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This research continued a line of inquiry previously established at Project P.L.A.Y. School, a play-based, Reggio-Emilia-inspired preschool in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, the purpose of which was to explore what can happen when young children and adults co-construct music in a social, relationship- and play-based environment. Three questions initially guided this study: 1) How does musical content emerge? 2) How is music play developed in this setting? 3) How do children and their teachers story their music experiences? Using narrative and heuristic approaches to inquiry, I, along with my co-researchers, highlighted ways to make children's musical learning audible and visible. Having been a member of this community in the dual role of musical play partner and researcher since fall of 2012, I framed this dissertation study to encompass the weeks of September 16 through December 18, 2014. During that time frame, I increased my visits from once to twice weekly, with fourteen children aged 2.5 through 5 years old, five of whom I knew from the previous year, and five other adults. As both a play partner and researcher, I continued my role as music facilitator who views young children as competent and capable co-music researchers. Amidst other stories, I increased focus as I continued a pedagogy of close listening to children as music co-researchers. Living alongside each other at Project P.L.A.Y. School, children and adults generated and collected shared musical stories. Data sources for this study included audio and video recordings, photographs, artifacts such as artwork and musical notation, and my research notes and journal. I continued using narrative and heuristic approaches to inquiry, and restoried narrative vignettes highlighting children and adults as music co-researchers. From the resulting grand narrative, I found that shifting lenses and all adults mindfully viewing these young children as competent music researchers facilitated and supported children's creative, multimodal expressions of their research interests. Viewing children's and adults' interactions through the lens of co-music researchers lead to abundant, creative musical expression from children and adults alike. Musical content emerged when adults and children interacted as music co-researchers and protagonists in their shared stories. This inquiry generated the following additional questions: 1) How can adults best facilitate young children's musical research interests? 2) How can adults and young children make their collaborative research audible and visible? Implications from this study include encouraging all adults to adopt a pedagogy of listening, to notice and value children's creative musical expressions, and to value children's musical lines of inquiry as researchers. / Music Education / Accompanied by two .m4v files.

Modern theories of economic growth emphasize the role of research and development (R&D) activities in determining a society's standard of living. In some advanced economies, however, higher education costs and the level of indebtedness among graduates have increased dramatically during recent years. Student loans are evident throughout the Western world, particularly in the United States, and within the bio-medical sciences. In this paper the authors develop a basic model of economic growth in order to investi-gate the effects of biomedical graduates indebtedness on the allocation of human re-source in the R&D activities, and thus on the process of economic growth. Using this modified model to understand the consequences of the rising cost in biomedical educa-tion, we derive a 'science-growth curve' (a relation between the share of pure researcher and the economy rate of growth), and we find two possible effects of biomedical stu-dent indebtedness on economic growth: specifically, a composition effect and a productivity effect. First, we outline the Romer's classical growth model, and we apply it to a 'biomedical' knowledge-based economy, and second, the model is developed by factoring the difference between pure and applied biomedical research. The 'biomedical science sector' is one of the key pillars of modern knowledge-based economy. The costs of higher education in biomedical sciences and the graduates level of indebtedness represent, not only a great problem of equality of opportunity, but also a serious threat to future prosperity of the advanced economies.

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Yes / Health and social care services are under strain providing care in the community particularly at hospital discharge. Patient and carer experiences can inform and shape services. Objective To develop service user-led recommendations enabling smooth transition for people living with memory loss from acute hospital to community. Design Lead and co-researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 pairs of carers and patients with memory loss at discharge, 6 and 12 weeks post-discharge and one semi-structured interview with health and social care professionals and Admiral Nurses. Framework analysis was guided by co-researchers. Two focus groups of study participants, facilitated by co-researchers, met to shape and finalize recommendations. Setting and participants Recruitment took place in acute hospitals in two National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in England. Patients were aged 65 and over, with memory loss, an in-patient for at least 1 week returning to the community, who had a carer consenting to be in the study. Results Poor delivery of services caused considerable stress to some study families living with memory loss. Three key recommendations included a need for a written, mutually agreed discharge plan, a named coordinator of services, and improved domiciliary care services. Discussion and conclusions Vulnerable patients with memory loss find coming out of hospital after an extended period a stressful experience. The SHARED study contributes to understanding the hospital discharge process through the eyes of the patient and carer living with memory loss and has the potential to contribute to more efficient use of resources and to improving health outcomes in communities. / National Institute for Health Research. Grant Number: PB-PG-1112-29064

No / According to Lowe and Phillipson (2006) the traditional binary division into `basic¿ and `applied¿ research, have recently been extended to a new category called `strategic¿ research, signifying research which is both inter-disciplinary and interacts with research users. Sharp and Dixon (2007) have argued that there are different level of strategic research, signifying different levels of interaction, resource sharing, and joint development of outputs. Drawing on this understanding, this paper considers two user-oriented `Integrated Urban Drainage¿ pilot projects conducted during 2006-7, in order to consider what insights these `not-quite¿ research projects can yield about the nature of strategic research. The paper finds that the pilots were similar to other inter-disciplinary research projects ¿ except that they were commissioned and partly managed by practitioners. Common dilemmas, for example about the inter-linkages between work packages and about the extent of stakeholder interaction, highlight the increasingly fluid boundaries between the categories of `policy evaluation¿, `policy pilot¿ and `research project¿. The paper concludes that the concepts of `researcher¿ and `research user¿ might be replaced with a more flexible idea about `research stakeholders¿ whose varied interests in projects require a flexible communication strategy to fulfil a range of needs.

Notre étude porte sur la manière dont les chercheurs universitaires junior et senior en sciences sociales au Québec établissent leurs réseaux de cosignataires et donnent une interprétation discursive à leurs activités de collaboration face à l'impact du changement institutionnel universitaire pendant la période 1990-2009. Plus spécifiquement, notre recherche s'intéresse à montrer que la création des réseaux et la collaboration scientifique par cosignature peuvent être identifiées comme des « ajustements professionnels » et se présenter aussi comme une ressource du capital social qui peut être mobilisé et qui peut produire des avantages aux chercheurs en accord avec leur statut junior ou senior. Il s’agit donc d’une recherche qui relève de la sociologie des sciences. Notre approche a été opérationnalisée à partir de l'étude de 15 membres d'un centre de recherche universitaire au Québec, et leur réseau de 447 cosignataires (y compris les chercheurs de l'étude), et à travers l'application de 7 entretiens auprès de chercheurs junior et senior du même centre. Dans le même plan opérationnel, depuis une perspective qualitative, la thèse permet d'identifier le sens discursif que les chercheurs fournissent à la collaboration et à la participation en réseaux de cosignatures. Ensuite, depuis l'analyse structurelle des réseaux, notre étude montre les connexions individuelles et leurs formes d'interprétation — spécialement la théorie des graphes et ses mesures de centralité (la centralité de degré, la centralité d’intermédiarité et la centralité de vecteur propre) — de même que l'homophilie par statut entre chercheurs. Enfin, depuis l'analyse statistique, elle montre la corrélation des périodes de l'étude et des attributs socioprofessionnels des chercheurs étudiés (sexe, statut universitaire, affiliation institutionnelle, discipline d’appartenance, pays, région du Canada et ville de travail). Notamment, les résultats de notre thèse montrent que chaque catégorie de chercheurs possède ses propres particularités structurelles et discursives en ce qui a trait à ses pratiques de collaboration en réseau, et vont confirmer que les chercheurs senior, plus que les chercheurs junior, grâce à leur capital social mobilisé, ont conservé et obtenu plus d'avantages de leur réseau de cosignataires afin de s'adapter au changement institutionnel et mieux gérer leur travail de collaboration destiné à l’espace international, mais surtout à l'espace local. / Our study focuses on how the junior and senior social sciences researchers in Quebec establish their networks of co-authorships and form their discursive interpretation of their collaborative activities face to the impact of the university institutional change during the period 1990-2009. Notably, our research shows that the creation of networks and scientific collaboration by co-authorship can be identified as "professional adjustments". These "professional adjustments" represent a resource of social capital that can be mobilized and that may produce benefits for the researchers. Therefore our research is related to the sociology of sciences. This approach was operationalized by the study of 15 members of a University research center in the province of Quebec, and their network of 447 co-authors (including the researchers of the study), and through the application of 7 interviews with junior and senior researchers from the center. From a qualitative perspective, our study identifies the discursive meaning provided by the researchers about their collaboration and participation in co-authorship networks. On the other hand, the structural analysis of networks shows the individual connections and forms of interpretation - especially the graph theory and its measures of centrality (the degree centrality, the betweenness centrality and the eigenvector centrality) - as well as the homophilic degree among researchers. Finally, our statistical analysis shows the correlation of study periods and socio-professional characteristics of the researchers studied (gender, academic status, institutional affiliation, discipline, countries, regions of Canada and city where the researchers work). In particular, our results show that each research category has its own structural and discursive features regarding its networks and its collaboration practices. These findings confirm that the senior researchers retained and obtained more benefits from their co-authorship network than their junior peers, through the mobilization of their social capital, which allow them as well, to better adapt themselves to the institutional change and to manage more effectively their collaborative work at the international, but especially at the local arenas.

O objetivo geral da presente pesquisa foi analisar a organização dos valores relativos ao trabalho de pesquisadores em uma instituição de P&D brasileira, definindo-se a hierarquia desses valores para tais profissionais. Estudos têm evidenciado lacunas em dados empíricos sobre a gestão de pesquisadores em organizações inovadoras, sendo este recurso humano envolvido estritamente com uma crucial estratégia competitiva: a inovação. Através da compreensão dos valores pessoais laborais dos pesquisadores em organizações de P&D, torna-se possível avaliar o que esses profissionais consideram importante em seu ambiente de trabalho, subsidiando conhecimento aos gestores de trabalhadores do conhecimento. Tais achados permitem a discussão de ferramentas de gestão mais adequadas, possibilitando melhorias organizacionais. Assim, após análise de validade de instrumento com o objetivo de medir, levantar e analisar valores relativos ao trabalho (Escala revisada de Valores Relativos ao Trabalho EVT-R) para a amostra estudada, 208 pesquisadores de uma organização de P&D participaram da fase quantitativa deste estudo. A fim de produzir evidências mais consistentes, também foram entrevistados seis pesquisadores de uma das unidades da organização estudada. Por meio de análises estatísticas, os resultados encontrados possibilitaram a compreensão dos valores do trabalho dos pesquisadores, bem como suas prioridades axiológicas laborais, sendo essas definidas pela seguinte sequência: Relações Sociais, Realização Profissional, Estabilidade e Prestígio. Através de análise de conteúdo das entrevistas semiestruturadas foi possível constatar a influência dos valores laborais como norteadores do comportamento dos pesquisadores em seu ambiente de trabalho e enriquecer as evidências encontradas. Finalmente, implicações e limitações do estudo foram levantadas e discutidas. / The main objective of this study was to analyze the structure of the work values of researchers in a Brazilian research and development organization, defining the hierarchy of values for these professionals. Studies have shown gaps in empirical data on the management of researchers in innovative organizations, being this human resource strictly concerned with a crucial competitive strategy: the innovation. Through understanding of the personal work values of the researchers in R&D organizations, it becomes possible to assess what these professionals consider important in their work environment, supporting knowledge to managers of knowledge workers. These findings allow to discuss the most appropriate management tools, enabling organizational improvements. Thus, after analysis of instrument validity in order to measure, analyze and raise work values (Revised Work Values Scale WVS-R) for the sample, 208 researchers from an R&D organization participated in the quantitative phase of this study. In order to produce more consistent evidences, six researchers from an unit of the organization studied were also interviewed. By means of statistical analyzes, the results provided an understanding of the work values of researchers and their work values priorities, defined by the following sequence: Social Relations, Professional Achievement, Stability and Prestige. Through content analysis of semistructured interviews was possible to observe the influence of work values as guiding the behavior of researchers in their workplace and enrich the evidences found. Finally, implications and limitations of the study were raised and discussed.

Essa tese é escrita de um lugar em que se defende que a pesquisa deve estar no bojo da formação dos professores, não só como instrumento pragmático para solução de problemas práticos, mas como instrumento para a formação espírito científico (BACHELARD, 1996), que se relaciona com uma postura questionadora não só acerca de uma determinada realidade que pode ser tomada como objeto de investigação mas, também, acerca das produções científicas, oriundas da Universidade. Em síntese, a tese constrói-se com o intuito de procurar respostas para o que seja uma orientação de um trabalho acadêmico. Assim, seu objetivo primeiro é investigar a possibilidade de encontrar alguma correlação entre a natureza das intervenções efetuadas por um orientador em versões de trabalho de conclusão de curso em licenciatura em Pedagogia e o advento de um espírito científico, de modo que um sujeito se torne capaz de transformar demandas institucionais em um ato performativo com consequências para si e para sua comunidade. Desse modo, levanta a hipótese de que colocar o estudante em uma relação de continuidade de modo responsável com o desejo pode ser o grande desafio do trabalho de orientar. O corpus de análise constitui-se por diversos materiais produzidos durante todo o período de confecção do Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso de duas informantes, alunas de um curso de Pedagogia de uma universidade pública no interior do país. São estes materiais: versões de textos produzidas pelas estudantes, intervenções realizadas pela orientadora no texto das estudantes, correspondências eletrônicas trocadas entre orientadora e orientadas, assim como conversas virtuais registradas em chats. Na perspectiva da teoria do discurso como laço social de Lacan, conclui-se que ensinar a escrever um texto acadêmico ou orientar um aluno no percurso de uma pesquisa que se deseja consequente exige do professor orientador um duplo manejo: (a) Agir em consonância com Discurso Universitário, o que significa dizer que é trabalho do orientador ensinar ao seu aluno, integrante de uma nova geração universitária, a inserir-se no modo de dizer próprio da ciência, o que se relaciona com saber articular-se com saberes já estabilizados em uma determinada comunidade acadêmica; e (b)Agir em consonância com o Discurso do Analista, o que se relaciona, paradoxalmente, com a suspensão dos saberes estabilizados, provocando no Saber (enquanto agente), fissuras onde o aluno possa encontrar possibilidades de produzir pequenos deslizamentos, a saber, os produtos marcados pela criatividade. / This thesis is written of a place in which defends that survey should be at the bunt of teachers training, not only as a pragmatic instrument for a solution of practical troubles, but how a tool to training scientific spirit (BACHELARD, 1996), which relates with a questioning posture not only about in a particular reality that can be taken as an investigation object but also about of scientific productions deriving of University. In summary, the thesis is built with order to find answers to an orientation of academic work. Thus, the first objective is investigate the possibility to find some correlation between nature of carried interventions by a supervisor in versions of final work r in Pedagogy graduation and beginning of a scientific spirit, so that one people became able to transform institutional problems in an act performative with consequences for himself and her community. Therefore, hypothesize to put the student in a continuity relation responsibly the desire can be a big challenge for give an orientation. The corpus of analyze have a material made during the period of preparation of Final Work from two people, students on Pedagogy course in a public university of countrys interior. These are materials: text versions produced by students, interventions made by tutor in students text, emails exchanged between the tutor and students, and messages by chats conversation. In theory of speech as social bond of Lacan, its possible conclude as to teach a write an academic text and lead a student on way of a research, when desired about the advisor teacher a double handling: (a) Act in the same perspective of University Discourse, which means that is guiding the work to teach your student, part of a new university generation, must be in way to say the itself science, which relates with articulating about your intelligence balanced in an academic community; and (b) Act in the same perspective of the Analytic Discourse, which relates paradoxically with interruption of stabilized knowledge, causing the Saber (as an agent), fissures where the student can find opportunities to produce small landslides, namely Products marked by creativity.

Nous posons deux questions : quels sont les facteurs qui influencent l’engagement de chercheurs dans la vulgarisation ? quels effets, pour lui-même, un chercheur peut-il tirer de la vulgarisation ? Après un historique synthétique brossant différents paradigmes de la communication publique des sciences, nous explorons 20 enquêtes réalisées entre 1967 et 2014. Celles-ci interrogent les chercheurs. Nous les critiquons une à une et dégageons certaines tendances. La vulgarisation a globalement « bonne presse » et l’engagement des chercheurs semble faible mais robuste. Les études de type « enquête d’opinion » tendent à laisser déclarer le diagnostic et les préconisations aux chercheurs eux-mêmes, d’autres utilisent des modèles théoriques, moins déclaratifs, et des divergences apparaissent autour l’influence du « regard des autres » notamment. La question des effets n’est pas analysée. Pour explorer plus avant nos deux questions, nous utilisons deux démarches. D’une part adapter un modèle théorique, la théorie du comportement planifié, au corpus des doctorants de l’université de Bourgogne ; d’autre part, profiter de mon expérience de responsable de l’Experimentarium, programme de vulgarisation qui, depuis 17 ans, engage des doctorants. L’enquête utilisant la théorie du comportement planifié détermine des facteurs d’engagement principaux : le comportement passé, l’attitude envers la vulgarisation, l’avis des collègues. Au-delà de tendances générales, des analyses multifactorielles permettent de mieux cerner, au cas par cas, les facteurs qui influencent l’engagement de chacun. Chaque doctorant a une histoire. L’observation de l’Experimentarium appuie l’influence de l’attitude, du plaisir à vulgariser, ainsi que l’importance de la socialisation conséquente de certaines actions de vulgarisation. Ces critères sont à la fois facteurs d’engagement et effets pour le chercheur. L’importance de « prendre soin » des doctorants vulgarisateurs est soutenue. Elle conduit à une dynamique réconfort - remotivation pour la recherche. L’action réjouissante menée avec des pairs (à qui on peut parler), l’encouragement du public, l’acquisition d’aptitudes pour mieux s’exprimer et cerner son sujet contribuent à « faire exister » le vécu du chercheur et à le dynamiser dans son travail scientifique. Plus généralement, certaines actions de vulgarisation gonflent la pratique scientifique de sens. In fine, nous proposons un schéma définissant trois postures communicationnelles, basées sur des « pelures d’identité » : le soi, le chercheur, le présentateur. Ce schéma explique des effets potentiels en fonction de situations de vulgarisation. Les dynamiques de communication sont causes et conséquences d’ajustements sur ces postures et de la porosité de ces pelures d’identité. Cette schématisation conduit à aborder le concept de réflexivité, constitutif de situations de vulgarisation et qui peut provoquer certains effets sur le chercheur. Ces réflexions invitent à penser la vulgarisation, non comme une tâche ou un devoir à remplir, mais comme une situation qui – si elle est préparée, observée, ajustée et donc réflexive – peut être source d’émancipation pour le public, mais également pour le chercheur. / We examine two questions: what factors influence the engagement of researchers in public engagement activities ? what effects, for himself, can a researcher derive from popularization (or public communication of sciences and technologies : PCST)? After a synthetic history brushing different paradigms of the PCST, we investigate 20 studies carried out between 1967 and 2014. These interrogate the researchers. We criticize them one by one and clear some trends. PCST has generally "good press" and the commitment of researchers seems weak but robust. Opinion-type studies tend to allow the diagnosis and recommendations to be declared to the researchers themselves, others use less declarative theoretical models, and divergences appear around the influence of the "gaze of others" especially. The question of effects is not analyzed. To explore our two questions further, we use two approaches. On the one hand adapting a theoretical model, the theory of planned behavior, to the corpus of PhD students of the University of Burgundy; on the other hand, to take advantage of my experience as head of the Experimentarium, an extension program which, for 17 years, has been hiring doctoral students. The survey using the theory of planned behavior determines the main factors of engagement: past behavior, attitude towards extension, the opinion of colleagues. Beyond general trends, multifactorial analyzes make it possible to better identify, on a case by case basis, the factors that influence the commitment of each one.Each doctoral student has its own history. The observation of the Experimentarium supports the influence of attitude, pleasure to popularize, as well as the importance of the consequent socialization of actions of popularisation. These criteria are both factors of commitment and effects for the researcher. ...These reflections invite thinking about popularisation, not as a task or a duty to be fulfilled, but as a situation which - if prepared, observed, adjusted and therefore reflexive - can be a source of emancipation for the public but also for the searcher.