Thesis (M.Ed. (Education)) - Rhodes University, 2007. / In partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree Master in Education (GETP)

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Duquesne University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-191) and index.

Syftet med det här examensarbetet är att ur ett förskollärarperspektiv undersöka vad högläsningen har för betydelse för barns utveckling av literacy. De teoretiska utgångspunkterna hämtas från forskningsfältet literacy som handlar om att kunna läsa och skriva samt förståelsen av symboler, språkliga verktyg och hur man kan använda dem i samspel med andra. I den här undersökningen har fem förskollärare medverkat i semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultaten visar på utifrån förskollärarnas utsagor att de använder sig av högläsning i undervisningssyfte för att främja barns språkutveckling. Resultaten visar även på flera faktorer som är betydelsefulla för barns utveckling av literacy ur förskollärarnas perspektiv. En faktor är att barn ska få ett berikat ordförråd under högläsningen. Ytterligare en faktor är vikten av att barn får möjlighet att vara delaktiga i högläsningen och att förskollärare är lyhörda och tar del av de frågor som barnen väljer att lyfta fram. Delad högläsning bidrar till att barn utvecklar sitt verbala språk, utvecklar fantasin, det gynnar samspelet mellan barn/barn och vuxna/barn, förbereder barn att bli läsare och bidrar till innehåll i barns lek. Dessa faktorer är viktiga kunskaper för att barn ska kunna utveckla sin literacy.

Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2016-06-28T19:45:17Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO COM CATALOGAÇÃO ANDREZA.pdf: 2534209 bytes, checksum: 72d1d17e06bb5a293a191f5143b69074 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-28T19:45:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO COM CATALOGAÇÃO ANDREZA.pdf: 2534209 bytes, checksum: 72d1d17e06bb5a293a191f5143b69074 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-31 / A literatura apresenta profunda relevância para a formação integral do indivíduo. Repensar e modificar a maneira de ler o texto literário e propor atividades de leitura que levam ao letramento literário contribui para a vida social e cognitiva do sujeito, levando-o a desenvolver sua capacidade de crítica e argumentação, além de fazê-lo compreender o mundo em que vive e se sentir parte dele. O letramento literário compreende, desta forma, as práticas de leitura literária como função social e colabora para a sua formação como leitor independente. É possível encontrar muitas pesquisas que incentivam a leitura, porém encontramos poucas dissertações que orientam o trabalho com o letramento literário na escola, com a leitura dos clássicos, do como fazer, do como ler e do como proceder com esses textos. Desta maneira, esta dissertação discute a importância do letramento literário como objetivo a ser atingido no ensino de literatura. Nessa perspectiva, esse texto busca evidenciar os benefícios que a leitura literária, mediada adequadamente, pode fornecer para a formação social e leitora do aluno. Apresentamos o conceito de letramento, para, então, compreender o letramento literário, pois é preciso partir dos conceitos basilares para se avançar à mediação da leitura literária na escola. A partir das reflexões sobre letramentos, propomos uma sequência de atividades, de acordo com os fundamentos do letramento literário de Cosson (2014a), aplicável ao 7º ano do ensino fundamental, para uma escola da rede pública federal do Recife, tendo por base o livro “O Pequeno Príncipe”, de Saint Exupéry. Utilizamos a pesquisa bibliográfica centrada, principalmente, nas obras de Paulino (1998) Paulino e Pinheiro (2004), Lajolo (2000), Kleiman (1995, 2005), Soares (2003, 2005), Colomer (2007), Dalvi, Rezende e Jover-Faleiros (2013), Cosson (2014), entre outros autores. Desta forma, este estudo originou-se da necessidade de mais estudos sobre o ensino de literatura com vistas à formação do letramento literário do aluno e ampliar as reflexões sobre o ensino de literatura na escola. / Literature presents a deep relevance to a person‟s whole formation. Rethinking and modifying the manner of reading a literary text and proposing reading activities which lead to the literary literacy contribute to the person‟s social and cognitive life, leading them to develop their capacity of criticizing and argumentation and, besides, make possible for them to understand the world in which they live and feel part of it. This way, literary literacy comprehends the literary reading practices as a social function and something useful to develop an independent reader. It‟s possible to find many researches that reinforce the reading practice; nevertheless, only few studies really provide an effective orientation for the application of literary literacy at school, through the reading of classic literary texts, clarifying how to read them, what to do and how to deal with them. Thus, this work discusses the importance of literary literacy as a goal to be achieved by literature teaching. From this perspective, this text aims to highlight the benefits which literary literacy, if managed adequately, can provide for the student‟s social and intellectual formation. This research presents, yet, the concept of literacy, so that we can make clear the meaning of literary literacy, because it‟s necessary to begin from the basic concepts in order to move forward with the literary literacy management at school. Considering the wonderings about literacy, we propose a set of activities, according to the principles of Cosson for literary literacy, applied to 7th grade of a federal public middle school in Recife, having as basis the book The Little Prince, by Saint Exupéry. We have mainly focused our bibliographic research on Paulino (1998) Paulino e Pinheiro (2004), Lajolo (2000), Kleiman (1995, 2005), Soares (2003, 2005), Colomer (2007), Dalvi e Jover-Faleiros (2013), Cosson (2014), among others. Therefore, this study originated from the need for more studies around the topic, objecting the student‟s literary literacy formation and the broadening of considerations about literature teaching at school.

Orientador: Sylvia Bueno Terzi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T23:56:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Batista_LuanaCristinadeMoraes_M.pdf: 9683824 bytes, checksum: a17dc88c2a4d0b2111b660ef0bbe8dd3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo identificar, a partir da análise de suas práticas de leitura e escrita, o modelo de letramento sancionado por uma escola pública municipal brasileira, localizada na zona rural da cidade de Matão (SP), cujo IDEB na Prova Brasil de 2005 foi de 7,3 - quando a média brasileira é de 3,8 (em uma escala de 0 a 10) -, além de verificar se o resultado positivo alcançado pela escola estaria relacionado a esse modelo e/ou a outros elementos contextuais existentes na comunidade. Para tal, foram realizadas entrevistas com os profissionais envolvidos no desenvolvimento dessas práticas, bem como com os alunos da escola, observações e gravações de aulas e análise de documentos que estão relacionados às práticas de letramento dos alunos da 4ª série do Ensino Fundamental, uma vez que é a esses alunos que a Prova Brasil é direcionada. Todos os dados gerados foram analisados com base nos princípios sancionados pelos Novos Estudos do Letramento, que nos permitiram verificar que as práticas de leitura e escrita desenvolvidas pelos/com os alunos tanto no micro contexto (escola/sala de aula) quanto no macro (comunidade) são predominantemente baseadas nas concepções defendidas pelo Modelo Ideológico de Letramento. A análise dos dados revelou ainda que essas concepções são compartilhadas também por outras agências de letramento da comunidade - como a família e os órgãos governamentais do município -, explicitando a convergência entre as classes dominante e dominada no que diz respeito às práticas de letramento desenvolvidas na comunidade. A conclusão a que chegamos foi que a abordagem ideológica adotada pela escola e o compartilhamento de valores entre as instâncias sociais da comunidade estão diretamente relacionados ao resultado positivo obtido pelos alunos da 4ª série na Prova Brasil de 2005 / Abstract: The aim of this research is to identify, based on the analysis of the practices of reading and writing, the model of literacy sanctioned by a public school in Brazil, situated in a rural area in the city of Matão (SP), the IDEB of which in the Prova Brasil (key instrument for measuring education quality) of 2005 was 7.3 - when the Brazilian average is 3.8 (on a scale from 0 to 10) -, besides verifying if the positive result achieved by the school was related to this model and/or to other contextual elements present in the community. For such, interviews with the professionals involved in the development of these practices were held, as well as with students from the school. Also observations were made, lessons were recorded and an analysis of documents related to the literacy practices of students in grade 4 of Elementary School was made, since Prova Brasil o is aimed at these students' performance. All of the data collected was analyzed based on the principles sanctioned by the New Studies on Literacy, which allow us to verify if the practices of reading and writing developed by/with the students both in the micro-context (school/classroom) and in the macro-context (community) are predominantly based on the conceptions defended by the Ideological Model of Literacy. The analysis of the data also revealed that these conceptions are also shared by other literacy agents in the community - like the family and government agencies in the municipal district -, showing the convergence between the dominant and dominated classes concerning the literacy practices developed in the community. The conclusions showed that the ideological approach adopted by the school and the values shared between the social instances of the community are directly related to the positive results obtained by the students in grade 4 in the Prova Brasil of 2005 / Mestrado / Lingua Materna / Mestre em Linguística Aplicada

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Magister Commercii (Information Management) - MCom(IM) / The high rate of youth unemployment is a global phenomenon and a worrying factor. This contradicted the opportunity presented by the ICT sector, which requires e-skills, particularly e-literacy/or digital literacy skills in the entire sectors of the economy, not only ICT. Ala-Mutka (2011) defines e-literacy skills as the "basic technical use of computers and the internet". ICT skills are viewed as essential in the modern day world in order to improve individual’s chances of securing and keeping employment. Various initiatives to improve youth employability in South Africa, particularly those that are studying TVET colleges or those have already graduated. Various approaches have been adopted such envisaged by the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training of 2013 i.e. preparation for workplace, self-employment through close cooperation of TVET colleges and industry (DHET, 2013). Employers assume that graduates are familiar with computer and Internet usage. Thus, the study set the following objectives: • To understand the theoretical and contextual background of promoting employability; • To explore existing employability frameworks that might be relevant for promoting employability; • To identify and categorize the factors that are relevant for promoting employability obtained from pertinent literature; • To validate these factors by interviewing key TVET stakeholders and ICT experts; • To propose an employability framework customized for the South African context; and • To explain the use of these factors within the proposed employability framework. The objectives were realised by reviewing pertinent literature, which led to the development of an employability conceptual research framework for South Africa. A conceptual research framework that consists of five factors from the e-skills national curriculum competency framework: (i) e-skills for service delivery; (ii) e-skills for new jobs; (iii) e-skills for existing jobs; (iv) self-employment; and (v) ICT practitioner skills. In-terms of e-skills levels i.e. ICT user skills, e-business skills and ICT practitioner skills. The first three sets of e-skills are associated with ICT user skill, e-skills for self-employment are associated with e-business skills and then ICT practitioner skills. This conceptual research framework was subsequently empirically verified using an interpretive approach by interviewing key TVET stakeholders and an ICT expert. The empirical findings affirmed the validity of the above-mentioned employability factors but also uncovered two additional factors: (iv) practical experience and infrastructure. These factors were subsequently incorporated into the final employability framework for South Africa. The main contribution of this study is the fact that it brings a new employability framework for TVET colleges for the South African context, with the hope that it can be applicable in similar environments in the developing context. There are some limitations in the present study due to a small research sample that was caused by the unavailability of employed graduates. However, it is believed that this limitation did not deem the results and the academic and practical contribution of the study invalid.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Curriculum and Instruction / Marjorie R. Hancock / To become lifelong readers, young children require instruction from teachers who integrate their knowledge of the reading process and expert instructional skills to support students' progress in reading and writing. These teachers are entitled to support from professional development to assist their implementing instructional approaches, which lead to student achievement. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to describe the impact of a year long balanced literacy professional development on 13 K-2 teachers and their students. The study focuses on the potential impact of ongoing professional development and literacy coaching. Participants engaged in study sessions to expand their understanding of literacy learning processes, to read recent reading research, and to implement guided reading instruction. Three of the participants allowed me to act as their literacy coach in their K-2 classrooms. Results of this study suggest that participating teachers made changes in instructional practices, which aligned with balanced literacy practices. The three teachers who worked with me as their literacy coach expressed positive impacts from the opportunities to collaborate in their classrooms with a coach. Results of the study reflect differences in teachers' responses to professional development and to literacy coaching. Even with trusting relationships, not all teachers became reflective or analytical. The findings of this study confirm and support the literature and research that show the literacy goals of all children can be met through a balanced literacy approach to instruction which is designed and guided by focused and sustained professional development to deepen teachers' understandings.

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M.Ed. / Infusing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into the teaching and learning of Mathematical Literacy Located in the qualitative research paradigm, this study was conducted in eight Gauteng Department of Education schools in the Ekurhuleni North District 6, in Gauteng South Africa and aimed to investigate the use of ICTs in the teaching and learning of Mathematical Literacy. This study focused on how Mathematical Literacy teachers use ICTs to enhance their teaching and learning. In addition, teachers’ attitude, ICT competency as well as the challenges that they face in using ICTs to enhance the teaching and learning of Mathematical Literacy was investigated. Not only is knowledge of ICTs important but the competence of ICT users, namely teachers and learners requirements need to be illuminated through extensive and intensive research. For this reason, this study could, despite its limitations, pave the way for far more elaborate studies to be conducted. This study will contribute towards an understanding of teachers’ experiences of the use of ICTs in South African classrooms. The need exists for teachers to be trained in computer literacy skills and technology skills as well as for school management and the Department of Education (DoE) to provide the necessary support that is deemed essential for the successful use of ICTs in the teaching and learning of Mathematical Literacy. The findings of this study suggests that unless school management and the DoE providethe necessary training and support for teachers, the likelihood of attaining the goal of all learners being ICT literate by 2013, may not be realised.