Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Academic social space'

This study explores the effect of changing ecological conditions on female social organization among free-ranging vervet monkeys (Cholorocebus aethiops pygerythrus) in the Klein Karoo, South Africa. Comparison was made between a previous study conducted during a period of drought in 2009, and my own study conducted when conditions were much wetter and hence, less ecologically stressful. In addition, animals in the present study also experienced conditions of low demographic stress. Compared to 2009, females displayed lower rates of competition and aggression, did not compete for access to grooming partners, and did not preferentially groom those of high rank, nor did they do so more frequently. Females did, however, preferentially associate spatially with those they groomed most; a finding in contrast to the previous study. Females did not groom those of adjacent ranks more frequently, nor was there any relationship between rank difference and spatial association. In addition, there were rank differences in vigilance were found between females, and vigilance costs overall were affected by total group size. Overall, these findings support some aspects of the socioecological model used to predict group structure in primates, but other aspects of social organization remain puzzling, and may reflect larger overall group sizes in the Samara population, which changes patterns of engagement between females in ways not fully captured by current models.
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Bachelors
Sciences
Anthropology

In 2003 the Rotary Club of Lethbridge, Alberta proposed a revitalization of Galt Gardens, a small historic park in Lethbridge‘s downtown which was perceived to be the focus of particular kinds of “negative use.” Over the course of the revitalization the park changed significantly – public washrooms and a water feature were installed, and private security guards were introduced. According to the local newspaper, developments have transformed the park into an “idyllic scene of children splashing and playing, families picnicking and people strolling” (Gauthier, 2008). This thesis explores the revitalization of Galt Gardens through a consideration of various texts and practices that (re)produce, not only the park, but also the “public” (and “non-public”). My analysis focuses on the ways in which a revitalized Galt Gardens is discursively represented and materially practiced to include and exclude particular users and uses, with potential consequences for the construction of public social space.
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This thesis investigates the impact that food has on social learning at a school in a Midlands city in the UK that I have chosen to call (for reasons of anonymity) Peartree Academy. The premise of my thesis is that the dining hall of the facility can be utilised as a space for fostering social learning. My research explores what happens when a school organises its dining hall as a restaurant. The school dining hall is a place often neglected in research, and this thesis demonstrates that there is much to be gained for both pupils and staff from interaction in eating spaces. The research questions address the impact of the food environment on social learning. The key focus is to explore the social and life skills that pupils develop through meeting, making choices, modelling behaviours, eating, and talking together in a space in the school known as the ‘restaurant’. This is written as an ethnographic case study and adopts a social constructivist position to frame the theoretical aspects of the research. The study is based on pupils in Years 4 – 11 and uses a qualitative research framework for data collection. The findings emphasise the tensions and challenges between the aims of the school - to create an eating space that promotes social values and encourages the development of social skills - and the activities of teachers and catering assistants, who face the challenge of managing and providing food for a large number of pupils daily. The thesis concludes that, like the traditional classroom, a school dining area also requires conscientious environmental adaptation in order for social learning opportunities to take place.

This thesis defines the discipline of Interior Architecture from an academic perspective, from a professional perspective, and through a series of case studies on various building types. The primary building type, which is studied in this thesis, is the university setting, with specific emphasis placed on the "social spaces" within the university, where people interact and collaboratively engage one another and the environment around them. Interior architecture is explored through a study of numerous design elements and psychological phenomena, including proxemics, control of one's environment, response to technology, location of social spaces, permanence versus flexibility, provision of spatial variety, public versus private realms, and multisensory perceptions of three-dimensional space.
Department of Architecture

La Escuela Pública de Producción Agrícola en Pachacamac ofrece la carrera de producción Agrícola. En ese sentido, el Proyecto busca impulsar las actividades comerciales de productos agrícolas ya existentes del distrito de Pachacamac a través del diseño de espacios académicos de acuerdo a los nuevos estándares pedagógicos incluyendo espacios de enseñanza agrícola, que potencien el aprendizaje y la investigación. Así mismo, la propuesta busca favorecer a la comunidad con espacios sociales que difundan la cultura Agrícola de Lima para una mejor alimentación de la ciudad. La investigación sustenta las relaciones del edificio educativo y el paisaje natural. Las relaciones entre la naturaleza y la escuela se presentan aprovechando los recursos culturales, morfológicos y climáticos del entorno en la propuesta a través de la forma del edificio, el emplazamiento, de la fusión espacial y visual de lo social y de lo privado, de la materialidad y de tecnologías sustentables. beneficiando así al paisaje con la arquitectura, que es finalmente la herramienta de trabajo de los estudiantes. (net Works)
The public agricultural production school in Pachacamac offers the agricultural production career, in this respect, the project seeks to empower the existing commercial activities of agricultural products of the Pachacamac district through the design of academic spaces according to the new pedagogical standards including learning spaces for agriculture that enhance learning and research activities. In other way, the proposal also seeks to favor the community development with social spaces that disseminate the Agricultural Culture of Lima for a better feed of citizen The thesis look to maintain the relations of the educational building, the peri-urban landscape and the natural elements, taking advantage of the cultural, morphological and climatic resources of the environment in the proposal of spaces; this is prove through the shape of the building, orientation, the visual relations, materiality and sustainable technologies, benefiting the relationship between the students and nature that is finally the principal work tool.
Tesis

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
A pesquisa parte do estudo das ciências sociais, embasando-se na teoria sociológica de Pierre Bourdieu para construí-las teórica e metodologicamente como espaço social acadêmico vinculado ao campo acadêmico, isto é, como lócus de atuação profissional de um conjunto de agentes dotados de concepções, objetivos e interesses comuns, simultaneamente diferenciados dos participantes de outras ciências, e distintos entre si. Seu objetivo é compreender de que maneiras o caráter específico da luta por autoridade científica no espaço social acadêmico das ciências sociais, com suas regras de funcionamento explícitas e incorporadas, configura o caráter das disputas concernentes ao processo recente de institucionalização da obrigatoriedade do ensino de sociologia no Ensino Médio (1997-2008), em especial quanto às relações e representações de Amaury Moraes, Elisabeth Guimarães, Heloísa Martins, Ileizi Silva, Lejeune de Carvalho, Nelson Tomazi e Sueli Mendonça, cientistas sociais pioneiros na defesa desta institucionalização. Para realizar este intuito, construo um histórico da constituição do espaço social acadêmico no Brasil, adotando como recorte temporal o ano de 1964, e a posterior implantação, pelos governos militares, de uma política educacional voltada à institucionalização da pós-graduação e à centralidade das agências de fomento no setor de Ciência e Tecnologia do país, refletindo acerca do impacto destas para a área das ciências sociais e seus integrantes, e da gradual valorização de determinadas formas de fazer científico, e de fazer-se cientista neste espaço social, por elas acarretadas. Em seguida, com base na análise da organização do currículo Lattes, e em dados obtidos nas plataformas virtuais da Capes e do CNPq, esboço a estrutura deste espaço social, indicando os principais instrumentos e estratégias para aquisição de capital científico, e identificando os agentes e instituições dominantes, bem como as posições ocupadas pelos agentes e instituições vinculados ao ensino de sociologia. Realizo um estudo das trajetórias acadêmicas dos sujeitos da pesquisa, analisando o capital simbólico detido por eles no espaço social e sua relação com a defesa do ensino de sociologia, e elaboro, a partir de entrevistas semiestruturadas feitas com cada um deles, uma espécie de histórico do processo de institucionalização do qual participaram, enfatizando seu envolvimento e a rede de relações pessoais e institucionais que gradativamente se constituiu, bem como suas concepções acerca de suas ações e das relações atinentes a elas. Analiso as resistências ao ensino de sociologia e as disputas internas ao grupo dedicado à sua implantação e estudo, compreendendo as representações dominantes relativas a este ensino e ao significado de ser cientista social no interior do espaço social acadêmico das ciências sociais.
The research studies social sciences, based on Pierre Bourdieu´s sociological theory, in order to construct them theoretically and methodologically as academical social space bounded to the academical field, that is, as professional acting locus of a group of agents with common conceptions, objectives and interests, simultaneously differentiated from participants from other sciences, and distinct from each other. Its goal is to understand the ways in which the specific character of the contest for scientific authority in the academical social space of social sciences, with its explicit and embedded operating rules, configures the character of disputes concerning the recent process of institutionalization of sociology compulsory education in high school (1997-2008), particularly with regard to relations and representations of Amaury Moraes, Elisabeth Guimarães, Heloísa Martins, Ileizi Silva, Lejeune de Carvalho, Nelson Tomazi e Sueli Mendonça, social scientists pioneers in defense of this institutionalization. To accomplish this intent, I build a history of the constitution of academical social space in Brazil, adopting as a time frame the year of 1964, and the subsequent deployment, by military governments, of an educational policy focused on the institutionalization of postgraduate and on the centrality of funding agencies to the country's science and technology sector, reflecting about the impact of these to the area of social sciences and its members, and to the gradual appreciation of certain forms of scientific work and of how to make yourself a scientist in this social space, entailed by those practices. After, based on the analysis of curriculum Lattes organization, and of data obtained on virtual platforms of Capes and CNPq, I outline the structure of this social space, indicating the main instruments and strategies for the acquisition of scientific capital, and identifying the dominant agents and institutions, as well as the positions occupied by the agents and institutions involved with the teaching of sociology. I realize a study of academical trajectories of the studied subjects, analyzing the symbolic capital held by them in the social space and its relation with the defense of the teaching sociology, and elaborate, based on semi-structured interviews with each of them, a sort of historical of the process of institutionalization in which they participated, emphasizing their involvement and the network of personal and institutional relationships that gradually constituted, as well as their conceptions about their actions and relationships regards to them. I analyze the resistance to teaching sociology and internal disputes to the group dedicated to its study and implementation, understanding the dominant representations concerning this teaching and the meanings of being a social scientist in the academical social space of the social sciences.

This thesis examines how composition studies have been, and continue to be, shaped by the cultural values of exclusion; this field is "continually magnif[ied] and reproduc[ed] in the complex social conditions connected with those values in fundamental ways much like educational systems in general."

Relatório de estágio do mestrado em Gestão, apresentado à Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, sob a orientação de Filipe Coelho e Susana Boavida.
Apesar de vivermos no século das tecnologias, as Relações Públicas são, cada vez mais, uma ferramenta chave para o progresso e sucesso das empresas. Ao longo deste relatório será analisado o tema das Relações Públicas e como elas devem fazer parte da estratégia das organizações, para que se possa melhorar o posicionamento estratégico de cada uma. Este documento consiste em um Relatório de Estágio realizado entre 14 de setembro de 2015 e 15 de janeiro de 2016 e deste modo, para além de uma revisão da literatura inclui também a descrição da empresa, a Active Space Technologies, S.A. e das tarefas ai desenvolvidas. Assim, o objetivo deste relatório é precisamente relacionar as Relações Públicas com a Active Space Technologies. Pretende-se entender o propósito do trabalho das Relações Públicas e a sua importância na estratégia organizacional de uma empresa. Pretende-se também analisar os seus conceitos teóricos e aplicá-los na implementação dos projetos desenvolvidos na área das Relações Públicas. Serão também abordados alguns pontos que poderão ser melhorados na prática da empresa. Um dos deveres das Relações Públicas é criar uma boa imagem, sólida e que ofereça credibilidade aos seus públicos, fazendo com que a empresa obtenha melhores resultados organizacionais. Esta é uma área muitas vezes desvalorizada nas organizações e o objetivo deste relatório é tentar mudar essa filosofia.

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Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior
Currently, we attend a reverence of concepts ahead as health, life, youth and body. In we widen amount the ideals concerned to the healthful life, to the quality of life, the longevity and joviality and the extremities of the body represented by the illness, for the virus infection, the physical deficiency and the aging. Of the historical shades of the plague, of the hunger and the war that gagged the defenseless individual and its body, in the current days we increase the search for a full and powerful life, independent of a religious imaginary to predict the epidemic curse, the threat represented for the sick people and the incarnate divine anger in the death; or of medical science presented in the spaces of the technology and the physiology, being left fragile the social and psychological dimensions of the human confined to the patient issue and, finally, the commanded urban health politics in quantitative goals of hygienic cleaning, of the medical techniques and the education citizen. For beyond these instances, emerges in our days a plural, close and biographical agreement well of the body and welfare. On the other hand, an understanding of the healthful life and well-being that more certifies the presence of something the one that clear landmarks amongst normality and the irregularity, the esteem and the destructive vice: it has a projection of healthful life measures without conceptual models of body and health under the doctor-scientific standard occidental. This thematic one will confide in way to the enclosure for spaces to the muscles and fitness exercises and the bars from the city of Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, while comprehensive interchange concerning as the individual comes dealing with the notion the body and health and, mainly, if perceiving inside of its body and its health. Amongst these two spaces of typical leisure of the modern urban phenomenon, the hedonism bodily with its muscles and salience and one another form of hedonism in the fruition of allowed drugs will be across itself in a dialogue about which social s relationships are really in game in an imaginary construction amongst an doctor-aesthetic ideal of health and the social and subjective experience in the option for a healthful life
Vem sendo cada vez mais comum nos depararmos com slogans publicit?rios, diagn?sticos m?dicos ou estrat?gias de pol?ticas governamentais que tentam a(m)parar um significado de sa?de, corpo e juventude na contemporaneidade. Tais tentativas de recortes particularizam uma concep??o de sa?de a partir de interven??es, curas e campanhas educativas que justificariam um tratamento cabal ? quest?o do sujeito, do bem-estar e do cuidado de si. Das sombras hist?ricas da peste, da fome e da guerra que amorda?aram o indiv?duo ao seu corpo indefeso, contemporaneamente potencializamos a busca por uma vida plena e potente, cada vez mais independente de um imagin?rio religioso a predizer a maldi??o epid?mica e a ira divina encarnada na decrepitude e na morte, de uma tecnologia biom?dica enfurnada nas fendas gen?ticas e bioqu?micas a decodificar a subjetividade humana ou das pol?ticas de sa?de p?blica ordenadas em metas quantitativas de higieniza??o, reforma sanit?ria e marketing social. Enfim, para al?m destas e outras inst?ncias, vem emergindo um entendimento mais polif?nico, ?ntimo e biogr?fico do cuidar de si e do sentir-se bem. H?, por um lado, um ideal de sa?de e de boa-forma sob os princ?pios de higieniza??o, das t?cnicas m?dicas e da individualiza??o e, por um outro, uma compreens?o da vida saud?vel e do bem-estar que atesta a presen?a de algo mais do que n?tidos marcos dentre a normalidade e a irregularidade, o benef?cio e o malef?cio, a auto-estima e o v?cio destrutivo. Assim, nossa tem?tica se abrir? em meio ? arena das academias fisiculturistas e dos bares na cidade do Natal-RN enquanto interc?mbio compreensivo acerca de como o indiv?duo vem lidando com a no??o de corpo e sa?de e, inclusive, se percebendo dentro do seu corpo e de sua sa?de. Dentre esses dois espa?os de lazer t?picos do fen?meno urbano moderno, um corpo hedonista com seus m?sculos e sali?ncias e uma outra forma de hedonismo no usufruto de drogas l?citas se permeiam num di?logo sobre quais sociabilidades est?o em jogo num imagin?rio entremeado por um ideal de sa?de m?dico-est?tico e pela experi?ncia social e subjetiva da op??o por uma vida saud?vel

Recent calls from progressive, subaltern and postcolonial geopoliticians to move geopolitical scholarship away from its Western ontological bases have argued that more ethnographic studies centred on peripheral and dispossessed geographies need to be undertaken in order to integrate peripheralised agents and agencies in dominant ontologies of geopolitics. This thesis follows these calls. Through empirical data collected during a period of five months of fieldwork undertaken between October 2014 and March 2015, it investigates the ways through which an Indigenous community of the Canadian Arctic, Tulita (located in the Northwest Territories' Sahtu region) represents geopower. It suggests a semiotic reading of these representations in order to take the agency of other-than/more-than-human beings into account. In doing so, it identifies the ontological bases through which geopolitics can be indigenised. Drawing from Dene animist ontologies, it indeed introduces the notion of a place-contingent speculative geopolitics. Two overarching argumentative lines are pursued. First, this thesis contends that geopower operates through metamorphic refashionings of the material forms of, and signs associated with, space and place. Second, it infers from this that through this transformational process, geopower is able to create the conditions for alienating but also transcending experiences and meanings of place to emerge. It argues that this movement between conflictual and progressive understandings is dialectical in nature. In addition to its conceptual suggestions, this thesis makes three empirical contributions. First, it confirms that settler geopolitical narratives of sovereignty assertion in the North cannot be disentangled from capitalist and industrial political-economic processes. Second, it shows that these processes, and the geopolitical visions that subtend them, are materialised in space via the extension of the urban fabric into Indigenous lands. Third, it demonstrates that by assembling space ontologically in particular ways, geopower establishes (and entrenches) a geopolitical distinction between living/sovereign (or governmentalised) spaces and nonliving/bare spaces (or spaces of nothingness).

The primary purpose of this study is to identify those people at most risk of being bullied at work. While much research is being conducted on school bullying, little has been conducted on workplace bullying. Using data gathered from a 2004 study conducted by the National Opinion Research Center for the General Social Survey, which included a Quality of Work Life (QWL) module for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), linear regressions indicated significant findings. As predicted, workers in lower level occupations, as ranked by prestige scoring developed at National Opinion Research, are more likely to be victimized. Data also suggest that being young, Black, and relatively uneducated may contribute to being bullied in certain situations. Future research is needed to examine influences of socio-economic, legal, and other demographic factors that may predict the chance of being bullied.
M.A.
Department of Sociology
Sciences
Applied Sociology MA

Historically, most research on Indigenous peoples has been framed by Western empirical positivism which fundamentally conflicts with Indigenous circular ways of knowing. Current research governing bodies, scholars, and Indigenous communities have generated new theories and guidelines for research structures that support respectful and meaningful practices with Indigenous peoples. Participatory action research (PAR) attempts to address the unequal power structures inherent in research relationships: participants set the agenda for the research and are co-researchers in the project. In this study, I placed PAR theory into action to problematize research practices and to generate new discourses for research within an Indigenous context. The Lil’wat Nation and I collaborated on a PAR project in 2006-2007 that led to the formation of the Lil’wat Girls’ and Women’s Affirmation Group. Through the process of reflection-in-action we identified several opportunities for growth as we examined PAR theory in practice. Using decolonizing research methods and a metaphor of the Lil’wat s7istken (pit house), the model of practice wove between three distinct worlds with divergent protocols and pedagogies: the worlds of the Lil’wat, academia, and the researcher’s racialized lived experiences. This model of practice aimed to disrupt the essentialized dichotomies of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships and to problematize research practices for the academic and research communities to consider for their practice. The findings exposed several lessons at sites of praxis pertaining to the intersection of PAR theory and practice: definition of the community; ethics in the community; racialized researcher space; and PAR incongruence. The model was intended not as a “how to” manual, but as an entry point for discussions to advance respectful decolonizing research practices.

碩士
國立臺南大學
教育經營與管理研究所
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The theory of cultural reproduction has highlighted the influence of the difference of class cultures on student educational achievements as argued by P. Bourdieu, a French sociologist, who believed that the habitus shaped within a specific social space functions to regulate how the actor views and react unconsciously towards the requirements of the context in within he/she lives. The habitus theory profiles the fact that due to the lack of cultural capital, the reasoning model of working class children are generally confined within the scope of substantial form. The gap between their habitus and the structure/nature of curriculum knowledge further leads to a much lower level of academic performances than the middle/upper class students. Following the habitus theory, the study was designed to explore the interplay among cultural capital, social space, habitus and educational performance. In order to examine this interplay, this study employed case-study method. Because the questions which this study were concerned were involved with the operation and delivery of cultural capital within family social space practiced by the parents, this study used a variety of methods to conduct data collection including participant observation, interview and documental analysis which last over three months. The findings show that this case family displayed a much typical model of working class as witnessed by their much lower academic backgrounds and posts. This low position within the division of labour was not able to produce adequate economic capital and, then functioned to generate appropriate cultural capital. The evidences indicate that the parents of this case study were unable to construct adequate three forms of cultural capital in Bourdieu’s terminology. As a result, their children did not develop academic-oriented habitus but practical-oriented one.

This study investigated how lesson study, a Japanese intervention tool, may be used as a management strategy to improve performance in space, shape and orientation in Mathematical Literacy at Technical and Vocational Education and Training colleges. In this study a qualitative approach was followed in both the pilot and the main study. Prior to the main study, a small-scale pilot study was conducted which consisted of two participant lecturers and lasted for about two months culminating in one complete lesson study cycle and a second partially completed cycle. Four lecturers participated in the main study which lasted about seven months from the last week of February 2019 to the last week of August 2019 at a campus of a TVET college where Mathematical Literacy is a subject in the NCV program. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews with lecturers and students, observations of students’ performance and behaviour while delivering the research lessons, including researchers’ journals and participant lecturers’ journals, students’ work and meeting notes which included debriefing notes. The LS - Participative Management model proposed in this study has shown to achieve the broad teaching and learning outcomes, personal and professional outcomes and managerial outcomes. Hence, it is possible that the model proposed in this study is an appropriate model which can be successfully implemented at TVET colleges in South Africa. With the application of the LS Participative Management model, findings revealed from this study showed that participant lecturers improved their teaching and learning by reflecting and engaging with the content of space, shape and orientation in Mathematical Literacy by highlighting the misconceptions students have around this topic. Participant lecturers were also brought out of isolation, giving them the opportunity to collaborate with other lecturers and the manager. Collaboration and participation in lesson study also brought about organisational effectiveness which was revealed through vigorous discussions, openness, trust and respect, positive relationships and sharing ideas. Lesson study also provided an enabling environment for lecturers to become personally and professionally empowered by increased confidence and motivation as they gained more experience in lesson study. The involvement of the manager as a participant observer showed that it can impact on curriculum management, sharing experience and expertise, influence the organisational culture and provide guidance and support.
Educational Management and Leadership
D. Ed. (Educational Management)

Considering the surgeincommercial downstreamactivityinspace, an academypromoting theprofessional development of entrepreneurs and managers involved in space businesses combined with research on business-related aspects of industries and firms employing space technology,isan attractive opportunity to explore.In-depth qualitative interviews with representatives from the academy’s founding universitiesand industry experts reveal great potential forboth teaching and research.Teaching activities should commence on executiveeducationlevel beforeincorporatingunder-and postgraduate programs. Likewise, ESBA’sintendedresearchin form of a holistic database, which maps all actors operating in the European spaceindustry,will allow to better representtheactualeconomic value that originatesfrom initial space investments.Keywords

GAYME is a transmedia story-telling world that I have created to conceptually explore the dynamics of queering game design through the development of varying game prototypes. The final iteration of GAYME is @deadquarewalking'. It is a documentary game and a performance art installation that documents a carless, gay/queer/quare man's journey on Halloween to get to and from one of Orlando's most well-known gay clubs - the Parliament House Resort. "The art of cruising" city streets to seek out queer/quare companionship particularly amongst gay, male culture(s) is well-documented in densely, populated cities like New York, San Francisco and London, but not so much in car-centric, urban environments like Orlando that are less oriented towards pedestrians. Cruising has been and continues to be risky even in pedestrian-friendly cities but in Orlando cruising takes on a whole other dimension of danger. In 2011-2012, The Advocate magazine named Orlando one of the gayest cities in America (Breen, 2012). Transportation for America (2011) also named the Orlando metropolitan region the most dangerous city in the country for pedestrians. Living in Orlando without a car can be deadly as well as a significant barrier to connecting with other people, especially queer/quare people, because of Orlando's car-centric design. In Orlando, cars are sexy. At the same time, the increasing prevalence in gay, male culture(s) of geo-social, mobile phone applications using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and location aware services, such as Grindr (Grindr, LLC., 2009) and even FourSquare (Crowley and Selvadurai, 2009) and Instagram (Systrom and Krieger, 2010), is shifting the way gay/queer/quare Orlandoans co-create social and sexual networks both online and offline. Urban and sub-urban landscapes have transformed into hybrid "techno-scapes" overlaying "the electronic, the emotional and the social with the geographic and the physical" (Hjorth, 2011). With or without a car, gay men can still geo-socially cruise Orlando's car-centric, street life with mobile devices. As such emerging media has become more pervasive, it has created new opportunities to quarely visualize Orlando's "technoscape" through phone photography and hashtag metadata while also blurring lines between the artist and the curator, the player and the game designer. This project particularly has evolved to employ game design as an exhibition tool for the visualization of geo-social photography through hashtag play. Using hashtags as a game mechanic generates metadata that potentially identifies patterns of play and "ways of seeing" across player experiences as they attempt to make meaning of the images they encounter in the game. @deadquarewalking also demonstrates the potential of game design and geo-social, photo-sharing applications to illuminate new ways of documenting and witnessing the urban landscapes that we both collectively and uniquely inhabit. 'In Irish culture, “quare” can mean “very” or “extremely” or it can be a spelling of the rural or Southern pronunciation of the word “queer.” Living in the American Southeast, I personally relate more to the term “quare” versus “queer.” Cultural theorist E. Patrick Johnson (2001) also argues for “quareness” as a way to question the subjective bias of whiteness in queer studies that risks discounting the lived experiences and material realities of people of color. Though I do not identify as a person of color and would be categorized as white or European American, “quareness” has an important critical application for considering how Orlando's urban design is intersectionally racialized, gendered and classed.
M.F.A.
Masters
Visual Arts and Design
Arts and Humanities
Emerging Media; Digital Media

(in English): The objective of this diploma thesis is to show the way of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary vision and his interpretation of Lima in the novel The Time of the Hero. My aim is also to express the particularity and distinctiveness of the imagery of Lima in the novel. In the beginning, I mention the most important facts of history of the city, specifically the 50's and the 60's of the 20th century, which are the decades of the novel's formation and publication. This part is based on the book of essays Lima la horrible of Sebastián Salazar Bondy in which the author describes the world of the Lima's population in this period. I also introduce briefly evolution of the image of the city in the Peruvian literature. This part is based, besides others, on the essay "Lima, ciudad sin novella" of Julio Ramón Ribeyro. In the main part of my thesis I mention the storyline of the novel. After that, I focus my attention on the structure of the novel The Time of the Hero, which is characterized by alternation of narrative spaces and tenses. This aspect helps to make the story uncertain. I also describe the formal side of the novel, primarily the arrangement of the main chapters and their smaller parts which are symmetricaly ordered according to the concerned topic, place or time. I present the main two...

A positive learning environment is more important if students are considered to perform better in their schoolwork. The school environment the students attend mostly influences their performance. The school that each student attends sets its own pillars that promote students’ positive learning. This research study looks thoroughly at the schools climate, and socio-economic background of students. Most public schools have insufficient funds to run their day-to-day activities. One of the disturbing factor to promote learning environment is the class sizes are too big. The more funds a school receives, the better it performs because the school invests more in its resources. The teachers’ experience also contributes to students’ performance. Usually, the students who attend a school where more teachers have pastoral care tend to perform better. The research intended to investigate the causes and consequences of a school’s setting in promoting a positive learning environment and further discussed the benefit of positive learning environment in schools. The students’ success in their learning progress is determined by a positive learning and teaching environment. Generally, if there is a caring environment in the school set up, then that leads to the students obtaining good envisaged outcomes. The schools help the students achieve the good results, or alternatively, they could make the students fail. The students perform better in a positive learning environment that also is tantamount to personal student/teacher relationships. The findings of this study encourage the researcher to come up with new strategies that can be used to uplift the performance of students.
Curriculum and Instructional Studies
M. Ed. (Curriculum and Instructional Studies)