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Interest in park services and understanding leisure decision making has become increasingly important in the last fifty years. Canadians in particular have an affinity for spending time in natural areas and often in parks. Parks and protected areas provide a reasonable and approachable place for people to relax, learn and socialize. This research project consists of interviews and surveys of policy makers and park users at William A. Switzer Provincial Park in Alberta, following the renovation of its visitor centre. The research asks questions related to the visitor centres goals, who visited, and what the renovation might reveal about changing leisure choices. People visited the centre particularly if they were new to the area and visitor centre clientele responded positively. This research shows how parks respond to the leisure public by providing access to educational and social opportunities at a park.

The least popular of all her novels, Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814) depicts a heroine, precariously situated in the margins of the aristocracy, who is intellectually educated rather than accomplished. As the timid Fanny Price navigates the morally fraught social world of Mansfield Park, Austen comments on the exclusion and mistreatment of women in the British public sphere at large as well as criticizes the practice of educating women into accomplishment as exemplified by the sparkling socialite, Mary Crawford. This thesis positions Austen in context with educational writers William Cowper, the poet, and Mary Wollstonecraft, the philosopher. I analyze all three writers’ messages about education, along with the implications of the genre/form with which they choose to enter public discourses, including the poem, the political tract, and the novel. Considering the historical and cultural conceptions of the novel as trivial and feminine during Austen’s day, her decision to employ this form suggests that she is interested in reforming the novel into a platform for serious public engagement. Austen ultimately anticipates the Victorian novel by revealing the form’s potential value as intellectual exercise and an important tool for women to join public conversation. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-22T21:56:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao- Eunice Maciel Soeiro.pdf: 43148217 bytes, checksum: 74e47a0557a15f4331626831db841fd8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The work deals with the Environmental Education in the view transversal and liberating to modality of Education of Youngs and Adults from Rurals Schools of the Jaú. It is a study constructed with philosophical basis of the historical critic that objects to comprehend the direction generality in that itself the Environmental Education, in particular in the place searched. The choice of the knowledge s theory historical critic attaches the fact of the to be a proposal pedagogic preoccupied with the comprehension of the real to its transformation breaking of the vision of the students (workers), based in the experience of yours anterior fight and actual fight. In the that deal the comprehension of the reports between international politic, national and local of environmental protection, this vision contributes fundamental with the possibility of the perceive the parts of the reality that itself relate with totality. The vision historical critic contributed to comprehend that the philosophy ´s science functions how the exercise of the critic the organization of the vision the Environmental Education developed Education of Youngs and Adults at PNJ , enable the postulation de possibilities to its. For this the study was based in the literature search and field. The bibliographic pointed to a new vision of approach to work the Environmental Education in the Education of Youngs and Adults these schools, based in the categories of Paulo Freire: ontology, gnosiologia, ethics, esthetics and possible unpublished. The search of field constituted of interviews and production of written reports. Fifteen people participated of interviews. Nine students, three teachers, two secretaries and one representative of ONG. The search of field looked for to know the particularity about Environmental Education, the process teaching apprenticeship, actions of parts governmental and nogovernmental in the schools and difficulties of teachers and students. The results achieved by the search pointed which where were the schools, Jau National Park, predominated the control, the vigilance and the discipline above the people and the negligence of the Public Power about the students and teachers these schools. Students workers that live in process of stagnation. The Environmental Education is in the discourse of the author of Management Plan, of the secretaries, of the teachers, but no of the students these schools because no know it. / O presente trabalho trata da Educação Ambiental, numa perspectiva transversal e libertadora, para amodalidade de Educação de Jovens e Adultos das Escolas Campesinas do Jaú. É um estudo construído com fundamento da epistemologia histórico-crítico que objetiva compreender a direção geral em que se desenvolve a Educação Ambiental, em especial no local pesquisado. A escolha da abordagem histórico-crítica prende-se ao fato de ser uma epistemologia que contribui para a construção de uma proposta pedagógica preocupada com a compreensão do real para sua transformação a partir do ponto de vista dos educandos (trabalhadores), baseada na experiência de suas lutas anteriores e nas atuais. No que se refere à compreensão das relações existentes entre a política internacional, nacional e local de proteção ambiental, essa a possibilidade de perceber as partes da realidade que se histórico-crítica ajudou a compreender que a Filosofia da Ciência funciona como o exercício da crítica à organização da perspectiva de EA desenvolvida na modalidade de Jovens e Adultos das Escolas do PNJ , possibilitando a postulação de possibilidades para elas. Por isso, o estudo foi baseado numa pesquisa bibliográfica e de campo. O levantamento bibliográfico apontou para uma nova perspectiva de se trabalhar a Educação Ambiental na EJA das escolas em questão, fundada nas categorias de Paulo Freire: ontologia, gnosiologia, ética, estética e o inédito-viável. A pesquisa de campo se constituiu de entrevistas e produção de relatórios. Participaram das entrevistas 15 sujeitos, sendo: 9 alunos, 3 professores, 2 secretários municipais e 1 representante de Organização Não- governamental. A pesquisa de campo procurou conhecer as particularidades relativas à EA, o processo ensino-aprendizagem dos educandos, atuação de segmentos governamental e nãogovernamental nas escolas e as dificuldades de professores e alunos. Os resultados obtidos pela pesquisa retrataram que o local onde se situam as escolas, o Parque Nacional do Jaú, predomina o controle, a vigilância e a disciplina imposta aos moradores e o descaso do poder público em relação aos alunos e professores dessas escolas. Alunos trabalhadores que vivem em processo de estagnação. A Educação Ambiental faz parte do discurso do responsável do Plano de Manejo, dos Secretários, dos professores, mas não dos alunos dessas escolas, que não a conhecem.