Character education has been viewed by many educators as having significant historical, academic, and social value. Many stakeholders in education argue for character development as a curricular experience. While understanding the degree to which character education is of worth to stakeholders of institutions is important, understanding students, teachers, and administrators perspectives from their lived experiences is likewise significant. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain a deeper understanding of character education within a Biblical framework environment by examining the lived experiences of students, administrators, and teachers of a Seventh-day Adventist School. Phenomenology describes individuals’ daily experiences of phenomena, the manner in which these experiences are structured, and focuses analysis on the perspectives of the persons having the experience (Moustakas, 1994). ). This inquiry was undertaken to answer the question: What are the perceptions of students, teachers, and an administrator toward character education in a Seventh-day Adventist school setting? Ten participants (seven students and three adults) formed the homogeneous purposive sample, and the major data collection tool was semi-structured interviews (Patton, 1990; Seidman, 2006). Three 90-minute open-ended interviews were conducted with each of the participants. Data analysis included a three-phase process of description, reduction and interpretation. The findings from this study revealed that participants perceived that their involvement in the school’s character education program decreased the tendency to violence, improved their conduct and ethical sensibility, enhanced their ability to engage in decision-making concerning social relationships and their impact on others, brought to their attention the emerging global awareness of moral deficiency, and fostered incremental progress from practice and recognition of vices to their acquisition of virtues. The findings, therefore, provide a model for teaching character education from a Seventh-day Adventist perspective. The model is also relevant for non-Seventh day Adventists who aspire to teach character education as a means to improving social and moral conditions in schools.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T13:54:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MAELY FERREIRA HOLANDA RAMOS.pdf: 10998904 bytes, checksum: 2b5ef30a1ffc3335e80c6660fe61bbac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This present study is about of the Adventist Education Confessional in São Luís, Maranhão, during 1943 to 2010, having as a reference the Adventist College of São Luís because this is the first Educational Institution Network. The goal is to recover the research process and to analyze the historical reminiscence through discourses and practices and then to understand the conditions that favored and allowed the emergence and expansion of educational institution. Studies the Adventist Education Confessional entered the religious field of Maranhão in context of the plurality in the XIX and XX centuries. Considers that it is a place of symbolic manifestantion that put thoughts of competing interests dispute. Believes that it is a field of struggle where perceive conflicts arising from competition for power as a function of the legitimation of a symbolic order (SANTOS, 2006; BOURDIEU, 1990). It starts with the origin of Seventy-Day Adventist Church in United States and its expansionist movement that culminated with the introduction of the churc in Brazil, as well as its institutional extension: the school (SHUNEMANN, 2002; DOUGLASS, 2003). It is understand the Adventist College of São Luís to unveil the strategies used for its development and expansion, while proselytizing influence (SARAIVA, 2000; CERTEAU, 1988; FOUCAULT, 1979). Makes this study a qualitative approach based on oral history as an investigative method and cultural history while analytical axis from the reminiscences captures in open interviews and practices encountered during participant observation in two months in contact with the field research. It is postulated the analysis of memory as connections between past and present for the reconstruction of identity understanding the memory as oral narrative that can bring to mind the evidence political, economic, social, cultural and educational importance for the understanding of a story. It analyze and interpret the multiple relationships that are established in the religious of Maranhão in the Adventist Education Confessional to understand their connection with Seventy-Day Adventist Church and their educacional purpose, the goal and expansion strategies. It is assumed about adaptation to international market of São Luís to achive competitiveness in a progressive process opening for customer service other religions in a subtle distance of the established objectives at the beginning of his career. / O presente estudo trata da história do Ensino Confessional Adventista em São Luís do Maranhão, no período de 1943 a 2010, tomando como referência o Colégio Adventista de São Luís, por ser este a primeira Instituição Educacional da rede. Objetiva-se neste processo de investigação recuperar e analisar a reminiscência dessa história através dos discursos e práticas para, então, compreender as condições que favoreceram e possibilitaram o surgimento e expansão desta Instituição de Ensino. Estuda-se o Ensino Confessional Adventista inserido no Campo Religioso Maranhense em seu contexto de pluralidade nos séculos XX e XXI, considera-se que este é um lugar de manifestações simbólicas que colocam em prática pensamentos concorrentes em disputa de interesses. Entende-se que este é um campo de lutas, onde se percebe conflitos originados da disputa pelo poder em função da legitimação de uma ordem simbólica (SANTOS, 2006; BOURDIEU, 1990). Parte-se da origem da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia (IASD) nos Estados Unidos e do seu movimento expansionista que culminou com a introdução da Igreja no Brasil, bem como da sua extensão institucional, a escola (SHUNEMANN, 2002; DOUGLASS, 2003). Trata-se de entender a história do Colégio Adventista de São Luís para desvelar as estratégias utilizadas para o seu desenvolvimento e expansão, enquanto influência proselitista (SARAIVA, 2000; CERTEAU, 1988; FOUCAULT, 1979). Sustenta-se este estudo numa abordagem qualitativa pautada na história oral enquanto método investigativo e na história cultural enquanto eixo analítico a partir da análise das reminiscências captadas nas entrevistas abertas e das práticas sentidas durante a observação participativa realizada no período de dois meses em contato com o campo de pesquisa. Postula-se a análise das memórias enquanto conexões entre o passado e o presente para a reconstrução da identidade, entendendo que a memória enquanto narrativa oral pode trazer a lembrança evidências políticas, econômicas, sociais, culturais e educacionais importantes para a compreensão de uma história. Analisam-se e interpretam-se as múltiplas relações que se estabelecem no campo religioso maranhense no que diz respeito ao Ensino Confessional Adventista, buscando entender sua ligação com a Igreja, sua proposta educacional, seu propósito e estratégias de expansão. Conjectura-se sobre sua suposta adaptação ao mercado educacional ludovicence para alcançar competitividade, num processo progressivo de abertura para o atendimento de clientes de outras religiões, num sutil distanciamento dos objetivos estabelecidos no início da sua trajetória.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2016-09-14T18:52:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 IGORMARQUES.pdf: 1484987 bytes, checksum: 222e9ad06f9f0aead873e9543fe463b9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-14T18:52:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IGORMARQUES.pdf: 1484987 bytes, checksum: 222e9ad06f9f0aead873e9543fe463b9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-27 / Against the backdrop of the denominational status of network Adventist education present in a remarkable way in the school space and the intense religious diversity students, this research analyzes the relationship of possible tensions between the denominational school status and religious diversity present. It takes into account the process of modernity causing significant change in education, in religion and in the form of the two institutes relate to each other. It took into account the socio-economic and religious profile of the students and how is the reception of religious education in Adventist school space, including students who declare themselves Adventists. The area chosen for this research was the Adventist schools located in the ABCD Paulista context, which offer high school. These school units are located in the cities of Diadema, Santo Andre and Sao Caetano do Sul, cities located in the same micro region, but with different socioeconomic realities. / Tendo como pano de fundo a confessionalidade da rede adventista de educação presente de maneira marcante no espaço escolar e a intensa diversidade religiosa discente, esta pesquisa analisa a relação de possíveis tensões entre a confessionalidade escolar e a diversidade religiosa presente neste espaço. Leva em consideração o processo de modernidade causadora de importantes transformações na educação, na religião e na forma dos dois institutos se relacionarem. Levou-se em consideração o perfil socioeconômico e religioso dos alunos e possíveis tensões na recepção do religioso no espaço escolar adventista por parte dos discentes, inclusive por aqueles que se declaram adventistas. O espaço escolhido para esta pesquisa foi o de colégios adventistas localizadas no contexto do ABCD Paulista, que ofertam o Ensino Médio. Estas unidades escolares estão situadas nas cidades de Diadema, Santo André e São Caetano do Sul, cidades localizadas na mesma microrregião, mas com distintas realidades socioeconômicas.