Normalizing White Settler Innocence: An Anti-Colonial Analysis of the Saskatchewan Social Studies Four Curriculum

Using poststructural tools of analysis, this thesis analyzes how Saskatchewan’s grade four social studies curriculum (2010) continues to preserve White settler innocence and normalize Indigenous dispossession despite its intent to be inclusive of Indigenous content and knowledge. Conducted through an anti-colonial lens, this research investigates the notion that provincially mandated moves to include Indigenous content and knowledge in provincial curriculum, driven in part by dominant national discourses of reconciliation, are enough to confront and unsettle Canada’s racist, colonial structures and practices which produce and naturalize the racialization, dispossession and dislocation of Indigenous peoples while preserving White settlers as innocent. Using poststructural methods of analysis, this study aims to determine the productive, identity-making potential of the national discourse found within the outcomes and indicators of the Saskatchewan grade four social studies curriculum document. The interpretation of the curricular discourse, framed by theories of settler colonialism and Whiteness studies, finds that well-intended attempts to include Indigenous perspectives and knowledge continue replicate and reinforce racist, colonial strategies that preserve Canada’s racial hierarchy. By circulating discourses which naturalize White settler belonging; distort Indigenous sovereignty; maintain Indigenous Otherness; regulate Indigenous exteriority through recognition; and attempt to maintain colourblind race neutrality, this thesis demonstrates how the curriculum effectively functions to exalt (Thobani, 2007) White settler subjectivity and secure the settler state. The implications of this research suggest that education systems and teachers must move beyond a reliance on models of Indigenous inclusion to promote racial equity and therefore must receive an adequate, ongoing pre-practice and professional education in identifying and challenging ongoing forms racism and colonialism

Qualidade de vida no teletrabalho : uma análise da perspectiva de trabalhadores de empresas do setor de TI

O surgimento da pandemia da Covid-19 em 2020 mudou a forma como o trabalho era realizado. Muitas empresas optaram por adotar o teletrabalho como forma de proteger seus funcionários da exposição à doença e garantir a continuidade de suas atividades. Um ano depois do fim do isolamento a tendência do trabalho flexível permanece. Este estudo vem com o objetivo de entender como os trabalhadores de empresas do setor da TI experienciam a qualidade de vida no teletrabalho. Para a coleta de dados foi divulgado um questionário com pessoas de interesse ao objeto de pesquisa, a participação total contou com 100 respondentes, a partir disso foi realizado um filtro que selecionou uma amostra de um grupo de 77 pessoas. Através da análise dos dados foi possível identificar as percepções dos pesquisados sobre a influência do home office na qualidade de vida no trabalho, tratando dos aspectos da organização do trabalho, dos fatores e dimensões da QVT e das práticas gerenciais voltadas para o bem estar do colaborador. Os resultados revelam uma melhora na qualidade de vida dos trabalhadores que realizam suas atividades em home office. Quando questionados, os teletrabalhadores apontam para as vantagens deste modelo de trabalho, como a redução do deslocamento e estresse no trânsito, maior proximidade com familiares e tempo disponível para atividades de lazer. Do outro lado, indicam as práticas de gestão observadas que fortalecem o bem estar dos teletrabalhadores, como o fornecimento de estrutura adequada de trabalho e ferramentas de comunicação eficazes para diminuir a tendência ao isolamento de seus funcionários, assim como atividades de integração, tanto à distância como presencialmente, para gerar e manter relacionamentos interpessoais positivos.The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 changed the way work was carried out. Many companies have chosen to adopt telecommuting as a way to protect their employees from exposure to the disease and ensure the continuity of their activities. A year after the end of isolation, the flexible work trend continues. This study aims to understand how workers from companies in the IT sector experience quality of life in telework. For data collection, a questionnaire was released with people of interest to the research object, the total participation had 100 respondents, from this a filter was carried out that selected a sample from a group of 77 people. Through data analysis, it was possible to identify the perceptions of those surveyed about the influence of the home office on the quality of working life, dealing with aspects of work organization, factors and dimensions of QWL and management practices aimed at the well-being of the employee. The results reveal an improvement in the quality of life of workers who perform their activities at home office. When questioned, teleworkers point to the advantages of this work model, such as reducing commuting and stress in traffic, greater proximity to family members and time available for leisure activities. On the other hand, they indicate the observed management practices that strengthen the well-being of teleworkers, such as providing an adequate work structure and effective communication tools to reduce the tendency for employees to become isolated, as well as integration activities, both remotely as face-to-face, to generate and maintain positive interpersonal relationships

Arquivamento e preservação da Web : procedimentos de coleta e armazenamento de sites institucionais dos arquivos públicos estaduais brasileiros

Devido à velocidade crescente com que perdemos as informações produzidas e disponibilizadas na web, este estudo propõe uma análise do processo de arquivamento da web a partir dos procedimentos de coleta e preservação dos sites institucionais dos arquivos públicos estaduais brasileiros. Caracterizado como pesquisa de natureza exploratória e descritiva, em conjunto com as abordagens quantitativas e qualitativas, buscou descrever o histórico do arquivamento da web e as principais políticas e tecnologias envolvidas na preservação do conteúdo digital. Após o levantamento dos arquivos públicos estaduais que possuem site institucional, arquivou todas as URLs encontradas no recurso de captura de páginas “Save Page Now”, da plataforma Internet Archive. Comparou quantas instituições possuem site institucional próprio ou vinculado, bem como quais arquivos públicos mais publicam na internet. Analisou a quantidade de informações e conteúdos publicados por cada arquivo em seu website, bem como a funcionalidade das páginas web capturadas na plataforma Internet Arquive, por meio da utilização da ferramenta de pesquisa Wayback Machine Analisou os sites institucionais como memória digital das instituições memorialísticas. Concluiu que a quantidade de URLs referentes aos arquivos públicos com site institucional próprio é evidentemente maior do que a quantidade de URLs sobre arquivos que possuem página da web vinculada ao site de uma Secretaria de Estado. Propôs a criação de uma plataforma nacional de preservação da web e o arquivamento contínuo dos sites institucionais dos arquivos públicos estaduais brasileiros, com o objetivo de preservar o conteúdo digital para gerações futuras.Due to the increasing speed with which we lose the information that we produce and provide in the web, this study proposes an analysis the web archiving process from the collection and preservation procedures of the institutional sites of the Brazilian state public archives. Characterized as a research of an exploratory and descriptive nature, as well as a quantitative and qualitative approaches, sought to describe the history of web archiving and the main policies and technologies involved in the preservation of digital content. After the survey of the state public archives that have institutional sites, all the URLs that were found were filed in the page capture feature “Save Page Now”, of the platform Internet Archive. It compared how many institutions has their own institutional site or has a linked site, as well as witch public archives most publish on the internet. It analyzed the amount of the information and content published by each archive in their website, as well as the functionality of the web pages captured in the platform Internet Archive, through the use of the search tool Wayback Machine. It analyzed the institutional sites as digital memories of the memorial institutions. It concluded that the amount of URLs referring to public archives with their own institutional sites is evidently greater than the amount of URLs about archives that have web pages linked to the site of a State Secretary. It proposed the creation of a national platform of web preservation and the continuous archiving of the institutional sites of the Brazilian state public archives, with the objective of preserve the digital content to future generations

Anomaly-Induced Effective Action and Inflation

In the early Universe matter can be described as a conformal invariant ultra-relativistic perfect fluid, which does not contribute, on classical level, to the evolution of the isotropic and homogeneous metric. If we suppose that there is some desert in the particle spectrum just below the Planck mass, then the effect of conformal trace anomaly is dominating at the corresponding energies. With some additional constraints on the particle content of the underlying gauge model (which favor extended or supersymmetric versions of the Standard Model rather than the minimal one), one arrives at the stable inflation. We review the model and report about the calculation of the gravitational waves on the background of the anomaly-induced inflation. The result for the perturbation spectrum is close to the one for the conventional inflaton model, and is in agreement with the existing Cobe data (see also [hep-th/0009197]).Comment: 4 pages, LaTeX. Contribution to the Proceedings of the EuroConference on Frontiers in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 30 September - 5 October 2000. San Feliu, Spai

Quantum dynamics of N=1N=1, D=4D=4 supergravity compensator

A new $N=1$ superfield theory in $D=4$ flat superspace is suggested. It describes dynamics of supergravity compensator and can be considered as a low-energy limit for $N=1$, $D=4$ superfield supergravity. The theory is shown to be renormalizable in infrared limit and infrared free. A quantum effective action is investigated in infrared domain

Covariant perturbation theory and the Randall-Sundrum picture

The effective action for quantum fields on a $d$-dimensional spacetime can be computed using a non local expansion in powers of the curvature. We show explicitly that, for conformal fields and up to quadratic order in the curvature, the non local effective action is equivalent to the $d+1$ action for classical gravity in $AdS_{d+1}$ restricted to a $d-1$-brane. This generalizes previous results about quantum corrections to the Newtonian potential and provides an alternative method for making local a non-local effective action. The equivalence can be easily understood by comparing the Kallen-Lehmann decomposition of the classical propagator with the spectral representation of the non local form factors in the quantum effective action.Comment: 8 pages, Latex. Minor corrections. To appear in Phys. Lett.

Conformal symmetry, anomaly and effective action for metric-scalar gravity with torsion

We consider some aspects of conformal symmetry in a metric-scalar-torsion system. It is shown that, for some special choice of the action, torsion acts as a compensating field and the full theory is conformally equivalent to General Relativity on classical level. Due to the introduction of torsion, this equivalence can be provided for the positively-defined gravitational and scalar actions. One-loop divergences arising from the scalar loop are calculated and both the consequent anomaly and the anomaly-induced effective action are derived.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX. Essentially extended version, in particular the discussion of the stability of the conformal factor in gravity theory with torsion and scalar added. Title also modified. To be published in Physics Letters

The graceful exit from the anomaly-induced inflation: Supersymmetry as a key

The stable version of the anomaly-induced inflation does not need a fine tuning and leads to sufficient expansion of the Universe. The non-stable version (Starobinsky model) provides the graceful exit to the FRW phase. We indicate the possibility of the inflation which is stable at the beginning and unstable at the end. The effect is due to the soft supersymmetry breaking and the decoupling of the massive sparticles at low energy.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures using axodraw. Modified version. Discussion concerning the gravitational scale modified, the effect of massive particles in the last stage of inflation taken into accoun

On the inflationary solutions in higher-derivative gravity with dilaton field

We discuss the existence of de Sitter inflationary solutions for the string-inspired fourth-derivative gravity theories with dilaton field. We consider a space-time of arbitrary dimension D and an arbitrary parametrization of the target space metric. The specific features of the theory in dimension D=4 and those of the special ghost-free parametrization of the metric are found. We also consider similar string-inspired theories with torsion and construct an inflationary solution with torsion and dilaton for D=4. The stability of the inflationary solutions is also investigated.Comment: 13 pages, LaTeX, no figure

Renormalization group and logarithmic corrections to scaling relations in conformal sector of 4D gravity

We study the effective theory of the conformal factor near its infrared stable fixed point.The renormalization group equations for the effective coupling constants are found and their solutions near the critical point are obtained, providing the logarithmic corrections to scaling relations.Some cosmological applications of the running of coupling constants are briefly discussed.Comment: 9 pages,LATEX fil