Escola : da magia da criação : as éticas que sustentam a escola pública

Esta tese procura mostrar como a Escola Pública consegue recriar-se e permanecer apesar dos antagonismos e problemas que a consomem indefinidamente. Ela resulta de um estudo de caso, desenvolvido na Escola Estadual de Ensino Médio Bandeirante de Guaporé, (RS-Brasil), nos anos de 2000 a 2004. A partir de uma perspectiva sócio-antropológica, ancorada em aportes teóricos de Georges Balandier, Edgar Morin, Michel Maffesoli e Humberto Maturana, o pesquisador utilizou-se dos meios e técnicas conferidos pelo método etnográfico de pesquisa para investigar os movimentos de ordem, desordem, organização e mudança na Escola, buscando enfocar os vitalismos que a perpassam e lhe dão jovialidade. Pela observação reflexiva, registrada em diário de campo, procurou perceber nas ações de conduta, comportamentos, posturas e atitudes dos sujeitos o fluir das emoções, geradoras das éticas que perpassam as relações, bem como as ambigüidades de sua manifestação. Por meio de entrevistas, com amostras selecionadas de professores, pais, alunos e funcionários, investigou as razões e motivações de suas presenças na Escola, bem como as qualidades, sabores e dissabores por eles produzidos na convivência. Pôde conferir que, como organismo vivo, a Escola pública se configura em teias de relações onde magia, criação e sentidos encontram espaço de manifestação nos prazeres que a convivência produz.É nesta Estética do Estar-Juntos que o autor percebeu a fonte inesgotável das Éticas que se transfiguram nos encontros, reencontros e relações e que possibilitam a Escola auto-organizar-se e recriar-se constantemente, produzindo os liames de sua e sustentação e permanência, apesar do turbilhão que a consome.

International private equity funds strategies in the Brazilian market

The Private Equity Market in Brazil has flourished in the last two decades, and international Funds have been entering the market since then. The activity of these enterprises and how they deal with institutional voids that are present in the brazilian market and the all spheres of distances they have with Brazil are investigated in this research. What are the main challenges for those players in the local market and how private equity functions in Brazil? The first chapter reviews all the literature that concerns private equity in their home countries, such as the United States and Spain (Europe) and Brazil. It also discourses about the concept of private equity in all its different senses, the routine of investees and how is the relationship between Private Equity Fund and Investee. In addition to that, the due diligence process is also explained as well as the private equity sector in Brazil and its regulation. Moreover, the distance between countries and how it affects business is presented followed by the concepts of institutional voids. For the inquiry proposed interviews were conducted in order to capture the perspective of International Private Equity Funds on the Brazilian market. Advent International, The Carlyle Group and Mercapital replied to the inquiries and provided the tools so a picture of the sector was developed. This sector has a range of challenges and opportunities and requires the International Fund to establish a local branch in order to really succeed in the market. The results of this project pointed out to the challenges the market presents and how International Private Funds are coming about it. There are definitely gaps that need to be fulfilled however the industry is going in the right direction. Revenues may change its nature in the next couple of years, however from the Private Equity Fund perspective Brazil has been a worthwhile investment. Nonetheless, it is important to question the vision also of the investee and institutional investor so one can have the entire picture of the sector.

Missão organizacional, uma questão de discurso?: por uma análise crítica

A partir do entendimento de que as grandes corporações são poderosos agentes políticos, econômicos e sociais e que suas missões organizacionais sintetizam a sua razão de ser e existir, o estudo tem como objetivo desvelar o conteúdo político e ideológico subjacente ao discurso empresarial das missões das maiores empresas do Brasil. Assim, foram analisadas as missões divulgadas nas homepages institucionais e/ ou de relações com investidores das 64 empresas que compõem a carteira teórica do Ibovespa, principal indicador do desempenho médio das cotações do mercado de ações brasileiro. Os dados foram analisados à luz das tendências de apropriação do simbolismo pela cultura organizacional, da Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD), instrumento teórico transdisciplinar que busca compreender a relação entre linguagem, poder, ideologia e sociedade e da perspectiva foucaultiana de discurso, entendendo-o como um espaço de luta pela estabilização dos sentidos, que se pretendem hegemônicos. Os dados foram tratados de forma quantitativa, em busca das palavras de uso mais frequente e, consequentemente de maior relevância, e qualitativa, agrupando-as em categorias lexicais em função de seu significado e de seu papel na declaração de missão organizacional. Os resultados revelam a estrutura subjacente do discurso das missões, permitindo a identificação de perfis específicos de empresas segundo suas características discursivas. Além disso, o trabalho discute como o discurso empresarial se apropria da dimensão simbólica com o propósito de controlar e manipular os trabalhadores, legitimar a atuação das empresas perante a sociedade e naturalizar os preceitos da ideologia neoliberal, apresentando o sistema capitalista atual como a única, melhor e inexorável forma de organização e de produção societária.

As conferências nacionais de política para as mulheres e os sentidos atribuídos á deliberação

Esta dissertação tem como problema de pesquisa analisar o perfil normativo das Conferências Nacionais de Política para Mulheres a partir dos sentidos atribuídos à deliberação pelas representantes governamentais e não governamentais que organizaram e/ou participaram desses processos de Conferências, entrevistadas para esta pesquisa. A relevância do problema se dá pelo diagnóstico de que o perfil dessas Conferências, marcado por discursos históricos que buscam firmar o compromisso político do governo federal com a Política para as mulheres, não está claro, por um lado. Mas também se justifica pelos debates em torno de propostas de Sistemas de Participação que buscam trabalhar com a complementaridade de modelos de democracia, por outro. No arcabouço teórico está a noção de “momentos deliberativos” presente na literatura brasileira sobre efetividade da participação e as noções jurídicas de ato administrativo discricionário e vinculativo presentes no ramo do Direito Administrativo, como tentativas de compreender o perfil a partir das categorias analíticas consultiva e deliberativa presentes na literatura brasileira sobre participação. As categorias, contudo, se mostram limitadas para se compreender os diversos sentidos da deliberação que indicariam seu perfil.

Affiliation, equilibrium existence and the revenue ranking of auctions

We consider private value auctions where bidders’ types are dependent, a case usually treated by assuming affiliation. We show that affiliation is a restrictive assumption in three senses: topological, measure-theoretic and statistical (affiliation is a very restrictive characterization of positive dependence). We also show that affiliation’s main implications do not generalize for alternative definitions of positive dependence. From this, we propose new approaches to the problems of pure strategy equilibrium existence in first-price auctions (PSEE) and the characterization of the revenue ranking of auctions. For equilibrium existence, we slightly restrict the set of distributions considered, without loss of economic generality, and offer a complete characterization of PSEE. For revenue ranking, we obtain a characterization of the expected revenue differences between second and first price auctions with general dependence of types.

Neww challenges in the luxury universe: an exploratory study of the concept of luxury experience in the Brazilian market from the perspective of brands and consumers: a case study of Pati Piva.

Luxury has evolved over the centuries; new challenges have created questions of appropriate strategies for brands. Experience and authenticity became important aspects in the field: consumers are enjoying more material comfort and there is a trend of a cultural shift for personal fulfillment and aspiration through experience. The biggest challenge for today's luxury marketers is to not only talk to the target, but to understand how the target is shifting, while not alienating consumers and damaging the brand´s image. Considering managers and consumers perspectives separately, it would be possible to conclude that their perceptions are congruent, as many studies have presented. However, if perspectives are put together and compared, different realities could emerge. This exploratory research is based on a case study that describes both perspectives of their perception on luxury experience, consumer behavior and consumption motivations, and luxury retailing. It was developed interviews with the brand owner and 10 brand´s consumers, and also indirect observations in the brands distribution formats. In the brand perspective, the case study has shown that luxury experience involves the construction of brand experience strategy based on products, multiple retail channels, consumer engagement, personal activity, exploration of five senses and other forms. In the consumer´s perspective, results revealed that brand consumers interviwed have different luxury experience perceptions and expectations; however, what is common is that service and quality must be maintained and they reflected the overall experience. Additionally, luxury retailing influences directly the consumer´s perception that must integrate multiple channels to fulfill personal demands. The research makes contributions for both actors - brand and consumer, in the sense that translates theoretical concepts of the experience itself and tries to clarify aspects that are still unknown and explored through the exploration of ways to detect the alignment between brand and consumer expectations of the experience.

De feminino a feminista: transformação na escrita literária dos romances de Heloneida Studart

Esta tese pretende recuperar a incorporação da questão de gênero na trajetória intelectual de Heloneida Studart através de sua literatura de ficção, tendo por objeto a maneira como a questão de gênero foi tematizada nos romances da escritora durante os anos de 1952 a 1978. Portanto, foi almejado analisar a forma como Heloneida se inseriu nos debates sobre a mulher e as relações de gênero no período. Minhas preocupações foram menos buscar se a literata produziu ou reproduziu imagens estereotipadas das relações entre mulheres e homens e mais entender os recursos que lançou mão e os sentidos próprios que procurou imprimir ao construir tal imagem ajustada aos debates e categorias que norteavam seu projeto literário o qual foi se desenvolvendo a partir tanto de sua vivência subjetiva, quanto a partir dos contatos que travou, a saber: a casa de Juvenal Galeno, o Partido Comunista, o movimento feminista e o Centro da Mulher Brasileira. Deste enlace, vivência subjetiva e lugar social, teriam nascido formulações teóricas não só para seus romances, como também para sua posterior prática política em prol da mulher.

Renovando os sentidos: percepção e escrita etnográfica na etnomusicologia

MENDES, Jean Joubert Freitas. Renovando os sentidos: percepção e escrita etnográfica na etnomusicologia. In: ANPPOM, 17. Rio de Janeiro, 2005. Anais... Rio de Janeiro: UFRN/ANPPOM, 2005.

Okupar, resistir, insistir : uma etnografia das práticas de ocupação urbana Fortaleza / Ceará

The objective of this dissertation is understand the relationships built between subjects who occupy buildings in a state of abandonment to revitalize them - called okupas, noting which individuals construct such meanings on the practice of occupation and how to organize the construction and maintenance of a collective life project. Having the Okupa Squat Torém, located in the neighborhood of Fatima in the southern city of Fortaleza-CE, as locus and observed through the ethnographic method, followed the social practices of urban segment. I invested in a data collection revealed that the custom of okupas and their domestic habits, inside and outside of okupa, emphasizing the interaction situations, like most appropriate occasions to observe the constant negotiation and refinement of his cunning to intervene in the city . Among the objectives of this research, the main thing is to observe which senses are assigned to the practice of the occupation by okupas. For this, reflecting from the specifics of this urban phenomenon and talking mostly with the tradition of research in the field of anthropology, I tried to address some issues regarding the practice of okupação and organization of the group, which the principles and movements that make these contacts with city etc. The appropriation made by the subjects on the urban space here means understanding them as a cultural expression of a number of collective values, resulting from experience and perception of okupas like themselves. The intention is to show how this practice intervention and collective action has appeared in contemporary times and how my ethnography can contribute to a dialogue on the practices of mobilization and update of the city, considering the Theory of Recognition Axel Honneth (2003) as an analytical category useful to describe the forms of reciprocity experienced by okupas

De repente, tudo mudou de lugar: refletindo sobre metamorfose urbana e gentrificação em Mossoró-RN

This study aims at solidifying the theoretical bases to provide, above all, an explanation for this phenomenon which currently happens, with a scenario of social, political, economic and cultural transformations worldwide in medium cities. Nevertheless, because it has different dimensions from its transformation axes, gentrification comes with change, but also with the introduction of a new purpose in the space using and occupation, outlining in this context the identity of places from the formation of centralities with the presence of flows with social and economic dynamicsThe current forms of geographic space appropriation show the directions of the senses and ideological profile which recreates the meanings and uses of content and materials from descriptions of a historical past. However, today there is an economic context in the urban space which refers to a search of strategies for change, i.e., the acquisition of parameter aimed at meeting the demands of the relationship between capital and labor, which ends up overriding some actions for the specification of the transformation methods within the urban space to be explained by new needs and also by the agents from the value adding to their interests and investments. Thus, we assume that the appreciation/gentrification of urban spaces may or may not result from the building of a public space, since the dialogic structure as a place of political interaction externalize conflicts and disagreements in general; it keeps segregating spaces. As new spaces are transformed, the access to them tends to happen with particular restriction, whereas some places like parks, shopping malls, high-rise and horizontal condos are the scene for major professional and family events. In this context, the gentrification process is used to designate interventions in the urban environment, in certain city spaces which are considered central to public and private investments. A historical place is permitted to be presented as a scenario, a stage full of attractions, through the transformation process. Studying gentrification consists of an analysis of the underlying interests in the transformation of these areas, and especially of the assessment of the interest level in the private sector to partner in order to modify the landscape. Gentrification results from the transformation processes of capital, which influences the efforts and investments application in order to establish and achieve optimal economic growth, focusing on a location socio-culturally centered in the urban space. Thus, the urban social structure develops in the light of some questions that relate not only the cities growth but also environmental conditions it provides in cities like Mossoro, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil 2005 a 2011.

O teatro do oprimido e sua contribuição na formação da criança com transtorno do déficit de atenção com hiperatividade

This research investigates and reports the contributions of the Theatre of the Oppressed and its techniques as a therapeutic resource in the education of children with Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity. In the first chapter organize one studying theoretical seeking to conceptualize and understand the Learning, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, seeking to better understand the behavior and the behavior of children with ADHD. Researching on the symptoms, causes and effects of this syndrome. Trace a relationship between familyschool- specialists in an attempt to prove the importance of family support in the teachinglearning process and treatment of these children. In the second chapter start conceptualizing theater, the relationship between work-Theatre-Education Therapy, explain the difference between the theatrical stage and the therapeutic stage. Account the importance of theater games in the classroom and its contribution to social and educational training of the child. Justify the choice of the Theatre of the Oppressed recognizing him as the primary method for this research, because it is a set of exercises, games and techniques that help the child regain equilibrium relations, developing autonomy, encourages creativity and spontaneity, freeing them from their oppression. Besides being an efficient transformation behavior, improving behavior, allowing the inclusion of children in society. It is verified the effectiveness of the method and techniques in their work with children Municipal School Professor. Antonio Severiano in Natal / RN, allowing these children develop body awareness, working senses, thought, memory, inhibition, teaching to expose your point of view, understand and deal with their emotions, respecting its limits and develop their motor and cognitive skills