The purpose of the study was to investigate and compare the general music programs of public schools at the junior high school level between Korea and the United States. The comparison included the organizational structure of general music class, general music curriculum using the fifth revised music curriculum of the Korean middle school and the description and standards for American school music program suggested by Music Educators National Conference, and three music textbooks between both countries. The author found that Korea differs from America in music class instructional approach, curriculum decision making body, the treatment of curricular subject matters, and the content of textbooks between both countries.

This paper explores the history of physical education in the United States, as well as a general look into how public schooling affects how kids learn about and come to view their bodies. Theory and research by Michel Foucault, Elias Norbert, and Katy Bowman form the theoretical framework for this essay, and accounts of visits to a local elementary school to observe PE also grounds the work in present-day experiences. The work concludes that public schools in the US improperly teach students about how to listen to and care for their bodies.

This study examined whether or not it is in the financial best interest of public school districts, as employers, to promote the health of its employees.

This study was conducted to determine what the relationship is between the employee compensation/benefit programs in Texas public school districts and the basic values and beliefs that are important to the success of the districts.

The major purpose of this descriptive study was to determine common characteristics and influences among women who were serving as public school superintendents of independent districts in Texas during the 1988-89 school year. Commonalities were determined in (1) personal characteristics, (2) personality traits, and (3) perceived barriers to career mobility. A seventy-item survey was developed, validated, and mailed to the thirty-three women superintendents in Texas. Data from the survey were analyzed to determine if commonalities existed among women superintendents. Based on the findings of this study, the following conclusions seem justified: (1) Commonalities in personal characteristics which exist among women superintendents include age, ethnicity, marital status, parenthood, positive attitudes toward being both mothers and superintendents, preference for husbands in the field of education, demonstration of early leadership traits, and self-perceptions of being assertive and risk-taking; (2) Most women superintendents share common views on subjective measures concerning their own personalities, and they rated themselves highest in areas which include self-esteem, general daily activity level, independence, job satisfaction, ability to operate under pressure and practicality; and (3) Most women superintendents perceive similar internal and external barriers to their career mobility; a lack of professional network and employers' negative attitudes toward women are the most common external barriers.

This study is designed to determine the degree to which female principals and vice-principals in Texas derive job satisfaction from their work and to identify those factors, both negative and positive, which affect the job satisfaction of these principals and vice-principals. A single questionnaire was used to collect the data for this study. Usable questionnaires were returned by 331 vice-principals and 504 principals. These represented 336 school districts throughout the state. Respondents were compared as to their view of their overall job satisfaction, the importance assigned to intrinsic and extrinsic job facets, their satisfaction with intrinsic and extrinsic job facets, and the differences in facet satisfaction connected with various personal characteristics.

Les enseignants d’une école publique de Fortaleza (Nordeste du Brésil), accompagnés en cela par un groupe de recherche universitaire, tentent de mettre en acte le principe de l’inclusion scolaire généralisée à tous les enfants en difficulté ou en situation de handicap, tel qu’il est garanti par le cadre législatif brésilien en charge de la mise en oeuvre de la nouvelle politique scolaire énoncée en 1988 par la dernière Constitution Fédérale de ce pays. Dans un premier temps, à travers une rapide histoire de l’école publique et de l’éducation spécialisée au Brésil, ainsi que d’une révision de littérature détaillée sur l’inclusion, il s’agit de mettre en évidence la toile de fond sur laquelle se détache cette action de formation continue dans une perspective inclusive. Dans un second temps, en s’appuyant sur l’oeuvre de Michel Foucault et, complémentairement, sur les réflexions de certains sociologues (Weber, Bourdieu, etc.), une ethnographie de cet accompagnement pédagogique, durant plus de deux ans, va montrer combien une action de formation à visée inclusive constitue une stratégie politique et, par conséquent, n’échappe pas aux relations de domination qui se rencontre dans quelque type de formation que ce soit, y compris de type “traditionnel“ qui paraît, soudain, condamnable. Dans un troisième temps, il s’agit de montrer comment certains “régimes de vérité“, certaines techniques disciplinaires et “technologies de soi“, qui traversent cette formation continue, contribuent à la production d’une multiplicité de savoirs et d’effets de subjectivation qui vont permettre l’émergence de sujets particuliers, qui se définissent en fonction de ce qu’ils ont retiré de cette expérience et en fonction du positionnement qu’ils ont adopté vis-à-vis d’elle. / Monitored in their pedagogical activities by a group of University researchers, the teachers of a public school in Fortaleza try to practice the principle of a generalized school inclusion to all children with special needs, such as is guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. In the first part of the study, through a brief account of both, the public school and special education in Brazil, as well as a careful bibliographical review about inclusion, it is presented the sociopolitical basis on which such an action of continuous formation for inclusion takes place. In the second part, based on the works of Michel Foucault and, complementarily, on the studies of classical sociologists (Weber, Bourdieu, etc.), an etnography of the pedagogical formation, which lasted more than two years, will show how a process of formation with the aim of inclusion constitutes in a political strategy. Therefore, it does not escape from the relations of domination that can be found in any other kind of the so-called “traditional” formation which, in the inclusion environment, is so condemned. In the third part, the study demonstrates how certain “regimes of truth”, disciplinary techniques, and “technologies of self”, which permeates all along the continuous formation, contribute to a production of multiple knowledge and effects of subjectivation that will allow the emergency of unique subjects that define themselves in function of what they took from that experience or in function of the positioning they adopted in regards to it.

Orientador: Maria Helena Vieira Abrahão / Banca: Matilde Virgínia Ricardi Scaramucci / Banca: Walkyria Monte Mór / Banca: Douglas Altamiro Consolo / Banca: Ana Mariza Benedetti / Resumo: Baseando-se no conceito de Okada, Oxford e Abo (1996) de que o ensino de aspectos culturais pode proporcionar um aumento da motivação para aprender uma língua, a presente pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar de que maneira o desenvolvimento da conscientização cultural, por meio de um trabalho de intervenção pedagógica, pode influenciar na motivação. Este estudo contou com a participação de uma professora e alunos de ensino médio de uma escola pública, e foi desenvolvido em duas fases: fase de diagnóstico, em que se observou as aulas de língua inglesa da professora/participante e fase de intervenção pedagógica, em que aspectos culturais foram introduzidos pela professora/pesquisadora. Dada à impossibilidade de medir a motivação, pretendeu-se oferecer uma caracterização da motivação dos alunos, verificar os fatores que podem influenciá-la tanto positiva quanto negativamente e perceber a interação desses fatores na geração, sustentação e inibição da motivação. A análise dos dados foi baseada em diversas pesquisas sobre motivação, estudos sobre cultura, usados no projeto de intervenção pedagógica e trabalhos da sociolingüística interacional, importantes para a análise da participação dos alunos durante as aulas e, conseqüentemente, da motivação. Além disso, teorias psicológicas da década de 80 e 90 (HIGGINS, 1987; MARKUS E NURIUS, 1986; NORTON, 1995, 2000, 2001) foram incorporadas para entender o papel dos fatores pessoais no grau de interesse e esforço dos aprendizes. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que: 1) a motivação dos alunos é variável, ou seja, pode oscilar entre níveis altos e baixos em decorrência de diferentes tipos de fatores, principalmente aqueles relacionados à postura e forma de trabalhar dos professores e 2) a motivação dos alunos é caracterizada por uma relação de interdependência entre três tipos de fatores... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Based on the idea that the teaching of cultural aspects can increase the motivation to learn a language (OKADA, OXFORD and ABO, 1996), the aim of this work is to analyze the way the development of cultural awareness, by means of an intervention work, can influence motivation. This study was developed with a second year high school teacher and her students in a public school, and was divided in two phases: diagnosis, in which observation of the participant teacher’s classes was held and pedagogical intervention, in which cultural aspects were introduced in the language classes. Given the impossibility of measuring motivation, it was intended to offer a characterization of the students' motivation, to verify the factors that might influence the increase and decrease of motivation and to analyse the interaction between these factors in the generation, maintenance and inhibition of motivation. Data analysis was based on a variety of research studies on motivation, as well as cultural studies, which were important in the organization of the intervention project. Interactional Sociolinguistic concepts were also used to understand students’ engagement in the learning activities and, thus their motivation. To analyze the role of personal factors on students’ motivation, psychological theories from the 80s and 90s were considered. The results obtained show that: 1) students’ motivation can vary, that is, it can increase or decrease due to the influence of different types of factors, especially those related to the teacher’s attitude and practice and 2) it is the result of the interdependence relationship of three types of factors - personal factors (perceptions, beliefs, goals and expectations), teachers’ methodological choices (content and activities developed) and physical affordances of school (frequency of classes, number of students per group, materials and resources available), with a focus on the role of the teacher. / Doutor

Críticas à atuação tradicionalmente individualizante do psicólogo na área de Educação iniciaram no Brasil um intenso movimento de revisão das concepções desse trabalho e de busca por novas alternativas de exercê-lo. A compreensão de que as queixas escolares são multideterminadas e produzidas na escola levou à necessidade de construir práticas que tenham como foco a instituição escolar, de forma a intervir no processo de produção dessas queixas. Portanto, esta pesquisa visa identificar práticas de psicólogos desenvolvidas na rede pública de educação, em abordagem institucional, de modo a caracterizá-las, compreender as concepções que as embasam e analisar suas contribuições para a Educação. Com isso, pretende-se oferecer subsídios para o estabelecimento de uma atuação crítica na rede pública de ensino, comprometida com uma educação de qualidade. O método baseou-se na abordagem qualitativa de tipo etnográfico, e os procedimentos adotados foram observações do trabalho de psicólogos de duas equipes, pertencentes às Secretarias de Educação de dois municípios do estado de São Paulo, e a realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas com as equipes. É possível destacar que a inserção de psicólogos se dá tanto em equipes uniprofissionais quanto multiprofissionais, com a tentativa de integrar ações entre profissionais de diferentes áreas e setores em ambos os casos. A participação no dia a dia da escola, o atendimento a público-alvo amplo, o trabalho direto com os educadores e propostas de intervenção junto a grupos mostram a tendência de atuação institucional, embasada na concepção de que, para agir na produção das queixas escolares, é necessário intervir na instituição escolar. Por outro lado, práticas como encaminhamentos para avaliação psicológica e neurológica e para atendimento clínico, pautadas no entendimento de que as dificuldades escolares são decorrentes de transtornos, déficits cognitivos ou culturais, problemas emocionais e falta de estrutura familiar, revelam a propensão de atuar de forma clínica. Ambas as tendências são expressas na atuação dos psicólogos, que, no entanto, elegeram a tendência institucional como norte, e intentam superar a tendência clínica. O atendimento às queixas escolares é uma das principais frentes de trabalho dos psicólogos e consiste em investigar a participação dos diferentes atores escolares e de determinantes sociais e institucionais na produção das dificuldades de escolarização. Contudo, os psicólogos percebem que o atendimento a casos individuais de alunos aumenta a quantidade de encaminhamentos e procuram formas de suplantar isso. Uma dessas formas são projetos, cujo foco é a escola ou a rede de ensino como um todo, nos quais procuram atuar no âmbito coletivo. Identifica-se que uma das principais contribuições da atuação dos psicólogos tem sido a mudança de concepção das escolas sobre o fracasso escolar. O enfrentamento a explicações individualizantes, ações medicalizantes, estereótipos e preconceitos sobre os estudantes pobres e suas famílias tem surtido efeito ao alterar a maneira como a escola se coloca diante das queixas escolares: em vez de delegar ao psicólogo a resolução do problema do aluno, assume sua parte de responsabilidade nesse processo e estabelece uma parceria com o psicólogo para, juntos, criarem estratégias de enfrentamento aos desafios presentes no cotidiano escolar / Criticism towards the traditionally individualizing action of psychologists in the educational field has triggered, in Brazil, an intense movement of revision of this works conceptions, as well as the search for new alternatives to its practice. The understanding that school complaints are determined by multiple factors and produced within the school led to the necessity of building practices that focus on school as an institution, as to intervene in the process of production of such complaints. Therefore, this research intends to identify psychologists practices in the public school system, according to an institutional approach, in order to characterize them, understand the conceptions on which they are founded, and analyze their contributions to Education. The objective is to offer subsidies committed to high quality education for the establishment of critical action in the public school system. The methodology was based on ethnographic research, and the procedures undertaken were the observation of the work of psychologists from two teams from the Departments of Education of two cities within the State of São Paulo, as well as carrying out semi-structured interviews with these teams. Its possible to highlight that psychologists are inserted in teams of both one or multiple professions, with an attempt to integrate actions of professionals from different areas and sectors in both cases. Participation in school routine, assistance to a large target audience, direct work with educators, and group intervention proposals show the trend of institutional action, founded on the conception that, to act on the production of school complaints, its necessary to intervene in the school institution. On the other hand, practices such as referrals to psychological and neurological evaluation and to clinical treatment, based on the understanding that school difficulties result from disorders, cognitive or cultural deficit, emotional problems and lack of family structure, reveal the propensity of acting from a clinical perspective. Both tendencies are expressed in the psychologists action, that have elected, however, the institutional tendency as a guideline, and try to overcome the clinical tendency. Assistance to school complaints is one of the psychologists main work fronts and consists on investigating the role of different social actors at school and of social and institutional determinants in the production of difficulties in schooling. However, psychologists notice that assistance to students individual cases increases the amount of referrals, and so they seek ways of supplanting this. One of these ways is proposing projects that focus on the school or the school system as a whole, and in which they try to act in the collective sphere. Its been identified that one of the main contributions of psychologists action is the change in schools conceptions about school failure. The facing of individualizing explanations, medicalizing actions, and stereotypes and prejudice about poor students and their families has been achieving results by altering the way schools face school complaints: instead of delegating to psychologists the resolution of a students problems, they take their share of responsibility in this process and establish a partnership with the psychologist, so that, together, they can create strategies to confront the challenges of everyday life at school

Esta pesquisa lançou mão da autoetnografia, viés metodológico que transita entre a etnografia e a autobiografia, por meio de observações e auto-observações, para investigar em que medida as teorias de Letramentos (KALANTZIS; COPE 2000, 2008a, LANKSHEAR; KNOBEL, 2003, 2006, 2013, KRESS, 2003, 2010, GEE, 2004) se adequam ou não ao ensino de inglês nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental-I público, em uma escola da periferia do município de Osasco, na grande São Paulo. Buscou-se, assim, analisar uma proposta pedagógico-educacional orientada pelas referidas teorias, elaborada pelo pesquisador e implementada na escola investigada. O foco de observação e análise foi o desenvolvimento do senso crítico, no que tange aos alunos, e também as estratégias para o ensino de inglês e a atuação do professor-pesquisador nesta proposta. Objetivou-se examinar as epistemologias relacionadas às visões de ensino de língua deste contexto, bem como problematizar outras maneiras de se abordar o ensino da língua inglesa de forma crítica que levassem em conta as características específicas dos indivíduos e do contexto investigado. Considerando-se a existência de graves problemas, tais como a escassez de recursos didáticos e tecnológicos, a falta de espaços adequados para as práticas pedagógicas, o número excessivo de alunos por sala de aula e diversas outras questões de ordem econômica e social, a hipótese levantada é que tais fatores não seriam impedimentos para o desenvolvimento de práticas com um enfoque mais situado, promovendo um ensino plural, pautado na diversidade presente na escola pública, a fim de promover a agência dos alunos e uma educação mais crítica. Constatou-se, a partir da literatura consultada e da análise das orientações curriculares municipais, que as habilidades tradicionalmente trabalhadas no Ensino Fundamental-I público não levam em conta os novos paradigmas da comunicação e da educação. Além disso, a análise dos dados demonstrou haver certa desatualização pedagógica no campo investigado, bem como uma distância entre as práticas observadas e as orientações curriculares que existem atualmente. Finalmente, a tese defendida neste trabalho é a de que, para o desenvolvimento de propostas pedagógico-educacionais orientadas pelas teorias de Letramentos no Ensino Fundamental-I público, é importante considerar, sobretudo, o contexto dos sujeitos, da escola e da comunidade em que as práticas ocorrem. Acrescenta-se que o emprego de recursos de tecnologia digital não é imprescindível para o desenvolvimento da cidadania, da agência e da diversidade no contexto investigado. / This research resorted to autoethnography as a methodological perspective that transits across the ethnography and the biography, through observations and selfobservations, in order to investigate to what extent Literacies theories (KALANTZIS; COPE 2000, 2008a, LANKSHEAR; KNOBEL, 2003, 2006, 2013, KRESS, 2003, 2010, GEE, 2004) suit or not the teaching of English in the early years of Elementary School, in a school located in the outskirts of Osasco, in São Paulo. The study looked at a pedagogical/educational proposal guided by the referred theories, developed by the researcher and implemented in the aforementioned school. The focus of the analysis was the development of the critical sense, as regards the students; the strategies for the teaching of English; and the performance of the teacher/researcher in this proposal. Some of the main objectives were to examine the epistemologies related to the conceptions of language teaching in this context and to problematize other manners to approach the English language teaching in a critical way in view of the peculiar characteristics of the individuals and the field. Considering the existence of serious issues, such as the lack of didactical and technological resources, the lack of suitable spaces for the pedagogical practices, the large number of students per class and several other economic and social problems, the working hypothesis assumes that these issues do not impede the development of situated practices. These practices aimed to develop a plural teaching based on the diversity that takes place in the public school in order to promote the students\' agency and a critical education. Based on the theoretical framework consulted and the municipal curricular guidelines, the study verified that the skills traditionally worked in Elementary School do not take into account the new paradigms of communication and education. The data analysis demonstrated that the field was pedagogically outdated. Besides, there was a certain distance between the observed practices and the current curricular guidelines. Finally, we came to the conclusion that in order to develop pedagogical/educational proposals guided by Literacy theories in public Elementary School it is important to consider the context of the individuals as well as the context of the school and the community where the practices occur. Also, in the context investigated the use of digital technologies is not indispensable in order to develop concepts such as citizenship, agency and diversity.