A esquina do povo de alt’lam: aprimoramento racial e moral no movimento espírita natalense

A partir de um conjunto de dados obtidos em pesquisa, o texto deseja salientar uma face pouco examinada pelos estudiosos do espiritismo no Brasil: aquela dos grupos espíritas que cultuam extraterrestres. Examina a narrativa Rebelião de Lúcifer, escrita pelo médium potiguar Jan Val Ellam. Sustenta que esta atualiza noções importantes em relação a narrativas de salvação anteriores construídas pelo espiritismo. Destaca em especial o aprimoramento racial e moral através da reencarnação em distintos corpos humanos e em diferentes planetas. Examina-os a partir das noções de exílio planetário e de evolução racializada. Argumenta que Jan Val Ellam as atualiza através da categoria nativa Povo de Alt’Lam e através de bricolagem com outros campos semânticos, notadamente a ufologia e a fi cção científica

Indutores de problematização aplicados a uma aula de antropologia e dilema moral emergente

Este artigo relata uma experiência ocorrida no âmbito do ensino de estudantes do curso de educação social que, após terem realizado uma investigação de cariz antropológica num bairro da cidade do Porto a partir do conceito de “não-lugares” de Marc Augé, continuavam sem “ver” e “reconhecer” os seus habitantes, permanecendo estes sem rosto e nome concretos nas transcrições e nos discursos destes estudantes. O problema da invisibilidade aqui abordado foi trabalhado em sala de aula a partir do modelo teórico da problematização e aplicado, neste caso, aos dilemas morais suscitados no espírito do professor quando se apercebeu da incapacidade dos estudantes em “verem” (= reconhecerem) os habitantes do bairro. O problemático surgiu quando esta experiência demonstrou que a formação humanista dos educadores sociais que se pretende alcançar ao longo do curso ainda não estava assumida. A partir desta constatação, e socorrendo-se do losango de problematização sugerido por Fabre & Musquer (2009), o docente optou por uma abordagem de ensino centrada numa epistemologia moral que realçasse as formas de olhar com indiferença ou eivadas de estereótipos ‘através de outrem’, sem levar em consideração o sujeito no seu estatuto de pessoa. Pretende futuramente retirar dos ferimentos morais (inconscientemente) infligidos pelos estudantes aos habitantes ‘invisíveis’ os princípios morais do conceito de reconhecimento que, para o ser, requer a aprendizagem de uma certa literacia moral, especialmente dos educadores sociais

Autenticidade, reconhecimento e dádiva - Para uma renovação dos direitos humanos

Esta investigação pretende articular a Teoria do Reconhecimento de Axel Honneth com a Ética da Autenticidade de Charles Taylor e complementar este diálogo com a Teoria da Dádiva, que tem vindo a ser desenvolvida por vários autores franceses e latino-americanos. A autenticidade foi, ao longo da história ocidental, considerada como sendo uma busca individual do eu, baseada numa racionalidade desvinculada, que não considerava os horizontes de sentido ou as relações com os outros significantes. Através da teoria de Taylor, essa perspetiva mudou: a autenticidade agora é descrita como um ideal moral dialógico, fundamentada no reconhecimento. Neste percurso do reconhecimento procuramos aprofundar não só a ideia de luta, mas também a relação de mutualidade da dádiva fundamentada no reconhecimento simbólico. Nesse sentido, o individualismo, neutralismo e a distinção entre esfera pública e privada, usados como critérios hermenêuticos para os Direitos Humanos, são substituídos pela autenticidade, reconhecimento e dádiva, num aprofundamento político-normativo de forma a contribuir para uma sociedade mais inclusiva e para a renovação ética dos Direitos Humanos; ABSTRACT: This research aims to articulate Axel Honneth’s Theory of Recognition with Charles Taylor’s Ethics of Authenticity, supplementing and weaving them with the Theory of Gift, which has been developed by several French and Latin-American authors. Authenticity has been considered, throughout western history, to be an individual search of the self, based on a detached rationality that did not take into consideration the horizons of meaning/sense or relations with the significant others. Along with Taylor’s theory, such perspective has changed: authenticity is now described as a dialogic moral ideal, grounded on recognition. In this route towards recognition we seek to deepen not only the idea of struggle, but also the mutual relation of gift grounded on symbolic recognition. In that sense, individualism, neutrality and distinction between public and private spheres, used as hermeneutic criteria for Human Rights, are replaced by authenticity, recognition and gifting, in a political-normative depth, in order to contribute to a more inclusive society and to an ethical renewal of Human Rights.

Creación de la unidad de recursos humanos en la Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura de la Universidad de El Salvador.

La Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura forma profesionales en los campos de las Ingenierías y la Arquitectura, capacitados moral e intelectualmente para desempeñar su función en la sociedad, con calidad y capacidad para resolver problemas en los campos de competencia existentes a través de la docencia, la investigación y la Proyección Social. Actualmente la Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura está conformada por 278 empleados; sin embargo, a pesar de la buena calidad en el proceso enseñanza – aprendizaje, no cuenta con un ente especializado en la Administración de Recursos Humanos que contribuya en los procesos de Reclutamiento, Selección, Contratación, Inducción, Capacitación y Evaluación del desempeño. Los objetivos que se trazaron para el desarrollo de la investigación, están orientados a identificar la problemática que enfrenta la Facultad por la falta de la Unidad de Recursos Humanos, lo que contribuirá a la creación de la misma. Para el desarrollo de la investigación, se utilizó los métodos generales como: el análisis y la deducción, los cuales permitieron relacionar los resultados con la teoría aplicada. El tipo de diseño de la investigación fue por medio del estudio descriptivo. Las técnicas utilizadas para obtener la información de las fuentes primarias fueron: La encuesta, entrevista, y observación directa. Entre los resultados más relevantes de la investigación se mencionan: la falta de comunicación y equidad, burocracia en trámites, falta de coordinación entre la unidad y la dependencia correspondiente, no hay base de datos sobre el historial de cada docente, no hay políticas de administración de personal, distribución del trabajo, falta de motivación por no recibir incentivos. Se determinó que existen problemas en relación a la Administración de Recursos Humanos: los procesos de integración de personal (Reclutamiento, Selección, Contratación e Inducción) no se desarrollan eficientemente, no existen programas de capacitación sistemática, evaluación del desempeño, carencia de manuales administrativos, entre otros; además desinterés del personal por conocer la aplicación del sistema disciplinario de la Universidad. Con la Creación de la Unidad de Recursos Humanos se pretende contribuir en los procesos actuales de integración, e implementar capacitaciones y evaluaciones sistemáticas, así como apoyar en todas las actividades que se realicen para el logro de los fines de la Facultad, a través de la administración eficiente del personal.

Recursos humanos como fonte de vantagem competitiva numa instituição de ensino superior

Neste trabalho discute-se a importância da performance das organizações, com especial incidência nas organizações do sector público e mais particularmente nas Instituições de Ensino Superior, à medida que se multiplicam as exigências em tomo da eficiência, quantidade e qualidade dos seus serviços e maior flexibilidade para assegurar a competitividade frente às necessidades impostas pelo mercado que, em breve, incorporará estratégias de competitividade de nível mundial. Uma boa gestão dos recursos humanos toma-se assim imprescindível como ferramenta organizacional de gestão estratégica para fazer face à reforma administrativa da administração pública portuguesa traduzida em diversos projetos de mudança, alguns já suportados por legislação - PRACE, Simplex, SIADAP 123, Mobilidade, QREN, POPH, QUAR, Estatuto de Carreiras e Remunerações. Com este trabalho pretende-se chamar a atenção para a importância dos recursos humanos dentro das organizações, fazendo um diagnóstico do funcionamento da área de Recursos Humanos do Instituto Politécnico de Tomar e propondo um plano de intervenção/reorganização destes mesmos serviços. Este trabalho desenvolve-se através de um estágio na Área de Recursos Humanos e a metodologia adotada foi numa primeira etapa o enquadramento teórico da problemática a nível geral e depois a nível mais específico, ou seja, ao nível da Administração Pública, posteriormente passamos ao estudo da realidade concreta através da análise documental de um conjunto de documentos de importância estratégica assim como a realização de entrevistas a informantes-chave da Instituição. ABSTRACT: This work discusses the importance of the performance of organizations, with particular emphasis on public sector organizations and more particularly in Institutions of Higher Education, as we are increasing the demands on the efficiency, quantity and quality of its services and greater flexibility to ensure the competitiveness related to the needs imposed by the market that we will soon incorporate strategies of competitiveness worldwide. A good human resources management becomes essential as a tool organizational management structure to deal with the administrative reform of public administration Portuguese translated into various projects of change, some already supported by law - PRACE, Simplex, SIADAP, mobility, QREN, POPH, QUAR, Status of Careers and Compensation. This work aims to draw attention to the importance of human resources within organizations, making a diagnosis of the functioning of the area of Human Resources of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and proposing a plan of action I reorganization of these services. This work develops through a stage in the Field of Human Resources and the methodology adopted was a first step the theoretical framework of the problem in general and then the more specific level, or at the Administration, subsequently passed to the study of reality through the documentary analysis of a set of documents of strategic importance as well as the conduct of interviews with key informants of the institution.

Interpretación Modesta de la Responsabilidad Moral: Lectura de Strawson desde el sentido histórico y situado de la humanidad

En esta monografía reseño la forma como Peter Strawson enmarca el debate de la responsabilidad moral en un lugar que denomino más cerca de lo humano. Considero que son las actitudes reactivas, propuestas por Peter Strawson, una pieza fundamental para entender qué es la responsabilidad moral. Esta perspectiva no está libre de contradictores, es por ese motivo que plantearé una interpretación de la idea de Strawson que tiene como objetivo responder algunas críticas que recaen sobre esta forma de conceptualizar las relaciones interpersonales. Construiré la defensa alrededor de la interpretación de la responsabilidad moral que entiende la asignación de la responsabilidad moral como un tipo de lenguaje que adquiere su significado en la medida que se usa. De manera análoga, planteo el interrogante de si es posible pensar en un sistema de responsabilidad moral que se justifica en la medida que se usa. Considero que esta idea tiene sentido con algo denominado la circularidad virtuosa. La pregunta que sale a la luz de inmediato es ¿cómo es posible usar un sistema de responsabilidad moral que se va justificando en la medida que se usa? En realidad, no solo es en la medida que se usa, sino también en el trascurso en el que los seres humanos se reconocen unos con otros y entablan ciertas prácticas. Para entender y justificar esta cuestión planteo una interpretación de la postura de Strawson que denomino “Interpretación Modesta de la Responsabilidad Moral”.

Clínica e cirurgia de animais de companhia

O estágio curricular, descrito no presente relatório, teve lugar no Hospital Veterinário do Porto, num período de seis meses, desde 14 de setembro de 2015 a 14 de março de 2016. Este relatório foi realizado no âmbito do Mestrado Integrado em Medicina Veterinária e encontra-se dividido em duas partes. A primeira referente à casuística acompanhada no decorrer do estágio e a segunda constituída por uma revisão bibliográfica subordinada ao tema “Eritema multiforme canino”. Seguidamente apresenta-se um caso clínico acompanhado pela autora, no âmbito desse mesmo tema. O eritema multiforme é uma doença imunomediada multifatorial descrita em humanos, cães, gatos, cavalos, bovinos e ovinos. A sua patogenia continua por esclarecer mas supõe-se que seja resultado de uma reação de hipersensibilidade mediada por células a vários antigénios. O seu diagnóstico é histopatológico, sendo que o prognóstico varia consoante a severidade das lesões e o conhecimento da causa; Abstract: Small Animal Surgery and Clinical Practice The externship described in this report took place at the Veterinary Hospital of Porto, in a six month period, between the 14th of September 2015 and the 14th of March 2016. This report was carried out under the masters degree in veterinary medicine and is divided into two parts. The first is related to the casuistics accompanied during the externship and the second consists of a literature review on the theme "Canine erythema multiforme", followed by a clinical case accompanied by the author, on the same subject. Erythema multiforme is a multifactorial immune-mediated disorder described in humans, dogs, cats, horses, cattle and sheep. Its pathogenesis remains unclear but is thought to be a result of a hypersensitivity reaction mediated by cells to various antigens. The diagnosis is histological, and the prognosis varies depending on the severity of lesions and the knowledge of the cause.

Clínica de animais de companhia

O presente relatório diz respeito ao estágio curricular realizado no Hospital Veterinário de Portimão, sob a orientação da Prof. Doutora Josefina Coucelo e com a duração de cinco meses, entre um de janeiro de 2016 e trinta e um de maio de 2016. Este relatório foi realizado no âmbito da conclusão do Mestrado Integrado em Medicina Veterinária e consiste em duas partes. A primeira é referente aos casos acompanhados no decorrer do estágio curricular, e a segunda é uma revisão bibliográfica do tema “Leishmaniose Felina”, seguida de um caso clínico acompanhado pelo autor. A Leishmaniose é uma importante zoonose, endémica em várias regiões no mundo, como o sul da Europa, afetando variados mamíferos, debilitando-os e podendo ser fatal. Causada por protozoários do género Leishmania, considera-se como uma afeção rara em gatos. Existe um número crescente de casos nesta espécie, que não é, no entanto, reservatório da infeção para humanos; Small Animal Practice Abstract: The present report describes a training in Portimãos’s Veterinary Hospital, under Doctor Josefina Coucelo’s supervision with the duration of five months, between the 1st January 2016 and the 31st May 2016. This report was written in the context of the Veterinary Medicine Integrated Master degree’s conclusion and is made up of two parts. The first refers to the clinical cases followed during the training and the second is a monography about “Feline Leishmaniasis”, followed by a case report on the subject observed by the author. Leishmaniasis is an important zoonosis endemic in many world regions as well as in southern Europe, affecting many mammals debilitating them and sometimes fatal. It is caused by protozoan of the genus Leishmania. It’s considered a rare affection in cats, however, there’s an increasing number of cases in this host species which still isn’t considered a human infection reservoir.

Negotiating social and moral order in internet relay chat

Although internet chat is a significant aspect of many internet users’ lives, the manner in which participants in quasi-synchronous chat situations orient to issues of social and moral order remains to be studied in depth. The research presented here is therefore at the forefront of a continually developing area of study. This work contributes new insights into how members construct and make accountable the social and moral orders of an adult-oriented Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel by addressing three questions: (1) What conversational resources do participants use in addressing matters of social and moral order? (2) How are these conversational resources deployed within IRC interaction? and (3) What interactional work is locally accomplished through use of these resources? A survey of the literature reveals considerable research in the field of computer-mediated communication, exploring both asynchronous and quasi-synchronous discussion forums. The research discussed represents a range of communication interests including group and collaborative interaction, the linguistic construction of social identity, and the linguistic features of online interaction. It is suggested that the present research differs from previous studies in three ways: (1) it focuses on the interaction itself, rather than the ways in which the medium affects the interaction; (2) it offers turn-by-turn analysis of interaction in situ; and (3) it discusses membership categories only insofar as they are shown to be relevant by participants through their talk. Through consideration of the literature, the present study is firmly situated within the broader computer-mediated communication field. Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis were adopted as appropriate methodological approaches to explore the research focus on interaction in situ, and in particular to investigate the ways in which participants negotiate and co-construct social and moral orders in the course of their interaction. IRC logs collected from one chat room were analysed using a two-pass method, based on a modification of the approaches proposed by Pomerantz and Fehr (1997) and ten Have (1999). From this detailed examination of the data corpus three interaction topics are identified by means of which participants clearly orient to issues of social and moral order: challenges to rule violations, ‘trolling’ for cybersex, and experiences regarding the 9/11 attacks. Instances of these interactional topics are subjected to fine-grained analysis, to demonstrate the ways in which participants draw upon various interactional resources in their negotiation and construction of channel social and moral orders. While these analytical topics stand alone in individual focus, together they illustrate different instances in which participants’ talk serves to negotiate social and moral orders or collaboratively construct new orders. Building on the work of Vallis (2001), Chapter 5 illustrates three ways that rule violation is initiated as a channel discussion topic: (1) through a visible violation in open channel, (2) through an official warning or sanction by a channel operator regarding the violation, and (3) through a complaint or announcement of a rule violation by a non-channel operator participant. Once the topic has been initiated, it is shown to become available as a topic for others, including the perceived violator. The fine-grained analysis of challenges to rule violations ultimately demonstrates that channel participants orient to the rules as a resource in developing categorizations of both the rule violation and violator. These categorizations are contextual in that they are locally based and understood within specific contexts and practices. Thus, it is shown that compliance with rules and an orientation to rule violations as inappropriate within the social and moral orders of the channel serves two purposes: (1) to orient the speaker as a group member, and (2) to reinforce the social and moral orders of the group. Chapter 6 explores a particular type of rule violation, solicitations for ‘cybersex’ known in IRC parlance as ‘trolling’. In responding to trolling violations participants are demonstrated to use affiliative and aggressive humour, in particular irony, sarcasm and insults. These conversational resources perform solidarity building within the group, positioning non-Troll respondents as compliant group members. This solidarity work is shown to have three outcomes: (1) consensus building, (2) collaborative construction of group membership, and (3) the continued construction and negotiation of existing social and moral orders. Chapter 7, the final data analysis chapter, offers insight into how participants, in discussing the events of 9/11 on the actual day, collaboratively constructed new social and moral orders, while orienting to issues of appropriate and reasonable emotional responses. This analysis demonstrates how participants go about ‘doing being ordinary’ (Sacks, 1992b) in formulating their ‘first thoughts’ (Jefferson, 2004). Through sharing their initial impressions of the event, participants perform support work within the interaction, in essence working to normalize both the event and their initial misinterpretation of it. Normalising as a support work mechanism is also shown in relation to participants constructing the ‘quiet’ following the event as unusual. Normalising is accomplished by reference to the indexical ‘it’ and location formulations, which participants use both to negotiate who can claim to experience the ‘unnatural quiet’ and to identify the extent of the quiet. Through their talk participants upgrade the quiet from something legitimately experienced by one person in a particular place to something that could be experienced ‘anywhere’, moving the phenomenon from local to global provenance. With its methodological design and detailed analysis and findings, this research contributes to existing knowledge in four ways. First, it shows how rules are used by participants as a resource in negotiating and constructing social and moral orders. Second, it demonstrates that irony, sarcasm and insults are three devices of humour which can be used to perform solidarity work and reinforce existing social and moral orders. Third, it demonstrates how new social and moral orders are collaboratively constructed in relation to extraordinary events, which serve to frame the event and evoke reasonable responses for participants. And last, the detailed analysis and findings further support the use of conversation analysis and membership categorization as valuable methods for approaching quasi-synchronous computer-mediated communication.

"Well, now I'm upset": Moral and social orders in the playground

There is much still to learn about how young children’s membership with peers shapes their constructions of moral and social obligations within everyday activities in the school playground. This paper investigates how a small group of girls, aged four to six years, account for their everyday social interactions in the playground. They were video-recorded as they participated in a pretend game of school. Several days later, a video-recorded excerpt of the interaction was shown to them and invited to comment on what was happening in the video. This conversation was audio-recorded. Drawing on a conversation analysis approach, this chapter shows that, despite their discontent and complaining about playing the game of school, the girls’ actions showed their continued orientation to the particular codes of the game, of ‘no going away’ and ‘no telling’. By making relevant these codes, jointly constructed by the girls during the interview, they managed each other’s continued participation within two arenas of action: the pretend, as a player in a pretend game of school; and the real, as a classroom member of a peer group. Through inferences to explicit and implicit codes of conduct, moral obligations were invoked as the girls attempted to socially exclude or build alliances with others, and enforce their own social position. As well, a shared history that the girls re-constructed has moral implications for present and future relationships. The girls oriented to the history as an interactional resource for accounting for their actions in the pretend game. This paper uncovers how children both participate in, and shape, their everyday social worlds through talk and interaction and the consequences a taken-for-granted activity such as playing school has for their moral and social positions in the peer group.

Free will, moral responsibility and ADHD

One of the oldest problems in philosophy concerns the relationship between free will and moral responsibility. If we adopt the position that we lack free will, in the absolute sense—as have most philosophers who have addressed this issue—how can we truly be held accountable for what we do? This paper will contend that the most significant and interesting challenge to the long-standing status-quo on the matter comes not from philosophy, jurisprudence, or even physics, but rather from psychology. By examining this debate through the lens of contemporary behaviour disorders, such as ADHD, it will be argued that notions of free will, along with its correlate, moral responsibility, are being eroded through the logic of psychology which is steadily reconfiguring large swathes of familiar human conduct as pathology. The intention of the paper is not only to raise some concerns over the exponential growth of behaviour disorders, but also, and more significantly, to flag the ongoing relevance of philosophy for prying open contemporary educational problems in new and interesting ways.

Free will, moral responsibility and ADHD

One of the oldest problems in philosophy concerns the relationship between free will and moral responsibility. If we adopt the position that we lack free will, in the absolute sense—as have most philosophers who have addressed this issue—how can we truly be held accountable for what we do? This paper will contend that the most significant and interesting challenge to the long-standing status-quo on the matter comes not from philosophy, jurisprudence, or even physics, but rather from psychology. By examining this debate through the lens of contemporary behaviour disorders, such as ADHD, it will be argued that notions of free will, along with its correlate, moral responsibility, are being eroded through the logic of psychology which is steadily reconfiguring large swathes of familiar human conduct as pathology. The intention of the paper is not only to raise some concerns over the exponential growth of behaviour disorders, but also, and more significantly, to flag the ongoing relevance of philosophy for prying open contemporary educational problems in new and interesting ways.

Queensland Aborigines, multiple realities and the social sources of suffering: Psychiatry and moral regions of being (Part 1)

This two part paper considers the experience of a range of magico-religious experiences (such as visions and voices) and spirit beliefs in a rural Aboriginal town. The papers challenge the tendency of institutionalised psychiatry to medicalise the experiences and critiques the way in which its individualistic practice is intensified in the face of an incomprehensible Aboriginal „other‟ to become part of the power imbalance that characterises the relationship between Indigenous and white domains. The work reveals the internal differentiation and politics of the Aboriginal domain, as the meanings of these experiences and actions are contested and negotiated by the residents and in so doing they decentre the concerns of the white domain and attempt to control their relationship with it. Thus the plausibility structure that sustains these multiple realities reflects both accommodation and resistance to the material and historical conditions imposed and enacted by mainstream society on the residents, and to current socio- political realities. I conclude that the residents‟ narratives chart the grounds of moral adjudication as the experiences were rarely conceptualised by local people as signs of individual pathology but as reflections of social reality. Psychiatric drug therapy and the behaviourist assumptions underlying its practice posit atomised individuals as the appropriate site of intervention as against the multiple realities revealed by the phenomenology of the experiences. The papers thus call into question Australian mainstream „commonsense‟ that circulates about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people which justifies representations of them as sickly outcasts in Australian society.