Piloting VAKE (Values and Knowledge Education) in the Education for Practice of Nurses.

Imagine the following situation: You are a nurse for elderly people, going to the homes of your patients. A female patient tells you on our first visit after hospital discharge following a hip fracture surgery that she does not want to be at home, because she is not well enough to be alone and she needs therapy with oxygen in permanent basis until she recovers from a respiratory temporary infection situa¬tion. This kind of situations is the starting point for an educational sequence that ad-dresses both values (here: life, human dignity, respect, loneliness) and knowledge (different medical treatments, legal rules, etc.). The example shows how intensely interrelated the values and the facts are. Based on this example we introduce the constructivist didactical tool VaKE (Values and Knowledge Education) that permits to combine both issues, and present a pilot study using this method in the education of nurses.Tempus/LLAF; VAKEinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Phase diagram of a 2D Ising model within a nonextensive approach

In this work we report Monte Carlo simulations of a 2D Ising model, in which the statistics of the Metropolis algorithm is replaced by the nonextensive one. We compute the magnetization and show that phase transitions are present for $q\neq 1$. A $q -$ phase diagram (critical temperature vs. the entropic parameter $q$) is built and exhibits some interesting features, such as phases which are governed by the value of the entropic index $q$. It is shown that such phases favors some energy levels of magnetization states. It is also showed that the contribution of the Tsallis cutoff is essential to the existence of phase transitions

Three decades of strategic management research on M&As: Citations, co-citations, and topics

Merger and acquisitions (M&As) strategies have been growingly deployed by firms for their domestic and international expansion, to redefine their business scope or take advantage of emerging opportunities. In this paper we conduct a bibliometric study of the extant strategy research on M&As, assessed by the articles published in the main journal for strategic management studies over the period 1984-2010. Results reveal the highest impact works (articles and books), the intellectual ties among authors and theories that form five main clusters of research, and the topics delved into. Performance effects, M&As as diversification strategies and RBV and capabilities-based topics have dominated the extant research. The study contributes to the extant knowledge on M&As by taking stock of the accumulated knowledge and research direction, complementing other literature reviews with a strategic management specific perspective. Thus, we provide a rear view of the field which facilitates detecting untapped gaps that may be munificent avenues for future research.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Schumpeter’s (1934) influence on entrepreneurship (and management) research

Entrepreneurship research has flourished since de 1980s, following the institutional development that created schools and courses, research centers and dedicated journals. This paper examines the impact of Joseph Schumpeter, one of the main “knowledge producers” whose concepts and ideas on the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and innovation have shaped the discipline and much of the research on entrepreneurship, and has influenced the thought on other areas of management. Methodologically, we conducted a bibliometric study of the articles published in 16 high stature international journals, over a period of 30 years, between 1981 and 2010. On a sample of 412 articles citing Schumpeter, we analyzed and mapped citations, co-citations and research themes. We further establish distinctions between entrepreneurship and management research. This study presents a manner to examine the influence of a scholar, and a set of conceptualizations he has introduced, on a discipline. Schumpeter has had an imprint in the multidisciplinary and wealth of research themes that entrepreneurship scholars have delved upon but also in other management disciplines, where his perspectives on entrepreneurship, the entrepreneur and innovation have contributed to much of the research conducted to date. Although entrepreneurship has remained largely multidisciplinary and drawing from the main management theories there is a growing body of entrepreneurship-specific literature.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Memorial da Imigração e Cultura Japonesa da UFRGS e o poema haicai: em prol da difusão do patrimônio imaterial à sociedade local

Anais do 35º Seminário de Extensão Universitária da Região Sul - Área temática: CulturaO Memorial da Imigração e Cultura Japonesa da UFRGS desenvolve através das oficinas de haicai, em parceria com diversas escolas e instituições públicas e escolas estaduais, atividades que estimula a interação social dos indivíduos abrangendo as mais diversas faixas etárias como esta, a de criação literária. O haicai é uma forma poética de três versos de 17 sílabas ao todo, expressa uma percepção da natureza através do kigo, i.e. uma palavra ou expressão que lembre alguma estação do ano. Ao mesmo tempo, serve como instrumento de interiorização do meio em que se vive e de socialização e convivência com o outro. A ação tem como objetivo, introduzir as técnicas da elaboração de haicai à comunidade local, acadêmicos, professores de ensino fundamental e médio assim como para o público em geral, para serem multiplicadores da técnica de composição literária, para que o haicai seja difundido como instrumento de identificação da própria sociedade e para sensibilizar as pessoas no reconhecimento do meio ambiente onde os mesmos estão inseridos além de ser excelente instrumento de interação, não somente local mas como instrumento de interação e integração entre pessoas de diversas regiões. Como Metodologia, faz-se primeiramente a introdução teórica sobre o estilo do poema haicai, sua história e as peculiaridades em relação ao trato dos versos com o meio ambiente e eventos sociais locais. Em seguida, após demonstração de alguns exemplos, os participantes são convidados a elaborarem seus próprios poemas, compartilhando-os em seguida com os demais participantes. Como resultado, os participantes produzem suas obras literárias, utilizando as palavras que reportam a natureza e de respeito em relação à sociedade, numa interpretação zen do ambiente, tomados individualmente ou em conjunto. Ao final da atividade que requer integração, as pessoas se mostram mais comunicativos entre si e, ao mesmo tempo, mais sensibilizados com os acontecimento

VaKE(Values and Knowledge Education). Piloting a strategy for NursingEducation

Nurses are expected to have health responses which imply interdisciplinary, multi-professional dynamics, require high responsibility and consistent general knowledge to deal with many different, very specific patient needs, which lead them to deal with situations often triggering dilemmasthat involve moral dimensions. Although it is accepted that nursing is a moral activity and that ethical reflection requires practitioners to think critically about their values and to ensure that these values are integrated into caring in every interaction(1), the focus of teaching is more centered on knowledge (about responsibilities, Code of Ethics, …). In fact, personal values are accepted as inherent to human life, seen as attitudes, beliefs and priorities that bind individuals together and guide behavior(2), and some authors acknowledge that personal values can influence the nurses’ professional behavior(3,4). Academic professors of graduation nurses need to take into account all these dimensions, inasmuch as higher education must maintain dynamics of permanent relevance and adequationto society needs and to the quality control of this offer(5)and these must not be dealt with independently but in relation with each other. Awareness of the importance of a reflected and discussed process that enables rationalization of personal and professional values within the process of care, was the motivation to adhere to a proposal of piloting VaKE methodology within Nursing Academic framework.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio