This dissertation studies meetings from a process perspective. Such an approach, which can be labelled ‘process organisation studies’ is promising in that it directs attention to social processes continuously in the making. The thesis builds on the current development in process organisation studies in two ways. The first centres on an elaboration on key assumptions of approaching organisational life from a process perspective. I here bridge process organisation studies with Bakhtin’s work on dialogue into a dialogical becoming perspective. This perspective calls for a distinct way of understanding processes of becoming which makes it possible to explore meeting practices as situated, emerging and relational world-making activities. The second is a comprehensive processual account based on a collaborative field study with two owner families. Organised meetings held in a family that owns a business (or several) has proved to be of importance for family business longevity in that the family members can help to develop strong family relations and a healthy business. In this setting, where people are dealing with that which is often most important to them in life, such as their identity, work, family relationships and future wealth, a process approach is useful since it helps to understand the emotionally loaded, complex and intertwined issues at stake.What emerges as central in understanding movement and flow is the need to understand the here and now moments in meetings. I refer to these moments as ‘living moments’ as a reminder of the once-occurring, unique and momentary transformation that can take place between people in such encounters. Thus, the living moment is the moment of movement.

Spiritual care is considered to be an important aspect of palliative care however; there has been much debate about the definition of spirituality. In this study a broad definition of spirituality has been utilized. Spiritual needs of palliative patients have been identified. Although evidence relating to bereavement outcomes supports the concept of working with family groups in the provision of holistic palliative care, only one family focused model of spiritual care was identified in the literature and no assessment of the efficacy of this model was found. The needs of staff in the provision of spiritual care have also been found to be important. The objectives of this study were to implement a family meeting model of care to assess it’s efficacy as an instrument for the provision of spiritual care from the perspective of palliative patients, family members and palliative care staff and to consider implications, if any for the inclusion of this model of care in the regular palliative care service. This qualitative study was informed by interpretivism and hermeneutic phenomenology. Ricoeur’s Theory of Interpretation was utilized in the interpretation of data. Participants were recruited through two metropolitan palliative care services. Twelve family meetings were facilitated by the researcher. Subsequently forty-seven patients and family members individually participated in in-depth interviews in which they described their experience of the family meeting and any outcomes they had observed. Fourteen staff members participated each in a semi-structured interview in which they described observed outcomes of the family meeting, their process of recruiting patient participants for the study and insights about the suitability of this intervention for regular palliative care services. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed utilizing Ricoeur’s Theory of Interpretation and with the assistance of qualitative data management software. The most commonly identified outcomes for patient and family member participants were: experience of increased openness of communication, positive and constructive feelings and emotions, gaining new understandings and strengthening or renewal of significant relationships. Their experience of the meeting facilitation was generally positive. These outcomes suggest that spiritual care was provided that had not been made available to these people in the current system. Staff reported positive outcomes for patient and family member participants and considered that this type of intervention would meet a need within the palliative care service. Barriers to implementation such as funding priorities, staff numbers and time were identified. This original study has added to our understanding of the value of working with family units in the provision of spiritual care in palliative care services. Further research such as the application of this intervention to larger and less homogenous populations, the evaluation of long term benefits to family members and ways of identifying families most in need of this intervention are needed. The inclusion of this intervention in regular palliative care service would have implications for staff training and support. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1345430 / Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, 2008

The notion of "partnership" dominates contemporary school improvement and educational reform agendas. Most discourse about partnerships between schools and universities historically relates to the apparent divide between practice and theory, between practitioner and academy. This study departs from these traditional perspectives to move beyond the divide between teachers and academics. Designing strategies for re-visioning this historical divide within the education community, between teachers and academics, engages the profession at all levels. Instead of simply re-visioning this divide, however, we can envision a professional place where the divide does not exist. Addressing this divide requires teachers and academics, when they do come together for the purpose of collaborative work of any kind, to actively seek to understand each other's work. This study examines one school and university partnership that was modelled on the principles of a Professional Development School. It investigates the meeting talk between groups of teachers and academics as they plan and report on a collaborative project aimed at improving Mathematics teaching practices in the school. Whereas most research investigating school and university partnerships addresses the outcomes of such partnerships, or attempts to describe and advocate for ideal partnerships, this study considers the actual interactional work of the participants as they engage in the everyday and ongoing activities of partnership. It shows how partnerships are constructed through talk and activity. Instead of considering the partnership as a predetermined and pre-existing phenomenon, this study adopts the view that the work of partnership is an ongoing accomplishment through the activity of the participants. In this way, this study shows the local social order of a partnership as it was built, maintained and transformed through the interactional work of the participants. Both the institutional setting and the participants' enactment of partnership work contribute to the establishment of the social and moral order of the partnership. The principal question addressed in the study asks how participants accomplish the partnership work through their social interactions with one another. It considers the interactional resources that the partners (teachers, interns and academics) use to construct their talk and interactions with one another in the project; and how the partners construct themselves and the other members as members of the partnership, as academics/researchers and as teachers. This study drew on ethnomethodological resources to develop understandings about how the participants accomplish the partnership work through their talk-in-interaction. The specific focus is the talk of partnership that occurred in meetings between members of the school and of the university. These meetings were audio-recorded, transcribed, and finely analysed using the techniques and procedures of conversation analysis and membership category analysis. These methodological resources revealed the social and moral orders at work. Analysis of the meeting talk shows the specific activities and relationships developed by the principal of the school in the accomplishment of the partnership; the ways in which the various participants develop and use their claims to expertise (or lack of it) in doing partnership work; and how participants use the institutional resource of meeting talk to accomplish the partnership work. The study is of significance to educators, teachers and academics. It provides new and rich understandings about how school and university partnerships are accomplished through the participants' meetings. It shows the resources that the participants use to construct and accomplish their different kinds of expertise, to enact the leadership activities required, and to co-construct the various features of partnership. The study offers analytic tools for uncovering the interactional resource of the participants. The ethnomethodological resources, particularly conversation analysis and membership category analysis, can be used to analyse in close detail the social interactions of participants in the institutional talk of meetings. In showing how the social and moral orders of partnerships are revealed and by offering understandings of the pragmatics of school and university partnership, the social structure of school and university partnerships is explicated. The study offers one example of what a school and university partnership can be like. Epistemologically, it explores and exposes the kinds of knowledge produced from this kind of accounting for school and university partnerships. It shows how the work of partnership can be accomplished by participants, rather than attempt to claim how it should be done.

Studiens syfte är att ur ett interkulturellt perspektiv få insyn och kunskap om hur föräldrarna till barn som kommer som nyanlända till Sverige uppfattar mötet med svenska förskolan. Studien har utförts med hjälp av en kvalitativ forskningsmetod och undersökningsinstrumentet som kommer att användas är en intervjuguide. Deltagarna i intervjuerna är nio nyanlända föräldrar på fem olika förskolor i två olika kommuner, varav en förskola endast har nyanlända barn. Resultat i studien visar att nyanlända föräldrar uppfattar att det finns mycket kontakt med förskolan och att den första kontakten skedde med tolk eller på engelska. Kontakten och bemötandet fungerar bra och pedagogerna gör sitt bästa för att lyckas skapa bra kommunikation och bemötande. Det framkommer även i studiens resultat att kulturer ser olika på tid samt att användandet av tolkar i kommunikationen mellan de nyanlända föräldrarna och pedagogerna fungerade mindre bra. Studien kommer att avslutas med en diskussion där syftet, resultatet, bakgunden och det teoretiska perspektivet diskuteras och problematiseras.

Denna magisteruppsats undersöker vilka strategier homosexuella män och kvinnor använder för att möta andra homosexuella. Genom att använda kvalitativ semi-strukturerad intervju som metod och samtala med 3 män födda innan år 1952, samt ytterligare 3 män och 3 kvinnor födda mellan 1979-1989, visar det sig att informanterna har och använder strategier på olika sätt. Informanterna upplever att samhället är heteronormativt och därför har processen att ”komma ut” varit en betydelsefull del i deras liv och det är i denna process av sitt identitetsbildande som strategier blir särskilt märkbara för dem själva. Resultatet framhäver att strategierna skiljer sig beroende på vilken tid i samhället de används i. Innan 1979, då homosexualitet ansågs vara en sjukdom, krävdes andra strategier. Då användes specifika mötesplatser, symboler och signaler för att locka till sig ”rätt” personer. Numera när homosexualitet är samhälleligt accepterad behövs ändå särskilda strategier användas för att undvika att bli utsatt för våld. Internet och appar används som mötesarena utöver gayklubbarna. Särskilda mötesplatser, kläder, språk och signaler i form av exempelvis gester kvarstår i det fysiska rummet, men har förändrats över tid. Slutsatserna som dragits är att det finns behov av att använda strategier för att dölja sin homosexualitet samtidigt som den framhävs för rätt personer, men att de strategier som används förändras i takt med samhällets förändring. Symboler som används för 10 år sedan behöver inte innebära samma sak idag, men i stor grad har internet och appar ersatt behovet av att använda sig av symboler. / This master thesis examines what strategies homosexual men and women use to meet other homosexuals. By using the method of qualitative semi-structured interview and talking with 3 men born before 1952 as well as 3 men and 3 women born between 1979 and 1989, the result shows the informants have and uses strategies in different ways. The informants experience that society is heteronormative and therefor the process of “coming out” have been a meaningful part of their life. It is in this process of their forming of identity strategies become especially noticeable to themselves. The result highlights that strategies varies depending on what time in society they are used. Before 1979 when homosexuality was considered a disease certain strategies were needed. At the time certain meeting places, symbols and signals were used to attract the “right” people. Nowadays when homosexuality is accepted by society certain strategies are still used to avoid being exposed to violence. In addition to gay clubs, internet and apps are used as meeting places. Certain meeting places, clothes, language and signals in the form of for examples gestures remain within the physical room but have changed over time. The conclusion which have been drawn is that there is a need to use strategies to hide ones homosexuality while at the same time highlight it for the right people but that the strategies varies with the changing of society. Symbols used ten years ago does not necessarily mean the same thing to day and internet and apps have replaced the need for usage of symbols to a higher degree.

Syftet med studien var att utifrån kuratorers upplevelser studera hur kvinnor påverkas efter en våldtäkt, samt att studera kuratorernas förhållningssätt och hur deras arbete med våldtagna kvinnor sker. I studien genomfördes sex kvalitativa intervjuer med kuratorer. Resultatet från studien analyserades utifrån teorier och modeller som stigma, klientcentrerad terapi, kognitiv teori samt tidigare forskning. Studiens resultat visade att de vanligaste konsekvenserna är posttraumatiskt stressyndrom med symptom som flashbacks, ångest, depression, mardrömmar och sömnsvårigheter. Även skam och skuld var framträdande konsekvenser och kuratorerna menar att det är vanligt att offren lägger skulden på sig själv för det som har hänt. De beskriver att ett empatiskt förhållningssätt och respekt för individen i mötet är viktigt för att kvinnorna ska våga berätta sin historia. När det kommer till metoder och arbetssätt framkom det att kuratorerna inte använder sig av några speciella metoder i arbetet. De arbetar med minnet av händelsen på olika sätt beroende på var kvinnan befinner sig. / The purpose of the study was to, based on counselors experience, study how women are affected after a rape, as well as to study counselors professional meeting and working methods. The study conducted six qualitative interviews with counselors. The result of the study was analyzed based on theories and models such as stigma, client-centered therapy and cognitive theory. The results of the study showed that the most common consequences are posttraumatic stress disorder with symptoms like flashbacks, anxiety, nightmares and sleep disorders. Feelings of shame and guilt are also common consequences and it is common for the victims to blame themselves for what has happened. The counselors describe that an empathetic approach and respect for the individual in the meeting is important for women to dare to tell their story. When it comes to methods, it was found that they don’t use any special methods in the work. They work with the client´s memory of the rape in different ways depending on where the client is.

Este estudo tem como objetivo, investigar, compreender, evidenciar e analisar aspectos da Performance como meio de diálogo entre o social e o cotidiano urbano. Com vistas a um panorama de uma sociedade de relações diluídas, esta investigação confronta tal realidade através de ações que valorizam o encontro em uma proposta relacional de performance. Para tanto, serão analisadas práticas em performance em que o performer intervém no cotidiano urbano dos transeuntes, propondo um instante de encontro com o outro. Desta forma, a reflexão deste trabalho se desenvolve através da análise das criações de duas performers atuantes no Brasil, Eleonora Fabião e Tania Alice e minhas próprias experiências em performance. Entre os principais teóricos estudados destacam-se André Carreira, Eleonora Fabião, John Dewey, Laurence Louppe, Nicholas Borriaud, Renato Cohen, Tania Alice Feix e Zygmunt Bauman. A análise das práticas performáticas será concretizada buscando associações entre os estudos da performance e as práticas observadas e experimentadas. / This study aims to investigate, understand, analyse and highlight aspects of performance as a means of dialogue between the social and the urban daily life. Toward a panorama of a society of diluted relations, this investigation confronts this reality and obtaining values of relational proposal for performance. Therefore, practices will be analyzed in performance where the performer intervenes in the urban everyday flow of passers, proposing a moment of encounter with the other. Thus, the reflection of this work is developed through the analysis of the creations of two active performers in Brazil, Eleonora Fabião and Tania Alice and my own performance's experience. Among the main theoretical researches stand out André Carreira, Eleonora Fabião, John Dewey, Laurence Louppe, Nicholas Borriaud, Renato Cohen, Tania Alice Feix e Zygmunt Bauman. The analysis of performance practices will be held seeking associations between performance studies and observed practices and experienced.

Esta tese estuda o processo da implantação do Programa de Turismo Solidário pelo governo de Minas Gerais no Vale do Jequitinhonha - MG, bem como as características e os significados que o mesmo adquiriu, tanto junto aos moradores das localidades alvo quanto junto aos chamados turistas solidários, e avalia o estado da arte de modos de turismo semelhantes ao que ocorre no Vale, com ênfase em alguns casos nas favelas cariocas. A tese focaliza a apropriação pela população das diretrizes e dos aspectos teórico-metodológicos da proposta desse Programa; a percepção dos moradores em relação ao turismo que ali ocorre; o enquadramento em que os encontros no turismo solidário ocorrem; os significados do turismo solidário; os indicadores do turismo solidário. Traz, de um lado, uma visão abrangente, discutindo questões relacionadas às políticas públicas no campo do turismo, e de outro lado, uma abordagem de caráter etnográfico, relativa ao encontro intersubjetivo entre ―turistas solidários‖ e a população local. A construção da linha argumentativa da tese fundamenta-se nos seguintes pressupostos: as propostas de descentralização por meio da ideia de governança apresentadas pelas políticas públicas que sustentam a ideologia do Programa de Turismo Solidário são ferramentas importantes para o desenvolvimento local; o encontro entre pessoas com diferentes formas de vida, com reconhecimento recíproco entre si, suscita em ambas as partes um alargamento da percepção de mundo e uma possibilidade para redescrição dos sujeitos; o enquadramento em que a interação ocorre e o nível de intimidade entre os participantes influenciam na possibilidade do individuo repensar valores e atitudes. O documentário ―Retrato Brasil‖ filmado durante as pesquisas de campo, foi elaborado na perspectiva de auxiliar na promoção do que é chamado de turismo solidário, entre outras possibilidades. / This thesis studies the process of implementation of a Program of the state government of Minas Gerais called Turismo Solidário in the Jequitinhonha Valley- MG, as well as the characteristics and meanings that this program has acquired to the people who live in this region and to the so called solidary tourists. This thesis also evaluates the state of the art in similar ways of turism to the one that occurs in the Valley, such as the turism in Favelas in Rio de Janeiro. The thesis focuses on the appropriation by the local population of the guidelines and the theoretical and methodological aspects of this proposed program, the perceptions of the inhabitants towards tourism that takes place there, the framework in which the meetings occur in Turismo Solidário, the meanings of solidarity tourism, and the indicators of this kind of turism. The thesis bring on a comprehensive discussion of public policies in tourism and makes an ethnographic approach, on the meeting between solidary tourists and the local population. The construction of the line of argument of this thesis is based on the following assumptions: the decentralization proposals through the idea of governance provided by public policies that support the ideology of Turismo Solidário program are important tools for local development; meeting between people with different forms of life, with mutual recognition between them, raises on both sides of a widening perception of the world and a chance for redescription of the subjects, the framework in which the interaction occurs and the degree of intimacy between the participants influence the ability of the individual to reconsider values and attitudes. The documentary "Retrato Brasil" filmed during the research was prepared to help spread this this way of making tourism.

Inserted in the research line Training, Knowledge and Professional Development of the Graduate Master's Program in Education of Santa Maria / RS, the project is with the aim of understanding the drug user hospitalization process, in view of their experiments. The study is guided in Corrêa of references (2006, 2010), Karam (2007), Oliveira (2009), Preve (2010), Rolnik (1989), among others studying the prospects of drugs and the desire of cartography. It conducted interviews with drug users admitted to the Psychosocial Care Center - Alcohol and drugs in Palmas - Tocantins, in order to map the admission process from his lines. We came across 03 major routes transposing the drugs issue: police legal, psychiatric medical and religious. The readings we do and the echoes of our respondents always lead to one of these axes. Asserting the sensitivity to listen, to observe the progress and condition of the person you care for the health work process. Each encounter is unique, our needs are unique and it is up to the professional who deals with these needs, direct the care of individual and carefully. / Inserido na linha de pesquisa Formação, Saberes e Desenvolvimento Profissional do Programa de Pós-graduação do Mestrado em Educação de Santa Maria/RS, a dissertação constitui-se com o objetivo de compreender o processo de internação do usuário de drogas, na perspectiva das suas experiências. O estudo se faz pautado nas referencias de Corrêa (2006; 2010), Karam (2007), Oliveira (2009), Preve (2010), Rolnik (1989), entre outros que estudam as perspectivas das drogas e a cartografia do desejo. Foi realizado entrevistas com os usuários de drogas internados no Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Álcool e drogas em Palmas Tocantins, com o intuito de cartografar o processo de internação a partir das suas falas. Nos deparamos com 03 eixos principais que transpõem a questão da droga: jurídico policial, médico psiquiátrico e religioso. As leituras que realizamos e os ecos dos nossos entrevistados conduzem sempre para um destes eixos. Importa asseverar a sensibilidade para ouvir, a observação da evolução e condição da pessoa que você cuida no processo de trabalho em saúde. Cada encontro é único, as nossas necessidades são singulares e cabe ao profissional que lida com estas necessidades, direcionar os cuidados de forma individual e cuidadosa.

Cette étude anthropologique est une interrogation sur la possibilité d’une rencontre entre les Sotho de l’Afrique australe et des missionnaires de la Société des missions évangéliques de Paris au XIXe siècle. Elle est un exercice de « sur-écriture » à partir de l’analyse renouvelée de textes insérés dans les Journaux des missions évangéliques. Trois partis pris principaux guident cette exploration. D’abord, si la rencontre a eu lieu, qu’en est-il de sa répartition ? La première piste suivie invite à se questionner sur les modalités des contacts avec l’ensemble des Sotho, la femme Sotho ou le chef Moshoeshoe. Ensuite, si Dieu a conduit les religieux auprès des Africains, omniprésent, il n’est pas que surplombant. Le second point aborde la question de la matérialité de Dieu comme pour le toucher et éventuellement atteindre la rencontre. Enfin, les Sotho, hôtes des missionnaires, deviennent les otages des narrateurs. Leurs adversaires, les autres Africains, croisés par les évangélisateurs sont-ils l’Autre dont l’absence ne peut que remettre en cause toute idée de rencontre ? / This anthropological study is an interrogation about a possible talks between Sotho of Southern Africa and missionaries of the French 'Société des missions évangéliques de Paris' during the 19th century. It is an exercise of transcription from renewed analysis of write-ups published in journals of evangelical missions. Three major preconceptions have guided this analysis so far. First of all, if meetings took place, what was the occurrence of such events? The first trail questions the modalities of the contacts with the Sotho together, the Sotho woman or with the chief Moshoeshoe. Then, if God has led clergymen to the Africans, omnipresent God is not only overhanging. The second point deals with the materiality of God so as to touch him and eventually reach the meeting. Finally the Sotho, hosts of the missionaries, became the hostages of the storytellers. Are the Sotho's opponents, the other Africans who were met by the evangelists, the ones whose absence may lead to reconsidering the idea of meeting?