The Relationships between Elementary School Principals' Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Style and School Culture

The role of the principal in school settings and the principal’s perceived effect on student achievement have frequently been considered vital factors in school reform. The relationships between emotional intelligence, leadership style and school culture have been widely studied. The literature reveals agreement among scholars regarding the principal’s vital role in developing and fostering a positive school culture. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between elementary school principals’ emotional intelligence, leadership style and school culture. The researcher implemented a non-experimental ex post facto research design to investigate four specific research hypotheses. Utilizing the Qualtrics Survey Software, 57 elementary school principals within a large urban school district in southeast Florida completed the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), and 850 of their faculty members completed the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ Form 5X). Faculty responses to the school district’s School Climate Survey retrieved from the district’s web site were used as the measure of school culture. Linear regression analyses revealed significant positive associations between emotional intelligence and the following leadership measures: Idealized Influence-Attributes (β = .23, p = < .05), Idealized Influence-Behaviors (β = .34, p = < .01), Inspirational Motivation (β = .39, p = < .01) and Contingent Reward (β = .33, p = < .01). Hierarchical regression analyses revealed positive associations between school culture and both transformational and transactional leadership measures, and negative associations between school culture and passive-avoidant leadership measures. Significant positive associations were found between school culture and the principals’ emotional intelligence over and above leadership style. Hierarchical linear regressions to test the statistical hypothesis developed to account for alternative explanations revealed significant associations between leadership style and school culture over and above school grade. These results suggest that emotional intelligence merits consideration in the development of leadership theory. Practical implications include suggestions that principals employ both transformational and transactional leadership strategies, and focus on developing their level of emotional intelligence. The associations between emotional intelligence, transformational leadership, Contingent Reward and school culture found in this study validate the role of the principal as the leader of school reform.

Comportamentos de Afirmação Homossexual

Este trabalho visa a compreensão dos comportamentos de afirmação da homossexualidade, nos seis casos inseridos neste estudo. Contempla a exploração de dificuldades, passagens, pensamentos e comportamentos sentidos por todos aqueles que, de alguma forma, se afirmam homossexuais. A presente investigação visa uma compreensão holística e hermenêutica dos comportamentos de afirmação homossexual estudados. Assim, não será possível fazer uma generalização das informações e conclusões obtidas, para todos os homossexuais. Todos os dados e informações foram recolhidos a partir de entrevistas etnobiográficas, observação participante e exploração bibliográfica. Com este trabalho concluí que, mesmo mantendo o segredo em diversos contextos, cada vez menos se sente o tabu do pecado e do medo. A afirmação perante os pais é claramente um momento marcante para todos os envolvidos, onde a mediação intra e interpessoal (Torremorell, 2008, p. 70) é fundamental. Numa primeira instância, é no contexto social entre amigos onde decorre a afirmação. É também onde os casos objeto de estudo se sentem livres e integrados (Frazão 2008, p. 32). Por outro lado, o contexto social, como espaços públicos ou plena rua, tende a incorporar o preconceito o que leva os entrevistados a não se exporem em público. Vários ―eus‖ são criados, vividos e sentidos (Vieira, 2003, p. 86, cit. por Vieira & Vieira, 2016, p. 111) de forma a que todos os seis casos possam verdadeiramente viver aquilo que sentem e são.

Agrobiodiversidade de fruteiras da terra indígena Kaxinawa de Nova Olinda, Feijó, Acre, Brasil.

Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a agrobiodiversidade de espécies frutíferas plantadas e manejadas em quintais agroflorestais localizados Terra Indígena Kaxinawá de Nova Olinda, localizada no Alto Rio Envira, Acre a sudoeste da Amazônia Brasileira. A pesquisa de campo foi realizada através de visitas técnicas e entrevistas abertas e observação direta participante, com registro das espécies frutíferas presentes em 32 quintais e roçados nas aldeias Formoso, Nova Olinda, Novo Segredo e Boa Vista. Ao todo, foram observadas 31 espécies frutíferas distribuídas em 14 famílias botânicas, com destaque para a família Arecaceae, que abriga 25% das espécies. Algumas fruteiras, nos quintais, estão em processo de domesticação e geram alimento, sombra, espaços para criação de pequenos animais, lazer, renda direta e indireta por escambo.

Two Clara dos Anjos and one Rosa: identity and representation of black woman in Brazilian Literature

This article presents an analysis of identity and representations of black women in the tales Keep Secret Esmeralda Ribeiro, Rosa and Fusilier and Voices d'Rachel de Queiroz Africa. The story of Esmeralda Ribeiro black author, published in Cadernos Negros: the best short stories (1998) reexamines Clara dos Anjos, Lima Barreto's novel character written between 1904 and 1922. In this work, the author lays bare, in a confessional tone, the daily life of Rio suburbs, from the perspective of racial prejudice, and is the protagonist as a passive woman, submissive, an object. Emerald, black writer, gives Clara a condition of the subject, building an identity as a woman and as a black. It is the chronicle of belonging. Rosa and the Marine and Voices of Africa Rose protagonist appointing chronic-tale first is the outcome of its history in the second text, both published in the first Rachel de Queiroz of chronic compilation entitled The Maiden and Moura Pie (1948 ). Rachel is the text representation of black women because they can not as white women have the lived experience as black to build identity and can do it in generalizing way considering his wife condition and his experience in the feminine universe. There are relations between the texts that go beyond the theme, Space Rio suburb and similarities between Rosa and Clara, Cassi and the Marines. You can see the works a dialogue between sex and race interests, identities and stereotypes, relationships that materialize in Literature.