The number of intercultural marriages has grown significantly in the past few decades, as have the numbers of intercultural couples presenting for marital and family therapy. Current literature on intercultural relationships states that they are at a high risk for failure, with higher divorce rates and lower marital satisfaction reported than for same culture marriages. Few actual research studies have been conducted to prove or disprove these theories, and no studies have looked at how successful couples have dealt with the stressors stated in the literature such that they remain married and report high marital satisfaction. This study was an exploratory study on the stress and coping techniques successful couples have utilized in their relationships, based on the ABCX model of stress and coping. Six couples were interviewed on what stressors they have faced, what resources they have accessed and built to combat those stressors, and what their perceptions of their challenges have been. Several themes emerged. Couples revealed common stressors from family and society disapproval, language barriers, logistics, cultural barriers and traditions, and children. Coping resources included humor, learning about the other's culture, support, communication, personal preparation, working towards common goals, and religion. These couples were found to have attitudes of commitment to their marriage and each other, and a belief that they were not that different from their partner. Clinical implications include support for the idea of strength-based intervention for intercultural couples. This study will provide a beginning framework for others interested in doing more research on intercultural relationships, and designing models for work with this population. / Master of Science

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates and examines the dynamics of intercultural theatre practice. Existing scholarship on interculturalism in theatre praxis regards intercultural theatre as a site for bridging cultures and cross-cultural performance traditions, and for investigating the performance of power between the collaborating parties, learning, cultural imperialism, cultural translation and hybridity, among other features. However, much of the existing literature does not offer a historical perspective allowing one to understand the dynamics of contemporary North-South collaborations. Moreover, most studies do not adequately weave the experiences of the participants in such collaborations into their analyses. This study contributes to filling that research gap. This research specifically seeks to investigate and examine the dynamics of intercultural theatre collaborations in Uganda, taking Makerere University‘s Department of Performing Arts and Film‘s intercultural theatre activities in recent years as case studies. The inquiry was mainly driven by the impetus to explore the North-South intercultural theatre dynamics and to examine the socio-cultural, socio-political, socio-economic features and other notions that were manifested in these intercultural theatre collaborations and performances. In order to pursue the above line of inquiry I used a multiple case study design by examining three cases: the Stanford-Makerere, New York-Makerere and the Norwegian College of Dance-Makerere collaborations. The multi-case study model was reinforced by the use of personal interviews, direct observation, focus group discussions, document analysis and emails of inquiry in order to solicit the views of individuals who had participated in the above collaborations. Theoretically, the study is hinged on a multiplicity of concepts and discourses: symbolic interaction, intercultural communication, theatre studies, postcolonial studies, international education and the discourse on globalisation. In the analysis of the different cases it was discovered that the issue of economic inequality in the contribution towards the funding of the collaborations, among the different modes of power performativity manifested in the collaboration processes, sometimes leads to an imbalance in the decision-making process. Consequently, the power imbalance contributes to the North-South intercultural theatre collaborations‘ unending crisis of identification with imperialism. The study further shows that there are cultural, linguistic, pedagogical, structural and socio-psychological aspects of difference that are negotiated during the course of the collaborations. It was found that the process of navigating the socio-cultural differences provides the participants with an experiential learning environment of living with/within and appreciating cultural differences, thus providing a bridge across the socio-cultural divide. The cultural bridge in theatrical terms, however, leads to the generation of theatrical hybridity and fusion, which again brings into play the debate on intercultural performance authenticity/inauthenticity in theatre discourse. Also, based on the view that intercultural theatre collaborations are microcosms of multifaceted global intercultural interactions, it was seen that the socio-cultural differences that are negotiated through the intercultural theatre collaborations can give one a microcosmic platform for critiquing the grand concept of the ―global village‖ and the associated notion of ―world cultural homogenisation‖. Since this study uses a novel multidisciplinary approach in the analysis of intercultural theatre phenomena, I believe it will contribute to critical theatre studies in Uganda and elsewhere. The findings will also hopefully contribute towards the assessment of intercultural theatre collaborations at Makerere University in order to improve them. The study will also advance the view that intercultural theatre‘s aesthetic and experiential processes can help in interpreting and understanding our respective multicultural environments. Broadly, it will contribute to the discourse on intercultural communication, performance and cultural studies. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie proefskrif ondersoek die dinamika van interkulturele teaterpraktyk. Bestaande navorsing oor interkulturaliteit in die teaterpraktyk beskou interkulturele teater as ‘n forum vir die oorbrugging van kultuurgrense en interkulturele opvoeringstradisies, en vir die ondersoek na aangeleenthede soos die uitvoering van mag tussen die deelnemende partye, leer, kulturele imperialisme, kulturele vertaling en hibriditeit. Die bestaande literatuur bied egter grotendeels nie ‘n historiese perspektief waaruit die dinamika van kontemporêre Noord-na-Suid-samewerkings verstaan kan word nie. Verder verweef die meeste ondersoeke nie die ervarings van die deelnemers aan sulke samewerkings bevredigend in hul analises nie. Hierdie ondersoek dra by tot die vul van daardie navorsingsgaping. Hierdie navorsing poog spesifiek om die dinamika van interkulturele teatersamewerkings in Uganda te ondersoek deur van onlangse interkulturele teateraktiwiteite aan die Departement Uitvoerende Kuns en Film aan die Makerere Universiteit gebruik te maak as gevallestudies. Die beweegrede vir die ondersoek is hoofsaaklik die verkenning van die dinamika van interkulturele Noord-na-Suid-teatersamewerking en ‘n ondersoek na die sosio-kulturele, sosio-politiese en sosio-ekonomiese kenmerke en ander opvattinge wat in hierdie interkulturele teatersamewerkings en -opvoerings gemanifesteer het. Om hierdie ondersoek te onderneem, het ek drie gevalle in ‘n meervoudigegevallestudie-ontwerp bestudeer: die samewerkings tussen onderskeidelik Stanford en Makerere, New York en Makerere, en die Norwegian College of Dance en Makerere. Die meervoudigegevalle-ontwerp is versterk deur die gebruik van persoonlike onderhoude, direkte waarneming, fokusgroepgesprekke, dokumentanalise en e-posnavrae in ‘n poging om die opvattings van individue wat aan die bogenoemde samewerkings deelgeneem het, te verkry. Teoreties is die studie gefundeer in ‘n veelvoud konsepte en diskoerse: simboliese interaksie, interkulturele kommunikasie, teaterstudies, postkoloniale studies, internasionale opvoedkunde en die diskoers oor globalisering. In die analise van die verskillende gevalle is bevind dat die kwessie van ekonomiese ongelykheid in bydraes tot die befondsing van samewerkings, onder die verskillende modusse van magsperformatiwiteit wat in die samewerkingsprosesse gemanifesteer het, soms ‘n wanbalans in die besluitnemingsproses tot gevolg het. Gevolglik dra hierdie magswanbalans by tot die nimmereindigende krisis van identifikasie met imperialisme waaronder interkulturele Noord-na-Suid-teatersamewerkings gebuk gaan. Die ondersoek toon verder dat daar kulturele, linguistiese, pedagogiese, strukturele en sosio-psigologiese verskille is wat oorkom moet word vir suksesvolle samewerkings om plaas te vind. Daar is bevind dat die hantering van sosio-kulturele verskille die deelnemers van ‘n eksperimentele leeromgewing voorsien vir die belewing en waardering van kultuurverskille, waardeur die sosio-kulturele skeiding oorbrug word. Die kulturele brug lei egter, in toneelmatige terme, na die ontwikkeling van toneelmatige hibriditeit en versmelting, wat weer die debat oor die outentisiteit al dan nie van interkulturele opvoerings in die teaterdiskoers aktiveer. Verder is daar, gebaseer op die siening dat interkulturele teatersamewerkings mikrokosmosse van veelvlakkige globale interkulturele interaksie is, bevind dat die sosio-kulturele verskille wat deur interkulturele teatersamewerkings oorkom word, ‘n mikrokosmiese platform kan voorsien vir die kritisering van die begrip van die sogenaamde ―wêrelddorpie‖ en verwante nosies van wêreldwye kulturele homogenisering. Aangesien hierdie ondersoek ‘n nuwe multidissiplinêre benadering tot die analise van interkulturele teaterverskynsels gebruik, glo ek dit sal bydra tot die teaterkritiek in Uganda en elders. Die bevindinge sal hopelik bydra tot die assessering van interkulturele teatersamewerkings aan Makerere Universiteit om hulle te verbeter. Die ondersoek sal ook die siening voortdra dat interkulturele teater se estetiese en ervaringsprosesse kan help met die interpretasie en verstaan van ons onderskeie multikulturele omgewings. Breedweg sal dit bydra tot die diskoers oor interkulturele kommunikasie, opvoering en kultuurstudie.

[pt] Este trabalho situa-se na confluência entre conhecimento, educação escolar, ensino de Sociologia e interculturalidade, um diálogo pouco explorado pela pesquisa educacional brasileira. Tendo como referenciais os estudos interculturais de Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Vera Maria Candau e Antônio Flávio Moreira, busca-se discutir como os professores de Sociologia lotados na escola básica compreendem as possibilidades de debates entre o saber sociológico escolar e a educação intercultural. Neste empreendimento, dois objetivos são visados: (1) identificar as representações de professores de Sociologia de escolas públicas de Niterói sobre as relações entre o conhecimento sociológico escolar vigente na escola básica brasileira e a proposta da educação intercultural e a (2) problematizar possibilidades de construção de currículos escolares sociológicos interculturalmente orientados no contexto de escolas da rede pública. Para tanto, foram desenvolvidas entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas com onze sujeitos licenciados em Ciências Sociais e atuantes no magistério estadual de Sociologia há pelo menos dois anos. Foram também analisados documentos curriculares oficiais voltados ao ensino médio e à disciplina de Sociologia. Mediante a articulação entre os dados obtidos através desses procedimentos e os referenciais teórico-conceituais enunciados, foi possível obter significativos achados. A despeito de diversas proposições favoráveis à educação intercultural nos documentos curriculares analisados, esta ainda é escassamente promovida na seleção de conteúdos e no desenvolvimento de práticas pedagógicas no ensino básico de Sociologia, conforme relatam os sujeitos da pesquisa. Nesse cenário, a construção intercultural do conhecimento sociológico escolar é uma meta a se cumprir, repleta de desafios a serem enfrentados pelo sistema escolar e os educadores. / [en] This work approaches an unusual discussion in the Brazilian educational research, involving knowledge, school education, Sociology teaching, and interculturalism. Specifically, the work focuses the public high-school Sociology teachers opinions about the dialogues between the Sociology knowledge and the project of the intercultural education, considering the conceptions from Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Vera Maria Candau, and Antônio Flávio Moreira. There are two research goals: (1) to identify the high-school Sociology-teachers representations about the Sociology knowledge which is normally taught at the Brazilian Schools and its relationships with the intercultural education; (2) to propose some possibilities of creating Sociology public high-schools curricula under the intercultural concepts. Semi-structured interviews with eleven Social Sciences licensed-teachers who have been working at public high-schools in Niterói City (State of Rio de Janeiro) for at least two years were made. In addition, the official curricula documents concerning Sociology teaching and high-school education were analyzed. Linking the achieved data with the theoretical references, some important results were found. Although the analyzed documents point many propositions around the intercultural constitution of the Sociology teaching, content choices and the pedagogical practices are not usually affected by the intercultural education. At this scenery, building a high-school Sociology teaching under intercultural ideas remains as a non-reached goal, which is plenty of challenges to be faced by the educators.

Thesis advisor: Karen Arnold / Thesis advisor: Philip Altbach / The attainment of attitudes, knowledge, and skills that develop students' intercultural competence so that they may navigate the globally interconnected environment of the 21st century is touted as an important learning objective for higher education (Deardorff & Jones, 2012). Colleges and universities strive to enhance this learning objective by offering a variety of international opportunities; prominent among these is a period of study abroad. However, past research indicates the results of intercultural development through study abroad are mixed. How can education abroad contribute to students' intercultural development? This study focuses on a cohort of students who traverse through three countries (China, Russia, India) in the course of one semester as they live and learn together, alongside faculty and staff from their home institution. To better understand the features of study abroad programs that contribute to students' intercultural development, this study examined the real and perceived development of a group of students (N=21) engaged in a multi-destination study abroad program utilizing a mixed-methods approach. The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) scores of the 21 participants increased by an average of 24.45 points (25%), an increase that exceeded the IDI gains in previous studies. Programmatic conditions that cultivated students' intercultural competence included facilitated contact with natives, academic structure, student self-initiated exploration, and multi-destination. Social and residential features of the program had the least impact on participants' intercultural development. The analysis of the participant narratives is indicative of a web of interconnected features that provided the scaffolding for students to develop empathy, recognize their own biases, challenge stereotypes and ethnocentric beliefs, and ultimately gain knowledge and skills that enabled them to communicate and behave appropriately and effectively in intercultural situations. The results of this study imply that a web of intentionally designed features (e.g., multi-destination, faculty engagement, consistent reflection opportunities, facilitated contact with natives, and IDI guided coaching and mentoring) provide a solid scaffolding that accelerates students' intercultural development. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

Esta pesquisa, desenvolvida entre os anos de 2014 e 2018, investiga os sentidos de encontros interculturais, principalmente em dois contextos de migração forçada, nas cidades de Pádua, na Itália, e São Paulo, no Brasil. Pesquisas e documentos oficiais europeus veem a interculturalidade em termos de encontros pacíficos e harmoniosos, nos quais a diversidade é apresentada com características inerentemente positivas. Mesmo quando se considera o conflito, o sujeito de enunciação é ausente, produzindo teorizações descorporizadas e violentas. Esta pesquisa de doutorado tem por objetivo desafiar tal forma de entendimento, investigando e problematizando o emaranhamento de sentidos que constitui os encontros em contextos de migração, baseando-se em pensadores latinoamericanos, teorias pós-coloniais e feministas e conceitos decoloniais que se referem à diferença, cultura, onto-epistemologia e identidade, a fim de melhor compreender as influências da Modernidade, do capitalismo, do neoliberalismo e da colonialidade como um discurso imbricado. A pesquisa se vale de encadeamentos que sustentam encontros interculturais entre migrantes e a população local, pautando-se na complexidade do mundo e das palavras em contextos históricos e geográficos localizados, buscando entender como a colonialidade e a ordem geopolítica do mundo atuou sobre e cocriou a interculturalidade. Dados foram gerados por meio de entrevistas, encontros, observação de aulas e análise documental, que foram utilizados como uma ferramenta de provocação de teoria. Os principais resultados apontam para um processo de construção de sentido fortemente influenciado por epistemologias modernas/coloniais, difundidas não apenas entre trabalhadores no campo da migração, mas também entre migrantes; o desejo de reduzir a diferença, tomada em termos de diversidade, por meio de políticas de integração, sem questionar suas bases epistemológicas, buscando uma base essencial comum e incrustada na rede neoliberal; a presença de cisões políticas que têm por objetivo uma reconfiguração dos encontros interculturais; a necessidade de ressignificar ética, justiça social, cidadania transnacional e democracia, através de novas formas/modalidades, vozes e sujeitos no processo do estar-com. / This research, developed between 2014 and 2018, investigates the meanings of intercultural encounters, mainly in a forced migration context in two cities, Padova, in Italy and São Paulo, in Brazil. Both research and official European documents view interculturality in terms of peaceful and harmonious encounters in which diversity is presented with inherently positive features. Even when conflict is considered, the subject of enunciation is absent, producing disembodied and violent theorizations. This PhD research aims to challenge such forms of understanding by investigating and problematizing the entanglement of meanings that constitute encounters in a migration context on the basis of Latin American thinkers, postcolonial and feminist theories and decolonial concepts concerning difference, culture, ontoepistemology and identity, in order to better understand the influences of modernity, capitalism, neoliberalism and coloniality as an entangled discourse. The research explores the threads which underpin intercultural encounters between migrants and local population, grounding them in the wor(l)d complexity of geographical and historical localized contexts, aiming to understand how coloniality and the geopolitical world order performed and cocreated interculturality. Data were generated through interviews, encounters, classroom observation and documental analysis and were used as a provoking-theory tool. The main results point to a process of meaning-making strongly influenced by modern/colonial epistemologies, diffused not only among workers in the field of migration, but also among migrants; the desire to reduce difference, understood in terms of diversity, through integration policies, without questioning their epistemological basis, looking for common essential basis and trapped in the neoliberal net; the presence of political cracks which aim at reconfigurating of intercultural encounters; the need to re-signify ethics, social iustice, transnational citizenship, and democracy through new forms/modalities, voices and subjects in the process of the being-with.

Inserido no âmbito da Pragmática intercultural, o presente trabalho tem com objetivo investigar ordens e pedidos em língua italiana, identificando os elementos que caracterizam e diferenciam esses dois atos de fala a partir da percepção de falantes nativos e de brasileiros aprendizes de italiano. Nossas investigações foram motivadas principalmente por questões relacionadas à prática de ensino que, a nosso ver, precisa incluir aspectos relacionados à língua em uso e em contexto. Além disso, ao investigar ordens e pedidos, podemos, do ponto de vista linguístico, abordar o estereótipo segundo o qual os italianos seriam pessoas mais autoritárias em relação aos brasileiros. Para atingir nossos objetivos, elaboramos um questionário online composto por interações verbais entre falantes nativos, gravadas em áudio e vídeo, e diálogos extraídos de material cinematográfico. Os vídeos foram selecionados a partir de critérios que estabelecemos com base naquilo que é afirmado, sobre ordens e pedidos, pelas teorias e estudos que escolhemos para guiar a investigação. O questionário foi enviado a falantes nativos e a brasileiros aprendizes de italiano, aos quais pedimos que, após assistirem a cada interação, avaliassem o ato de fala em destaque e o classificassem como ordem, pedido, ou outro. Além disso, solicitamos que, após cada resposta, os informantes descrevessem os fatores que motivaram suas escolhas. Sobre a comparação entre ordens e pedidos, partimos da hipótese que os elementos que caracterizam esses dois atos de fala criam diferenças por estarem associados tanto à estrutura linguística quanto ao contexto que envolve a interação. A respeito dos italianos parecerem mais autoritários, nossa hipótese era que brasileiros reconheceriam de maneira diferente os elementos que constituem e diferenciam ordens de pedidos. Os resultados deste estudo confirmam, em parte, aquilo que assumimos como hipótese. Com a análise dos dados, observamos que, de fato, ordens e pedidos em língua italiana, tanto para falantes nativos quanto para brasileiros, são diferenciados pela estrutura linguística e pelos elementos contextuais que envolvem a interação. Ao compararmos os dados, verificamos também que, para justificar suas respostas, informantes italianos recorreram mais frequentemente a elementos prosódicos enquanto nas respostas dos brasileiros prevaleceram elementos de natureza pragmalinguística. Por fim, constatamos ainda que não há diferenças significativas entre a forma como italianos classificaram os atos de fala e o modo como foram interpretados por brasileiros. / Inserted in the context of intercultural pragmatics, this work has the objective to investigate orders and requests in the Italian language, identifying the elements that characterize and differentiate these two speech acts based on the perception of native speakers and Brazilian Italian language students. Our investigations were motivated mainly by questions related to the teaching practice which, in our view, needs to include aspects related to the language in use and in context. Moreover, while investigating orders and requests we can, from a linguistic viewpoint, approach the stereotype which has the Italians painted as more authoritarian people in relation to the Brazilians. To achieve our objectives, we elaborated an online questionnaire composed by verbal interactions between native speakers, recorded in audio and video, and dialogues extracted from cinematographic material. The videos were selected based on criteria which were established based on what is affirmed, about orders and requests, by the theory and studies chosen to guide this investigation. The questionnaire was sent to native speakers and Brazilian Italian language students, to whom we requests that, after watching each interaction, to evaluate the speech act highlighted and classified it as order, request or other. In addition to that, we requested , after each answer, for the informers to describe the factors that motivated their choices. While comparing orders and request, we used as hypothesis that the elements which characterize these two speech acts create differences because they\'re associated as much to the linguistic structure as to the context of the interaction. About the Italians appearing to be more authoritarian, our hypothesis was that the Brazilians would recognize in different ways the elements which constitute and differentiate orders from requests. This study\'s results confirm that, to some extend, that which we assumed in our hypothesis. With the data analysis, we observed that, indeed, orders and requests in Italian language, for both native speakers and Brazilians, are differentiated by the linguistic structure and by the contextual elements that are part of the interaction. Comparing the data, we also verify that to justify their answers, the Italian informers used, more often than not, the prosodic elements while in the Brazilians\' answers the elements of a pragmalinguistic nature were more present. Finally, we realized that there weren\'t significant differences between the way in which the Italians and Brazilians classified speech acts.

The purpose of this research was to explore how students developed over a four-year international higher education experience, the first longitudinal study of student development through undergraduate careers completed entirely abroad. One hundred six students representing forty-three different countries at an American international liberal arts college in Switzerland participated in this grounded theory study, which incorporated an additional 186 anonymous survey respondents. The study addressed the processes and outcomes of such an education. The work utilized data produced through a number of different formats, including student peer-to-peer interviews, reflective student writing, participant observation, and open survey questions. The research showed that this experience prepared students for seven related cosmopolitan futures, ranging from global activist to glocal elite. In addition to classifying typologies, the study explained how students utilized three separate learning arenas to structure their experience: the intercultural bubble, the larger world of travel, and local communities. Students autonomously employed distinct methods within these learning arenas, using cyclical processes involving agency, constant comparison, risk-taking, and reflection. Students developed both intercultural competencies and worldliness. Key aspects of intercultural competencies included adaptability, open-mindedness, and perspective-taking. Worldliness instead comprised independence, travel savvy, and self-assuredness. Findings suggest that, regardless of a student’s original cosmopolitical orientation, the net effect of the extended international higher education experience was to expand students’ orientations and modes of acting and perceiving toward greater global understanding and appreciation, including aspects of ethical cosmopolitanism. The experience was transformative, albeit in an incremental fashion, building upon students’ previous lives. The research proposed a more evidence-based definition of cosmopolitan education than previous conceptualizations, one that encompasses tensions in discourses around internationalization and globalization. This thesis contributes to the literatures on the internationalization of higher education, international education, education for global citizenship, higher education policy, cosmopolitanism in practice, and the sociology of globalization. The thesis concludes with recommendations for international education researchers, practitioners, and campus leaders.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:53:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Heloisa Scalise Taques Sebbagh.pdf: 20525042 bytes, checksum: 959d0c1e97a508c955cc757cf7a785ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-12 / Our search analyze the activities proposed by three Portuguese foreign language textbooks with the purpose to verify their respective theoretical approach proposals, as well as their vision of the inherent world, on which they define their subject matters, didactic-methodological and discursive. Our main objective was to evaluate the possibility to consider these handiworks a source of resources for teachers of Portuguese language to foreigners, who seek to build a knowledge through intercultural perspective. In consequence, we studied authentic and constructive texts, pictures, photos and any other proposed activities, as socio-cultural representation, to evaluate the language and culture concepts of these textbooks. Thus, we intend to highlight if the didactic handiworks analyzed can work as true cultural mediators. We based our search on the language concept developed by the Bakhtin Circle, which supports the vision of multi-discursive and dialectic culture being in constant evolution, recognized by several authors, like Terry Eagleton (2011), Homi Bhabha (1998) and Henrique Jansen (2002;2005; 2007; 2012). We started from the intercultural perspective, which considers a foreign or second language teaching and learning approach not only as a domain of language code, but also as a dialogue between individuals, who now take their distance, now approximate themselves, creating a third space without defined boundaries, where the cultural identities are (un)built. We observe that the textbooks analyzed stay on a perspective of monological lecture,which shows a general representation of the other and characterize a traditional vision of culture. Moreover, when revealing only the voices of their own authors, the handiworks discriminate the intercultural dialogue and limit the learning process to replicate the vision and interpretation of their authors. Consequently, the textbooks do not act as cultural mediators, delegating then to the teachers the responsibility to complement them, case they expect to use them as auxiliary resource following an intercultural perspective. / Nossa pesquisa analisa as atividades propostas por três livros didáticos de Português como língua estrangeira a fim de verificar as propostas de abordagem teórica neles desenvolvidas e a visão de mundo inerente, sobre a qual se dão suas escolhas temáticas, didático-metodológicas e discursivas. Nosso objetivo foi de avaliar a possibilidade de as obras exploradas serem consideradas uma fonte de recursos a professores de língua portuguesa para estrangeiros, que busquem a construção do conhecimento através de uma perspectiva intercultural. Assim, observamos textos, autênticos e construídos, figuras, fotos e quaisquer outras atividades apresentadas,como representações socioculturais, para verificarmos qual a concepção de língua e cultura apresentadas pelas obras. Com isso, pretendemos esclarecer se os livros didáticos analisados podem funcionar como verdadeiros mediadores culturais. Baseando-nos na concepção de linguagem desenvolvida pelo Círculo de Bakhtin, que vai ao encontro da visão de cultura multidiscursiva, dialética, que está em constante mudança, defendida por diversos autores, entre os quais Terry Eagleton (2011) , Homi Bhabha (1998) e Henrique Jansen (2002; 2005;2007; 2012), partimos da perspectiva intercultural que considera o processo de ensino-aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras e segunda não apenas como o domínio do código linguístico, mas como diálogo entre os sujeitos, os quais, ora se distanciando, ora se aproximando, constroem um terceiro espaço sem fronteiras definidas, onde as identidades culturais são (des)construídas. Constatamos que os livros didáticos explorados permanecem em uma perspectiva de leitura fechada, monológica, o que indica a representação generalizante do outro e caracteriza a visão tradicional de cultura.Além disso, ao revelarem somente as vozes de seus próprios autores, as obras desfavorecem o diálogo intercultural e limitam os aprendizes a mimetizarem as visões e as interpretações autorais, não agindo, portanto, como verdadeiros mediadores culturais, cabendo, pois, ao professor a faculdade de complementá-las caso pretenda utilizá-las como fonte auxiliar de recursos segundo uma perspectiva intercultural.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Felipe Ferreira de Souza.pdf: 807632 bytes, checksum: 188b2b5966b3c9f569108870cdcc832d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-11 / The expatriation is one of the main strategies used by internationalized companies to manage their international practices and ensure better communication between the mother company and their subsidiaries. From an organizational point of view there are several reasons to a company send a expatriate and these reasons, many times, don t dialogues with the reasons that do the professional accepts the international mission. By accepting to be expatriate, the professional usually create high expectations about the return, imagining the professional growth, increases in benefits and salary and best positions in the company. During the process of expatriation and repatriation, many obstacles are overcome, such as intercultural adjustment in the going and return. The literature suggests that if there is no intercultural adjustment the expatriate will be unable to perform their functions and the international mission will fail, negatively affecting the company and the professional. To deal with cultural impact and ensure proper intercultural adjustment, the company needs to assist the professional from the initial stages of expatriation, while still in the origin country, with intercultural training, until the repatriation of the professional, with supports to help to deal with the reverse cultural impact. From this contexto, this research seek, through the perspective of Brazilian expatriates and repatriates, capture the opinions of the professionals about how was the process of expatriation and repatriation. For that, three stages were defined: (1) understand the phenomenon of internationalization of companies, (2) define the expatriation and repatriation processes and (3) develop a survey with professional expatriates and repatriates. This research used an exploratory-descriptive and qualitative methodology. The focus of the discussion was talk with the professionals to capture their views about the process of expatriation and repatriation. The results signaled that when intercultural adjustment is neglected by the company hardly the international mission has successfully. Also was observed that the motivations that lead professionals to accept the expatriation are determinants to the success of expatriation / A expatriação é uma das principais estratégias utilizadas pelas empresas internacionalizadas para gerenciar suas práticas internacionais e garantir a melhor comunicação entre a Matriz e subsidiária. Do ponto de vista organizacional existem diversas razões uma empresa expatriar um profissional e estas razões, muitas vezes, não dialoga com as razões que motivam o profissional a aceitar a missão internacional. Ao aceitar ser expatriado, o sujeito tende a criar grandes expectativas sobre o seu retorno, imaginando o crescimento profissional, aumentos de benefícios e salários e melhores cargos na empresa. Durante o processo de expatriação e repatriação diversos obstáculos são superados, como é o caso do ajustamento intercultural na ida e na volta. A literatura sugere que se não houver o ajustamento intercultural o expatriado não será capaz de exercer suas funções e a missão internacional falhará, afetando de maneira negativa tanto a empresa quanto o profissional. Para lidar com o choque cultural e garantir o adequado ajustamento intercultural, a empresa precisa auxiliar o profissional desde as etapas iniciais da expatriação, quando ainda em solo de origem do profissional, com treinamentos interculturais até a repatriação do profissional, com suportes para ajudar a lidar com o choque cultural reverso. A partir desse contexto, essa pesquisa buscou, através da perspectiva dos profissionais brasileiros expatriados e repatriados, capturar as opiniões dos sujeitos sobre como ocorreu o processo de expatriação e repatriação. Para tanto, foram definidas três etapas: (1) compreender o fenômeno da internacionalização de empresas, (2) definir os processos de expatriação e repatriação e (3) desenvolver uma pesquisa com profissionais expatriados e repatriados. Essa pesquisa se utilizou de uma metodologia exploratória-descritiva e qualitativa. O foco da discussão foi dialogar com os sujeitos para capturar suas opiniões sobre o processo de expatriação e repatriação. Os resultados obtidos sinalizaram que, quando o ajustamento intercultural é negligenciado pela empresa, dificilmente a missão internacional possui sucesso. Também foram observados que as motivações que levam os profissionais a aceitar a expatriação são fatores determinantes para o sucesso da expatriação