Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-04-26T19:06:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 daianaaparecidamarquesdeamorim.pdf: 732938 bytes, checksum: 57a29b4f190d9a45c2a695d2f88d7e99 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-04-27T11:29:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 daianaaparecidamarquesdeamorim.pdf: 732938 bytes, checksum: 57a29b4f190d9a45c2a695d2f88d7e99 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-04-27T11:31:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 daianaaparecidamarquesdeamorim.pdf: 732938 bytes, checksum: 57a29b4f190d9a45c2a695d2f88d7e99 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-27T11:31:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 daianaaparecidamarquesdeamorim.pdf: 732938 bytes, checksum: 57a29b4f190d9a45c2a695d2f88d7e99 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-29 / Esta pesquisa propõe investigar sobre o cotidiano de uma escola do campo, com sala multisseriada, que funciona em uma cidade da zona da mata mineira. Tendo por objetivo compreender e refletir sobre a importância da escola do campo e suas especificidades, para uma comunidade do campo. Utilizar-se-á pesquisa bibliográfica envolvendo algumas obras representativas das diferentes épocas, como anais de congressos, anuários estatísticos e a legislação pertinente. O aporte teórico será a Antropologia do Imaginário, que nos permite ter um olhar sensível e capaz de refletir as possibilidades do aproveitamento da cultura do campo na escola. Observa-se que as salas multisseriadas, nem sempre representam a melhor alternativa metodológica para a comunidade. No entanto são implantadas, como forma de atender às populações rurais. Estas salas possibilitam uma socialização, quer na transmissão de conhecimentos, na veiculação das crenças e valores, nas interações de seus sujeitos, nas relações sociais com a comunidade e nas rotinas, que se manifestam na amplitude do espaço escolar. No movimento da análise, foi possível perceber que os alunos encontram condições de ritualizar diferenças e semelhanças. Habilidade relacionada recursivamente com manifestações, que se expressam no cotidiano da escola, por meio da dimensão simbólica da cultura de seu grupo de origem. A relação entre os estudantes e os demais indivíduos, que compõem o contexto escolar, está intrinsecamente ligada ao espaço afetivo-estrutural e aos vários papéis, que eles exercem na instituição. / This research proposes – to investigate about the the routine in a do campo school with a multi-leveled class in a town in an specific area of Minas Gerais (Zona da Mata). It aims to comprehend and to reflect about the importance of do campo schools and its specificities to a do campo community. It will be used bibliographic research involving some important works of different times, congress proceedings, statistical yearbooks and the relevant legislation. The theoretical contribution will be the anthropology of the imaginary, that allows us to have a sensitive eye and let us able to reflect the possibilities of exploitation of do campo culture in school. It is observed that the multi-leveled classes not always represent the best methodological alternative to the community, but, as a way of meeting the do campo population, they are implemented. However, they allows socialization in the transmission of knowledge, in the placement of beliefs and values, and also in the interaction of its subjects, in the social relation with the community and in the routines that manifest the range of the school environment. In the analysis movement it was possible to notice that the students are able to ritualize similarities and differences – that relate recursively manifestations in the school routine, of the symbolic dimension of the culture of its source group. It is established among them and people of school relations that depend on the affective-structural space and on the several roles that such space perform in the institution.

Orientador: Guilherme do Val Toledo Prado / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T00:27:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ferreira_ClaudiaRoberta_D.pdf: 3847159 bytes, checksum: 8861017af2e68859269d900e8139ba7b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Tematizar a coordenação pedagógica em um processo de formação na e a partir da escola é o propósito da investigação. Com o intuito de articular trabalho e formação, a pesquisa tem como tema a formação continuada de professores e como foco de estudo a coordenação pedagógica e a formação no contexto escolar. Realizou-se em uma escola de educação básica da rede privada de ensino de Campinas/SP, na Educação Infantil e nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, Fundamental, apoiando-se na abordagem qualitativa através de um caso em estudo com a metodologia da investigação narrativa, constituída a partir da reflexão sobre as produções do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Continuada - GEPEC - da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, a que a presente investigação está filiada. A pesquisa beneficiou-se das experiências profissionais com o cotidiano da escola em uma investigação do próprio trabalho: de uma professora-coordenadora e seus saberes e- fazeres na escola. Os materiais produzidos por ela e pelos professores (assumidos como dados da pesquisa), seja nas reuniões pedagógicas e formativas e/ou nos encontros de atendimento individual, bem como registros elaborados coletivamente, revistas, publicações de experiências pedagógicas, fotografias, dentre outros, constituem uma materialidade escolar que é tomada para compreender em que se caracteriza o trabalho da professora-coordenadora, bem como, investigar que formação é possível em contexto escolar. Das lições aprendidas no viver e fazer a pesquisa, enfatizamos aquelas vinculadas às dimensões da ação da coordenação pedagógica para a qual se propõe o conceito de professor-coordenador, que, por sua vez, atuará como professor-formador, exercerá uma gestão co inspirativa, constituir-se-á em sujeito-referência promovendo rupturas na rotina do cotidiano escolar, o que configura o que indicaremos como evidência possível de uma formação na, com a e a partir da escola. / Abstract: The main purpose of the investigation is to broach the pedagogical coordination and the formation group process in a school. The research has the objective to show the possibility of matching the job as a pedagogical coordinator and the continuing study from teachers in a school context. The research has been done in a private Elementary School in Campinas - SP. It happened in the kindergarten course and in some grades from Elementary School. It has been done according to some studies about productions realized at GEPEC (Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Educação Continuada) - UNICAMP, which the present investigation is related to. The research has received help from professional experiences in the daily school routine based on a teacher and coordinator in her day by day experiences at work. The materials produced by her and for others teachers (research data), such as in pedagogical meetings, individual talks, magazines, specific pedagogy materials, photos and others, belong to the school data which helps to understand better the pedagogical coordinator functions at school, as well, it shows that it is possible to improve your studies in a school context. From lessons learned in living and being part of the research, we have to emphasize the ones who the pedagogical coordinator is also a regular teacher Who show the possibility of improving your studies in a school context having the school support. / Doutorado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Doutora em Educação

Orientador: Corinta Maria Grisolia Geraldi / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T03:07:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cruz_RubiaCristina_D.pdf: 1718495 bytes, checksum: 898b24a30163bdba9964a768f2fabdec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa toma como objeto de estudos a gestão escolar na complexidade de seu cotidiano, com o objetivo de contribuir para a reflexão sobre a formação do gestor em seu próprio ambiente de trabalho. A compreensão dos processos que constituem o trabalho de gestão sustenta-se num conjunto de narrativas, selecionadas dentre os acontecimentos cotidianos na escola, com base nos conceitos benjaminiano e larrosiano de experiência. A metodologia utilizada foi a da investigação narrativa. Na reconstituição narrativa dos acontecimentos, além da memória da própria investigadora-narradora e gestora, foram utilizados distintos materiais: anotações da gestora, de outras colegas de gestão, documentos da escola, documentos legais, atas de reuniões, e também entrevistas com os sujeitos envolvidos em cada um dos acontecimentos, incluindo não só professores mas também outros trabalhadores da escola e membros da comunidade. O entrecruzamento das informações e dados destes diferentes materiais empíricos permitiu uma aproximação maior dos fatos tomados aqui como ponto de partida da reflexão. A organização dos acontecimentos narrados, depois de uma primeira análise, obedeceu a critérios temáticos: a gestão dos espaços e tempos da escola; as relações mais amplas com a comunidade do bairro da escola na constituição do Conselho Escolar e a implicação das decisões jurídicas sobre aplicabilidade da legislação independentemente das condições concretas da escola para atendê-las. De cada história e seu tema foi extraída uma lição para o exercício da gestão. E cada lição foi estudada com base na bibliografia pertinente ao tema e à gestão escolar. As três principais lições podem ser consubstanciadas nos seguintes enunciados: (a) ainda que procedente de uma visão tradicional de gestão, na escola é de responsabilidade administrativa gerir os conflitos relativos aos espaços e tempos; (b) a uma gestão democrática é imprescindível o contato constante com a comunidade do entorno, tanto para compreender a história do lugar e da própria escola, quanto para gerir o presente de modo a respeitar o passado para construir em conjunto um futuro; (c) as políticas públicas que chegam a expressar-se na forma de leis, independentemente das condições concretas da escola para executá-las, abrem espaços para a judicialização da oferta de educação impondo soluções "ad hoc" para casos específicos com perda da finalidade maior da própria política pública que deu origem à legislação. Esta pesquisa beneficiou-se das experiências de trabalho com o cotidiano da escola e com a metodologia da investigação narrativa das produções do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Continuada - GEPEC - da Unicamp, a que a presente investigação está filiada. / Abstract: This research has as study objects the school management in its daily complexity, with the objective to contrubute to the thinking about the formation of the manager on its own work place. The understanding of the process that constitute the work of management is sustained in a group of narratives, selected among the daily school events, with basis on benjaminianism and larrosianism concepts of experience. The methodology was the narrative investigation. In the events narrative reconstitution, besides the memories of the investigator-narrator and manager herself, distinct material were used: manager's annotations, and other colleagues of management, school documents, legal documents, meeting reports, and also interviews with involved persons in each of the events, including not only teachers but also other workers of school and members of the community. The crossroads of the information and data of there different empircal materials allowed a bigger approximation from the facts here taken as the beginning of the thinking. The organization of the facts narrated here, after a first analysis, obbey to thematical criteria: the management of the times and spaces of the school; the bigger relations of the school neighborhood community in the constitution of the School's Council and the implication of legal decisions about the application of the legislation independently of the concrete conditions of the school to attend them. A lesson was extracted of every story and theme for the managing execution. And every lesson was studied based on a bibliography pertinent to the theme and the education management. The three main lessons can be substantiated in the following titles: (a) even being derivated from a traditional management, it's the administrative responsiblity to manage the conflicts related to times and spaces; (b) for a democratic management the constant contact to the community around is very necessary, thus for the comprehesion of the region and the school itself, as to manage the present respecting the past to everybody construct a future; (c) the public policies that sometimes express themselves in the form of laws, independently of the concrete conditions of the school to execute them, open spaces for the judicialization of the offering of education imposing "ad hoc" solutions for specific cases with the loss of the bigger goal from the public policy that originated the legislation. This research was benefited by the experiences of daily school work and with the methodology of the narrative investigation of the "Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Continuada" - GEPEC UNICAMP - studies, wich this investigation is affiliated. / Doutorado / Ensino, Avaliação e Formação de Professores / Doutor em Educação

The need for greater administrative efficiency in the public sector makes society increasingly require managers of public institutions who should give priority to the development of its employees skills as well as the utilization of available resources. To make this possible, it is necessary for every individual to know the organizational reality as a whole and not only its function. In this regard, in recent decades, these organizations have made use of some tools in the area of Private Management in pursuit of higher quality and speed in service to the community, making their images respectable to the population. One of the tools that is attracting great interest from managers of public organizations is to standardize processes by mapping them, allowing a greater understanding of how, in fact, products and services are created, clearly showing the problems, the failures and inefficiencies as well as providing benefits, such as reduced process cycle times, decreased costs, improved efficiency and internal efficiency, improving the quality of the work undertaken and increasing the satisfaction of all those people involved. This current study aimed to propose a manual standardization of processes and routines of the Center of Control and Maintenance of the Payment System (NUCOMP) of Coordinator Bureau of Payment Systems (CPAG) of Personnel Management Secretary (PROGEP) at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) for the dissemination and better understanding in the institution. Therefore, it was performed a research of applied nature, with qualitative and exploratory approach related to its goals, using a study case as its method. Data collection occurred from March to April 2014, and the choice of this sector was due to its importance for UFSM, because it is responsible for managing, feeding and operating the Federal System that generates the payroll of all active and retired employees of this institution. The development of this work brought many contributions to both the academic environment, with reflections and suggestions for future work, but also for the target industry study once it provides a current view of it and can eliminate the unnecessary activities and make a better use of time in activities that, in fact, are relevant. Finally, it can facilitate training and the dissemination of knowledge to new servers that may enter NUCOMP, acting as a practical guide for the knowledge of the reality at this workplace. / A necessidade de maior eficiência administrativa no setor público faz com que a sociedade exija cada vez mais dos gestores de instituições públicas, que devem priorizar o desenvolvimento das competências de seus colaboradores, assim como o aproveitamento dos recursos disponíveis. Para que isto seja possível, é necessário que cada indivíduo conheça a realidade organizacional como um todo e não somente a função que desempenha. Neste sentido, nas últimas décadas, tais organizações têm feito uso de algumas ferramentas da área da Administração Privada em busca de maior qualidade e velocidade nos serviços prestados à comunidade, tornando suas imagens respeitáveis frente à população. Uma das ferramentas que vem despertando grande interesse por parte dos gestores de organizações públicas é a padronização de processos por meio do mapeamento dos mesmos, possibilitando maior compreensão em como, de fato, os produtos e os serviços são criados, mostrando claramente os problemas, os gargalos e as ineficiências e proporcionando benefícios, como a redução dos tempos de ciclos de processos, a diminuição de custos, a melhora na eficiência e eficácia interna, a melhora na qualidade do trabalho desenvolvido e o aumento na satisfação de todos os envolvidos. O presente estudo objetivou propor um manual de padronização de processos e rotinas do Núcleo de Controle e Manutenção do Sistema de Pagamento (NUCOMP) da Coordenadoria do Sistema de Pagamentos (CPAG) da Pró-Reitoria de Gestão de Pessoas (PROGEP) da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), para divulgação e melhor entendimento na Instituição. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa de natureza aplicada, com abordagem qualitativa e exploratória em relação aos objetivos, utilizando como método o estudo de caso. A coleta de dados ocorreu no período de março a abril de 2014 e a escolha de tal setor deveu-se a importância do mesmo para a UFSM, por ser ele o responsável por gerenciar, alimentar e operar o Sistema Federal que gera a folha de pagamento de todos os servidores ativos e inativos da instituição. O desenvolvimento deste trabalho trouxe muitas contribuições, tanto para o meio acadêmico, com reflexões e sugestões para trabalhos futuros, quanto para o setor alvo de estudo, pois oferece uma visão atual do mesmo e pode proporcionar a eliminação de atividades desnecessárias e um melhor aproveitamento do tempo em atividades que, de fato, são relevantes. Por fim, pode facilitar o treinamento e a disseminação de conhecimento aos novos servidores que ingressarem no NUCOMP, atuando como um guia prático para o conhecimento da realidade deste local de trabalho.

Abstract The study aimed at researching collaboration in a group of children under school age, its characteristics, organisation of activities and conflicts as well as the cultural and social routines developing through collaboration. The research problem was, firstly, how children's collaboration is organised and how it proceeds and which the characteristics of the organisation of the collaboration are. The characteristics of organisation refer to initiatives and responses to them, their consequences and results of action. Secondly, I wanted to study how the conflicts apparent in the activities are solved and what happens in action after a conflict is solved. Thirdly, the development of collaboration into social routines and differences in organisation between groups of differently aged children were studied. The theme of the study is connected with a research tradition in which children's development is seen in terms of participation in the social environment and the culturally conveyed world, its language, manners and habits. This study focused on children in their everyday activities, constructing their plays together, sharing activities and negotiating. The theoretical background of the study was based on sociocultural theories on one hand and a broad research tradition – systemic theories – on the other hand. Systemic theories also involve relational theories among which this study was contributed to especially by the conception of development and characteristics as relations as well as the significance of communication and collaborative regulation to control development. The collaborative situations that were studied were gathered from children's spontaneous play situations by means of videotaping. Samples containing phenomena under study were picked out from these materials. Then the data was divided into meaningful episodes of initiatives and conflicts that were analysed with a method designed for the analysis of video materials, searching for social routines uniform in content and theme built on the children's peer culture. According to the results, initiatives formed a small-scale yet impressive phenomenon that enabled the children to join in collaboration and with that in the sociocultural world. The children made plenty of initiatives, the most common of them being active verbal motions such as questions, proposals, commands and various motions related to play. There was an active response to these initiatives, but a remarkable number of them were also ignored. Most of the conflicts were connected with the use of things and toys. A strategy to maintain the collaborative relationship was most often chosen to solve them. The study revealed six different social routines in the children's peer culture. The most common social routine was sociodramatic play that is characterised by regular taking of turns in the collaboration, a long duration and positive results. The study also compared the initiatives, responses and conflicts of younger and older children. It was observed that non-verbal action in negotiation situations and the strategy of ignorance in conflicts were more typical of younger than older children. / Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli tutkia pienten, alle kouluikäisten lasten ryhmässä tapahtuvaa yhteistoimintaa, sen piirteitä, toiminnan organisoitumista ja konflikteja sekä yhteistoiminnassa kehittyviä kulttuurisia ja sosiaalisia rutiineja. Tutkimusongelmina olivat ensinnäkin miten lasten yhteistoiminta organisoituu ja etenee sekä millaisia piirteitä yhteistoiminnan organisoitumisessa ilmenee. Organisoitumiseen liittyvillä piirteillä tarkoitettiin aloitteita ja niihin annettuja vastauksia, näiden seuraantoja sekä toiminnan tuloksia. Toiseksi haluttiin tutkia miten toiminnassa ilmenevät konfliktit ratkaistaan ja mitä toiminnassa tapahtuu konfliktien ratkaisemisen jälkeen. Kolmanneksi tutkittiin yhteistoiminnan kehittymistä sosiaalisiksi rutiineiksi ja mitä eroja organisoitumisessa on eri-ikäisten lasten ryhmissä. Tutkimus liittyy teemallisesti tutkimusperinteeseen, jossa lasten kehittyminen nähdään osallisuutena sosiaaliseen ympäristöön sekä kulttuurisesti välittyneeseen maailmaan, sen kieleen, tapoihin ja tottumuksiin. Tämän tutkimuksen kohteina olivat lapset omassa arkipäivässään, rakentamassa yhteisiä leikkejä ja toimintaa jakaen ja neuvotellen. Tutkimuksen teoreettinen tausta perustui toisaalta sosiokulttuurisiin teorioihin ja toisaalta toiseen laajaan tutkimusperinteeseen – systeemisiin teorioihin. Systeemisiin teorioihin liittyvät myös relationaaliset teoriat, joista tähän tutkimukseen nousi erityisesti näkemys kehityksestä ja ominaisuuksista suhteina sekä kommunikaation ja yhteistoiminnallisen säätelyn kehitystä ohjaava merkitys. Tutkitut yhteistoimintatilanteet kerättiin lasten spontaaneista leikkitilanteista havainnoimalla käyttäen videointia apuna. Kerätystä aineistosta poimittiin tutkimukseen sellaiset otokset, joissa esiintyi tutkittavia ilmiöitä. Sen jälkeen aineisto jaettiin merkityksellisiin aloite- ja konfliktiepisodeihin, joita analysoitiin videomateriaalin analyysin tarkoitetulla menetelmällä ja hakien sisällöllisesti ja teemallisesti yhtenäisiä lasten vertaiskulttuuriin rakentuvia sosiaalisia rutiineja. Tulosten mukaan aloitteet muodostivat pienimuotoisen, mutta kuitenkin vaikuttavan ilmiön, joka mahdollisti lapsille liittymisen yhteistoimintaan ja sitä kautta sosiokulttuuriseen maailmaan. Lapset tekivät runsaasti aloitteita, joista yleisimpiä olivat aktiiviset kielelliset aloitteet kuten kysymykset, ehdotukset, käskyt sekä erilaiset leikkialoitteet. Aloitteisiin vastattiin aktiivisesti, mutta myös huomattavan paljon niistä jätettiin huomiotta. Suurin osa konflikteista liittyi esineisiin tai leikkivälineiden käyttöön. Niiden ratkaisemiseksi valittiin useimmiten yhteistoimintasuhdetta ylläpitävä strategia. Tutkimuksessa löydettiin kuusi erilaista lasten vertaiskulttuurin sosiaalista rutiinia. Eniten esiintynyt sosiaalinen rutiini oli sosiodraamallinen leikki, jota luonnehti säännöllinen vuorottelu yhteistoiminnassa, pitkä kesto sekä myönteiset tulokset. Tutkimuksessa verrattiin myös pienten ja isojen lasten aloitteita, vastauksia ja konflikteja havaittiin, että pienille oli tyypillisempää ei-kielellinen toiminta neuvottelutilanteissa ja huomiotta jättämisen strategia konfliktitilanteissa kuin isommille lapsille.

Introduction: Crime victimization is a problem affecting both individuals and societies. Previous research has looked at the associations between victimization and other factors, and many countries employ self-reported victimization surveys to establish what the victimization patterns look like at different societal levels. Aims: By examining victimization proportions and patterns, this study aimed to further the understanding of what the crime victimization problem looks like in a medium-sized Swedish city. Method: 149 men and 146 women, for a total of 295 inhabitants of Sundsvall, answered self-reported victimization surveys based on the Swedish Crime Survey. The gathered data was subsequently quantified and analyzed. Results: In total, 11.9 % of the sample reported some type of victimization. Overall, men were more likely to be victimized than women, and crimes against persons were more common than crimes against property. Occupation and socio-economic status were significantly associated with victimization. More than half of the victimizations were not reported to the police, and victimization was significantly associated with a lower trust in the criminal justice system and the police. Conclusion: Medium-sized cities like Sundsvall seem to have considerably lower proportions of victimization than the counties, regions and nation as a whole. The rates of reporting and patterns of victimization found, however, are in accord with findings on other societal levels and could to some extent be explained through the principles of the routine activities/lifestyle theory. / <p>2017-06-01</p>

State run public guardianship programs are legally mandated to provide custodial care for persons deemed incapacitated by the courts. Historically, the majority of state wards were elderly women residing in skilled nursing facilities. Today, those demographics are rapidly changing. This new incapacitated cohort has become less institutionalized, with a rising number of persons who have entered the program with criminal records and who continue to commit crimes. This exploratory study focuses on incapacitated persons (IP) with criminal behaviors in order to seek what intervention(s) might reduce their criminal activity. Relying on routine activity theory, differing levels of supervision were compared to those persons institutionalized 24 hours per day. The results of the study indicated that as levels of residential supervision decrease, criminal activities significantly increase. This study can assist administrators of public guardianship programs better understanding the supervisory needs of their incapacitated citizens as well as improve safety precautions for their respective communities.

My dissertation sought to expand the study of victimization by examining non-linear relationships across victim, offender, and offense characteristics within a routine activities theory framework. Moreover, my goals were to assess victimization risk using a more realistic approach through the implementation of a situational perspective approach and conjunctive analysis. Conjunctive analysis is an analytical with both quantitative and qualitative properties, which allowed for interpretations that were detail oriented and summative. Utilizing data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, several victim (e.g., demographic factors), offender (e.g., victim-offender relationship), and offense (contextual factors) characteristics were analyzed. Conjunctive analysis was estimated for incidents by victimization type and by race/ethnicity. The results indicated the presence of main (linear) effects and interaction (non-linear) effects. Main effects by victimization type provided support for prior research on victimization risk, such as the majority of victims emerging as young, white, and male. Interaction effects revealed young and female victims were vulnerable to attacks from non-stranger offenders; whereas, older and male victims were prone to stranger attacks. When estimated by race and ethnicity, whites and blacks were also more likely to be attacked by someone with whom they were familiar; whereas, victims categorized as other were more likely to be attacked by strangers. Theoretical and policy implications were discussed.

Magister Public Health - MPH / Background: The factors that underlie teenage pregnancies are complex and multifactorial. The prevailing perception is that teenage pregnancies are increasing in South Africa. However, the empirical extent and trends in teenage births in the Western Cape Province are not well understood. A systematic analysis of routine health information for the data element.Delivery in facility to women under 18 years for the period 1 April 2000 to 31 March 2012 is presented in order to contribute to documenting and understanding how this problem manifests in the Western Cape Province.Objectives:The objectives of the study were to describe the trends in the number of deliveries for women under the age of 18 years in the Western Cape Province for the period 1 April 2000 until 31 March 2012, and to compare the trends within and between districts. A secondary aim was to explore the quality and usefulness of Routine Health Information in the Western Cape Province focusing on the dataset for deliveries for women under the age of 18 years.Methods:The data for the Province extracted from the Sinjani system (the data repository for health information management in the Western Cape Department of Health) was subjected to a trend analysis at the Provincial, District and Sub-District level. The absolute numbers of all deliveries, and deliveries for women under the age of 18 years as well as proportions of deliveries for women under the age of 18 years were compared across districts, years and seasons. Results were discussed with senior managers in the Department of Health as compared to performance indicators presented in workshop settings to triangulate and help interpret findings.Findings The key finding is that both the absolute number of deliveries for women under the age of 18 years and the deliveries for women under the age of 18 years relative to all deliveries have declined steadily since 2007, while 8 absolute numbers of deliveries in 2012 were only slightly higher than in 2000-2001, despite an increase of 19.4% in the total population of the Province between 2002 and 2011. Despite the decline in the number of deliveries for women under the age of 18 years, the number of deliveries remains high. Seasonal increases in numbers of deliveries coincide with school holidays in most districts. The data analysis also revealed challenges with the quality of the data, and that it is not possible to determine the age distribution of deliveries across women under 18 years from the provincial data set. Routinely collected data do not permit analysis or comparison of births at the ward level where significant socio-economic variations are likely to influence fertility.Conclusions and Recommendations:The data did not support widespread perceptions of rapidly increasing teen births. The declining birth rates and relatively stable proportion of under 18 births relative to all births suggest that adding new indicators throughout the entire routine information system is not justified on public health or economic grounds. However, more detailed and disaggregated evidence is needed to inform locally tailored interventions and could be obtained from alternate sources of information such as point prevalence surveys, annual surveys, or data collection at sentinel sites. While teenage birth rates are not increasing, they remain high. It is recommended that additional service delivery models be explored to ensure that sexual reproductive health services are strengthened and delivered in a manner that would be acceptable to young people. Further, it is recommended that programmatic interventions that target the sexual reproductive health choices made by young people be scaled up in partnership with intersectoral partners and communities in order to mitigate against seasonal increases in the number of deliveries for women under 18 years of age.

This study describes in detail the preparation that must be done by aspiring orchestral horn players in order to be sufficiently ready for an orchestral audition. The general physical and mental preparation, through to the very specific elements that require attention when practicing and learning a list of orchestral excerpts that will be performed for an audition committee, is investigated. This study provides both the necessary tools and the insight borne of a number of years of orchestral experience that will enable a player to take a given excerpt and learn not only the notes and rhythms, but also discern many other subtleties inherent in the music, resulting in a full understanding and mastery thereof. Ten musical examples are included in order to illustrate the type of additional information that a player must gain so as to develop an in-depth knowledge of an excerpt. Three lists are presented within the text of this study: 1) a list of excerpts that are most commonly found at auditions, 2) a list of those excerpts that are often included and 3) other excerpts that have been requested but are not as commonly found. Also included is advice regarding the audition procedure itself, a discussion of the music required for auditions, and a guide to the orchestral excerpt books in which these passages can be found. / Dissertation (MMus)--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Music / unrestricted