The background to this study lies in the discrepancy between the perceptions of international student mobility in the context of the internationalisation of higher education by the EU and universities on one hand and international students themselves in terms of their motivations to study abroad on the other hand. This is a comparative study based on three main case studies, of six universities in New Zealand, Oxford University in the UK and the Charles University in the Czech Republic. It explores the students’ experiences abroad in terms of their intercultural competence, the shaping of identities, the acquisition and transfer of knowledge, the possible forming of cosmopolitan mind-sets and empathy, perceptions of employability and their future mobility aspirations. This thesis also considers the barriers and ‘push and pull’ factors of mobility, perceptions of risk and uncertainty in regards to mobility and the role of serendipity in student mobility, which has been overlooked in the literature on mobility and migration. The theoretical framework of the study builds on social capital theory, Europeanisation and the ‘do-it-yourself biography’ theory. The nature of this topic, however, suggested the employment of the concepts of globalisation, transnationalism and consideration of other forms of capital, such as the total human capital, mobility capital and transnational identity capital. This is predominantly a qualitative, mixed-method and longitudinal research project, which uses surveys, case studies, interviews and the data collecting tool called grounded theory. It triangulates data to support and enhance the analytical validity of the thesis. This research concludes that student experiences abroad as well as the internationalisation efforts of universities and the EU would benefit from the introduction of education for global citizenship, which should focus on the intercultural competencies of students. The thesis suggests sociocultural elements for example the cosmopolitan mind-set can enhance the economic, academic and political rationales of internationalisation, such as employability.

La tesi si focalizza sui donatori di sangue.Obiettivo del lavoro è quindi la trattazione del fenomeno donazione di sangue al fine di cogliere, nella complessità plurale delle variabili che incidono su questo gesto, la rilevanza degli elementi personali, familiari ed organizzativi connessi all’azione donativa. L’impianto di ricerca è stato costruito procedendo in particolare da un’intuizione di Ferguson (2005): la donazione di sangue dev’essere studiata come un processo di stadi sequenziali. Questo approccio deriva dalla revisione del Transtheoretical Model di Prochaska e collaboratori (1982) sulla donazione di sangue (Ferguson, 1996; Ferguson e Chandler, 2005)e dal Volunteer Process Model di Omoto e Snyder (1995, 2000). L’azione donativa è quindi studiabile come un processo che, dall’avvicinamento iniziale, può portare alla nascita dell’Identità di Ruolo di donatore (Piliavin et al., 1999), alla ripetitività cadenzata del gesto e, quindi, alla fidelizzazione. Alla luce dell’obiettivo generale e della scelta di questi approcci, la popolazione di interesse del lavoro è ampia e varia: i primi studi si incentrano, infatti, su neodonatori; il terzo studio confronta neodonatori e donatori fidelizzati; il quarto studio, incentrato su donatori fidelizzati. La logica sequenziale “a scatole cinesi” con cui gli studi sono costruiti ha seguito anche l’altro elemento rilevante dell’obiettivo generale di questo lavoro: l’affondo sulle variabili personali, familiari ed organizzative connesse alla donazione di sangue.Il 1 studio, il cui obiettivo era Identificare tipologie specifiche di persone alla luce delle variabili della Scala Stadi di Cambiamento, mostra come coloro che si avvicinano a donare non possano essere considerati un gruppo omogeneo rispetto alla loro “prontezza” a donare. Evidente, allora, la necessità di costruire strategie di accoglienza differenziate.Il 2 studio, il cui obiettivo era Testare un modello Predittivo dell’Intenzione a Donare sangue con neodonatori, ha la peculiarità di contribuire a comprendere quali variabili intervengono nell’Intenzione a donare per i NEODONATORI.Il 3 studio conferma l’influenza della famiglia di impegnarsi in questo gesto, ed approfondisce le costellazioni motivazionali che avvicinano e che sostengono questo gesto nel tempo.Il 4 studio evidenzia, forse per la prima volta in modo chiaro, il ruolo delle variabili organizzative nell’influenzare non solo l’integrazione in associazione, ma anche la soddisfazione percepita per l’atto della donazione.La donazione di sangue, pur essendo un atto personalmente scelto, quindi, deriva da una costellazione di variabili personali, familiari ed organizzative complementari e mutualmente intersecantisi, che necessitano di essere approfondite e studiate nella loro globalità al fine di arrivare alla creazione di strategie di reclutamento e di fidelizzazione che portino alla soddisfazione totale del bisogno di scorte di sangue. / This work is focused on blood donors. This research’s purpose is the discussion of the blood donation’s phenomenon in order to grasp the complexity of plural variables affecting this gesture, the significance of personal, family and organizational action related gifts. The research starts by the revision of the Transtheoretical Model by Prochaska and colleagues (1982) on blood donation (Ferguson, 1996, Ferguson and Chandler, 2005) and the Volunteer Process Model by Omoto and Snyder (1995; 2000). The donation action has been studied as a process: by the approach, the birth of Role Identity of donor (Piliavin et al., 1999), the rhythmic repetition of the gesture, and therefore loyalty. Participants are wide and varied: the first studies focus, in fact, on neodonors; the third study compares neodonors and retained donors, the fourth study, is focused on Retained donors. The thesis is composed by four research studies. The first study’s aim is to identify genders of people on the basis of the variables of the Stages of Change Scale. It shows how the subjects who donate cannot be considered as a homogeneous group considering their "readiness" to donate. It is evident, then, the need of building strategies for different reception. The second study develops a model of the explanatory factors determining the predisposition to donate blood in neodonors will. The third study confirms the influence of the family to engage in this act, and explores the motivations that substained this act. The fourth study shows clearly, maybe for the first time, the role of organizational variables in influencing not only the integration in Avis, but also the perceived satisfaction for the act of donation. The blood donation, in spite of being a personal choice action, derives from a constellation of personal variables, complementary and mutually intersecting. this complex systems here studied in its entirety in order to create more proper recruitment and maintaining strategies that can lead to the total satisfaction of blood supply needs.

This study examines the oral histories of midwives who practiced in Ontario without legal status in the two decades prior to the enactment of midwifery legislation on December 31, 1993. The following questions are answered: Who were Ontario’s pre-legislation midwives? What inspired and motivated them to take up practice on the margins of official health care? Current scholarship on late twentieth century Ontario midwifery focuses on a social scientific analysis of midwifery’s transition from a grassroots movement to a regulated profession. Pre-legislation midwives are commonly portrayed as a homogenous group of white, educated, middle class women practicing a “pure” midwifery unmediated by medicine and the law. Analysis of the oral history narratives of twenty-one “alegal” Ontario midwives reveals more complex and nuanced understandings of midwives and why they practiced during this period. The midwives’ oral histories make an important contribution to the growing historiography on modern Canadian midwifery.

This study examines the oral histories of midwives who practiced in Ontario without legal status in the two decades prior to the enactment of midwifery legislation on December 31, 1993. The following questions are answered: Who were Ontario’s pre-legislation midwives? What inspired and motivated them to take up practice on the margins of official health care? Current scholarship on late twentieth century Ontario midwifery focuses on a social scientific analysis of midwifery’s transition from a grassroots movement to a regulated profession. Pre-legislation midwives are commonly portrayed as a homogenous group of white, educated, middle class women practicing a “pure” midwifery unmediated by medicine and the law. Analysis of the oral history narratives of twenty-one “alegal” Ontario midwives reveals more complex and nuanced understandings of midwives and why they practiced during this period. The midwives’ oral histories make an important contribution to the growing historiography on modern Canadian midwifery.

Cette thèse porte sur l’engagement psychologique optimal (Brault-Labbé et al., 2008, 2009, 2010), des adultes en formation continue au Burkina Faso. Il s’agit d’identifier les contributions des facteurs de motivations de formation (Fenouillet et al., 2015), de motivations de carrière (London, 1983), de soutiens sociaux perçus (Zimet et al.,1988), de soutiens organisationnels perçus (Eisenberger et al, 1986) et de perception d’autonomie (Vallerand et al., 1997), dans l’engagement psychologique en formation.La première étude qualitative est conduite à partir du verbatim de vingt-sept (27) entretiens semi-directif et un traitement automatique de contenu à l’aide du logiciel Alceste. L’hypothèse portant sur l’existence de « mondes lexicaux » différenciés relatifs à l’engagement psychologique et aux variables explicatives de cette recherche est invalidée. L’engagement psychologique optimal est unidimensionnel dans cette recherche, contrairement au modèle original tridimensionnel (Brault-Labbé et al., 2008, 2009, 2010).La deuxième étude quantitative s’appuie sur cinq des sept étapes de la méthodologie d’adaptation transculturelle des échelles préconisées par Vallerand (1989). Une première étape d’analyse exploratoire a permis l’épuration des six outils. La deuxième étape d’analyse confirmatoire s’appuie sur les données de trois-cent-soixante-onze (371) questionnaires. Les résultats confirment l’existence de corrélations positives et significatives entre l’engagement psychologique optimal en formation et les variables explicatives. Ce sont les motivations de carrière, les soutiens sociaux perçus, et la perception d'autonomie qui rendent compte de l’engagement psychologique unidimensionnel. Ce résultat indique, contrairement au modèle original tridimensionnel (Brault-Labbé et al., 2008, 2009, 2010), que l’engagement psychologique optimal est un construit unidimensionnel avec un contenu affectif, cognitif et comportemental.Mots-clés : Burkina-Faso, engagement psychologique, logiciel Alceste, motivations de carrière, perception d'autonomie, soutien social perçu. / This doctoral thesis base on the three-dimensional model of the optimal psychology commitment (Brault-Labbé et al., 2008, 2009, 2010), applied to adults in continuing education in Burkina Faso. It aims to explore the influence of training motivation (Fenouillet et al., 2015), carrer motivation (London, 1983), perceived social supports (Zimet et al.,1988), perceived organizational supports (Eisenberger et al., 1986), and the perception of autonomy (Vallerand et al., 1997).The first qualitative study is based on data from twenty-seven (27) semi-structured interviews whose corpus is subjected to automatic content processing using the Alceste software. The interview focused on the existence of differentiated classes of "lexical universes" relating to the psychological commitment and to the explanatory variables of this research. The hypothesis supporting the existence of differentiated lexical contents is invalidated. In this research, unlike the original three-dimensional model (Brault-Labbé et al., 2008, 2009, 2010), the construct of optimal psychological commitment is one-dimensional.The second quantitative study is conducted, in the final phase, using data from three hundred and seventy-one (371) questionnaires from the six scales of this research. Exploratory and confirmatory analyzes supported by cross-cultural adaptation of the tools were carried out according to five of the seven recommended steps of Vallerand (1989).The question was what training and career motivations motivate adults in their psychological commitment to training on the one hand? and on the other hand, what perceptions do they have of social and organizational supports, as well as their perception of autonomy in this commitment?The results confirm, on the one hand, the hypothesis of the existence of positive and significant correlations between the optimal psychological commitment to training and the explanatory variables. Likewise, it is the career motivations, perceived social supports, and the perception of autonomy that account for one-dimensional psychological commitment.This result shows, contrary to the original three-dimensional model (Brault-Labbé et al., 2008, 2009, 2010), that optimal psychological commitment is a one-dimensional construct with affective, cognitive and behavioural content.Keywords: Burkina Faso, psychological commitment, Alceste software, career motivations, training motivations, perception of autonomy, perceived support.

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The bankruptcy, however, is not an obstacle to companies continue to be opened. This work is an exploratory qualitative study, in which the qualitative basic study was the methodology. Semi structured interviews were conducted with nine man and eight women, with a diversified profile. The high rates of business opening and failure, reveals the importance of the current research, which has the objective to investigate how the entrepreneurs experience the opening, conducting and ending a business. It was found that the decision to open a business was decisively influenced by the will to have a business, more than a market opportunity. The entrepreneurs work through long journeys and with a constant tension, which they called, “we were tuned twenty-four hours a day in the business”. Personnel and family relations were impaired by this tension and dedication. Even though many business didn´t had any profit, and with all this suffering, many entrepreneurs held with their companies by several years. The reason that kept them operating was the high morale and the belief in a better future, which initially came from social recognition by their work, companies or products. In the same way, the decision to step out of the company was originated by disbelief in the future, due the repetition of problems, financial ones or not. The dream that gave support to the enterprise was an expansionist fantasy and a self-omnipotence, which gave pleasure by itself. The initial unfamiliarity with the sector of the business and the planning negligence pre-opening was related to this psychologic gratification provided by the fantasies. The biggest suffering of the entrepreneurs was due the financial problems, but, their overall valuation of the experience was a positive one. After they left business, it was frequent their return to a position of business owners or academic activities and consulting, so they kept the flexible hours and a relative independence. Just a few entrepreneurs went back to traditional corporative careers. / O empreendedorismo tem crescido em quantidade e importância, como uma atividade da população economicamente ativa (PEA) brasileira. O percentual da PEA envolvido em alguma atividade empreendedora cresceu de 20,9% em 2002 para 39,3% em 2015. Esse crescimento ocorre também na dimensão subjetiva dos brasileiros. Ter seu próprio negócio” é apontado como o terceiro maior sonho da população adulta. Essa taxa de empreendedorismo é acompanhada por altas taxas de falência empresarial. A falência, no entanto, não impede as empresas de continuarem sendo abertas. O presente trabalho é um estudo qualitativo exploratório, no qual foi utilizada como metodologia o estudo qualitativo básico. Foram feitas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com nove homens e oito mulheres, de perfil diversificado. As altas taxas de abertura e falência de empresas, mostram a importância da atual pesquisa cujo objetivo é investigar como os empreendedores vivenciam a experiência de abrir, manter e sair ou fechar uma empresa. Foi encontrado que a decisão de abrir um negócio foi influenciada de forma mais decisiva pela vontade de empreender em comparação à uma oportunidade mercadológica clara. Os empreendedores experimentaram uma extensa jornada de trabalho e uma tensão permanente, de modo que, nas palavras deles, ficavam “ligados vinte e quatro horas” no negócio. As relações pessoais e familiares ficaram prejudicadas por essa dedicação e tensão vividas. Mesmo sem dar lucro e com tantos sofrimentos, muitos empreendedores se mantiveram empreendendo por anos. A razão que os mantinha empreendendo era o ânimo e a crença no futuro, que provinha inicialmente do reconhecimento recebido pelo trabalho, pela empresa, pelo produto. De maneira análoga, a decisão de fechar a empresa, se deu pela descrença no futuro do negócio, devido à repetição dos problemas vividos, financeiros ou não. Nota-se que o sonho que sustentou o empreendimento é uma fantasia expansionista e de onipotência individual, algo que por si só gera prazer. O desconhecimento inicial do setor e a negligencia do planejamento antes da abertura se mostraram ligadas à essa recompensa psicológica da fantasia. Não é só de sonho que vive o empreendedor. O maior sofrimento vivido pelos empreendedores foi devido à falta de retorno financeiro. No mais, a avaliação geral de ter tido um negócio foi positiva e após saírem de seus negócios foi frequente a volta para o empreendedorismo ou para atividades na academia e de consultoria, mantendo a flexibilidade de horário e uma relativa independência, de modo que poucos voltaram a ter uma carreira corporativa novamente.

Completely couched in and steered by the qualitative research method, this study examines the linguistic constraints on the code-switching of the bilingual Shona-Xhosa speakers in Cape Town. The views of the key research participants obtained through participant observation, interviews and questionnaires were heavily relied on. The motivations for the code-switching of the bilingual Shona-Xhosa speakers in Cape Town were explored in this study, including the Shona-Xhosa interlink. Myers-Scotton‟s Markedness theory was scrutinized to discern the assorted social variables motivating the bilingual speakers to code-switch in Cape Town while the Matrix Language Frame Model was used to determine that Shona is the base language and isiXhosa is the embedded language in the Shona-Xhosa code-switching in Cape Town. Diverse linguistic constraints were examined in the context of the Shona-Xhosa code-switching and their universality was disputed. Similarities between Shona and Xhosa were unearthed and the researcher recommends that further Shona-Xhosa studies be pursued. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

Text in English / The study examines the social motivations that prompt the Rwandan bilingual speakers to code-switch from Kinyarwanda to English, French or Kiswahili in their casual conversations about real-life situations. Methodological techniques used for data collection are ethnographic non-participant observation, oral interviews, focus group discussions and shorthand notes techniques. Examples were examined and interpreted within Myers-Scotton’s Markedness Model as the main theoretical framework for the study. The research findings align with Myers-Scotton’s categories such as the sequential unmarked choice, code-switching itself as the unmarked choice, the marked choice and the exploratory choice respectively. The main social factors that influence code-switching among the Rwandan bilingual speakers were identified as signalling educated status, expressing different social identities, demonstrating measures of power, authority and prestige, narrowing or widening social distance, and maintaining relationships. These results support the hypothesis that code-switching is a strategy to maximise social benefits from the interlocutors in conversation. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Sociolinguistics)

Our world is not equal, and women are in a greater extent affected by the inequalities. Extra vulnerable for the inequalities are women in developing countries. In order to empower women and strive towards gender equality, female entrepreneurship has shown positive effects for women in developing countries. Entrepreneurial development programmers are implemented by both organizations and governments, with the aim of engaging women into business. In order to study the entrepreneurial motivations and outcomes of women in a developing country, a field study was conducted in Zambia. Organizations, working with entrepreneurial business training, as well as female entrepreneurs who took part in an entrepreneurial business training programme, were interviewed during a ten-week stay in Zambia. A comparison between women with a low level of education and a high level of education was done, in order to see whether their entrepreneurial motivations and outcomes deviate or correlates. From the findings of this study, it was concluded that women with different educational background have different motivations for entering entrepreneurial activities. Women with a higher level of education had personal motivations for entering, such as personal fulfilment, the wish to actualize an idea and the wish to leave a legacy. On the other hand, women with a low level of education were forced into entrepreneurship, in order to support for their family and mainly their children. However, regarding the entrepreneurial outcomes, they correlate, showing that entrepreneurship and business training has given Zambian women self-confidence and a business-mind. / Vi lever i en ojämlik värld. Världens ojämlikheter påverkar kvinnor i större utsträckning än män, och extra utsatta är kvinnor i utvecklingsländer. I arbetet för att sträva mot jämlikhet och kvinnors uppnådda egenmakt har kvinnligt företagande visat positiva effekter för kvinnor i utvecklingsländer. För att vidare studera kvinnors motivationer och uppnådda effekter utav kvinnligt företagande i utvecklingsländer har en fältstudie utförts i Zambia. Organisationer som arbetar med utbildning inom företagande, i kombination med kvinnliga entreprenörer som tagit del av ett sådant utbildningsprogram har under tio veckor intervjuats på plats i Zambia. En jämförelse mellan kvinnor med hög respektive låg utbildningsnivå hargenomförts för att ta reda på om utbildningsbakgrund har påverkat deras motivationer och effekter av entreprenörskap. Resultaten av studien visar att kvinnor med olika utbildningsnivåhar olika motivationer för att starta företag. Kvinnor med högre utbildning startar företag av personliga skäl, så som önskan om självförverkligande, viljan att göra en idé till verklighet och viljan att lämna något efter sig. Kvinnor med lägre utbildningsnivå, startar å andra sidan företag på grund av att det är deras enda val. De tvingas in i entreprenörskap för att kunna försörja sina familjer, främst sina barn. Däremot visar effekterna av entreprenörskap likheter mellan kvinnorna, trots ojämn utbildningsnivå. Effekterna av entreprenörskap och företagsutbildning har gett zambiska kvinnor självförtroende och har hos dem utvecklat ett nytt företagstänk. Hädanefter kommer uppsatsen att presenteras på engelska.

SANTOS, Francisco Ednardo Pinho. Restrições à atribuição de funções semânticas e sintáticas: um estudo funcionalista sobre inadequações na construção do enunciado em redações escolares. 2010. 121p. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguistica) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernaculas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-08-07T13:20:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_diss_FEPDOSSANTOS.pdf: 756574 bytes, checksum: d55e9c0b62aa49d00b059d0fa40805d0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2013-10-10T14:10:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_diss_FEPDOSSANTOS.pdf: 756574 bytes, checksum: d55e9c0b62aa49d00b059d0fa40805d0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-10T14:10:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_diss_FEPDOSSANTOS.pdf: 756574 bytes, checksum: d55e9c0b62aa49d00b059d0fa40805d0 (MD5) / This research analyzes some aspects of the question of the factors through which it can be considered that a sentence is inadequate concerning the interaction event in which it is used and the grammar of the specific language, according to a functionalist view of language as a system flexible when faced with usage pressure. It proposes a typology contemplating the types of inadequate usages found in the corpus, related to a frame in which the inadequate usage is seen as the non-satisfaction of a functional demand. Considering that pragmatic and semantic motivations compete for the morphosyntactic expression (DUBOIS, 1987), the basic hypothesis is that competing motivations can be left unsolved so that an inadequate construction is produced. The analysis is based on the theory of Functional-Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008). This theory comprehends the grammar as part of a wider model of verbal interaction, so that it can account of the cognitive, interactive and textual factors which have an impact on the grammatical aspects of the predication. The corpus takes a set of presumably inadequate sentences collected from a bank of high school students’ texts. / Esta pesquisa investiga alguns aspectos da difícil questão dos fatores pelos quais se pode considerar um enunciado inadequado à situação de interação em que é usado e à gramática da língua, conforme concepção funcionalista de gramática como sistema sensível às pressões do uso. Propõe uma tipologia que engloba os tipos de inadequação encontrados no corpus de análise, correlacionados a um quadro em que a inadequação seja vista como não-satisfação de uma demanda funcional. A hipótese básica, considerando que demandas internas e externas ao sistema competem entre si pela expressão morfossintática (DUBOIS, 1985), é a de que essa competição entre motivações pragmáticas, semânticas e morfossintáticas pode não se resolver satisfatoriamente em algumas situações de uso da língua, produzindo-se construções inadequadas quanto a algum tipo de motivação. A análise serve-se do instrumental teórico da Gramática Discursivo-Funcional (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008), que, ao compreender a gramática como parte de um modelo de interação verbal, permite dar conta dos fatores cognitivos, interacionais e textuais que têm impacto nos aspectos gramaticais da predicação. Trabalhamos com um corpus constituído principalmente por um conjunto de enunciados considerados inadequados, retirados de um banco de redações escolares de estudantes do Ensino Médio da rede pública em Fortaleza, coletado por nós.