Exploration du lien entre les dynamiques sociales et les perceptions de l’activité physique chez de jeunes Québécois de 12-14 ans

Au début de l’adolescence, on observe une diminution marquée du niveau de pratique d’activité physique (PAP). Les pairs ont été identifiés comme des déterminants importants de la PAP à cette période de la vie. Notre étude explore le rôle des dynamiques sociales entre les pairs dans les perceptions de la PAP d’adolescents Québécois. Des entretiens semi-directifs ont été réalisés auprès de 12 garçons et 10 filles, âgés entre 12 et 14 ans, issus de trois écoles aux profils socioéconomiques, géographiques (urbain, de banlieue et rural) et ethniques différents. Le guide d’entretien abordait les thèmes de l’amitié, des railleries, des émotions et des interactions sociales vécues dans différents contextes de PAP. Une analyse descriptive des entretiens a été effectuée afin d’identifier les éléments des dynamiques sociales susceptibles d’influencer les perceptions de la PAP dans différents contextes. L’environnement social des cours d’éducation physique (compétences physiques variées, mixité, valorisation de la compétition) semble favoriser des relations inégales et des rapports de pouvoir entre les jeunes. Les perceptions des adolescents concernant ce contexte de pratique sont souvent négatives. Les perceptions favorables à l’activité physique sont plutôt liées à des contextes de pratique que l’on retrouve à l’extérieur du milieu scolaire et où l’environnement social semble favoriser l’émergence de relations d’égal à égal (compétences physiques similaires, groupes de pairs du même sexe). Les résultats de cette étude peuvent guider les intervenants dans la mise en place de conditions d’intervention qui pourront favoriser la pratique d’activité physique.

Emotional Intelligence As A Determinant Of Conflict Style Adoption Of Managers: A Theoretical Perspective

Successful management is dependent heavily on the manager’s ability to handle conflict effectively. The workforce has been increasingly becoming diversified vis-à-vis the gender, culture and ethnicity. The present work environment has in itself contributed to sowing seeds of conflict with greater diversity, hostility, complexity and newer business competencies in the work context.The classic study of Mintzberg’s Managerial roles approach (1973) also says that a manager has to spend sufficient time and energy in solving conflict as he has to take roles as a negotiator, and dispute handler. An understanding of the conflict and role that it plays in influencing employee behavior constructively or destructively is immense. Therefore conflict when left unmanaged can lead to diminished cohesiveness amongst employees, productivity and reduced organizational fitness. To manage conflict effective conflict resolution strategies that have constructive outcomes is called for. Conflict resolution style theorists opine that collaborative or integrative style, where there is high concern for task and people is considered to give positive individual and organizational outcomes, while the withdrawing /avoidance style and forcing / dominating style are considered to be ineffective in managing conflict. Though managers have typical preferences in the styles followed it need not necessarily be the typical response as it depends on the context, power relationships, emotions etc. The adoption of conflict styles of managers however is dependent on variables like gender orientation, cultural values, personality orientation, underlying relationships – public/private. The paper attempts to draw the importance of managing conflicts at workplace positively and the need for effective conflict resolution strategies. The conflict style adopted and the variables that affect the adoption of each style are discussed and possible interventions at the workplace are suggested

Análisis de las relaciones de poder entre las autoridades nacionales y territoriales en torno al proceso de modernización del Aeropuerto El Dorado. Periodo 2000 – 2011

Estudio de caso que pretende analizar las relaciones de poder entre autoridades de orden nacional y territorial en un Estado en proceso de descentralización, para lo cual se estudian las decisiones que toman dichas autoridades en torno a uno de los macro proyectos de inversión más importantes, significativos y determinantes para el país: la modernización del Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado.

La alianza de estados insulares pequeños y la securitización del cambio climático en la convención marco de Naciones Unidas sobre cambio climático (1992-2012)

La presente monografía busca explicar el proceso de securitización realizado por la AOSIS del cambio climático en las COP de la CMNUCC. Esta investigación defiende que la AOSIS sí ha hecho dicho proceso a través de estrategias como el liderazgo moral y los nexos con actores no-estatales; pero dicho proceso no ha sido exitoso, dado el predominio del discurso del desarrollo sostenible en las negociaciones, el debilitamiento de la AOSIS como actor securitizador y el poco apoyo formal de las potencias emergentes y el bloque UMBRELLA. Para sustentar lo anterior, se realizará una revisión de informes científicos que demuestran que el cambio climático es una amenaza a la seguridad, y un estudio desde de la teoría de securitización de Thierry Balzacq, de los discursos dados por los estados AOSIS, de las COP y de las posiciones de algunos bloques de negociación sobre el cambio climático.

Voices from the aid 'chain': The personal dynamics of care

This paper uses a simplified model of the aid 'chain' to explore some causes and consequences of breakdown in communication. Although the rhetoric of Northern-based donors is awash with words such as 'partnership' and 'inclusion' when dealing with their Southern-based partners, the situation in practice is different. Unequal power relationships sometimes result in donor imposition of Perspectives and values. It is our contention, based on a collective experience of fifty-four years in a Nigerian-based non-governmental development organization (NGDO), the Diocesan Development Services (DDS), that much of the driving force behind the successes and problems faced by the institution was founded on relationships that evolved between individuals. In order to understand why things happened the way they did it is necessary to begin with the human element that cannot be condensed into objects or categories. While injudicious donor interference bad damaging repercussions, our experience suggests that care and consideration flow throughout the aid chain and actions are not malevolent. Breakdowns can be attributed to a number of factors, with the over-riding one being pressures operating at the personal level that emanate from within the institution itself and the larger community. The paper analyses three experiences using institutional ethnography theory and methodologies as a basis. Examples taken address the influence key donor personnel had in the function of DDS, and how these changed with time. The mission, policies and even procedures of the donor did not change markedly over thirty-two years, but each changing desk officer had their own philosophy and approach and a different interpretation of their own institutional policies. Hence while the 'macro' has an influence it is mediated via individual interpretation. In our view, the importance of people-people relationships is particularly understated in development literature where emphasis gravitates towards the aggregate and global.

Promoting sustainability: Efficacy and adoption of tobacco-based insecticides in Nigeria

The promotion of technologies seen to be aiding in the attainment of agricultural sustainability has been Popular amongst Northern-based development donors for many years. One of these, botanical insecticides (e.g., those based on neem, Pyrethrum and tobacco) have been a particular favorite as they are equated with being 'natural' and hence less damaging to human health and the environment. This paper describes the outcome of interactions between one non-government organisation (NGO), the Diocesan Development Services (DDS), based in Kogi State, Nigeria, and a major development donor based in Europe that led to the establishment of a programme designed to promote the Virtues of a tobacco-based insecticide to small-scale farmers. The Tobacco Insecticide Programme (TIP) began in the late 1980s and ended in 200 1, absorbing significant quantities of resource in the process. TIP began with exploratory investigations of efficacy on the DDS seed multiplication farm followed by stages of researcher-managed and farmer-managed on-farm trials. A survey in 2002 assessed adoption of the technology by farmers. While yield benefits from using the insecticide were nearly always positive and statistically significant relative to an untreated control, they were not as good as commercial insecticides. However, adoption of the tobacco insecticide by local farmers was poor. The paper discusses the reasons for poor adoption, including relative benefits in gross margin, and uses the TIP example to explore the differing power relationships that exist between donors, their field partners and farmers. (C) 2004 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

Perspectives on community representation within the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: experiences from south-east Madagascar

This article critically examines the nature and quality of governance in community representation and civil society engagement in the context of trans-national large-scale mining, drawing on experiences in the Anosy Region of south-east Madagascar. An exploration of functional relationships between government, mining business and civil society stakeholders reveals an equivocal legitimacy of certain civil society representatives, created by state manipulation, which contributes to community disempowerment. The appointment of local government officials, rather than election, creates a hierarchy of upward dependencies and a culture where the majority of officials express similar views and political alliances. As a consequence, community resistance is suppressed. Voluntary mechanisms such as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) advocate community stakeholder engagement in decision making processes as a measure to achieve public accountability. In many developing countries, where there is a lack of transparency and high levels of corruption, the value of this engagement, however, is debatable. Findings from this study indicate that the power relationships which exist between stakeholders in the highly lucrative mining industry override efforts to achieve "good governance" through voluntary community engagement. The continuing challenge lies in identifying where the responsibility sits in order to address this power struggle to achieve fair representation.

A climate of control: flooding, displacement and planned resettlement in the Lower Zambezi River valley, Mozambique

In recent years, the potential role of planned, internal resettlement as a climate change adaptation measure has been highlighted by national governments and the international policy community. However, in many developing countries, resettlement is a deeply political process that often results in an unequal distribution of costs and benefits amongst relocated persons. This paper examines these tensions in Mozambique, drawing on a case study of flood-affected communities in the Lower Zambezi River valley. It takes a political ecology approach – focusing on discourses of human-environment interaction, as well as the power relationships that are supported by such discourses – to show how a dominant narrative of climate change-induced hazards for small-scale farmers is contributing to their involuntary resettlement to higher-altitude, less fertile areas of land. These forced relocations are buttressed by a series of wider economic and political interests in the Lower Zambezi River region, such dam construction for hydroelectric power generation and the extension of control over rural populations, from which resettled people derive little direct benefit. Rather than engaging with these challenging issues, most international donors present in the country accept the ‘inevitability’ of extreme weather impacts and view resettlement as an unfortunate and, in some cases, necessary step to increase people’s ‘resilience’, thus rationalising the top-down imposition of unpopular social policies. The findings add weight to the argument that a depoliticised interpretation of climate change can deflect attention away from underlying drivers of vulnerability and poverty, as well as obscure the interests of governments that are intent on reordering poor and vulnerable populations.

O excepcional e a excepcionalidade da ordem sócio-cultural

A partir da prática da Equipe Técnica de Educação Especial (ETESP), órgão da Secretaria Estadual de Educação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, representativa do sistema enquanto lugar de relações de poder, desenvolve-se uma análise crítica da educação especial. A fundamentação teórica dessa análise, em um primeiro momento, coloca em questão o problema da normalidade, dentro da visão de Canguilhem e, em um segundo momento, relaciona as teorias de Lacan e Marx, principalmente em relação ao problema da determinação e da permanência da lógica sócio-cultural em que vivemos. Definida as práticas institucionais, dentro de uma perspectiva foucauldiana, como processo gradual que tem como objetivo a produção de corpos dóceis e submissos, coloca a ETESP, seus técnicos e as professoras das classes especiais, no papel de garantir e perpetuar a hegemonia da classe que detem o poder, submetendo a uma prática normatizadora todos os alunos que não se enquadram no funcionamento da escola. Aponta a necessidade de mudança no conceito de "excepcional" e a possibilidade de criação de espaços e metodologias novas, como formas de transformação do atual quadro da educação especial.

Análise das relações e representações escola-sociedade civil na Região Serrana do estado do Rio de Janeiro

Esta dissertação evidencia que existe uma importante parcela dos setores populares na Região Serrana do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, cuja ação não se limitou a aceitar passivamente as decisões e ações do Estado. Mas, nas tentativas de se tornarem protagonistas ativos de seu processo histórico esbarraram em várias dificuldades das quais, talvez a maior, tenha sido o "esvaziamento " das formas organizativas de seus movimentos. Por outro lado, objetivamos identificar nesta região e, principalmente no seu meio rural, a dimensão histórica da educação, no sentido desta não apenas ser modificada no curso do próprio processo histórico mas, também, da possibilidade real de ser um dos agentes modificadores. Além disso, este estudo se desenvolveu apontando para a necessidade de se analisar as "relações de força", em momentos ou graus, que na dinâmica do movimento histórico da sociedade, combinam-se, alternam-se e entrelaçam-se. Assim, procuramos desvendar o inventário da região partindo desde os seus primórdios, passando pelos primeiros imigrantes europeus e a sua absorção pelas fraçoes de classe na dinâmica histórica que se desenvolveu, contextualizando a problemática nacional e internacional. Analisamos, também, as tentativas de organização dos movimentos sociais tomando como referencial a "Comuna de Paris" e as análises de Marx a seu respeito, bem como os conceitos de qualidade e pobreza política. No relato e estudo dos diversos casos fomos levados à discussão do papel do Estado e de suas variadas formas de intervenção, onde afloram o c1ientelismo e o assistencialismo. Ao analisar as relações e representações da escola com a sociedade civil, deparamo-nos com o movimento reivindicatório dos professores por melhores salários, melhoria da educação e outras propostas. Na ânsia de obter recursos mínimos para o seu funcionamento, a escola apelou para a comunidade que a cerca, porém, determinando o padrão de participação comunitária resultando daí, um rompimento. Assim, na Região Serrana do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, como no resto do Brasil, a escola e as instituições em geral. vêm cumprindo seu papel de reforço e reprodução da estrutura de classes da sociedade. Durante a pesquisa e na construção desta dissertação adquirimos uma convicção que não diz respeito somente à região estudada: a formação da cidadania passa pela educação. Mas ela não é ensinada na escola. Ela surge da luta construída objetiva e obstinadamente nas reais possibilidades do dia a dia, no universo do qual a escola faz parte. A luta por uma escola melhor e parte da luta por uma sociedade melhor.

GÊNERO E RELAÇÕES DE PODER NO PENTECOSTALISMO: ESTUDO COMPARATIVO ENTRE A IGREJA DE CRISTO NO BRASIL E A COMUNIDADE EVANGÉLICA SARA NOSSA TERRA

Based on the empirical comparative study between two churches from Pentecostal guidance - both located in Parnamirim/RN - and supported on a dialogic interaction between my interlocutors and theoretical references, I proposed me to reflect about how this protestant segment represents and articulates questions such as gender and power relationships, and the daily impact of that in their followers life. In other words, this dissertation aims to understand the reason of the asymmetry attributed to male and female, especially in what concerns the distribution of ecclesiastic works and the authority given to male, as well as the implication of this reality in the reconfiguration of morality and religious praxis in daily life of individuals and involved groups. From this perspective, this work was divided in three chapters, in which I investigate the tension/relationship between faith and secularism, for from this question on concessions and/or prohibitions related to the limits and involvement of the followers with the world and with the very Pentecostal ethos arise. I also analyze here aspects concerning to both ecclesiastic hierarchy and power, with the objective of elucidating how it occurs, what kind of criteria and implications they consider as well as about the nature of the religious labor division between men and women and, finally, I try to understand how the conversion/adhesion of members is reflected in the redefinitions of gender and its relationship between the ecclesiastical and domestic spaces. The diligence and energy spent in this work is in the hope that its fruits can corroborate in the expansion of anthropological knowledge which, in this particular case, involves the Brazilian Pentecostal phenomenon

O cuidado humanístico como foco institucional: um estudo sobre empatia dos profissionais de saúde na área obstétrica

Empathy is a basic facilitating element of the therapeutic helping relationship and the humanization process in health care. The objectives of this study were to identify the empathy level of health professionals working in the obstetrical sector of a university hospital recognized for its humanistic care and the perceptions of the women under their care regarding the empathic behavior shown by these professionals during hospitalization. We conducted a quanti/qualitative study with 47 health professionals that worked in the obstetrical sector (13 obstetricians, 12 nurses, 22 nurse technicians) and an intentional sample of 101 women that received cared from these professionals during the study period. We collected data by means of the Jefferson Empathy Scale for Health Professioals (JEPS-HR) and the Patient´s Perception of Health Professional Empathy (PPHPE), and two additional open questions designed to obtain the subjective opinion about the empathic behavior during the care. We utilized thematic analysis for the data obtained through the open questions and descriptive and inferential statistics for the quantitative data. We identified five thematic categories that represent the aspects valued by the professionals in their relationship with the women under their care: emotional involvement, communication, warm environment, integral vision and technical/scientific knowledge. The mean score on the JEPS-HR reported for the health professionals was 120,40, being that the maximum possible was 140.The Cronbach Alpha for the JEPS-HR was 0,83, indicating an acceptable level of reliability for this population. We consider therefore, that these professionals presented an acceptable empathy level when compared to other populations observed with the JEPS-HR. The results also indicated that women had statistically significant (p ≤ 0,05) higher scores than men and that professionals with higher working hours tended to have lower scores in the empathy scale (r = -0,288; p ≤ 0,05). The analysis of the subjective responses of the women indicated that they were satisfied with the humanistic care provided by the professionals but they also point out the existence of some power relationships. There were no significant differences in the empathy level of the medical or nursing team perceived by the women who registered means of 41,90 and 41,20 respectively on the PPHPE. In view of these results and considering the relevance of the element of empathy for care based on humanistic values, we reiterate the importance of further in-service training for the health team of the hospital in focus, on the topics of empathy and global aspects of humanized care for the implementation of its mission

Paisagem arquitetônica da cidade de João Pessoa/PB e seus significados: o perceptivo dos moradores

This study was conducted in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba mesoregion Forest. Having to analyze how does the appreciation of the architectural heritage to the visitor and pessoense Capital Paraiba, taking into account the narratives of João Pessoa, and practitioners of foreign tourists of cultural tourism. This research builds on a theoretical foundation on concepts of landscape and place. Was taken as a foundation to Cultural Geography. The research in question is justified by embarking on Geography and Heritage and cast a glance on the geographical cultural landscape, trying to unravel the symbols assigned to the ancient architectural examples, meaning that interfere with power relationships that cross generations, constructing and deconstructing identities, is dispersed or integrating cultures, creating cultural groups and social conflict. It is concluded that the geographical area derives from a number of factors, among them the culture and this in turn will shaping the landscape, reflecting the abstract over the concrete architecture of the oldest to the most current, turning from the material to the immaterial in World Heritage Site

Avaliação do ensino e aprendizagem em arte: o lugar do aluno como sujeito da avaliação

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

A questão de gênero nos sindicatos de Presidente Prudente - SP

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)