based on the bibliographical research and document analysis for foundation of concepts relation to the topic. The empirical field had targeted the Core Memory of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Memory Project of the Sistema de Bibliotecas e Informação (SiBI) of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The results demonstrate that the preservation and access to documents contributes to strengthen the identity, history and memory of Institutions, because they facilitate the recovery of information that would hardly be found in other documents. Conclude that in the absence of a government policy to ensure the preservation of documents, the Universities should incorporate these centers in their structure and create the institutional level, selection policies, preservation and access your document production of historical/memorialistic.