Percepción y aceptación de contenidos del libro Caminando de Nuevo 3 para la enseñanza de español

This work presents an investigation done on the book Caminando de nuevo 3 that is adopted in some Swedish schools for the Spanish course they offer. The hypothesis explored whether the content of the book could create wrong stereotypes based on incorrect used of didactic content.Other related worked in line with this investigation were investigated. Furthermore, twenty students that had used this book were surveyed. The data collected was analyzed. This analysis is in line with the hypothesis of this work. A great majority of the students reported not to be motivated, they were not particularly enthusiastic toward the book, and were surprised by the content of the book related to the exercises, the text itself and the pictures used in the book.In conclusion this work suggests that this type of textbooks should be revised and present a better alternative for its text, visual and grammatical content.Finally, some recommendations are given both to teachers and students in order to reach the goals that have been defined by their curriculum.

Svensklärares arbete : om villkor för gymnasieskolans svenskämne

The aim of this didactic study is to understand the terms of work, education and teaching of Swedish in a period round 2000. The research questions focus on how teachers at upper secondary school in conversations describe and construct their work, values in society and school, structures of power and relation to time. With the help of tools related to story and storytelling, and by connecting the empirical material to a late modern society, I caninterpret and understand the description of their work. With the help of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory I can see how values, power and relation to time are expressed in different ways when teachers of Swedish talk about their work and education.The results show that when teacher talk about work in school is it related to ideals in a global economy. Decentralization and individualization get new meanings when those words are placed in school environment and activity. Effectiveness, flexibility and individualization are words related to economy and they seem to have an effect on education and subjects of Swedish. I can also understand teachers’ work when it is related to power and values on the educational field. I can see how a diffuse power acts on the field and how harmony is a dominant value and a term that influences teachers’ work. New terms also form new identities related to teaching. New terms form new subjects of Swedish that in time and practice will form newhabitus connected to subjects. I call it ämneskonceptionella habitus.

Mellan frihet och kontroll : Om läroplanskonstruktioner i svensk skola

The aim of this thesis is to explore how different competing discourses in the historical context of the Swedish education development have qualified and disqualified different constructions of national curriculum. How and after what kind of principles is the curriculum constructed? What qualify who are going to be recognized as the author and addressee of the curriculum? These key ques-tions of the study are discussed in the first part of the thesis. My point of depar-ture is that the curriculum can be understood as a relation between freedom and control. In an educational system this relationship reflects the problematic ten-sion between the external demands from an authoritative center and the local need to independently reflect over educational issues. How these concepts are defined by the prevailing social discourses affect specific relations and construc-tions of curricula as a steering tool and a producer of specific teacher identities. In this sense, I claim that curriculum is constructed in different ways depending on which of the didactic questions are emphasized and answered and who is judged as the legitimate author. Based on this, three models of curriculum con-struction are formulated; the content based, the result based and the process based. These models are subsequently used as an analytical tool to examine the historical development of Swedish national curricula. The second part of the thesis investigates the Swedish education system and the production of the national curriculum as a product of rival discourses. The historical investigation begins 1842 when the first state curriculum was issued and the inquiry concludes in 2008. The findings indicate that no one single con-struction has been totally dominant and that there has been an on-going discur-sive struggle between different alternative and opinions about what teachers must do and be.

Från kvinnans problem till problemfri kvinna : En undersökning av audiovisuell reklam för sanitetsprodukter till menstruerande kvinnor mellan åren 1970 och 2000

This thesis tries trough qualitative analyzes to illuminate advertising and its didactic aspects, how menstruation and menstruating women are portrayed over time. The method underlying the survey is didactic, diachronic comparative and hermeneutic. There will also be a feminist point of view on the material. The issue is about how the advertisement presents sanitary products and menstruation and how a menstruating woman is portrayed.The conclusion is that the image of a menstruating woman changes slightly while consolidating the ethos that menstruation should not be visible. The menstruating woman is in constant motion, always fresh and fragrant.

Historielärares historier : Ämnesbiografi och ämnesförståelse hos gymnasielärare i historia

The overall aim of this study is to analyse history teachers’ understanding of the school subject history. The aim have also been to uncover what factors the history teachers say have affected their understanding of the school subject. Based on survey and interview methods, the question that this study deals with is: in the light of which general understanding of the school subject history, do the teachers make didactic choices on a daily basis? The first theme is biographical. The teachers’ life-history is taken into consideration and several factors in the teachers’ background and the school environment have been identified. It also seems as if the teachers’ understanding of the school subject goes from an elementary and searching approach to one that is more complex and convinced. The second theme is a more structural approach. The results shows three major orientations among the teachers’ general understanding namely, educational (bildung) orientation, critical orientation and identity orientation. Even though a main orientation can be seen among the teachers, an important result is also that the orientation is overall complex. At the most general level some patterns can be seen. First the connection between the teachers’ biography and their general understanding of the school subject. In the understanding of the school subject, it is also notable that teachers relate in different ways to history as science, history as identity and history from an ideological viewpoint. It is also possible to note some signs of change in the school subject history that follows a lager historiographical context.

PANA V : Evaluation of a Literacy Project

PANA V Evaluation of a Literacy ProjectSUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONSThis evaluation set out to explore the impact of the literacy work carried out through PANA V. It focussed on clarifying effects such as empowerment and poverty reduction in relation to the civil society. Two specific objectives were to evaluate the methodological approach and the didactic materials and to evaluate the sustainability of the project.Although the focus of the evaluation has been PANA V, the project has been evaluated in its context, as one in a series of five projects located in Rwanda ten years after the war and genocide. The conclusion will consider future plans in this field.The evaluator has striven to create a holistic picture of the effects of the project, although the given time for the evaluation was short. Only three weeks were spent in the field study and only ten days in the actual field. Although there were some organisational and logistic problems, as is common when carrying out a study like this in a poor country, many literacy sites were visited and quite many participators were interviewed. The overall impression from the study is overwhelmingly positive. So many people commit themselves in this task of teaching Rwandans reading, writing and numeracy. Despite harsh conditions learners strive to learn and group leaders devote themselves to the task. Many leaders on different levels try their very best to manage their difficult and demanding task. The main objective was to explore the impact of the project on poverty reduction, particularly on empowerment and strategies for everyday life. Women were to be regarded particularly. From the results it is clear that the project has a strong, positive impact both on poverty reduction and empowerment of marginalised groups. Among those who have benefited from the alphabetisation are mainly women. Unfortunately, when it comes to leaders in PANA, who may also be said to have benefited from the project, only a small minority is women. This is something that is recommended that it be reconsidered inside the organisation. As a majority of the targeted learners are women, and as the economic and social situation of women in Rwanda is generally weak, this is a question that I recommend the Pentesostal church and ADEPR to look particularly into. With many women being single breadwinners of their households, it is important that also women get access to positions that may bring benefits of different kind.It is also clear that the project has positive effects for the civil society. In the present situation in Rwanda, during the process of reconciliation and rapid progress, basic education for the poor majority is a democratic issue. In a country with a plethora of internet-cafés in the capital and a small minority that use cars and mobile-telephones to communicate nation-wide, it is of outmost importance that the majority acquires basic education, of which literacy is a central part. To strengthen the civil society in Rwanda literacy is important. One central issue is then that Rwanda develops toward becoming a country where literacy is used for the benefit of the citizens and it is a democratic issue that all citizens get an opportunity to participate. Crucial for this is that strong efforts are put into primary schools nation-wide. Literacy projects for adults, like PANA, may only complement these efforts, but they constitute important and necessary complements. Other relevant ways to promote literacy are campaigns in Radio and TV and through cultural events such as festivals, music and theatre. News papers, magazines and books are natural parts of such campaigns as well as adult education. As stated under the results not much can be said about the didactics in this evaluation. On the whole the methodology and the materials fill their function well and receive a high reputation. As people learn to read and write under very simple conditions, obviously the approach is appropriate. A few suggestions may be given from the study:•Focus groups leaders’ attention on clearness, that they show very clearly what is to be read. Good structuring is probably of great importance for many learners.•Make clear what is tested in the tests and consider the possibility to use a holistic test that would be more congruent with the methodology. The possibility to use only one grade, pass, would enable a more practical test, such as reading a short, relevant text, writing something relevant and solving practical mathematic problems. Avoid tests that demand school knowledge.•Avoid using methaphors such as “fight against illiteracy” and connections between illiteracy/literacy and darkness/light. It is not true that illiteracy causes bad things and that literacy only brings good. •Be prepared that it may be more difficult in the future to achieve the goals as it may be the case that the early learners where the ones who achieved easily. The goal of “literacy in six month” in PANA will probably hold only for some learners but also those who do not manage in six months need literacy skills.A third objective was to secure sustainability. As for sustainability of the project in itself, and of the literacy process, the main conclusion is that there is a good potential. The commitment and devotedness among many involved in PANA proves good. One weakness is individual leaders in ADEPR who do not see this as an important task for the Pentecostal church in Rwanda. Other weaknesses are the unwillingness to mention explicitly the wish, for example among group leaders, to get some kind of incentive and the fear of loosing believers by cooperation with other organisations. A higher degree of transparency in this issue would probably solve some irritations and tensions.As for the sustainability of the literacy skills much may be done to improve. The acquired skills seem to be comparably relevant. The level achieved, and the level tested, may be defined as basic literacy skills, consisting of basic reading, writing and numeracy skills. However, these skills are very restricted and there is a high risk that the skills will decline, which means that there is a high risk that people will forget how to read and write because of lack of exercising. From these conclusions a few suggestions for future development will be given.

Students’ Perspectives on Extensive Literature : Using Literature to Enhance Communicative Competence and Cultural Understanding in the EFL-Classroom

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the use of literature within the Swedish Upper Secondary EFL-classroom from the students’ perspective. How do the students in the study relate to literature and its use to enhance and enable their communicative competence and cultural understanding? Also, how do their answers compare with their teacher’s and the adult perspectives and findings from previous international research? The empirical data obtained from the study has been analysed from the perspectives of sociocultural and motivational theory, and the findings show that the participating students believe literature to be a good didactic tool to apply in the EFL-classroom, both in order to enhance their communicative competence and their cultural understanding. The students prefer to have a sociocultural approach to their literature-learning, with group-discussions of various sizes. The key for the students in this respect is interesting, relevant and engaging subject-matter, as well as a positive and motivational teacher. The responses given by the students correlate with those given by their teacher as well as previous international research. The students regard literature as a way of gaining new perspectives, as well as experiencing language in use. Where they diverge somewhat from the international research is in regard to literature’s use for enhancing their competence to speak in class, and that some students seem to think that communication and cultural understanding are separable. Future studies within this field might include the conducting of a larger and more in-depth survey regarding the students’ ideas about literature, culture and communication. Why do so many of the student respondents neither agree nor disagree with the statement concerning communication and cultural understanding being inseparable? This can be an important issue to investigate in today’s global climate of cross-cultural and intercultural experiences, especially in view of the political climate of diverse attitudes towards refugees, immigrants and emigration

L’image comme outil didactique dans l’enseignement du français dans des collèges et des lycées en Suède

Le travail actuel a été rédigé dans le but d’éclaircir en quoi consiste le rôle de l’image comme outil didactique aux cours de français aux collèges et aux lycées suédois. Nous avons abordé notre thème sous des perspectives différentes : d’un côté, nous avons analysé les images dans deux livres, puisque les manuels font souvent partie de chaque leçon de français ; de l’autre côté, nous avons fait un questionnaire que nous avons distribué aux professeurs à travers les médias sociaux et par email. Nous avons également étudié les données récoltées aux cours des entretiens avec trois professeurs de français au lycée suédois, pour savoir comment les professeurs intègrent des images dans la pratique. Selon les résultats de notre étude, il nous a été possible d’affirmer que l’image est un outil qui n’est pas omniprésent, mais qui est parfois utilisé afin de rendre les leçons plus variées. La photographie est le type d’image le plus répandu dans la pratique des professeurs et dans les manuels ; le format numérique est le plus fréquent en tenant en compte de la révolution technologique et de l’habitude des jeunes à travailler avec les ordinateurs. Cependant, l’image n’est pas un outil indépendant. Elle est très souvent complétée par d’autres outils didactiques et sert principalement à accompagner la lecture, à développer l’expression orale et le vocabulaire et aussi à illustrer des phénomènes culturels. En conclusion, il ressort de notre mémoire, qu’il est important que le professeur accompagne le travail avec des images avec des instructions et des commentaires, afin de rendre l’apprentissage plus efficace.

Degree projects improving co-operation between the teacher education program and schools : - Swedish experiences

In 1977, when teacher education inSwedenwas incorporated into the university system, the main reason was to transform it into an academic tradition. Now, nearly 30 years later, there is still tension between the academic and the vocational tradition; they show up as different and separated elements in a program that is meant to prepare students for a career as a teacher and for a possible future career as a researcher in this field. This tension gives rise to a risk of allowing parallel “tracks” to develop and of isolating the degree thesis work from other courses. On the teacher-training program in which we are involved, close co-operation with partner-schools, where the practical part of the program takes place, has been established. Here, the students´ degree theses are an important factor in making this co-operation work on a concrete level. Accordingly, the purpose of the degree thesis is both to reflect problems in schools and contribute to better teaching in the individual school, but also to offer relevant educational subject matter to the students, which may be adapted as an element in the university’s research environments. From these points of view, the degree thesis is an important part of teacher education and rather more than just a single course. The degree thesis should be an element that gives the students an opportunity to show that they have reached central goals in the teacher education program. It should also be an integral part in the development of critical and scholarly thinking, deepening pedagogical and didactic knowledge and giving the students an opportunity to apply research methods. We will here use two minor case studies: one that compares teacher education programs in five Swedish universities and one minor study at one of those universities, in order to elaborate on the questions: - What purpose has a degree thesis and what role does it play in teacher education? - What criteria are relevant to assessing a degree thesis and what qualities do the degree theses have? - Is it possible to assess a degree thesis fairly and what happens to students who do not pass? - How could the degree thesis be used to improve the contact between the teacher education program and its partner schools in order to contribute to the development of the individual school?

The Björling 'Opera' : A children's Nursery Academy and an Italian Conservatory in Miniature

The aim in this chapter is to develop a deeper understanding about the informal Björling 'School' in Sweden. Contextually the example is related to the micro history of opera education contributing to the macro perspective illuminating a provincial example of the concept of domestic opera schooling. The specific focus was on Karl David Björling (1873-1926), the teaching parent of the Swedish tenor Jussi Björling (1911-1960) and his brothers Gösta and Olle.   The Björling family model of opera schooling belongs to the classical canon of domestic home education which was common during the epoch. The phenomenon is also within the field of opera singing an important reference to the historical context of the Nordic opera history of vocal education.   The uniqueness concerning the Björling School seems to be the rigorous and exceptionally early training. David Björling’s pedagogy was rooted in earlier German theories of musical upbringing. It's clear from his results that he was familiar with the neo-humanistic ideal on which reformed music education was based. Of a specific interest is the term Gesang als Unterricht as a concept for developing childrens musical and memorising capacities.   Conceptually the roots of the Björling model are in the eighteenth-century Romantic view of prodigies and their abilities. The extensive touring is connected to the promotion of wonder-children, and David Björling’s educational style to the conservative Master-pupil tradition.   David Björling's vocal ideal was a part of the contemporary debate about “The decadence of the singing art”, and seems to have its roots in an older Italian tradition. There are recurring similarities between his educational methods and the didactic principles of the Lamperti School: Enjoying a revival around the late 1800s and early 1900s, it has been called the natural or the national school. Nevertheless, through authentic experiences and gramophone recordings the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso became David Björling’s pedagogical role model.

Processo de escolha de bancos de imagens: aplicações no marketing business to business

The general objective of this research is to verify which attributes are most relevant to a stock photography agency that represent the purchaser's standards of choice. For this objective to be accomplished, qualitative interviews with the customers of stock photography agencies had been made in order to raise the attributes considered with relevance in the process of choice for the Brazilian stock photography agency market. The levels of each attribute to be tested had arisen through the mapping of the products and services offered by the competition and the relative weight assigned to each one of the attributes related to the research in the choices for a stock photography agency. A transversal study was made with a sample of stock photography agencies customers from Brazil¿s Southeastern region. For the analysis of this data, a survey method was used, that, according to MALHOTRA (2006: 182), involves a structuralized questionnaire to be answered by an interview that elucidates specific information, in which the questions had a predetermined order. This questionnaire was presented through interviews on the Internet. The method adopted for this analysis was a joint analysis. A sampling of 1000 customer stock photography agencies were selected, which were represented by a didactic book editor, advertising agencies, editorial companies, etc., in the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais. They had been obtained by 16 stimulations, or cards, for the application of the companies. Of the sample of 1000 customers of stock photography agencies, 7,8% responded to the research. The attribute most relevant in accordance with the presented results is the availability of images in high resolution for layout. Its relative importance was 40,78%. At the end of the study, the management implications were propitiated to the stock photography agencies managers inabling them to be more competitive.

Projeto para criação do Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Oral e Ciências Sociais (Beira, Moçambique)

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo central propor a criação do Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Oral e Ciencias Sociais na cidade da Beira, em Moçambique. Pretende-se, com o Centro, promover projetos que possibilitem a constituição de acervos de caráter histórico e documental, contribuindo, assim, para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa acadêmica e para a valorização da história e da cultura Moçambicanas. O Centro terá como principal ferramenta metodológica de pesquisa a história oral. O acervo a ser constituído no contexto de distintos projetos resultará, portanto, de entrevistas gravadas com atores de diferentes extratos sociais, todos eles participantes diretos de eventos relevantes da história recente de Moçambique. Essas entrevistas deverão estar disponíveis, no Centro, juntamente com outros tipos de fontes, coletadas e organizadas com o objetivo de constituir um centro de referência sobre a história contemporanea do país. Toda a atividade do Centro será acompanhada de projetos de qualificação de equipes. Neste sentido, o Centro terá de lidar com dois importantes campos: a pesquisa, produção, preservação e difusão de fontes para a história contemporânea; e o apoio didático-pedagógico aos diversos níveis do processo de aprendizagem.

Estudo etnobotânico das plantas utilizadas como medicinais por moradores do bairro Ponta Grossa, Porto Alegre,Rio Grande do Sul

Este trabalho foi realizado com o intuito de estudar as plantas utilizadas como medicinais pelos moradores do bairro Ponta Grossa e pelos Agentes Comunitários de Saúde relacionados ao Posto de Saúde da Família do bairro Ponta Grossa, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Como metodologia, foram realizadas entrevistas estruturadas, na forma de questionários, para obtenção dos dados socioculturais e semi-estruturadas para o levantamento dos dados sobre as plantas. Foram coletadas 150 espécies utilizadas pela população, sendo 9 delas identificadas somente até gênero, pertencentes a 59 famílias botânicas. As famílias mais representadas em número de espécies foram Asteraceae e Lamiaceae. As partes das plantas mais utilizadas foram folhas e partes aéreas, sendo o chá a principal forma de utilização. As doenças e/ou sintomas mais mencionados foram os relacionados aos aparelhos digestório e respiratório. Em uma análise dos nomes populares foram encontradas 56 espécies com etnohomônimos e 73 espécies com etno-sinônimos verdadeiros ou falsos. Também foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica comparativa entre as indicações de uso originais e as indicações atuais referidas no estado do Rio Grande do Sul e países limítrofes. Esta revisão teve como objetivo verificar se houve alterações do conhecimento popular. Uma espécie apresentou equivalência entre as indicações de usos originais e atuais e 140 apresentaram alteração do conhecimento popular. Para 16 espécies foi detectada alteração total do conhecimento, 61 apresentaram ampliação do conhecimento e 21 redução do conhecimento popular. Ferramentas quantitativas foram utilizadas, como Valor de Uso (UV) e a porcentagem de Concordância corrigida quanto aos Usos Principais (CUPc), para verificar quais as espécies mais importantes para a população e as mais promissoras para a realização de estudos biológicos posteriores. Para as 21 espécies mais importantes foram feitas revisões na literatura científica com o objetivo de reunir dados químicos e biológicos, que resultarão na elaboração de um manual didático, o qual será devolvido como um retorno para a população estudada.

Planejamento governamental : aspectos teoricos e uma analise das experiencias mundial, brasileira e cearense

O planejamento provoca um fascínio e deslumbramento no homem desde os primórdios do seu aparecimento, quando procura antever o futuro, que se lhe apresenta desconhecido e misterioso. Uma das características do ser humano é fazer planos, sendo essa atividade uma atitude inerente ao homem e também às sociedades. A literatura brasileira, disponível sobre o tema, apresenta-se de uma certa forma dicotômica, quase sempre sem uma unidade orgânica, ora produzindo parcos estudos teóricos, ora fornecendo análises de experiências específicas de países, regiões e estados em períodos de tempo determinados. A dissertação de mestrado para a Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública - EBAP Fundaçâo Getúlio Vargas - FGV,Planejamento Governamental. Aspectos teóricos e uma análise das experiências mundial, brasileira e cearence, consolida num só estudo os aspectos teóricos e práticos dentro de um encadeamento lógico,didático com o objetivo de revisitar/esclarecer o tema e servir de mate rial de consulta/referência para cursos de graduação e pós-graduação da disciplina Planejamento Governamental. Para uma melhor compreensão das experiências de planejamento, apresenta inicialmente os aspectos teóricos, conceituando o tema e relacionando suas funções ~ características. O trabalho mostra o inter-relacionamento do, planejamento com o poder e a política, incluindo a discussão do mito da neutralidade e racionalidade, assim como' sua utilização como instrumento nas mãos dos que detêm o poder, Demonstra também o caráter do plnejamento como processo com definições e a descrição de três modelos teóricos - Bromley, Tristão e Hilhorst. Apresenta o dilema liberdade do setor privado versus intervenção governamental, desde as primeiras manifestações de planejamento na Rússia, após a revolução de outubro de 1917 passando pelas experiências da Europa e Estados Unidos da América, até a dos países subdesenvolvidos, cada qual com suas condições históricas e institucionais peculiares. Faz uma análise da experiências mundial e brasileira (dividida em fases: ocasional - até 1930, empírica 1930-1964 e científica 1964-1986), sendo que para esta última adota uma abordagem síntese baseada nos pontos de vista de diversos autores examinados, principalmente Benedicto Silva, Werner Baer, Issac Kerstenetzky, Anniba1 V. Villela, Jorge Vianna Monteiro e Luiz Roberto Aze vedo Cunha. No caso da experiência cearense ( 1963-1986 ), a descrição factual e linear dos planos tem uma seqUência temporal (a exemplo dos planos brasileiros), forma meramente didática escolhi da e visa uma melhor compreensão do assunto. Paralelamente, analisa os planos em seus aspectos econômico, social, político e cultural de forma integrada, numa tentativa de dimensionar a história total do planejamento estadual. O enfoque tradicional de comparação objetivos propostos/objetivos alcançados, muito comum nas análises das experiências de planejamento, é deixado de lado stricto-senso. Em contrapartida, dá ênfase a um aspecto que julga mais relevante: a identificação da evolução dos arranjos organizacionais, visto ser o planejamento algo que neles se traduz e cuja exequibilidade depende, em alto grau, do contexto institucional. Isentando o conceito do planejamento de culpa pelo seu fracasso no atingimento da maioria de seus objetivos, o trabalho aponta uma série de fatores particularmente desfavoráveis que configura uma situação de crise: Objetivos apologéticos e triunfalistas; retórica inócua; uso do planejamento no sentido de fortalecedor e viabilizador dos interesses da classe dominante; exarcebação da técnica e tese da neutralidade do planejamento para efeito de obtenção de poder; manipulação do planejamento como instrumento de mistificação, assim como seu uso como fetiche e servidor de "trampolim" para a política (principalmente no Ceará); a eliminação do caráter federativo da União Republicana, provocando a perda de autonomia dos estados com o sistema tributário, conduzindo a uma centralização das decisões ( e do poder )'; ausência de continuidade nas políticas econômicas de longo prazo tendo como corolário a descontinuidade administrativa e, por último, a própria natureza do planejamento posto em prática no Brasil e no Ceará que, sendo indicativo, não detém o controle de todas as variáveis do processo. O aparecimento de um novo paradigma para o planejamento governamental passaria, necessariamente, pela antítese dos entraves apontados no estudo.

O ensino de administração pública : histórico e diagnóstico : reflexões sobre a formação do administrador

Aprofunda a análise e a discussão no que tange à importância da melhoria da Qualidade do Ensino de Administração nas Escolas Superiores - em especial as de Formação do Administrador Público - e sua relação com a otimização dos Serviços prestados nas Instituições de Governo. Relata as vicissitudes impostas pela Coroa Portuguesa ao sistema educacional vigente à época; retrata os posteriores esforços do já então Governo da República, no sentido da criação de Escolas e Cursos Específicos de Administração e esclarece a luta politica e as incompreensões que foram vencidas para que se aceitasse a existência de um profissional de Administração no concerto das demais profissões que hoje atuam no mercado. Discorre sobre o atual processo de formação de administradores, perscruta os meandros didático-pedagógicos dos cursos hora ministrados e sugere mudanças genotípicas na condução dos misteres universitários, no que concerne à formação ética e profissional do Administrador Público, sugerindo a adoção de novos paradigmas de eficiência e eficácia nos serviços públicos. Apresenta reflexões quanto ao papel que a Universidade deverá assumir diante da comunidade científica mundial e quanto as soluções técnicas que poderão concorrer parar a instrução de um novo patamar didático-pedagógico no que respeita à utilização do saber científico na solução dos anseios sociais.