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Drawing upon my eleven-month ethnographic fieldwork in two business organisations in Bangkok, Thailand, this thesis explores Thai women office workers consumption of makeup and clothes at work. What emerges from this thesis is that a claim to beauty as a reason for which women are engaged in the consumption of makeup and clothes is not always valid. Grounded in theoretical discussions and empirical findings, I argue that the women s consumption of makeup and clothes is not always in the pursuit of beauty, but rather the pursuit of looking good. While beauty is perceived as an innate quality of the body, looking good entails the materialisation of the outer body through consumption practices in an attempt to achieve an ideal look. I introduce a concept of looking good practices. Looking good practices demonstrate the ways in which women office workers exert agency in mobilising their outer bodies to achieve an appropriate appearance at work. I argue that looking good practices entail a process of social learning. The women office workers learn to look good through the process by which they look at other women, participate in the practices shared amongst themselves, negotiate the meanings of appropriateness and reify such meanings through their consumption of makeup and clothes. By sharing meanings and practices, the women office workers inevitably participate in looking good practices, which, I argue, are social practices. My research also demonstrates how, through their engagement in the consumption of makeup and clothes, the women office workers aestheticise their bodies to be situated in the aesthetic workplace.

The following purposes were proposed in undertaking the study: 1. to determine the health knowledge of the students selected for the study, as indicated by a standardized test; 2. to determine the health practices of the students selected for the study, as indicated by a standardized inventory; and 3. to determine if there is a relation between the health knowledge and the health practices of the students selected for the study.

The results suggest that children's perceptions of parental child-rearing behavior are related to their tendencies to be dogmatic in their beliefs, and apparently perceptions of parents as loving has reinforcing properties for the child that may lead to the uncritical acceptance of the belief system of the parents.

Faculty of Health Sciences School of Public Health 0003100h Vicon@tiscali.co.za / The causative association between alcohol, cannabis use and accidents in the workplace have been shown in some studies. The adverse effects of these on employee’s health, work performance, public and industrial safety have also been researched internationally. But there still remains a paucity of information on the knowledge, attitudes, practices and prevalence of alcohol and cannabis use on diamond mines in South Africa even though anecdotal evidence suggests widespread use that is on the rise. As a result of this, effective intervention strategies to stem the rise have not been developed. This study assessed the knowledge, attitudes, practices and prevalence of alcohol and cannabis use amongst South African diamond miners. It was a cross-sectional analytical study which ascertained the knowledge, attitudes and practices of the miners in relation to alcohol and cannabis use through face to face structured interviews. The prevalence of alcohol was ascertained through breathalyser testing and that of cannabis through urine tests. The study site was a large diamond mine located in the northern part of South Africa. Individual written informed consent was obtained from each of the participants before questionnaire interviews, breathalyser and urine tests were carried out. All the interviews and tests were anonymous and unlinked. None of the test methods were invasive. The questionnaire was tested in a pilot survey. This research was commissioned by the Safety in Mines Research and Advisory Committee (SIMRAC). vii The reported prevalence for alcohol was 44% whilst the tested prevalence was 1.4%.For cannabis, the reported prevalence was 2.0% whilst the tested prevalence was 2.8%.The significant factors associated with alcohol use were higher educational qualification and type of work. Full time employees were more likely to have ever used alcohol. Reported users of alcohol and cannabis started before starting work on the mines. An overwhelming majority of the participants reported that alcohol and cannabis use could lead to accidents on the mines. A large majority reported that intervention strategies such as education, regular testing of employees and entertainment will decrease the use of alcohol and cannabis. Possible explanations for the patterns observed in the use of these substances have been given and suggestions on how to influence the use of these substances have been made.

Thesis advisor: Joseph J. Pedulla / There is no question that teachers play an important role in student learning. In the last decade, researchers have shown evidence pointing to the prominence of teachers compared to other factors that are known to influence student achievement (Wright, Horn, and Sanders, 1997). They have empirically demonstrated that teacher effects are large and persist for up to four years (Kain, 1998; Mendor, Jordan, Gomez, Anderson, and Bembry, 1998; Rivers, 1999). Multiple variables are known to influence teacher quality, including teacher preparation. This dissertation explored the relationship between the teacher education pathway and teaching effectiveness. Although multiple measures of teacher effectiveness exist, this study focused on reformed instructional practices as its measure of teaching effectiveness. In teaching mathematics, in particular, constructivist-based, inquiry-oriented approaches have been shown to be more effective than traditional methods (Abbott and Fouts, 2003; Klein, Hamilton, McCaffrey, Stecher, Robyn, and Burroughs, 2000). Using two groups of novice teachers (N=22) from two preparation pathways, this observational comparative study also investigated the relationship between school composition and teaching practices. There is a large body of literature showing that urban schools serving high proportions of non-white, poor, and low performing students (Darling-Hammond, 1995; Kain and Singleton, 1996; Presley White, and Gong, 2005) tend to have higher percentages of less qualified teachers compared to their suburban counterparts. In light of this, the current study also explored the relationship between school composition and teachers' use of reformed teaching practices. The findings of this investigation indicate that the instructional practices of teachers working in the urban school district where this study was conducted were generally reformed, and did not vary based on the student demographics of the schools in which they taught. In addition, no statistically significant relationship was found between teaching pathway and teachers' instructional practices. Many similarities were found in the instructional practices of teachers from the two preparation pathways. The similarities in the teachers' instructional practices were attributed to the significant congruence in the teacher preparation programs' curriculum, requirement of clinical experience, selectivity, and the programs' explicit social justice missions. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation.

O presente trabalho realizou estudos sobre a imcorporação das práticas de saúde da Medicina Tradicional Comunitária pela Medicina Institucional. Foram levantadas as Instituições Tradicionais Comunitárias que desenvolvem atividades de cura em Belo Horizonte e as Instituições Oficiais que dão assistência à população na área da saúde. Seis Instituições Tradicionais Comunitárias, foram selecionadas para identificação das práticas de saúde utilizadas e para estudar a população que se serve das fontes do sistema tradicional comunitário segundo os problemas de saúde e as caracteristicas individuais de idade sexo, renda familiar e instrução. Durante o estudo identificamos que, a população que tem mais acesso ao sistema tradicional comunitário é aquela situada na faixa etária de 40 anos e mais, do sexo feminino, com renda familiar de O a 3 salários mínimos, exclusive, e grau de instrução no nível primário; identificamos ainda que, o problema de saÚde que mais levou a população às referidas instituições foi \"Ataque de Nervos\", e o \"Passe\" foi a prática tradicional mais indicada para a população solucionar o seu problema de saúde. No campo das Instituições Oficiais selecionamos 100 das 234 existentes para identificar a participação dos praticantes tradicionais nos programas oficiais de saúde. / The present work realizing studies about the incorporation of the practices of health of Community Tradicional Medicine by the Medical Institution. The Tradicional Institutions that were raised (elevated) that desenvolved activities of cure in Belo Horizonte and the Oficial Institutions that give assistence to the population in the area of health. Six Tradicional Community Institutes, were chosen to identify the practices of health utilized and to study the population that serve the source of the Tradicional Community System according to the problems of health and the individual characteristics of age, sex, family income and instruction. During the study we identified that, the population that has more access to the Tradicional Community System and that situated in the fase of 40 years (forty years) and more, of the feminine sex, with a family income of (0) zero to (3) three minimum salaries, regardless of their educational level of instruction in the primary fase; we identified yet that, the problem of health that eked out a miserable existence to the population, which took them to the refered Institutes was \"The Attack of Nervos\", and the \"Pass\" was a Tradicional practice more indicated to solve for the population and the problem of health. In the camp of the Official Institutes chosen 100 of the 234 exist to identify the tradicional practicers in the official programs of health.

O presente trabalho realizou estudos sobre a imcorporação das práticas de saúde da Medicina Tradicional Comunitária pela Medicina Institucional. Foram levantadas as Instituições Tradicionais Comunitárias que desenvolvem atividades de cura em Belo Horizonte e as Instituições Oficiais que dão assistência à população na área da saúde. Seis Instituições Tradicionais Comunitárias, foram selecionadas para identificação das práticas de saúde utilizadas e para estudar a população que se serve das fontes do sistema tradicional comunitário segundo os problemas de saúde e as caracteristicas individuais de idade sexo, renda familiar e instrução. Durante o estudo identificamos que, a população que tem mais acesso ao sistema tradicional comunitário é aquela situada na faixa etária de 40 anos e mais, do sexo feminino, com renda familiar de O a 3 salários mínimos, exclusive, e grau de instrução no nível primário; identificamos ainda que, o problema de saÚde que mais levou a população às referidas instituições foi \"Ataque de Nervos\", e o \"Passe\" foi a prática tradicional mais indicada para a população solucionar o seu problema de saúde. No campo das Instituições Oficiais selecionamos 100 das 234 existentes para identificar a participação dos praticantes tradicionais nos programas oficiais de saúde. / The present work realizing studies about the incorporation of the practices of health of Community Tradicional Medicine by the Medical Institution. The Tradicional Institutions that were raised (elevated) that desenvolved activities of cure in Belo Horizonte and the Oficial Institutions that give assistence to the population in the area of health. Six Tradicional Community Institutes, were chosen to identify the practices of health utilized and to study the population that serve the source of the Tradicional Community System according to the problems of health and the individual characteristics of age, sex, family income and instruction. During the study we identified that, the population that has more access to the Tradicional Community System and that situated in the fase of 40 years (forty years) and more, of the feminine sex, with a family income of (0) zero to (3) three minimum salaries, regardless of their educational level of instruction in the primary fase; we identified yet that, the problem of health that eked out a miserable existence to the population, which took them to the refered Institutes was \"The Attack of Nervos\", and the \"Pass\" was a Tradicional practice more indicated to solve for the population and the problem of health. In the camp of the Official Institutes chosen 100 of the 234 exist to identify the tradicional practicers in the official programs of health.

A significant issue in gifted education is the possible need for mandatory pre-service programs or certifications for educators who work with students who are gifted and talented. It was the primary purpose of this dissertation study to examine the perceptions of three groups of participants (pre-service educators, in-service educators in regular classroom environments, and in-service educators in classrooms for gifted students) to discern if misconceptions exist among the groups about the best practices for identifying and educating students who are gifted. Qualitative methodology was used to collect data via focus group interviews, email interviews, and document analysis. Data were analyzed for emerging trends and common themes in participants' perceptions of best practices for identifying and educating students who are gifted. The results of this study yielded several recommendations, including: (1)the need for more cohesive philosophies of gifted education and in-service training programs at the district level, (2) better defined gifted certification and/or pre-service teacher education program elements for gifted education, and (3) assistance for school districts from gifted education professional organizations or universities with strong backgrounds in gifted education programming to provide quality gifted professional development. The results support further research regarding pre-service education components and best practices in the education of students who are gifted. / Dissertation Chair: Dr. Mary Renck Jalongo Dissertation Committee Members: Dr. Monte Tidwell, Dr. Kelli Paquette, and Dr. James Hooks