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Do pesquisador Rudimar Constâncio, a obra retrata a forma de ensino e a metodologia abordada no circo social, buscando saber se os jovens que são iniciados e estimulados nessa arte conseguem sair da situação de risco social. O estudo apresentado teve como objetivo avaliar as práticas pedagógicas do circo-educação aplicadas pela Escola Pernambucana de Circo (EPC) e seus desdobramentos no cotidiano do aluno circense. A pesquisa é resultado do Curso de Especialização em Ensino de Artes da UFPE, sob orientação de João Denys Araújo Leite. Com projeto gráfico de Claudio Lira, apresentação de Fátima Pontes e prefácio de João Denys Araújo.

What can be learned from a small scale study of managerial work in a highly marginal and under-researched working community? This paper uses the 'goods-virtues-practices-institutions' framework to examine the managerial work of owner-directors of traditional circuses. Inspired by MacIntyre's arguments for the necessity of a narrative understanding of the virtues, interviews explored how British and Irish circus directors accounted for their working lives. A purposive sample was used to select subjects who had owned and managed traditional touring circuses for at least 15 years, a period in which the economic and reputational fortunes of traditional circuses have suffered badly. This sample enabled the research to examine the self-understanding of people who had, at least on the face of it, exhibited the virtue of constancy. The research contributes to our understanding of the role of the virtues in organizations by presenting evidence of an intimate relationship between the virtue of constancy and a 'calling' work orientation. This enhances our understanding of the virtues that are required if management is exercised as a domain-related practice. [editor summary]