O estudo aborda os aprendizados vivenciados por jovens estudantes que participam da Pastoral da Juventude Estudantil - PJE - no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. A ênfase da investigação não se deteve à condição escolar dos estudantes, mas sim a sua condição juvenil, específica de participantes de grupos de jovens da pastoral e aos aprendizados que ali acontecem, a partir das falas dos próprios jovens. A Pastoral da Juventude Estudantil consiste numa organização de jovens estudantes que tem como base a articulação de grupos de jovens nas escolas. Integra o conjunto das Pastorais da Juventude do Brasil - PJB -, que está ligado ao Setor Juventude da Igreja Católica. Desenvolve, através desta organização, a formação de lideranças a partir de princípios como o protagonismo juvenil, a formação integral, o desenvolvimento de ações sociais transformadoras e a vivência da espiritualidade. Para a realização da pesquisa, foram organizados três grupos de discussão, envolvendo 23 jovens que participam ou já fizeram parte da PJE. O primeiro grupo aconteceu com jovens egressos da pastoral e que possuíam no máximo 29 anos. O segundo foi realizado com jovens coordenadores da PJE. E o terceiro, com jovens iniciantes nos grupos de jovens que participam há pelo menos um ano. Os grupos de discussão foram a estratégia metodológica privilegiada para o levantamento dos dados da investigação O estudo apóia-se nos referenciais teóricos que tematizam as juventudes no mundo contemporâneo e a relação dos jovens com o saber. Contribuíram de modo significativo para o estudo autores como José Machado Pais, Alberto Melucci, Carles Feixa Pàmpols, Bernard Charlot, Helena Abramo, Marília Pontes Sposito e Dina Krauskopf. A investigação empreendida junto aos jovens da PJE a respeito de seus aprendizados nos grupos de jovens resultou na organização e análise de três eixos aos quais se voltam às atenções dos participantes quanto aos temas: socialização, subjetividade e saber. No primeiro são referidos aprendizados sobre temas voltados aos processos grupais e tudo aquilo que envolvem as experiências realizadas em comum. No segundo, destacam-se aqueles relacionados diretamente à pessoa do jovem nas diversas dimensões da subjetividade. Já no terceiro são referidos os aprendizados relativos a dois conjuntos, o dos saberes práticos e o dos saberes relacionais. Os jovens ressaltam que os aprendizados não se restringem à sua participação e utilização nos grupos da PJE. Destacam que se apropriam dos mesmos de modo a mantê-los presentes em suas trajetórias, fazendo uso destes em outros coletivos em que transitam, nas suas escolhas profissionais, em suas relações interpessoais e nos projetos de vida que formulam. / The study broaches the learning lived by young students who participate in the Student Youth Pastoral in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The emphasis of the investigation has not detained to the scholar condition of the students, but to their juvenile condition, particular of participants of youth groups of the pastoral and to the learning that takes place there, as of the speeches of the youngsters themselves. The Student Youth Pastoral consists of an organization of young students that has as basis the articulation of youth groups in the schools. It integrates the entirety of the Youth Pastorals of Brazil, which is linked to the Youth Sector of the Catholic Church. It develops, through this organization, the formation of leaderships as of principles such as the juvenile protagonists, the integral formation, the development of transforming social actions and the living of the spirituality. For the accomplishment of this research, three groups of discussion were organized, involving 23 youngsters who participate or have already been part of the Student Youth Pastoral. The first group occurred with youngsters withdrawn from the pastoral and who were at the utmost 29 years old. The second one was accomplished with young coordinators of the Student Youth Pastoral, and the third one with young beginners in the groups of youngsters who participate at least for one year.The groups of discussion were the privileged methodological strategy for the survey of the data of the investigation. The study supports itself in the theoretical references that make a theme out of the youths in the contemporary world, and the relation of the youngsters with the knowledge. Authors like José Machado Pais, Alberto Melucci, Carles Feixa Pàmpols, Bernard Charlot, Helena Abramo, Marília Pontes Sposito and Dina Krauskopf contributed significantly for the study. The investigation undertaken close to the young people of the Student Youth Pastoral about their learning in the groups of youth groups resulted in the organization and analysis of three axes to which the attentions of the participants turn around for the matter of the themes: socialization, subjectivity and knowledge. In the first one, learning about the themes related to the group processes is referred to, and all that involve the experiences accomplished in common. In the second, those related directly to the person of the young in the diverse dimensions of the subjectivity are pointed out. Now in the third one, the learning related to two sets, the one of the practical knowledge and the one of the relational knowledge is referred to. The youngsters point out that the learning does not limit on their participation and utilization in the groups of the Student Youth Pastoral. They point out that they are suitable for them in the way of maintain them present in their trajectories, making use of these in other collectives in which they transit, in their professional choices, in their interpersonal relations and in the projects of life that they formulate.

This thesis examines the interaction between religion and empire in Manchester between 1876 and 1899 with particular focus on the Catholic Church. The existing story of imperialism and religion in Manchester argues that by 1900 there existed a common imperial culture across all Churches. Whilst this is convincing, this thesis examines the Catholic story, which has not been substantially investigated before, and uncovers more varied reasons for imperial engagement, and differences in emphasis, than previously acknowledged.The struggle for elementary education has been seen as the dominant factor which led to a new confidence and political maturity amongst Catholics by the year 1900. This thesis shows how other decisions taken on a local level by Catholic hierarchies and laymen were also important. The thesis analyses the key role played by Bishop Vaughan of Salford and other clergy in the formation of the Manchester Geographical Society (MGS). The nature of the MGS is placed within the wider literature on geographical societies. The influence of religious figures on geographical societies and cultures of exploration in England, has been previously neglected. Vaughan's aims for involvement in the MGS were diverse, including the greater involvement of Catholics in civil society, a redefinition of the Catholic image, and a more closely defined role for Catholics in the British empire. The MGS emerges as a hybrid institution, of competing aims and values, rather than a commercial pressure group. The foundation by Bishop Vaughan of St. Bede's College in Manchester, for the Catholic middle class of the city, is then described. The technical and geographical education developed at the school, by Vaughan and Prefect of Studies Louis Charles Casartelli, was formulated to strengthen the commercial nature of the growing Catholic middle class, and in the longer term to aid both the assimilation of local Catholics into society, and to change the image of the faith to one which was engaged with aspects of the modern world and the wider empire. The museum at the school is also shown to have played a key role in redefining geography as a subject. Bishop Vaughan and Louis Charles Casartelli actively engaged with modern developments in Manchester, and aspects of contemporary society such as imperialism, exploration and commerce.No previous study has analysed St. Bede's College to any extent. This thesis uses the MGS Archive located at Greater Manchester County Record Office, many documents from which have never been analysed. Material is also used from the Church Lads' Brigade archive near Rotherham, and from St. Bede's College.

Jag vill med denna studie redogöra för hur ungdomar kommunicerar och presenterar sig själva på Facebook. Syftet är att undersöka vilka identiteter som skapas på Facebook och om Facebook påverkar ungdomars identitetsarbete. Jag har valt att använda mig av observationer och har under en period fått studera en grupp ungdomar på Facebook i åldrarna 11-23. Med utgångspunkt i begreppet identitet har jag bland annat studerat gruppen utifrån teorier om hur vi alla spelar teater och framträder i olika roller och den sociala interaktionen på Facebook. Jag har också tagit fasta på forskning kring ungdomskulturer och grupptillhörighet och hur ungdomar laborerar och kommunicerar med olika symboler. Resultatet visar på att det uppstår genrer på Facebook där användarna framträder i olika identiteter. Dessa träder fram på olika sätt och i olika grad och har byggts samman med hjälp av olika verktyg som finns på Facebook. Det framkommer också att Facebook påverkar ungdomars identitetsarbete / This study describes how young people communicate and present themselves on Facebook. The aim is to investigate the identities created on Facebook and on Facebook influence young people's identity work. I have been studying and observed a group of youths on Facebook aged 11-23. Based on the concept of identity I have, among other things, studied the group based on theories of how we all play theater and appearing in different roles and social interaction on Facebook. I have also taken note of research on youth culture and group identity and how it manipulates young people and communicate with different symbols. The results show the emergence of genres on Facebook where users appear in different identities. These are emerging in various ways and to different degrees, and have been compiled using various tools available on Facebook. It also emerges that this affects the youth's identity work

This study was designed to assess the effects of a peer ministry training course upon adolescents' ability to respond empathetically and upon their level of moral development. Volunteers from a church's high school group were blocked by gender and randomly divided into two groups . Adolescents in the treatment group were trained in thirteen sessions basic helping skills (emphasizing empathy) and measured before and after training on variables of empathy, moral development, and internality - externality. Adolescents in the second group were used as a control and were measured with the same assessment devices.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juan Andres Hidalgo Lora.pdf: 1153660 bytes, checksum: 1f4e221bb201508e627e6cdefb1a1df9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-16 / This dissertation is based on the worldwide evident withdrawal of the youths from the catholic churches. The new structures and the unquestionable realities of the post-modern world, mainly the multitechnological world, demand a review of their pastoral regarding the youths, forsaking archaic structures while searching for the new evangelical. First we need to know the world of the youths, their aspirations, dreams and difficulties to reach their goals in life. The youths are innately full of emotions, open-minded and long for comradeship. Here is where religions in general have the mission to make them discover the shining path of the soul. Based on experts who have studied this crisis and supported by researches carried out in a parish of the Dominican Republic as a sample, we propose a brotherly welcome and a subsequent follow-up programme for the youths as a possible solution for this impasse. The awareness of their constituting elements and the deep study of their aggregative psychology can help the youths to ponder upon their dignity as sons of God / Esta dissertação é inspirada na constatação do universal afastamento da juventude das igrejas católicas. Novas estruturas e as incontestáveis realidades do mundo pós-moderno, sobretudo multitecnológico, exigem revisão de sua pastoral em relação ao mundo jovem, o abandono de estruturas arcaicas, em busca do novo evangélico. Para uma possível solução, é preciso conhecer antes o mundo da juventude, com suas aspirações, sonhos e dificuldades para atingir seu ideal de vida. O jovem é por natureza rico em emoções, abertura, busca de companheirismo. Ora aqui cabe a missão das religiões em geral que podem levar os jovens a descobrirem a senda luminosa do espírito. Com base em especialistas no estudo dessa crise e em pesquisa, especialmente montada para este fim, realizada numa paróquia da República Dominicana, como amostragem, são propostos a acolhida fraterna e o posterior acompanhamento dos jovens como possível solução desse impasse. Seus elementos constitutivos, o aprofundamento de sua psicologia agregacional podem ajudar os jovens a refletirem sobre sua dignidade de filhos de Deus

Andledningen till att vi valt att undersöka Generation Z är för att vi som blivande studie- och yrkesvägledare kommer arbeta med dessa ungdomar. Generation Z är fortfarande unga men det hindrar dem inte från att vara uppkopplade på olika sociala medier. Aldrig tidigare har en generation haft så enkelt att hitta vad de söker efter. Den här generationen ligger i vårt intresse eftersom vi som framtida studie- och yrkesvägledare ska mer försöka knyta ihop säcken med all information som ges. / The reason that we have chosen to examine Generation Z is that we as a future career counselors will work with these young people. Generation Z is still young but it does not prevent them from being online on various social media. Never before has a generation have so easy to find what they are looking for. This generation is in our interest because as future career counselor will we try to tie together all the information provided.

Summaries in Afrikaans and English / This research has shown that young people of different cultural groups have had and still have limited contact due to the history of our country. This contributed to the fact that there were, and still are, very few opportunities to build relationships. An introductory chapter in which the research methodology is explained, is followed by a discussion utilizing recent literature, of the question how the building of relationships can take place within the context of a diverse youth ministry (chapter 2). It became clear that the church, in its ministry to diverse youth groups, should create opportunities where the quality of relationships can be enhanced. In the research it was found that experiential learning activities, such as initiative activities, could have a positive influence on interpersonal skills in intercultural relationships (chapters 3 and 4). In chapter 5, firstly, certain conclusions were drawn. Secondly, recommendations were made and guidelines formulated regarding the building of relationships in the ministry to diverse youth groups. / Die navorsing vir hierdie studie het getoon dat jeugdiges van verskillende kultuurgroepe vanwee ons land se geskiedenis beperkte kontak gehad het en nog steeds het. Dit het meegebring dat geleenthede om verhoudinge te bou min was en steeds is. Na 'n inleidende hoofstuk waarin die navorsingsmetodologie uiteengesit word, volg 'n bespreking, aan die hand van resente literatuur oor die vraag hoe verhoudingsbou kan plaasvind in 'n diverse jeugbedieningkonteks (hoofstuk 2). Daaruit het dit duidelik geword dat die kerk in sy bediening aan diverse jeuggroepe geleenthede behoort te skep waartydens die kwaliteit van verhoudinge verbeter kan word. Die navorsing het bevind dat ervaringsleeraktiwiteite, byvoorbeeld inisiatiefaktiwiteite, 'n positiewe invloed kan he op interpersoonlike vaardighede in interkulturele verhoudinge (hoofstukke 3 en 4). In hoofstuk 5 is eerstens bepaalde gevolgtrekkings gemaak. Tweedens is aanbevelings gedoen en riglyne geformuleer met die oog op verhoudingsbou in die bediening aan diverse jeuggroepe. / Social Work / M. Diac. (Youth Work)

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The objective of the investigation is to analyze the main challenges, conflicts, struggles, initiatives and advances faced by these young people; what they learn and live in their families, schools, workplace, homes, and in their participation in youth groups; their interpersonal and group relationships in private and public spaces and the consequences of their personal and collective lives. Methodologically, the research is developed with the utilization of questionnaires that configure the profile of participating youth and describe the path of each one of the three groups, and of focal groups and semi-structured interviews, which try to understand perceptions, concepts and experiences of class, gender and race/ethnic relations throughout their childhood, adolescence and youth. We investigated what it means to be young in the periphery, the conformation of the relationships among the youth and between the youth and the adults, the division of tasks and living space, the building and the living of subjectivities and gender and ethnic-racial relationships. The conceptual references that base the analyses are from contemporary authors belonging to different areas of the social sciences, such as Education, Psychology, Social Services, for the theme of the youth, which currently has appeared with more strength, requires multidisciplinary attention to be better understood. The results confirm the hypothesis that belonging to youth groups, with the sponsorships and the cultural, social and political propitiates a new meaning and the existence of new gender and ethnic-racial relationships, signaled by respect, equity, dialogue and altering, different from what was learned in their childhood and is still lived in the family, in the school and in the school, and in some instances of the society. They also point that the relationships with new meanings represent possibilities for these youth to transform themselves in socializing and multiplying agents, contributing to their own integration as citizens, as well the integration of other youth / A presente tese de doutorado tem por objeto conhecer os processos de socialização experimentados por três grupos juvenis, pertencentes a segmentos populares e formado por moradores da periferia de São Paulo: Coquetel Molotov, localizado em Itaquera, Zona Leste; Núcleo Cultural Força Ativa, em Cidade Tiradentes, Zona Leste; e Núcleo Cultural Poder e Revolução, no Jardim São Savério, Zona Sudeste. O objetivo da investigação é o de analisar os principais desafios, conflitos, lutas, iniciativas e avanços enfrentados por esses jovens; seus aprendizados e vivências na família, na escola, no trabalho, nos locais de moradia e na participação em grupos juvenis; suas relações interpessoais e grupais em espaços privados e públicos e as decorrências em suas trajetórias de vida pessoal e coletiva. Metodologicamente, a pesquisa se desenvolve com a utilização de questionários, que configuram o perfil de jovens participantes e descrevem o trajeto de cada um dos três grupos, e de grupos focais e entrevistas semi-estruturadas, que procuram apreender percepções, conceitos e experiências de relações de classe, gênero e raça-etnia, no decorrer de suas infâncias, adolescências e juventudes. Investigam-se os significados de ser jovem na periferia, a conformação de relações entre os jovens e entre jovens e adultos, a divisão de tarefas e espaços de convivências, as construções e vivências de subjetividades e de relações de gênero e étnico-raciais. Os referenciais conceituais que fundamentam as análises são principalmente de autores contemporâneos pertencentes a diferentes áreas das ciências sociais, tais como Educação, Psicologia, Serviço Social, Sociologia, pois o tema das juventudes, que vem despontado com mais força na atualidade, demanda olhares multidisciplinares para melhor compreensão. Os resultados confirmam a hipótese de que o pertencimento a grupos juvenis, com protagonismos e participações culturais, sociais e políticas, propicia a ressignificação e a existência de novas relações de gênero e de raça-etnia, sinaladas por respeito, eqüidade, diálogo e alteridade, na contramão do que foi aprendido na infância e ainda é vivido na família, na escola e em algumas instâncias da sociedade. Apontam igualmente que as relações ressignificadas representam possibilidades de que esses jovens se transformem em agentes socializadores e multiplicadores, contribuindo para sua integração cidadã, assim como a de outros jovens

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Quais os sentidos e significados produzidos sobre a experiência da Educação Social com jovens afrodescendentes a partir de políticas públicas de juventude? Essa pergunta de partida orientou outras: que concepções de juventude possuem os educadores sociais que mediam as práticas socioeducativas com jovens? Quais as implicações de práticas discriminatórias para vida dos jovens afrodescendentes no Brasil e em Portugal? Que perspectivas os jovens afrodescendentes imprimem em seus trajetos a partir da experiência de educação social? Ancorada nos estudos da Pedagogia Social, reflete em seis seções sobre a educação social e sua relação com a juventude e afrodescendência. Tomando a pesquisa qualitativa como caminho, o método estudo de caso foi construído através de observação sistemática em projetos sociais em Salvador e Lisboa e entrevistas com gestores de políticas públicas, educadores sociais, jovens, pais de jovens, movimento social e intelectuais. A cultura negra africana emerge como ação de autoria da juventude afrodescendente e as práticas educativas da educação social são debatidas em meio as vulnerabilidades e estigmas denunciados pelos jovens. A comunidade e o bairro social aparecem como lugares de pertencimento e identidade da juventude. Como inspiração para novos debates, elencamos a perspectiva de uma educação intercultural, a formação de educadores para atuação de/para/com as juventudes e a valorização da heterogeneidade e diversidade na prática social e educativa que valide a vivência étnica/racial. / ABSTRACT This doctoral thesis in education analyzes the purposes and meanings of the social education experience of young Afro-descendants who participate in public policies directed at the youth of Brazil and Portugal. What are the purposes and meanings produced about the experience of Social Education with young Afro-descendants based on public youth policies? This initial question guided others: What conceptions of youth do social educators have that mediate socioeducational practices with young people? What are the implications of discriminatory practices for the lives of young Afro-descendants in Brazil and Portugal? What perspectives do young Afro-descendants develop during their paths based on the social education experience? Drawing on Social Pedagogy research, the thesis is divided into six sections on social education and its relation with the youth and Afro-descents. Taking qualitative research as a reference, the case study method was constructed through systematic observation of social projects in Salvador and Lisbon and interviews with public policy makers, social educators, young people, parents of young people, social movements and intellectuals. Black African culture emerges as an action by the Afro-descendant youth and social education practices are debated amid the vulnerabilities and stigmas denounced by young people. The community and the social neighborhood appear as places of youth belonging and identity. As an inspiration for new debates, we highlight the perspective of an intercultural education, the formation of educators to work with and / or/with the youth and the valorization of heterogeneity and diversity in social and educational practice that validates the ethnic/racial experience / RIZUMU Ke-li e um tezi di dotoramentu na edukason ki tem komu objetivu analiza sentidus y signifikadu di speriensia di edukason sosial vivensiadus pa joven afrodisendenti ki ta participa di pulitikas publikas voltadus pa juventudi na Brazil y na Purtugal. Kal e sentidu y signifikadu ki ta produzidu sobri expiriensia di edukason sosial ku joven afrodisendentis a partir di pulitikas publikas di juventudi? Kel purgunta di partida li ta leva a otus purgunta: ki konsepson di juventudi edukadoris sosial ten ki ta media pratikas sosioedukativus ku jovens? Kal e inplikason di pratikas diskriminatorias pa vida di jovens afrodisendentis na Brazil y na Purtugal? Ki perspektivas jovens afrodisendentis ta poi na se-s trajetus a partir di spiriensia di edukason sosial_ finkadu na studus di pedagojia sosial, ta rifleti na 6 sekson sobri edukason sosial y se rilason ku juventudi y ku afrodisendensia. Sa tomadu peskiza kualitativa komu caminhu, metudu di studu di kazu foi konstruidu atraves di observason sistematiku na prujetus sosial na Salvador y Lisboa y entrevistas ku jestoris di pulitikas publikas, edukadoris sosial, jovens, pais di jovens, muvimentu sosial y intelektual. Kultura negro afrikana surji komu ason di auturia di juventudi afro disendenti y pratikas educativas di edukason sosial e divididu na meiu, vulnerabilidadi y stigma denunsiadu pa jovens. Kumunidadi y bairu sosial ta parsi komu lugar di pertensimentu y identidadi di juventudi. Komu inspirason pa novus dibatis nu ta txoma un perspektiva di un edukason intercultural, formason di edukadoris pa atuason di/pa/ku joventudi y valorizason di eterojeinidadi y diversidadi na pratika sosial y edukativa ki ta valida vivensia etnika/rasial.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Uma proposta de formação teológico-musical das juventudes, a partir do contexto de um grupo de louvor. Averigua de que forma se dá esta formação e como pode ser trabalhada com intencionalidade. No primeiro capítulo, são contextualizadas as três grandezas constituintes da pesquisa: as juventudes, a música sacra contemporânea e a educação cristã em contexto evangélico-luterano. No segundo capítulo, aborda os diferentes paradigmas que sustentaram a música sacra em contexto evangélicoluterano, as correntes da música sacra atual e, a partir do contexto contemporâneo, o fenômeno gospel. O terceiro capítulo trabalha com as narrativas de vida de seis jovens, que participam de um grupo de louvor e adoração. A partir dessas narrativas, emergem quatro categorias para a análise: formação de vínculos, protagonismo e tutela, compreensão de papéis e funções e a aprendizagem no e a partir do grupo. O quarto capítulo esboça um diálogo entre a prática no grupo de louvor, o Plano de Educação Cristã Contínua da Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana no Brasil e a teoria sócio-interacionista proposta por Vygotsky. O quinto capítulo faz uma proposta de formação teológico-musical que pode servir de subsídio para o trabalho com jovens em contexto comunitário, a partir de reflexões e de práticas / A proposal for theological-musical training for youth groups based on the context of a praise group. It verifies in what way this training takes place and how it can be worked with intentionality. In the first chapter, the three constituting groupings of the research paper are contextualized: the youth groups, contemporary sacred music and Christian education in an Evangelical-Lutheran context. In the second chapter, the different paradigms which sustained sacred music in the Evangelical Lutheran context, the currents of modern sacred music and, based on the contemporary context, the Gospel phenomenon are dealt with. The third chapter works with the life narratives of six youth who participate in a praise and adoration group. Based on these narratives, four categories arise for analysis: formation of ties, protagonism and tutelage, comprehension of roles and functions and the learning in and based on the group. The fourth chapter outlines a dialogue between the practice in the praise group, the Plan for Continuing Christian Education of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil and the social-interactionist theory proposed by Vygotsky. The fifth chapter presents a proposal for theological-musical training which can serve as a resource for the work with youth groups in the congregational context, based on reflections and practices.