Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-01

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-01

Orientador: Paula Ramos de Oliveira / Banca: Denis Domeneghetti Badia / Banca: Carlos Skliar / Resumo: A presente pesquisa surgiu da intenção de estabelecer uma aproximação entre o pensamento do filósofo franco-argelino Jacques Derrida e o ato educativo. A desconstrução derridiana nos possibilita caminhos para analisar o Ato Educativo como um acontecimento, inusitado, impensado, diferindo-se do que comumente se apresenta: uma busca frenética por categorizar, capturar, domesticar os conteúdos e saberes tidos como dogmáticos e que cerceiam as mais diferentes relações que são colocadas na escola. Essa escola desconstruída é aquela capaz de possibilitar a acolhida ao outro e, com ela, a abertura do mundo - o contemporâneo - que é esquecido na conversa entre as gerações e que se coloca como maneira de ultrapassar as medidas que cabiam apenas na esfera jurídica, na individualidade do sujeito, elevando-as ao campo público, uma vez que nos expede uma experiência com a Educação que não se estabeleça no tempo passado ou no tempo futuro, mas que seja capaz de interromper a suposta ordem natural das coisas tida como destino. Concebendo o espaço escolar como território legítimo desse ato que, ao mesmo tempo, como que em um processo antagônico, revela-se num lugar (im)possível para tal acontecimento, o estudo que aqui se coloca, busca compreender as implicações da alteridade e sua suposta acolhida sem condição na escola, sobretudo as que tangem os arrolamentos entre os outros e a herança da qual são herdeiros para a constituição (possível ou não) de uma outra Educação / Résumé: Cette recherche est née de l'intention d'établir une connexion entre la pensée du philosophe français Jacques Derrida-algérien et l'acte éducatif. La déconstruction de Derrida nous permet façons d'analyser la Loi sur l'éducation comme un événement, inhabituelle, irréfléchie, différant de la présente généralement: une recherche effrénée en catégorisant, capture, prise contenus et des connaissances aussi dogmatique et de limiter le plus différent relations qui sont placés dans l'école. Cette école déconstruit est celui qui peut permettre d'accueillir l'autre et, avec elle, l'ouverture du monde - contemporain - qui est négligée dans la conversation entre les générations et qui se pose comme un moyen de surmonter les mesures qui pourraient correspondre seulement pour les individus, l'individualité du sujet, de les élever au domaine public, puisque les questions une expérience avec l'éducation qui ne peut pas être établie dans le passé ou dans le futur, mais pour être en mesure d'arrêter l'ordre naturel supposée des choses prises comme une destination. Concevoir l'école comme un territoire légitime de cette loi en même temps que dans un processus contradictoire, se révèle être un lieu (im) possible pour un tel événement, l'étude a posé ici, cherche à comprendre les implications de l'altérité et son supposément accepté sans condition dans l'école, en particulier ceux qui concernent les arrolamentos entre autres et le patrimoine dont ils sont les héritiers de la constitution (ou ne peuvent pas) une autre éducation / Mestre

School engagement has emerged as a consistent target variable in prevention and intervention efforts to improve student achievement and reduce risk of dropout. This dissertation study analyzed several student-level and intervention-level characteristics as potential predictors of student response to school engagement interventions. Participants included 757 6th graders who were a part of a large-scale, comprehensive intervention project for Oregon middle schoolers. The results of the current study indicated that students’ baseline school engagement (as measured by the Student Engagement Instrument), Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Status, and school district significantly predicted response. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / It was the purpose of this study (l) to explore certain educational theories evolved from concepts of the interrelations of the arts and utilize them as bases for the development of positive attitudes, understandings, and interests in music for students at the secondary shcool level; (2) to evolve a sound educational approach to the academically oriented content reflected in the musical expressions of the 17th and 18th centuried; (3) to utilize the audio and visual aspects of the art expressions of these centuries as audio-visual experiences illuminating the socio-economic, political, cultural, and philosophical shaping forces of these eras; (4) to make perceptible the manner in which the 11 shaping forces 11 helped to determine the musical content, style, elements and expression of each period; and (5) to use this knowledge as a basis for the intensive study of outstanding musical expressions in Baroque, Rococo, Expressive, Storm and Stress, and Classical styles. Method of procedure. The documentation for the conceptual approach of this study led to the investigation of sources from various disciplines. Ontological and empirical evidence was presented to define and reveal the educational and cultural values inherent in the audio-visual approach of this study. Discussion followed of the findings, which appeared to sustain the necessary, dynamic, and positive educational values inherent in this approach to music listening [TRUNCATED]

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / The focus of this study was to create a living portrait of the work life ofliteracy coaches, a new and evolving occupation for staff developers. Coaches with expertise in literacy curriculum, instruction, and assessment have been hired to work with teachers and administrators in urban elementary schools and help them to improve instruction for urban youth. Coaches, teachers, and principals in four northeastern cities participated in this study. Coaches were observed, interviews were conducted, and participants were asked to provide samples of student work, schedules, or other documents that were used to triangulate data obtained from observation and interviews. Of the five coaches in the study (three part-time, external coaches and two fulltime, internal coaches), reports indicate that two of the part-time coaches were most successful. Supervisory or administrative responsibilities, particularly identification and remediation of problematic teachers, created an obstacle for both of the full-time coaches. It created the perception among other members of the faculty that the coaches were forcing a top-down agenda for change. The effectiveness of the principal as an instructional leader, the coaches' ability to manage their daily work, the personality of individual coaches, and process by which they choose to engage teachers also had an effect on their ability to promote change. The successful coaches appealed to the intrinsic motivation of teachers to improve instruction by explicitly demonstrating how some practices are beneficial to students. Having gained the initial commitment of teachers, the successful coaches focused on helping teachers to internalize strategies that would allow them to become more reflective about their practice and better able to adapt instruction to the diverse needs of their students. The successful coaches were working in districts with organized reform initiatives, and were working in schools with principals who were knowledgeable about, and dedicated to literacy reform. Their principals had created time for teacher collaboration and professional development to be part of the teachers' workday. / 2031-01-01

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Australia continues to become culturally diverse. This diversity is being witnessed in Catholic schools. This thesis reports research which employed quantitative data collection methods in investigating students’ perceptions of their multicultural classroom environment. By drawing on Catholic school literature, multicultural literature, previous learning environment research and the perceptions of stakeholders, an instrument, known as the Multicultural Classroom Environment Instrument (MCEI), was developed to assess psychosocial dimensions of classroom environments in Queensland Catholic secondary schools. These dimensions were: Collaboration, Competition, Teacher Authority, Teacher Support, Congruence, Deference, Teacher Directedness and Gender Equity. The use of the instrument with a sample of 1,460 students in 24 Catholic secondary schools in Queensland revealed some statistically significant differences in students’ perceptions of their classroom environment. Differences were revealed according to the country of birth of the student and those of the parents. Investigations examining school type, subject, year level and gender were also undertaken. Single-sex schools were shown to be more concerned with Teacher Authority and Competition compared to coeducational schools. Religion and Study of Religion classes were perceived as very similar, irrespective of school type. There were differences in students’ perception of the classroom environment across different year levels, with year 8 students’ perceptions significantly different to that of years 10 and 12 students. Girls generally perceived their classroom environment more positively than boys, with greater Collaboration, Teacher Support and Gender Equity and less Competition and Teacher Authority. The results of this thesis suggest that differences in students’ perceptions of multicultural classroom environments in Queensland Catholic secondary schools do exist. It also suggests that in order to continue to provide quality education, Catholic schools must acknowledge these differences. They must also ensure that curriculum initiatives, staff professional development and training, and other educational and pastoral initiatives are designed to incorporate the differences identified in this thesis. Further investigation into a variety of multicultural classroom environments is recommended.

The chief argument of this study of major reforms within Maori schools is that while their curriculum was updated and morale restored, all educational developments were predicated upon the Maori people remaining a rural, dependent people. In the background to schooling changes were two expressions of nationalism within New Zealand: Attempts of the Dominion, at an official level, to assert its independence, moves made more urgent by the Depression, and secondly, the growing sense of the Maori people of their racial and cultural heritage. These significant changes were joined by a clutch of moves which propelled the Maori people into the national economy. The chief architects of schooling changes would have considered their work made a major break with the past. In reality it continued a tradition embedded in the nineteenth century in which education was regarded as a means of social control. As such, this paternalistic stance originated from British colonial theory, and from the purposes defined for education of the so-called lower classes. Partial reinterpretations of the tradition emerged in the growing practice of setting aside reserves for native education, from E G Wakefield�s theories, and the highly influential stance of John Thornton, Headmaster of Te Aute Collage. In a theory novel for the nineteenth century, Thornton held that Maoris should be so educated that they might fill any job or profession. Douglas Ball, appointed Inspector in 1928, was a domineering presence within Maori Schools. The substantial support of unique, creative government projects to make productive farms of Maori traditional lands were joined to Ball�s promotion of the tenets of Progrssive Education, and the then-novel introduction of Maoritanga in the curricululum. Education and social philosophies so espoused were derivative; the former from the �child-centredness� of Progressive Education, the latter, from the late colonial theory of adaptionism. Schooling renewal and land development attracted bi-partisan support. Ball received further support from international colleagues. It was the demise of the Proficiency Examinaton, however, that enabled education to be pressed into a vocational pattern, and with it, moves to link school and community. This renewal received limited challenge until officials pressed for reforms and expansion of secondary education on a vocational basis. Pressure on Denominational Schools to virtually abandon academic courses was exceedingly unpopular, as were the turns the development of the Native District High Schools took: Maori families had become aware that a good life on the land was not possible for all. They also felt the vocational slant was an insult to Maori aspiration for better jobs and recognized status within New Zealand. Maori opposition to this form of education was an appropriate response to its limitations. This study concludes, however, given the paucity of articulate critics a no-contest situation emerged in face of strongly-held stereotypes and the bureaucratic vigour of an Education Department bent on implementing �progressive� policies.

This field study is a critical analysis of early streaming in Singapore. Primary school pupils are streamed at the end of Primary 3 on the basis of their performance in achievement tests in English, Mathematics and Second Language. The streaming policy is based on eugenic and economic premises. The policy-makers believe that intelligence is largely determined by genes, and that the quality of human resources is a vital factor for nation building. The study identifies the ideological position of the policy-makers by unpacking some of their major assumptions about humans, society, knowledge, school and curriculum, and reveals the ideological underpinnings of inherited differences in IQ and meritocracy which support this policy. The study also examines the inequality of advantage of this form of streaming. The findings of the pre-primary study and the study on dropouts show that unnatural inequalities do affect the performance of pupils in achievement tests and their desire to stay on in school. The analysis of the planning and management of the change shows that different reactions of principals, teachers and parents can have different effects on pupil motivation and learning, with grave social implications.