The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how students on the computer game development program at Ljud och bild skolan, define creativity and what they experience strengthen respective weakens their creative ability. The Swedish “gymnasieskola” (Upper secondary school) has an assignment to stimulate student’s creativity, an ability described as one of the most important skills today by leading expertise in pedagogic. However, several teachers in Sweden believe there is a lack of research concerning creativity in schools. By both interviewing and conducting a survey regarding the student’s view on creativity, evidence have been found to suggest that all partaking students had a similar view on creativity. The most frequent answer when asked about creativity was the ability to come up with unique solutions to problems by “thinking outside of the box”. The result of the study points to a few different factors being important on strengthen the student’s perceived creativity; the importance of inspiration material such as music and video games being the most important. As for factors that weakened their creativity; stress, tiredness and bad work environment were seen as the main reasons.The main two conclusions from the study are the lack of up-to-date research around students and their perceived creativity and the importance to include student’s own thoughts and ideas in the process.

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Suaugusiųjų švietimas, jo sustiprėjimas ir paplitimas yra demokratėjančios visuomenės ženklas. Tai visuomenė, kuri pasižymi tolerancija, pilietiniu aktyvumu, bendradarbiavimu, suvokia savo ir šalies gyvenimą. Suaugusiųjų švietimas padeda stiprėti šaliai ir ekonomiškai, nes išsilavinimas padeda šaliai išsilaikyti tarp kitų išsivysčiusių valstybių. Mokymasis yra kasdienio gyvenimo ir sąmoningos patirties esmė – tai procesas, kai patyrimas transformuojamas į žinias, įgūdžius, požiūrius, vertybes, motyvus ir įsitikinimus, kai kasdieninis patyrimas yra nuolat įprasminamas. Mokymosi priežasčių yra daug, tačiau visais atvejais mokymasis yra susijęs su kiekvieno žmogaus tikslais. Suprantama, kad vien tik noro neužtenka, suaugusieji turi turėti mokymosi motyvaciją. Mokymosi motyvacijos klausimas yra vienas iš svarbesnių, jei ne pats svarbiausias, visiems – tiek besimokantiems suaugusiesiems, tiek jų ugdytojams. Svarbiausia, kad suaugusieji suvoktų, kad jiems mokymasis yra naudingas. Besimokantys suaugusieji turi suvokti, jog tik mokymasis gali padėti įveikti iškylančius sunkumus. Kitais žodžiais tariant, motyvacija yra tiesiogiai susijusi su tikslingumu – jeigu žmogus turi tikslą, tuomet jis turi aiškų motyvą veikti. Darbo objektas – suaugusiųjų mokymosi motyvacijos stiprinimo veiksniai bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje. Tikslas – išanalizuoti ir atskleisti besimokančių suaugusiųjų mokymosi motyvacijos stiprinimo veiksnius miesto bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje. Svarbiausi iškelti uždaviniai:... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The Adult education, the strengthening and spread is the democratical public sign. This is a society, which is characterized by tolerance, civic participation, cooperation and the country's perception of their lives. Adult education helps to strengthen the country economically, because education helps to sustain the country among the developed countries. Learning is an everyday life and the essence of conscious experience – a process in which experience is transformed into knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, motivations and beliefs of everyday experience are continuously made meaningful. The Learning reasons are very diffferent, but in all cases, the learning is associated with every human purposes. It is understood that the mere desire is not enough to adults to have the learning motivation. Question of motivation is one of the most important, or the most important one of all – both adult learners and their educators. Most importantly, the adults realize that their learning is useful. The Adult learners need to realize that only education can help overcome the problems they encountered. In other words, motivation is directly related to the appropriateness – if a person has a purpose, then it has a clear motive to act. The object – the adult learning motivation factors in strengthening a comprehensive school. Purpose – to analyze and detect adult learners’ motivation factor at urban comprehensive school. The main targets: 1) to analyze the concept of adult education; 2) to... [to full text]

Este estudo teve como propósito investigar se o enoturismo e a criação de uma marca regional contribuíram para o fortalecimento endógeno do Vale dos Vinhedos. O estudo analisou três elementos: a) enoturismo; b) faturamento; e c) qualidade através da marca regional. O paradigma adotado foi de corte quali-quantitativo servindo-se de metodologia descritiva. A análise documental e entrevistas foram usadas como instrumentos para a coleta de informações. Os participantes do estudo foram os empresários e as entidades atuantes na promoção turística do Vale dos Vinhedos. Para a análise, foram estudados os aspectos socioeconômicos e culturais da vitivinicultura local, o processo de certificação e a conquista da Indicação de Procedência - IPVV, o enoturismo e a sua organização em torno das instituições. O Vale dos Vinhedos foi colonizado por imigrantes italianos a partir de 1876, que tornaram a vitivinicultura a principal atividade desenvolvida no território. Embora tenha sido identificada uma redução da participação da população do Vale no enoturismo local, os resultados apontaram que o processo de desenvolvimento do enoturismo se deu de forma semelhante a outras regiões que criaram suas marcas regionais. Ele foi resultado de especialização produtiva, da cultura existente e da capacidade de organização dos agentes locais. Segundo o discurso dos gestores públicos e privados, a certificação conquistada em 2002 não impactou de forma direta no enoturismo, pois já havia um reconhecimento da qualidade dos produtos pelo consumidor antes da conquista. Identificou-se também que o faturamento decorrente do enoturismo motivou os novos investimentos feitos no Vale, especialmente nos últimos 05 anos, além da criação da marca regional e de uma perspectiva de futuro. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-14T17:39:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Vander Valduga.pdf: 6021493 bytes, checksum: 1f62079d2db8bd0e7359504cda22f912 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-14T17:39:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Vander Valduga.pdf: 6021493 bytes, checksum: 1f62079d2db8bd0e7359504cda22f912 (MD5) / This study had as intention to investigate if the Wine tourism and the creation of one regional mark contributed for the intern strengthen of ´Vale dos Vinhedos` Vinhedos Valley. The study also analyzed three elements: a) wine tourism; b) invoicing and c) quality through the regional mark. The adopted paradigm was of quali-quantitative cut, serving itself of descriptive methodology. The documentary analysis and interviews had been used as instruments for all the collection of information. The participants of the research were entrepreneurs and entities that operate in the tourist promotion of the Vinhedos Valley. For the analysis, the social economies and cultural aspects of the local viticulture, the process of certification, the conquest of the indication of origin - IPVV, the wine tourism and its organization around the institutions had been studied. The ´Vale dos Vinhedos` Vinhedos Valley was colonized by Italian immigrants, who from 1876 made the viticulture the main activity developed in the territory. Although it has been identified a reduction of the participation of the population of the Vinhedos Valley in the local wine tourism, the results pointed that the process of development of the wine tourism had some similarities to other regions that had created its regional marks. It was resulted of productive specialization, the existing culture and the capacity of organization of the local agents. According to speech of the public and private managers, the certification conquered in 2002 did not incapacitate of direct form in the wine tourism, therefore it had already recognition of the product quality for the consumer before the conquest. It was also identified that the recurrent invoicing of the wine tourism motivated the new investments made in the Valley, especially in the last 5 years, beyond the creation of the regional mark and a great perspective for the future.</

Este estudo teve como propósito investigar se o enoturismo e a criação de uma marca regional contribuíram para o fortalecimento endógeno do Vale dos Vinhedos. O estudo analisou três elementos: a) enoturismo; b) faturamento; e c) qualidade através da marca regional. O paradigma adotado foi de corte quali-quantitativo servindo-se de metodologia descritiva. A análise documental e entrevistas foram usadas como instrumentos para a coleta de informações. Os participantes do estudo foram os empresários e as entidades atuantes na promoção turística do Vale dos Vinhedos. Para a análise, foram estudados os aspectos socioeconômicos e culturais da vitivinicultura local, o processo de certificação e a conquista da Indicação de Procedência - IPVV, o enoturismo e a sua organização em torno das instituições. O Vale dos Vinhedos foi colonizado por imigrantes italianos a partir de 1876, que tornaram a vitivinicultura a principal atividade desenvolvida no território. Embora tenha sido identificada uma redução da participação da população do Vale no enoturismo local, os resultados apontaram que o processo de desenvolvimento do enoturismo se deu de forma semelhante a outras regiões que criaram suas marcas regionais. Ele foi resultado de especialização produtiva, da cultura existente e da capacidade de organização dos agentes locais. Segundo o discurso dos gestores públicos e privados, a certificação conquistada em 2002 não impactou de forma direta no enoturismo, pois já havia um reconhecimento da qualidade dos produtos pelo consumidor antes da conquista. Identificou-se também que o faturamento decorrente do enoturismo motivou os novos investimentos feitos no Vale, especialmente nos últimos 05 anos, além da criação da marca regional e de uma perspectiva de futuro. / This study had as intention to investigate if the Wine tourism and the creation of one regional mark contributed for the intern strengthen of ´Vale dos Vinhedos` Vinhedos Valley. The study also analyzed three elements: a) wine tourism; b) invoicing and c) quality through the regional mark. The adopted paradigm was of quali-quantitative cut, serving itself of descriptive methodology. The documentary analysis and interviews had been used as instruments for all the collection of information. The participants of the research were entrepreneurs and entities that operate in the tourist promotion of the Vinhedos Valley. For the analysis, the social economies and cultural aspects of the local viticulture, the process of certification, the conquest of the indication of origin - IPVV, the wine tourism and its organization around the institutions had been studied. The ´Vale dos Vinhedos` Vinhedos Valley was colonized by Italian immigrants, who from 1876 made the viticulture the main activity developed in the territory. Although it has been identified a reduction of the participation of the population of the Vinhedos Valley in the local wine tourism, the results pointed that the process of development of the wine tourism had some similarities to other regions that had created its regional marks. It was resulted of productive specialization, the existing culture and the capacity of organization of the local agents. According to speech of the public and private managers, the certification conquered in 2002 did not incapacitate of direct form in the wine tourism, therefore it had already recognition of the product quality for the consumer before the conquest. It was also identified that the recurrent invoicing of the wine tourism motivated the new investments made in the Valley, especially in the last 5 years, beyond the creation of the regional mark and a great perspective for the future.</

Denna kvalitativa studie har syftat till att få en ökad förståelse om hur en organisation och personal på organisationens barnhem i Nepal arbetar med gatubarn. Studiens fokus är att undersöka hur organisationen och personalen arbetar för att skapa en trygg tillvaro för barnen samt om denna tillvaro förstärker dem. För att uppnå studiens syfte och frågeställningar har semistrukturerade samtalsintervjuer och observationer genomförts på organisationen två barnhem. Sammanlagt har sex intervjuer genomförts med organisationens grundare, anställd personal på barnhemmen samt en rektor. Teorierna Empowerment och Känsla Av Sammanhang (KASAM) har använts för att analysera studiens empiriska material. Studiens resultat pekar på att organisationen och personalen på barnhemmen i Nepal arbetar för att skapa en normaliserad vardag och tillvaro för barnen samt ge dem ordentliga utbildningar, vilket kan leda till att barnen får en utveckling och varaktig förändring. Vidare arbetar organisationen och personalen utefter arbetssätt som kan skapa egna resurser hos barnen, som i sin tur kan tänkas stärka dem. / This qualitative study aims to get a better understanding of how the organization and staff of the organization's children's home in Nepal working with street children. The study's focus is to examine how the organization and the staff work to create a safe environment for children, and how this life strengthens them. In order to achieve the objectives of the study and research questions are semi-structured conversations interviews and observations conducted on the organization two orphanages. A total of six interviews were conducted with the organization's founder, staff of orphanages and a school principal. The theories empowerment and Sense of coherence (SOC) has been used to analyze the study's empirical material. The study results indicate that the organization and the staff of the orphanages in Nepal are working to create a normalized living and life for the children and provide them with proper education, which can lead to children getting a development and lasting change. Furthermore, the organization and the staff along approach that can create its own resources in the children, who in turn may strengthen them.

À la suite des derniers scandales financiers, des différents codes de bonnes pratiques et des multiples réformes institutionnelles, la question de la relation entre le renforcement de la gouvernance d’entreprise et son efficacité n’a pas été abordée empiriquement en France. Cette recherche contribue à ce débat en examinant l’influence des mécanismes de gouvernance d'entreprise sur la gestion du résultat.En se basant sur trois stades d’études complémentaires, cette recherche évalue les spécificités de la gouvernance française sur la qualité des états financiers à partir d’une analyse factorielle confirmatoire, d’une régression logistique binaire et des modèles discrétionnaires basés sur les « accruals », les seuils et les scores de manipulations. L’estimation des paramètres des modèles et la durée de l’étude ont été fixé après la vérification de la comparabilité des chiffres comptables après l’entrée en vigueur des normes IAS/IFRS. Les principaux résultats indiquent qu’il faut généraliser certaines pratiques de gouvernance d’entreprise en donnant un appui au législateur et aux partisans des réformes financières afin de garantir une meilleur qualité de l’information financière. / This dissertation investigates and empirically tests the relationship between corporate governance strength and corporate governance effectiveness on the quality of the reported financial statements. Despite, concerns about the strengthen of the corporate governance structure and its effectiveness on earnings management, the relation between corporate governance strength and corporate governance effectiveness is not empirically well developed in France.Using three stages of follow-up studies, this research estimates the specificities of the French corporate governance on the quality of financial statements from a factorial confirmatory analysis, a binary logistic regression and discretionary models based on "accruals", "revenues" and scores of manipulations. The estimation of the parameters of the models and the duration of the study were fixed after the check of the comparability of the accounting numbers after the adoption of the IAS/IFRS GAAP.The main results indicate that it is necessary to generalize certain practices of the French corporate governance, by giving support to both the legislator and the partisans of the financial reforms in order to enhance the quality of the financial information.

Syftet med den aktuella kvalitativa studienär att utifrån av empiriska datafördjupa förståelsen för äldre deltagares upplevelser av Må Bra TV(MBT). Metod: Sammanlagt sju äldre från Åboland skärgård som har använt sig av MBT har intervjuats. Data har analyserats enligt Corbin och Strauss modifierade version av grundad teori.Huvudresultat:Det centrala i MBT visade sig vara samvaron i de virtuella möten där deltagarna träffade varandra och studerandevid högskolan.”Att få och ge stöd genom interaktiva möten”framstod där med som en kärnkategori i analysen av data. I analysen av intervjuerna kunde ytterligare fyra kategorier identifieras som alla var relaterade till kärnkategorin. Dessa kategorier beskriver deltagarnas upplevelser av konsekvenserna av att delta i virtuella möten. De upplevde att trots att tekniken kunde vara en utmaning, så vidgades både deras vyer och deras aktivitetsnivå och dessutom ökade deras självförtroende av att de klarade av deltagandet. De kategorier som genererades i analysen benämndes ”Att lärasig använda ny teknik”, ”Att få möjlighet till vidgade vyer”, ”Att bli aktiv i vardagen” och”Att erhålla stärkt självförtroende” Slutsats: Kärnkategorin i den resursförstärkande metoden är social samvaro. Studien bidrar med kunskap om hur socialt stöd kan användas i utveckling av hälsofrämjande televård för äldre. Mer forskning behövs för att kunna utveckla ett multiprofessionellt resursförstärkande vårdarbete som kan förverkligas virtuellt / The aimof this qualitative study sought to deepen understanding of elderly participants’ experiences withMå BraTV (MBT). Method: Seven elderly individuals living in the Turunmaa Arcipelago, allthe participants in MBT, were interviewed. Data were analyzed according tothe Corbinand Strauss modified version of grounded theory. Main results: This study determined that the essence of MBT is the sense of togetherness accomplished invirtual meetings with other participants and university students."To get and give support through interactive meetings" became thecore category.Analysis also identified four related subcategories, including“learning to use new technologies, to have the possibility towiden own views, becoming activein everyday lifeand to obtain stronger self-confidence". All categories describe the participants' perceptions of the consequences of participating invirtual meetings. Even though the technology was challenging, they felt that they gained anopportunity to learn new things, became more active in daily living, and increased their level of self-confidence. Conclusion: The core category in the resource strengthening metho dissocial interaction. This study contributes knowledge about how social support can enhance the development of health promotive telecarefor the elderly.More researchis needed to develop a multi-professional, resource-strengthening model of care that could be realizedvirtuall / <p>ISBN 978-91-86739-37-9</p>

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:19:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissMCA.pdf: 1435645 bytes, checksum: b348869b2bd6bc22a699e39d6cb146ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-02-25 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disorder characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration leading to skeletal fragility and increasing of fracture risk. Due to the lack of well defined protocols on the intensity and frequency of physical exercises to reduce multiple risk factors in falls, the purpose of this study was to propose, to apply and to analyze the effects of a physical exercise program in balance performance, gait velocity, ankle muscle torque and quality of life in women with densitometric diagnosis of osteoporosis. Subjects: 12 voluntary women (age 68.7 ± 2.7) were submitted to a physical evaluation. The group was re-evaluated after twelve weeks. The physical activity program was oriented by a physical therapist, during twelve weeks, with a frequency of three times per week and duration of 60 minutes. Each session included general stretching exercises; twentyminute walking, exercises to strengthen ankle dorsiflexors and plantar-flexors muscles, with 50% of 10-repetition maximum (10-RM) and balance training. The data were statistically analyzed by Wilcoxon non-parametric tests. The variables analyzed regarding to the balance performance, gait velocity, ankle muscle strength and pain, activities of daily living, flexibility modalities in the quality of life questionnaire showed significant improvement (p &#8804; 0,05). Consequently, the results obtained in this study allow to conclude that the physical activity program was efficient to improve balance performance, gait velocity, ankle muscle strength and quality of life, suggesting to be an effective and safe training program to women suffering from osteoporosis. / A osteoporose é uma doença esquelética sistêmica caracterizada por massa óssea baixa e deterioração microarquitetural do tecido ósseo, com conseqüente aumento da fragilidade óssea e susceptibilidade à fratura. Devido a falta de protocolos bem definidos sobre intensidade e freqüência de exercícios físicos para reduzir os inúmeros fatores de risco para quedas, o objetivo deste estudo foi propor, aplicar e analisar os efeitos de um programa de atividade física no equilíbrio, velocidade da marcha, torque muscular dos dorsiflexores e flexores plantares e na qualidade de vida de mulheres com diagnóstico densitométrico de osteoporose. Sujeitos: 12 mulheres voluntárias (idade 68,7 ± 2,7) foram submetidas a uma avaliação física. O grupo foi reavaliado após 12 semanas. O programa de atividade física foi orientado por um fisioterapeuta, durante 12 semanas, com freqüência de três vezes por semana e duração de 60 minutos. Cada sessão incluiu exercícios de alongamentos gerais, 20 minutos de caminhada, exercícios para fortalecimento dos dorsiflexores e flexores plantares do tornozelo, com 50% de 10-repetições máximas (10-RM) e treino de equilíbrio. Os dados foram analisados estatisticamente através do teste não paramétrico de Wilcoxon. As variáveis analisadas equilíbrio, velocidade da caminhada, força muscular e as modalidade dor, capacidade de realizar atividades de vida diária e flexibilidade do questionário de qualidade de vida mostraram melhora significativa (p &#8804; 0,05). Conseqüentemente, os resultados obtidos neste estudo permitem concluir que o programa de atividade física proposto foi eficiente para melhorar o equilíbrio, velocidade da caminhada, força muscular e a qualidade de vida, sugerindo que programa de treinamento é efetivo e seguro para mulheres portadoras de osteoporose.

The study was undertaken to establish the role that should be played by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) to strengthen existing second-tier agricultural cooperatives in South Africa to ensure that they are able to provide support services to member cooperatives. Ten existing second-tier agricultural cooperatives in the Zululand district of the province of Kwazulu Natal took part in the study. The results indicate that although these cooperatives understand the services to provide, they lack capacity mainly due to lack of the necessary infrastructure, finance and skills. The study recommends that DAFF should recognise the significance of this tier of cooperatives and provide direct and focused support. DAFF should develop a Cooperative Development Strategy for the sector that clearly articulates how it is going to support this level of cooperatives. Among others DAFF should also provide initial infrastructure to these cooperatives and facilitate private-public-partnership initiatives. / Public Administration & Management / M. Tech. (Public Management)