On the African continent South Africa is unequivocally the economic and military giant. As the continental hegemon, the state has sought the reform of the unequal global economy in order to enhance the participation in the global political economy of all African countries. The South African government projects the discourse of African solidarity in driving global reforms, emphasising that such reforms will be of benefit to both the continent as a whole, and to the South African state. Within this context, it is the purpose of this dissertation to determine with greater clarity who stands to gain from South Africa’s efforts. In other words, is South Africa acting to acquire economic growth and development for Africa as a whole, or is the country primarily acting to secure its own wealth and power? In short, this study investigates whether South Africa – as the continental hegemon – is acting in a benevolent or selfish manner in its undertakings. The assessment of South Africa’s hegemony is presented in a theoretical schema constructed with a focus on the three main theories of international relations, namely liberalism, realism and structuralism. Each of these theories is employed descriptively as well as prescriptively as tools to evaluate the nature of the African political economy, and South African action versus rhetoric. Applying these conceptual lenses, South Africa’s position on three aspects of the African political economy are assessed and evaluated. These three areas of the political economy – trade, debt and foreign direct investment – serve as case studies revealing South Africa’s benevolence and/or selfishness. In brief, South Africa is pressing for the reform of the international financial architecture; rhetorically, the state seeks free trade and enhanced export opportunities for all African states; the country is urging foreign creditors to reduce Africa’s external debt; South African leaders have recommended that their counterparts establish an investor-friendly climate in Africa as a means to enhance foreign investments on the continent. South Africa’s actions have the potential to benefit the African continent as a whole, and simultaneously advance the state’s interests. The findings of this study point out that (a) each of the three theories can be utilised to describe South Africa’s rhetoric and actions, and (b) the essence of South Africa’s hegemony is neither entirely benevolent, nor exclusively selfish. / Mr. P.P Fourie

Esta dissertação de mestrado versa sobre as oficinas ferroviárias, adotando-se como caso de estudo as \"Officinas Companhia Mogyana\", da Companhia Mogiana de Estradas de Ferro e Navegação, estabelecidas em Campinas, São Paulo, no início do século XX. A discussão proposta insere-se no campo de estudo do patrimônio industrial e visa contribuir para o reconhecimento, a análise e, em última instância, a preservação de remanescentes da arquitetura ferroviária paulista. O recorte temporal adotado, entre os anos de 1897 e 1908, corresponde ao período de concepção das idéias, do projeto e da execução das oficinas, com a implantação gradual de suas diversas edificações, conformando no pátio ferroviário central de Campinas um verdadeiro complexo industrial destinado ao funcionamento daquela ferrovia. Utilizando fontes documentais diversas, buscou-se investigar as diretrizes internacionalmente difundidas à época para a construção de oficinas ferroviárias, bem como a reinterpretação dessas para a realidade brasileira. Por meio do estudo das \"Officinas Companhia Mogyana\", foi possível averiguar a repercussão desses preceitos na determinação da planta industrial estabelecida pela companhia, especificamente em relação às decisões projetuais e de partido. Além disso, utilizando-se de documentos institucionais da Mogiana, mormente os relatórios da diretoria, e de visitas de campo, buscou-se analisar as diversas edificações componentes do conjunto usina geradora, seção de locomotivas, seção de carros e vagões, fundição e rotunda sob a perspectiva de sua funcionalidade e operacionalidade, como também da técnica construtiva empregada, dos arranjos formais e composições estilísticas e das transformações por que passaram ao longo de sua existência. As discussões promovidas intentam vislumbrar outras possibilidades de estudo das edificações ferroviárias, entendendo-as também como complexo produtivo e, conseqüentemente, espaço de trabalho. / This dissertation is about railway workshops, based on a case study entitled \"Officinas Companhia Mogyana\" [Mogiana Railway Workshops] of the Mogiana Railway and Navigation Company, which was established in the city of Campinas, Brazil, in the early 20th century. This discussion is classified as a study in industrial heritage and is intended as a contribution toward the recognition, analysis and, most importantly, the preservation of what remains of the railway\'s architecture in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The period of conception of the ideas, design and construction of the workshops, with the gradual implementation of its many different buildings, extended from 1897 to 1908, and created a veritable industrial complex at its central yards in Campinas, out of which the entire railway operated. Using several different documentary sources, the dissertation represents an investigation into guidelines that were internationally recognized during the period when the workshops were constructed, and also shows how these guidelines were adapted in terms of Brazilian reality. By studying the \"Officinas Companhia Mogyana\", it became possible to verify the repercussion of these standards in determining the industrial plant that the company built, specifically in relation to the decisions concerning the designs and concepts. In addition, based on institutional documents of the Mogiana Company itself, especially reports issued by the senior management, and field visits, the author seeks to analyze the various components of the complex such as the generator, the locomotive section, the freight and passenger cars section, the foundry and the roundhouse from the perspective of their functionality and operationality. The construction techniques used, the formal arrangements and stylistic compositions, and the changes implanted during its existence are also described. The resulting discussions bring up other possibilities for studying the railroad buildings, also seen as a production complex and, consequently, a workplace.

O presente trabalho tem como estímulo inicial uma pesquisa desenvolvida pelo Professor Doutor Antonio Luiz Dias Januzelli e a doutoranda Juliana Jardim que entre os anos de 1999 e 2000, coletaram em forma de entrevista experiências e vivências práticas de oito professores profissionais de teatro, objetivando tornar público os seus procedimentos e suas práticas centradas na formação do ator contemporâneo em São Paulo. Este presente trabalho se propôs investigar quatro destes depoimentos, a saber: Cristaine Paoli-Quito, Luiz Damasceno, Márcio Aurélio e Myrian Muniz, cruzando suas práticas, avaliando conteúdos convergentes e divergentes nos diferentes processos assim como desenvolver uma possível sistematização orgânica unificada desses conteúdos. / The present work has as initial stimulus a research developed by Doctor Professor Antonio Luiz Dias Januzelli and the graduate student Juliana Jardim that between 1999 and 2000, interviewed eight professors and theatrical professionals with the objectives of publication their proceedings and their practical approaching and training of actors at São Paulo. This present work took four interviewed pronouncements such as: Crisitane Paoli Quito, Luiz Damasceno, Márcio Aurélio e Myrian Muniz and tried to cross their practical work, analyzing the similarities and differences of their jobs and also build a possible unified system characterized by their contents.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T20:05:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho analisa uma intervenção em educação em saúde realizada por meio de oficinas de contadores de histórias com um grupo de adolescentes atendidos em um programa sócio-educativo, em Porto Alegre. O objetivo foi problematizar a sexualidade, a partir da leitura e elaboração de histórias pelos jovens. A análise dos dados pautou-se nos estudos de Michel Foucault. Os jovens manifestaram dificuldade em se comprometer com a proposta, referindo-se a si mesmos como aqueles que não são capazes de apreender. Nas conversas e nas histórias construídas, eles falaram das violências presentes no cotidiano: a pobreza, a fome, a droga, a vida na rua, o tratamento desigual que recebem na instituição. Nos repertórios se mesclaram padrões tradicionais sobre sexo/gênero, traduzidos no desejo de namorar, casar, ter filhos, ao mesmo tempo em que usaram gírias e ironias em relação aos aspectos proibidos da sexualidade. Oficinas de histórias podem ser de valia nas práticas de educação em saúde como ferramentas para trabalhar / This work analyses a public health intervention based on storytellers workshops with adolescents attended by a social and educative program in Porto Alegre city. The objective was to problematize sexuality, starting from story reading and elaboration by the teenagers. The data analysis was based on Michel Foucault studies. The teenagers expressed difficulties to establish a commitment with the proposal, referring themselves as the ones who are not capable of learning. Throughout the conversations and the stories constructions, they talked about the violent situations on daily life: the poverty, the hunger, the drugs, the street life, and the unequal treatment they receive at institution. The repertoires mixed traditional patterns related to sex/gender, translated in the desire for dating, getting married, having children and, at the same time, they used slang and ironies related to forbidden aspects of sexuality. Story workshops can be helpful as tools in educational health practices, in order to work with pe

O presente trabalho tem como estímulo inicial uma pesquisa desenvolvida pelo Professor Doutor Antonio Luiz Dias Januzelli e a doutoranda Juliana Jardim que entre os anos de 1999 e 2000, coletaram em forma de entrevista experiências e vivências práticas de oito professores profissionais de teatro, objetivando tornar público os seus procedimentos e suas práticas centradas na formação do ator contemporâneo em São Paulo. Este presente trabalho se propôs investigar quatro destes depoimentos, a saber: Cristaine Paoli-Quito, Luiz Damasceno, Márcio Aurélio e Myrian Muniz, cruzando suas práticas, avaliando conteúdos convergentes e divergentes nos diferentes processos assim como desenvolver uma possível sistematização orgânica unificada desses conteúdos. / The present work has as initial stimulus a research developed by Doctor Professor Antonio Luiz Dias Januzelli and the graduate student Juliana Jardim that between 1999 and 2000, interviewed eight professors and theatrical professionals with the objectives of publication their proceedings and their practical approaching and training of actors at São Paulo. This present work took four interviewed pronouncements such as: Crisitane Paoli Quito, Luiz Damasceno, Márcio Aurélio e Myrian Muniz and tried to cross their practical work, analyzing the similarities and differences of their jobs and also build a possible unified system characterized by their contents.

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In 1959, Federico Zeri isolated an Umbrian painter and named him the Master of the Greenville after the Madonna and Child with Angels tondo in Greenville, South Carolina. Through connoisseurship, scholars have since attributed over thirty-two works to the Master of the Greenville, categorizing the anonymous artist as a close follower of Perugino's style. My research focuses on a Nativity panel now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, Florida. It is called the Jonas Nativity after its former owner, the late art collector Harriet H. Jonas. Through connoisseurship, scholars have almost exclusively focused on attributing the Jonas Nativity to an artist in the framework of Perugino's stylistic influence. Although the Jonas Nativity is clearly indebted to Perugino, the emphasis on naming the artist has led to formal analyses that almost exclusively rely on connoisseurship. As a result, there is virtually no critical analysis on the Jonas Nativity outside the context of this method. Pietro Scarpellini has argued that scholars place too much emphasis on Peruginoís stylistic influence when interpreting Umbrian art ñ he labeled this problem the ìmyth of Perugino.î Scarpellini asserts that the myth is a methodological emphasis on Peruginoís stylistic influence on Umbrian images. Scarpellini traces the origins of the myth to Vasari, who wrote in Peruginoís biography that he established a significant stylistic following in Umbria. Later, Vasariís account was interpreted by writers of the Romantic Period as an Umbrian School of Painting dominated by Perugino; this viewpoint has remained prevalent in critical interpretations on Umbrian art through today. This study recognizes the general stylistic impact of Perugino on the Jonas Nativity, but shifts focus by shedding light on how the painting likely fit into the culture of late fifteenth-century Umbrian patronage and workshop practices. In doing so, I show how the Jonas Nativity can be read as a product of a patronage system largely dominated by Umbriaís ruling families during the late fifteenth-century. While Peruginoís art affected the stylistic qualities of the Jonas Nativity, the market demands of Umbriaís ruling noble patrons greatly dictated the structure and output of workshops in which the Master of the Greenville probably worked. My investigation intends to expand the critical inquiry of the Jonas Nativity and lay the groundwork for a methodological balance between the influence of Perugino and the cultural forces shaping Umbria's early modern images.

During 1973 a series of land use planning workshops for local officials and interested citizens was held in the multi-county planning districts of the state of Utah. The workshops were based on a planning process which had been used in Wasatch County, Utah, to develop the Heber Valley Plan. The emphasis of this process and of the workshops was the involvement of the citizens of the community in the planning process and the use of natural resource information as an additional basis for making planning decisions. The evaluation includes a description of significant results of the Heber Valley Plan, events leading to a series of workshops, a typical workshop program, and activities which followed the workshops. A questionnaire was sent to a sample of workshop participants in order to assess the response to the program. A content analysis was made of written comments on the returned questionnaires. A rating sheet was also prepared for use in evaluating or preparing educational literature for land use planning. Results showed the workshops to be successful in creating awareness of the need for community input and the uses of natural resource information. They were less successful in providing "how to do it" type information. Included in the Appendix are A Workbook on Land Use Planning, prepared specifically for these workshops, and The Heber Valley Story, also distributed at the workshops.

In this exploration, participatory planning workshops are used to implement the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) initiative in a grade six class in Winnipeg. The approach is an effective student-centered strategy that meets the needs of children with a range of learning abilities. The benefits of participatory planning workshops for students with special needs emerged as a key success of the process. Grounded in the principles of community engagement, this document connects children’s rights to citizenship with the need to engage children in planning for sustainable development. Semi-structured interviews were integral to understanding the unique needs of the participant class. Challenges that emerged during the parental consent and student assent process are examined and strategies for future interdisciplinary collaborations are identified. An extensive literature review explores the emergence of youth participation in planning and a range of best practices for engaging children in participatory student-led processes. This research investigates international strategies for implementing the ESD initiative and considers emergent best practices at student, institutional and government levels. Schools are examined as components of community infrastructure that influence neighbourhood design and shape development. As school infrastructure ages and school facilities are challenged to become more sustainable, engaging with school communities in planning, design, renovation or building will be an important skill for planning professionals. Developing the necessary knowledge, skills and values to engage children in planning processes is illustrated as an integral component of this process. / February 2009

Thesis (M.A.)--California State University Channel Islands, 2008. / Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Education. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed September 22, 2008).