The Walking Dramaturg: An Autoethnographic Methodology for Performance Documentation

Technology usually implies the distancing of the human experience, but I argue what technology has enabled can teach us something about the role of multiplicity and the rhizomatic nature of history and storytelling. By looking at the subject position of the practicing performance researcher in terms of the walking dramaturg, the autoethnographic catalogue of such experience becomes a form of documentation in the archive of theatre histories. Taking the time to explore a nuanced understanding of the documeter’s subject position acknowledges the multifarious subject positions that contribute to the archive of theatre histories. Beyond creating a record of evidence, I build on Ledger, Ellis and Wright\u27s (2010, p. 181) argument that “documentation is an implicit part of practice as research” (p. 181). I suggest it is in the act of walking that documentation becomes a verb—it becomes a form of artistic practice that fully considers the space and time in which the self as an artifact is considered

Miami-Dade Public Library System Special Collections & Archives

Miami-Dade Public Library System’s division of Special Collections & Archives holds rare, irreplaceable, historic books and documents for the benefit of the public and scholarly community. It is the primary goal for the collection to provide the public with the contents of the vault, at their request. We oversee the Helen Muir Florida Collection, 16mm Film Collection, Cuban Collection of Rare books & Ephemera, Genealogy Collections, the Vasari Project archive, and the Rare & Antiquarian Collection. Its collections include original manuscripts, over 18,000 photographs, prints, artifacts, audio visual resources, and electronic media. Appointments can be made by emailing [email protected] or visiting the Main Library during hours of operation, Monday through Saturday, 9:30 AM to 6 PM. Address: 101 W Flagler St, Miami, FL 33130 Telephone: 305-375-2665

A agricultura familiar e os equipamentos públicos de segurança alimentar e nutricional no Distrito Federal

Monografia (graduação)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Nutrição, 2013.O estudo propõe a verificar o atual envolvimento dos gestores públicos e entidades sociais relacionadas aos Equipamentos Públicos de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (SAN) com o incentivo e a valorização da agricultura familiar, a fim de estabelecer uma produção de circuito curto e local de alimentos com elevada qualidade nutricional, culturalmente referenciados e produzidos de forma sustentável no Distrito Federal. Dessa forma, utilizou-se a metodologia desenvolvida por Lefèvre&Lefèvre para construção dos Discursos do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC), sendo para tantorealizadas 5 (cinco) entrevistas: duas com gestores públicos dos Equipamentos Públicos de SAN, uma com um representante local dos agricultores familiares, outra com representante de umaentidade que recebe doação do Banco de Alimentos e com o representante de uma empresa local atuante nos Restaurantes Comunitários. Os resultados apontam engajamento dos sujeitos relacionados à garantia de SAN com a temática, ressaltando a necessidade de reestruturação para um novo modelo hegemônico de produção, de forma paulatina, partindo da modificação inicial da cultura do sistema econômico, além de uma conscientização da comunidade para o tema. Foram vários os obstáculos apontados para a inserção da agricultura familiar no mercado institucional, como as dificuldades de acesso à terra, insumos, escoamento da produção, terceirização dos serviços de alimentação nos equipamentos e burocracias, como demasiadas exigências de documentações e higiênico-sanitárias não condizentes com a forma produtiva de pequena escala. O estudo permitiu concluir que existe um ambiente favorável, mas a discussão da temática ainda é muito incipiente, necessitando-se envolvimento da comunidade acadêmica para novos estudos, incentivando a sociedade civil a participar dos debates para superação dos obstáculos

Caught between Empires: Pre-Famine Irish Immigrants in Santiago de Cuba, 1665-1847

This thesis examines the complex experiences of Irish immigrants in city and province of Santiago de Cuba. For some pre-Famine Irish immigrants, Cuba was an island of opportunities, and these often lay in the burgeoning sugar and coffee industries, industries that were dependant of enslaved labour and the slave-trade. Santiago de Cuba, a small city of almost no relevance to the Spanish American empire, appears as an unlikely destination for Irish migrants, but, although they were only a handful of families, their contribution is significant and under-explored. The present work examines those Irish families who settled permanently in Santiago from the 17th century until the eve of the Irish Great Famine in 1845. They are composed of two distinctive groups of Irish immigrants. The first one arrived from Spain throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. They developed a sense of symbolic Irish identity, expressed through naming practices, and had a hand in creating the élite cohort into which the immigrants of the second group inserted themselves in the early decades of the 19th century. The first group employed strategies to achieve social mobility and to maintain some degree of ethnic cohesion. They saw in marital alliances as a highly strategic practice that placed them into the local élite and into key colonial institutions in order to assimilate and integrate into their host society. By contrast, the second group was composed of a wider cohort of clearly transnational and trans-imperial adventurers. They sojourned in the United States, towards which market they focused their enterprises by creating trading firms and investing in coffee cultivation. They exploited the interstices of the Spanish and British empires, and of the United States’ “informal one”, to become some of the wealthiest planters and merchants in eastern Cuba. By 1827 these groups had merged into one élite that was politically and socially conservative, and religiously Catholic. They were fiercely pro-slavery and fervent supporters of the maintenance of the Spanish colonial status quo. The arguments made in this work are sustained in primary sources such as letters, genealogical data, parish records, business letters, and diplomat’s dispatches, among others. These sources were found in archival collections in Cuba, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Spain

Pronunciation improvement: stress conventions for Hispanic TEFL students

Tablas y FigurasEl Ministerio de Educación de Colombia (MEN) exige que los profesores de inglés colombianos y los estudiantes universitarios de los programas de licenciatura de Ingles como Lengua Extranjera mejoren y desarrollen habilidades bilingües. Sin embargo, las habilidades bilingües no solo dependen de la gramática y el vocabulario, sino también de una buena pronunciación y de las habilidades de la comprensión oral, lo cual facilita buenas habilidades comunicativas en inglés. Uno de los principales problemas que experimentan muchos adultos hispanohablantes es la colocación erronea de la acentuacion en la mayoría de las palabras y en oraciones en inglés, cuando estas son leeidas en voz alta o se conversa en inglés. Una mala acentuacion tiene el potencial de confundir a los angloparlantes, por lo tanto, el autor de se propone explicar el por qué aprender y aplicar las convenciones de la acentuacion en ingles para los estudiantes de inglés, especialmente los adultos hispanos, y presentar en los apéndices algunos ejemplos que siguen ciertas convenciones y principios para mejorar algunas áreas de la pronunciación del inglés. El objetivo es hacer que la comunicación sea más inteligible y comprensible para la audiencia de los aprendices de ingles. Los estudiantes adultos tienen ventajas sobre los niños, y las convenciones de la acentuacion se pueden aprender y memorizar fácilmente por un estudiante adulto o del programa LILE que este motivado. Esto permitirá aplicar fácilmente las convenciones cuando estas sean leidas en voz alta o habladas, o cuando sean practicadas en ingles con un maestro o en otros ambientes y contextos. De esta manera, aunque existen excepciones a las reglas aumenta la motivación en los estudiantes de inglés que sean adultos, como tambien la confianza al participar en cursos avanzados de inglés como E nglish Conversation.Colombian English teachers and university students from TEFL Bachelor’s degree programs are required by the Ministry of Education of Colombia (MEN) to improve and develop bilingual skills. However, bilingual skills not only rely on grammar and vocabulary, but also on good pronunciation and listening comprehension skills, which facilitates good communication skills in English. One of the major problems experienced by many adult, native Spanish speakers is the existence of erroneous stress placement in most English words and sentences when reading out loud or speaking in English. This has the potential to confuse English speakers, and as a consequence, this monograph intends to explain why learning and applying stress conventions is essential for adult and Hispanic English learners, and present in the appendices of this work some basic principles and conventions for improving some areas of English pronunciation. This is intended to make communication more intelligible and comprehensible for the audiences of these learners. Adult learners have advantages over children, and these stress conventions can be learned and memorized easily by a motivated adult learner and TEFL student. This will allow them to easily apply the conventions in readings and regular conversations when practicing with a teacher in the classroom and other contexts. In this way, even though there are exceptions to the rules, motivation in adult English learners increases, as well as confidence when participating in advanced English courses, like English conversation

Análise do orçamento de programas de segurança alimentar e nutricional no Distrito Federal : o compromisso estatal na realização do direito humano à alimentação adequada (2011-2014)

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Nutrição, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Nutrição Humana, 2016.Um alto nível de compromisso deve se traduzir em proporção significativa de recursos alocados e gastos em medidas que tenham como objetivo promover o direito à alimentação adequada. Nesse sentido, a análise do orçamento público e a aplicação dos indicadores de processo sugeridos pela FAO, permitem avaliar a implementação de instrumentos políticos específicos, detectar procedimentos discriminatórios na execução das ações e programas garantidores de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (SAN) e analisar se as dotações orçamentárias e as despesas públicas são consistentes com a realização progressiva do Direito Humano à Alimentação Adequada. A partir dessa metodologia e dos indicadores, é que este estudo se propôs a analisar o orçamento de programas públicos envolvidos na garantia da SAN do Distrito Federal. O estudo de caráter analítico, com abordagem quantiqualitativa, identificou e analisou os recursos alocados e executados para os programas temáticos: agricultura familiar e a sua aquisição via mercado institucional, alimentação escolar, programas de transferência condicionada de renda, rede de equipamentos públicos de segurança alimentar e nutricional e outras ações de destaque para a SAN do Distrito Federal, referentes ao período de 2011 a 2014. Para a produção de uma análise coletiva, foram realizados grupos focais hermenêuticos com participação de membros do Conselho de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional do Distrito Federal (Consea/ DF), com a finalidade de discutir os indicadores orçamentários e produzir as narrativas discursivas, com posterior convalidação. A análise do orçamento a partir da aplicação dos indicadores permitiu verificar que ao longo da série histórica o orçamento para SAN possui tendência decrescente para o recurso autorizado em lei, enquanto a proporção do recurso efetivamente gasto, aumentou entre 2011 e 2014. Com relação à proporção do recurso direcionado à SAN, observa-se que o orçamento destinado a essa agenda ainda é reduzido e invisibilizado, chegando a, aproximadamente, 1,28% do valor orçamentário total da unidade federativa e a 0,13% em relação ao Produto Interno Bruto do DF. Com relação à dimensão qualitativa do estudo, as narrativas construídas evidenciam a existência de um consenso sobre a importância de se monitorar indicadores orçamentários e proceder à avaliação orçamentária da política. Contudo, existem entraves que precisam ser superados para se efetivar, na prática, essa dimensão do controle social. São eles o envolvimento e corresponsabilização dos conselheiros pelo acompanhamento dos programas e funcionamento do Consea/ DF, o fortalecimento da presidência do Conselho, a melhor utilização de espaços destinados às trocas de experiências e ferramentas e a reativação dos grupos de trabalho temáticos, envolvidos com o monitoramento da Política e do Plano Distrital. Esse exercício de reflexão e debate sobre o orçamento público, por si só, constitui-se o processo inicial para promover um melhor diálogo entre sociedade civil e governo. Com esta pesquisa, espera-se ter contribuído no debate sobre a necessidade de se “voltar o olhar” para o orçamento público de programas envolvidos na realização progressiva do direito à alimentação, para que sociedade civil e gestores públicos possam dialogar de maneira transparente sobre a alocação e utilização dos recursos, o custo-benefício das políticas e programas e a tomada de decisão, promovendo a realização do controle social na sua completude.A high level commitment should be shown as a significant share of allocated and spent resources on measures that aim to promote the right to adequate food. Therefore, the analysis of the public budget and the application of process indicators suggested by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provide us to assess the implementation of specific policy instruments, to detect discriminatory implementation of actions and programs designed to guarantee Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) and to examine whether the budget allocations and expenditure are consistent with the progressive assurance of the Human Right to Adequate Food (HRAF). Based on this methodology and indicators, the bear point was to analyze the budget of public programs involved in ensuring FSN at Federal District. The analytical character of this study, with quantitative and qualitative approach, identified and analyzed the resources allocated and spent for the Thematic Programmes (TP): family farming and the purchase of its production through institutional market, school feeding, conditional cash transfer programs, public equipment network for food and nutrition security and other important actions for the FSN at Federal District along the period from 2011 to 2014. To achieve a collective analysis, were performed hermeneutic focus groups with participation of members of the Food and Nutrition Security Council of Federal District (Consea/ DF) to discuss the budget indicators and to produce the discursive narrative, with subsequent validation. The analysis of indicators historical series allowed us to verify FNS authorized public budget had a downward trend, still the proportion of budget really spent has increased, between 2011 and 2014. Regarding public FNS budget proportion in comparison with global budget, still is a small and insignificant amount, close to 1,28% of all budget addressed to district unit and 0,13% of gross product. In relation to qualitative dimension of the study, the narratives presents the existence of a consensus about the importance of monitoring budget indicators and proceed with the budgetary evaluation of the public policy. Even though, there are some obstacles to overcome in order to ensure in practice the social participation dimension. Such as counselor’s engagement and co-responsibility for monitoring programs and council operation; strength the Council’s presidency; improvements on the participation of the counselors in specific spaces design to ensure experiences and tools exchange; and the reactivation of working groups involved in monitoring public policy also The District Plan. This reflection and debate exercise is, by itself, and effort to initiate the process for a better dialogue between civil society and government. This research is expected to had contributed to the debate concerning to supervise's need and to evaluate the public budget programs headed for the progressive assurance of the right to food. Thereby, the civil society and public managers could be able to take a transparent dialogue about allocation and use of public resources, the cost-effectiveness of policies and public programs and decision-making in order to promote the social control

Open Innovation and Business Model: A Brazilian Company Case Study

Open Innovation is increasingly being introduced in international and national organizations for the creation of value. Open innovation is a practical tool, requiring new strategies and decisions from managers for the exploitation of innovative activities. The basic question that this study seeks to answer is linked to the practice of open innovation in connection with the open business model geared towards the creation of value in a Brazilian company. This paper aims to present a case study that illustrates how open innovation offers resources to change the open business model in order to create value for the Brazilian company. The case study method of a company in the sector of pharma-chemical products was used. The results indicate that internal sources of knowledge, external sources of knowledge and accentuate working partnerships were adopted by company as strategies to offer resources to change the open business model in order to create value

Acompañamiento pedagógico y desempeño docente en una institución educativa de San Juan de Lurigancho, 2021

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar la relación existente entre el acompañamiento pedagógico y el desempeño docente en una institución educativa de San Juan de Lurigancho, 2021. En esta investigación se trabajó un enfoque cuantitativo, del tipo correlacional con diseño no experimental, transversal. Se trabajó con una población de 42 maestros de una institución privada, siendo la muestra igual a la población, con un muestreo no probabilístico. La técnica empleada fue el censo y el instrumento un cuestionario con validez de constructo (AFE y AFC), y la confiabilidad por la prueba estadística del alfa de Cronbach con el software SPSS 26. Para analizar los datos se empleó la prueba Rho de Spearman, concluyéndose que existe una correlación moderada entre el acompañamiento pedagógico y el desempeño docente en una Institución Educativa de San Juan de Lurigancho; con un coeficiente de 45% con un nivel de significancia de .003