Many researchers argue that there is a demand for a new way of teaching and learning to better equip us for the value pluralistic society we are living in. Research has shown that teachers are reluctant to teach about value pluralistic subjects. This thesis aims to study how rural Mongolian teachers view the human-nature relationship in relation to the current situation in Mongolia, characterized by economic growth and environmental issues. Ethical perspectives are applied on the teachers’ views in order to bring structure to the different ways of viewing the human-nature relationship. The study shows that the teachers’ values change depending on if they look at their personal relationship to nature or put nature in relation to society. The results prove that even though personal values are complex it is possible to bring structure to how we understand them. The result provides an example of how complex value pluralistic issues can be structured in order to enable an understanding of them. Furthermore, the thesis suggests that ethical perspectives can be used in education for sustainable development when striving for a new way of teaching and learning.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka äldre människors (pensionärers) välmående genom att analysera samband mellan upplevd stress, självkänsla och livstillfredställelse i relation till kön, ålder, utbildningsnivå och civilstånd. Studien grundades på en enkätundersökning där 91 äldre individer deltog. Enkäten konstruerades med hjälp av skalorna Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) som mäter stress, Rosenbergs Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) som mäter självkänsla och Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) som mäter livstillfredsställelse. Resultaten visade att det fanns signifikant samband mellan upplevd stress, självkänsla och livstillfredsställelse samt signifikanta skillnader mellan män och kvinnor gällande stress och livstillfredsställelse. Kvinnliga deltagare upplevde mer stress, hade lägre livstillfredsställelse och självkänsla än män. Resultaten visade att kön, livstillfredsställelse och självkänsla signifikant predicerar stress. / The aim of the study was to examine wellbeing of older people (pensioners)by analyzing the relationship between perceived stress, self-esteem and life-satisfaction in relation to gender, age, educational level and marital status. The study was based on a survey where 91 older individuals participated. The survey included Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) measuring stress, Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) measuring self-esteem and Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS), measuring life satisfaction. The results showed that there were significant relationships between perceived stress, self-esteem and life satisfaction, as well as significant differences between men and women regarding stress and life satisfaction. Females experienced more stress, had lower life satisfaction and self-esteem than males. The results also showed that gender, life satisfaction and self-esteem significantly predict stress.

Introduction: There has been a continuous development of new technologies in healthcare that are derived from national quality registries. However, this innovation needs to be translated into the workflow of healthcare delivery, to enable children with long-term conditions to get the best support possible to manage their health during everyday life. Since children living with long-term conditions experience different interference levels in their lives, healthcare professionals need to assess the impact of care on children’s day-to-day lives, as a complement to biomedical assessments. Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and describe the use of instruments about health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in outpatient care for children with long-term conditions on the basis of a national quality registry system. Methods: The research was conducted by using comparative, cross-sectional and explorative designs and data collection was performed by using different methods. The questionnaire DISABKIDS Chronic Generic Measure -37 was used as well as semi-structured interviews and video-recordings from consultations. Altogether, 156 children (8–18 years) and nine healthcare professionals participated in the studies. Children with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) (n 131) answered the questionnaire DISABKIDS and children with rheumatic diseases, kidney diseases and T1D (n 25) were interviewed after their consultation at the outpatient clinic after the web-DISABKIDS had been used. In total, nine healthcare professionals used the HRQOL instrument as an assessment tool during the encounters which was video-recorded (n 21). Quantitative deductive content analysis was used to describe content in different HRQOL instruments. Statistical inference was used to analyse results from DISABKIDS and qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the interviews and video-recordings. Results: The findings showed that based on a biopsychosocial perspective, both generic and disease-specific instruments should be used to gain a comprehensive evaluation of the child’s HRQOL. The DISABKIDS instrument is applicable when describing different aspects of health concerning children with T1D. When DISABKIDS was used in the encounters, children expressed positive experiences about sharing their results with the healthcare professional. It was discovered that different approaches led to different outcomes for the child when the healthcare professionals were using DISABKIDS during the encounter. When an instructing approach is used, the child’s ability to learn more about their health and how to improve their health is limited. When an inviting or engaging approach is used by the professional, the child may become more involved during the conversations. Conclusions: It could be argued that instruments of HRQOL could be used as a complement to biomedical variables, to promote a biopsychosocial perspective on the child’s health. According to the children in this thesis, feedback on their results after answering to web-DISABKIDS is important, which implies that healthcare professionals need to prioritize time for discussions about results from HRQOL instruments in the encounters. If healthcare professionals involve the child in the discussion of the results of the HRQOL, misinterpreted answers could be corrected during the conversation. Concurrently, this claims that healthcare professionals invite and engage the child.

This research examines the personal narratives of two contemporary non-native artists living and working on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Issues related to narratives, power structures, artistic processes, insider/outsider dynamics, Hawaiian culture, island life, surfing, and the researcher's own experiences are woven together to formulate realizations surrounding alternative knowledge systems and the power of multiple or hidden narratives to the practice of art education.

This text is focused on status and perpectives of elderly people in the Czech society. First, author tries to indroduce old age as a stage of life from the biological, psychological and social points of view and also point to demographic context of this issue. Further she focuses on older people from the point of view of their social role and possibilities od their social realization. In conclusion of the text athor indroduces results of qualitative study which brings senior's point of view on the issue. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to disprove some myths about old age and older people, especially the myth about old age as period of relaxation and a period "without any role".

Research in inclusive education lacks studies in examining how teachers experience their work. The aim of the study was to contribute knowledge regarding teachers’ own perspective on the work with additional adaptations and the prerequisites to meet students’ different needs from classes year 7-9. The data collection method was semi structured interviews and nine interviews were conducted with teachers. The interviews were transcribed in full and empirical evidence condensed by qualitative content analysis. The result showed that teachers describe their work based on different themes; complexity, tacit knowledge and relational skills. The result also showed that the prerequisites that teachers receive in their work with additional adaptations are different types of support structures and that the organization around this work is different in different schools. We found that categorical, relational and the dilemma perspective were represented in teachers descriptions of their work with additional adaptations and that none of the perspectives dominated the empirical evidence. In organization with clear structure and procedures, principal prioritises collegial learning, competence development and support as conditions for the work the relational perspective dominated. Conversely, in organisation lacking support from principal and student health and teachers lack of knowledge in their work with additional adaptions, the categorical perspective dominated.

Organisationer är beroende av medarbetarnas unika kunskap vilket även har kommit att betraktas som den viktigaste strategiska resursen. Kunskap är även betydelsefullt för organisationers framgång och konkurrenskraftighet. För att bibehålla konkurrensfördelar är det av vikt att skapa framgångsrika lärtillfällen som främjar både individuellt och kollektivt lärande. Den här undersökningen syftar till att beskriva och analysera hur kollektivt lärande uppstår samt ledarskapets betydelse för det kollektiva lärandet. Den teoretiska referensramen utgår från teorier om vilka förutsättningar som behövs för ett kollektivt lärande samt ledarskapets betydelse. Undersökningens empiri har inhämtats genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med tre medarbetare och tre ledare på en utvecklingsavdelning vid en statlig myndighet i Mellansverige. Undersökningens resultat har analyserats mot de teoretiska utgångspunkterna. Undersökningens slutsatser är att kollektivt lärande har potential att uppstå genom dialog och reflektion i gruppmöten, genom nära relationer och via digital dokumentation. De aktiviteter som ledare skapar som har potential för kollektivt lärande är; planerade aktiviteter som avdelningsdagar som möjliggör gemensamma övningar, kunskapsforum och gemensamma luncher. Vidare skapar ledare förutsättningar genom att bygga relationer till sina medarbetare och uppmuntra medarbetarna till samarbete genom att ange samarbete som ett lönekriterium. / Organizations are dependent on the employees' unique knowledge, which has come to be regarded as the most important strategic resource. Knowledge is also important for organizations' success and competitiveness. To maintain competitive advantage, it is important to create successful learning opportunities that encourage both individual and collective learning. This study aims to describe and analyse how collective learning arises and the importance of leadership for collective learning. The theoretical frame is based on theories about what prerequisites are required for collective learning and the importance of leadership. The survey's empirical data has been obtained through semi-structured interviews with three employees and three leaders at a development department at a government agency in central Sweden. The study's results have been analysed in relation to the theoretical frame. The study's conclusions are that collective learning has the potential to arise through dialogue and reflection in group meetings, through close relationships and via digital documentation. The activities that leaders create and have the potential for collective learning are; planned activities such as departmental days that enable joint exercises, knowledge forums and common lunches. Furthermore, leaders create the prerequisites by building relationships with their employees and encouraging employees to collaborate by stating cooperation as a pay criterion.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2019-03-19T17:48:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Liliane Lopes Pereira Fetzner_.pdf: 1973340 bytes, checksum: 03d525e028e6d12b72e8c0073e89762e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2019-03-19T17:48:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Liliane Lopes Pereira Fetzner_.pdf: 1973340 bytes, checksum: 03d525e028e6d12b72e8c0073e89762e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-22 / Nenhuma / O presente estudo busca compreender os elementos necessários para o desenvolvimento de novas perspectivas de liderança nas indústrias, com foco na prosperidade. Devido às mudanças de consciência global, novas relações de trabalho surgiram e com isso as necessidades das pessoas se transformaram, levando a uma mudança também na forma de liderar e fazer gestão nas organizações. A partir disso, entende-se como novas perspectivas de liderança o foco no coletivo / bem comum, pensando a longo prazo, tendo como objetivo produzir resultados sustentáveis para os stakeholders. Estes líderes são propulsores de mudança e transformação e tem habilidade de conectar diferentes paradigmas. Uma empresa que adota as novas perspectivas de liderança apresenta uma cultura que valoriza a inovação, a criatividade e o desencadeamento do espírito humano, ao encontro da prosperidade. Adota-se neste trabalho o conceito de prosperidade compreendido como a busca do florescimento da consciência humana, vinculado a uma visão ampla da vida. Nas indústrias, pelas linhas de produção ali instaladas focadas na produtividade, torna-se um desafio o despertar para novas maneiras de liderar focadas nas pessoas. Como apoio nas empresas, a área de gestão de pessoas exerce um papel relevante para a definição da cultura e clima organizacional. A partir disso, realizou-se uma pesquisa qualitativa baseada em um roteiro de entrevista semiestruturado, envolvendo 22 participantes de duas vertentes diferentes: pessoas que atuam em indústrias, englobando líderes de RH, líderes de áreas e liderados; e pessoas que trabalham em consultorias com processos de desenvolvimento de lideranças nas empresas. Os resultados encontrados proporcionam uma visão voltada ao entendimento do papel das lideranças e perspectivas futuras de mudança ou transformação nas indústrias. Apontam também alguns caminhos à área de gestão de pessoas para o apoio na inserção de novas formas de liderar nas organizações. E por fim são apresentados os elementos necessários para desenvolver nas indústrias, novas perspectivas de liderança com foco na prosperidade. Foram mapeados 10 elementos que podem ser desenvolvidos nas empresas visando à transformação das pessoas e/ou ambiente de trabalho, com o viés de aproximar as novas formas de olhar o indivíduo e o coletivo nos negócios da prática realizada. / The present study seeks to understand the elements necessary for the development of new perspectives of leadership in industries, with a focus on prosperity. In view of the changes in global consciousness, new working relationships have emerged and with this the needs of people have changed, leading to a change in the way of leadership and management in organizations. With this, it is understood as new leadership perspectives the focus on the collective / common good, long-term thinking, with the objective of producing sustainable results for the stakeholders. These leaders are drivers of change and transformation and have the ability to connect different paradigms. A company that adopts new leadership perspectives presents a culture that values innovation, creativity and the unleashing of the human spirit, in the face of prosperity. The concept of prosperity is understood as the search for the flowering of human consciousness, linked to a broad view of life. In industries, by production lines installed there that are focused on productivity, it becomes a challenge to awaken to new ways of leading people focused. As support in companies, the area of people management plays a relevant role in the definition of culture and organizational climate. From this, a qualitative research was carried out based on a semi-structured interview script, involving 22 participants from two different perspectives: people who work in industries, including HR leaders, area leaders and subordinates; and people who work in consultancies with processes of leadership development in companies. The results provide a vision for the understanding of the role of leadership and future perspectives of change or transformation in industries. They also point out some ways to the area of people management to support the insertion of new ways of leading in organizations. Finally, the necessary elements are presented to develop new leadership perspectives focused on prosperity in industries. Ten elements have been mapped that can be developed in companies aiming at the transformation of people and / or work environment, with the purpose of approaching the new ways of looking at the individual and the collective in the business of the accomplished practice.

Submitted by Maicon Juliano Schmidt (maicons) on 2015-06-16T13:56:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Minéia Frezza.pdf: 1758793 bytes, checksum: 506bdf85c94ed952d8aa63d7ca579de0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-06-16T13:56:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Minéia Frezza.pdf: 1758793 bytes, checksum: 506bdf85c94ed952d8aa63d7ca579de0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-27 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação de mestrado consiste em um subprojeto de um estudo maior (Uma mulher, um feto, e uma má notícia: a entrega de diagnósticos de síndromes e de malformações fetais – em busca de uma melhor compreensão do que está por vir e do que pode ser feito, OSTERMANN, 2013) e tem como objetivo descrever a entrega de notícias por um geneticista a gestantes ou puérperas e seus/suas acompanhantes durante aconselhamentos genéticos gravados em áudio, em um hospital materno infantil do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), localizado na região sul do Brasil. Depois de transcrever os 54 aconselhamentos genéticos gravados, selecionamos apenas os 21 aconselhamentos que lidam com a comunicação de resultados de exames e os investigamos por meio da Análise da Conversa (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974) para descrever as ações envolvidas na fase das consultas em que ocorre uma sequência de entrega de boas e de más notícias. A análise de dados revelou que o geneticista em questão entrega as notícias seguindo uma sequência didática composta pelos seguintes elementos: (1) pré-anúncio da notícia, (2) retomada dos resultados de exames anteriores que indicavam a realização de exames mais especializados, (3) série(s) de apresentação de perspectiva (MAYNARD, 1992) nos casos de más notícias, (4) anúncio da notícia em si e, (5) apresentação de algo potencialmente “positivo” dentro de cada quadro, quando as notícias tratam de um diagnóstico “ruim”. Outra tendência evidenciada nos dados refere-se ao processo de alocação da categoria de porta-voz da notícia ao médico, à equipe de medicina fetal e à própria instituição quando a notícia é boa. Quando a notícia a ser entregue é ruim, há um processo de distanciamento da pessoa que a entrega, uma vez que essa categoria é alocada ao exame. Assim, por ser colocado na posição de agente dos verbos que montam a notícia, o exame acaba sendo apresentado como “o responsável” pelo porte e entrega das más notícias. Esse processo de “agentivização do exame” está ligado ao processo de “despessoalização da doença”, que acontece devido à falta de referentes pronominais e/ou nominais que categorizem o feto como portador da doença e dos sintomas apresentados durante a sequência de entrega de notícias. A análise linguístico-interacional da entrega de notícias neste contexto de pesquisa revela práticas recorrentes no evento aconselhamento genético. A partir dessas recorrências, o geneticista apresenta formas para lidar com o sofrimento de pacientes e de seus/suas acompanhantes que podem ser disseminadas na formação de profissionais de saúde em áreas em que a entrega de diagnósticos é prática do dia-a-dia. / This master’s dissertation consists of a subproject of a larger study (Uma mulher, um feto, e uma má notícia: a entrega de diagnósticos de síndromes e de malformações fetais – em busca de uma melhor compreensão do que está por vir e do que pode ser feito, OSTERMANN, 2013) and aims at describing the news delivery made by a geneticist to pregnant or puerperal women and their companion during audio recorded genetic counselings held in a mother and child hospital of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), located in southern Brazil. After transcribing the 54 audiorecorded genetic counselings, we selected only the 21 counseling sessions which dealt with the communication of tests results. By taking a conversation analytical perspective (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974), the interactions were analyzed so as to describe the actions involved within the phase of the consultations in which the sequence of good and bad news delivery occurs. The data analysis reveals that the delivery of the news follows a didactic sequence composed by the following elements: (1) a news preannouncement, (2) a retake of the previous exams results which indicated the realization of more specialized exams, (3) a/some perspective-display series (MAYNARD, 1992) in case of bad news, (4) a news announcement itself, and when the news consists of a “bad” diagnosis, (5) a display of something potentially “positive” within each case. Another tendency revealed in the data refers to the process of placing the category of spokesperson to the doctor, to the staff of fetal medicine and to the institution itself when the news is good. When the news to be delivered is bad, on the other hand, there is a process of distancing of the person who delivers it and this category is alocated to the exam, which is then put in the position of the “agent” of the verbs that announce the news and, as a consequence, ends up being “the responsible one” for bearing it. This process of agentivization of the exam is linked to the process of “depersonalization of the disease”, which happens due to the lack of nominal and/or pronominal referents that categorize the fetus as the bearer of the disease and the symptoms presented throughout the news delivery sequence. The linguistic-interactional analysis of the news delivery in this research study shows recurring practices in the event genetic counseling. By these recurrences, the geneticist presents ways to deal with the patients and their companions’ distress, and these ways can be spread to the health professionals’ education in areas in which diagnosis delivery is a daily practice.

Submitted by Sara Ribeiro (sara.ribeiro@ucb.br) on 2018-09-17T15:13:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaCarolinaLopesDissertacao2018.pdf: 2046746 bytes, checksum: 0083e8f8600a80164f2cb2eecbd50b2b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Sara Ribeiro (sara.ribeiro@ucb.br) on 2018-09-17T15:14:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaCarolinaLopesDissertacao2018.pdf: 2046746 bytes, checksum: 0083e8f8600a80164f2cb2eecbd50b2b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-17T15:14:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaCarolinaLopesDissertacao2018.pdf: 2046746 bytes, checksum: 0083e8f8600a80164f2cb2eecbd50b2b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-16 / This research seeks to understand how the strategy of a service organization, called Beta, is set in the communicational decision network. Based on a systemic-discursive perspective, the theoretical model of the communicational decision network approaches the Luhmann Systems Theory and the discursive approach of Eliseo Verón. According to this model, strategies are formed by decisions and decisions are formed by communication. Theoretical thoughts about organizational communication presented in this study follow an interpretative way, with emphasis on relationships and the production of meanings in the organizational environment. This thinking goes against the classic / instrumental paradigm of the area, because it emphasizes the importance of organizational communication in the processes of decisions, development and also implementation of strategies and not as a mere tool of dissemination. Regarding the concepts inherent in the strategy, the research is linked to an approach of strategy as a social practice, which corroborates with the perception that the strategy is constituted and instituted by / in the communication. The method chosen to collect, present and analyze the data was the case study. The result of the research brought a new sight at communication and its relations with organizational strategy. Communication becomes understood as a network of senses, built in processes that have internal and external dimensions. It was possible to read the organization's strategy and its communication elements with the application of the communicational decision network: decision, identification, institutionalization, mediation and organizational culture and (re) construct a fragment of that network. In this way the strategy was configured from the decisions of development of leaders, creation of new strategic guidelines, development of the innovation group and redefinition of the organizational chart of the company. / Esta pesquisa busca compreender como é configurada, na rede decisória comunicacional, a estratégia de uma organização de serviços, denominada como Beta. Fundamentada em uma perspectiva sistêmico-discursiva, o modelo teórico da rede decisória comunicacional aproxima-se da Teoria dos Sistemas de Luhmann e da abordagem discursiva de Eliseo Verón. Segundo esse modelo, as estratégias são formadas por decisões, e as decisões são formadas pela comunicação. As reflexões teóricas acerca da comunicação organizacional apresentadas neste estudo seguem uma linha interpretativa, com ênfase nas relações e na produção de sentidos no ambiente organizacional, o que confronta com o paradigma clássico/instrumental da área, pois ressalta a importância da comunicação organizacional nos processos de decisão e formulação e implementação de estratégias, e não como mera ferramenta de divulgação. Quanto aos conceitos inerentes à estratégia, a pesquisa vincula-se a uma abordagem da estratégia como prática social, o que corrobora a percepção de que a estratégia é constituída e instituída pela/na comunicação. O método escolhido para coletar, apresentar e analisar os dados foi o estudo de caso. O resultado da pesquisa trouxe um novo olhar para a comunicação e suas relações com a estratégia organizacional. A comunicação passa a ser compreendida como uma rede de sentidos, construída em processos que apresentam dimensões internas e externas. Com aplicação da rede decisória comunicacional, foi possível realizar a leitura da estratégia da organização e seus elementos comunicacionais – a decisão, a identificação, a institucionalização, a mediação e a cultura organizacional – e (re)construir um fragmento dessa rede. Nesse caminho, a estratégia foi configurada a partir de decisões de desenvolvimento de líderes, criação de novas diretrizes estratégicas, desenvolvimento do grupo de inovação e redefinição do organograma da empresa.