Professora ou Tia? A polêmica formação do professor do primeiro segmento do Ensino Fundamental

Investigar a percepção que os professores das séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental dacidade do Rio de Janeiro têm sobre a importância de sua formação para o desenvolvimentodas futuras gerações foi o objetivo desta pesquisa acadêmica. Muito se tem falado nosúltimos tempos sobre a necessidade de mudança na formação de professores. Na segundametade do século XX, a sociedade brasileira assistiu a transformações constantes ocorridasem seus diferentes setores, alguns dos quais historicamente co-responsáveis, junto com aescola, pelo desenvolvimento educacional a família e a Igreja. A sociedade foi tambémtestemunha do avanço das novas tecnologias, principalmente as da comunicação e dainformação que fizeram da mídia outro setor de fundamental importância para a educaçãode crianças e jovens. São mudanças que obrigam a um novo paradigma de professor,detentor de competências diferenciadas para o eficaz desenvolvimento do fazer docente. Natentativa de atingir o objetivo proposto desenvolvemos três capítulos. O primeiro focouprincipalmente a base teórica, que teve como maior sustentação as idéias de PierreBourdieu sobre o capital cultural. No segundo capítulo foi empreendida uma revisão datrajetória da representação social do professor, por meio de um levantamento da história eda legislação voltada para a formação desse profissional, procurando chamar atenção paraas exigências atuais percebidas por Edgar Morin, Jacques Delors e Philippe Perrenoud. Noúltimo capítulo foi apresentada a pesquisa feita com professores da rede oficial da cidadedo Rio de Janeiro, não perdendo de foco as teorias estudadas.

Does Regulation matter? Institutional dimension of the 2008 financial crisis

Why did house prices fall in 2007‐2009? This is the fundamental question to most Americans, and to those who lent them money. Most homeowners did not care why residential real estate prices rose. They assumed prices always rose, and they should simply enjoy their good fortune. It was not until prices began to fall that people were left searching for answers. How much did regulation or lack thereof play in the role of the devastation? To what degree did greed and unrealistic consumer expectation have on the real estate bubble? Using existing literature as well as face to face interviews of experienced leaders within the real estate industry in California who experienced both the up and down of the real estate cycle, the overarching purpose of this study is to investigate the opinions and beliefs of the leaders and drivers within the real estate industry about the cause of the real estate bubble that occurred sharply in 2008 . Specifically, this project will focus on the opinions of real estate industry leaders who worked in the center of the subprime universe located in Irvine, California, during 2004‐2008. Comparing the mainstream beliefs with the interviewees it is fair to say that the main finding in the mainstream beliefs are reflected very well with the finding of the subject’s opinion. The thesis is divided into 6 chapters starting with “introduction”, followed by chapter 2 “Literature Review”. Chapter 3 is “Research Methodology” followed by chapter 4 “Data Presentation”. Finally, the results are discussed in chapter 5 “Analysis and Discussion” and conclusions in Chapter 6.

Decision making process: a comparison between the public and private sector

The problem of decision making, its mechanisms and consequences is the very core of management, it is virtually impossible to separate the act of manage from this knowledge area. As defined by Herbert Simon – "decision making" as though it were synonymous with "managing". A decision is a selection made by an individual regarding a choice of a conclusion about a situation. This represents a course of behavior pertaining to what must be done or what must not be done. A decision is the point at which plans, policies and objectives are translated into concrete actions. Our behavior during decisive moments is closely linked with our brain dominance profile. Over the years, our decision-making processes develop a consistent pattern, which can be described as a decision-making style. Our style is grounded in our preferences, which arise from our brain dominance characteristics […]. The importance of understanding the impact of our thinking preferences and how to improve the effectiveness as a leader of organizations are the main justifications for this thesis; the main problem addressed is the behavioral profile diversity in a selective Master’s cohort formed by students from several different countries. The research methodology approach has been quantitative, through questionnaire administration using the HBDI (Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument), a validated framework developed by William "Ned" Herrmann when he was the leader of General Electric's Crotonville facility. This questionnaire has been administered in hundreds of thousands professional, enabling the possibility to establish correlations between a certain group and several historical databases. The selected group of analysis is the first cohort (23 students) from the CIM (Corporate International Master's), a joint program between Georgetown University (USA), ESADE (Spain) and FGV (Brazil). Besides decision preferences, the obtained profile enables the discussion on leadership style, heuristic's pitfalls and a base to compare with future cohorts. The fundamental research question is: how diverse is the dominant decision-making profile for the CIM students?