Caminhos de descaminhos da inclusão


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Frente à conhecida situação de exclusão do negro pelo sistema educacional, este trabalho optou por investigar os caminhos de inclusão que deram a alunos negros condições de permanência no sistema de ensino até o nível superior. Com base em um estudo da situação socioeconômica dos alunos concluintes do ensino superior que se auto-classificaram como negros e pardos/mulatos no questionário do ENC-2001, o foco principal da análise incidiu sobre os cursos de Pedagogia, pelo seu papel estratégico no sistema de ensino, ao garantir a formação de professores do ensino fundamental e médio. As entrevistas realizadas com alunos negros dos cursos de Pedagogia de cinco instituições da cidade de São Paulo permitiram traçar seu perfil e trajetória escolar, desvendando as estratégias de inclusão, em que destacaram a persistência pessoal e o esforço da família para garantir sua permanência no sistema de ensino. A experiência do preconceito racial, vivenciada na escola desde a infância e resgatada pela memória desses alunos, revelou-se de extrema importância na construção de sua identidade, auto-imagem e auto-estima, com conseqüências significativas sobre o seu desempenho escolar. Ao mesmo tempo, a pesquisa mostrou que a trajetória escolar desses alunos foi marcada pelo silêncio em relação às situações de preconceito e as questões étnico-raciais, que os acompanha desde a família e as experiências no ensino fundamental até o curso de Pedagogi.




Creating and Delivering Your Value Proposition


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In recent years, developing a value proposition has become a prime consideration for businesses. A value proposition is an analysis and quantified review of the business benefits, costs and value that a company can deliver to prospective customers and customer segments. Creating and Delivering your Value Proposition provides guidance for business leaders - demonstrating why having a strong value proposition is so important for a company. This practical new title shows readers how to build, deliver and harness value propositions to create profitable growth for a business, by utilizing the experience of clients and customers. Featuring global case studies and examples, Creating and Delivering your Value Proposition is an essential guide to understanding and developing a value-focused strategy for all senior practitioners.




Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems


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As Information Systems matures as a discipline, there is a gradual move away from pure statistics towards consideration of alternative approaches and philosophies. This has not been incorporated into the literature of the field. Until now. Collecting major social theorists and philosophers into one volume, Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems provides a historical and critical analysis of each that is both authoritative and firmly focused on practical relevance to IS. The result is an insightful text for researchers, academics and students that will provide an up-to-date starting point for those considering alternative approaches.




Emotions and the Organizational Fabric


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Chapters in this volume comprise cutting-edge articles authored by leading and emerging scholars of emotion in organizational settings from around the world. Topics deal with emotion at all levels of organizing: at the individual level, expressed in interpersonal exchanges and in groups, and across the whole of organization as institutional forms.




Stringing Together a Nation


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DIVThis analysis of the career of Candido Rondon, an army officer who founded and directed Brazil's Indian Protection Service, provides an avenue to deconstruct recent Brazilian historiography on nation building, indigenous people, and state action./div




Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800


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In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the interior. In these pages, he combines sharp portraits of dramatic events--close fought battles against Dutch occupation in the 1650s, Indian resistance to often brutal internal expansion--with insightful social history. A master of Brazil's ethnographic landscape, he provides detailed sketches of daily life for Brazilians of all stripes. Superbly translated by Arthur A. Brakel and edited by Stuart Schwartz and Fernando Novais, this Brazilian classic has never before available in English. Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History opens Brazil's rich, fascinating past to the general reader, and offers scholars access to a great turning point in historical scholarship.




A Concise History of Brazil


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The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil features a new chapter that covers the critical time period from 1990 to the present, focusing on Brazil's increasing global economic importance as well as its continued democratic development.




Family Matters


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Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman Vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by Parkinson’s and haunted by memories of his past. He lives with his two middle-aged stepchildren, Coomy, bitter and domineering, and her brother, Jal, mild-mannered and acquiescent. But the burden of the illness worsens the already strained family relationships. Soon, their sweet-tempered half-sister, Roxana, is forced to assume sole responsibility for her bedridden father. And Roxana’s husband, besieged by financial worries, devises a scheme of deception involving his eccentric employer at a sporting goods store, setting in motion a series of events that leads to the narrative’s moving outcome. Family Matters has all the richness, the gentle humour, and the narrative sweep that have earned Mistry the highest of accolades around the world.




Ivan the Terrible


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Portrays Ivan the Terrible with his many contradictions: as an outstanding military leader, diplomat, and man of letters, and as a savage and almost insane tyrant. -- Author's introduction.