This report discusses the design, development, and evaluation of a Chinese painting instructional project. The project discussed in this report introduces the novel idea of developing specific calligraphy skills in order to improve Chinese painting skills within a restricted time period (1-3 hours). The results show differences that are statistically significant between the pre and post test paintings created by 23 subjects from both the high school and the university level. The results of the evaluations can be found in the results section of this report. This report consists of a literature review, a project description, a description of the methodology used in the design project, evaluation results, and the full Chinese bamboo painting instructional material named Founding Chinese Bamboo Painting in Calligraphy: The Fourfold Approach (provided in Appendix A).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 David Luiz Mazzanti.pdf: 2133856 bytes, checksum: 42bf84db8b1bbaacf676eaac575aceed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-27 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This study is a qualitative research that aims to looked at four pairs of students in the 3rd grade of high school segment of the education of the Education of Young and Adults (EJA) from a public school and the central municipality of Franco da Rocha. These students solved problems four situations-problems, which were guided by the Ethnomathematics Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (1975), involving the Calculations labor using the mathematical concepts and Percentage of Rule of Three. Focus our research seeking to answer the following questions: 1) Why do students of the EJA have both interest and curiosity in learning calculations labor? What are those interests? 2) What have previous knowledge that students of EJA need for the resolution of situations-problem involving the calculations labor? 3) What are the difficulties presented by students of the EJA when solve situations-problem involving the calculations labor? 4) What impact caused when the math is presented in a contextualized way to the life of pupils of EJA? We used two instruments for research, the Instrument 1 that identified the labor concepts that the students surveyed had an interest in knowing and learning and Instrument 2 composed of four-problem situations and developed after the Instrument 1. Using us as some elements of the engineering teaching, we seek to build situations that could lead students to an autonomous stance with problem-solving strategies proposed, engaging them and making them actors of the learning process. Both search engines were sufficient to answer the four questions proposed above, and consequently the results were satisfactory, indicating that contextualizing the teaching of rule of three percent and the calculations using labor, the impact on the lives of students is seen so positive, making the learning process more meaningful / Este estudo é uma pesquisa qualitativa que tem como objetivo analisar quatro duplas de alunos da 3ª série do Ensino Médio do segmento de ensino da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) de uma escola pública e central do município de Franco da Rocha. Esses alunos resolveram quatro situações-problemas contextualizadas, que foram norteadas pela Etnomatemática de Ubiratan D Ambrósio (1975), envolvendo os Cálculos Trabalhistas utilizando os conceitos matemáticos de Porcentagem e Regra de Três. Focamos nossa pesquisa buscando responder às seguintes questões: 1) Por que os alunos da EJA têm tanto interesse e curiosidade na aprendizagem dos cálculos trabalhistas? Quais são esses interesses? 2) Quais os conhecimentos prévios que os alunos da EJA necessitam para a resolução de situações-problema envolvendo os cálculos trabalhistas? 3) Quais as dificuldades apresentadas pelos alunos da EJA quando solucionam situações-problema que envolvam os cálculos trabalhistas? 4) Qual o impacto causado quando a matemática é apresentada de uma maneira contextualizada para a vida dos alunos da EJA? Utilizamos dois instrumentos de pesquisa, o Instrumento 1 que identificava os conceitos trabalhistas que os alunos pesquisados tinham o interesse em conhecer e aprender e o Instrumento 2 composto de quatro situações-problema e elaborado após o Instrumento 1. Utilizando-nos assim de alguns elementos da engenharia didática, buscamos construir situações que levassem os alunos a uma atitude autônoma com estratégias de resolução de problemas propostos, engajando-os e tornando-os atores do processo de aprendizagem. Os dois instrumentos de pesquisa foram suficientes para responder as quatro questões propostas acima e, em conseqüência os resultados obtidos foram satisfatórios, o que revela que contextualizando o ensino de regra de três e porcentagem utilizando os cálculos trabalhistas, o impacto na vida dos alunos é visto de maneira positiva, tornado o processo de aprendizagem mais significativo

La pensée du vide anime les spiritualités de l’Extrême-Orient ; vide du taoïsme, vide du bouddhisme et leur rencontre dans des synthèses diverses. Elle est au cœur de l’art des lettres. Les artistes contemporains chinois ont reçu l’influence de l’art moderne occidental et, depuis une trentaine d’années de l’art contemporain ; certains d’entre eux ont su interroger cette matière nouvelle à l’aide d’une pensée clairement nourrie par la tradition. Loin d’être synonyme d’absence, le vide dans ces démarches rejoint une acceptation d’un réel lui-même soumis à la respiration du monde. Huang Yongping et Cai Guoqiang offrent deux exemples d’une approche où la question de l’identité et du dialogue avec l’Occident trouve son dépassement dans une stratégie récusant le dualisme qui prévaut habituellement dans ce genre de débat. Le monde occidental a été pour sa part fasciné depuis des siècles par l’art et par la pensée de l’Extrême-Orient. Le vide y a souvent pris les couleurs du néant dans un sens négatif (Hegel, Schopenhauer et Nietzsche). D’autres sources cependant sont venues enrichir l’ouverture à cette pensée. On ne citera ici que l'inspiration du bouddhisme zen si importante dans l'après-guerre (les publications récentes de Jacquelynn Baas, de Helen Westgeest et des auteurs rassemblés à l'occasion de l'exposition américaine The Third Mind en témoignent). Les artistes que j'ai retenus ici : Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, Robert Irwin, ont chacun un rapport original avec ce corpus d’images, de notions et d’expériences sans ignorer des apports proprement occidentaux. / Eastern spirituality is driven by thought about emptiness : that of Taoism and of Buddhism and their coming together in various syntheses. It is at the heart of the art of scholars. Contemporary Chinese artists have been influenced by Western modern art and, for the last thirty years, by contemporary art. Some of these artists have succeeded in using thought nourished by tradition in order to examine this new field. Far from being synonymous with absence, emptiness in these processes corresponds to an acceptance of a reality itself subordinated to the breathing of the world. Huang Yongping and Cai Guoqiang provide two examples of an approach in which the questions of identity and of dialogue with the West find its overcoming in a strategy disclaiming the dualism which usually prevails in this kind of debate. The Western world has been fascinated by the art and thought of the East for centuries. Emptiness has often been treated as nothingness in a negative sense (Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche). Other sources, however, have made us more open to the thought about emptiness. The inspiration of Zen Buddhism is only one example : recent publications by Jacquelynn Baas, Helen Westgeest and the authors gathered together by the American exhibition The Third Mind, all bear witness to its importance in the post-war period. The artists that I have selected here, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein and Robert Irwin, each have an original relationship with this corpus of images, concepts and experiences without ignoring the specifically Western contributions.

This thesis concentrates on literary works written by writers belonging to the resident Korean minority in Japan (zainichi Koreans). Through the use of postcolonial methodology, this work attempts to monitor the development and changes in the complex concept of "identity" in works written between the 1960s and 2010. The thesis is divided into two major parts. The first, theoretical part, explains the birth of the minority, the conflicts that influenced it and the changes it went through during its history. Postcolonial methodology is also explained, with focus put on the parts that are relevant to Japan. The second, practical part of the thesis, shortly explains the history of zainichi literature and then concentrates on five important postwar resident Korean writers - Ri Kaisei, Kin Kakuei, Yi Yang-ji, Kaneshiro Kazuki and Yu Miri. It analyzes between one and four works by each author and attempts to identify changes in the perception of "identity". It also takes into account female characters and the way they are portrayed by the authors and also the language the book is written in, focusing on whether the author chooses to incorporate the Korean language into the text.