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O presente estudo tem por escopo tratar da questão do pensamento (e sua ausência) e da obediência, sob a perspectiva ética em Hannah Arendt, buscando entrelaçar tais conceitos. Assim, ao debruçar-se sob a análise feita por Arendt, especialmente após o julgamento de Eichmann em Jerusalém, destaca-se a importância do pensamento no campo da ética. Identifica-se, nesse sentido, uma responsabilidade do homem de agir e não meramente comportar-se como uma peça de engrenagem, obedecendo cegamente às regras postas, sendo apenas mais um corpo da sociedade de massa. Tais observações são extremamente relevantes no contexto atual, especificamente no que diz respeito ao serviço público no Brasil, que impõe um comportamento padronizado de seus servidores, limitando a atividade espiritual de pensar do homem. / The present study aims to address the question of think (and its absence) and obedience, from the ethical perspective of Hannah Arendt, seeking to interweave such concepts. Thus, under Arendt's analysis, especially after Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, the importance of thinking in the field of ethics is emphasized. In this sense, man's responsibility to act is identified and not merely to behave as a piece of gear, obeying blindly to the rules, being just another body of mass society. Such observations are extremely relevant in the current context, specifically with regard to the public service in Brazil, which imposes a standardized behavior of its servants, limiting the spiritual activity of man's thinking.

The study adopts a case study examination of three student reflective joumals written about class and field based applied Drama experiences over one year. The journals were written as part of a curriculum outcome to develop reflective practice, for one Drama Honours paper (Educational Drama and Theatre) at Rhodes University Drama Department, South Africa. Based on a narrative inquiry approach, the study documents the changes in identity, discourse, and representation of self and other, which emerge through the journal writing process. The research analyses how identities are constructed through reflective writing practices, and how these identities might relate to the arguments for the development of reflexivity. The development of reflexivity is seen as integral to contemporary educational policies associated with lifelong learning, and the skills required of graduates in South Africa's emerging democracy. These policies centre on means of preparing students for a world characterised by change and instability, or what Barnett (2000) has termed a "supercomplex world". The research findings suggest that journal writing within a Drama Studies curriculum, allows students to construct subjectivities which support Barnett's claim that "the main pedagogical task in a university is not that of the transmission of knowledge but of promoting forms of human being appropriate to the conditions of supercomplexity" (Barnett, 2000b: 164). In addition, the development of different writing genres within a Drama Studies curriculum allows students to develop disciplinarily relevant ways of discussing and researching artistic processes and products. A reflective journal is a potential site for students to interrogate and construct emerging identities which enable them to negotiate diversity, thus preparing them for their lives beyond the university.

This dissertation proposes principles for the design of ubiquitous health monitoring applications that support reflection and learning in context of diabetes management. Due to the high individual differences between diabetes cases, each affected individual must find the optimal combination of lifestyle alterations and medication through reflective analysis of personal diseases history. This dissertation advocates using technology to enable individuals' proactive engagement in monitoring of their health. In particular, it proposes promoting individuals' engagement in reflection by exploiting breakdowns in individuals' routines or understanding; supporting continuity in thinking that leads to a systematic refinement of ideas; and supporting articulation of thoughts and understanding that helps to transform insights into knowledge. The empirical evidence for these principles was gathered thought the deployment studies of three ubiquitous computing applications that help individuals with diabetes in management of their diseases. These deployment studies demonstrated that technology for reflection helps individuals achieve their personal disease management goals, such as diet goals. In addition, they showed that using technology helps individuals embrace a proactive attitude towards their health indicated by their adoption of the internal locus of control.

Orientador: Márcio Orlando Seligmann-Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T22:13:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Quevedo_WagnerdeAvila_M.pdf: 1168130 bytes, checksum: 0f85c9a43a3e735b3d40ad779c017b1e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O presente estudo pretende apresentar a formação do conceito de crítica filosófica na obra do jovem Walter Benjamin a partir da teoria da reflexão dos primeiros românticos alemães (F. Schlegel e Novalis). Se para os românticos a teoria da reflexão é, na leitura de Benjamin, fundamento e pressuposto essencial da crítica de arte, o conceito de crítica benjaminiano se distingue do romântico por meio da problematização da clássica divisão entre forma e conteúdo na arte, para cuja discussão Benjamin traz à baila a estética tardia de Goethe. Contudo, a crítica de Benjamin se aproxima da romântica na medida em que aquela teoria da reflexão realiza, como crítica, uma profunda superação dos problemas clássicos da filosofia alemã, teoria que Benjamin interpreta como medium-de/da-reflexão capaz de elevar a crítica ao mesmo potencial revolucionário vislumbrado pelo romantismo enquanto ruptura estética e filosófica no século XVIII / Abstract: The following study aims to focus on the concept of criticism in Walter Benjamin's early writings by bringing up the articulation of Friedrich Schlegel's and Novalis' philosophical theory of reflection as ground for romantic art criticism. In this sense, the present study intends to show how Benjamin's own criticism distinguishes itself from that of the romantic, for what he discusses the classical aesthetic problem "formmatter" on art and does it by attempting to grasp the relationship between romantic and Goethe's late aesthetic. Nevertheless, Benjamin's effort tries to understand how romantic theory of reflection fulfills a deep critique and overcoming of the german classical philosophical problems. This theory, teaches us Benjamin, is to be seen as a latin construct named "Reflexions-medium" or medium of reflection/reflection's medium, with which Walter Benjamin himself undertakes the same kind of strong criticism opened with Schlegel and Novalis in the late 18th century / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

An information ecology, in the words of MIT Press, is “a system of people, technologies and values in a local environment” (2000:[online]). This inquiry uses the elements of the information ecology – the interdependent system, its wealth of diversity, the co-evolutionary nature of the relationships within the environment, the leadership of keystone species, and the relationships and technology within its locality – to provide a framework within which to reflect on my learning as a postgraduate student at the Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg). Situated in a postmodern philosophical perspective and informed by constructivism, deconstructionism and critical theory, the phenomenological inquiry uses John Dewey’s model of reflective thought (1933) to examine the reasons for the disparity in the transfer of their new expertise by students who have participated in postgraduate programmes at the University, and to determine the principle factor that led to my incorporating such new skills into my own teaching practice. Evidence of this transfer of skills is presented in the description of an action research intervention that I designed and implemented in teaching basic computer skills to a group of ACE students in 2004. / Mr. G.V. Lautenbach