This study deals with the impact of the legislative bill that enabled the creation of a regulated cannabis market in Uruguay as a means to combat organized crime in the country. This study will also explore the hypothesis that this legislative bill changed the legal character of criminality as well as reformulating narcotic issues from being a criminal issue into a public health issue. Analyzing the very specific case of Uruguay’s current narcotic policies becomes a means to explore the ideas that constitute Law Nr 19.172 “Marijuana and its derivatives” which might be indicative of the attitudes in society regarding criminality. This ties into the new iteration of the dichotomy between law and democracy as a result of this legislative reform in Uruguay and the possible new role of legal theory in a democratic country which is discussed in this article.

Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka upplevelsen av den psykosociala arbetsmiljön beroende av anställningsform och kön. Datainsamlig genomfördes med ett nyutvecklat frågeformulär (EPA), som är baserat på de senaste föreskrifterna gällande organisatorisk och social arbetsmiljö. EPA bestod av sju moduler; arbetsbelastning, arbetsorganisation, handlingsutrymme, kunskap och utveckling, ledarskap, stöd samt återhämtning. I studien deltog 80 personer, 40 personer hade reglerad arbetstid som jämfördes med 38 personer som hade oreglerad arbetstid,  35 var män och 45 var kvinnor. Resultatet visade att de med oreglerad arbetstid upplevde den psykosociala arbetsmiljön något bättre men det var inte statistiskt signifikant. Männen upplevde den psykosociala arbetsmiljön bättre än kvinnorna men det fanns ingen statistisk signifikant skillnad.  För modul ledarskap fanns en statistiskt signifikant skillnad mellan könen, där männen upplevde ledarskapet bättre. Vidare förelåg inga skillnader i arbetsmiljön beroende på anställningsform eller kön. / The aim with the present study was to study the psychosocial work environment depending on employment and sex with a newly developed questionnaire (EPA), which was based on the latest regulations regarding organizational and social work environment. The questionnaire consisted of seven modules; workload, work organization, margin of action, leadership, support, knowledge and development and recuperation. In this study 80 persons participated, 40 of them had regulated working hours and 38 had unregulated working hours, 35 were men and 45 were women. The results of the study showed that persons with unregulated working hours experienced the work environment slightly better, but the result was not statistic significant. Men experienced the work environment better then women, but the result was not statistic significant. There was a statistic significant difference though, in module leadership, showing that men had a better experience of leadership. Further, the result showed that there was no diffrences in the workenvironment depending on employment and sex.

Nicotine is the primary addictive substance in tobacco, and most smokers who quit will relapse within a year. Evidence shows that cigarette craving increases over time, termed “incubation.” The purpose of these studies was to see if protracted abstinence from chronic nicotine increases rat self-administration, an animal model with good face validity for human tobacco use, and if nicotine self-administration during daily exposure/after 8+ days of abstinence is regulated by extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) shell or anterior cingulate cortex (PFC). ERK kinase inhibitor U0126 was infused in the NAc shell or PFC of Long Evans rats immediately prior to daily self-administration sessions and following 8+ days of abstinence. U0126 in the PFC decreased responding for nicotine during daily sessions. Following 8+ days of abstinence, animals showed a robust increase in responding for nicotine, blocked by U0126 in the NAc shell, but not the PFC. Western blots revealed that nicotine treatment decreased levels of a substrate of ERK, ribosomal s6 kinase (RSK), in the NAc shell and increased it in the PFC, which occurred independent of abstinence period. In contrast, levels of RSK were increased in the NAc shell following a nicotine challenge during the abstinence period. In summary, our data show that the ERK signaling pathway plays a vital role in nicotine addiction during daily nicotine exposure and following periods of abstinence.

Duties of so-called quoted joint-stock companies This diploma thesis draws attention to information duties of the so-called listed joint- stock companies. The goal of this thesis is to introduce the legal regulation of selected information duties of the so-called listed joint-stock companies and to analyse the development of the selected duties with regard to harmonization of capital markets regulation. The goal of this thesis is also to analyse whether the selected information duties help the capital market to function more efficiently. The thesis is divided into seven chapters, introduction and conclusion. The introduction defines which goals are to be achieved by this thesis and which methods are used by the author. The first chapter defines what a so-called quoted joint-stock company means under the Czech law. The second chapter introduces the importance of capital markets for the whole economy and briefly explains the specific evolution of the capital market in the Czech Republic since the 1990s until now, which was influenced by privatization and transformation. The third chapter follows the second chapter and introduces the evolution of legal environment of capital market protection. The third chapter also includes several important terms such as regulated market or quotation. The fourth...

Thesis (M. Com. (Accountancy))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, School of Accountancy, 2014. / This paper reports the findings of an action research intervention designed to explore the student experiences of a lecturer’s role-modelling specific cognitive self-regulated learning (SRL) skills on third year Financial Accounting students’ motivation and strategies for learning. The intervention involved a series of enrichment tutorials with a pilot group of Financial Accounting III students at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. A mixed methods research approach was used in the study. Qualitative data was collected in the form of verbal and written feedback from group participants and the lecturer’s research diary. Quantitative data was gathered by means of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), which was used to measure the students’ motivations and strategies for learning before and after the intervention. The intervention involved a lecturer role-modelling specific learning skills through the use of active learning activities. The skills role-modelled focussed on the following MSLQ learning strategies: rehearsal, organisation, elaboration, critical thinking, meta-cognitive self-regulation, and time and study environment management. Results suggest that role-modelling in an active learning environment does help students to implement SRL skills and experience the value of using the skills. Students reported making changes to their learning approaches to Financial Accounting III as a result of the intervention. Additionally the study identified the need for students to be taught the academic discourse of financial accounting within the course content.

Les classes inversées et renversée se sont depuis peu fait une place parmi les dispositifs pédagogiques. La classe inversée est un pari qui mise sur le fait que les étudiants joueront le jeu, et qu’ils parviendront à « construire leurs apprentissages » notamment pendant le temps à distance, où ils travaillent « en autonomie ». Or l’autonomie présentée comme un objectif à atteindre, serait plutôt un prérequis. Cependant, elle est aussi un des besoins fondamentaux, au coeur de la motivation humaine. Toute la question est donc de savoir quelle part d’autonomie il faudrait laisser aux apprenants en classes inversées, pour susciter la motivation sans nuire à l’apprentissage. En classe renversée, il s’agit de savoir comment faire pour que les étudiants parviennent à gérer la charge cognitive occasionnée par ce dispositif très engageant. Après avoir exposé les théories et modèles de la motivation et de l’apprentissage autorégulé, nous nous intéresserons à l’apprentissage en tant qu’activité cognitive et métacognitive, en particulier dans le champ de la recherche informationnelle. La thèse montre que l’autoévaluation est susceptible d’enclencher la dimension cognitive, motivationnelle et autorégulatoire de l’apprentissage en classes inversées et renversée. / Flipped and reversed classrooms recently came up among instructional designs. In flipped classrooms, students are expected to be fully engaged, even during remote time when they work on their own in an autonomous fashion. But autonomy rather seems to be a prerequisite although presented as a goal. However, autonomy is also one of the human basic needs according to current motivation’s models. Therefore, the question is to determine what proportion of autonomy should beleft to students in flipped classrooms to stimulate motivation without negative effect on learning. In the reversed classroom, which is cognitively a very engaging design, the main concern is to determine how it is possible to help students managing both motivation and the cognitive load. We first present theories and models of motivation and self-regulated learning, then we address the learning process as a cognitive and metacognitive activity. Our research takes place in the field of information seeking. There, we will show that self-assessment is likely to trigger the cognitive, motivational and self-regulatory dimensions of learning, in flipped and reversed classrooms.

O tema da autorregulação tem sido discutido em diversos contextos e por diferentes abordagens teóricas, visto que a capacidade de autorregulação é um dos principais recursos do organismo humano, pois permite a gerência dos próprios comportamentos, pensamentos e sentimentos, visando à consecução de metas pessoais. No campo educacional, os alunos autorregulados assumem a responsabilidade pessoal por regular e dirigir a sua aprendizagem em termos metacognitivos, motivacionais e comportamentais. Isso tem influência no desempenho e na qualidade da aprendizagem. Diante da importância da autorregulação da aprendizagem e do número de instrumentos que objetivam mensurar esse processo, foi realizado o presente estudo. Na primeira etapa buscou-se identificar e descrever as escalas de avaliação da autorregulação da aprendizagem, nacionais e internacionais, com tradução e validação para estudantes universitários brasileiros. Posteriormente, na segunda etapa objetivou-se analisar as evidências de fidedignidade do Learning and Study Strategies Inventory LASSI (Weinstein, Schulte & Palmer, 1987) e da Escala de Competência de Estudo ECE (S&H) (Almeida & Joly, 2009), bem como examinar as evidências de validade convergente de correlações entre os dois instrumentos. Além disso, por meio dos dados coletados, propôs-se caracterizar a autorregulação da aprendizagem em uma amostra de estudantes do Ensino Superior. Para identificar os instrumentos de mensuração da autorregulação da aprendizagem em universitários, foi realizada uma busca na literatura científica de pesquisas que tenham investigado a aprendizagem autorregulada e as variáveis relacionadas. Nesse processo, foram descritos seis escalas de avaliação do tipo Likert. Desses instrumentos, três são mais antigos, construídos nos anos inciais de investigação sobre o tema e os outros três são mais recentes, elaborados na primeira década do século XXI. Sobre a segunda etapa do estudo, a amostra foi composta por 257 alunos do curso de Psicologia de instituições de ensino, públicas e particulares, do estado do Maranhão. As análises psicométricas do LASSI e da ECE (S&H) totais indicaram fidedignidade apropriados para o uso no contexto brasileiro. Por outro lado, não foram assegurados bons índices de fidedignidade para dois fatores da ECE (S&H), portanto, sugere-se que estudos futuros identifiquem sua estrutura, por meio de análises fatoriais exploratórias e confirmatórias. Ambos os instrumentos apresentaram bom nível de validade convergente de correlações. Os participantes da pesquisa relataram o uso de estratégias de estudo e de aprendizagem e foram encontradas correlações significantes, positivas e negativas, entre a autorregulação da aprendizagem e as variáveis faixa etária, sexo e instituição de ensino. Os achados do presente estudo foram discutidos à luz da literatura da área. Ademais, foram apresentadas as limitações e as propostas de futuras pesquisas. Espera-se que este trabalho possa contribuir para a melhor compreensão da autorregulação da aprendizagem, desperte o interesse de pesquisadores a prosseguirem com as investigações, e que direcione futuras pesquisas na área / Self-regulation has been discussed in several contexts and by different theoretical approaches, once the capacity to self-regulate is one of the main resources of the human being because it allows the management of ones own behaviors, thoughts and feelings aiming at the achievement of personal goals. In the educational field, self-regulated students assume the personal responsibility to regulate and guide their own learning in the metacognitive, motivational and behavioral aspects. This influences performance and quality in learning. Due to the importance of self-regulated learning and the number of instruments aimed at measuring this process, this study was conducted. The first phase was the search to identify and describe the main Brazilian and validated international assessment self-regulated learning scales for university students. To do so, a search was conducted in the scientific literature about self-regulated learning and related variables. In this process, six Likert type scales were described. Of these instruments, three are older, built in the initial years of research on the subject and the other three are more recent, elaborated in the first decade of the 21st century. Then, in the second phase the objective was to analyze the evidences of reliability of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory - LASSI (Weinstein, Schulte & Palmer, 1987) and Study Competence Scale - ECE (S&H) (Almeida & Joly, 2009), as well as to examine the convergent evidences of validity of correlations between both instruments. Moreover, through the data collected, it was proposed to characterize self-regulated learning in a sample of 257 Psychology students from private and public higher education institutions of Maranhão State. The psychometric total analysis of LASSI and ECE (S&H) showed proper reliability for use in the Brazilian context. However, two factors of ECE (S&H) did not have good index of reliability, therefore, it is suggested that future studies identify its structure, through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyzes. Both instruments presented good level of convergent validity of correlations. The participants of this research reported good study and learning strategies and positive and negative significant correlations were found between self-regulated learning and variables age, sex, and educational institution. The findings in the present study were discussed according with the literature in the field. Furthermore, some limitations and suggestions for future research were presented. It is expected that this work may contribute for a better comprehension of self-regulated learning, to raise the interest of researchers to move on with investigations and to provide future research in the field

För att nå en hög nivå av expertis inom sporten ishockey så krävs det att spelare har mycket goda och specifika motoriska, fysiologiska och psykologiska färdigheter. Tidigare forskning på unga elitsatsande fotbollsspelare har visat att de som nått en hög nivå, har en högre grad av självreglerat lärande. Syftet med studien var att undersöka självreglerat lärande, samt utforma och utvärdera en metod för att öka graden av självreglerat lärande, hos unga elitsatsande ishockeyspelare. Studien var av kvasi-experimentell design där ett lag fungerade som interventionsgrupp (Sub-elit, n = 15) och ett annat lag fungerande som kontrollgrupp (Elit, n = 18). Interventionen bestod av att spelarna i interventionsgruppen fick utvärdera sin egen prestation och utveckling en gång i veckan under fem veckor. Spelarna i båda grupperna fyllde i självskattningsskalan SRL-TT före och efter interventionen. Sex spelare intervjuades om deras upplevelser av självreglerat lärande och interventionen. Resultaten visar på att det fanns en skillnad vad gäller graden av självreglerat lärande mellan spelarna på högsta nivå (elit) och spelarna på en nivå under (sub-elit), men att interventionen inte hade någon statistiskt signifikant effekt på spelarnas förmåga att ägna sig åt självreglerat lärande. De intervjuade spelarna anser dock att interventionen har fått dem att tänka mer på sin utveckling och hur de presterat. Spelarna anser också att en dialog med tränarna leder till att de själva tänker mer på vad de behöver utveckla i sitt spel. / To achieve a high level of expertise in the sport of ice hockey, players need very good and specific motor, physiological and psychological skills. Previous research on young elite football players has shown that those who have reached a high skill level have a higher degree of self-regulated learning. The purpose of the study was to investigate self-regulated learning, and to design and evaluate a method for increasing the degree of self-regulated learning, in young elite ice hockey players. The study was of quasi-experimental design where one team was intervention group (Sub-elite, n = 15) and another team functioning as a control group (Elite, n = 18). The intervention consisted of the players in the intervention group evaluated their own performance and development once a week for five weeks. Players in both groups completed the self-assessment scale SRL TT before and after the intervention. Six players were interviewed about their experiences of self-regulated learning and the intervention. Results indicate that there was a difference in self-regulated learning between elite- and sub-elite players, and that the present intervention did not have a statistically significant effect on the players’ degree of self-regulated learning. The interviewed players, however, believe that the intervention has made them think more about their development and how they performed. The players also believe that dialogue with the coaches leads them to think more about what they need to develop in their game.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:33:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sylvia Bernadete Alves Salgado Oliveira.pdf: 2082501 bytes, checksum: 7ae6fb8ced2f0567f80870bce9c801c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-05 / One of the great concerns of the professionals in the educational field is education underachievement. Despite the educational policies efforts and the investments that have been made over the last years, the country is still lower than expected in face of the school learning effects. Studies in the area point to a vast number of interpretation difficulties within children who do not understand what they read, do not read what they write down and do not think before writing. Furthermore they show a poor performance at developing a logical mathematical reasoning, and, as a result, finding difficulties in learning at various school subjects. In spite of the governmental efforts, the students continue to display underachievement at high levels. What can educators, parents and society do, generally, to minimize this situation? Undertaken research with this emphasis indicates the importance of promoting self-regulatory skills at schools in order to increase the students academic performance levels. One of the directions pointed by international researchers indicates the urgency in adopting programs which promote the self-regulated learning in a more significant way. Beyond the pointed out elements, one considers it important to understand the factors that may contribute to educational success, responding to the issues regarding how the students build their processes of self-regulation, how to promote a fairer assessment by teachers and a self-regulation more effective by students. The present study has as a generic goal, to evaluate the implementation of a project for basic education of students that promotes the construction of self-regulatory strategies and the relation to the process of self-regulation and academic performance. The key objectives of this study are: i) To assess the project s contribution for the improving of the processes of self-regulation and studying; ii) to verify on whether there is a relation between the processes of self-regulation obtained by the students, as the project went on, and the academic performance on the subjects of Portuguese Language and Mathematics at different assessments. The survey consisted of 256 students in their 5th year of basic education. It utilized four instruments for the collecting and analyses of the documents, such as: An inventory of the self-regulatory learning processes (IPAA), the results of the external evaluation of the Department of Education (AMDA) and an interview with a pedagogical advisor, in addition the accompaniment and field observation by the researcher who attended at the pedagogical meetings through the process. Among the authors which excelled in this research we point out: Hadj, Zimmerman, Zabala, Luckesi, Freitas, Ros?rio among others. The data indicated that the intervention with self-regulatory processes takes on a fundamental role as a didactic and auxiliary procedure in the gaining of autonomy in the participant students. The monitoring of the project indicated that the teaching of self-regulatory strategies to students throughout 2013 by means of the project The Antics of the Yellow enabled and favored a greater organization and time at the studies, autonomy, attention and concentration on the assignments, power to solving obstacles, among other aspects featured by the attendants. The results of IPPA indicated a significant statistical change when comparing the beginning of the process to its ending. The results indicate that the developing of projects focusing on self-regulation might help the process of learning. At last, we indicate the need of further research focusing on basic education. / Uma das grandes preocupa??es dos profissionais da ?rea da educa??o ? o insucesso escolar. Apesar do empenho das pol?ticas educacionais e dos investimentos feitos nos ?ltimos anos, o pa?s ainda se encontra abaixo do esperado frente aos efeitos das aprendizagens escolares. Estudos na ?rea apontam para a grande dificuldade de interpreta??o das crian?as que n?o entendem o que leem, n?o leem o que escrevem e n?o pensam antes de escrever, al?m de apresentarem baixo desempenho no desenvolvimento do racioc?nio l?gico matem?tico e por consequ?ncia encontram dificuldades de aprendizagem em diversos conte?dos escolares. Apesar dos esfor?os governamentais, os alunos continuam a apresentar n?veis elevados de insucesso escolar. O que educadores, pais e sociedade de maneira geral podem fazer para minimizar essa situa??o? Pesquisas realizadas nesse enfoque apontam a import?ncia na promo??o de compet?ncias autorregulat?rias em escolas, com a finalidade de aumentar os n?veis de desempenho escolar dos alunos. Um dos caminhos apontados em pesquisas internacionais indica a urg?ncia na ado??o de programas que promovam a autorregula??o da aprendizagem de forma mais significativa. Al?m dos elementos apontados, considera-se importante a compreens?o de fatores que possam contribuir para o sucesso escolar, respondendo quest?es relacionadas ? como os alunos constroem seus processos de autorregula??o, como promover uma avalia??o mais justa por parte dos professores e uma autorregula??o mais eficaz por parte dos alunos. A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo geral avaliar a implementa??o de um projeto para alunos do Ensino Fundamental que promove a constru??o de estrat?gias autorregulat?rias e a rela??o com o processo de autorregula??o e desempenho escolar, tendo como objetivos espec?ficos: i) avaliar as contribui??es do projeto para a melhoria dos processos de autorregula??o e de estudo; ii) verificar se h? a rela??o entre os processos de autorregula??o adquiridos pelos alunos no transcorrer do projeto e o rendimento escolar nas disciplinas de L?ngua Portuguesa e Matem?tica em diferentes avalia??es. Participaram da pesquisa 256 alunos do 5? ano do Ensino Fundamental e uma orientadora pedag?gica. Foram utilizados quatro instrumentos para a coleta e tamb?m an?lise de documentos como o: Invent?rio de Processos de Autorregula??o da Aprendizagem (IPAA); resultados da avalia??o externa da Secretaria de Educa??o (Amda) e entrevista com uma orientadora pedag?gica, al?m do acompanhamento e a observa??o de campo pela pesquisadora que participou dos encontros pedag?gicos durante o projeto. Dentre os autores que balizaram a pesquisa destacamos Hadj, Zimmerman, Zabala, Luckesi, Freitas, Ros?rio entre outros. Os dados indicaram que a interven??o com os processos autorregulat?rios assume papel fundamental como procedimento did?tico auxiliador no ganho de autonomia estudantil dos alunos participantes. o acompanhamento do projeto o ensino de estrat?gias autorregulat?rias aos alunos durante o ano de 2013 por meio dos do projeto As Travessuras do Amarelo possibilitou e favoreceu maior organiza??o e tempo nos estudos, autonomia, aten??o e concentra??o nas tarefas, poder de resolu??o de obst?culos, entre outros aspectos destacados pelos participantes. Os resultados do instrumento IPAA indicaram uma mudan?a estatisticamente significativa quando comparados o in?cio do projeto com o final. Os resultados indicam que o desenvolvimento de projetos com foco na autorregula??o pode auxiliar o processo de aprendizagem. Por fim, recomendamos a necessidade de novos estudos com foco no Ensino Fundamental.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:33:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDREA OLIVEIRA SILVA.pdf: 1240094 bytes, checksum: df96bb342a414f2efd227259dc678d0f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-24 / The issues of (non) learning have been one of the most frequent complaints in the educational reality today. Teachers and parents are challenged to deal with children who seem not to learn, who don t show interest in school issues, who are unable to understand what is required of them and finally, who cannot study with the long awaited (and proclaimed in educational discourses) autonomy. International research has demonstrated that children can learn in various different ways and that teachers can support them in this process through intentional promotion of self regulation learning strategies. By means of a project which aims at working with teachers, enabling them to develop such strategies with elementary students, the present work has as its main objective: to identify if teacher participation in this project enables them to change their conceptions and practices. And as specific objectives: (i) to identify teachers conceptions regarding learning and self regulation learning processes before the beginning of the project; (ii) to identify what they think about the contributions of teacher s continuing education; (iii) to analyze the project As Travessuras do Amarelo and teachers participation in it, highlighting their doubts, difficulties, changes and dilemmas. In our theoretical framework, we discussed the questions of learning, self regulated learning and learning to learn, and we also brought the issue of teacher education with special attention to teacher s continuing education and its formative models. In a scenario where changes occur very quickly, in which, historically accumulated knowledge is available on the World Wide Web, teachers no longer monopolize knowledge and must also be constantly learning. Self-regulation emerges, then, as an important component for both initial and continued teacher training, for their practices in the classroom. Taking qualitative research as the methodological reference, we collected data through interviews, observations, questionnaires and the analysis of narratives of elementary teachers of 9 public schools in a city in the interior of the state of S?o Paulo. The analysis of the data produced indicates that, before the start of the project, the conceptions of the teachers in relation to self-regulation were related to the question of pace and control and although inaccurate, contained elements that explain the concept. Throughout the project, some teachers were appropriating the concept of self-regulation, but some practices still proved very linked to the issue of external control, which may give indications that the practice is more influenced by the beliefs and personal epistemology of the teacher, than by his/her knowledge, as research indicates. The group of teachers values the continuing education; however, there is great discontent in relation to courses that have been offered in large quantities, causing an overload in the teachers work. Nevertheless, continuing education can be configured as a space for reflection and change. / As quest?es da (n?o) aprendizagem t?m sido uma das queixas mais frequentes na realidade educacional atualmente. Pais e professores s?o desafiados a lidar com crian?as que parecem n?o aprender, n?o demonstram interesse nos assuntos escolares, n?o compreendem aquilo que lhes ? solicitado e n?o conseguem estudar com a t?o sonhada (e proclamada nos discursos educacionais) autonomia. Pesquisas internacionais t?m mostrado que as crian?as aprendem de formas diferentes e que o professor pode apoi?-las nesse processo por meio da promo??o intencional de estrat?gias de autorregula??o da aprendizagem. A partir do desenvolvimento do Projeto As Travessuras do Amarelo , no ?mbito da forma??o continuada, que tem como prop?sito trabalhar com crian?as de Ensino Fundamental estrat?gias de autorregula??o da aprendizagem, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo geral identificar se a participa??o dos docentes nesse projeto possibilita mudan?as em suas concep??es e em seus procedimentos did?ticos. E por objetivos espec?ficos: i. Identificar as concep??es que os docentes participantes do projeto t?m sobre aprendizagem e os processos de autorregula??o da aprendizagem antes da aplica??o do projeto; ii. conhecer as concep??es que os docentes participantes do projeto t?m sobre a contribui??o da forma??o continuada; iii.analisar o projeto As Travessuras do Amarelo e a participa??o dos professores ao longo de sua aplica??o, procurando verificar as dificuldades, d?vidas, avan?os, mudan?as nos procedimentos did?ticos e dilemas vivenciados por eles. Em nosso quadro te?rico discutimos a quest?o da autorregula??o da aprendizagem; aprendizagem e o aprender a aprender e fizemos discuss?es sobre a forma??o de professores, com foco especial na forma??o continuada, seus modelos formativos e sobre seu papel. Num quadro em que mudan?as ocorrem de forma acelerada, em que o conhecimento historicamente acumulado est? dispon?vel na rede mundial de computadores, os professores j? n?o monopolizam o conhecimento e precisam tamb?m estar constantemente aprendendo. A autorregula??o emerge, ent?o, como um importante componente, tanto para a forma??o de professores, inicial e continuada, quanto para suas pr?ticas em sala de aula. Tomando o referencial qualitativo de pesquisa como caminho metodol?gico, fizemos observa??es, aplica??o de question?rios, entrevistas e an?lise de narrativas de forma??o e de vida de 22 professoras do 4? ano de 9 escolas de um munic?pio no interior de S?o Paulo. A an?lise dos dados produzidos indica que, antes do inicio do projeto, as concep??es das professoras em rela??o ? autorregula??o estavam relacionadas com o ritmo e o controle e, embora imprecisas, continham elementos que explicam o conceito. Ao longo do projeto, algumas professoras foram se apropriando do conceito de autorregula??o, mas algumas pr?ticas ainda se revelaram muito ligadas ao controle externo, o que pode dar ind?cios de que a pr?tica ? mais influenciada pelas cren?as e pela epistemologia pessoal do professor, do que pelo seu conhecimento, conforme apontam pesquisas. O grupo de professoras valoriza a forma??o continuada, entretanto h? um grande descontentamento com rela??o aos cursos que t?m sido oferecidos em grande quantidade, gerando uma sobrecarga no trabalho das docentes. Ainda assim, a forma??o continuada pode se configurar como espa?o de reflex?o e mudan?a.