Writings in support of my visual thesis, including some background, and bibliographic information: Oregon/Death/Animation/Vocation and the artist as an agent of potential.

Since 1984, public service occupations in New Zealand have been subordinated to the over-determined bureaucratic structures of contemporary managerialism. The reactions of front-line public servants to New Management’s unfamiliar ‘market-place’ imperatives and the concomitant loss of occupational autonomy have received very little rigorous qualitative analysis. This study addresses that shortfall, taking as its cue a key question in the sociology of ‘profession’—what arouses or subdues the inclination of bureaucratised occupations to professionalise as a means of reclaiming autonomy? It explains the nature and meaning of strategies adopted by front-line practitioners in New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) to defend their marginalised work conventions and collegial culture. Symbolic interactionist analysis shows that profoundly personal values and beliefs connect vocationally motivated practitioners with their ‘mission’ (to conserve natural and cultural heritage). These powerful intuitive connections play a crucial role in subduing interest in resistance and organised strategic action, principally by converting conservation labour into the pursuit of personal fulfilment. Practitioners respond to managerial intrusions on their core work (the source of their fulfilment) by defending these personal connections rather than group interests. As a result of this introversion, perceptions of ‘community’ and occupational identity are disorganised and become a further reason for inaction. Practitioners resolve the conflict between self-interested pursuit of fulfilment and the altruistic goals of conservation by negotiating an unspoken bargain with DOC’s authority structures. The ‘pay-offs’ for deferral to managerial authority win the space to pursue fulfilment through immersion and conspicuous achievement in work, obviating the need for more concerted defensive action. Accordingly, managerialism has not acted as a professionalising catalyst for this group. NB: The abstract has been revised by the author in the electronic version of this thesis, since the print edition was published.

University of Macau / Faculty of Education

University of Macau / Faculty of Education

Titre : La médecine familiale vue par des jeunes omnipraticiens : rejet de la vocation et de la continuité des soins. Alors qu’une proportion préoccupante de québécois et canadiens n’a pas accès à un médecin de famille et que les efforts se multiplient pour résoudre cette situation problématique, les jeunes omnipraticiens optent de plus en plus pour des profils de pratique spécialisés, délaissant la continuité de soins. Nous avons interviewé 18 jeunes médecins de famille présentant un profil de pratique surspécialisé et analysé leur propos avec une méthodologie qualitative. Ce mémoire propose, à l’aide d’une approche de théorisation ancrée, une théorie empiriquement fondée permettant de mieux comprendre ce phénomène, ses origines et ses conséquences. Nos observations nous amènent à proposer la théorie suivante : les jeunes omnipraticiens urgentistes sont des professionnels autonomes dynamiques et changeants : ils sont non-fixés personnellement et non-fixés professionnellement. Leur système de valeur (qualité de vie et liberté, compétence, performance, valorisation et satisfaction) constitue l’argument principal de leurs choix professionnels et de leur conception de leurs rôles et responsabilités : ils sont donc mus primairement par des intérêts individualistes. À ce stade-ci de leur vie et de leur carrière, la responsabilité sociale et le sens du devoir envers la population ne figurent pas parmi leurs valeurs fondamentales. Cette théorie novatrice qui propose que leurs choix professionnels se basent d’abord et avant tout sur leurs valeurs permet de mieux comprendre pourquoi les efforts actuels de valorisation de la médecine familiale ne génèrent pas les résultats escomptés. Nous proposons une nouvelle compréhension du sens, de l’origine et des implications des choix professionnels des jeunes généralistes tant aux plans pédagogique, professionnel que de santé populationnelle. / Title: Young GPs' View of Family Medicine: Rejecting Vocation and Continuity of Care. Despite multiple attempts by medical authorities and faculties of medicine across Canada to remedy the acute shortage of family physicians in Canada, such a shortage is currently aggravated by the career choices of young family physicians that choose more and more to practice in subspecialized disciplines. We interviewed 18 young family physicians and analysed their views using a grounded theory approach to better understand this phenomenon, its origins and its consequences. Young generalists are autonomous professionals constantly engaged in a dynamic redefinition of their personal and professional ties. Their conception of the role they play and the responsibilities that are incumbent upon them, as well and the choices they make are based on certain core values. Those values include liberty, competence, performance/efficiency, valorisation and satisfaction. Their interests and goals are therefore primarily individualist ones. At this moment in their lives and careers, social responsibility and the sense of duty towards the population are simply not among their core priorities. This innovative theory sheds light on young generalists' values and the perception they have of their roles and responsibilities. Our analysis offers therefore a new understanding of their career choices. It helps grasp why current attempts to value family medicine are not successful and proposes new pedagogical and organisational ideas for addressing this issue.

Pastoral care, or persuasion? The influence of church leaders and their control of clergy and believers. Research of religiosity, communication strategies of priests and their image in letters in the late 19th and early 20th century. Tomáš W. Pavlíček SUMMARY The author of the Ph.D. thesis examines the religious culture in Bohemia in the late 19th century. Contrary to the concept of secularization and the prevalent opinion about an extraordinary decline of religiosity in the Czech society, he attempts to explain the interdependence of social and religious changes in the modern times. Within the sociological concept of secularization and disenchantment of the world, the author focuses on three phenomena: the vocation of a priest, religious practices and conversion, which he treats as religious concepts and at the same time applies them in historical research. The biggest part of the thesis is devoted to the first object of the research - the attitude of a priest towards his vocation, as the clergy is the agent of religious change. The thesis contributes to the current discussions about the relationship of the church and the state and the role of clergy in the society. The main questions are: What is the role of a priest in the religious changes? In what way or under what circumstances does a person get the...

The dissertation starts from the premise that we are living in an increasingly individualistic and secular society. The church is seen as a worshipping community, where mutual care emanating from true Christian community could serve as a corrective to current fragmentation. A theory is developed of the church as a caring and worshipping faith community which exists alongside other communities. The church therefore exists to enable people to embody the gospel ideals in their lives. The whole Christian community must thus be seen to be offering the love, compassion and acceptance that is needed today. This role can be enhanced by encouraging training in caring skills. The faith community exercises its nurturing support system through the fusion of horizons as members seek to give expression to their faith. This faith community functions against the background of the myriad of relationships and different communities in which its members find themselves in. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology)

Text in Afrikaans / Adolessensie is die ontwikkelings- en oorgangsperiode tussen kindertyd en volwassenheid. Alhoewel adolessensie 'n bepaalde konflikkarakter het, kan dit nie kategories as 'n storm-en-drang probleemstadium tipeer word nie. Adolessensie is 'n positiewe stadium wat gekenmerk word deur groei en nuwe uitdagings. Adolessensie word gekenmerk deur ingrypende veranderinge met betrekking tot die terreine van die fisiologies-somatiese, kogni ti ewe, emosionele, identiteit, sosiale, morele en religieuse. 'n Multidimensionele perspektief is dus n vereiste met die oog op n verstaan en definiering van adolessensie. Om hierdie rede kan adolessensie vanuit 'n verskeidenheid van teoriee beskryf word. Hierdie biologiese, psigoanali tiese, psigososiale, antropologiese en ekologies-kontekstuele teoriee gee egter geen aandag aan 'n teologiese orientasie nie. Verder bied nie een van hierdie teoriee 'n perspektief wat die ontwikkelingsterreine tot 'n eenheid integreer nie. Die gevolg is dat daar nie 'n kernstruktuur is wat die verskillende ontwikkelingsveranderinge en ontwikkelingstake kan orden en 'n teologiese betekenis (semantiek) daaraan kan toeken nie. Binne die raamwerk van 'n prakties-teologiese orientasie word 'n Christelike spiritualiteit as teologiese perspektief op adolessensie beskou. Spiritualiteit is die mens se dinamiese respons op die transendente werklikheid. Vanuit 'n Bybelse antropologie word die mens beskou as 'n relasionele wese wat in die teenwoordigheid van God leef (die coram Deo beginsel). Die mens se totale lewe (ook die adolessent se ontwikkelingsveranderinge) word op God betrek. Spiritualiteit as semantiese struktuurkern funksioneer as geestelike lens wat 'n bepaalde fokus op die adolessent se ontwikkeling bied, en wat die verskillende ontwikkelingsprosesse tot 'n geiintegreerde geheel saamtrek. Deur spiritualiteit word adolessensie 'reframe' en as transendentteologiese roepingsterrein beskou. Die adolessent word geroep om die Skriftuurlik-evangeliese beginsels te internaliseer met betrekking tot eie ontwikkelingsprosesse. Die pastorale implikasie is dat die berader die proses waardeur 'n integrasie plaasvind tussen adolessente se spiri tualiteit en hul ontwikkelingsprosesse en probleemhantering, moet fasiliteer. Hierdie dinamika kan optimaal realiseer indien die berader binne die raamwerk van 'n relasie (as ontmoetingsgebeure) orienteer aan 'n epistemologie van deelname. In die beraadproses moet adolessente as verantwoordelike wesens beskou word wat betekenis aan eie ontwikkeling en probleme toeken. Verder moet pastorale beraad ook interdissipliner, ontwikkelingstoepaslik en ekosistemies gerig wees. / Adolescence is the developmental and tccansitional stage between childhood and adulthood. Although adolescence is marked by conflict, it should not be categorised as a problem period. It is a positive stage characterised by growth and challenging new processes. Adolescence is characterised by radical changes in the physiologicalsomatic, cognitive, emotional, identity, social, moral and religious spheres. A multidimensional perspective is therefore a prerequisite for understanding and defining adolescence. Adolescence can thus be described in terms of a wide range of theories. These biological, psychoanalytical, psychosocial, anthropological and ecological-contextual theories devote no attention to a theological orientation. None of the theories can offer an integrating and unifying perspective in regard to the developmental areas. The result is a lack of a centre of structure that has an ordering and theological meaning-qi ving (semantic) function with reference to the variety of developmental changes and tasks. Within the framework of a practical-theological orientation, a Christian spirituality is considered as theological perspective on adolescence. Spirituality is a person's dynamic response to the transcendent reality. A Biblical anthropology compels us to view human beings as relational beings who live in the presence of God (the coram Deo principle). Every aspect of a person's life (the adolescent's developmental changes included!) is implicated in this relationship with God. Spirituality as centre of semantic structure functions as a spiritual lens. It presents us with a particular focus on the development of the adolescent, and it integrates and unifies the developmental processes. By means of spirituality, adolescence is reframed and viewed as a transcendenttheological vocation. The adolescent is called to internalise the Biblicalevangelical principles with reference to his/her developmental processes. The pastoral implication is that the counsellor should facilitate the process through which adolescents integrate their spirituality with their development and management of problems. This dynamics can best be achieved within the framework of a relationship (personal encounter) in which the counsellor functions on the basis of an epistemology of participation. In the counselling process adolescents must be seen as responsible beings who can contribute meaning to their development and problems. Pastoral counselling should also be an interdisciplinary, developmentally appropriate and ecosystemic process. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Practical Theology)

Apparue dans l’arrêt fondateur Teckal de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne, l’exception « in house » l’une des sources de dérogation à l’application du droit de la commande publique. A l’origine essentiellement prétorien, ce procédé juridique revient à dispenser certains pouvoirs adjudicateurs des obligations de publicité et de mise en concurrence qui caractérisent le droit de la commande publique, lorsque ceux-ci entendent confier un activité, ou déléguer une mission, à un prestataire sur lequel ils exercent un contrôle analogue à celui qu’ils exercent sur leurs propres services, et qu’en retour, ce prestataire réalise plus de 80% de son activité avec le pouvoir adjudicateur qui le contrôle. Le prestataire, bien qu’extérieur à l’administration est alors assimilé à l’un de ses service propres, si bien que la mission est considéré comme réalisée « en interne », d’où l’expression « in house ». / No summary available

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T15:09:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1448868 bytes, checksum: b2301dbee10b1babd592237579b522b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Professional training for people with special needs in Brazil started being offered based on school segregation and integration models which contributed very little to the professionalization of students with disabilities. Studies on the professional preparation of students with disabilities have indicated that education for work programs offered by special institutions that organize their actions under such working models do not provide the necessary knowledge for the practice of a profession, nor contribute to professional inclusion as it imposes barriers to full participation of such students in society. 2001 National guidelines for the inclusion of special education in the basic education curriculum state that students with disabilities have the right to vocational training, aiming at promoting a productive integration into society. Accordingly, it recommends that public or private vocational education programs include students with disabilities. In 2008, the policy on inclusive education ensured that the inclusion of students with special needs in vocational education focused on the quality of the programs and determined that professional training institutions must have the support of special education through specialized educational services and other types of support in order to meet the specific educational needs of students with disabilities. In 2011, data from the Resumo Técnico do Censo Escolar da Educação Básica (Technical Summary of the Basic Education School Census) showed that only 0.24 % of special education students included in basic education were enrolled in vocational education programs. Given the national guidelines for the inclusion of special education in the basic education curriculum and the policy on inclusive education that ensures the inclusion of students with disabilities in vocational education, this study aimed to analyze the inclusion policy in this area of education, based on the following aspects: student access to vocational education, services and resources to support student retention and support to include students in the labor market. For this study, qualitative research was the chosen theoretical-methodological approach, and the research strategy used was case study through literature review, observation and semi-structured interview. Oral History Techniques were used to conduct the semi-structured interviews, and interview analysis was conducted using the content analysis method. The research was conducted at a technical and vocational education institution located in the city of Recife, State of Pernambuco. The study included three students with disabilities who graduated from a vocational education program of the researched institution. The testimonials of the interviewed students showed the contradiction between the official content of the inclusion policy and the actual accessibility of the programs as well as the training of the faculty involved. / A formação laboral oferecida à pessoa com deficiência no Brasil aconteceu tendo como base os modelos de segregação e integração escolar que pouco contribuiu para profissionalização dos estudantes com deficiência. Os estudos sobre a profissionalização dos alunos com deficiência têm indicado que programas de educação para o trabalho, realizados por instituições especiais que organizam suas ações laborais sob tais modelos, não disponibilizam nem os conhecimentos necessários para o exercício de uma profissão, nem contribuem para inclusão profissional à medida que impõe barreiras à participação plena do estudante com deficiência na sociedade. As diretrizes nacionais da educação especial para educação básica em 2001 afirmam que a educação profissional é um direito do aluno com deficiência e visa sua integração produtiva à sociedade. Nesse sentido, orienta aos sistemas de ensino profissional público ou privado a incluir alunos com deficiência. Em 2008, a política de educação inclusiva assegura que para a inserção do estudante com deficiência na educação profissional aconteça com qualidade, as instituições de formação profissional devem contar com o apoio da educação especial, através de atendimento educacional especializado e outros suportes, no intuito de atender as necessidades educacionais específicas dos estudantes com deficiência. Em 2011, os dados do Resumo Técnico do Censo Escolar da Educação Básica mostram que dos 100% de alunos da educação especial incluídos na educação básica, apenas 0,24% encontravam-se matriculados na educação profissional. Os dados censo escolar indicam que o acesso dos estudantes com deficiência a essa modalidade de ensino ainda é bastante restrito, apesar da existência de alguns programas de educação profissional inclusivos. Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar a política de inclusão nesta modalidade de ensino, tendo como base os seguintes aspectos: acesso do aluno à educação profissional, acessibilidade arquitetônica serviços e recursos de apoio à permanência e suportes à inclusão no mercado de trabalho. Para realização deste trabalho optamos pela pesquisa qualitativa como abordagem teórico-metodológica e como estratégia de pesquisa o Estudo de Caso, através de levantamento bibliográfico, observação e entrevista semiestruturada. Para realização da entrevista semiestruturada foi utilizada a técnica história oral e para análise das entrevistas, o método análise de conteúdo. Esta pesquisa foi realizada numa instituição de educação profissional e tecnológica do município do Recife, Estado de Pernambuco. Participaram deste estudo três estudantes com deficiência egressos dos cursos de educação profissional da instituição pesquisada. Os depoimentos dos estudantes entrevistados mostram a contradição entre o discurso oficial da política de inclusão e o contexto de acessibilidade arquitetônica e formação do professor.