The academic challenges faced by pregnant and nursing students in Zimbabwe do not seem to attract the attention of scholars. This study focused on the educational challenges faced by pregnant and nursing adult learners at Morgenster Teachers‟ College, a tertiary education institution. Participants‟ perceptions of the academic challenges they faced were established through the use of a qualitative methodology in which the semi-structured interview was the dominant data collection method. Non-participant observation and document analysis were employed to complement the dominant method. The findings indicated that the academic challenges faced by mothering adult learners are related to physical problems, social relationships, inadequate financial resources and administrative problems. The study revealed that such students develop strategies to alleviate some of the educational challenges they face. In view of the findings, recommendations are made to improve the learning environment of mothering students and for further research to address the problem. / M. Ed. (Adult Education) / Educational Studies

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:33:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana Veloso Rocha Portolese Baruki.pdf: 1595537 bytes, checksum: 2f8077e89d1b55d97bb4636fdb505a98 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-01 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / Mental health problems associated with the work environment have achieved, in the beginning of this century, unprecedented levels. The intensity by which these problems appear, along with the exponentially pattern through which they have been growing, are factors that have transformed mental disorders caused by the exposure to psychosocial risks/hazards at work in such an expressive problem, which can no longer be ignored. In the first part, by addressing the psychosocial called emerging occupational risks, we sought to understand the extent to which they reveal themselves as a category of legal interest. It was thus necessary to find the theoretical basis for a psychosocial approach of the occupational risks so that we could dissect the pathologies increasing afterwards. In a second part, it was developed a legal discussion itself, which was intended to reveal, in specific terms, how insufficient protection stands as an obstacle to the implementation of a framework of preventive psychosocial risks/hazards situations at work. More generally, there was an intention throughout the whole text itself that was not to lose sight of how much suffering and mental illness fall under the Political and Economic Law as a problem that affect primarily the citizenship issues and the construction of a supposed free and fair and society. In this sense,the optics of the psychodynamics of work served as a support for tackling the subject from the viewpoint of work organization instead of the individual approach in coping with stress. / Os problemas de saúde mental relacionados ao meio ambiente do trabalho atingiram, neste início de século, patamares sem precedentes. Seja pela intensidade com que aparecem, seja pela forma exponencial pela qual crescem, os transtornos mentais decorrentes da exposição aos riscos psicossociais no trabalho representam um problema que, de tão expressivo, não pode ser mais ignorado. Em uma primeira parte, através da abordagem psicossocial dos chamados riscos ocupacionais emergentes, buscou-se entender em que medida eles se revelam como categoria de interesse jurídico. Para tanto, foi necessário buscar as bases teóricas da abordagem psicossocial, bem como dissecar as patologias em aumento. Em uma segunda parte, travou-se uma discussão jurídica propriamente dita, a qual pretendeu, em termos específicos, revelar como a proteção insuficiente se coloca como um obstáculo para a implementação de um regime jurídico preventivo dos riscos psicossociais no trabalho. Em termos mais genéricos, objetivou-se nunca perder de vista o quanto o sofrimento e o adoecimento psíquico se inscrevem, no âmbito do Direito Político e Econômico, como um problema essencialmente afeto à problemática da cidadania e à construção de uma pretensa sociedade livre e justa. Para tanto, a ótica da psicodinâmica do trabalho serviu de apoio para o enfrentamento do tema sob o ponto de vista da organização do trabalho, em detrimento do enfrentamento individual do stress.

La spécificité de l’objet de la PI imprime une singularité au régime du contrat d’entreprise. L’affirmation se constate aussi bien au sujet de la PLA qu’au sujet de la PIND et appelaient donc la recherche d’une théorie générale. Concernant la PLA, l’existence de droits moraux de l’auteur perturbe la relation contractuelle et justifie la mise en œuvre d’un formalisme important. L’objectif du législateur est alors de tenter de protéger l’auteur, envisagé comme la partie faible face au maître de l’ouvrage. Et quoique certaines exceptions aient été mises en place, elles demeurent insuffisantes. Une telle méthode « principe – exception » se révèle néanmoins alternativement inutile ou préjudiciable, de sorte qu’il conviendrait de convertir les exceptions en règle commune. À titre d’exemple, l’attribution initiale des droits d’auteur au maître de l’ouvrage dans le cadre de l’œuvre collective ou le logiciel devrait être généralisé. Si la protection apportée à l’entrepreneur dans le cadre du droit de la propriété littéraire et artistique apparaît ainsi excessive, elle est au contraire insuffisante dans le cadre du droit de la propriété industrielle. En effet, en dépit de fondements identiques, le contrat d’entreprise relatif aux droits de propriété industrielle est régi par les dispositions du Code civil, lesquelles ne protègent pas l’auteur ou le créateur. Ainsi, dans ce cadre, l’inventeur ne bénéficie pas d’un droit à la rémunération proportionnelle, car l’aspect économique domine toutes les étapes de la relation contractuelle, de l’obtention de la création à son exploitation. Néanmoins, les règles de l’attributions du droit à la création industrielle ne sont pas claires / The specificity of the subject of intellectual property entitled to a singularity of the contract of enterprise regime. The assertion is evident both on the literary and artistic property as about industrial property and therefore called the search for a general theory.Concerning the literary and artistic property, the existence of moral rights of the author disrupts the contractual relationship and justify the implementation of an important formalism. The aim of the legislator is then to try to protect the author, seen as the weak party to face the project Owner. And although some exceptions have been introduced, they remain insufficient. Nevertheless, such a method "principle - exception" proves alternately unnecessary or harmful, so the exceptions should be converted into common rule. For example, the initial attribution of copyright to the Owner project under the collective work or software should be generalized.If the protection provided to the contractor under the law of literary and artistic property thus appears excessive, it is insufficient otherwise under the law of industrial property. Indeed, despite identical basis, the contract of enterprise for industrial property rights is governed by the provisions of the Civil Code, which do not protect the author or creator. Thus, in this context, the inventor does not have a right to remuneration proportional because the economic aspect dominates all stages of the contractual relationship, obtaining creation to its exploitation. Nevertheless, the rules of the attribution of the right to creation industrial are not clear

There has existed for many years a memory enhancement technique ("memory pegs") that although having dramatic demonstrable success in some individual cases has not been generally applied in education. The emergence of constructivist epistemology has emphasised the notion that learning occurs as a result of connecting new material with previously learnt concepts. There is, therefore, the implication that effective learning requires some previous knowledge upon which to attach new concepts - and thus realisation of the importance of learning with respect to acquiring factual information as a prerequisite to learning new processes and/or skills. This issue has focussed my attention on the need to ensure that the more physiological skills of accessing 'memory', both for learning and recall, are optimised for maximum learning. Further, there are some indications that the physiological skills of memory access (storage and retrieval) may respond favourably to training and 'exercise'. This study was designed to find out whether or not a repeated 'exercise' using a simple memory enhancement technique would lead to a determinable and statistically significant increase in overall performance in a range of cognitive skills (as indicated by science and mathematics examination results), whether learning such a technique would affect a student's attitudes towards science, whether there was a relationship between the amount of time spent practicing the technique and the degree of effect, and whether the memory technique did actually improve the ability to recall lists of objects.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:36:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 A contra-reforma do Estado e o financiamento da Seguridade Social - 1995 a 2002.pdf: 1001008 bytes, checksum: 93aaac1432b6d1aede0c3c946600717f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-30 / Trata do financiamento da Seguridade Social no Brasil no contexto da contra-reforma do Estado na década de 1990 e início dos anos 2000, focando o período do governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995 2002). A Seguridade é uma das formas da intervenção pública do governo, com o objetivo de promover sua legitimação. A partir de uma problematização teórico-histórica sobre a teoria do Estado, base para os estudos, é discutida a construção do conceito de Seguridade no país e a regulamentação das políticas que a compõem Previdência, Assistência e Saúde , além da contra-reforma do Estado no Brasil e seus efeitos sobre essa política. Apresenta considerações sobre as alterações nas políticas componentes da Seguridade, discorrendo sobre a contra-reforma da Previdência Social com a incorporação da lógica atuarial à concessão dos benefícios; sobre a assistencialização das políticas sociais e o aumento dos gastos com a Assistência Social, ainda que em nível insuficiente para lidar com as mazelas sociais do país; e sobre o processo de implantação do Sistema Único de Saúde, que trouxe uma valorização da atenção básica à saúde e dos mecanismos de descentralização dos recursos, ficando os municípios responsáveis por boa parte da operacionalização e financiamento da política. A partir da discussão sobre o financiamento público, é ressaltada a predominância da valorização financeira do capital com a destinação de parcela crescente dos recursos arrecadados pelo governo para garantir a acumulação. Os principais mecanismos nesse sentido são os instrumentos de desvinculação das receitas, agora comprometidas com o pagamento dos juros da dívida, e as metas de resultado primário positivo. A intervenção pública dos anos 90 pautou-se pela busca da estabilização da economia, sobre-valorizando a importância de uma política econômica de cunho contracionista e conduzindo a cortes nos gastos públicos para a área social com a finalidade de pagar parte dos juros da dívida pública, ou seja, remunerar o capital especulativo e manter calmos, ou melhor, satisfeitos, os ditos mercados . Na medida em que avançou a penetração da ideologia neoliberal na sociedade e a utilização dos recursos arrecadados em nome da Seguridade para os gastos específicos foi reduzida, as possibilidades para a efetivação dessa política enquanto intervenção pública consolidada pioraram, dependendo cada vez mais de uma mobilização social nesse sentido.