Frente à chegada de imigrantes refugiados ao Brasil, surge a preocupação acerca do alcance das políticas públicas estabelecidas para o acolhimento dessas pessoas no país. Para tanto, realizou-se a revisão documental e de literatura buscando mapear as legislações e documentos de órgãos oficiais sobre os refugiados, bem como a produção acadêmica sobre os eixos temáticos políticas públicas, saúde e xenofobia, no período entre 2007 a 2017. Não foram encontrados artigos brasileiros sobre refugiados e xenofobia. A falta de políticas públicas ampla foi um aspecto diagnosticado pelas produções relacionadas aos eixos saúde e políticas públicas. O problema das migrações forçadas tende a atingir cada vez mais o Brasil, de forma que este estudo pode contribuir para a sofisticação das estruturas legislativas e sociais para lidar com o acolhimento de refugiados no Brasil.

Online learning is one of the fastest growing trends in educational uses of technology. In this study, an instrument to measure the social attitudes of the Brazilian students based on distance education was developed and validated. The study population consisted of public administration undergraduate students that has been providing by distance education by University of Brasília, in Brazil. The sample of the study consisted of 590 Brazilian students. The scale has 41 items, with total Cronbach alpha coefficient of .94, and reliability coefficient (KMO) of .94. The correlations of each item with total point were between .30 and .79. A factor analysis was run using direct oblimin rotation for construct validity, resulting in 4 factors structure explaining 47.12% of total variability. These factors are “Personnel and Dispositional Aspects”, “Procedural Characteristics”, “Negative Affects” and “Internalization and habituation of usage”. Consequently, findings show that The Brazilian Attitude Scale towards Distance Education (BrazilASTDE) is a valid and reliable instrument.

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The purpose of this study was twofold. First, it aimed to determine whether there are differences in Brazilian students' attitudes towards online learning compared to their purpose in seeking for this modality and the localization of the pole where they received face-to-face support. Second, it aimed to identify if Brazilian students' attitudes towards online learning predict their self-perception of performance in the course. A correlational and explanatory quantitative approach was taken through a survey. Data was collected from 593 undergraduate students enrolled in the online public administration course offered by different Brazilian universities. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations, group comparison (ANOVA) and multiple linear regression were employed for data analysis. Findings revealed that there are differences between students' attitudes compared to their purpose in seeking for online courses and compared to the localization of the pole where they received face-to-face support. Statistically significant differences were found for Favorable personnel and dispositional aspects (PDA), Negative affects (NA) and Internalization and habituation of use (IHU) attitude dimensions. Furthermore, the study identified predictors of students' self-perception of performance in online courses corresponding to how much students perceive they are accustomed to and capable of taking an online course, represented by the attitude dimension IHU. Results showed significant positive relationship between two attitude dimensions (PDA and PC) and the dimension IHU. In addition, significant negative relationship was found between the biographical variable family income and the dimension IHU. The model explains 40% of the variance of IHU in which PDA represents the strongest predictor.

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