Comparison of learning between Digital gallery and Hands-on Laboratory

This thesis has been done in ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) located in Toronto Canada. It focuses on learning in two parts of the museum. It tries to find out how much each part is effective in terms of learning. Studies have been done in the Digital gallery, which has been equipped with digital video projector and workstation that allows visitors to interact with the collections in 2 or 3 dimensional spaces while they are watching the presenting film. The rest of the study was in Hands-on laboratory, which allows students to examine artifacts and discuss their findings .The method was used in this research is Concept mapping .In Digital gallery, 24 schools surveys in the form of pre-post- test by help of the concept mapping method has been done. In Hands-on laboratory, 12 schools have been studied by using the combination of interviewing and written pre post-test of concept mapping.

Introduktion till Certifierad Grafisk Produktion på Jernström Offset

The aim for this thesis was to develop a proposal of documentation, containing rules and procedures, which JernströmOffset needs to acquire the Certified Graphic Production certification. A fundamental part was to study the materialissued by Sveriges Grafiska Mediaförening, to clarify the requirements that must be met to obtain the certification. Therecommendations found in the CGP material must also be considered.Based on the requirements and recommendations of Certified Graphic Production, a mapping of the workflows atJernström Offset was performed. It was done by interviewing employees from different departments at the company,this to get a clear understanding of the operations carried out throughout the production flow and the final qualityfollow-up.During our reviewing process we found that a number of changes, in terms of working environment and practices,must be made at the company. As a result of this we propose some appropriate actions to be implemented.The documentation was finally written, through the requirements and recommendations of Certified GraphicProduction and then applied to Jernström Offset’s work procedures.

Communication in Smoking Cessation and Self-management : a study at Nurse-led COPD-clinics in Primary Health Care

ABSTRACTThe general aim of this thesis was to investigate behavioral change communication at nurse-led chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinics in primary health care, focusing on communication in self-management and smoking cessation for patients with COPD.Designs: Observational, prospective observational and experimental designs were used.Methods: To explore and describe the structure and content of self-management education and smoking cessation communication, consultations between patients (n=30) and nurses (n=7) were videotaped and analyzed with three instruments: Consulting Map (CM), the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) scale and the Client Language Assessment in Motivational Interviewing (CLAMI). To examine the effects of structured self-management education, patients with COPD (n=52) were randomized in an intervention and a control group. Patients’ quality of life (QoL), knowledge about COPD and smoking cessation were examined with a questionnaire on knowledge about COPD and smoking habits and with St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire, addressing QoL. Results: The findings from the videotaped consultations showed that communication about the reasons for consultation mainly concerned medical and physical problems and (to a certain extent) patients´ perceptions. Two consultations ended with shared understanding, but none of the patients received an individual treatment-plan. In the smoking cessation communication the nurses did only to a small extent evoke patients’ reasons for change, fostered collaboration and supported patients’ autonomy. The nurses provided a lot of information (42%), asked closed (21%) rather than open questions (3%), made simpler (14%) rather than complex (2%) reflections and used MI non-adherent (16%) rather than MI-adherent (5%) behavior. Most of the patients’ utterances in the communication were neutral either toward or away from smoking cessation (59%), utterances about reason (desire, ability and need) were 40%, taking steps 1% and commitment to stop smoking 0%. The number of patients who stopped smoking, and patients’ knowledge about the disease and their QoL, was increased by structured self-management education and smoking cessation in collaboration between the patient, nurse and physician and, when necessary, a physiotherapist, a dietician, an occupational therapist and/or a medical social worker.Conclusion The communication at nurse-led COPD clinics rarely involved the patients in shared understanding and responsibility and concerned patients’ fears, worries and problems only to a limited extent. The results also showed that nurses had difficulties in attaining proficiency in behavioral change communication. Structured self-management education showed positive effects on patients’ perceived QoL, on the number of patients who quit smoking and on patients’ knowledge about COPD.

Att utveckla pedagogisk dokumentation i förskolan : En intervjustudie om hur tre förskollärare arbetar med pedagogisk dokumentation i teori och praktik

Syftet med den här studien var att med hjälp av intervjuer undersöka hur pedagogisk dokumentation kan fungera i praktiken, studien centreras kring hur tre olika förskollärare arbetar med och tänker kring pedagogisk dokumentation. Studien vill även ge inspiration och kunskap till andra lärarstudenter eller verksamma förskollärare till att själva starta ett sådant arbete, samt belysa problematik som kan förekomma. Det resultat som framkommer i undersökningen visar att det krävs mycket övning innan dokumentationsarbetet blir effektivt. Studien visar även att den pedagogiska dokumentationen främst är till för att utveckla verksamheten och att reflektion i någon form är avgörande för att dokumentationen ska bli pedagogisk. Undersökningen visar att man för att beakta ett etiskt tänkande kring barnen som dokumenteras bör ge barnen möjlighet att ge sitt samtycke till att bli dokumenterade samt att de får vara delaktiga i dokumentationsarbetet. Arbetet kan leda till att pedagoger skapar sig makt över barnen och bli ett led i en normaliseringsprocess, samt medföra att man bedömer barnen. Överlag har de intervjuade förskollärarna en positiv inställning till arbetet med pedagogisk dokumentation och menar att det inte finns något rätt eller fel, utan att var och en får hitta sitt sätt att arbeta.

The Compromised Researcher : Issues in Feminist Research Methodologies

This article centres on issues of vulnerability and being compromised in feminist research where the focus has frequently been on researching the same. Compromise, here used in its pejorative sense, may for instance occur in terms of one’s research topic, the methods one utilizes, or the participants chosen for a study. Drawing on a range of examples including the methodological work of Ann Oakley (1981, 2000) as well as three articles on researching men that appeared in the journal Signs in 2005, I argue that feminist researchers, possibly because they work in an identity-based discipline, may be diversely vulnerable when researching the same and/or researching the different, and can be compromised both by how they are treated by those whom they encounter in their research and by their own behaviour in that context. I suggest that these concerns are under-articulated in feminist research and conclude with a series of questions that need to be raised. 

Nurses’ and patients’ communication in smoking cessation at nurse-led COPD clinics in primary health care

Background: Smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have high nicotine dependence making it difficult to quit smoking. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a method that is used in stimulating motivation and behavioral changes. Objective: To describe smoking cessation communication between patients and registered nurses trained in MI in COPD nurse-led clinics in Swedish primary health care. Methods: A prospective observational study with structured quantitative content analyses of the communication between six nurses with basic education in MI and 13 patients in non-smoking consultations. Results: Only to a small extent did nurses’ evoke patients’ reasons for change, stimulate collaboration, and support patients’ autonomy. Nurses provided information, asked closed questions, and made simple reflections. Patients’ communicationwasmainly neutral and focusing on reasons for and against smoking. It was uncommon for patients to be committed and take steps toward smoking cessation. Conclusion: The nurses did not adhere to the principles of MI in smoking cessation, and the patients focused to a limited extent on how to quit smoking. Practice implications: To make patients more active, the nurses need more education and continuous training in motivational communication.

Motiverande samtal mellan sjuksköterskan och personer med diabetes typ 2 – en litteraturöversikt

Bakgrund: Antalet personer med diabetes i världen ökar. Det har blivit en global epidemi. Risken för dödsfall bland människor med diabetes, är ungefär dubbelt så stor, som för människor i samma ålder utan diabetes. Diabetes typ 2 (DT2) är den vanligaste typen av diabetes. Inom hälso- och sjukvården används alltmer motiverande samtal (MI) som behandlingsmetod för livsstilsrelaterade problem som till exempel: kost, motion alkohol och tobak. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva hur sjuksköterskans användning av MI påverkar livsstilsförändringar hos personer med DT2 och deras upplevelse av behandlingen. Metod: En litteraturöversikt. Resultat: MI som behandlingsmetod gav flera positiva hälsoeffekter. Det framgick bland annat genom en sänkning av HbA1c. Även kunskapsnivån gällande livsstilsförändringar ökade efter MI-behandling. Vid användning av MI stärktes personens inneboende motivation till förändring. Slutsats: MI är en relativt ny metod som ännu inte fått stor genomslag inom diabetesvården. MI ger positiva hälsoeffekter som till exempel sänkt HbA1c. Deltagarna blev mer motiverade och medvetna om sitt eget ansvar för att göra livsstilsförändringar. Mer forskning om MI för personer med DT2 behövs.

Projektarbete i praktiken : Hur kan oförutsedda problem vid projektöverlämningen minimeras

Projektarbete förekommer på många företag och trots att det ofta finns tydligt beskrivna rutiner för hur projektarbetet skall ske händer det att parterna inte är helt överens då projektet ska avslutas. Ibland är det ändringar under projektets gång som ligger till grund för kommande tvister, men i grunden är det oftast kommunikationen som brister mellan parterna. Genom att intervjua några olika företag och analyserat hur de arbetar i projekt har vi i detta arbete kunnat se en röd tråd som består av den viktiga kommunikationen för att skapa och bibehålla sunda relationer. För att hantera de förändringar som kan ske under projektresans gång ser vi i vår analys av de företag som ingått i vår studie att det är av fördel att ha ett nära samarbete med kunder eller leverantörer och helst starta samarbetet tidigt för att möjliggöra justeringar som annars i ett senare skede blir svårare att genomföra. Ett tillvägagångssätt att arbeta med ett projekts interna problem kan vara plattformar som möjliggör en delning av information mellan projektets olika medlemmar. Angreppsvinkeln är då att det ska bli lättare för att samtliga projektdeltagare att kunna ta del av informationen med en förhoppning att minimera missförstånd inom projektet.

Exploring self-rated health among adolescents : a think-aloud study

BACKGROUND: Despite extensive use of self-rated health questions in youth studies, little is known about what such questions capture among adolescents. Hence, the aim of this study was to explore how adolescents interpret and reason when answering a question about self-rated health. METHODS: A qualitative study using think-aloud interviews explored the question, "How do you feel most of the time?", using five response options ("Very good", "Rather good", "Neither good, nor bad", "Rather bad", and "Very bad"). The study involved 58 adolescents (29 boys and 29 girls) in lower secondary school (7th grade) and upper secondary school (12th grade) in Sweden. RESULTS: Respondents' interpretations of the question about how they felt included social, mental, and physical aspects. Gender differences were found primarily in that girls emphasized stressors, while age differences were reflected mainly in the older respondents' inclusion of a wider variety of influences on their assessments. The five response options all demonstrated differences in self-rated health, and the respondents' understanding of the middle option, "Neither good, nor bad", varied widely. In the answering of potential sensitive survey questions, rationales for providing honest or biased answers were described. CONCLUSIONS: The use of a self-rated health question including the word 'feel' captured a holistic view of health among adolescents. Differences amongst response options should be acknowledged when analyzing self-rated health questions. If anonymity is not feasible when answering questions on self-rated health, a high level of privacy is recommended to increase the likelihood of reliability.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Women

Writing this collection of journalistic nonfiction has come at an appropriate time for me as I head out into the world on my own. I still don’t know if or where I’ll be working. I don’t know if I’ll be an intern or employee or if I want to go to graduate school in the future. The world is wide open before me, and that is a scary thing. However, these women have been assuring and guiding me. Meeting and interviewing them has taught me that life is subjective. They have shown me that everything we own can be lost in an instant, that life—family, freedom, happiness—is more precious and more fragile than we may think. These women are not superficial; they are sincere and wise. I would consider myself blessed to have a fraction of their strength, and, indeed, it is their characters to which I aspire. Each woman has suffered loss, but each woman has also gained a new, deeper perspective on life. They are the ones who, from my point of view, are flying high and clinging tight—with views from the crown of the forest.

Supervisão psicanalítica : abordagem da contratransferência

Recente exame da literatura sobre a contratransferência e seus desenvolvimentos revela sua utilidade clínica em diferentes culturas psicanalíticas. No entanto, sobre sua abordagem na supervisão, mostra escassez de publicações. O objetivo deste estudo foi examinar os conceitos de transferência e contratransferência e como a contratransferência é abordada na supervisão, na formação de candidatos, em um instituto de psicanálise de uma sociedade filiada a International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). Realizou-se pesquisa qualitativa, entrevistando supervisores e supervisionandos. Através da análise de conteúdo, os dados foram transformados em categorias iniciais, intermediárias e finais. Os principais achados foram subdivididos em três categorias: os conceitos de transferência e contratransferência; a escuta psicanalítica e a complementaridade dos fenômenos e a abordagem da contratransferência. Os conceitos de transferência e de contratransferência predominantemente utilizados pelos entrevistados são baseados na visão totalística. A abordagem da contratransferência na supervisão vem sendo realizada de forma mais direta e objetiva quando comparada com período anterior, embora exista grande cuidado em delimitar os limites entre supervisão e análise pessoal. A finalidade principal é ampliar a compreensão e aprofundar as interpretações dirigidas ao paciente. Estes achados sugerem que a evolução do conceito de contratransferência em diferentes culturas psicanalíticas e os desenvolvimentos sobre campo analítico vêm contribuindo para esta mudança.

Conversas com sociólogos brasileiros: retórica e teoria na história do pensamento sociológico do Brasil

Dando continuidade a uma iniciativa bem sucedida de conversa com diversos segmentos da intelectualidade brasileira, tais como economistas, filósofos, historiadores e cientistas políticos, o presente projeto focaliza agora os sociólogos. Reconstruindo trajetórias de vida e carreira, este trabalho visa retomar o debate de idéias, as reflexões sobre o papel destes cientistas sociais, os limites da prática sociológica e os dilemas enfrentados pela Sociologia nas sociedades contemporâneas e no Brasil hoje.

Análise da gestão patrimonial de empresa privada

Este projeto destina-se a analisar a gestão dos bens patrimoniais na empresa privada. Procura-se obter um diagnóstico de como as empresas conduzem a gestão do seu patrimônio, relativamente a eficiência e produtividade, diante de uma economia globalizada. A pesquisa será fundamentada em levantamentos de conceitos e práticas da gestão dos recursos patrimoniais. Serão realizados também, levantamentos em algumas empresas para se conhecer e avaliar as dificuldades e as práticas conduzidas. Torna-se oportuno ressaltar que este trabalho não focará somente os aspectos contábeis e de legislação que a empresa está submetida, ainda que tais aspectos estejam contemplados no estudo.

Perfil da gestão de recursos humanos na grande São Paulo: análise comparativa de duas pesquisas - 1994/1999

Essa pesquisa, realizada no ano de 1999, procura traçar um perfil da Gestão de Recursos Humanos na Grande São Paulo. Para tanto, foram entrevistados os responsáveis pela área de RH de 100 empresas médias e grandes, selecionadas aleatoriamente. Buscou-se mapear a estrutura da área, formas de recrutamento e seleção, benefícios, gestão de carreira, visão dos entrevistados dos investimentos realizados na área e do grau de estruturação das atividades e principais problemas e perspectivas da área. O instrumento de levantamento de dados é o mesmo utilizado em uma pesquisa realizada em 1994. Esse relatório compara os resultados das duas pesquisas.

Análise da gestão patrimonial de empresa pública

O projeto destina-se a analisar a gestão dos bens patrimonias na empresa pública. Procurar-se-á obter um diagnóstico de como as empresas públicas, em especial empresas situadas no município de São Paulo, conduzem a gestão o seu patrimônio, relativamente a eficiência e produtividade, diante de uma economia globalizada e da privatização emergente.A pesquisa será fundamentada em levantamentos de conceitos e práticas da gestão pública, comparando-a com a gestão da empresa privada. Será realizado também, um inquérito (pesquisa) através de entrevistas pessoais, em algumas empresas públicas, para se levantar e avaliar as dificuldades, e as práticas reais conduzidas.Torna-se oportuno ressaltar que este não será um trabalho que focará os aspectos contábeis e de legislação que a empresa pública está submetida, ainda que tais aspectos estão contemplados no estudo.