JUSTIÇA NO PORTÃO! CONSIDERAÇÕES EXEGÉTICAS A RESPEITO DAS EXIGÊNCIAS ÉTICAS DE ÊXODO 23,1-9

Êxodo 23,1-9 se insere no universo jurídico do antigo Israel não como lei a maneira das formulações em estilo casuístico e apodítico, mas como instrução ética. A estrutura, sintaxe e estilo desse texto revelam que não estamos diante de leis, mas de parênese. Sendo assim, a pergunta pelo seu lugar vivencial, data e conteúdos é significativa. Também o é a pergunta pelos processos sociais que viabilizaram os conflitos indicados indiretamente entre homens livres proprietários de terra e fora do estado de empobrecimento e homens livres donos de terra, mas a caminho de perdê-la por conta das dívidas in natura adquiridas. Para verificarmos a plausibilidade sociológica de Êxodo 23,1-9, verificamos, através da história social, que tipo de sociedade era Israel no tempo do tribalismo e depois na monarquia, e as consequências sociais que cada um desses sistemas promoveu na sociedade israelita. Com isso, pretendemos conhecer o pano de fundo histórico-sociológico que tece o nosso texto.(AU)

A revista Veja e a construção da realidade dos evangélicos no Brasil: uma análise do discurso.

A dissertação de mestrado A revista Veja e a construção da realidade dos evangélicos no Brasil: uma análise do discurso , não objetiva julgar como certo ou errado o procedimento das diferentes correntes religiosas do segmento cristão brasileiro ou mesmo do jornalismo que as reporta, mas sim, avaliar como um dos periódicos mais conceituados e lidos no país destaca fatos e temas referentes ao segmento cristão evangélico, em sua cobertura jornalística, participando do processo social de construção da realidade. Para compreender este processo, utilizou-se a técnica de Análise do Discurso, com base no método qualitativo, visando explorar, entender e descobrir a forma como a revista Veja reporta o segmento religioso. O corpus definido são as nove matérias de capa que destacam os evangélicos durante 42 anos de circulação do periódico (1968-2010) que totalizam 2197 edições da revista Veja. Para se estabelecer um comparativo quanto à abordagem sobre outros segmentos cristãos, um mesmo número de edições que destacaram o Catolicismo Romano, foram igualmente analisadas. A pesquisa é orientada pela hipótese de que o discurso contido nas reportagens constrói uma imagem negativa dos evangélicos por meio do recurso a um tom irônico e dá ênfase em situações que envolvem escândalos e questões financeiras. Esta hipótese também se assenta na compreensão de que jornalistas não são profissionais técnicos desprovidos de imaginação e visões de mundo, neste caso, de um imaginário em torno da religião, que faz parte da construção noticiosa da qual participam. As Teorias do Imaginário, juntamente com as Teorias do Discurso e as Teorias do Jornalismo (Produção da Notícia) servirão de base para a compreensão do fenômeno e para a análise do objeto, que será conduzida por meio do método da Análise do Discurso. Espera-se que esta pesquisa contribua na indicação de caminhos para facilitar o diálogo entre a sociedade, entidades religiosas e profissionais envolvidos na produção de mensagem midiáticas, contribuindo para uma cultura de paz e de respeito à diversidade religiosa e à pluralidade de idéias presentes na sociedade brasileira, enfatizando, neste sentido, os valores éticos do profissional de comunicação.

A GÊNESE, O DESENVOLVIMENTO E A DIFUSÃO DA FOLKCOMUNICAÇÃO

Investigação sobre a gênese da teoria da Folkcomunicação, tendo por objetivo identificar suas matrizes epistemológicas e suas raízes metodológicas, bem como caracterizar sua natureza interdisciplinar, gravitando em torno das ciências da comunicação e da cultura. O estudo parte da análise do desenvolvimento dos conceitos de Luiz Beltrão, contextualizando sua ancoragem inicial na teoria do jornalismo (1967) e sua posterior ampliação para incluir as dimensões do processo social da comunicação (1980). Com base na exegese da obra seminal do fundador da Folkcomunicação, buscamos extrair as contribuições do autor para o avanço das teorias da comunicação ao adaptar dimensões de bilateralidade e de formas de expressão da cultura popular nos processos da comunicação. Realizamos, também, a análise crítica dos avanços teóricos e das estratégias metodológicas construídas pelos estudiosos que deram continuidade aos estudos de Luiz Beltrão. Em seguida, investigamos a disseminação dos conhecimentos sobre folkcomunicação no Brasil e no âmbito acadêmico internacional. O corpus analisado foi a obra de Beltrão sobre o tema, bem como, dissertações, teses, livros, artigos e comunicações cientificas, que tratam da folkcomunicação. A metodologia utilizada terá por base a pesquisa bibliográfica e documental e a análise taxonômica. O período analisado compreenderá os estudos publicados sobre a Folkcomunicação desde a obra original de Beltrão, em 1967 até 2007.

COMUNIDADES ECLESIAIS DE BASE: EDUCAÇÃO POPULAR E CONSCIENTIZAÇÃO NO ABC (1964-1985)

Esta dissertação procurou apreender que consciência, ou consciências, formaram as Comunidades Eclesiais de Base CEBs com a apropriação das orientações da Educação Popular e da Teologia da Libertação durante o Regime Militar brasileiro. Entretanto, diferente da maioria dos trabalhos que se voltam a essa experiência, o estudo elaborou uma abordagem que as colocaram em prismas diversos. Focalizou, inicialmente, o momento histórico e algumas experiências nos vinte anos de regime e, em seguida, a Educação Popular e a Teologia da Libertação (teoria e prática), objetivando compreender seus projetos político-pedagógicos. A reflexão sobre a Educação Popular e a Teologia da Libertação aliada à reconstituição histórica do período forneceram o contexto no qual se inseriu a análise pretendida: a observação do fenômeno educacional numa perspectiva de micro-análise retratando os processos sociais e as experiências vividas para conhecer a consciência que emergiu de tal experiência educacional. Neste sentido, a pesquisa inferiu, por meio da análise de uma comunidade em particular, que a consciência nascida de tal prática foi de curto alcance, uma vez que os sujeitos envolvidos nesse projeto conscientizador perceberam apenas a ausência imediata de direitos.(AU)

Problem structuring methods for large group interventions

Problem structuring methods (PSMs) aim to build shared understanding in a group of decision makers. This shared understanding is used as a basis for them to negotiate an agreed action plan that they are prepared to help implement. Engaging in a social process of negotiation with a large number of people is difficult, and so PSMs have typically focused on small groups of less than 20. This paper explores the legitimacy of deploying PSMs in large groups of people (50–1000), where the aim is to negotiate action and build commitment to its implementation. We review the difficulties of facilitating large groups with PSMs, drawing heavily on our experience of working with over 25 large groups. We offer a range of lessons learned and suggest concrete approaches to facilitating large groups to achieve the objectives of PSMs. This paper contributes to the evaluation and development of PSMs.

Technology enhanced learning in Higher Education

Technology-Enhanced Learning in Higher Education is an anthology produced by the international association, Learning in Higher Education (LiHE). LiHE, whose scope includes the activities of colleges, universities and other institutions of higher education, has been one of the leading organisations supporting a shift in the education process from a transmission-based philosophy to a student-centred, learning-based approach. Traditionally education has been envisaged as a process in which the teacher disseminates knowledge and information to the student, and directs them to perform – instructing, cajoling, encouraging them as appropriate – despite different students’ abilities. Yet higher education is currently experiencing rapid transformation, with the introduction of a broad range of technologies which have the potential to enhance student learning. This anthology draws upon the experiences of those practitioners who have been pioneering new applications of technology in higher education, highlighting not only the technologies themselves but also the impact which they have had on student learning. The anthology illustrates how new technologies – which are increasingly well-known and accepted by today’s ‘digital natives’ undertaking higher education – can be adopted and incorporated. One key conclusion is that learning remains a social process even in technology-enhanced learning contexts. So the technology-based proxies we construct need to retain and reflect the agency of the teacher. Technology-Enhanced Learning in Higher Education showcases some of the latest pedagogical technologies and their most creative, state-of-the-art applications to learning in higher education from around the world. Each of the chapters explores technology-enhanced learning in higher education in terms of either policy or practice. They contain detailed descriptions of approaches taken in very different curriculum areas, and demonstrate clearly that technology may and can enhance learning only if it is designed with the learning process of students at its core. So the use of technology in education is more linked to pedagogy than it is to bits and bytes.

Historical development of residential segregation and black housing quality in Dade County

This paper examines the relationship between the historical development of residential segregation in Black areas of Dade County and the level of housing quality in those areas. Previous literature studies the effect of hypersegregation on housing quality. Instead, this paper analyzes the nature of each Black community and the social process by which they became segregated in contrast with only hypersegregation being considered. Data were drawn from the 1990 Census of Housing and Population at the block group level for Dade County. Two indicators for housing quality were considered: crowding and rent. Six categories for Black areas in Dade County and one residual category were developed for the analysis. Regression's results show that the effect of each community on housing quality varies. For example, overcrowding goes down in first-ghetto areas when compared to second-ghetto areas, although the percentage of Blacks in both communities is about the same. ^

Espaço de todos ou de ninguém: análise morfológica de transformações espaciais dos Conjuntos Residenciais Parque Serrambi em Natal/ RN

This work analyses the effects of form over the emergence of new patterns of use and occupation in public spaces of housing estates designed in the 1980s and 1990s in Natal’s municipality (Brazil). We start from the premise that form acts on social process (HILLIER; HANSON, 1984), and verify how much the original spatial configuration of Parque Serrambi housing states contributed to the creation of new spatial patterns following the interventions of the people living there. The Serrambi states were built in Natal’s south based on an urbanization model following modernist’s principals and aimed to supply demands for popular dwellings. They were one of the last estates financed by the former National Dwelling Bank (BNH) and supervised by the Dwelling Cooperatives Orientation Institute (INOCOOP), materialized a spatial form different from the highrise dwelling experiences from the same period. The results were obtained through configurational analysis based on Space Syntax conceptual and methodological framework, in which space and society are viewed as interrelated. The analyses was based on represanting and quantifying spatial properties and identificatying social patterns related to the interventions. We identified that the original spatial configurations, associated to subtle changes in the states social patterns, analysed independently of non-morphological categories, gave way to the occupation patterns verrified in both Serrambi cases.

Cartilha do silêncio: sob o signo da modernidade e da memória

This research starts from the presupposition that Cartilha do Silêncio(1997), a novel by the Brazilian writer Francisco Dantas, has a double articulated shift. One of the moves is towards the modern experience, with the idea that modernity is filled with contraries, as remarked by Nietzsche; the other is linked to the livelihoods ashore on traditional experiences, which encompasses the notion of memory as individual and collective ownership. The aim here is to analyze such perspective, social and critical issues within the characters' life stories that regards the calling of past as clear example that tradition is not gone, though modern life presents its own signs. Such dynamics gives to the plot a paradoxal feature. This work is mainly grounded on Marshall Berman' s thoughts in All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982) as well as on Antoine Compagnon'sFive Paradoxes of Modernity (1994). Assuming that Francisco Dantas' Novel is set as a split narrative, outcome of social memory originated on individual experiences aside social process and patriarchal family, this research brings into play the concept of memory by Jacques Le Goff in History and Memory (1992) along EcléaBosi's study in Memória e Sociedade: lembranças de velhos (1979). Keen to check how Cartilha do silêncio adjoins modern livelihoods with aesthetics order, the method articulates text and context, literary and social life, according to Antonio Candido'sLiteratura e Sociedade (1965). Thus, after reading the novel, it is possible to notice how the identity of the characters are built throughout the plot and it is also kept against settling on its social context during the transition from patriarchal tradition to modernity, creating a taut mood between both registries.

Exploring the Justificational Status of Assertions Made About Nursing’s Collective Beliefs

Nursing publications frequently reference groups (e.g. the group nurses). The nature and capabilities of group agents or collective subjects, and the relationship between nursing as a group and nurses as individuals is, however, rarely made explicit in these publications. Following Alvin Goldman, questions pertaining to groups can be classified as metaphysical or epistemic. Metaphysical questions take two forms. First, we might ask about the ontological status of group agents. For example, to what extent, if at all, do group agents exist and act independently of their constituent members? Second, we can ask whether group agents have psychological states or properties that can, for example, be formulated as propositional attitudes and, if they can, in what ways are group attitudes correlated with or tied to those of individual group members? In this presentation, having recognised the potential reality of group ontological and psychological being, I examine an under researched element of social epistemology. Specifically, the potential of non-individualist reliabilism (social process reliabilism) to justify doxastic group beliefs (i.e. statements such as “nurses believe that”) are considered. It is suggested that this issue has concrete implications for how we think about nursing.

Creating an Empire: Local Political Change at Angamuco, Michoacan, Mexico

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

Modeling the Network of Dutch and Flemish Print Production, 1550-1750

The production of artistic prints in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlands was an inherently social process. Turning out prints at any reasonable scale depended on the fluid coordination between designers, platecutters, and publishers; roles that, by the sixteenth century, were considered distinguished enough to merit distinct credits engraved on the plates themselves: invenit, fecit/sculpsit, and excudit. While any one designer, plate cutter, and publisher could potentially exercise a great deal of influence over the production of a single print, their individual decisions (Whom to select as an engraver? What subjects to create for a print design? What market to sell to?) would have been variously constrained or encouraged by their position in this larger network (Who do they already know? And who, in turn, do their contacts know?) This dissertation addresses the impact of these constraints and affordances through the novel application of computational social network analysis to major databases of surviving prints from this period. This approach is used to evaluate several questions about trends in early modern print production practices that have not been satisfactorily addressed by traditional literature based on case studies alone: Did the social capital demanded by print production result in centralized, or distributed production of prints? When, and to what extent, did printmakers and publishers in the Low countries favor international versus domestic collaborators? And were printmakers under the same pressure as painters to specialize in particular artistic genres? This dissertation ultimately suggests how simple professional incentives endemic to the practice of printmaking may, at large scales, have resulted in quite complex patterns of collaboration and production. The framework of network analysis surfaces the role of certain printmakers who tend to be neglected in aesthetically-focused histories of art. This approach also highlights important issues concerning art historians’ balancing of individual influence versus the impact of longue durée trends. Finally, this dissertation also raises questions about the current limitations and future possibilities of combining computational methods with cultural heritage datasets in the pursuit of historical research.

Estruturação e gestão da secretaria especial de saúde indígena : caminhos, atores e institucionalidade

Mestrado (dissertação)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2016.

Discursive approaches to language policy

This book brings together the fields of language policy and discourse studies from a multidisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. The chapters in this volume are written by international scholars active in the field of language policy and planning and discourse studies. The diverse research contexts range from education in Paraguay and Luxembourg via businesses in Wales to regional English language policies in Tajikistan. Readers are thereby invited to think critically about the mutual relationship between language policy and discourse in a range of social, political, economic and cultural spheres. Using approaches that draw on discourse-analytic, anthropological, ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic frameworks, the contributors in this collection explore and refine the ‘discursive’ and the ‘critical’ aspects of language policy as a multilayered, fluid, ideological, discursive and social process that can operate as a tool of social change as well as reinforcing established power structures and inequalities.

El liderazgo en Colombia : un análisis de la investigación empírica en contextos organizacionales

El objetivo de este estudio fue establecer las diferentes tendencias de la investigación sobre el Liderazgo en las organizaciones colombianas, mediante un estudio bibliométrico donde se analizaron 21 artículos publicados en revistas de Publindex, dentro de las categorías a1, a2, b y c. Para el análisis de los artículos se realizó una matriz en Excel que permitió registrar variables como estilos de liderazgo, resultados, años de publicación, revistas y autores. De acuerdo con los resultados se evidenció que el tema ha sido estudiado de forma significativa pero aún son pocas las conclusiones que permiten esclarecer el liderazgo como concepto en Colombia. Sin embargo, hay hallazgos importantes como los estilos de liderazgo predominantes: transformacional y transaccional; se encuentran variables psicológicas asociadas al estudio de liderazgo más comunes como inteligencia emocional, clima organizacional, cultura organizacional y los instrumentos más utilizados: entrevistas y cuestionarios. Se concluye que Colombia es un país que si investiga sobre esta temática, sin embargo, no hay acuerdos y hallazgos unificados. Se espera que en el futuro se continúe promoviendo una co-contrucción del concepto.