In this article intercultural education is discussed, cases from the Danish upper secondary school are analyzed, and some requirements for further development are proposed. First definitions of the concepts communication, communicative action, intercultural communication and intercultural education are given. Starting from these definitions it is argued that intercultural communication as well as intercultural education is possible. Then two cases are analyzed. Finally – in the Discussion – it is underlined that the students’ metareflection on the context dependence of the knowledge construction process is a pivotal precondition for successful intercultural education.

The subject of this study is student writing in its institutional setting, examining students’ texts, professional discourse and educational practices. Fieldwork for the study was conducted at the departments of History and Economics of Stockholm University. The general aim of the study is to increase our understanding of the relationships between student writing, educational settings and professional discourse. The theoretical framework is the sociocultural approach as outlined by Wertsch from Bakhtin and Vygotsky, and applied on writing research by above all Dysthe. The theoretical-methodological attempts are an operationalisation of the concept of dialogicity in different aspects and an application of the concept of mediational means at the linguistic level of text type or speech act. The type of dialogicity and epistemology of a setting is shown to have major influences on students’ writing. The epistemology of economics is defined as rationalistic, and that of history as critical-pluralistic. In economics, linear logical reasoning with clear-cut solutions is a key mediational means, while reasoning with a multitude of perspectives is given precedence in history. Students adjust their texts to the kind of dialogicity in the setting. However, in interviews, some students, mainly in economics, exhibit a resistance to the epistemology and mediational means of their discipline. This resistance seems not to influence their texts, but in all probability the depth of their learning. In addition, the socialisation seems to be a more prolonged process in economics. The reasons may be that the mediational means have a weak connection to students’ previous knowledge and that they are not collectively applied in economics to the same extent as in history. Thus, a pedagogical conclusion is that the important mediational means of a discipline should be collectively applied during study. Moreover, student writing should be considered in relation to students’ previous knowledge, their course of study and their future professional activity.

L’écoconception d’un produit vise à réduire, dès sa phase de conception, son futur impact environnemental. Dans un contexte fortement concurrentiel, ceci peut être vécu comme une nouvelle contrainte venant s’ajouter à des processus industriels déjà très entravés. Les entreprises souhaitant appliquer de telles démarches sont donc à la recherche de solutions pour faciliter et renforcer l’intégration de l’environnement en conception, mais aussi faire en sorte de la rendre pérenne. L’originalité de cette thèse est d’aborder cette question selon la place des connaissances, et donc des acteurs, en montrant que ces difficultés d’intégration résultent d’un manque de connaissances locales. Nous proposons une réponse selon trois niveaux d’intervention afin d’améliorer ces démarches : (1) la méthode K2stor met en évidence, dans les processus d’écoconception, les défaillances liées à un besoin de connaissances locales, (2) l’approche K2afé crée des situations d’interaction entre acteurs en entreprise afin de construire des connaissances locales cibles et (3) K2alligraphie est un formalisme pour faciliter le partage des raisonnements propres aux modélisations en Analyse de Cycle de Vie entre ses praticiens. Ces trois propositions ont été mises à l’épreuve en milieu industriel ou selon des contextes directement inspirés de données réelles. L’observation et l’analyse de l’usage de ces propositions démontrent leur opérationnalité et leur efficacité. Ceci nous amène finalement à dresser les contours d’une plateforme dédiée à la construction de connaissances locales en écoconception. / In an ecodesign process, designers try to reduce the environmental impact of the product while keeping the usual objectives of competitiveness, quality, and time to market. In a highly competitive context, companies require support to easily and strongly integrate the environment, while, at the same time, keeping a real long term perspective. The originality of this thesis is that it addresses this challenge through knowledge, and thus stakeholder, perspective. We demonstrate how a lack of local knowledge can affect the integration of environmental concerns into the design process. That is why we propose a three step answer to improve the ecodesign approach: (1) K2stor methodology highlights failures linked to a need of local knowledge, (2) K2afé approach creates a social interaction situation between the stakeholders to construct target knowledge and (3) K2alligraphie is a formalism developed to facilitate the sharing of Life Cycle Analysis reasoning between its users. These three proposals have been tested in an industrial context and through observations. The analysis of the usage of these three propositions lead us to confirm their efficiency. Finally, an ecodesign knowledge platform is outlined.

O mote central da investigação é a dança-teatro e suas possibilidades pedagógicas. O estudo tem por objetivo extrair princípios pedagógicos em dança-teatro a partir de premissas de criação da coreógrafa alemã Pina Bausch e do documentário Sonhos em Movimento (2010), dirigido por Anne Linsel e Rainer Hoffmann, que mostra o desenvolvimento do trabalho de Bausch com jovens, na remontagem do espetáculo Kontakthof (2008). De modo geral, pretende-se evidenciar a dança-teatro como elemento de conhecimento humano, através da educação. Como campo teórico relacionado à dança-teatro são estudados diversos autores brasileiros e estrangeiros que abordam o processo cênico de Bausch. Referente à noção de “juventudes”, são trazidos autores que discutem a relação do jovem com seu meio social, sua criação de identidade e sua corporeidade. Para tratar de conceitos pedagógicos são utilizados escritos de Jacques Rancière, Fernando Becker, Vera Lúcia Bertoni dos Santos, João Pedro Gil e Odailso Berté, dentre outros. Através dos depoimentos dos jovens participantes do documentário pode-se identificar que, mesmo sem este fim, a proposta de Bausch possibilita neles uma nova visão de si perante seu cotidiano a partir da entrada no universo da arte, gerando construção de conhecimento por meio da poética artística. Para finalizar o estudo foi desenvolvida uma oficina com jovens, que gerou o compartilhamento das descobertas da investigação, possibilitando o relato dos participantes acerca de seus aprendizados junto à proposta pedagógica em dança-teatro. / The central theme of the investigation is Dance Theatre and its pedagogical possibilities. This study aims to extract the pedagogical principles of Dance Theatre from creation premises of the German choreographer Pina Bausch and from the documentary Dancing Dreams (2010), directed by Anne Linsel and Rainer Hoffmann, which shows the development of Bausch's work with young people in the recreation of the spectacle Kontakthof (2008). In general, this investigation intends to consolidate Dance Theatre as an element of human knowledge, through education. As theoretical field related to Dance Theatre, several Brazilian and foreign authors dedicated to Bausch's scenic process are studied. Concerning the notion of "youths", we brought authors that discuss young people's relations with their social environment, with the creation of their identity and with their corporeity. To deal with Pedagogy concepts it is used writings of Jacques Rancière, Fernando Becker, Vera Lúcia Bertoni dos Santos, João Pedro Gil, Odailso Berté, among others. Through the testimonies of the young participants of the documentary it can be identified that, even without that intention, Bausch's proposition promotes a new view of themselves towards their daily lives, through their entrance in the Art world, generating the construction of knowledge through the artistic poetics. To end the study, there was a workshop with young people, which made it possible to share the research findings, allowing the participants to report their learnings along with the pedagogical proposition of Dance Theatre.

A presente pesquisa tem por objeto os processos colaborativos e interacionais de construção do conhecimento em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. Discute a formação humana em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem numa perspectiva democrática. Parte da análise do homem que se quer formar para transformar a atual sociedade capitalista desigual numa sociedade mais igualitária. Sob este aspecto, analisa-se também a educação que se faz necessária. Como todo esforço dialético, traz à tona algumas contradições que serão importantes para a melhor compreensão da atualidade e para a busca de caminhos alternativos. Por fim, analisa a Educação Online como caminho democrático de educação, destacando indicativos para o desenvolvimento de uma proposta que privilegie os processos colaborativos e interacionais de construção do conhecimento em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. A metodologia usada é o Estudo de Caso, em uma perspectiva longitudinal e qualitativa, com abordagem sócio-histórica. A coleta de dados envolveu a observação participante e a análise documental. O tratamento dos dados utiliza a análise de conteúdo. Os resultados apontam que a educação online, pautada em processos colaborativos e interacionais de construção do conhecimento, além de mais democrática é mais eficaz em relação à aprendizagem que o ensino a distância mais tradicional, de perspectiva instrucional. Além disso, apontam seis indicativos fundamentais para a elaboração de propostas de educação online: o conceito claro de educação online; a consciência de que as tecnologias são do homem e como tal podem favorecer a emancipação humana; a profissionalização docente; a integração dos saberes docentes; a importância da configuração do AVA; e a necessidade de práticas pedagógicas que alternem trabalho autônomo com trabalho colaborativo. / This research aims at the interactional and collaborative processes of knowledge construction in virtual learning environment. It discusses the human formation in virtual learning environment in a democracy. The work starts from the analysis of the man a contemporary society intends to form in order to transform the unequal present-day capitalist society into a more egalitarian one. In this respect, it also examines the education that is necessary for it. As every dialectical effort, it brings to light some contradictions that will be important for a better understanding of the present and for the search for alternative paths. Finally, it analyses Online Education as a path for democratic education, highlighting the development of a proposal to focus on interactional and collaborative processes of knowledge construction in virtual learning environment. The methodology used is Case Study, in a longitudinal and qualitative perspective, with a socio-historical approach. The data collection involved participant observation and document analysis. The processing of data uses content analysis. The results indicate that online education, based on collaborative and interactional processes of knowledge construction, besides being more democratic, it is more effective in relation to learning than the more traditional distance education, with an instructional approach. In addition, six key indicators point to draw up proposals for online education: the concept of online education course, aware that the technologies are human and as such may promote human emancipation, the professionalization, the integration of knowledge teachers , the importance of setting the AVA, and the need for teaching practices that work standalone switch with collaborative work.

This paper researches the theoretical background needed for the implementation of literary texts with multicultural themes for use in EFL courses in Sweden and it offers several concrete didactical solutions for multicultural reading. The theory of multicultural education by J. A. Banks is presented with focus on the dimension of knowledge construction. The processes that are examined are the learning processes in the zone of proximal development by Vygotsky (1986), the concept of scaffolding by Woods, Bruner & Ross (1976) and the process of perspective-taking by Thein & Sloan (2013). These processes each employ a three-step sequence that moves students from their existing knowledge to new knowledge and revised personal opinions. The teacher’s role is to provide support during the learning process. The second part of the paper suggests different activities for the multicultural reading of a novel, used to make the process of multicultural knowledge construction and scaffolding visible. Teacher support includes text reduction, book discussion and language analysis. Discussion points found in Love Medicine start with revising the stereotypical images, discovering how personal experience influences knowledge or how ethnicity influences professional career choices. When teachers and students read literary texts with multicultural themes, students’ racial prejudice can be reduced (Banks 2004) and their ethical attitudes become more open (Thein & Sloan 2013). The literary work chosen for framing in the theory is Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. The paper ends with a reflection over the limitations of multicultural reading projects.

A presente pesquisa tem por objeto os processos colaborativos e interacionais de construção do conhecimento em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. Discute a formação humana em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem numa perspectiva democrática. Parte da análise do homem que se quer formar para transformar a atual sociedade capitalista desigual numa sociedade mais igualitária. Sob este aspecto, analisa-se também a educação que se faz necessária. Como todo esforço dialético, traz à tona algumas contradições que serão importantes para a melhor compreensão da atualidade e para a busca de caminhos alternativos. Por fim, analisa a Educação Online como caminho democrático de educação, destacando indicativos para o desenvolvimento de uma proposta que privilegie os processos colaborativos e interacionais de construção do conhecimento em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. A metodologia usada é o Estudo de Caso, em uma perspectiva longitudinal e qualitativa, com abordagem sócio-histórica. A coleta de dados envolveu a observação participante e a análise documental. O tratamento dos dados utiliza a análise de conteúdo. Os resultados apontam que a educação online, pautada em processos colaborativos e interacionais de construção do conhecimento, além de mais democrática é mais eficaz em relação à aprendizagem que o ensino a distância mais tradicional, de perspectiva instrucional. Além disso, apontam seis indicativos fundamentais para a elaboração de propostas de educação online: o conceito claro de educação online; a consciência de que as tecnologias são do homem e como tal podem favorecer a emancipação humana; a profissionalização docente; a integração dos saberes docentes; a importância da configuração do AVA; e a necessidade de práticas pedagógicas que alternem trabalho autônomo com trabalho colaborativo. / This research aims at the interactional and collaborative processes of knowledge construction in virtual learning environment. It discusses the human formation in virtual learning environment in a democracy. The work starts from the analysis of the man a contemporary society intends to form in order to transform the unequal present-day capitalist society into a more egalitarian one. In this respect, it also examines the education that is necessary for it. As every dialectical effort, it brings to light some contradictions that will be important for a better understanding of the present and for the search for alternative paths. Finally, it analyses Online Education as a path for democratic education, highlighting the development of a proposal to focus on interactional and collaborative processes of knowledge construction in virtual learning environment. The methodology used is Case Study, in a longitudinal and qualitative perspective, with a socio-historical approach. The data collection involved participant observation and document analysis. The processing of data uses content analysis. The results indicate that online education, based on collaborative and interactional processes of knowledge construction, besides being more democratic, it is more effective in relation to learning than the more traditional distance education, with an instructional approach. In addition, six key indicators point to draw up proposals for online education: the concept of online education course, aware that the technologies are human and as such may promote human emancipation, the professionalization, the integration of knowledge teachers , the importance of setting the AVA, and the need for teaching practices that work standalone switch with collaborative work.

O mote central da investigação é a dança-teatro e suas possibilidades pedagógicas. O estudo tem por objetivo extrair princípios pedagógicos em dança-teatro a partir de premissas de criação da coreógrafa alemã Pina Bausch e do documentário Sonhos em Movimento (2010), dirigido por Anne Linsel e Rainer Hoffmann, que mostra o desenvolvimento do trabalho de Bausch com jovens, na remontagem do espetáculo Kontakthof (2008). De modo geral, pretende-se evidenciar a dança-teatro como elemento de conhecimento humano, através da educação. Como campo teórico relacionado à dança-teatro são estudados diversos autores brasileiros e estrangeiros que abordam o processo cênico de Bausch. Referente à noção de “juventudes”, são trazidos autores que discutem a relação do jovem com seu meio social, sua criação de identidade e sua corporeidade. Para tratar de conceitos pedagógicos são utilizados escritos de Jacques Rancière, Fernando Becker, Vera Lúcia Bertoni dos Santos, João Pedro Gil e Odailso Berté, dentre outros. Através dos depoimentos dos jovens participantes do documentário pode-se identificar que, mesmo sem este fim, a proposta de Bausch possibilita neles uma nova visão de si perante seu cotidiano a partir da entrada no universo da arte, gerando construção de conhecimento por meio da poética artística. Para finalizar o estudo foi desenvolvida uma oficina com jovens, que gerou o compartilhamento das descobertas da investigação, possibilitando o relato dos participantes acerca de seus aprendizados junto à proposta pedagógica em dança-teatro. / The central theme of the investigation is Dance Theatre and its pedagogical possibilities. This study aims to extract the pedagogical principles of Dance Theatre from creation premises of the German choreographer Pina Bausch and from the documentary Dancing Dreams (2010), directed by Anne Linsel and Rainer Hoffmann, which shows the development of Bausch's work with young people in the recreation of the spectacle Kontakthof (2008). In general, this investigation intends to consolidate Dance Theatre as an element of human knowledge, through education. As theoretical field related to Dance Theatre, several Brazilian and foreign authors dedicated to Bausch's scenic process are studied. Concerning the notion of "youths", we brought authors that discuss young people's relations with their social environment, with the creation of their identity and with their corporeity. To deal with Pedagogy concepts it is used writings of Jacques Rancière, Fernando Becker, Vera Lúcia Bertoni dos Santos, João Pedro Gil, Odailso Berté, among others. Through the testimonies of the young participants of the documentary it can be identified that, even without that intention, Bausch's proposition promotes a new view of themselves towards their daily lives, through their entrance in the Art world, generating the construction of knowledge through the artistic poetics. To end the study, there was a workshop with young people, which made it possible to share the research findings, allowing the participants to report their learnings along with the pedagogical proposition of Dance Theatre.

Neste estudo, propõe-se compreender como a organização do currículo concorre para a construção do conhecimento no âmbito da formação inicial de professores de Geografia, tendo como referência empírica a Licenciatura em Geografia da Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI). Diante disso, entre as várias possibilidades de análise desse objeto de estudo, opta-se por focar três aspectos inerentes à organização do currículo da Licenciatura em Geografia da UFPI: o campo de produção, a história e a lógica de estrutura e funcionamento do referido currículo. Assim, objetiva-se: 1) caracterizar o campo de produção do currículo da Licenciatura em Geografia da UFPI, identificando os conhecimentos que são selecionados como referência para sua organização, bem como as relações, tensões e convergências que se estabelecem nesse movimento; 2) examinar a história do currículo da Licenciatura em Geografia da UFPI, descrevendo suas trajetórias, contextos e processos de (re) formulação; e 3) investigar a lógica de estrutura e funcionamento do currículo da Licenciatura em Geografia da UFPI, evidenciando os modos de pensar e fazer dos professores formadores acerca da organização do currículo. Para tanto, são analisadas fontes documentais (leis, decretos, pareceres, resoluções...), produzidas no esfera do Ministério da Educação (MEC) e do Conselho Nacional de Educação (CNE), como as diretrizes nacionais para formação inicial de professores da educação básica (Parecer CNE nº 9/2001 e Resolução CNE nº 1/2002) e as diretrizes para os cursos de graduação em Geografia (Parecer CNE nº 492/2001 e Resolução CNE nº 14/2002), e na esfera da Licenciatura em Geografia/UFPI, como propostas de reformulação do currículo, projetos pedagógicos de curso e programas de disciplinas; além de fontes orais, geradas por meio de entrevistas com professores do curso em questão, à propósito de seus modos de pensar e fazer relativos à organização do currículo. Parte-se da hipótese de que há um campo de produção da formação docente, no qual ocorre a organização do currículo da Licenciatura em Geografia da UFPI, regido por regras (ou leis) próprias, mas que, por homologia, pode ser explicado mediante as propriedades ou leis invariantes dos campos, conforme proposição de Pierre Bourdieu dentro de sua teoria geral dos campos. Os resultados evidenciam que o campo da formação docente em Geografia se constitui na confluência de, pelo menos, três outros espaços ou microcosmos sociais específicos (o educacional, o científico da ciência geográfica e o universitário), de modo que a organização do currículo da Licenciatura em Geografia tem como referências uma variedade de conhecimentos e/ou geografias, entre as quais se incluem a Geografia Acadêmica/ Universitária e suas especialidades (Geografia Física, Geografia Humana, Ensino de Geografia), Geografia Escolar, conhecimentos das ciências da educação e saberes docentes (como os saberes da prática e da experiência). Em face das condições de produção desse campo, há, no mínimo, indícios de que a estrutura e funcionamento do currículo da Licenciatura em Geografia da UFPI se fundamenta na dualidade/setorização da Geografia Acadêmica/Universitária, o que repercute nas experiências de formação e, consequentemente, na construção do conhecimento dos futuros professores de Geografia. / This research aims to understand how the curriculum organization contributes to the construction of knowledge in the qualification of Geography teachers, using as empirical reference the teacher training Degree in Geography from Federal University of Piauí (UFPI). Specifically, the objective of this study is to: 1) characterize the background of teacher preparation programs in Brazil, seeking references from the Bachelor\'s curriculum organization in Geography; 2) examine the organization of the degree curriculum in Geography at UFPI, describing its trajectories, contexts and processes; and 3) analyze the logical curriculum structure of the Bachelor Degree in Geography at UFPI, highlighting the established relationships, tensions and convergences in this specific field and how it contributes to the construction of knowledge for future teachers of Geography. To achieve it, documentary sources are analyzed (laws, decrees, opinions, resolutions ...), produced under the Ministry of Education (MEC) and the National Education Council (CNE), as the national guidelines for initial teacher training on basic education (Resolutions CNE No. 9/2001 and No. 1/2002 CNE) and the guidelines for undergraduate courses in Geography (Resolutions CNE No. 492/2001 and No. 14/2002 CNE), and other elements within the Bachelor Degree in Geography at UFPI, as some curriculum reorganization demands, educational course projects and course programs; besides oral sources, generated by interviews with teachers of the course in bold, about the purpose of their conceptions and practices relating to the curriculum organization. It starts with the hypothesis that there is a production field focused on teacher training, where the organization\'s Degree curriculum in Geography UFPI happens, governed by its own rules (or laws), but can be explained by \"homology\" as the system of invariant field laws, as Pierre Bourdieu proposition according to his \"general theory of fields\". The results show that the field of teacher qualification in geography is constituted in the confluence of at least three other spaces or specific social microcosms (the educational, the scientific - of geographical science - and the academic), so that the curriculum organization in Geography brings about references a variety of skills and geographies, among which is included the Academic Geography and its specialtizations (Physical Geography, Human Geography, Geography for Education), School Geography, knowledges of the sciences of education and teachers\' understadings (the knowledge of the experience, for example). Given the production conditions of this field, there is at least reasonable evidence that the structure and working of the curriculum in Geography at UFPI is based on the duality/sectorization of Academic/University Geography, which resonates strongly in the educational training experiences and, consequently, in the construction of knowledge by future teachers of Geography.

Science has been perceived as difficult to learn because of its nature and the methods by which it is usually taught. Most first-year science students entering higher education in South Africa today come from disadvantaged teaching and learning backgrounds. These students bring different “knowledge, skills or abilities” into the learning process. This knowledge, referred to as prior knowledge – or what the student already knows – is the single most important factor influencing learning (Ausubel, 1968). It is on the basis of this influence of prior knowledge on learning that the focus in this study is on understanding its manifestation in learning. Prior knowledge has both facilitating and inhibiting effects in learning. However, the focus in this study was only on inhibiting effects of prior knowledge on learning. To better understand prior knowledge qualitative methods (interview, observation, document review and the prior knowledge state test) were used. The aim was to specifically establish how students used their understanding of selected acid-base concepts and processes to construct understanding and to generate meaning of new concepts and/or knowledge. The study managed to highlight important aspects of the quality of prior knowledge and their manifestation in learning. The findings generally indicated that: <ul> <li>The quality of the knowledge that students possessed was in most instances incomplete. That is, in their description of concepts, students preferred to use summary and informal descriptions without understanding the meaning of the concepts they were describing.</li> <li> The quality of knowledge (e.g. incomplete knowledge) affected their ability to construct understanding and/or generate meaning as this knowledge was insufficient to access for the construction of scientifically valid meanings of concepts.</li> <li>The quality of students’ knowledge impeded their ability to reflect and/or to be aware of the knowledge they possessed. This made it difficult for students to access knowledge and to restructure it in order to construct new knowledge or prevent errors in their learning.</li> </ul> The study culminated in the development of a framework that may in future be used to assess prior knowledge and enhance meaningful teaching and learning based on the quality of students’ prior knowledge. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted