Responsibility for the Future

Responsibility for the future can be closely linked to innovation and responsibility of entrepreneurship, nevertheless we are all responsible for our future. Since futurists have a special role in catalysing social changes and channelling actions for better futures, the present study analyses how the responsibility of futurists is seen in our times, characterised by great and far-reaching changes, and how this activity is enriched by elements of foresight. The responsibility of futurists lies in mapping out, communicating and implementing future alternatives. Futurists also have considerable responsibility to convince people that essential changes have to be accepted by the public.

A munkával kapcsolatos értékek és attitűdök változása Közép-Kelet Európában a XXI. század első évtizedében (Changing values and attitudes regarding labour in Central- Eastern Europe in the first decade of 21st century)

A szerző tanulmányában a 2000 és 2010 közötti gazdasági és társadalmi változásokat és a munkával kapcsolatos értékek és attitűdök alakulását állítja időbeli párhuzamba, és azokra a kérdésekre keresi a választ, hogy milyen prioritások jellemzik 2010-ben a munka egyes aspektusaihoz való viszonyulást Közép-Kelet- Európa uniós tagállamaiban, és közöttük kiemelten Magyarországon? Vajon változtak-e ezek a jellemzők az elmúlt tíz év során, s ha igen, milyen irányú az elmozdulás. Azonos tendenciájúak-e a változások a vizsgált országokban? Megállapíthatók-e jellegzetes különbségek három kiválasztott, magas életszínvonalú, régebbi uniós (EU-15) tagországhoz viszonyítva? Elemzése jelentős mértékben támaszkodik az EVSfelmérés 2010-ben közzétett adataira, melynek alapját a 2008 és 2009 során lefolytatott adatgyűjtés képezi. Tanulmányában azokra a közép-kelet-európai országokra összpontosít, amelyek az elmúlt évtized során az unió tagjai lettek, és a 2000-es felmérésben is részt vettek már. _____ The author sets into parallelism economic and social changes and the development of values and attitudes regarding labour between 2000 and 2010, and looks for answers to questions what priorities characterize in 2010 the attitude to some aspects of labour in EU member countries of CEE, and especially in Hungary. Have these features changed in the last decade and in positive case, what is the direction of the shift? Are changes of similar tendency in countries under consideration? Can considerable differences be stated as compared to three selected, earlier EU 15 member countries with high living standard? The analysis largely relies on data of EVS survey, published in 2010 whose basis is the data collection carried out in 2008-2009. The essay focuses on Central Eastern European countries which have become members of the Union during the last decade and took part already in the survey of 2000.

Mapping Transnational Crime in El Salvador: New Trends and Lessons from Colombia

Since El Salvador’s civil war formally ended in 1992 the small Central American nation has undergone profound social changes and significant reforms. However, few changes have been as important or as devastating as the nation’s emergence as a central hub in the transnational criminal “pipeline” or series of recombinant, overlapping chains of routes and actors that illicit organizations use to traffic in drugs, money weapons, human being, endangered animals and other products. The erasing of the once-clear ideological lines that drove the civil war and the ability of erstwhile enemies to join forces in criminal enterprises in the post-war period is an enduring and dangerous characteristic of El Salvador’s transnational criminal evolution. Trained, elite cadres from both sides, with few legitimate job opportunities, found their skills were marketable in the growing criminal structures. The groups moved from kidnapping and extortion to providing protection services to transnational criminal organizations to becoming integral parts of the organizations themselves. The demand for specialized military and transportation services in El Salvador have exploded as the Mexican DTOs consolidate their hold on the cocaine market and their relationships with the transportista networks, which is still in flux. The value of their services has risen dramatically also because of the fact that multiple Mexican DTOs, at war with each other in Mexico and seeking to physically control the geographic space of the lucrative pipeline routes in from Guatemala to Panama, are eager to increase their military capabilities and intelligence gathering capacities. The emergence of multiple non-state armed groups, often with significant ties to the formal political structure (state) through webs of judicial, legislative and administrative corruption, has some striking parallels to Colombia in the 1980s, where multiple types of violence ultimately challenged the sovereignty of state and left a lasting legacy of embedded corruption within the nation’s political structure. Organized crime in El Salvador is now transnational in nature and more integrated into stronger, more versatile global networks such as the Mexican DTOs. It is a hybrid of both local crime – with gangs vying for control off specific geographic space so they can extract payment for the safe passage of illicit products – and transnational groups that need to use that space to successfully move their products. These symbiotic relationships are both complex and generally transient in nature but growing more consolidated and dangerous.

Mestrado profissional em saúde da família: o curso sob a perspectiva dos mestrandos

Professional masters were created in Brazil in the 1990s in response to social changes in the world of work and aim to train high-level professionals with own profile for various activities of society and the productive sector. They are up in more innovative mode of graduate studies in Brazil, and therefore lack of legitimacy of their identity, which raises the need for discussions to get further information and outline the characteristics of this postgraduate modality. You want to build new understandings about their peculiarities starting from the perspective of students from the Professional Masters in Health Net Northeast Family Training in Family Health, and not only according to the similarities and differences with the academic master. This study aims to understand the meanings attributed by masters training in that course. This is a qualitative, exploratory study. The subjects are 100 students in training in 2013, distributed among the six institutions nucleation Network Northeast Training in Family Health. To collect information desk research was conducted in institutional records of all students, as well as interviews. We interviewed 15 students, distributed in the six nucleation institutions. Information obtained through recorded interviews were transcribed and resulted in two analytical corpus subsequently submitted to Alceste © 4.9 software for identification of semantic classes. It can be concluded that the course provided a redefinition of professional practices in the Family Health Strategy, considering the organizational context of primary care in the Northeast and the specifics of the health work. Even before the student body difficulties related to ownership of research methods, and the very active methodology of problem-based learning, the course effectively contributed to the improvement of work processes in primary care, valuing teamwork and allowing the acquisition of new scientific knowledge.

"Aqui se faz Gostoso”: uma etnografia do turismo em São Miguel do Gostoso (RN)

This study it is an ethnography on the process of the tourist coast area of São Miguel do Gostoso, whose origin is made from a village of traditional fishermen located on the northeast coast of Rio Grande do Norte. From the late 90s, there were the first initiatives that transformed São Miguel do Gostoso in one of the state's major tourist destinations. The municipality is promoted within the national and international tourism scene through the sun and beach tourism - whose object of consumption is the natural landscape - and sports tourism - which exploited element is the "natural" geographic location (in the continent curve) of municipality that provides winds considered ideal for the practice of “Kitesurfing “ and Windsurfing. From this context, this ethnography had as a theme the social changes promoted by the tourism process in place here addressed, taking into account the perceptions produced by the actors involved in this social net. In this qualitative research, I endeavored to me in the methodological use of ethnographic techniques - bibliographic and field research, participant observation, open and structured interviews recorded by recording and field notes and photographic record. I also made use of theoretical tools and methodology inherent in ciberetnografia when analyzing the blogs and websites of intermediaries and institutions linked to local tourism.

Narrativas em (re)construção : biografias de mulheres em processo de alfabetização e letramento no Instituto federal de Brasília

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do grau de mestre na especialidade de Educação Social e Intervenção Comunitária

El género epistolar en la prensa como visión ciudadana de la esfera pública en Colombia

A partir de un análisis temático inductivo, este artículo explora la visión ciudadana sobre la esfera pública expresada en las cartas de los lectores de los diarios El Tiempo y El Heraldo de Colombia. Los resultados muestran cómo la identidad colectiva de los lectores apareció en forma transversal en las cartas, para dar cuenta de una comunidad de adultos que se autodefine como “colombianos de bien”. El análisis reveló dos unidades de significado: posturas sobre la administración de lo público y antagonismos en la esfera pública, centrada en el conflicto político con las guerrillas. A través de estas se pudieron hacer visibles los llamamientos vívidos de los lectores al gobierno, funcionarios públicos, actores al margen de la ley y a sus compatriotas, para movilizarse para exigir cambios sociales largamente esperados.

Myanmar MIL Workshop Series

The Mobile Information Literacy curriculum is a growing collection of training materials designed to build literacies for the millions of people worldwide coming online every month via a mobile phone. Most information information and digital literacy curricula were designed for a PC age, and public and private organizations around the world have used these curricula to help newcomers use computers and the internet effectively and safely. The better curricula address not only skills, but also concepts and attitudes. The central question for this project is: what are the relevant skills, concepts, and attitudes for people using mobiles, not PCs, to access the internet? As part of the Information Strategies for Societies in Transition project, we developed a six-module curriculum for mobile-first users. The project is situated in Myanmar, a country undergoing massive political, economic, and social changes, and where mobile penetration is expected to reach 80% by the end of 2015 from just 4% in 2014. Combined with the country’s history of media censorship, Myanmar presents unique challenges for addressing the needs of people who need the ability to find and evaluate the quality and credibility of information obtained online, understand how to create and share online information effectively, and participate safely and securely.

Myanmar DIL WORKSHOP SERIES Unit 4: Working Online and Using Information

The Mobile Information Literacy curriculum is a growing collection of training materials designed to build literacies for the millions of people worldwide coming online every month via a mobile phone. Most information information and digital literacy curricula were designed for a PC age, and public and private organizations around the world have used these curricula to help newcomers use computers and the internet effectively and safely. The better curricula address not only skills, but also concepts and attitudes. The central question for this project is: what are the relevant skills, concepts, and attitudes for people using mobiles, not PCs, to access the internet? As part of the Information Strategies for Societies in Transition project, we developed a six-module curriculum for mobile-first users. The project is situated in Myanmar, a country undergoing massive political, economic, and social changes, and where mobile penetration is expected to reach 80% by the end of 2015 from just 4% in 2014. Combined with the country’s history of media censorship, Myanmar presents unique challenges for addressing the needs of people who need the ability to find and evaluate the quality and credibility of information obtained online, understand how to create and share online information effectively, and participate safely and securely.

Proposition de nouvelles fonctionnalités WikiSIG pour supporter le travail collaboratif en Geodesign

L’émergence du Web 2.0 se matérialise par de nouvelles technologies (API, Ajax…), de nouvelles pratiques (mashup, geotagging…) et de nouveaux outils (wiki, blog…). Il repose principalement sur le principe de participation et de collaboration. Dans cette dynamique, le Web à caractère spatial et cartographique c’est-à-dire, le Web géospatial (ou GéoWeb) connait lui aussi de fortes transformations technologiques et sociales. Le GéoWeb 2.0 participatif se matérialise en particulier par des mashups entre wikis et géobrowsers (ArgooMap, Geowiki, WikiMapia, etc.). Les nouvelles applications nées de ces mashups évoluent vers des formes plus interactives d’intelligence collective. Mais ces applications ne prennent pas en compte les spécificités du travail collaboratif, en particulier la gestion de traçabilité ou l’accès dynamique à l’historique des contributions. Le Geodesign est un nouveau domaine fruit de l’association des SIG et du design, permettant à une équipe multidisciplinaire de travailler ensemble. Compte tenu de son caractère émergent, le Geodesign n’est pas assez défini et il requiert une base théorique innovante, de nouveaux outils, supports, technologies et pratiques afin de s’adapter à ses exigences complexes. Nous proposons dans cette thèse de nouvelles fonctionnalités de type WikiSIG, bâties sur les principes et technologies du GéoWeb 2.0 et visant en particulier à supporter la dimension collaborative du processus de Geodesign. Le WikiSIG est doté de fonctionnalités wiki dédiées à la donnée géospatiale (y compris dans sa composante géométrique : forme et localisation) permettant d’assurer, de manière dynamique, la gestion documentée des versions des objets et l’accès à ces versions (et de leurs métadonnées), facilitant ainsi le travail collaboratif en Geodesign. Nous proposons également la deltification qui consiste en la capacité de comparer et d’afficher les différences entre deux versions de projets. Finalement la pertinence de quelques outils du géotraitement et « sketching » est évoquée. Les principales contributions de cette thèse sont d’une part d’identifier les besoins, les exigences et les contraintes du processus de Geodesign collaboratif, et d’autre part de proposer des nouvelles fonctionnalités WikiSIG répondant au mieux à la dimension collaborative du processus. Pour ce faire, un cadre théorique est dressé où nous avons identifié les exigences du travail collaboratif de Geodesign et proposé certaines fonctionnalités WikiSIG innovantes qui sont par la suite formalisés en diagrammes UML. Une maquette informatique est aussi développée de façon à mettre en oeuvre ces fonctionnalités, lesquelles sont illustrées à partir d’un cas d’étude simulé, traité comme preuve du concept. La pertinence de ces fonctionnalités développées proposées est finalement validée par des experts à travers un questionnaire et des entrevues. En résumé, nous montrons dans cette thèse l’importance de la gestion de la traçabilité et comment accéder dynamiquement à l’historique dans un processus de Geodesign. Nous proposons aussi d’autres fonctionnalités comme la deltification, le volet multimédia supportant l’argumentation, les paramètres qualifiant les données produites, et la prise de décision collective par consensus, etc.

“Professora, tu agora já sabes mais um bocado do que é ser filhos e essas coisas da família?”: Um trabalho de dupla reflexão e coprodução de dados com crianças em idade pré-escolar

O presente texto pretende mostrar quão necessário se torna estudar a experiência das crianças, as suas conceções e imagens, para podermos entender os diferentes fenómenos sociais que lhes dizem respeito. As grandes transformações sociais que têm vindo a sucederse no interior da família, sobretudo nas últimas décadas, suscitaram, na autora, a necessidade de perceber a atual importância social atribuída à infância, no espaço doméstico, resgatada a partir das vozes das crianças. Subscrevendo os pressupostos da Sociologia da Infância, partiuse da noção de que as crianças são atores sociais competentes e, como tal, devem ser consideradas no processo de produção de conhecimento sobre os seus mundos de vida. Este artigo visa expor as representações de um grupo de crianças, em contexto de jardim de infância, acerca do lugar que lhes é reservado, enquanto filhos(as) pequenos(as), no interior da família.

Narrativas em (re)construção : biografias de mulheres em processo de alfabetização e letramento no Instituto federal de Brasília

Dissertação apresentada para a obtenção do grau de mestre na especialidade de Educação Social e Intervenção Comunitária

Era uma vez... Branca de Neve e a representação feminina no conto clássico e no filme espelho, espelho meu

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar as mudanças ocorridas na representação feminina, ao longo do tempo, em contos de fadas e suas adaptações, através de um viés comparativo. Para esta pesquisa, selecionamos como corpus as duas versões do conto “Branca de Neve”, dos Irmãos Grimm – uma publicada entre os anos de 1812 e 1815 e a outra publicada em 1822 –, e o filme Espelho, espelho meu (2012), dirigido por Tarsem Singh com história de Melissa Wallack e roteiro de Jason Keller e Marc Klein. Nossa análise pauta-se nas informações obtidas em História da vida privada, organizada por Georges Duby e Philiphe Ariès (1991) e Minha história das mulheres, de Michelle Perrot (2008). Como principal fundamentação teórica, utilizamos as concepções de Linda Hutcheon, em especial aquelas constantes em seu livro Uma teoria da adaptação (2013). Além disso, durante a escrita desta dissertação, também fizemos uso dos estudos de Bruno Bettelheim (2007), Tomás Enrique Creus (2006) e Carl Gustav Jung (2000). Ao longo deste estudo, procuramos ainda compreender as mudanças na representação feminina nos contos de fadas clássicos, comparando-se as adaptações referidas, relacionando-as com as alterações sociais acontecidas ao longo do tempo.

Parental feelings face to hospitalization of the child

The hospitalizatíon of a child carnes with it major changes, etther in the child's life or parent. lllness and hospttalizatíon constitute a crisis situation for both the child and the famHy as it incorporates financiai, psychotogical, relational and social changes. The purpose of this work and analyze the satísfactíon and parents' perception on the importance of nursing care during hospttalizatíon and feelings experienced by parents. Objectives: To know the opinions and feelings of the parents in relation to the admlsston of the child 1n the service of Pediatrics at North of Portugal. Methods: Integrated this study parents of chtldren hospttalized in the pediatric inpatíent at the Hospital Trás-os-Montes e alto Douro, Vila Real, whose children were in the service to at least more than 48 hours, In total 33 escorts that replied to the questionnaire. For such a study we chose the type quantitative deschptíve. We proceeded to collect data by conductíng a questíonnaire, and the results of it were drafted in the SPSS program through Quantitatíve model wtth exploratory qualitatíve approach. Results: The age ofthe partícipants is between the 21 and 46 years - old, 75. 8% of respondents were married, 78. 8% of chtldren was hospitalized in the first time. We conclude that the mother is who else accompanies the chtld in the hospital. We had positive feedback regarding the interactíon parent-nurses since many parents stressed the good relatíonship with the nursing team (It reported that "Nurses" and "Nurses and "auxiliaries" were who else helped them, with 30. 3% and 21. 2% respectively). The feelings more mentioned were: anxiety -21 answers, sadness-20, fear-15 and hope with 15. The conditions offered to the parents were considered goodfor60.6%.

Os limites da gentrificação na vila planalto

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 2015.