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An Autoethnographic Account: A Description Of Nine Young Children's Literacy Learning Experiences In A Summer Camp, Melinda G. Adams

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

My research assistant and I employed participant observation to study graduate tutors and children in a literacy camp setting. Research questions were: What types of literacy instruction do nine children receive from graduate education major tutors in a community of interest summer literacy camp? How do nine children respond to literacy instruction they receive from graduate education tutors in a summer literacy camp? We collected data once a week for six weeks. We observed and took notes to determine what instruction graduate tutors offered and how children responded. I used autoethnographic methods to reflect on my former teaching practices. Ellis …

November 10, 2009 Aasu Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Office of the Registrar: Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes (Archived)

November 10, 2009 AASU Graduate Affairs Committee Minutes

Developing Natural Gas Cost Escalation Rates For The Associated Gas Distributors Of Florida, Florida Solar Energy Center, Richard Raustad

FSEC Energy Research Center®

The Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) created a spreadsheet tool used to calculate the fuel escalation rates for electricity and natural gas for the previous 5-year and 10-year periods. These escalation rates are calculated at the local, State, and national level for both residential and commercial customers. The previous 5-year and 10-year general inflation rate as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index are also included. These calculations are made in accordance with rules established by the Florida Building Commission pursuant to rule 9B-13.0071, Cost Effectiveness of Amendments to Energy Code.

2009-2010 Performance Forum - November 10, 2009, Rachel Britton, Darren Matias, Natasa Stojanovska, Ciprian Stancioi, Yang Shen, Oderlyn Gutiez, Nikola Nikolovski, Jayanat Wisaijorn

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Aasu Soccer Ascends To No. 14 In Nscaa Poll, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Soccer News (Archived)

AASU Soccer Ascends To No. 14 In NSCAA Poll. The Armstrong Atlantic State women's soccer squad moved up seven spots to No. 14 in the final NSCAA DII Top 25 Coaches' Poll for the regular season.

Politicization Of Health Care And The Health Care Work Process: Knowing How To Give Better Health Care, To Treat To Confront, To Treat For Emancipation, M R. Pires

English

Objectives: To indicate the applicability of the politicization of care on the job process of health professionals, emphasizing their emancipatory abilities.

Politics And Reforms In Health Systems In Latin America, C Tetelboin

English

Objectives: To identify the influence of global economic policies in the reform of health systems and social security in Latin America through the review of Chile and Brazil case studies.

Aysemmetry In Internacional Relations, Industrial Property And Antiretroviral Medication For Hiv/Aids, M H. Costa-Couto, A C. Nascimento

English

Objectives: To analyze the asymmetry of international relations between the U.S. and Brazil with respect to the recognition of industrial property and technological innovations in the pharmaceutical industry.

Sexuality, Bodily Experiences And Gender: An Ethnographic Study Among People Living With Hiv In The Metropolitan Area Of Buenos Aires, Argentina, M Grimberg

English

Objectives: To discuss both security and protection approaches related to sexual behavior before HIV emerged as a social problem, as well as to discuss the categories of "social construction" and "hegemony" under the imperative of inquiring into gender inequalities.

Health Reform In Brazil: The Victory Over The Neoliberal Model, A Cohn

English

Objectives: To describe the health system reform in Brazil in the mid-1970s, and to understand its main challenges.

Work And Public Health: The Point Of View Of The Activity And Gender Relations, J Brito

English

Objectives: To discuss the concept of work applied to the public health field and its use in the analysis of gender relations.

Euthanasia And The Paradoxes Of Autonomy, R Siqueira, F Schramm

English

Objectives: To investigate the origin of the concept of "autonomy" in the Greek and Christian traditions and to describe some of the paradoxes in the contemporary application of euthanasia.

The Crisis Of Domination In The System Of Public Health, A Ayala

English

Objectives: To examine the weaknesses of the mechanisms of domination/control of public health institutions in Brazil over their workers and the population as much as to describe their forms of coercion.

Social Change And Health Policy In Venezuela, C Alvarado, M Martínez, S Vivas, N Gutiérrez, W Metzger

English

Objectives: To review the social change that occurred in Venezuela in 1990 and to identify the emergence of a new health policy.

Francisca Praguer Fróes: Medicine, Gender And Power In The Trajectory Of A Doctor In Bahía (1872-1931), E Rago

English

Objectives: To describe the career and contributions of Francisca Praguer Fróes to the study of medicine, gender and power in Brazil.

Rethinking Holistically The Risk Of The Urban Home On Health: An Analysis From The Focus Of The Socio-Demographic Vulnerability, M Rojas, N Meichtry, M Ciuffolini, J Vázquez, J Castillo

English

Objectives: To describe the approach for determining health risks of poor urban housing and to characterize the holistic conception as an option to analyze socio-demographic vulnerability using concepts such as social, human and physical capital, and the structure of opportunities.

Gender, Reproductive Health, And Daily Life In An Experience Of Action-Research With Youth Of Maré, Rio De Janeiro, R Barbosa, K Giffin

English

Objectives: To analyze the results of applying action-research techniques on issues such as gender, sexuality and reproductive health in groups of young men and women.

Social Protection In A Globalized World, S Fleury

English

Objectives: To analyze the changes in patterns of social protection in health in light of the contradictions and possibilities arising from globalization.

Equality In Health: Conceptual Proposals, Critical Aspects And Perspectives From The Field Of Collective Health, N Linares, O López

English

Objectives: To discuss the concepts of inequality and inequity and to review concepts, approaches and perspectives from the field of collective health in relation to notions of justice in health and health equity.

Health, Development And Globalization, E Gallo, J De Castro, J Costa, V Studart, S Wilecke

English

Objectives: To identify how Brazil has been addressed in the concepts of development and globalization from the perspective of health policy and to describe their relationship to regional and foreign economic policy and the challenges arising from it.

The Health Relationship, Gender And Work: Approximating The Discussion, M Garduño

English

Objectives: To analyze from a gender perspective the health damages caused by labor.

Public Health: The History Of An Idea And A Concept, E Nunes

English

Objectives: To describe the historical and conceptual trajectory of Public Health and to reveal its origins in preventive projects and social medicine.

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For November 10, 2009, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the November 10, 2009 Board of Regents Meeting

Socio-Cultural Diagnostic Of Eating Habits Of Teens In Comitán, Chiapas, G Álvarez, J Eroza, E Ramírez

English

Objectives: To identify family, school and peer atmospheres, as well as adolescents' socio-cultural dynamics involved in food practices of two areas of Chiapas, Mexico.

Between Mecanism And Vitalism: The "Normality Of Life" According To Georges Canguilhem, R F. Puttini, A P. Júnior

English

Objectives: To discuss the epistemology of the life sciences and health, as well as to describe the mechanistic view of the normal and pathological versus vitalism, according to Georges Canguilhem.

The Neo-Liberal Policies And Their Impact On The Public Health Development. Comments On The Venezuelan Experience, O Feo

English

Objectives: There are two central aims in this study: to describe the impact of neoliberal policies on the training of professionals and technicians in Public Health in Venezuela, and to analyze the new health guidelines and show their challenges.

The Negative Social Representation Of The Process Of Health/Sickness/Care In The Press, E Menéndez, R Di Pardo

English

Objectives: To analyze the negative information published by the Mexican press on certain processes of health/ disease/care and to review its main theoretical explanations.

Patterns Of Sectoral Accumulation: Economy And Services In Contemporary Transformations Of Health, M F. Andreazzi, G D. Kornis

English

Objectives: To take elements of analysis from the economic reproduction of capitalist societies' frame and to discuss the changes in the process of accumulation of capital in the Brazilian health sector.

Health And Psychoanalysis: Concepts Linked To Create Strong Public Policies, R Onocko, A Massuda, I Valle, G Castaño, O Pellegrini

English

Objectives: To review concepts from both the fields of public health and psychoanalysis in order to confront the dilemmas of new health practices at the periphery of large cities in contemporary society.