Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:32:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dirce Encarnacion Tavares.pdf: 2008508 bytes, checksum: bf69f40ad7aa5b1ea27d3840b8baf470 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-04-09 / This work aims in one possibility of considering the elderly by his life stories and understand which factors took him back to class at 60 years or even older, after a long period far from school and how he learns and gets along with his classmates and himself. Making use of the sensible listening method, seven interviews were done in two universities in the south zone of São Paulo. One of them is confessional. Both have support programs for the elderly. It was also taken into consideration in the survey the need to build a wider communication between the elderly and the modern world. The interdisciplinarity was chosen as the main path, trying to understand how the elderly conceives and lives his academic life, through de narrative of his life histories. The concern to understand and to respect the way of acting, feeling, thinking and exposing of the interviewed was constant , too. The conclusion was that as the elderly told his stories, It was detected fundamental reasons for having a different and meaningful aging, through the building of new ideals. The return to study has shown that even being elder, there is life, dreams, there are possibilities. To curb them means to die! / Este trabalho visa a uma possibilidade de enxergar o idoso pelas suas histórias de vida e entender quais os fatores o impulsionam a retornar aos estudos com 60 anos ou mais, após longo tempo afastado dos bancos escolares, e como ele aprende e se relaciona com os colegas em sala de aula e consigo mesmo. A partir do método da escuta sensível, foram realizadas sete entrevistas em duas faculdades particulares da periferia da zona sul de São Paulo. Uma delas, confessional. Ambas possuem projetos e programas de atendimento ao idoso. Foi abordada e também analisada, na pesquisa, a necessidade de um diálogo mais amplo entre o idoso e o mundo moderno. Como linha principal, foi escolhida a interdisciplinaridade, buscando compreender o idoso como um todo. A tentativa foi reconstruir a identidade do aluno idoso, como ele concebe e vive sua vida acadêmica, por meio do resgate de memória, na narração de suas histórias de vida, como classe distinta que cresce continuamente. Foi constante a preocupação com a compreensão e o respeito às formas de agir, sentir, pensar e expor do entrevistado. Concluiu-se que, à medida que os idosos contavam suas histórias, foram detectadas razões fundamentais para se ter um envelhecimento diferente e significativo por meio da construção de novos ideais. A volta aos estudos mostrou que, mesmo sendo idoso, há vida, há sonhos, há possibilidades. Inibi-los, é morrer!

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Natalia Negretti.pdf: 1384496 bytes, checksum: 2ccdb7524399be0ded7401b9f584a6b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aims at comprehending how the bonds between agents of prison system and imprisoned women, work. At the same time, taking into consideration the prison's memories told, plus two life stories, we have analyzed the bonds in jail and the questions surrounding the social markers of difference. The stories told are of a São Paulo prison system's agent and an egress of the same system. Therefore, this dissertation's purpose is to use the memory as means to present individual interpretations around the jail and to clarify issues interspersed with social class, gender and sexuality, notions of equality and difference between women in prison, revealing not only porosities from prison, but also between paths that are confined in the relationship between the leaving prison group and enter prison group, directly, and which also moves in prison porosity indirectly / O presente trabalho busca compreender a gestão dos vínculos entre agentes do sistema prisional e mulheres em situação de aprisionamento, a partir de distintos discursos e práticas. Ao mesmo tempo, considerando as memórias da prisão contadas e mais duas histórias de vida, trabalhamos os vínculos na prisão e questões em torno dos marcadores sociais da diferença. As histórias contadas são de uma agente do sistema prisional paulista e de uma egressa deste mesmo sistema. Assim, esta dissertação tem o intuito de utilizar a memória como meio para apresentar interpretações individuais em torno da prisão e elucidar questões entrecortadas por classe social, gênero e sexualidade, noções de igualdade e de diferença entre mulheres na prisão, revelando, por conseguinte, porosidades não apenas da prisão, mas, também, entre trajetos que estão circunscritos na relação entre o grupo que sai e entra na prisão, de maneira direta, e o que também transita na porosidade prisional, de maneira indireta

En tant que sujets migrants, les Latino-américains sont surtout identifiés dans le contexte états-unien, où ils constituent une population étrangère importante. Pourtant, avec une importante évolution quantitative en Europe et en France, ils commencent à se faire une place dans les études européennes sur les migrations internationales. Si en raison de leurs liens culturels et historiques, les Latinos sont surtout présents dans des pays comme l’Espagne, le Portugal ou encore l’Italie, des communautés latino-américaines existent aussi en France. Parmi eux, la catégorie la plus visible est celle des exilés politiques issus des dictatures sud-américaines, dans une moindre mesure celle des étudiants internationaux et, depuis les années quatre-vingt, celle des migrants économiques. Considérés comme « exemple d’intégration », cette image idéalisée des réfugiés latino-américains laisse dans l’ombre certains aspects pourtant essentiels et inhérents à l’intégration, telle la participation dans la société d’accueil et surtout l’accès au marché de l’emploi. A l’appui des récits de vie, ce travail doctoral se propose d’analyser leurs parcours, avec une attention particulière aux stratégies qu’ils mettent en place pour rendre possible une insertion professionnelle de plus en plus restreinte par les politiques migratoires qui les concernent en tant que ressortissants non européens. Pour ce faire, notre discussion considère aussi bien l’élément subjectif (perceptions, expériences, ressources et stratégies mobilisés) que des éléments structurants et objectifs comme les politiques migratoires et les différents rapports sociaux établis dans le pays d’accueil. / As migrant subjects, Latin Americans are mostly identified in the US context, where they constitute a significant foreign population. However, with a significant quantitative evolution in Europe and France, they are beginning to find a place in European studies on international migration. If due to their cultural and historical ties, Latinos are mostly present in countries like Spain, Portugal or Italy, the Latin American communities also exist in France. Among them, political exiles from South American dictatorships is the most visible category. To a lesser extent, that of international students too, and since the 1980s, economic migrants emerged as a new profile. Considered as an "example of integration", this idealized image of Latin American refugees leaves behind certain aspects that are essential and inherent to integration, such as participation in the host society and especially access to the labor market. Supported by life stories, this doctoral research aims to analyze their life paths, with attention to the strategies they put in place to make possible a labor insertion increasingly restricted by the migration policies that concern them as non-European nationals. To do this, our discussion considers both the subjective element (perceptions, experiences, resources ans strategies mobilized) and the structuring ans objective elements such as migration policies and the different social relations migrants establish in the host country

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:55:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Natalia Negretti.pdf: 1384496 bytes, checksum: 2ccdb7524399be0ded7401b9f584a6b1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aims at comprehending how the bonds between agents of prison system and imprisoned women, work. At the same time, taking into consideration the prison's memories told, plus two life stories, we have analyzed the bonds in jail and the questions surrounding the social markers of difference. The stories told are of a São Paulo prison system's agent and an egress of the same system. Therefore, this dissertation's purpose is to use the memory as means to present individual interpretations around the jail and to clarify issues interspersed with social class, gender and sexuality, notions of equality and difference between women in prison, revealing not only porosities from prison, but also between paths that are confined in the relationship between the leaving prison group and enter prison group, directly, and which also moves in prison porosity indirectly / O presente trabalho busca compreender a gestão dos vínculos entre agentes do sistema prisional e mulheres em situação de aprisionamento, a partir de distintos discursos e práticas. Ao mesmo tempo, considerando as memórias da prisão contadas e mais duas histórias de vida, trabalhamos os vínculos na prisão e questões em torno dos marcadores sociais da diferença. As histórias contadas são de uma agente do sistema prisional paulista e de uma egressa deste mesmo sistema. Assim, esta dissertação tem o intuito de utilizar a memória como meio para apresentar interpretações individuais em torno da prisão e elucidar questões entrecortadas por classe social, gênero e sexualidade, noções de igualdade e de diferença entre mulheres na prisão, revelando, por conseguinte, porosidades não apenas da prisão, mas, também, entre trajetos que estão circunscritos na relação entre o grupo que sai e entra na prisão, de maneira direta, e o que também transita na porosidade prisional, de maneira indireta

The focus of this thesis is the lived experience of 80 Australian gay men in the second half of the twentieth century. The oldest man in the sample was born in 1922 and the youngest in 1980. Their understanding of what it was to be gay is historically contingent, for their lives spanned the greater part of the twentieth century: from when homosexuality was illegal through the less repressive but no less problematic eras of gay liberation and the HIV-AIDS epidemic. Qualitative in approach, the thesis was based on oral history interviews. Interviewees were asked set questions about their social, affective and sexual lives. The sample comprised an old cohort of 22 men, a middle cohort of 30 men, and a young cohort of 28 men. The majority of interviewees were of Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Celtic decent. The exceptions were Aboriginal men, and the children of migrants to Australia from South-east Asia and Southern Europe. Interviewees' personal narratives included their experiences of the repression of the Cold War period, the exuberance, and, for some, personal confusion of gay liberation and the disco culture of the 1970s, and the trauma of the HIV-AIDS epidemic. Through their life stories, the men in this sample illustrated the significant shifts in sexual attitudes and culture that Australia experienced in the latter part of the twentieth century. Aspects of the lives examined included the men's experience of coming out and development of their sexual identity, their social and affective lives, and their involvement in the gay 'scene' and gay community.

Even though ageing in Western society has been a major issue in research and politics in recent years, there is still a distinct lack of knowledge about elderly people and their experiences. As much of the ongoing research has focused mainly on the oldest of the old and elderly people in need of public care, research about elderly people in general is needed. Ageing in a rural environment is of interest, because research about the elderly and ageing generally concerns urban areas. The study of old women has grown during the last decades in the academic fields of social gerontology and feminist studies. Older women’s disadvantaged position has been highlighted from a structural perspective. This knowledge needs to be combined with knowledge from a micro level in order to make other experiences of being an older woman visible. The importance of considering ageing as an integral part of life has been stressed by social gerontological research during the last decades. The focus of this thesis is the life stories of ten women aged between 75 and 85 years of age. The study has two main aims: firstly, to analyse the diverse meanings involved in being a woman who was born between 1920 and 1930, and lives in the Swedish or Finnish rural countryside. Secondly, the aim is to highlight and analyse how caring is reflected in the women’s stories about their lives. A broad understanding of caring as a fundamental condition for human existence is stressed in the thesis. Life stories are never complete, nor do they cover the totality of a life lived. The life story is a story told from a certain perspective in a specific situation and the meaning in the life stories is produced through interaction with the researcher. The women who participated in the study have lived their lives through major societal transformations. Historical events that have affected women’s rights, possibilities and conditions, have served as a framework for understanding the women’s life stories in a wider context. Structural and individual conditions have been taken into account, and indicate that the enabling and limiting conditions are both multi-dimensional and vary from individual to individual. A contextual framing is needed to understand expressions of care in the life stories. The life stories make visible caring as changeable; caring is carried out differently in different contexts and situations. An extended understanding of caring makes it possible to gain additional insights into meaningful expressions of caring during the life course, and these insights reach beyond conventional definitions in theories on caring.

This dissertation is an experiment in thinking with the story, not about the story in order to erase the boundaries between analysis and narrative. CASA, Community Action Stops Abuse, is the context for this research on the lived realities and meaning of working with an empowerment philosophy. A University-Community Initiative (UCI) grant with CASA and the University of South Florida is the occasion to study the communicative aspects of individual and collective perceptions of empowerment. The dissertation focuses broadly on two UCI project goals: developing a collaborative relationship and producing a booklet of stories about the work of paid staff and volunteers. The heart of the dissertation is my relationship with the CASA workers and how scholarship and advocacy intersect with a philosophy of reciprocal and compassionate empowerment.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Leadership, 2005. / Title from second page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [2], iii, 189 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-189).

abstract: The Civil Rights Project estimates that Black girls are among the least likely to graduate from high school. More specifically, only about half, or 56%, of freshman Black girls graduate with their class four years later. Beyond the statistics little is known about Black girls who drop out, why they leave school and what happens to them once they are gone. This study is a grounded theory analysis of the stories eight adult Black women told about dropping out of high school with a particular focus on how dropping out affected their lives as workers, mothers and returners to education. There is one conclusion about dropping out and another about Black female identity. First, the women in my study were adolescents during the 1980s, experienced life at the intersection of Blackness, womaness, and poverty and lived in the harsh conditions of a Black American hyperghetto. Using a synthesis between intersectionality and hyperghettoization I found that the women were so determined to improve their economic and personal conditions that they took on occupations that seemed to promise freedom, wealth and safety. Because they were so focused on their new lives, their school attendance suffered as a consequence. In the second conclusion I argued that Black women draw their insights about Black female identity from two competing sources. The two sources are their lived experience and popular controlling images of Black female identity. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2011

La thèse porte sur les problématiques d'identités raciales en Afrique du Sud, en lien avecla question carcérale. Les personnes issues de la minorité "Coloured" se trouvent surincarcérésau niveau national comme régional. A l'aide d'entretiens non-directifs de type"récit de vie" récoltés auprès de détenus, la présente thèse entend faire sens desparcours individuels des personnes incarcérées, membres de la communauté ou non. / My research focuses on race and incarceration in South Africa. People in the "Coloured"community are overrepresented in incarceration statistics, both on the national and onthe regional level. With the help of inmates' life stories gathered at various correctionalcentres in the Western Cape, my thesis seeks to make sense of this phenomenon.