This study examines how an educationalist at a preschool in India works with language development in a multilingual context. The purpose of this study is to provide knowledge about how teachers in preschools can work with language development in multilingual contexts. In order to achieve this, an in-depth case study is done which examines an educationalist’s work with language development at a preschool in a multilingual country (India). The examination is based on the didactic questions, what, how and why and the result is then discussed in relation to the terms of Swedish preschools. The methods used is textual analysis of teaching materials, interviews and observations. The result shows that a variety of working methods are used, depending on the individual child's level of understanding and knowledge. The teaching methods used can be assumed to be influenced by a multiple of factors, for example by the educationalist’s upbringing and education, his view on children and learning, the limited resources available and the composition of the group of children. Some of the teaching methods used in the Indian preschool can, in my opinion, be transferred to Swedish preschool, directly or through inspiration and adaptation, while others are more difficult. / I det här arbetet undersöks hur en pedagog på en förskola i Indien arbetar med språkutveckling i en flerspråkig kontext. Syftet med min undersökning är att bidra med kunskap om hur pedagoger i förskolan kan arbeta språkutvecklande i flerspråkiga kontexter. För att uppnå detta görs en fördjupande fallstudie av en pedagogs arbete på en förskola i ett flerspråkigt land (Indien) där jag undersöker pedagogens arbete med språkutveckling utifrån de didaktiska frågorna vad, hur och varför. Resultatet diskuteras sedan i relation till förskollärares uppdrag i den svenska förskolan. För att undersöka mina frågeställningar har läromedelsanalys, intervjuer och observationer använts som metoder. Resultatet visar att en variation av arbetsmetoder används, beroende på det individuella barnets nivå av förståelse och kunskap. Undervisningens organisation kan antas påverkas av flera olika faktorer, bland annat av pedagogens uppväxt och utbildning, dennes barn- och lärandesyn, de begränsade resurser som finns och barngruppens sammansättning. Vissa arbetsmetoder som används i den indiska förskolan kan enligt min uppfattning överföras till svensk förskola, direkt eller genom att inspireras av och anpassas, medan andra är svårare.

RESEARCH PROJECTS: 1 RESEARCH PROJECT ONE: A literature review: Constructivism: An alternate approach to teaching and learning. Abstract The constructivist perspectives on learning have helped enhance science educators' understanding of how students make sense of their lived experiences. Constructivism purports to be a transformation of the traditional curriculum. As such this article starts with a brief overview of behaviorism: the scientific approach to education. The main tenets underlying constructivism, how constructivism guides educators to change their classroom practice, and the implications to science teaching have been reviewed. 2 RESEARCH PROJECT TWO (Empirical study): Being Constructive: College students' learning of work and heat as aspects of the energy concept based a constructivist approach. Abstract This study is an extension of a literature review on constructivism as an alternate teaching and learning approach discussed in research project one. It is an empirical study concerning the use of a learning module based on a constructivist approach to develop pre-service student teachers' understanding of work and heat as aspects of the energy concept. The data consisted mainly of transcripts of students' interviews, written responses to questionnaires designed in the form of a worksheet, and comments from non-participant observers and students. The results seem to suggest that a carefully designed learning module based on a constructivist teaching and learning approach may be a valuable tool in developing pre-service student teachers' understanding of work and heat. 3 RESEARCH PROJECT THREE (Empirical study): A College in transition: A case study of the readiness of a college in the Eastern Cape province to implement Outcomes-Based Education in an Education Development centre. Abstract Curriculum 2005 premised on Outcomes-Based Education is the new curriculum framework for South Africa. It signifies a paradigm shift in education from the traditional 'telling-listening' relationship between the teacher and the learner to one that emphasises leamer-centred approach to the teaching process. Teachers, though recognized as crucial to the educational transformation process in the country have also being identified as ill-equipped to meet the challenges posed by Outcomes-Based Education. This study starts with a brief overview of the South African curriculum and the main tenets underlying Outcomes-Based Education. The institutional conditions and whether the lecturers at a college in the Eastern Cape province perceive the need for a change in their classroom practice were also investigated. Bearing in mind the need for further research to validate the findings of this study, positive indicators that emerged from the study suggest the readiness of the college to implement Outcomes-Based Education at the proposed Education Development Centre.

The benefits of effective teaching methods have been well researched and documented. Salient amongst most literature on such benefits is their ability to promote learners’ subject-matter comprehension and their active participation in class activities. Subject-matter and learner participation can be considered key ingredients in promoting effective learning. In adult education, due to the unique characteristics that the learner brings to the learning situation, it behooves the educator to select appropriate methods in promoting learning. By employing appropriate teaching methods, the educator is able to help adult learners achieve the desired learning outcomes. This study therefore sought to comparatively examine the effectiveness of the various teaching methods used by educators in teaching learners in adult education programmes in Ghana and South Africa. The study focused on the National Functional Literacy Programme of Ghana and the Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Programme of South Africa. The study was conducted using a qualitative research approach where the multiple case study design was employed. A purposive sample of 152 participants comprising 72 learners and 4 educators each from Ghana and South Africa were selected for the study. The interview schedule, focus group discussion guide and unstructured observation guides were used to elicit data from the participants. The study revealed, amongst other things, that some of the methods employed by the educators in the teaching and learning encounter were ineffective in promoting adult learning in both programmes. The study recommends that methods employed to teach adult learners should help them effectively to make meaning of the various information or events that they are presented with. As a result, teaching moves from the traditional view of transmission to helping learners to reexamine their meaning-making structures. / UNISA / ABET and Youth Development

The subject of this study is a suggestion and, within the framework of the possibility, a verification of the concept of teaching of Czech endings for foreigners without using samples. The study covers the declinations of nouns, adjectives and personal, demonstrative and possessive pronouns. In the development of our concept, we proceed from the fact that the Czech language, as well as the other Slavonic languages is characterized by significant level of endings' synonymy and homonymy. We use this fact as a reference point and create tables on its basis. The work consists theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part is divided into two pieces. The first piece of the theoretical part is devoted to the different approaches to the problem of teaching endings for foreigners on the basic level. In the second piece, we introduce the new concept and explain the use of the tables based on homonymy, which are suggested in the practical part. The practical part is composed entirely of these twenty-five tables, which were created ready for use in teaching.

Character education has been viewed by many educators as having significant historical, academic, and social value. Many stakeholders in education argue for character development as a curricular experience. While understanding the degree to which character education is of worth to stakeholders of institutions is important, understanding students, teachers, and administrators perspectives from their lived experiences is likewise significant. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain a deeper understanding of character education within a Biblical framework environment by examining the lived experiences of students, administrators, and teachers of a Seventh-day Adventist School. Phenomenology describes individuals’ daily experiences of phenomena, the manner in which these experiences are structured, and focuses analysis on the perspectives of the persons having the experience (Moustakas, 1994). ). This inquiry was undertaken to answer the question: What are the perceptions of students, teachers, and an administrator toward character education in a Seventh-day Adventist school setting? Ten participants (seven students and three adults) formed the homogeneous purposive sample, and the major data collection tool was semi-structured interviews (Patton, 1990; Seidman, 2006). Three 90-minute open-ended interviews were conducted with each of the participants. Data analysis included a three-phase process of description, reduction and interpretation. The findings from this study revealed that participants perceived that their involvement in the school’s character education program decreased the tendency to violence, improved their conduct and ethical sensibility, enhanced their ability to engage in decision-making concerning social relationships and their impact on others, brought to their attention the emerging global awareness of moral deficiency, and fostered incremental progress from practice and recognition of vices to their acquisition of virtues. The findings, therefore, provide a model for teaching character education from a Seventh-day Adventist perspective. The model is also relevant for non-Seventh day Adventists who aspire to teach character education as a means to improving social and moral conditions in schools.

Employee education alongside with skilled employees motivated to further development is currently becoming both an important part in the development of companies and a significant competition advantage in all markets worldwide. The aim of this thesis is to analyze educational systems in Czech companies and to evaluate the educational process of employees. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical one and practical one. The first part deals with defining theoretical concepts related to education, the theory of corporate education and trends in corporate education. The second part is focused on the research of corporate education in Czech companies. The research is based on the internal documentation and interviews with the HR representatives in the company HOCHTIEF CZ, and interviews with experts in the field of corporate education from the company DMC management consulting.

O presente estudo objetiva analisar a relação entre práticas discursivas e subjetivação de professores, a partir do Projeto Piloto + Alfabetização, da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Caxias do Sul. O estudo utiliza as categorias de práticas discursivas (FOUCAULT, 2012b) e subjetivação (FOUCAULT, 2010). Através dessas caracterizações, pensa-se de que forma as práticas discursivas articulam-se na ocorrência do Projeto + Alfabetização e operam sobre os indivíduos, nesse caso, os professores + alfabetizadores, produzindo modos de subjetivação. Desse modo, utiliza-se de abordagem de inspiração genealógica, centrando-se na análise de saberes e na maneira como estes se manifestam por meio de práticas discursivas alfabetizatórias, valoradas como verdadeiras. Do mesmo modo, compreendem-se os efeitos de poder e subjetivação que tais práticas discursivas colocam em funcionamento, produzindo sujeitos alfabetizadores, possuidores de determinados valores e não outros. As análises se dão a partir do Projeto Piloto + Alfabetização, da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Caxias do Sul, política pública de educação implantada no ano de 2011, cujo objetivo é a alfabetização de todos os alunos com até oito anos de idade (terceiro ano do Ensino Fundamental), e que tem na formação do professor alfabetizador um de seus eixos fundamentais. Assim, é importante considerar que, nesse contexto de alfabetização, alguns saberes e diretrizes são propagados como legítimos, constituindo uma rede de discursos situados na ordem do verdadeiro. Dessa forma, ao falar-se sobre ingresso obrigatório das crianças com seis anos de idade nas instituições escolares, concepções de alfabetização e letramento, bem como sobre o alcance de um nível total de alfabetização para os anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, moldam-se os protagonistas desse contexto, suas maneiras de constituir, compreender e falar sobre o mundo. Os professores protagonistas desse processo são tomados como objetos de conhecimento e vão sendo produzidos, cria-se a identidade do sujeito + alfabetizador, afinal, o sujeito não é a causa, mas o efeito desses discursos. A presente pesquisa estrutura-se em três capítulos, e seus resultados contribuem socialmente, pois investiga e reflete acerca do modo como os sujeitos professores constituem-se e subjetivam-se, na ocorrência do Projeto Piloto + Alfabetização, da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Caxias do Sul. / The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between discursive practices and subjectivity of teachers, from the Pilot Project + Literacy of Municipal Schools of Caxias do Sul. The study uses the categories of discursive practices (Foucault, 2012b) and subjectivity (Foucault, 2010). Through such characterizations, it is believed how the discursive practices are articulated in the occurrence of Project + Literacy and operate on individuals, in this case, teachers + literacy, produce subjectivity's ways. Thus, we use the inspiration of genealogical approach, focusing on knowledge's analysis and in the way these manifest themselves through literacy's discursive practices, evaluated as true. Likewise, the effects of power and subjectivity that such discursive practices put into operation are understood, producing literacy subjects, owners of certain values and not others. The analyzis are given from the Pilot Project + Literacy of Municipal Schools of Caxias do Sul, public education policy implemented in 2011, whose goal is literacy for all students up to the age of eight (third year of Elementary) and has in the formation of the literacy teacher one of its fundamental pillars. Thereby, it is important to consider that, in this litearcy context, some wisdom and guidelines are propagated as legitimate, forming a discourses network placed in the order of the true. In this way, when talking about mandatory admission of children under six years of age in schools, conceptions of literacy, as well as on the scope of a total literacy for the early years of elementary school, molding the protagonists in this context, their ways of constituting, understand and talk about the world. The protagonists teachers of this process are taken as knowledge objects and it will be produced, it creates the identity of subject + literacy, after all, the subject is not the cause but the effect of these speeches. This present research is structured in three chapters and their results contribute socially because investigates and reflects about the way how subjects teachers are constituted and subjectivated in the happening of Pilot Project + Literacy of Municipal Schools of Caxias do Sul.

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The purpose of this study is to determine. whether Charles Dickens's educational theories in England during the nineteenth century are conclusively juxtaposed to John Holt's educational theories in America during the twentieth century. Chapter One introduces the proposition and states the general nature of the discussion in -subsequent chapters. Chapter Two presents a history of economic conditions in nineteenth-century England and shows how its evolution influenced Dickens's educational theories. Chapter Three discusses the economic conditions in twentieth-century America, the moral crisis- and its affect on youth, and Holt's theories of how children fail and how they learn. Chapter Four synthesizes Dickens's and Holt's -theories and establishes that their philosophies and aims in the field of education are closely juxtaposed.

Abstrakt Undervisning är ett nytt begrepp inom förskolan som infördes i samband med revideringen av den nya Läroplanen för förskolan (2018). Via enkät som metod undersöker studien begreppet undervisning i förskolan utifrån det sociokulturella perspektivet. Perspektivet ligger till grund för att analysera pedagogers uppfattning om och upplevelser av undervisning i förskolan. I Studien lyft även olika undervisningsmetoder fram som pedagogerna säger sig använda för att göra undervisningen lärorik och meningsfull för barnen.   Pedagogerna betonar undervisning som “målstyrda processer som under ledning av lärare och förskollärare syftar till utveckling och lärande genom inhämtande och utvecklande av kunskaper och värden” (Skollagen 2010:800). Dessa processer sker enligt pedagogerna under hela dagen. Vidare synliggörs även hur pedagogerna i undersökningen anser att de behöver mer kunskap om undervisning och undervisningssituationer i förskolan. Majoriteten av pedagogerna upplever att de inte vet om de behöver mer kunskap om nya undervisningssituationer i förskolan.   De vanligaste förekommande undervisningsmetoderna i förskolan fokuserar på att utgå från barns frågor, där även leken lyfts fram som en mycket central del. I resultatet kan pedagogers vilja att utgå från barns intresse och nyfikenhet synliggöras. Dessa aspekter ligger till grund för att skapa en meningsfull och lärorik undervisning för barnen. Samtidigt som pedagogerna utgår från barns frågor, intressen och erfarenheter, ges barnen bara ett delvis stort inflytande på sin egen undervisning. Avslutningsvis upplever pedagogerna att undervisningssituationerna är roliga/lustfyllda, utvecklande, språkutvecklande, lärorika, utmanande och givande.