[pt] A presente dissertação tem por objetivo defender que a redação do aluno do Ensino Médio (EM) da escola pública merece uma outra leitura que não a costumeiramente feita, escorada na gramática normativa. Inclui entendimento da parte do professor de que esta redação é expressão de um indivíduo que está em processo evidente, através da linguagem (Bakhtin, 1979), de formação da consciência de que pode ser sujeito cidadão de seu destino. Essa leitura pode ser feita por viés múltiplo então, e este trabalho mostra alguns deles, como a questão da argumentabilidade de uma palavra (Koch, 2002; Suarez Abreu, 2000) ou na instanciação em que ela ocorre junto a outras. Destaco a escolha de verbos, através dos quais se criam processos, propiciando crescimento da linha de argumentação (Halliday E Matthiessen, 2004). Princípios de coerência e coesão (Koch, 2005; Fávero, 2006) são também foco desta pesquisa. Trago para cá redações nas quais minhas alunas normalistas, de escola pública da Baixada Fluminense, iminentes professoras, respondem à pergunta/tema dada por mim: Favela é lugar de bandido?. Com base na linguística sitêmico-funcional, faço uma leitura que foge à gramática no sentido tradicional, em que o texto vale por seu funcionalismo, é entidade que valida sua semântica e o contexto, e decorre da fraseologia de argumentos. A análise do corpus de redações indica que algumas conseguem algo positivo; outras têm, levando-se em conta o fato de serem quase professoras, preocupantes deficiências de coesão, dentre outras. Contextualizo este quadro geral insólito do EM da escola pública na visão de articulistas de mídia escrita e também em dados estatísticos de aferição de avanços ou recuos de seu desenvolvimento. Concluo, reafirmando o papel do professor de Português: como o agente de transformação no tratamento da escrita do aluno do EM: mais do que uma atividade curricular, é uma voz a ser firmada de vez. / [en] The aim of this study is to argue that the essays of students from secondary education can deserve a reading different from the one customarily made, supported by normative grammar. It includes teachers’ understanding that, to start with, the student’s text is a timely and possible expression of an individual who, through language (Bakhtin, 1979), is in an evident process of formation of his conscience as a citizen, whose greatest prerrogative is to be the owner of his destination. This reading can be done by multiple paths: the argument latent in words (Koch, 2002; Abreu Suarez, 2000) or in the instantiation by which they occur along with others. I highlight here the choice of verbs, by which processes are created, allowing growth of line of argument (Halliday AND Matthiessen, 2004), within principles of coherence and cohesion, and also promoters of argumentativity in plots that the text is working out (Koch, 2005; Favero, 2006). My corpus consists of my students’ essays, from a public school in Baixada Fluminense, who answered the question / theme posed by me: Is the favela a place of bandits? Based on functional-systemic linguistics, I analyze the texts in a non-grammaticalized way ( grammar in the traditional sense), in which the text stands on its functionalism, as an entity that validates its exterior, its semantics, context and resulting argumentative phraseology. This analysis indicates that some texts are more elaborate than others: some achieve greater cohesion than others, which present disconnected sentences. This itself deserves a discussion because they were produced by students who are about to graduate as elementary school teachers. I problematize the context of secondary education of public school, presented by some commentators and also by statistical data for measuring progress or setbacks in its development. I conclude by reaffirming the role of the Portuguese language teacher. If he/she deals with students’ essays as more than just a curricular activity, he/she can be the main agent of students’ identity awareness-raising process. He/she can help them see that they are a voice to be unquestionably firmed.

[pt] O presente estudo aborda o tema da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) no ensino médio supletivo noturno. Focaliza uma escola que desenvolve essa modalidade de ensino, procurando compreendê-la na perspectiva do multiculturalismo crítico, sob a ótica da interculturalidade. Com essa abordagem, foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa, mais precisamente um estudo de caso, em um Colégio Estadual do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, denominado Colégio Arpoador. Foram selecionadas como estratégias metodológicas, além da revisão de bibliografia, três técnicas para a coleta de dados: a observação, a análise documental e a entrevista semiestruturada. Os objetivos principais da pesquisa foram: analisar se os(as) professores(as) do Colégio Arpoador reconhecem e trabalham com a realidade heterogênea dos(as) alunos(as), levando em consideração as práticas pedagógicas, o currículo e a construção da(s) identidades dos(as) alunos(as), além de buscar identificar as possíveis contribuições de uma educação intercultural para essa modalidade. Os resultados obtidos através dos depoimentos dos(as) professores(as) indicam que eles reconhecem a grande diversidade cultural dos(as) alunos(as). No entanto, essa realidade não parece ser referência para pensar suas práticas pedagógicas e a seleção do currículo. A educação intercultural não parece ser uma prática conhecida pelos(as) professores(as), mas foi possível perceber um esforço dos(as) mesmos(as) em compreender do que ela trata e como poderia ser promovida no cotidiano escolar. A partir dos resultados, a pesquisa procurou apontar dificuldades encontradas na EJA de ensino médio e sugerir caminhos de renovação, partindo do princípio que a educação intercultural é capaz de trazer múltiplos benefícios para esta realidade. / [en] This work is a study about the Adults and Youth Education (Educação de Jovens e Adultos –EJA) in an evening high school equivalency program. We have chosen one school that is part of this kind of program and we have tried to understand its functioning under a critic multiculturalism perspective in an interculturallity vision. Starting with this premise, a qualitative research was carried out, in fact a case study, in a public school of the state of Rio de Janeiro, named Colégio Arpoador. The methodological strategies included, besides the bibliography review, three data collection techniques: observation, documental analyses and semi-structured interview. The main objectives were to analyze if Colégio Arpoador’s teachers recognize and work with the heterogeneous reality of its students, considering their pedagogical practices, the curriculum and the identity construction, besides identifying the contributions of an intercultural education for this kind of equivalency program. The results obtained from the teacher testimonies indicate that they recognize the existence of a great cultural diversity among students, although this reality seems not to constitute a reference to their pedagogical practices and the curriculum subject selection. It seems that teachers don’t experience the intercultural education as a practice, but there is an effort to understand how it works and how it can be stimulated in daily school. From the results, the research tried to show the difficulties found in high school EJA, and also tried to suggest ways to renovate the pedagogical practices, starting from the principle that intercultural education is a very productive way of giving multiples benefits for that reality.

[pt] O objetivo do estudo consiste em analisar posicionamentos identitários e percepções de professores e alunos de ensino médio em um CIEP, uma escola pública estadual da região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, sobre o contexto de mudanças em que a instituição está inserida e as práticas relacionadas à dinâmica do cotidiano escolar. Professores e alunos de ensino médio são os principais atores sociais capazes de identificar posicionamentos e padrões estruturais no contexto cotidiano escolar, de interpretar os significados das rotinas e das práticas que estão assentadas. A pesquisa combina a metodologia qualitativa, de base interpretativista, a partir de entrevistas de pesquisa individual e de grupo focal, com a metodologia quantitativa, mediante aplicação de questionários, como um diálogo interno entre resultados obtidos nas duas perspectivas. O posicionamento teórico articula as abordagens da Teoria da Evidencialidade e dos Posicionamentos de Self, como procedimentos analíticos, junto à análise de percepções e atitudes dos participantes, em um trabalho ancorado na concepção da figura do professor pesquisador, cuja visão parte do princípio da autorreflexão do profissional de linguagem e educação na procura de compreender de dentro o próprio contexto de que participa. A análise de dados é feita, inicialmente, com os dados qualitativos das entrevistas, permitindo observar formas de posicionamentos quanto à importância do ensino médio para educandos e educadores. A análise dos dados quantitativos permite compreender a correlação significativa ou não-significativa entre respostas linguísticas e percepções nos questionários, levando em consideração as posturas de identidade na avaliação do ensino médio na perspectiva dos pesquisados. / [en] The purpose of this study is to examine identity positioning and perceptions of high school teachers and students at a CIEP, a state public school in Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, upon the changing context where the institution is inserted and the practices related to the dynamics of the school routine. High school teachers and students are the main social actors who are able to identify positioning and structural patterns in the everyday school life context, and interpret the meanings of the settled routines and practices. The research combines interpretative qualitative methodology, from individual research interviews and focal group, with quantitative methodology, through questionnaires, as an internal dialogue among the results from both perspectives. The theoretical approach articulates the Evidentiality and Self Positioning theories as analytical procedures, along with the analysis of participants’ attitudes and perceptions, in a work grounded in the teacher as a researcher conception, whose view arises from the principle of the language and educational professional’s self-reflection in the search for understanding from within the very context in which he/she participates. Data analysis initially works with the qualitative interview data, which allow to observe positioning forms in relation to the importance of high school for the students and teachers. The quantitative data analysis enables to understand the significant or non-significant correlations among linguistics responses and perceptions in the questionnaires, considering the identity postures in the evaluation of high school education in the participants perspectives.

The Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) emerged to provide more relevant curriculum programs that would cater for increasing retention rates of post-compulsory students. It is also an example of the ‘new’ learning arising from contemporary debates and reforms that highlight inadequacies of the more traditional modes of learning. This thesis focuses on the pedagogical and sociological issues emerging from the VCAL being introduced as an ‘alternative’ learning pathways for ‘at-risk’ students within a traditional secondary school culture. Through the eyes of an insider-researcher, the thesis argues for a deeper understanding of applied learning as a ‘re-engaging’ pedagogy by studying the schooling experience of VCAL students and teachers. The thesis concludes that traditional academic modes of teaching contribute to the social construction of ‘at-risk’ students and argues that secondary school pedagogy needs to be redefined as a cultural phenomenon requiring teachers to be reflexively aware of their role in bridging the gap between students’ life experiences and the curriculum.

With the changing age profile of teachers in Australian schools, considerable numbers of experienced teachers need to feature as educational leaders, before their workplace knowledge and expertise will be lost to schools with retirement. Stereotypes of veteran teachers depict individuals, wearied by decades of work experiences, entering professional decline when educational systems need these experienced practitioners to remain connected, communicative and motivated in their work. This thesis explores the careers and contemporary professional lives of experienced practitioners — predominantly classroom teachers — currently working in a school with a long standing commitment to student-centred education. The research identified the factors that influenced their career pathways and affected their engagement with their work. Critical incidents in the teachers’ careers and professional lives are discussed in relation to the theories of motivation and the nature of Professional Learning Communities. The study showed that necessary factors for engagement were: mutual alignment with a well-articulated and practised ethos; supportive leadership; experiencing professional influence; opportunities for learning; and variety in work. Disillusion resulted if school actions were contrary to the espoused ethos. Severely negative experiences of performance management were survived by withdrawing, and enduring management tenures but these remain very poignant memories. The teachers had few career regrets yet reflection revealed the arbitrary nature of their career progression. The research identified a need to recognise the global and societal factors influencing the nature of teachers’ work. It is argued that schools and systems need to have a greater alignment between these external forces and their internal goals whilst recapturing the moral purpose of education. Furthermore, it is asserted that educational systems need to provide better human resource management for the teaching workforce through emphasising life-balance and well-being. Additionally, professional appraisal and staff management would benefit from strong recognition and deployment of the workplace knowledge and expertise of experienced teachers. A serendipitous outcome of the research was the benefit participants gained from reflecting on their careers which proved extremely affirming, and contributed to enhanced professional identities and changed career plans.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-449).

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This study explores the ways in which teachers' interventions interact with and occasion the growth of students' mathematical understanding. Two 'cases' were documented, and these form the two strands of my research. The first strand concerns data collected in my own high school classroom at a time when I was a full-time teacher of mathematics in a small, rural secondary school in the United Kingdom. The second strand concerns data collected in a mathematics classroom in a large, urban high school in Vancouver, British Columbia. The data consist of videotaped lessons in each of the two classrooms, videotaped interviews with students from both strands of the data, copies of students' work from both strands, videotaped interviews with the Vancouver teacher, and my own journal entries. Analysis of the data, which is described in six stages, resulted in the generation of fifteen themes to describe the teachers' actions-in-the-moment. Three of these themes are distinguished from the others as teaching styles, as contrasted with the remaining twelve teaching strategies, and a number of the teaching strategies are clustered within the three teaching styles. The notion of a 'continuum of telling' is developed, upon which the three teaching styles lie, and this continuum is explored in order to probe the ways in which teachers' interventions interact with the growth of students' mathematical understanding. The ways in which teachers' interventions occasion the growth of students' mathematical understanding is probed through an integration of detailed traces of the students' growth of understanding with contemporaneous considerations of the teachers' strategies and styles. Implications to be drawn from these analyses, both for the research community and for teaching and learning, are discussed. I also share my reflections on my own growth as a teacher and as a researcher that I have experienced as a result of participating in, and conducting, this study.

This study sought to investigate factors that enable high pass rates at Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (C.O.S.C.) level at Botha-Bothe High School in Lesotho. The focus of the study has been on three broad possible factors, namely the nature of leadership within the institution, the relationships between administration and teachers, amongst the teachers and between the teachers and learners, as well as resources available in the school. The study used a triangulation of three instruments: interviewing, observation and document analysis to collect data. These three instruments helped the researcher to collect proof-checked information and arrive at concretized conclusions. The Principal, Deputy-Principal, HODs and teachers who participated in interviews, handed to the researcher the necessary documents and took the researcher around to different teaching centres. Having investigated and correlated all the results, the researcher concluded that the following are possible factors that could improve pass rates. The first factor is a sound leadership that allows interaction, that manages time, that motivates other stakeholders, and that includes its subordinates in decision-making. The second factor is warm relationships between management and staff, amongst the academic staff and between teachers and students. The third factor is the availability and good management of resources (human and material). / Thesis (M.Ed.) - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2004.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Includes tables. Sponsor: Arno A. Bellack. Dissertation Committee: Harry Lee Brown. Investigates in fifteen secondary school classrooms the soliciting function as defined in The language of the classroom by Arno A. Bellack and Joel R. Davitz. Includes bibliographical references.