No description available.

No description available.

No description available.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the accountability movement that has engulfed education in the last 20 years have put leadership at the heart of school improvement. Student achievement is affected by multiple factors that must be addressed with unique leadership skills and specialized knowledge. No one person can be responsible for orchestrating the success of each student within a school building. When members of a school community share responsibility for the many activities that contribute to student learning, the work of educational leaders becomes a manageable task. The purpose of this study was to create an operational definition of shared leadership by identifying key descriptors that define the characteristics and behaviors of shared leadership and the aspects of school cultures in which it can be effective. The procedure used to construct a rich description of shared leadership was a three-round Delphi study. A panel of experts was assembled from writers or researchers in the field of leadership and superintendents, principals, and teachers who have practiced shared leadership in the school environment. The first-round Delphi instrument consisted of four open-end questions that asked for key words or phrases that describe the characteristics and behaviors of shared leadership, key words or phrases that describe aspects of school cultures in which shared leadership can be effective, and key words or phrases that describe barriers to shared leadership. In the second round, panelists were asked to rate the compiled responses from round one on a four-point scale. In the third round, panelists received statistical information based on second-round responses. They were allowed to revise opinions once more using a four-point scale. Using the Delphi technique, the panel of experts reached consensus on 84 critical elements of effective shared leadership. An inventory that can be used by schools as a guide for planning, implementing, and evaluating shared leadership in school settings was created from the data. / Ed. D.

The Malcolm Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence outline effective practices and core values that have assisted businesses, health agencies, government institutions, and several school systems in the United States to improve performance within their organizations. Recent studies of school districts from across the nation have indicated some degree of success with implementation of the Malcolm Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence. This phenomenological study of principals' experiences with implementation of Quality in Education (based on the Baldrige Education Criteria) within the Calcasieu Parish School System answers the question: What are principals' experiences with the implementation of Quality in Education? Data were collected through individual interviews and questionnaires. Participants included ten principals who had been engaged in this district implementation effort for at least three years, as well as their administrative directors. Transcription, coding, and analysis resulted in emerging themes and key findings, which were organized as benefits and barriers to implementation of this school reform initiative. Benefits were identified as data-based decision-making and use of student data binders, a narrow focus and working smarter, not harder, and increased student responsibility for learning, parent communication and faculty input. This was accomplished through district support with professional development and the work of Quality mentors. Barriers were identified as teacher turnover and continual training of new staff, implementation of other programs, lack of faculty buy-in, and time. This study informs the literature of implementation issues with school reform initiatives.

Este trabalho recupera a história do livro didático e do ensino de História em Minas Gerais no período compreendido entre os anos de 1906 e 1911, no início do vigor da Reforma do Ensino João Pinheiro. Acompanhamos o processo de reestruturação da escola promovida pelo então Presidente de Estado João Pinheiro, o Secretário do Interior Carvalho Britto e os demais sujeitos envolvidos com os processos educativos naquele momento da história do estado (diretores, inspetores, professores). Elegemos a disciplina História por entender que esse conhecimento se encontrava sob influência da política republicana mineira, de modo que esta fizesse dela instrumento de divulgação dos valores da nova ordem instituída. Através da investigação da história do livro, realizamos investimento nas demais instâncias responsáveis por sua escrita, divulgação, circulação e demais relações estabelecidas com a instrução pública primária em Minas Gerais. Em nossas pesquisas, nos deparamos com uma situação onde diversas forças compunham um cenário de conflito de interesses dentro e fora da escola, colocando os dispositivos de instrução no centro das discussões. Revelamos as identidades e estratégias dos sujeitos envolvidos com as transformações, tanto na ordem regulamentar das disposições oficiais quanto na prática cotidiana da escola, tendo o objeto livro localizado na interseção entre esses dois momentos. / This search recovers the history of didactics books in Minas Gerais State in the period between the years 1906 and 1911, at the beginning of the Education Reform João Pinheiro. We followed the process of restructuring of school promoted by the President of State João Pinheiro, the Secretary of Interior Carvalho Britto and other individuals involved with the educational processes at that moment of the history of the State (school directors, school inspectors, teachers). We had chosen the discipline History because we believe that this knowledge was under the influence of the republican politic from Minas Gerais State, and the politicians used it as an instrument to disseminate the values of the new order established. Through research of the history of the book, we made investments in other instances responsible for its writing, divulgation, distribution and other relationships with the public primary education in Minas Gerais State. In this research, we were faced with a situation where different forces made up a scenario of conflict of interests inside and outside school, making the devices of school instruction at the center of discussions. We reveal the identities and strategies of the subject involved with the school transformations, in the official order of the regulations and in the school daily, with the school books in the intersection between them.

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-05-26T18:11:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 reforma_educacional.pdf: 1210750 bytes, checksum: 16cc10afec186cf1b495accd6b03ce92 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-26T18:11:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 reforma_educacional.pdf: 1210750 bytes, checksum: 16cc10afec186cf1b495accd6b03ce92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação tem como tema a reforma do Ensino Médio Politécnico no Rio Grande do Sul, proposta pela Secretaria Estadual de Educação (SEDUC), no período de 2011 a 2014. Na pesquisa, tentamos evidenciar as implicações e contradições da reestruturação curricular no contexto da prática, considerando o processo tenso e conturbado observado em toda a rede estadual de ensino. Para tanto, realizamos um estudo de caso na Escola Estadual de Ensino Médio Emília Viega da Rocha, situada no município de Gravataí/RS, por entender que esta realidade é um exemplo significativo e explicativo das contradições geradas no chão da escola, a partir da implementação da reforma. Como instrumentos metodológicos, servimo-nos de entrevistas semiestruturadas com os gestores escolares, questionários mistos com os professores dos Seminários Integrados, participação em reuniões de formação de professores e observação do cotidiano escolar, a fim de detectar a forma como a escola organiza, sistematiza e ressignifica sua prática a partir das orientações da reestruturação curricular proposta. Utilizamos como referencial a perspectiva histórico- crítica para a retomada da história deste nível de ensino, o entendimento da proposta da SEDUC/RS e a compreensão e explicação do contexto da prática, dialogando com obras de Antonio Gramsci, Acácia Kuenzer, Demerval Saviani, Mônica Ribeiro da Silva, Gaudêncio Frigotto, Marise Ramos, David Harvey, Antonio Teodoro, Vera Peroni, dentre outros. Constatamos que o contexto da prática escolar, ao mostrar as resistências, ressignificações, reconfigurações da política, permite evidenciar as contradições geradas a partir da sua implementação. Disso decorre que a proposta apresenta limites e possibilidades para a construção de uma escola com qualidade social para todos. Ao mesmo tempo em que a reestruturação curricular traz em seus marcos teórico-metodológicos a perspectiva do trabalho como princípio educativo, a pesquisa científica como princípio pedagógico e a avaliação emancipatória, numa perspectiva inclusiva, a pesquisa aponta que, no contexto da prática, novas visões e interpretações podem alterar os rumos da política. Ou seja, pela proposta inicial, referenciada na pedagogia socialista de Gramsci, o trabalho é tido como constituidor do ser humano na sua interrelação com a natureza, no seu valor de uso. No entanto, a realidade hegemônica da sociedade atual (e a escola analisada não foge disso) tem o trabalho como valor de troca, tende a reproduzir os ditames do mercado capitalista, de avaliação como poder/dominação/competição e de preparação simplista para o mercado de trabalho. A pesquisa oportunizou perceber que a proposta em implementação apresenta um conjunto de limites, dentre os quais a questão da falta de compreensão da proposta, o despreparo dos professores, a tendência à formação dos jovens para o mercado de trabalho, as dificuldades infraestruturais e a resistência à forma como a avaliação emancipatória foi colocada pela SEDUC/ RS. Concomitantemente, ficaram evidentes alguns avanços na autonomia da gestão escolar e de professores para a construção de um currículo mais próximo ao que julgam serem as necessidades dos estudantes, a formação pedagógica de professores na escola, a metodologia de trabalho com pesquisa científica, possibilitando o repensar de questões historicamente postas como verdades absolutas. Mesmo com tamanhas contradições, defendemos que uma reforma educacional não resolve os problemas da educação, mas aponta para novas possibilidades de repensar este nível de ensino. / This dissertation has as its theme the reform of Polytechnic High School in Rio Grande do Sul, proposed by the state Department of Education (SEDUC), between 2011and 2014. We have tried to emphasize the implications and contradictions of curricular restructuring in the context of practice, considering the tense and troubled process observed throughout the school network. Thus, we have performed a case study at Emília Viega da Rocha school, located in the town of Gravataí/RS, understanding that this reality is a significant one and explanatory of the contradictions generated on the school’s ground, since the implementation of such reform. As methodological tools we have employed semi-structured interviews with school administrators and teachers, mixed with Integrated Seminars questionnaires, participation in teacher training meetings and observation of everyday school life in order to detect the way the school organizes, systematizes and reframes its practice with the curricular restructuring proposal guidelines. We have used the historical-critical perspective as reference to the review of higher school education history, understanding of the SEDUC/RS proposal and understanding and explaining the context of practice, dialoguing with works of Antonio Gramsci, Acacia Kuenzer, Demerval Saviani, Monica Ribeiro da Silva, Gaudencio Frigotto, Marise Ramos, David Harvey, Antonio Teodoro, Vera Peroni, among others. We have noted that the context of school practice, when demonstrating resistance, reinterpretations and reconfigurations of the policy, allowed us to highlight the contradictions generated from the reform implementation. It follows that the proposal has both limits and possibilities for building a school with social quality for all. While that curriculum restructuring brings in its theoretical and methodological frameworks the prospect of taking work as an educational principle, scientific research as a pedagogical principle and critical evaluation in an inclusive perspective, the research shows that, in the context of practice, new visions and interpretations can change the directions underlying the policy. For instance, in the initial proposal, referenced upon Gramsci’s socialist pedagogy, work is considered as constitutive of the human being in his/her interrelationship with nature at its use value. However, the hegemonic reality of today's society (and the school under analysisis no exception) takes working for its exchange value, tending to reproduce the dictates of the capitalist market valuation, as power/domination/competition and to end in a simplistic preparation for the market job. The research has provided an opportunity to realize that implementing the proposal presents a set of limits, among which is the issue of lack of understanding of its principles, the unpreparedness of teachers, the tendency to simply prepare our young people for the job market, the infrastructural difficulties and resistance about the way emancipatory evaluation was put by SEDUC/RS. Concomitantly, some advances were evident in the autonomy of the school management and of teachers in building a syllabus closer to what they feel are the student’s needs, the pedagogical training of teachers at school, the methodology of scientific research work in the curriculum, enabling to rethink issues historically posited as absolute truths. Even with such huge contradictions, we argue that the educational reform will not solve the problems of education, but it points to new possibilities of rethinking high school.

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-07-28T15:18:57Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Valdirene Alves de Oliveira - 2017.pdf: 3119529 bytes, checksum: bda16e1d8f1ec99692109bb5205e0bf0 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-07-28T15:19:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Valdirene Alves de Oliveira - 2017.pdf: 3119529 bytes, checksum: bda16e1d8f1ec99692109bb5205e0bf0 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-28T15:19:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese - Valdirene Alves de Oliveira - 2017.pdf: 3119529 bytes, checksum: bda16e1d8f1ec99692109bb5205e0bf0 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-11 / This research relates to the Line of Research State, Policies and History of Education within the Education Graduate Program from the Federal University of Goiás and aims at understanding how relations among the educational, political and economic fields were established in the definition of policies for high school in the period from 2003 to 2014, corresponding to Lula's presidency and to Dilma's first presidential term. In that regard, bibliographical researches were conducted in national periodical publications indexed by Capes as Qualis A1 and A2, electronically available; in the works presented in Anped's Working Groups 05 (State and Educational Policies) and 09 (Education and Work) and at the website Teses da Capes, in search for doctorate theses produced on educational policies for high school. The contemplated period in the bibliographical revision was wider than the research's focus. The investigation searched empirical elements among some agents of the educational field, who held positions in the federal government administration within the period studied and who collaborated with the study as interviewees, by the means of a scripted interview with semi-structured questions. The research outlined, during the bibliographical revision and conduction of interviews, the most relevant fields and agents in the disputes for the high school guidelines. The official documents referring to the educational policies for high school were mapped, as were the documents coming from the agents of the economic and political fields, considered in this study, by relevance and for reporting to high school directly or indirectly. The research started from the premise that the definition of an educational project relates to the trajectory of Brazilian education and highlights the disputes of conceptions and strategies of each historic moment. The investigation focused on the period from 2003 to 2014, aiming to learn the singularity of this moment to high school, in correlation to the fact that in the decade of 1990 the Brazilian education experienced relevant reforms, including the last stage of basic education. The hypothesis of a reconfiguration of high school, during the period from 2003 to 2014, touched part of the investigation, but the study allows the affirmation that despite the changes and advances from the educational policies implemented in the period, there was not a consolidation of a high school project substantiated by the conceptions outlined in the first actions of the period in question, as for example: integral formation, work as an educative principle, work, science and culture as curricular axes, therefore, there was not an effective reconfiguration. This approach lost power in the disputes inside and outside the educational field, in relation to the strengthening of the formative perspective angled towards a high school more aligned with the interests and demands of the economic field, as expression of the strength in the high school project outlined during Fernando Henrique Cardoso's presidential administration. The strategies used by the agents in the established game converged with the habitus peculiar to each field and, from 2003 to 2014, the economic field had the most success in its disputes, strategies, conceptions and project. The educational field lost symbolic capital among the agents of its own field and also before the political field, for reasons related to the political game of coalitions, strategies undertaken by each field and by the change in the field of power, which enabled for the agents of the economic field a better disposition and position regarding the affirmation of their high school project. / Esta pesquisa insere-se na Linha de Pesquisa Estado, Políticas e História da Educação do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Goiás e objetiva compreender como se estabeleceram as relações entre os campos educacional, político e econômico na definição das políticas para o ensino médio no período de 2003 a 2014, correspondente aos governos Lula e primeiro mandato do governo Dilma. Para tanto, foram realizadas pesquisas bibliográficas em periódicos nacionais indexados pela Capes como Qualis A1 e A2, disponibilizados eletronicamente; nos trabalhos apresentados nos GTs 05 (Estado e Políticas Educacionais) e 09 (Educação e Trabalho) da Anped e no portal de Teses da Capes, em busca das teses de doutorado produzidas sobre as políticas educacionais para o ensino médio. O período contemplado na revisão bibliográfica foi mais ampliado do que o recorte da pesquisa. A investigação buscou elementos empíricos entre alguns agentes do campo educacional, que ocuparam funções na gestão do governo federal no período estudado e que colaboraram com o estudo, sob a forma de entrevistados, mediante um roteiro entrevista com questões semiabertas. A pesquisa delineou, durante a revisão bibliográfica e realização das entrevistas, os campos e agentes mais relevantes nas disputas pela pauta do ensino médio. Os documentos oficiais pertinentes às políticas educacionais para o ensino médio também foram mapeados, assim como os documentos oriundos dos agentes dos campos econômico e político, considerados nesse estudo, pela relevância e por se reportarem ao ensino médio, direta ou indiretamente. A pesquisa partiu da premissa que a definição de um projeto de educação perpassa pela trajetória da educação brasileira e coloca em relevo as disputas de concepções e estratégias de cada momento histórico. A investigação se debruçou sobre o período de 2003 a 2014, visando apreender a singularidade desse momento para o ensino médio, em correlação com o fato de que na década de 1990 a educação brasileira vivenciou reformas relevantes, inclusive na última etapa da educação básica. A hipótese de reconfiguração do ensino médio, durante o período de 2003 a 2014, perpassou parte da investigação, mas o estudo permite afirmar que, apesar das mudanças e avanços oriundos das políticas educacionais implementadas no período, não ocorreu a consolidação de um projeto de ensino médio, alicerçado pelas concepções delineadas nas primeiras ações do período em questão, por exemplo: formação integral, o trabalho como princípio educativo, o trabalho a ciência e a cultura como eixos curriculares, portanto não houve uma reconfiguração efetiva. Esse viés perdeu força nas disputas dentro e fora do campo educacional, em detrimento do fortalecimento do viés formativo voltado para um ensino médio mais condizente com os interesses e demandas do campo econômico, como expressão da força do projeto de ensino médio, delineado durante o governo FHC. As estratégias empreendidas pelos agentes, no jogo instaurado, convergiram com o habitus peculiar de cada campo e, no decorrer de 2003 a 2014, o campo econômico obteve maior êxito em suas disputas, estratégias, concepções e projeto. Já o campo educacional perdeu capital simbólico, entre os agentes do próprio campo e também junto ao campo político, por questões atreladas ao jogo político da coalizão, das estratégias empreendidas por cada campo e pela mudança no campo de poder, que possibilitou aos agentes do campo econômico uma melhor disposição e posição no tocante à afirmação de seu projeto de ensino médio.

The purpose of this case study was to conduct an investigation of educator perceptions of instructional leadership in the school improvement process. Interviews were conducted with educators and an administrator in a small, rural high school in Middle Tennessee. In 2010, the high school was labeled as a low performing school by the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE). In 2014, Commissioner Kevin Huffman announced the school was on the TDOE Reward School Cusp List for being in the top 10% of schools based on one-year progress data from the Tennessee Value-added Assessment System (TVAAS) school composites. Participants of this case study shared experiences and opinions of the instructional leadership utilized by the school principal. As indicated in the findings of this study, instructional leadership practices are crucial in the school improvement process. The key themes related to indicators of sound instructional leadership practices were: maintaining a culture of continuous school improvement, having every faculty member participate in the development and implementation of the school improvement plan, knowing how to use data to make crucial decisions, developing leadership capacity in the school, and being an engaged leader during the school improvement process. Developing a qualitative understanding of the perceptions of effective instructional leadership will enhance greater understanding of leadership practices in the school improvement process.

<p>The aim of this thesis is to contribute to knowledge about how the work and profession of upper secondary school teachers is understood and shaped by the teachers in the beginning of the 21st century, and to relate that understanding of work and professional development to the strivings of the teachers’ trade unions and the state. With the implementation of an innovation as a starting point, the teachers’ narratives also described their work in a broader sense. Connections and contradictions between those descriptions of everyday work are analysed in relation to central ideas in research and state and trade union policy. The empirical data were mainly generated through interviews and studies of state- and teachers’ trade union policy documents. Twenty-three teachers at four upper secondary schools were interviewed twice, with a one year interval. Five school leaders were also interviewed. A minor questionnaire added data concerning professional development. 102 documents published by the State and the teachers’ trade unions between 1964 and 2004 were analysed using critical discourse analysis.</p><p>The analysis is eclectic, drawing on perspectives and conceptions from theories on professions, organisations, school development and the frame factor theory. The overall approach of the study is practice related research and includes an intention to draw attention to connections between micro and macro levels.</p><p>The analyses of the teachers’ narratives on implementation indicate that they were able to do the job despite unsatisfactory conditions thanks to high work morale and extensive experience. The infrastructure provided by the frame factors was weak or working at cross purposes. The school-wide support for development was stronger at one of the four schools.</p><p>The teachers’ formal freedom of action was substantial. In practice it was restricted by frame factors and the fact that the potential freedom was not fully used. Thus, the actual autonomy was more limited than it appeared to be. The school culture included elements of balkanised and contrived collegiality. Many tasks were delegated to the interdisciplinary work teams, but the teams did not seem to live up to expectations. Primarily, they lacked time and an appropriate group composition. There was a clash between the interdisciplinary work teams and the teachers’ need to co-operate within subject work teams. The teachers did not regard interdisciplinary work teams as useful for school or professional development.</p><p>Supportive conditions for long-term, shared learning and dialogue between researchers and practitioners were largely lacking. Visions such as learning organisations were far removed from the everyday life in the schools. Changes in organisational structures at the schools have partly been counterproductive.</p><p>The far-reaching restructuring of the Swedish upper secondary schools implemented from the end of the 1980s and during the 1990s was in line with international reform trends. It also had specific national characteristics. The concept professional teachers was introduced in some Government bills around 1990. The teachers’ trade unions adopted the concept and it became increasingly significant in trade union policy during the 1990s. At the turn of the millennium it was a dominant idea in their documents.</p><p>During the 1990s several influential discourses became established as shared views between the State, trade unions and some researchers, e.g. what I have called change and professional discourses. They were rarely problematized in state and teachers’ trade union policy documents. The two agreements between the teachers’ trade unions and the employers, in 1995 and 2000, constituted another component of what has been termed a system-shift in the Swedish school system. They influenced the teachers’ working conditions and implied new strategies for the trade unions. The professional, change and management discourses salient in the documents were brought into schools with insufficient opportunities for the teachers to develop a deep meaning of the discourses.</p><p>The study emphasizes the importance of practice oriented studies, related to wider contexts, in order to provide insights into teachers’ work and professional development. It also brings nuances to, and problematizes theoretical conceptions and discourses in the field.</p><p>Key-words: teaching profession, upper secondary teachers, change, school reform, professional development, school development, frame factors, school governance, school policy, trade union</p>