A number of students in our schools possess learning abilities and specialized talents to such degree that their educational needs cannot be met in a regular school program. Special educational programs for the gifted and talented are an essential part of any school program which recognizes and respects individual differences among its pupils. The philosophy which guides our proposal is based on the belief that: (1) each child is a unique human being who possesses individual educational needs and abilities; and (2) it is the responsibility of our schools, first to identify those needs and abilities and then, to provide the educational experiences for meeting individual needs and developing each child's abilities to the fullest degree. / Un gran número de alumnos en nuestros centros educativos posee habilidades de aprendizaje extraordinarias y talentos especiales en tal grado que sus necesidades educativas no logran ser totalmente cubiertas en los programas escolares regulares. Los programas educativos para niños talentosos son una parte lógica y esencial de cualquier programa escolar que reconozca y respete las diferencias individuales entre sus alumnos. La filosofía que guía esta propuesta se basa en que: (1) el niño es un ser humano único que posee habilidades y necesidades educativas individualizadas y (2) es responsabilidad de nuestros centros educativos primero identificar estas necesidades y habilidades y luego proveer el tipo de experiencias educativas que tiendan a satisfacer las necesidades individuales y desarrollar las habilidades de cada niño al máximo de sus potencialidades.

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka lärares syn på arbetet med särskilt begåvade elever i matematik, samt de möjligheter och hinder som upplevs i det arbetet. Studiens valda metod i undersökningen är kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer som vänder sig till lärare. Totalt 18 lärare intervjuades. Data analyserades utifrån ett händelselogiskt perspektiv som ser till både inre och yttre påverkansfaktorer. Av resultatet framkommer det att lärares definition av matematisk särskild begåvning varierar. Samtliga lärare betraktar de inre faktorerna hos eleven som mest betydande i fråga om eleven uppfattas som särskilt begåvad i matematikämnet. Likt elevens motivation, förmåga att kommunicera, dra slutsatser och flexibilitet i ämnet. Majoriteten av de deltagande lärarna i studien förknippar matematiskt särskilt begåvade elever med ett logiskt tänkande. Lärarna ser då till elevens förmåga att se samband, mönster, generalisera och kreativa behärskning i ämnet. Lärarens definition av matematisk särskild begåvning bestämmer vilka elever som identifieras som särskilt begåvade i matematikämnet. Majoriteten lärare, 12 stycken, anser att de har goda förutsättningar att identifiera eleverna i fråga. Ändå är det 13 av lärarna i studien som anser att de inte kan ge de särskilt begåvade eleverna den stimulans som de behöver i matematikundervisningen. Vilket tyder på att en stor del lärare inte vet hur de ska möta de särskilt begåvade elevernas behov i matematikundervisningen. Faktorer som möjliggör arbetet med eleverna i fråga är få och majoriteten lärare anser att de skapar sina egna möjligheter, i den egna undervisningen. Således är lärares inre faktorer, i fråga om erfarenhet och kompetens, av stor betydelse. Däremot upplever lärarna att det finns betydligt fler hinder i arbetet med de särskilt begåvade eleverna i matematik. Dessa hinder utgörs i större utsträckning av yttre faktorer som brist på tid, resurser i form av personal och kompetensutveckling. / This study aims to examine teachers' views on the work with promising students in mathematics, as well as the opportunities and obstacles experienced in that work. The study’s chosen method for data collection is qualitative semistructured interviews aimed at teachers. Data was ana- lyzed from an event logic perspective that comprises both internal and external influencing factors. By looking at the result, it reveals that the teachers’ definition of mathematical promising ability varies. All teachers consider the internal factors of the pupil as most significant in terms of whether the pupil is perceived as promising in the subject of mathematics. Such as the pupils’ motivation, ability to communicate, draw conclusions and flexibility on the subject. The majority of the participating teachers in the study associates mathematically promising pupils with a logical thinking. The teachers then look at the pupil's ability to see connections, patterns, generalize and creative mastery of the subject. The teachers' definition of mathematical promising ability determines which students are identified as promising in the subject. The majority of teachers, twelve, consider themselves to have good chances to succeed with identi- fying the pupils in question. Yet, thirteen of the teachers in the study believe that they do not provide the mathematically promising students with the stimulus they need. Suggesting that a large number of teachers do not know how to meet the needs of mathematically promising pupils. Factors that enable the work with the pupils in question are few and the majority of teachers believe that they create their own opportunities, in their own classroom teaching. Thus, the teachers' internal factors, in terms of experience and competence, are of great importance. However, the teachers experience that there are far more obstacles in the work with the mathematically promising pupils. These barriers consist to a greater extent of external factors such as lack of time, resources in the form of staff and professional development.

El presente trabajo busca contribuir, de un lado, a la discusión  de la imagen homogénea, que en algunos casos se configura sobre quiénes son y somos los estudiantes indígenas, y por otro, al conocimiento de los retos y desafíos que enfrentamos los jóvenes indígenas en programas académicos. Presento las experiencias educativas de jóvenes provenientes de distintos grupos originarios, hombres y mujeres formados en la Licenciatura en Educación Indígena (LEI) en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional - Unidad Ajusco, en la Ciudad de México. Y retomo algunas entrevistas realizadas a egresados de la generación 2007-2011 —de la cual formé parte— para examinar qué significa ser un estudiante indígena en la universidad, cuáles son las problemáticas que enfrentan en su proceso de formación, cuáles son las expectativas sobre su formación, cómo son vistos en sus comunidades de origen después de haberse convertido en profesionistas, y si el acceso a la universidad generó pérdida de identidad cultural. Metodológicamente, la investigación se realizó a partir de lo que en los últimos años se ha denominado como trabajo colaborativo o investigación dialógica. Formar parte de esta generación ayudó a entablar distintas conversaciones para tratar los temas antes mencionados. / This paper aims to contribute, on the one hand, to the discussion of the homogeneous image that is constructed regarding who we are,  indigenous students; and on the other, to the knowledge of the challenges that we, indigenous youth, face in academic programs. I present the formative experiences of young men and women from different indigenous groups who attended the Indigenous Education Program at the National Pedagogical University - Ajusco Unit in Mexico city. I use interviews with graduates from the 2007-2011 cohort -of which I was part- to discuss what it means to be an indigenous student at the university, what their main problems and expectations are through their training, how they are seen in their communities of origin after becoming professionals, and if their access to the university caused loss of cultural identity. Methodologically, this research was carried out in the frame of collaborative work or dialogical research. Being part of this generation helped me to have the dialogues addressing the issues mentioned above.

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[pt] Esta pesquisa objetiva trazer uma contribuição para o emergente e alargado campo da chamada educação quilombola a partir de três questões principais que se entrelaçam ao longo do texto. A primeira delas remete a uma descrição minuciosa da relação entre o jongo e o processo de construção e reafirmação identitária na comunidade quilombola de Santa Rita do Bracuí, o que é realizado mediante a apresentação dos principais agentes externos e internos que o influenciaram, bem como as práticas educativas vinculadas a ele. A segunda questão, enquanto um prolongamento da primeira, traz os conceitos de corporalidade, performance e memória corporal para tecer considerações sobre a função do corpo, enquanto produto e produtor de cultura, na reafirmação identitária, uma vez que a prática do jongo pressupõe um saber-fazer corporal específico. Já a terceira delas diz respeito a uma análise sobre o papel que o jongo poderia vir a assumir ao ser incorporado às escolas quilombolas pesquisadas por meio de duas chaves de análise diferenciadas: a educação voltada para a diversidade expressa pela implementação da Lei 10.639/03; a educação diferenciada que concebe a escola como a extensão do projeto político da comunidade. O desenvolvimento da pesquisa ocorre na interface da antropologia com a educação e a opção teórico-metodológica utilizada para o desenvolvimento do trabalho de campo foi a etnografia aliada a entrevistas em profundidade. A partir da pesquisa iniciada na comunidade quilombola de Santa Rita do Bracuí, comunidade de resistência jongueira localizada no município de Angra dos Reis (Rio de Janeiro), percebe-se a criação de uma rede de resgate do jongo na região Sul Fluminense, em que várias comunidades quilombolas que já não o dançavam, ou mesmo nunca o dançaram, passam a (re) inventá-lo como forma de manifestarem, tanto para os outros como para eles mesmos, a sua adesão ao movimento quilombola e à luta por políticas públicas diferenciadas. Entretanto, cada uma delas ressignifica o jongo a sua maneira, o que ocorre tanto no viés da função social que ele passa a assumir, como também na corporalidade expressa pelas diferentes performances possíveis para ele. A formação diferenciada propiciada pelo jongo o transforma numa ferramenta política entre jovens jongueiros e jongueiros mirins quilombolas, que passam a dançá-lo num formato de apresentação. Como consequência desta formação diferenciada, percebemos um avanço em relação à visibilidade política e ao diálogo com o poder público, inclusive no âmbito da educação. Nesse contexto, uma das demandas dos próprios quilombolas passa a ser a incorporação do jongo pela escola, o que traz subsídios para uma reflexão sobre que educação escolar quilombola seria esta que, apesar de já ser garantida por políticas educacionais específicas, ainda tem muito pouco ou nada de quilombola no campo empírico. / [en] This research aims to bring a contribution to the emerging and expanding field called quilombola education from three issues main that are interwoven throughout the text. The first one refers to a detailed description of the relationship between jongo and the construction and affirmation of identity on the quilombola community of Santa Rita do Bracuí, which is accomplished by describing the major internal and external agents that influenced this process, as well as the educational practices linked to it. The second question, as an extension of the first, brings the concepts of corporeality, performance and body memory to make considerations about the function of the body, as a product and producer of culture, in the reassertion identity, since the practice of jongo presupposes a body knowledge specific. The third of them concerns an analysis of the role that the jongo could assume to be incorporated into the quilombolas schools surveyed by means of two differentiated analysis: education focused on diversity expressed by the implementation of the law 10.639/03; differentiated education which conceives the school as an extension of the community’s political project. The development of the research occurs in interface of anthropology with education and the theoretical-methodological option for the development of fieldwork was ethnography combined with in-depth interviews. From the research initiated in the quilombola community of Santa Rita do Bracuí, community of resistance jongueira in the city of Angra dos Reis (Rio de Janeiro), perceives the creation of a rescue network of jongo in the South Fluminense, where several communities that no longer danced, or even have never danced, start to invent it as a way to express both for others as for themselves their adherence to quilombola movement and struggle for differentiated public policies. However, each one resignifies jongo as their way, which occurs both by the social function that it assumes such as on the corporeality express by the different performances possible for it. Differentiated formation provided by jongo transforms into a political tool among young jongueiros and junior jongueiros, that start to dance in a presentation format. As a result of this formation, we realized a breakthrough in relation to political visibility and dialogue with the public authorities, including in the context of education. In this context, one of the quilombolas s demands becomes the incorporation of the jongo by the school, wich brings grants for a reflection about which school education quilombola would be this that, despite already being guaranteed by specific educational policies, still has very little or anything of quilombola in the empirical field.

Cette thèse porte sur la socialisation de genre des élèves scolarisés dans les écoles élémentaires japonaises dans les années 2010 : elle montre l’existence de situations et d’expériences de socialisation différenciée entre les filles et les garçons.L’objectif de ce travail est de détailler comment l’acquisition et l’apprentissage de certaines normes genrées se déroule pendant le quotidien des élèves, un processus souvent évoqué mais rarement détaillé dans les travaux portant sur ce sujet. Dans ce but, trois méthodes complémentaires sont utilisées : une enquête ethnographique, des entretiens semi-directifs et des dispositifs d’enquêtes spécifiques pour évoquer avec les enfants les questions de genre.Retranscrire la parole des enfants permet d’avoir accès à leur représentation de la différence entre les deux sexes. Acteurs de leur propre socialisation, les enfants élaborent le masculin et le féminin, notamment à travers le langage, l’apparence, les activités, les jeux, la mise en scène des corps, l’expression du sentiment amoureux et de la sexualité. Même si le cadre scolaire contribue à organiser la séparation des sexes et à normaliser les rôles sociaux sexués, les enfants organisent les rapports de genre en effectuant une relecture des modèles que proposent l’école et les autres instances socialisatrices. Les groupes de pairs jouent ainsi un rôle important dans ce processus complexe de socialisation.Ce travail, circonscrit aux études japonaises, se situe au croisement des études de genre et de la socio-anthropologie de l’enfance. / This research is about gender socialization of children going to Japanese primary schools in the 2010s: it shows the evidence of experiences taking place during differentiated socialization of girls and boys.The purpose of this study is to specify how pupils are acquiring and learning gender norms during their daily life, knowing that those processes are often raised but hardly described in related research works. To achieve this, three complementary methods were set: an ethnographic study, semi-directive interviews and special investigation schemes in order to discuss about gender issues with children.To write down children’s own words is a way to access their representation of sex differences. While being social actors of their own socialization, children are constructing masculinity and femininity, through language, external look, activities, plays, body staging, sexuality and feelings of love expression. Even if the school system organizes sex segregation and normalizes gender roles, children are negotiating those gender relations while performing in their own way the models that school and other social structures offer. Peer groups are also playing a significant role into these complex socialization processes.This thesis in Japanese studies is based on both gender studies and childhood studies.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:32:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elson Alves da Silva.pdf: 1952338 bytes, checksum: 0718f1f99599669702eb8679335a8e9c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-04-27 / Fundação Ford / This study aimed to explore the process of deploying a Differentiated Education in the State School Quilombola EEMaria Princess Antonia Pimps in Vale do Ribeira-SP city of Eldorado. The school serves a population of approximately 420 students distributed between Early Childhood Education, Elementary and High School who live in six maroon communities around them. The school was founded in 2004 and is an achievement of Quilombo Ivaporunduva, San Pedro, Galvao, Nhungura, Sapatu and Andre Lopes, and this is the community where the school is located. The study first addresses the struggle waged by the leaders maroon over six years for establishment / founding the first school to quilombos in the Vale do Ribeira. Examines the struggles of leadership with representatives from the Education Department in Eldorado, requiring a different school for the care of children and young maroon communities. Then presents the characteristics of his character in School Quilombola differential treatment, identified the actions teachers and community participation in the adequacy of the traditional curriculum. The research has the sources of the records of field research, interviews with leaders and questionnaires administered to teachers. As regards the theoretical approach, working with the concepts of quilombo communities, curriculum plural in its size, following Ivor Goodson, Michael Apple and Jean Claude Forquim. It relies on analysis of interviews in the relationship between memory and oral history / Este projeto de pesquisa tem por objetivo estudar o processo de Educação Diferenciada na Escola Estadual Quilombola E.E.Maria Antonia Chules Princesa localizada no Vale do Ribeira município de Eldorado-SP. A escola atende a uma população de aproximadamente 420 alunos distribuídos entre Educação Infantil, Fundamental e Médio que vivem em seis comunidades quilombolas ao seu redor. A Escola foi fundada em 2004 e é uma conquista dos Quilombos de Ivaporunduva, São Pedro, Galvão, Nhungura, Sapatú e André Lopes comunidade onde está sediada a Escola. A pesquisa aborda inicialmente a luta empreendida pelas lideranças quilombolas no decorrer de seis anos. Analisa os embates de lideranças com representantes da Secretaria de Educação no município de Eldorado, exigindo uma escola diferenciada para o atendimento das crianças e jovens das comunidades quilombolas. Em seguida apresenta as características da Escola Quilombola em seu caráter diferencial de atendimento, identificada a atuação dos professores e da participação da comunidade nas adequações do currículo tradicional. A pesquisa tem como fontes os registros da pesquisa de campo, fontes e entrevistas com lideranças e questionários aplicados aos professores. Trabalha com os conceitos de Comunidades Remanescentes de Quilombos, currículo em sua dimensão plural, seguindo Ivor Goodson, Michael Apple e Jean Claude Forquim. Fundamenta-se para analise das entrevistas nas relações entre memória oral e historia

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:23:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Eloisa Mota.pdf: 656796 bytes, checksum: 45c97d87735b938a95d7b69cdd8ecf74 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-17 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This study intends to describe how the creation of a Specific and Differentiated School devoted to indigenous peoples is established, with the Federal Constitution of 1988 serving as a reference base. For the concretion of this proposal, analyses were performed using material of (FIA) Consultant Firm hired by Sao Paulo City Council. As for encounters between the Consultant Firm and indigenous leaderships of indigenous villages Tekoa Pyau, Tenonde Porã, Krukutu, it has been outlined what CECI School (Indigenous Cultural and Educational Center) would be. As for 2008, researches were carried out in the indigenous village of Tekoa Pyau, in Jaraguá, whose main objective was to comprehend how this school worked under the light of a new movement. The combination of observation, pieces of information and data collection of guarani s culture, has allowed composing the landscape of what this school has in terms of specifics and differentiated aspects. The authors who base the theoretical fundamentation explicit essential concepts of the school, acculturation, boundaries and indigenous education / Este trabalho procura descrever como se estabelece a criação de uma escola Específica e Diferenciada para os povos indígenas, tendo como base referencial a Constituição Federal de 1988. Para a concretização dessa proposta, foram realizadas análises de material da Consultoria (FIA) contratada pela Prefeitura Municipal da cidade de São Paulo. A partir dos encontros entre a Consultoria e as lideranças indígenas das aldeia Tekoa Pyau, Tenonde Porã, Krukutu, delineou-se o que viria a ser essa escola CECI (Centro de Educação e Cultura Indígena) . A partir de 2008, pesquisas de campo foram realizadas na aldeia Tekoa Pyau, no Jaraguá, cujo eixo era apreender como funcionava essa escola à luz de um novo momento. A combinação da observação, das informações e do levantamento de dados característicos da cultura guarani, permitiu compor um quadro do que essa escola tem de Específica e Diferenciada. Os autores que embasam a fundamentação teórica explicitam conceitos fundamentais de escola, aculturação, fronteira e Educação Indígena

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:58:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Eloisa Mota.pdf: 656796 bytes, checksum: 45c97d87735b938a95d7b69cdd8ecf74 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-17 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This study intends to describe how the creation of a Specific and Differentiated School devoted to indigenous peoples is established, with the Federal Constitution of 1988 serving as a reference base. For the concretion of this proposal, analyses were performed using material of (FIA) Consultant Firm hired by Sao Paulo City Council. As for encounters between the Consultant Firm and indigenous leaderships of indigenous villages Tekoa Pyau, Tenonde Porã, Krukutu, it has been outlined what CECI School (Indigenous Cultural and Educational Center) would be. As for 2008, researches were carried out in the indigenous village of Tekoa Pyau, in Jaraguá, whose main objective was to comprehend how this school worked under the light of a new movement. The combination of observation, pieces of information and data collection of guarani s culture, has allowed composing the landscape of what this school has in terms of specifics and differentiated aspects. The authors who base the theoretical fundamentation explicit essential concepts of the school, acculturation, boundaries and indigenous education / Este trabalho procura descrever como se estabelece a criação de uma escola Específica e Diferenciada para os povos indígenas, tendo como base referencial a Constituição Federal de 1988. Para a concretização dessa proposta, foram realizadas análises de material da Consultoria (FIA) contratada pela Prefeitura Municipal da cidade de São Paulo. A partir dos encontros entre a Consultoria e as lideranças indígenas das aldeia Tekoa Pyau, Tenonde Porã, Krukutu, delineou-se o que viria a ser essa escola CECI (Centro de Educação e Cultura Indígena) . A partir de 2008, pesquisas de campo foram realizadas na aldeia Tekoa Pyau, no Jaraguá, cujo eixo era apreender como funcionava essa escola à luz de um novo momento. A combinação da observação, das informações e do levantamento de dados característicos da cultura guarani, permitiu compor um quadro do que essa escola tem de Específica e Diferenciada. Os autores que embasam a fundamentação teórica explicitam conceitos fundamentais de escola, aculturação, fronteira e Educação Indígena

Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Text in Afrikaans / Hierdie proefskrif is die resultaat van kwalitatiewe navorsing oor bestaande en veronderstelde teoriee en praktyke in die kerklike onderrig van die Ned. Geref. Kerk aan adolessente. 'n Teologies-refleksiewe benadering is gevolg waaruit die oortuiging na vore gekom het, dat antwoorde vir effektiewe kerklike onderrig gesoek moet word in die proses van vernuwing (agogie) wat binne elke geloofsgemeenskap plaasvind; 'n proses wat lei tot 'n bedieningsmodel wat uniek vir daardie geloofsgemeenskap is. Die vernuwingsproses sal veral in die sinode, kerkrade en gemeentes se verstaan en toepassing van kerklike onderrig moet plaasvind. Hierdie vernuwing sal uiteindelik binne die konteks van die plaaslike gemeente moet realiseer, maar dan as 'n vernuwing wat meer is as hoe die praktyk moet verander om by die teorie van die status quo aan te pas, dit sou net die status quo tot ideologie verhef. Netso min beteken vernuwing dat dit wat in praktyk werk tot norm verhef kan word, ongeag die veronderstelde teoriee of metodes daaragter, dit sou die gevaar loop van ongeoorloofde pragmatisme. Ook mag verandering en vernuwing nie met mekaar verwar word nie, want nie alle veranderinge wat aangebring word, het noodwendig enige vernuwing tot gevolg nie. In die vernuwingsproses gaan dit nie oor die greep wat die kerk op jongmense moet kry nie, maar om hulle die kans te gun om hul eie geloofsvisie in hul gemeente te ontdek; daarom vra dit 'n gedifferensieerde onderrig benadering, vanwee die differensiasie gedurende adolessensie; die kerk moet leer om die taal te praat wat in die daaglikse werklikheid van adolessente sin maak en hulle die ruimte gun om hul ervarings en vrae te kan leer verwoord in die taal van godsdiens. In die kerk se onderrig aan adolessente is geloofskommunikasie en geloofsbelewing soms belangriker as die deurgee van geloofskennis. Die ontwikkel ingsprosesse tydens adolessensie, hul geloofsvorming en die kerk- 1 ike onderrig wat hulle ontvang, bepaal grootliks hul uiteindelike geloofsvolwassenheid en spiritualiteit. Ten einde die kerk se verantwoordelikheid teenoor adolessente na te kom, sal kerklike onderrig binne die konteks van adolessensie verstaan moet word in terme van die kognitiewe, affektiewe en konatiewe ontwikkeling en behoeftes van adolessente, soos wat dit binne hul leef- en portuurgroepkonteks voorkom. / This thesis is the result of a qualitative research on theories and practices which are followed or assumed to be followed in the religious education of the Dutch Reformed Church. The research was done by means of a theological reflective approach. The study concludes that the solution for effective teaching by the church lies within the process of renewal (and change) within each congregation; a process that leads to a model of ministry that will be unique to that congregation. This process of renewal must take place in the understanding and practice of church education by the synod, church councils and congregations. Ultimately this takes place within the context of the local church. But then as a renewal that should be more than just another way to change the praxis to accommodate the status quo, for this would transform the status quo into an ideology. Renewal is likewise not a quest to sanctify that which seems to work, irrepective of the theories and methods which are implicated, this would lead to an illegal pragmatism. Nor should renewal be confused with change, for not all changes necessarily causes any renewal per se. An important aspect in this process of renewal, is not the grip that the church has on its youth, but the chance(s) they are given to discover their own religious convictions in their congregation; this needs a differentiated education approach because of the differentiation during adolescence; the church will have to learn to speak in a language which make sense in their daily reality and to give them the chance to express their own experiences and questions in the language of religion. This means that the church will have to understand their context of lifestyle and peergoup influences and accordingly address the cognitive, affective and conative aspects of religious education. In the church religious education to adolescents, communicating and experiencing religion is sometimes more important than the knowledge they should obtain. The developmental processes of adolescents, the shaping of their convictions of faith and the teaching of the church strongly influences their ultimate religious maturity and spirituality. / Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology / D. Th. (Praktiese Teologie)