Student Number : 0414810F - MA research report - School of Social Sciences - Faculty of Humanities / The goal of this research report was to profile the coping strategies of households in Thorndale to the effects and impacts of the 2002/2003 drought. Thorndale, the study site is prone to drought and thus experiences severe drought almost every year. The rationale behind the selection of Thorndale for the study was based on this fact, in addition to the fact that the study area is relatively unstudied. The study’s major findings included inadequate agricultural extension service delivery in the community, while the drought’s impacts were economic, social, nutritional and health, food shortage, environmental and wildlife. The most significant and largest impact was water shortage. These impacts led to increased household dependency on the natural capital component of livelihoods in addition to prostitution and the community’s institutional arrangements. The main constraints households encountered in response to the drought’s impacts included the lack of employment opportunities, financial and infrastructural problems among others. It is recommended that with respect to food security, efforts should be made to ensure the trickle down effect of national level assessment of vulnerability on annual basis to rural households in South Africa’s drought-prone areas including Thorndale, in order to improve timely and practical solutions to issues of food insecurity. Furthermore, it should be ensured that the national level benefits of early warning systems trickle down to the local and community levels including Thorndale. Additionally, agricultural extension service delivery in the community needs to be improved.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:13:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE-ELZIMAR.pdf: 2609793 bytes, checksum: 657452e15eb972c84342bbef39bc1430 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-13 / This thesis results from an investigation conducted by the Research Line called ―Education, Labor and Social Movements‖ in the Graduation Program in Education at Universit Federal of Goiás. It aimed to apprehend and analyze education instances and the places where education happens in the villages of São Raimundo and Nunes, in the city of Ananás, in the far northern of the state of Tocantins. This research had a theoretical collaboration of the concepts of culture and people education, and had as theoretical subsidy, mainly: a discussion of culture based on Gramsci "New Left" Marxist English - Thompson, Williams and Eagleton and Brazilian authors Bosi, Chaui, Coutinho and Schwarz, a reflection on the agrarian matter based on the theory of fields of Bourdieu, and a theoretical-practical idea of education of people from Brandão. In the field research, it was used the ethnography method to collect data about everyday situations of life, work and leisure, in addition, there were two semi-structured interviews. The first with pioneer residents of the occupation of the land of both towns and the second with couples aged between 30 and 52 years old. The research allowed us to explain, about the social processes observed in Tocantins villages, that education of people is done in the relational and spatial organization of each village, and also that the people from villages are historical and deal with new mechanisms of tension, relations of power and conflicts between the permanence of the traditional and the emergency of the new. / Esta tese é resultante de uma investigação realizada junto à Linha de Pesquisa em Educação, Trabalho e Movimentos Sociais do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Goiás. Objetivou apreender e analisar as instâncias formativas e lugares formadores de sujeitos nos povoados de São Raimundo e Nunes, no município de Ananás, no extremo norte do Estado do Tocantins. A pesquisa contou com uma elaboração teórica dos conceitos de cultura e formação de sujeitos, e teve como fundamentação teórica da pesquisa, principalmente: uma discussão sobre cultura a partir de Gramsci embasando a ―Nova Esquerda‖ marxista inglesa Thompson, Williams e Eagleton e os autores brasileiros Bosi, Chauí, Coutinho e Schwarz; uma reflexão sobre a questão agrária com base na teoria dos campos em Bourdieu; e uma construção teórico-prática da ideia de educação de sujeitos a partir de Brandão. Na pesquisa de campo, foi utilizada a etnografia para levantamento de situações do cotidiano de vida, trabalho e lazer; além disso, foram realizadas duas entrevistas semi-estruturadas. A primeira com moradores pioneiros da ocupação populacional nos dois povoados, considerados e a segunda entrevista com casais na faixa etária entre 30 a 52 anos de idade. A realização da pesquisa permitiu afirmar, sobre os processos sociais verificados em povoados tocantinenses, que a educação dos sujeitos se faz na organização espacial e relacional de cada povoado, e ainda que os sujeitos residentes em povoados são históricos e lidam com novos mecanismos de tensão, relações de poder e conflitos entre a permanência do tradicional e a emergência do novo.

Author's name: Tomáš Palát School: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts Institute of Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1 Program: Finnish language Title: The picture of common people in selected writings of Finnish canon Consultant: Mgr. Jan Dlask, Ph.D. Number of pages: 79 + attachments Number of attachments: 1 Year: 2012 Key words: Runeberg, Kianto, common people, rural people, Finnish literary canon, cottager, The tales of ensign Stål, Red line, death, dying, nature, bravery, heroism, patriotism, nationalism, clergy, religion This thesis aims to analyze a picture of common people in two separate well-known Finnish writings. First of them is The tales of ensign Stål from Johan Ludvig Runeberg and second is Red line from Ilmari Kianto. Both works were created in a different time periods. The Finnish society in 19th and in the beginning of 20th century was mostly comprised from relatively poor rural people who typically worked in agriculture and describing life of those people was in the same time period very common topic in Finnish literature. In this thesis the picture of common people is being studied through five main topics. How the common people see dying and death; their relationship towards nature; if they are depicted as brave and heroic or...