Performatividad y arte computacional. Hacia una “DIY society”

El artículo analiza la figura del prosumidor desde los estudios visuales a partir de la combinación de la teoría de los actos de habla y los nuevos medios. El objetivo es evaluar si la distinción entre productores y consumidores, estrategias y tácticas de Michel de Certeau continúa siendo operativa en las interfaces gráficas de la cultura global de la información de Scott Lash. Para ello distingue dos tipos de performatividad de los actos de habla: la performatividad top-down del software, y la bottom-up de los juegos del lenguaje y las formas de vida. Estos tipos se aplican al análisis del discurso de los eslóganes que aparecen en los sitios web de las iniciativas “open” y de economía colaborativa, ya que las primeras están dedicadas a la producción de bienes inmateriales y las segundas a la producción de bienes materiales. El desarrollo muestra cómo los dos tipos de performatividad transforman el análisis textual de los estudios literarios y cinematográficos en una metodología capaz de investigar acciones materiales, humanas y no humanas. Las conclusiones describen el surgimiento de nuevas convenciones narrativas de poder y control ajenas a la ficción que apuntan a una “DIY society”.

Recruiting faith and non-faith based schools, adolescents and parents to a cluster randomised sexual-health trial: experiences, challenges and lessons from the mixed-methods Jack Feasibility Trial

Background: The move toward evidence-based education has led to increasing numbers of randomised trials in schools. However, the literature on recruitment to non-clinical trials is relatively underdeveloped, when compared to that of clinical trials. Recruitment to school-based randomised trials is, however, challenging; even more so when the focus of the study is a sensitive issue such as sexual health. This article reflects on the challenges of recruiting post-primary schools, adolescent pupils and parents to a cluster randomised feasibility trial of a sexual health intervention, and the strategies employed to address them.
Methods: The Jack Trial was funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). It comprised a feasibility study of an interactive film-based sexual health intervention entitled If I Were Jack, recruiting over 800 adolescents from eight socio-demographically diverse post-primary schools in Northern Ireland. It aimed to determine the facilitators and barriers to recruitment and retention to a school-based sexual health trial and identify optimal multi-level strategies for an effectiveness study. As part of an embedded process evaluation, we conducted semi-structured interviews and focus groups with principals, vice-principals, teachers, pupils and parents recruited to the study as well as classroom observations and a parents’ survey.
Results: With reference to Social Learning Theory, we identified a number of individual, behavioural and environmental level factors which influenced recruitment. Commonly identified facilitators included perceptions of the relevance and potential benefit of the intervention to adolescents, the credibility of the organisation and individuals running the study, support offered by trial staff, and financial incentives. Key barriers were prior commitment to other research, lack of time and resources, and perceptions that the intervention was incompatible with pupil or parent needs or the school ethos.
Conclusions: Reflecting on the methodological challenges of recruiting to a school-based sexual health feasibility trial, this study highlights pertinent general and trial-specific facilitators and barriers to recruitment, which will prove useful for future trials with schools, adolescent pupils and parents.

Developing and Delivering L&D Solutions for International Markets

In Chapter 8, ‘Developing and delivering L&D solutions for international markets’, Sa’ad Ali and I examine how different dynamics within and amongst countries can impact the development and delivery of L&D. We build upon the previous chapters, in particular Chapters 5 to 7 that discussed how L&D solutions may be developed in consideration of enhancing engagement, the digital world, and collective and social learning. In doing so, we examine how the effectiveness, and even appropriateness of the concepts discussed in these chapters, may be contingent on country-specific factors such as culture.

From the Members' Perspective: Participants' Perception of the Moderator Role in Educator Communities of Practice

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

Extracurricular language activities in higher education: Perspectives of teachers and students

This Master’s thesis researches the topic “Extracurricular language activities in higher education: Perspectives of teachers and students”. In the light of several learning theories, namely, Self-Determination Theory, Social Learning Theory and Incidental Learning Theory, extracurricular participation in language related activities is studied. The main aims of the research are as follows: to study how extracurricular language activities can be organized and supported by the education institution; to investigate how such activities can promote the participants’ learning; and, to research how these activities can be developed and improved in the future. Due to the qualitative character of this research, the empirical data collected through interviews and their thematic analysis allow to study the participants’ perceptions on the above-mentioned issues. Among other results of the research, it can be noted that the organizers of extracurricular language activities and the participants of the activities may have different perspectives on the aims of the activities, as well as their advantages. Additionally, it has been found that the participants of activities would often speak on certain categories that imply the connection to some learning theories, which allows to hypothesize that some learning could be observed in those participants, following participation in extracurricular activities. This is an implication for further research in the area, which can focus on correlations between participation in extracurricular language activities and learning outcomes of the participants.

A assistência técnica nos habitats do MST e o papel do arquiteto e urbanista

This dissertation is about Architect and town planner inserts in the technical support of the Rural establishment and of the possibilities of changes in their habitat. It also looks for its participation through the production of those spaces with or without its performance through two references cases, in Rio Grande do Norte , one called settlement Eldorado de Carajás and another one called Maria da Paz. At first the process represents the model that was adopted systematically by Incra until the middle of the year 2000 with the sub-contracting of their construction work through small companies. These standardized projects which are executed without registration in the system CONFEA/CREA without demand of professional authorship and of technical responsibility of the work. But the process taken place at Maria da Paz s area was configured as one of the first initiatives that stopped with those practices. Consolidated through a partnership among UFRN MST and INCRA/RN, the Architect s technical support and town planner brought new technician-scientific organization and execution of the soil parcels and its habitat. The participation of UFRN was done through a group of studies in land reform and Habitat (GERAH) being this author and coordinator of the methodological proposal, based on the regressive-progressive method and in the inclusion of the conflict as responsible of the ruptures and transductions both done by Henry Léfèbvre and in the research action approached by Carlos Brandão. Therefore it included the process of social learning and collective production of new knowledge and attitudes in relation to the environment in the process called as attended self management in spite of the transformations happened with this new agent s participation. The people re-located to the new areas that got involved in the process and finished their constructions reelaborating the daily practice of the collective effort passed to the self management without technical support. Years later the implantation of those two experiences our research verified that there is a positive image concerning the Architect and town planner, related, most of all to the conception of the activities, orientation and execution of constructions projects and of acceptance of those professionals to the processes of implementation of the Habitats of the Rural establishments. This dissertation analyses this form of performance, from and beyond these images trying to find the professional, specificities or methodological in such a way to demonstrate the importance of its insertion in the formulation and attendance of the more of 100.000 habitats of Rural establishments of the land reform of the country that correspond to most of the housing social interest in the country side

Does a peer model’s task proficiency influence children’s solution choice and innovation?

The current study investigated whether 4- to 6-year-old children’s task solution choice was influenced by the past proficiency of familiar peer models and the children’s personal prior task experience. Peer past proficiency was established through behavioral assessments of interactions with novel tasks alongside peer and teacher predictions of each child’s proficiency. Based on these assessments, one peer model with high past proficiency and one age-, sex-, dominance-, and popularity-matched peer model with lower past proficiency were trained to remove a capsule using alternative solutions from a three-solution artificial fruit task. Video demonstrations of the models were shown to children after they had either a personal successful interaction or no interaction with the task. In general, there was not a strong bias toward the high past-proficiency model, perhaps due to a motivation to acquire multiple methods and the salience of other transmission biases. However, there was some evidence of a model-based past-proficiency bias; when the high past-proficiency peer matched the participants’ original solution, there was increased use of that solution, whereas if the high past-proficiency peer demonstrated an alternative solution, there was increased use of the alternative social solution and novel solutions. Thus, model proficiency influenced innovation.

Zmiany w systemach komunikacji akustycznej ptaków jako bioindykatory zmian w środowisku

Wydział Biologii

Recydywa wśród młodocianych sprawców przestępstw w świetle teorii społecznego uczenia się

Proces wykolejania społecznego jest jednym z czynników powodujących skłonność do popełniania przestępstw, który najsilniej oddziałuje na młodych ludzi. Tym samym, wpływa on na popełnianie przestępstw przez sprawców młodocianych, a także rzutuje na ich recydywę (powrót do przestępstwa). Wykolejanie społeczne znajduje oparcie w myśli Alberta Bandury, który opracował teorię społecznego uczenia się. Autor uważa, że założenia tej teorii udzielają odpowiedzi na pytanie o przyczynę popełniania przestępstw przez sprawców młodocianych. Artykuł ma za zadanie wykazać przyczyny i skutki wykolejania społecznego. Rozważania zostały zobrazowane danymi statystycznymi, a wywód merytoryczny został potwierdzony badaniami przeprowadzonymi w Zakładzie Karnym w Rawiczu.

Ensino superior para pessoas com deficiência visual e auditiva em Portugal : diagnóstico e contributos para uma efetiva inclusão

No presente livro, apresenta-se uma síntese do trabalho de campo desenvolvido para Portugal, no âmbito do primeiro ano de atividade do projeto ERASMUS+ intitulado ISOLearn for HEI: Innovation and Social Learning for Higher Education Institutions (http://www.ISOLearn.net/), entre Outubro de 2014 e Outubro de 2016. No âmbito deste projeto europeu, coordenado pela Universidade Aberta, procurou-se fazer um levantamento das condições existentes para a inclusão de pessoas com deficiência visual e auditiva no Ensino Superior, em 4 países europeus: Portugal; Itália; Suécia e Eslovénia. Para tal foi desenvolvido um trabalho que consistiu na realização de entrevistas a Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES), e um conjunto de questionários online, a estudantes com este tipo de deficiências. Procurou-se fazer este levantamento enquadrado na legislação existente sobre este tema, e sobretudo na sensibilidade das principais partes interessadas (stakeholders) nesta temática, aferindo a sua perceção da realidade, procurando-se desta forma identificar eventuais desajustes entre o enquadramento legal e institucional vigente, e a prática das Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) em cada um dos quatro países envolvidos. Considerando que os parceiros portugueses incluem entidades que se dedicam exclusivamente aos problemas da população em estudo, como é o caso da ACAPO – Associação dos Cegos e Amblíopes de Portugal; da APS – Associação Portuguesa de Surdos; e da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, que tem vindo a desenvolver trabalho na consagração dos Direitos Humanos e da inclusão de pessoas com deficiência; que por essa razão o trabalho de campo desenvolvido pelos parceiros portugueses foi extremamente rigoroso e em certa medida mais aprofundado, quer em termos metodológicos, quer em termos de amostra obtida – com entrevistas a 23 IES, e a participação de 49 estudantes, repartidos entre estudantes com deficiência visual e estudantes com deficiência auditiva – entendeu-se que seria importante autonomizar o trabalho sobre Portugal, dando-lhe a visibilidade que a edição eletrónica do presente livro pretende comportar. A presente edição pretende, pois, constituir apenas um pequeno pilar para o desenvolvimento do conhecimento sobre esta matéria em Portugal. É objetivo da equipa do projeto que, a partir da sua leitura se despertem consciências que levem à realização de mais trabalhos sobre esta temática, que possam permitir, não apenas uma maior sensibilização da sociedade portuguesa em geral sobre estas matérias, mas também, incitar todas as partes interessadas à ação, no sentido de uma maior inclusão das pessoas com deficiência visual e auditiva, no Ensino Superior. Naturalmente, tratando-se de um trabalho desenvolvido no âmbito de um projeto europeu, os objetivos definitivos vão para além das fronteiras nacionais, esperando-se que ele possa ajudar a própria Europa a desenvolver mais e melhores políticas para abordagem à temática da inclusão das pessoas com deficiência visual e auditiva no Ensino Superior no espaço europeu. Este deve ser considerado um trabalho em aberto; apenas um primeiro passo de uma longa e, espera-se, frutuosa caminhada, cujo destino será a inclusão das pessoas com deficiência visual e auditiva, no Ensino Superior.

Does social–behavioral adjustment mediate the relation between executive function and academic readiness?

Research shows that executive function and social–behavioral adjustment during the preschool years are both associated with the successful acquisition of academic readiness abilities. However, studies bringing these constructs together in one investigation are lacking. This study addresses this gap by testing the extent to which social and behavioral adjustment mediated the association between executive function and academic readiness. Sixty-nine 63–76month old children, enrolled in the last semester of the preschool year, participated in the present study. Tasks were administered to measure executive function and preacademic abilities, and teachers rated preschoolers' social–behavioral adjustment. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that social–behavioral adaptation was a significant mediator of the effect of executive function on academic readiness, even after controlling for maternal education and child verbal ability. These findings extend prior research and suggest that executive function contributes to early academic achievement by influencing preschoolers' opportunities to be engaged in optimal social learning activities.

A assistência técnica nos habitats do MST e o papel do arquiteto e urbanista

This dissertation is about Architect and town planner inserts in the technical support of the Rural establishment and of the possibilities of changes in their habitat. It also looks for its participation through the production of those spaces with or without its performance through two references cases, in Rio Grande do Norte , one called settlement Eldorado de Carajás and another one called Maria da Paz. At first the process represents the model that was adopted systematically by Incra until the middle of the year 2000 with the sub-contracting of their construction work through small companies. These standardized projects which are executed without registration in the system CONFEA/CREA without demand of professional authorship and of technical responsibility of the work. But the process taken place at Maria da Paz s area was configured as one of the first initiatives that stopped with those practices. Consolidated through a partnership among UFRN MST and INCRA/RN, the Architect s technical support and town planner brought new technician-scientific organization and execution of the soil parcels and its habitat. The participation of UFRN was done through a group of studies in land reform and Habitat (GERAH) being this author and coordinator of the methodological proposal, based on the regressive-progressive method and in the inclusion of the conflict as responsible of the ruptures and transductions both done by Henry Léfèbvre and in the research action approached by Carlos Brandão. Therefore it included the process of social learning and collective production of new knowledge and attitudes in relation to the environment in the process called as attended self management in spite of the transformations happened with this new agent s participation. The people re-located to the new areas that got involved in the process and finished their constructions reelaborating the daily practice of the collective effort passed to the self management without technical support. Years later the implantation of those two experiences our research verified that there is a positive image concerning the Architect and town planner, related, most of all to the conception of the activities, orientation and execution of constructions projects and of acceptance of those professionals to the processes of implementation of the Habitats of the Rural establishments. This dissertation analyses this form of performance, from and beyond these images trying to find the professional, specificities or methodological in such a way to demonstrate the importance of its insertion in the formulation and attendance of the more of 100.000 habitats of Rural establishments of the land reform of the country that correspond to most of the housing social interest in the country side

Relatório de Estágio de Intervenção Comunitária

O presente Relatório reflete o percurso desenvolvido durante o estágio, realizado na Escola Secundária Mouzinho da Silveira, visando o desenvolvimento de competências de Enfermeira Especialista em Enfermagem Comunitária e tendo por base o Diagnóstico de Situação da Saúde dos adolescentes das turmas de 7º e 8º ano, no ano letivo de 2012/2013 e a implementação de um Projeto de Intervenção. O projeto desenvolvido insere-se no âmbito da Promoção da Saúde e Prevenção de comportamentos de risco na adolescência. Os adolescentes são considerados pela OMS, como um grupo que vivencia grandes mudanças a nível físico, psicológico, familiar e social sendo suscetíveis ao desenvolvimento de comportamentos de risco que se poderão perpetuar no futuro. É com base neste raciocínio, que se torna essencial uma intervenção multissectorial, planeada entre os profissionais dos vários contextos em que os adolescentes se inserem, especialmente no contexto escolar onde estes passam muito do seu tempo. O estágio, centrou-se nos hábitos de vida dos adolescentes, ou seja, conhecer os comportamentos de risco que os adolescentes praticam diariamente e através desses dados, programar um projeto de intervenção com vista à promoção de hábitos de vida saudáveis. Para isso, foram desenvolvidas várias atividades, nomeadamente reuniões com os docentes dado que, estes são elementos chave neste processo pela convivência e partilha de experiencias diárias com os adolescentes, e sessões de educação para a saúde. Na realização da intervenção foi utilizada a Metodologia do Planeamento em Saúde e as sessões de educação para a saúde sustentaram-se na Teoria da Aprendizagem Social de Bandura. Foram abrangidos 232 adolescentes, num total de 269, (no momento da aplicação do questionário) na Intervenção de Promoção de Hábitos de Vida Saudáveis dos adolescentes. Nesta intervenção obtivemos mais de 95.5% dos questionários respondidos com posicionamento na escala de satisfação na categoria de Satisfeito ou mais. Este relatório retrata o papel do Enfermeiro Especialista em Saúde Comunitária, que através das suas competências específicas, adequa as práticas, aplica um Planeamento em -Saúde eficaz, mobiliza os recursos comunitários e as equipas, na busca da excelência nos cuidados de Enfermagem prestados e de ganhos de Saúde da comunidade.

Relatório de Estágio de Intervenção Comunitária

Presentemente, a nossa sociedade sofre alterações diárias para as quais é exigido, aos enfermeiros, um elevado nível de qualificações que permitam dar resposta às necessidades e determinantes de saúde de cada comunidade. Assim, cabe cada vez mais aos enfermeiros enfatizar práticas conducentes a estilos de vida saudáveis, através da Promoção da Saúde, com o objetivo da obtenção de ganhos em saúde. Muitas doenças da idade adulta têm o seu início na adolescência, devido a hábitos de vida e à adoção de comportamentos de risco. É neste grupo etário, de grande vulnerabilidade, que deve incidir o papel da Educação para a Saúde, de forma a capacitar os adolescentes para opções saudáveis. O presente Relatório reflete o desenvolvimento do Estágio na área de Especialização em Enfermagem Comunitária e as competências adquiridas neste percurso. O Estágio decorreu no período de 16 de setembro de 2013 a 31 de janeiro de 2014 (2º Ano – 1º semestre), na Escola Secundária Mouzinho da Silveira, em Portalegre. Com base na Metodologia do Planeamento em Saúde, toda a intervenção foi dirigida para os problemas identificados através do Diagnóstico de Situação de Saúde. Assim, o Estágio teve como intervenção a Promoção de Hábitos de Vida Saudáveis dos Adolescentes do 8º e 9º Ano, da respetiva Escola. Dada a aplicabilidade da Teoria da Aprendizagem Social de Bandura na Promoção da Saúde, as sessões de Educação para a Saúde sustentaram-se nesta teoria com o intuito de capacitar os jovens para agirem de forma correta e consciente. O Estágio de intervenção comunitária foi enriquecedor do ponto de vista da diversidade de experiências que proporcionou, permitindo a aquisição das competências específicas do Enfermeiro Especialista em Enfermagem Comunitária definidas pela Ordem dos Enfermeiros

Adaptive cultural transmission biases in children and nonhuman primates

Comparative and evolutionary developmental analyses seek to discover the similarities and differences between humans and non-human species that illuminate both the evolutionary foundations of our nature that we share with other animals, and the distinctive characteristics that make human development unique. As our closest animal relatives, with whom we last shared common ancestry, non-human primates have beenparticularly important in this endeavour. Such studies that have focused on social learning, traditions, and culture have discovered much about the ‘how’ of social learning, concerned with key underlying processes such as imitation and emulation. One of the core discoveries is that the adaptive adjustment of social learning options to different contexts is not unique to human infants, therefore multiple new strands of research have begun to focus on more subtle questions about when, from whom, and why such learning occurs. Here we review illustrative studies on both human infants and young children and on non-human primates to identify the similarities shared more broadly across the primate order, and the apparent specialisms that distinguish human development. Adaptive biases in social learning discussed include those modulated by task comprehension, experience, conformity to majorities, and the age, skill, proficiency and familiarity of potential alternative cultural models.