Satisfação dos docentes do Ensino Superior

O presente estudo tem como objectivo analisar a satisfação dos docentes do ensino superior e compreender os factores que estão na base da (in) satisfação docente, de modo a contribuir para a sua prática. A amostra é constituída por 273 docentes do ensino superior de várias instituições do País (universidades e politécnicos). O estudo é de carácter descritivo e correlacional, uma vez que pretende Estudar os níveis de satisfação dos docentes do ensino superior consoante as respectivas subescalas e verificar a existência de diferenças significativas relacionadas com variáveis sócio – demográficas e profissionais. O instrumento utilizado foi a Escala de Satisfação do OSI – “Occupational Stress Indicator”, versão Portuguesa, que pretende avaliar os diferentes factores de satisfação através de 5 subescalas e um score global. Os resultados apontam para um nível global de satisfação reduzido, sem diferenças significativas quanto à idade, anos de serviço, área leccionada, cargos ocupados, idade, estado civil e tipo de instituição de ensino. Das variáveis em estudo apenas houve diferenças significativas relativamente ao sexo/género face à “satisfação com as relações interpessoais”; tipo de contrato relativamente à “satisfação com o próprio trabalho” e anos de serviço na actual instituição quanto à “satisfação com a realização, valor e crescimento”, “satisfação com a estrutura organizacional”, “satisfação com os processos organizacionais” e score global, pelo que os mais satisfeitos parecem ser os que estão há menos tempo na actual instituição.

A multidimensionalidade da criatividade: a pessoa, o processo, o produto e o ambiente criativo no ensino superior

A criatividade tem sido encarada ao longo da história de diversos modos pelos investigadores. Salienta-se o trabalho de Rhodes (1961) que desenvolveu uma das primeiras categorizações da criatividade ao subdividi-la em a pessoa, o processo, o produto e o ambiente criativo e cuja categorização dá forma a este trabalho. Neste sentido, a revisão teórica centra-se na abordagem a estes tópicos. Empiricamente todo o trabalho foi realizado ao nível do Ensino Superior e apresentam-se dois estudos de validação, com análise fatorial exploratória e confirmatória, de instrumentos que avaliam a pessoa e o produto criativo: a Escala de Personalidade Criativa (α= 0,918) e o Inventário de Comportamentos Criativos-versão reduzida, composto por quatro fatores (artes plásticas, α=0,762; literatura, α=0,766; artes visuais, α=0,768 e artes manuais, α=0,765). O último estudo compreende a investigação empírica sobre os quatro tópicos categorizados por Rhodes (1961). Os resultados apontam para a influência significativa do género sobre o fator artes manuais e da variável classe etária sobre todas as variáveis criativas, à exceção do fator literatura. Ao nível das habilitações literárias não foi encontrada nenhuma relação significativa. Na análise do ambiente criativo (ciências sociais e humanas vs artes), encontraram-se resultados significativos para os fatores literatura, artes visuais e artes manuais, com os sujeitos das ciências sociais a apresentarem médias mais altas para a literatura e para as artes manuais. No estudo entre o ambiente criativo e os tipos vocacionais de Holland (1997) encontrou-se também valores significativos entre o ambiente criativo e os tipos artístico, social, convencional e realista, com os sujeitos das artes a pontuarem mais alto nos tipos artístico e realista. De modo geral, constatou-se que as variáveis criativas são influenciadas pela idade dos sujeitos e que o ambiente criativo tem impacto na produção criativa, sendo que apesar dos sujeitos das artes terem mais vocação artística não são necessariamente os mais produtivos. No estudo da correlação entre as variáveis criativas, verificou-se que apenas o processo criativo não se correlacionou significativamente com as restantes variáveis. Ao nível da análise multivariada encontraram-se modelos preditivos da criatividade, com modelos generalizáveis à população para o produto criativo, sendo possível com estes modelos explicar 51,0% da variabilidade das artes visuais e 44,1% da variabilidade das artes manuais. Globalmente, conclui-se que a criatividade é transversal às áreas do conhecimento e não somente passível de se encontrar nas artes. É possível ainda predizer comportamentos criativos tendo por base os 4 Ps da criatividade, sendo que sugere-se a continuação deste estudo noutras populações.

A personalidade nos trabalhos em grupo no ensino superior

O Ensino Superior é um contexto fundamental no desenvolvimento pessoal, profissional e social do indivíduo, pois pretende que os indivíduos obtenham conhecimentos técnicos específicos na sua área de formação, e que ao mesmo tempo desenvolvam competências pessoais e sociais, fundamentais para ingressar no mundo do trabalho. Dessa forma, a metodologia dos trabalhos em grupo tem sido muito adotada pelas várias universidades, uma vez que tem sido apontada como sendo uma estratégia adequada para o desenvolvimento de competências ao nível da comunicação, resolução de conflitos e liderança, cada vez mais procuradas pela realidade profissional. A personalidade tem sido também muito considerada no que toca aos requisitos exigidos pelas entidades empregadoras, uma vez que as características da personalidade são determinantes no comportamento profissional de um indivíduo. Este fator tornar-se ainda mais importante quando estamos perante um trabalho em grupo, uma vez que o bom funcionamento do mesmo e a conquista de bons resultados, dependem da forma como os elementos do grupo conjugam cada uma das suas singularidades. Assim, este estudo longitudinal, enquadrado numa metodologia quantitativa, pretendeu analisar os traços de personalidade dos time-organizer dos grupos em dois momentos distintos, de forma a comparar as perceções nessas duas fases do trabalho. Foi utilizada uma amostra de 92 alunos do 1º Ciclo da Universidade da Madeira, sendo que 17 dos quais são time-organizer dos seus grupos. Os dados foram recolhidos a partir de um questionário, baseado no Big Five Inventory, versão abreviada de 10 itens (Rammstedt & John, 2006). No que se refere aos resultados obtidos, verificamos que o traço de personalidade Conscienciosidade foi o mais predominante nos time-organizer da amostra. No entanto, foi curioso verificar que as perceções, sobre a personalidade do time-organizer, alteraram-se no decorrer do trabalho. Por fim, constatou-se que houve divergências entre as perceções dos alunos time-organizer e dos restantes alunos.

O papel da administração e liderança do Gabinete do Ensino Superior da Região Autónoma da Madeira na valorização do ensino superior

O presente relatório evidencia duas partes do nosso trabalho; uma primeira sobre o estágio onde registamos todas as atividades desenvolvidas durante o decorrer do mesmo no Gabinete do Ensino Superior (GES) da Região Autónoma da Madeira (RAM) e na qual utilizamos a investigação-ação como metodologia recorrente, reflexiva e autocrítica. A segunda parte debruça-se sobre o estudo de investigação empírica, cujo objetivo era avaliar a importância de prosseguir os estudos para o nível de ensino superior. Neste sentido, realizámos o estágio no GES com o intuito de perceber o papel da administração e liderança deste Gabinete na valorização deste ensino, ganhando uma experiência prática de liderança educacional. Este relatório de estágio está inserido no âmbito do Mestrado em Administração Educacional (AE) da Universidade da Madeira (UMa). No decorrer do estágio, o Diretor do GES partilhou a sua liderança e exemplificou o seu quotidiano, fazendo perceber quais são os problemas mais frequentes com que tem de lidar, e qual a sua relação com os técnicos superiores, restante equipa e comunidade educativa. Através das técnicas de investigação, investigação-ação e observação utilizadas durante o estágio, percebemos o que é realmente liderar, consolidando assim toda a teoria aprendida com uma realidade prática, onde pudemos verificar que o líder “ideal” é o que combina a gestão com a liderança. Realizamos um estudo de investigação empírica de interesse para o GES onde se pretendeu saber quais são as motivações dos estudantes de 12º ano em prosseguirem os seus estudos para o ensino superior, para que desta forma fosse possível identificar o nível de motivação dos jovens, podendo assim tirar conclusões e encontrar possíveis soluções. Este estudo surgiu com base nas dúvidas e incertezas inerentes à nossa sociedade devido à conjuntura económica atual que questiona o prosseguimento ou não dos estudos para o ensino superior. A metodologia utilizada foi a qualitativa e a quantitativa, tratando-se de uma metodologia mista porque baseamo-nos na recolha de dados através de seis entrevistas realizadas a diretoras de turma de (9º e 12º ano) e 58 questionários implementados, bem como de pesquisas bibliográficas, documentais e legislativas. Concluímos que o Diretor do GES é um líder democrático pois toma a atitude de projetar e concretizar as atividades que têm de ser desenvolvidas, tendo sempre em atenção problemas e necessidades que surgem no grupo. Relativamente ao estudo de investigação empírica algumas das soluções encontradas para que a motivação de prosseguir os estudos continue e aumente passa por criar perspetivas de futuro mais positivas, haver mais oferta de cursos na nossa Universidade da Madeira e também mais emprego. Trabalhar esta motivação depende sobretudo das forças políticas, das famílias e dos professores. Assim, entendemos que os professores são líderes porque têm o papel de motivar os estudantes. Concluímos que a maioria dos estudantes do ensino secundário inquiridos estão motivados em ingressar no ensino superior, sobretudo pela motivação de obterem melhores condições de vida. Os que não se encontram motivados justificam que não o estão sobretudo pela atual condição do país. Todas as entrevistadas e a maioria dos inquiridos concordam que, e tal como a nossa revisão de literatura revela, estudar no ensino superior ainda compensa.

Democratização do acesso ao ensino superior: os cursos de graduação à distância na UFRN

This thesis pursuits to contextualize the theoretical debate between the implementation of public education policy of the Federal Government focused in a distance learning and legal foundations for its enforcement, in order to raise questions and comments on the topic in question. Its importance is back to provide scientific input and can offer to the academy, particularly in the UFRN, and elements of society to question and rethink the complex relationship between the socio-economic and geographic access to higher education. It consists of a descriptive study on the institutionalization of distance education in UFRN as a mechanism for expanding access to higher education, for both, the research seeks to understand if the distance undergraduate courses offered by the UAB system and implemented at UFRN, promote expanding access to higher education, as it is during implementation that the rules, routines and social processes are converted from intentions to action. The discussion of this study lasted between two opposing views of Implementation models: Top-down and Bottom-up. It is worth noting that the documents PNE, PDE and programs and UAB MEETING reflect positively in improving the educational level of the population of the country It is a qualitative study, using the means Bibliographic, Document and Field Study, where they were performed 04 (four) in 2010 interviews with the management framework SEDIS / UAB in UFRN. The data were analyzed and addressed through techniques: Document Analysis and Content Analysis. The results show that the process of implementation of distance education at UFRN is in progress. According to our results, the research objective is achieved, but there was a need to rethink the conditions of the infrastructure of poles, the structure of the academic calendar, the management of the SEDIS UFRN, regarding the expansion of existing vacancies and the supply of new courses by the need for a redesign as the Secretariat's ability to hold the offerings of undergraduate courses offered by the Federal Government to be implemented in the institution. It was also found that levels of evasion still presents a challenge to the teaching model. Given the context, we concluded that the greatest contribution of UAB and consequently UFRN by distance learning for undergraduate courses (Bachelor in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Geography and Biological Sciences, beyond the bachelor's degrees in Business and Public Administration ) is related to increasing the number of vacancies and accessibility of a population that was previously deprived of access to university

Práticas interdisciplinares no ensino superior: a experiência do curso de graduação em administração da UNAMA - Pará

This work addresses the study of interdisciplinarity in higher administration education, a topic of great relevance in the present context, due to guidelines issued by Ministry of Education through the National Curriculum Guidelines -NCGs for undergraduate courses in Management. The attention on the subject emerges from the gained experience of a researcher and teacher working as manager of an undergraduate course in Business Administration who set up interdisciplinarity through interdisciplinary projects in a management course pedagogical project at a private university in State of Pará/Brazil. The work rebuilds and reports experiences, and studies the practice of lecturers involved in those interdisciplinary actions. The study aimed to identify changes in pedagogical practices of teachers involved in the searched interdisciplinary experience. To address the questions that directed the work and achieve proposed objectives, from a qualitative approach, a significant bibliographical and documentary work was conducted on the topic. In the survey carried out on secondary sources such as publications of major authors and scientific papers reporting interdisciplinary experiences in higher administration education, it was found that interdisciplinarity for its ambiguous character is still poorly understood by teachers, and reports on its application in administration teaching are incipient. This study also used data collected from primary sources, from dialogues through interviews with educational fellows - teachers and officers of the institution that served as locus of the research, who had the opportunity to experience the studied interdisciplinary experience. Data were processed and analyzed using content analysis technique. Research results showed that teachers of the institution of research have a good understanding of meaning of interdisciplinarity as a link between disciplines; it was also found substantial evidence of changes in teaching practices and actions of such teachers based on their participation in interdisciplinary projects. Although the experience studied can be considered innovative and challenging, much needs to be done in the course management for achievement of interdisciplinary actions in the course, particularly regarding to the removal of institutional, methodological, psychosocial, epistemological obstacles in operationalizing interdisciplinary practices, with emphasis on the need of a process of continuous and specific training aiming at developing skills for interdisciplinary acting, to the extent that these education professionals do not perceive themselves able to act as interdisciplinary lecturers

Inserção da informática nos cursos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo do Brasil (1994 2006): diagnósticos, rebatimentos e perspectivas nas Instituições Federais de Ensino Superior do Nordeste: UFRN, UFPB e UFPE

This work supports the formalist education s improvement of the Brazilian architect and urban designer through a better application and systematization of the computer science s teaching potentialities. The research analyzes the discipline introduction in the Brazilian courses: Computer Science Applied to Architecture and Urbanism (InfoAU) in the Architecture and Urbanism Courses of Brazil (CAUs). It goes since the discipline was obligated by the MEC s Regulation nr. 1.770 from 1994 until the CNE/CES Resolution nr. 6 from 2006; it comprehends the discipline implantation, development and current context, in order to get more detailed, the research analyses three federal universities from the Northeast of the country: UFRN, UFPB and UFPE. Once identified the historical educational needs in the CAUs, the study focus on the computer science s increasing potential as an agent of integration, communication, development and knowledge/data management. It points out new social perspectives for a better use of this tool/mechanism, which adequately structuralized and integrated, creates propitious educational and professional performance/recycling conditions and a propeller instrument of research and extension activities. Among this work, it is suggested the aggregation of elements, which are complementary to the InfoAU discipline s reorganization, throughout a computerization s plan for the CAUs, extensive to the professional formation, generating a virtuous cycle in several activities of the academic, administrative and, research and extension s departments. Therefore, the InfoAU in the Brazilian CAUs context was analyzed; the main solutions and problems found were systemized; the possibilities of computer science s uses inside AU ware structuralized, InfoAU discipline s improvement plan was also defined, as well as strategies for the implementation of the computerization s plan for the CAUs, which would guarantee its maintenance in a continuity perspective

Controle de qualidade físico-químico e biodisponibilidade relativa em ratos de suspensões orais de naproxeno sódico obtidas de farmácias de manipulação na cidade do Natal RN

Compounded medicines have been reported by the ANVISA due to decreased of the therapeutic response or toxicity of these formulations. The aim of this work was to investigate the physicochemical quality control among naproxen sodium oral suspensions 25 mg/mL obtained from six compounding pharmacies (A, B, C, D, E and F) and the manufactured suspension (R). In the quality control test, the tests of pH, content, homogeneity, volume and physical and organoleptic characteristics were performed according to the Brazilian Pharmacopoeia. The analytical method for determination of naproxen in suspensions was validate. This method showed excellent precision, accuracy, linearity and specificity. In the content test the suspensions B, C and E showed lower value and the F suspension showed a high value of the content. The products C and E were disapproved in the description of the physical and organoleptic characteristics test. In the pH test, three suspensions were outside specifications (C, E and F). Only the products R, A and D showed satisfactory results in these tests and therefore they were approved for relative bioavailability test. The R, A and D suspensions were orally administered to Wistar rats and the blood samples were taken at time intervals of 10, 20, 40, 60 min, 3, 4, 6, 24 and 48 h. The plasma samples were immediately stored at 80 ºC until analysis of HPLC. The bioanalytical method validation showed specificity, linearity (R2 0.9987), precision, accuracy, good recovery and stability. The chromatographic conditions were: flow rate of 1.2 mL.min-1 with a mobile phase of acetonitrile : sodium phosphate buffer pH 4.0 (50:50, v/v) at 280 nm, using a C18 column. The confidence interval of 90% for the Cmax and AUCt ratio was within the range of 80 - 125% proposed by the FDA. Only one suspension, obtained from the compounding pharmacy D, was considered bioequivalent to the rate of absorption under the conditions proposed by this study. Thus, the results indicate the need for strict supervision from the relevant authorities to ensure the patient safety and the quality of compounded drugs by pharmacies

Educação para a cidadania e ensino superior

El presente trabajo discute la Educación para la Ciudadanía en la Educación Superior, destacando los desafíos y las potencialidades de la Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN); que organiza su acción política y pedagógica conforme a las exigencias de la actual política educacional para este nivel de educación. Analiza la relación de ésta con la Educación Básica a partir del estudio del Proyecto Pedagógico del Curso de Ciencias Sociales discutiendo la educación para la ciudadanía y la formación ciudadana de los futuros profesores de la educación básica en consonancia con la LDB 9.394/96, con las Directrices Curriculares Nacionales para los cursos de Docencia y además para programas y políticas de orientación para la educación superior que resultaron de la conquistas de los movimientos sociales y que son propuestos por medio de las siguientes secretarías: Secretaria de Educação Continuada, Alfabetização e Diversidade (SECAD) y Secretaria de Educação Superior (SESu). La reflexión incluye el estudio de tales temáticas en el eje de temas emergentes que organizan el debate educacional, sobretodo en América Latina, y los desafíos de las universidades que actúan en el contexto de la periferia en la desconstrucción del dominio simbólico del colonialismo cultural y la construcción de la globalización alternativa y contra hegemónica a la globalización neoliberal. El estudio evidencia que la idea de ciudadanía en la sociabilización contemporánea presenta una ambigüedad política consecuente de los procesos de globalización creciente siendo necesario que la perspectiva de la educación para la ciudadanía adoptada en la formación de los profesionales de a educación sea re politizada a partir de la noción de ciudadanía colectiva y multicultural apoyada en los principios de democracia y justicia social, construida en las interfaces de la educación escolar y prácticas educativas en lo entorno social, y en los espacios políticos de organización y movilización colectiva en torno de las conquistas por los derechos civiles, sociales, políticos y culturales, y la inclusión de temas y valores emergentes en la educación que interligados e interdependientes, garanticen su efectividad

O memorial autobiográfico: uma tradição acadêmica do ensino superior no Brasil

The thesis has as object of study the autobiographical memmorials. The general objective is to describe the history of the memmorial as an academic tradition of higher education in Brazil. Considered a hybrid genre, memmorials are known for focusing on life stories from a scientific perspective. The investigation revolves around three intertwined branches: History of Education, educational practices and language usages, which allow us to conduct a dialogue with multiple theoretical-methodological references with a view to supporting our analyses. The corpus used for the analysis was made up of 40 autobiographical memmorials, distributed as follows: 16 academic memmorials, dated from 1935 to 1970; 07 academic memmorials, dated from 1980 to 2007; and 17 formation memmorials, dated from 1995 to 2000. In this corpus, we also included official documents, which relate to legislation contained in edicts, resolutions, ordinances, regulations, which we used with a view to: 1) getting to know and understanding the big picture of higher education regulation in Brazil and the aspects related to the higher education teaching career; 2) investigating the text of memmorials in the light of the injunctive discourse characteristic of the edicts and resolutions in which they were based. The analysis of the memmorial supported by the legislation which regulates it allowed us to reconstitute the image of the professor throughout 80 years in the Brazilian public university. For this purpose, the study was conducted in the theoretical-methodological perspective of the (auto)biographical research in Education and of the sociolinguistic studies on discourse genres and discursive traditions. The investigations reveal the memmorial as an academic genre in which the professor's academic-professional history and the history of the higher education teaching career in Brazil intertwine. Anchored in the Bakhtinian perspective on discourse genres, according to which the memmorials evolve and become more complex as their contexts of usage also evolve and become more complex themselves, the results of our analyses allowed us to correlate genre changes to the sociohistorical context and to its usage as an educational practice in the university, in the decades under study. Therefore, the analyses showed that these self-writings: go from latent subjectivity to pure objectivity from the 1930s to 1960s; they show total annulment of the subject from the 1960s to the 1970s; they reappear in the 1980s, having Professor Magda Soares' memmorial as perspective; they expand and diversify from the 1990s onwards, taking on a formative role and a perspective of future as well. So far as language usages are concerned, we investigated the relationship of the subject with the language, especifically the manifestation of alterity on the discursive tissue of the memmorials. In this branch, the analyses pointed to the influence of the authoritative discourse on the formation of the professor and of the injunction and reinventing discourses on the authorship process. Therefore, the autobiographical memmorial reveals itself as a specific expression of the Brazilian academy's cultural sphere and allows us to confirm the hypothesis that each memorial tackles a singular-plural situation, by presenting a dialectical articulation between private and public, according to the institutional structures, in which and with which the professor has already formed him/herself and with which he/she dialogues

Inclusão de estudantes com deficiência nas instituíções de ensino superior da cidade do Natal/RN:análise das condições oferecidas no processo seletivo vestibular

The number of disabled students, who have entered the university, in Brazil, since the beginning of this century, is undergoing a speed growth. It is a change that follows a global trend that spreads an inclusive education policy and that has had a profound impact on Brazil, with import results in field researches. This subject has been highlighted due to the significant amount of disabled students enrolled in college institutions (IES), although it is still modest the number of studies about it, especially in what matters the assistance given to the candidates to a university entrance examination. The aim of this paper is to investigate how effectively Natal s IES apply the rules established in Brazilian law concerning disabled students, especially MEC/GM Circular Warning n. 277/96, in what respects the conditions given to disabled students preparing to enter a college. The investigation followed a qualitative methodological approach with support on an exploratory study. The data recollection employed questionnaire, semi-structured interview and documental analyses, and the data have been organized and assessed following Minayo s (1996) stages. What concerns the results, it was observed that none of the ten colleges inquired confirmed to possess places exclusively to disabled candidates; six of them, however, offer Special Examining Board in the selection process of disabled candidates. Among eighteen college bills, only two of them offered specific information related to services and resources offered by IES to the candidates who ask for especial assistance concerning examination. During the interviews, four managers avowed the preoccupation in offering an equal selection process, but two of them proved not dominate the subject. In conclusion, the investigated institutions managers do not still seem to respect the rule that guarantees to disabled candidates equal conditions during all the process of the university entrance examination. With this work, we hope do help changing this focus and contribute to new studies on disabled persons studying for a degree

Proposta de um modelo de medição e avaliação de desempenho como ferramenta de gest ão - um estudo de caso num órgão público

The public sector performance has received much attention in the literature and due to that the purpose of this work is to develop a proposal for a model of performance measurement for a higher education institution unit. First, we performed a theoretical research on public organizations and private institutions of higher education, followed by a literature review on performance measurement and evaluation. This review presents some performance models that are quite frequent in the literature: Total Quality Management (Total Quality Management) - TQM and the PDCA cycle, SMART System, Balanced Scorecard and Môdef Ouanturn. In order to verify the possibility of implementing a performance measurement model for Higher Education Institutions, it was conducted a case study in a support unit of a University, located in the city of Natal, RN, Brazil. The study attempted to identify the key processes of the unit and proposed by the use of Quantum model in order to improve the management and operation of the same. The work aims to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in measurement and performance evaluation in higher education institutions that where still lacks scientific production of this subject compared to other areas. This study also identifies better practices and opportunities for improvement in processes to determine the expected performance indicators to aid a decision-making unit.

Egressos na avaliação da qualidade de um curso: o caso da Engenharia de Produção da UFRN

This thesis aims at analyzing the perspective of graduates perceived quality of an undergraduate course in order to contribute to continuous improvement. In order to achieve the proposed objectives, we performed a literature search, seeking together the work surrounding this issue, with the intent to update the concepts discussed today on the subject studied, they are: quality management, quality in higher education institutions and the system national assessment of higher education - Sinaes. The methodology is characterized as a case study, quantitative, and the object of study is composed of students who graduated from Production Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, which includes students who graduated from 2002 to 2010; data collection was done through the survey instrument, questionnaire, available online through SurveyMonkey interface, data analysis was done by means of descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis, including factor analysis. The proposed survey instrument consists of questions nineteen and twenty statements that address the central theme of this dissertation. The results show the identification of four latent factors (obtained by exploratory factor analysis), through two perspectives, the analysis of perception and importance, the results were similar in terms of the variable factors. The first factor was related to the support given to students, a factor known to support two extra class, the third factor related aspects of the library, and finalizing the evaluation and approached a factor of 4 facilities. Through research it was concluded that this study presents several points to be improved by the management team, and recommended to continue to evaluate the perceptions of graduates, seeking continuous improvement in service delivery by the university

O Brasil no contexto de controle de qualidade de plantas medicinais

Atualmente, as plantas medicinais movem altos valores financeiros em todo o mundo e representam o tipo de tratamento mais acessível para cerca de 80% da população, principalmente entre os países em desenvolvimento. Entretanto, existe ainda uma falta de conhecimento sobre propriedades químicas, farmacológicas e toxicológicas a fim de assegurar a eficácia e segurança das plantas medicinais. Os critérios de eficácia e segurança de plantas medicinais estão relacionados a qualidade, isto é, as plantas necessitam ser corretamente identificadas, cultivadas e coletadas, devem estar livres de material estranho, partes de outras plantas e contaminações inorgânicas e/ou microbianas. O objetivo deste estudo foi o de elucidar os diferentes processos e padronizações sobre o controle de drogas vegetais, principalmente no Brasil.

Bem-estar psicológico de servidores e funcionários técnico-administrativos das Instituições de Ensino Superior Públicas e Privadas : indicadores e antecedentes

The elaboration of this thesis aimed at getting to know the structure of the psychological well-being (PWB) at work and analysing the differences in the PWB levels among technical-administrative servants in public and private Institutions of Higher Education (IES) in the municipality of João Pessoa. Two hundred and thirty-three public and private IES male and female servants of João Pessoa participated in the research, replying to an instrument composed of questionnaires referring to the elaborated model. Factorial and regression analyses were accomplished in order to test the hypotheses in respect of the proposed model. The results showed that the PWB related with the work is composed of indicators such as affection, vitality, anxiety, depression, satisfaction at work and aspiration for accomplishment and reduction of the self-efficiency. The observed PWB predictors at work were the IES type, presence of children, age and the escape and back-out facing strategy. These predictors possess relationship of moderation among them in the explanation of PWB. On comparing the PWB experienced by the technical-administrative servants, it was observed that those linked to private IES showed higher PWB rates. Furthermore, there are differences among PWB predictors in accordance with the IES type. The applicability of the results of this thesis is wide as regards social interventions in the search of health improvement under a psycho-sociological perspective. Eventually, the thematic of this thesis intends to reinforce the studies on the worker s health, since by knowing what would lead him into a feeling of accomplishment and well-being will result in more chances of promoting him, while creating opportunities of a sounder life for these people in psychological terms