Orientadores: Maurício Compiani, Fernanda Keila Marinho da Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T11:38:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cracel_VivianeLousada_M.pdf: 8549893 bytes, checksum: f13c827887462976386d3d0bf5a7b6a5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Não são poucos os trabalhos acadêmicos que discutem o uso do mapa no ensino brasileiro e podemos dividi-los, basicamente, em três grandes linhas de pesquisa: metodologias de ensino, técnicas de comunicação cartográfica e teorias da aprendizagem. Este estudo relaciona-se a esse terceiro grupo e se constitui em um desafio, pois ainda são poucos os trabalhos que utilizam Vygotsky e/ou Bakhtin como referenciais teóricos no ensino de cartografia, em que há o predomínio dos pressupostos piagetianos. O objetivo principal é investigar as contribuições do trabalho com mapas para a construção de conhecimentos cartográficos. O olhar é voltado para a compreensão do processo de apropriação/elaboração desses conhecimentos por um grupo de adolescentes do segundo ano do Ensino Médio de uma escola estadual de Campinas, SP. Pretende-se também, ressaltar a importância da contextualização dos conteúdos articulando-os com o local de vivência dos alunos e possibilitando o cotejamento dos conceitos científicos e cotidianos em sala de aula; além de mostrar que o potencial do mapa como instrumento de ensino vai muito além da simples localização de lugares e fenômenos, sendo um importante recurso para a aprendizagem. Por considerar que essa construção é social e ocorre na interação dos sujeitos, este estudo está alicerçado na perspectiva histórico-cultural do desenvolvimento humano e tem como referenciais teóricos iniciais e principais os pressupostos da Psicologia Histórico-Cultural de Vygotsky e da Teoria da Enunciação de Bakhtin. Esses autores, por sua vez, orientaram a investigação qualitativa e colaborativa, implicando nas características processuais do trabalho com registro em um diário de campo e gravações em áudio, e pautadas em situações dialógicas, ou seja, na interação entre os sujeitos envolvidos. É mediada pelas ideias desses dois autores, em interação com as vozes de seus estudiosos na análise dos materiais produzidos pelos alunos e nas interlocuções em sala de aula, que almejamos compreender os processos de elaboração conceitual, particularmente os conceitos geográficos, com mapas em ambiente escolar. Por meio desses enunciados foi possível compreender o caminho trilhado, considerando que são apropriações dos alunos em relação aos conteúdos estudados. Este trabalho vincula-se ao projeto FAPESP Ensino Público intitulado "Elaboração de conhecimentos escolares e curriculares relacionados à ciência, à sociedade e ao ambiente na escola básica com ênfase na regionalização a partir dos resultados de projeto de Políticas Públicas / Abstract: There are a considerable number of academic papers that discuss the use of the map in Brazilian education and we can divide them basically on three main research fields: teaching methodology, cartographic communication techniques and theories of learning. This study is related to this third group and constitutes a challenge because there are few studies that use Vygotsky and/or Bakhtin as theoretical reference in the cartography education, where there is a predominance of Piagetian assumptions. The central objective is to investigate the contributions of working with maps to the construction of cartographic knowledge. The look is aimed to understanding the process of conceptual appropriation/elaboration traversed by a group of teenagers in the second year of high school to a public school in Campinas, SP. We also intend to emphasize the importance of contextualizing concepts linking them with local experience of students, enabling dialogue between the scientific and everyday concepts in the classroom; besides showing that the potential of the map as a teaching tool goes far beyond simple locating places and phenomena, being an important resource for learning. Considering that this construction is social and occurs in the subject's interactions, this research is grounded in the historical-cultural perspective of human development and has as initial and main theoretical reference the assumptions of Historical-Cultural Psychology of Vygotsky and the Theory of Enunciation of Bakhtin. These authors, in turn, oriented the qualitative and collaborative research, implying the procedural characteristics of work guided by the participant observation, recorded in a diary and audio recordings, and in the dialogic situations, i.e., in the interaction between subjects involved. It is mediated by the ideas of these two authors in interaction with the voices of their scholars in the analysis of the materials produced by the students and in the dialogues in the classroom that we aim to understand the processes of conceptual elaboration, mainly the geographical, with maps at school. Through the enunciations analyzed was possible to comprehend the way followed, considering that they are student's appropriations face the contents studied. This study is related to the FAPESP's Public Education Research Program entitled "Construction of school and curricular knowledge relative to science, society and environment at primary and secondary school with emphases in the local conditions from results of Public Politicians projects / Mestrado / Ensino e Historia de Ciencias da Terra / Mestre em Ensino e Historia de Ciencias da Terra

Social interaction is key to students' learning in blending learning discussions. Although there is research on interactions in online courses and traditional classes, there is little on whether blended learning discussions are meeting students' social interaction and educational development needs. The purpose of this multicase study was to examine attitudes of first-year and final-year business and technology students and faculty members for patterns of interaction and knowledge construction. The study was conducted in the northeastern United States. Piaget's cognitive constructivism, Vygotsky's social constructivism, and Knowles's andragogy constituted the conceptual framework. Using maximum variation sampling, participants were 8 students and 4 faculty for 2 first-year and 2 final-year classes. Data sources were interviews and discussion responses coded using Straus and Corbin's open, axial, and selective coding procedures. Coded data were analyzed using Merriam's cross-case analysis method. The business students displayed the first three phases of knowledge construction: (a) sharing and comparing (b) discovery and exploration, and (c) negotiation of meaning; the technical students progressed to the fourth phase: testing and modification of proposed synthesis. Knowledge construction often occurred in a positive, challenging form of interaction. The professors expressed that gender, VoiceThread media, and discussion content influenced students' learning. These findings contribute to positive social change by informing stronger learning processes that students and teachers can use in their blended learning classes to facilitate collective knowledge construction.

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This study explores how knowledge and reality is constructed within an online fandom’s communication, with a focus on LGBTQ+ discourse within Taylor Swift’s fans on Reddit. This is done through a qualitative digital ethnographic method and uses LGBTQ+ symbols and parasocial relationships as tools to analyse 75 posts and 850 comments total. The theoretical framework mainly consists of Berger and Luckmann’s (1966) theory on the social construction of reality and Couldry and Hepp’s (2017) reinterpretation of their work that considers the effects of digitalization and how our construction of reality has changed with it. The analysis showed that the group uses symbols to build a shared collection of facts and continuously follows an us-versus-them narrative to construct their community. Their foundational belief that Swift herself is secretly queer is not to be too closely questioned within the group and they often use the version of Swift that outsiders have built up to discuss hypothetical what-ifs. To participate in the community and be seen as “logical” it appears to require that you to some extent correctly consume the media in a way that aligns with pre- existing facts that the group shares. Meaning that the group has unspoken rules that dictate the knowledge hierarchies within it.

This focused ethnography of Appalachian Trail (AT) long-distance hikers explored the situated and informal nature of individual knowledge construction as mediated through a community of practice. Unlike place-based or cyber-bound communities, the ever-changing membership and location dynamics of AT hikers offered a unique and researchable community for study. The complex and understudied sensemaking trajectories of individuals moving through this mobile community were investigated over three years through in-depth interviews and participant observations. Inductive analysis of expert and novice stories illuminated experiential patterns and collective traditions that comprise the AT learning culture. In contrast to traditional approaches to knowledge and skill acquisition, this study found socio-reflective exchanges, nested in hiking pods, to be critical sites for cognitive modeling and informal scaffolding between experts and novices. The situated encounters and developmental support of these nomadic pods were found to facilitate individuals' construction of community-based knowledge. / Ph. D.

This dissertation entitled, Exploring Design Thinking for Instructional Practice, is situated in the cognitive rigor of design thinking instructional practice and engineering design-based capstone courses. The content of the instructional practice connects with educators employing a wide range of intellectual activities or cognitive tasks in formulating their curriculum. Key attributes of design thinking were identified through a focused literature review with an emphasis on theoretical propositions applicable to instructional practice. This dissertation contains two manuscripts: (a) an exploration of the theoretical literature related to design thinking explicating implications for instructional practice, and (b) a case study involving a small, purposive, sample of undergraduate faculty members teaching engineering design-based courses with findings broadly applicable to design processes in college curricula. The faculty participants in the case study were educators at a large, public, research-intensive university in the southeastern region of the United States. The data analyses involved triangulation of semi-structured interviews conducted with faculty participants and their design-based course materials, including syllabi and lesson plan materials. The study's thematic findings were not tied to engineering but rather course design, design process, and course management. The findings show the utility of artifact creation for learning with understanding for everyone, not just engineers and other traditional designers. Overall, the dissertation contributes to pedagogy that promotes student-centered engagement for learning with understanding. It recommends design thinking instructional practice for inclusion in designing and making artifacts of constructed knowledge for learning with understanding engagements across the academy. / Doctor of Philosophy / This dissertation entitled, Exploring Design Thinking for Instructional Practice, integrates a wide range of intellectual activities also referred to as cognitive tasks of student-centered design thinking activities. In this dissertation, these tasks are useful for tackling problems that are not well-defined, such as, open-ended, real-world problems. Examples of this pedagogy are useful for educators considering and/or implementing design thinking in their curricula. This dissertation contains two manuscripts: (a) an exploration of the theoretical literature related to design thinking from theory to artifact making, and (b) a case study involving undergraduate faculty members teaching design thinking in design-based courses. The study's faculty participants were educators teaching engineering capstone courses at a large, public, research university in the southeastern region of the United States. Their students design and make solutions for open-ended, real-world problems that are not in textbooks and do not have "right" answers. The study's data collection phase involved interviews with the faculty participants and course materials (syllabi, lesson plan materials, handouts, and course websites). Data analysis produced three robust themes: course design, design process, and course management. These themes suggest that a design thinking instructional practice belies perceptions that design thinking is tied exclusively to engineering and other traditional design disciplines. The findings suggest that design thinking pedagogy engages students in creation of artifacts, learning with understanding, hands-on experiential learning in iterations, use of productivity tools, teamwork, and new starting points when outcomes do not meet expectations. Overall, the findings suggest design thinking pedagogy promotes student-centered design thinking activities.

While the education sector keeps embracing and propagating AI-chatbot integration and usage in their pedagogical practices. This study aimed at investigating the impact of AI-chatbots on the knowledge construction process and critical reasoning of university students, using a mixed method approach to sample the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) students’ performances and teachers’ observation. The purpose is to Investigate the extent of the impacts of AI-chatbots usage on the knowledge construction and critical reasoning abilities and to provide some proven approaches to engaging educational AI-chatbot in a manner that does not hamper the natural knowledge construction process according to constructivism theoretical paradigm. Three research questions were poised to harvest the teachers’ observations, which were matched against the principles and assumptions of constructivism learning theory and the result showed that AI-chatbot usage has some positive impact on the students’ knowledge construction and critical reasoning abilities which include learning efficiency enhancement, gendering plethora of perspectives and furnishing the students cognitively. Paradoxically, it also makes the students boycott knowledge construction process, leading to a dearth of experience, irrationality, passive learning, groupthink, academic dishonesty, and a diminished propensity for critical thinking. Recommendations were drawn from the success stories of the teachers which are to orient the students properly on the ethical usage of AI-chatbots, while integrating critical thinking education and praxis approaches in their pedagogical practice.

Na tentativa de compreender o processo de ensino-aprendizagem no curso de graduação em Física buscaram-se elementos que fossem significativos para a elaboração de uma síntese que estabelecesse, com alguma abrangência, as principais características desse processo. Dentre várias alternativas, optou-se por uma análise do conteúdo que é estudado no curso de graduação. Para isso, foram consideradas as interações físicas, pois as investigações relativas aos vários modelos construídos pela Física para interpretá-las são muito frequentes nas diversas atividades desenvolvidas no curso de graduação. Os pressupostos teóricos, que condicionaram a escolha dos elementos para as análises do processo de ensino-aprendizagem, baseiam-se na concepção de que o conhecimento físico corresponde a construções intelectuais elaboradas por seres humanos em vários momentos históricos. Estas construções estão inscritas numa cultura, numa sociedade e numa história. A elas estão associadas diferentes visões de mundo. Os modelos para a interpretação das interações físicas foram apresentados segundo diferentes visões de mundo. A investigação das várias imagens relativas a eles fornece elementos significativos para um distanciamento de várias teorias estudadas durante o curso de graduação, possibilitando a percepção de suas totalidades e, também, da complexidade existente no conhecimento construído pela Física. Durante o curso de graduação os estudantes entram em contato com diferentes concepções sobre a natureza física através de conteúdos estudados nas várias disciplinas e estes conteúdos são reconstruídos por eles. As investigações sobre os modelos de interação construídos pelos estudantes indicaram a existência de diversas concepções que contêm os elementos estudados no curso de graduação, mas são articuladas de formas peculiares, através de composições híbridas dos conceitos aprendidos. Estes resultados indicam que, no curso de graduação em Física, faltam discussões que explicitem as significações dos conceitos e, também, as articulações existentes nas diferentes teorias. / Intending to understand the process of teaching and learning in the graduation course of Physics, we have searched for significant elements to elaborate an abstract in order to establish the principals characters at this process with some enlargement. These were many alternatives so we chose to analysis the content in the graduation course. So, we have considered the physics interactions because the investigations about many models constructed by Physics to interpret they are very frequent on the several activities that are developed in the graduation course. The elements that stipulated our choice to analysis the process of teaching and learning have its theoreticians presuppositions based in the consider that physics knowledge correspond to intellectuals constructions elaborated by human beings in many historic moments. And associated with them, there are different visions of world. The models in order to make an interpretation of the physics interactions were presented by different visions of world and the investigation about many images related with these models give us significant elements in order to keep on distance from many theories that were studied during the graduation course which make possible the perception of its totalities and also the complexity that exists in the knowledge that was constructed by Physics. During the graduation course, the students become in touch with different conceptions about the nature of Physics through contents that were studied in many subjects and they reconstruct these contents. The investigations about the interaction models constructed by students the existence of several conceptions, which content the studied elements on the graduation course, but they are articulated in peculiars forms through hybrids compositions of the learned concepts. These results indicate that in the graduation course of Physics, discussions that show the signification of concepts and also the articulations existing in different theories, are lacked.

A psicologia é uma atividade cultural humana de construção do conhecimento (Simão, 2004) e, assim sendo, sabemos da importância de estudar os aspectos históricos e filosóficos que envolvem sua construção. Acompanhamos, portanto, o seu fazer-se ciência, nos colocando diante de uma psicologia que se contextualiza em uma teia de teorias ora conexas ora desconexas, segundo critérios de cientificidade. Esse espaço psicológico se sustenta em dinâmicas tanto de rupturas - devido à diversidade teórica que pode resultar em um campo de dispersão, conforme propõe Figueiredo (2012) - como de unificação da psicologia. Ciente da pluralidade teórica e metodológica existente na psicologia, vejo, portanto, a necessidade de refletir sobre as escolhas do psicólogo por certas correntes, que, como veremos nesta pesquisa, estão intimamente relacionadas às suas experiências cognitiva-emocionais. A proposta neste trabalho foi analisar as bases do pensamento do filósofo Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), - criador de uma proposta filosófica, a antroposofia, que trata de temas centrais abordados pela psicologia. Para isso, buscou-se a interlocução entre alguns aspectos histórico-culturais da própria construção de conhecimento desse pensador e o fazer da psicologia, procurando situar o espaço ocupado por Steiner dentro daquilo que se compreende como espaço psicológico, segundo Figueiredo (2007). Foram analisados os relatos autobiográficos de Steiner, chamados nesta pesquisa de experiências cognitivo-emocionais, e como tais aspectos podem ter modulado o percurso do seu pensamento. Entre essas experiências está seu diálogo muito próximo com as ideias do poeta e romancista J.W. Goethe, que também recebeu destaque nesta pesquisa, visto que há um interesse na retomada ao pensamento goethiano na atualidade, principalmente no que toca a importância da intuição no desenvolvimento do ser humano. O processo desta pesquisa requereu movimentos de aproximação e distanciamento em especial em relação ao envolvimento da autora com seu objeto de pesquisa (os pensamentos de Steiner), para que se atingisse uma melhor compreensão dos aspectos envolvidos tanto na configuração do psicológico (no sentido de Figueiredo, 2007) como no percurso de Steiner. Tal análise proporcionou à pesquisadora um aprofundamento a respeito de alguns aspectos relativos à escolha por certas correntes de pensamento em psicologia - neste caso, às matrizes compreensivas de inspiração românticas e pós-românticas - e, que são reflexos das experiências histórico-culturais do profissional, orientando-o no espaço contemporâneo tanto para sua prática em consultório como em pesquisa / Psychology is a human activity of knowledge construction (Simão, 2004) and saying that we become aware of how important it is to study the historical and philosophical aspects which permeate its construction. We follow thus, its self-making process, putting ourselves before a psychology which contains a variety of theories either connected or disconnected to it regarding to scientific criteria This psychological dimension holds itself in a dynamic of ruptures which Figueiredo (2012) calls as dispersion field or sometimes even into the idea of the unifying psychology. Knowing that theoretical and methodological plurality I see the necessity for a deeper thinking regarding the psychologist´s choice or empathy towards a certain theory or stream. I believe that such choices are intrinsically connected to his or her cognitive-emotional experiences through life. The proposal of this work was to analyze the fundamental thoughts of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who was the founder of anthroposophy philosophy which deals with some core themes of psychology. A dialogue was sought between some historical-cultural aspects which involved his own path of knowledge construction and the psychology-making. The proposal of this work was to make an attempt to place Steiner´s thoughts into the so called psychology space according to Figueiredo (2007). Steiner´s self- reported episodes were analyzed from his autobiography which I referred here as cognitive-emotional experiences and how those aspects may have shaped his way of thinking. One of those aspects is his very close dialogue with J. W. Goethe´s ideas which also deserved prominence in this research. Nowadays there is a new light upon Goethe´s thinking, mainly in regards to his conception of intuition, so, that is why psychology is also interested and concerned with how intuition can influence human development. Perhaps this will be the contemporaneity of this paper. It was required approximation and distancing movements from the researcher in special to her previous knowledge about Steiner, and in doing so, it has given her a better comprehension about both: psychology construction and Steiner path. As a result, there was a better understanding on how the process of making choice takes place when a psychologist decides on one or the other stream to conduct his professional approach, noticing that there are historical-cultural aspects which lead the psychologists to choose, guiding them either to counseling practice or in the research field

A psicologia é uma atividade cultural humana de construção do conhecimento (Simão, 2004) e, assim sendo, sabemos da importância de estudar os aspectos históricos e filosóficos que envolvem sua construção. Acompanhamos, portanto, o seu fazer-se ciência, nos colocando diante de uma psicologia que se contextualiza em uma teia de teorias ora conexas ora desconexas, segundo critérios de cientificidade. Esse espaço psicológico se sustenta em dinâmicas tanto de rupturas - devido à diversidade teórica que pode resultar em um campo de dispersão, conforme propõe Figueiredo (2012) - como de unificação da psicologia. Ciente da pluralidade teórica e metodológica existente na psicologia, vejo, portanto, a necessidade de refletir sobre as escolhas do psicólogo por certas correntes, que, como veremos nesta pesquisa, estão intimamente relacionadas às suas experiências cognitiva-emocionais. A proposta neste trabalho foi analisar as bases do pensamento do filósofo Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), - criador de uma proposta filosófica, a antroposofia, que trata de temas centrais abordados pela psicologia. Para isso, buscou-se a interlocução entre alguns aspectos histórico-culturais da própria construção de conhecimento desse pensador e o fazer da psicologia, procurando situar o espaço ocupado por Steiner dentro daquilo que se compreende como espaço psicológico, segundo Figueiredo (2007). Foram analisados os relatos autobiográficos de Steiner, chamados nesta pesquisa de experiências cognitivo-emocionais, e como tais aspectos podem ter modulado o percurso do seu pensamento. Entre essas experiências está seu diálogo muito próximo com as ideias do poeta e romancista J.W. Goethe, que também recebeu destaque nesta pesquisa, visto que há um interesse na retomada ao pensamento goethiano na atualidade, principalmente no que toca a importância da intuição no desenvolvimento do ser humano. O processo desta pesquisa requereu movimentos de aproximação e distanciamento em especial em relação ao envolvimento da autora com seu objeto de pesquisa (os pensamentos de Steiner), para que se atingisse uma melhor compreensão dos aspectos envolvidos tanto na configuração do psicológico (no sentido de Figueiredo, 2007) como no percurso de Steiner. Tal análise proporcionou à pesquisadora um aprofundamento a respeito de alguns aspectos relativos à escolha por certas correntes de pensamento em psicologia - neste caso, às matrizes compreensivas de inspiração românticas e pós-românticas - e, que são reflexos das experiências histórico-culturais do profissional, orientando-o no espaço contemporâneo tanto para sua prática em consultório como em pesquisa / Psychology is a human activity of knowledge construction (Simão, 2004) and saying that we become aware of how important it is to study the historical and philosophical aspects which permeate its construction. We follow thus, its self-making process, putting ourselves before a psychology which contains a variety of theories either connected or disconnected to it regarding to scientific criteria This psychological dimension holds itself in a dynamic of ruptures which Figueiredo (2012) calls as dispersion field or sometimes even into the idea of the unifying psychology. Knowing that theoretical and methodological plurality I see the necessity for a deeper thinking regarding the psychologist´s choice or empathy towards a certain theory or stream. I believe that such choices are intrinsically connected to his or her cognitive-emotional experiences through life. The proposal of this work was to analyze the fundamental thoughts of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), who was the founder of anthroposophy philosophy which deals with some core themes of psychology. A dialogue was sought between some historical-cultural aspects which involved his own path of knowledge construction and the psychology-making. The proposal of this work was to make an attempt to place Steiner´s thoughts into the so called psychology space according to Figueiredo (2007). Steiner´s self- reported episodes were analyzed from his autobiography which I referred here as cognitive-emotional experiences and how those aspects may have shaped his way of thinking. One of those aspects is his very close dialogue with J. W. Goethe´s ideas which also deserved prominence in this research. Nowadays there is a new light upon Goethe´s thinking, mainly in regards to his conception of intuition, so, that is why psychology is also interested and concerned with how intuition can influence human development. Perhaps this will be the contemporaneity of this paper. It was required approximation and distancing movements from the researcher in special to her previous knowledge about Steiner, and in doing so, it has given her a better comprehension about both: psychology construction and Steiner path. As a result, there was a better understanding on how the process of making choice takes place when a psychologist decides on one or the other stream to conduct his professional approach, noticing that there are historical-cultural aspects which lead the psychologists to choose, guiding them either to counseling practice or in the research field