Thesis (M.Ed.(Socio-Ed.))--University of South Africa, 2002.

Thesis (D.Litt. et Phil.)--Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, 2002.

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Science in Information Technology in Education

This study examines whether aggression and prosocial behavior shape changes in perceptions of friendship quality within stable reciprocal best friend dyads. A longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was used to investigate whether individual characteristics predict changes 6 to 12 weeks later in perceptions of relationship support and negativity. The sample included 76 same-sex dyads drawn from classrooms in grades 4 (M = 9.48 years) through 6 (M= 11.43 years) in two public schools in the United States. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 William Ruotti.pdf: 2133289 bytes, checksum: 75e78a01826c75e428e612e726f300c3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-17 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / In this thesis, part of the line of research Reading, Writing and English Language Teaching, the Program of Postgraduate Studies in Portuguese at PUC-SP, I investigate the relations between the SEE-SP and its institutional discourse and the potential impacts on acting teacher of Portuguese who teaches in the public schools of the city of Carapicuíba. The objective of the research is to identify and discuss the power structure established by SEE-SP, through its official documents, in the constitution of pedagogical discourse around the performance of this teacher. Thus, I develop this study in the light of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the side proposed by Fairclough (2003, 2008, 2010) and Critical Realism (RC), from what has Resende and Ramalho (2009) and Bhaskar (1998). The analysis focused on documents that are part of the teacher as a career: the portarias do INEP / MEC that determine the evaluation of ENADE and what is expected of the future teacher, graduated in Letters; the clippings of notices to join the state system of São Paulo teaching by drawing a comparison between the 1998 contests, in 2003, 2010 and 2014, 1996 LDB post in which establish the profile and knowledge necessary for the teacher formed and ticket seeker ; Currículo do Estado de São Paulo de Língua Portuguesa, the Matrizes de Referência para a Avaliação SARESP, guidance on the AAP and, finally, the Diretrizes Norteadoras da política Educacional do Estado de São Paulo - 2015-2018, the actions of regulators teacher in the classroom. Think of these moments in the construction of pedagogic discourse of the teacher is very important considering that in this process, particular and individual, the teacher confronts what is put by the Secretariat and the experiences that brings with it, basing their way of being, of representing and acting in the world. The results showed us the need for reflection on the institutional texts on education make increasingly part of the discussions held by the Portuguese Language teachers at different times of training, in order to elucidate and clarify a simple mechanical causality that the teaching process and learning can become / Nesta tese, inserida na linha de pesquisa Leitura, Escrita e Ensino de Língua Portuguesa, do Programa de Estudos Pós-graduados em Língua Portuguesa da PUC-SP, investigo as relações estabelecidas entre a SEE-SP e seu discurso institucional e os potenciais reflexos na atuação do professor de Língua Portuguesa que leciona nas escolas estaduais do município de Carapicuíba. O objetivo da pesquisa é identificar e discutir a estrutura de poder estabelecida pela SEE-SP, por meio de seus documentos oficiais, na constituição do discurso pedagógico em torno da atuação desse professor. Sendo assim, desenvolvo este estudo à luz da Análise de Discurso Crítica (ADC), na vertente proposta por Fairclough (2003, 2008, 2010) e do Realismo Crítico (RC), a partir do que apresenta Resende e Ramalho (2009) e Bhaskar (1998). A análise centrou-se nos documentos que fazem parte do percurso do professor como profissional: as portarias do INEP/MEC que determinam a avaliação do ENADE e o que se espera do futuro professor formado em Letras; os recortes feitos nos Editais para ingresso na rede estadual de ensino de São Paulo, traçando um comparativo entre os concursos de 1998, 2003, 2010 e 2014, pós LDB de 1996, identificando o perfil e os conhecimentos necessários ao professor formado e candidato a ingresso; o Currículo do Estado de São Paulo de Língua Portuguesa, as Matrizes de Referência para a Avaliação SARESP, as orientações sobre a AAP e, por fim, as Diretrizes Norteadoras da Política Educacional do Estado de São Paulo 2015-2018, reguladores da atuação do professor em sala de aula. Pensar nesses momentos na construção do discurso pedagógico do professor é muito importante considerando que nesse processo, particular e individual, o professor confronta o que lhe é posto pela Secretaria e as vivências que traz consigo, fundamentando sua maneira de ser, de representar e de agir no mundo. Os resultados nos mostraram a necessidade dessas reflexões sobre os textos institucionais que orientam sua atuação em sala de aula façam, cada vez mais, parte das discussões realizadas pelos professores de Língua Portuguesa em diferentes momentos de formação, sejam nas ATPC ou mesmo em O.T. centralizadas, no sentido de elucidar e tornar claro o processo de ensino e aprendizagem, evitando que esse se torne um reflexo de uma simples causalidade mecânica

During the classroom teachings, teachers performed multiple roles. This include guided participation and scaffolding which helped to facilitate students in learning. During teaching, teachers should have continuous self-reflection and make suitable adjustment based on students' immediate responses so that they can always learn at the Zone of Proximal Development. / In the recent years, students' engagement has been the focus of concern in the US. Various studies have found that students' academic performances were directly affected by students' engagement. In Hong Kong, research on this topic has not yet been found. This research aimed to find out how the behaviors of three primary school English teachers' affect their students' engagements. The teachers were observed on how they presented their lessons on one of the units of the textbooks. Each teacher chose three students as samples of this research. Ways of data collection included: lesson observation, video-taping of classroom teaching, in-class tape-recording of the sample students, and interviewing the teachers and sample students. / The findings of this research perceived the following six behaviors that were of vital importance to students' engagement: (1) Providing learning opportunities for students, (2) Roles of teachers, (3) Student-teacher dialogue, (4) Teachers' demand on students' understanding of what they have been taught, (5) Teachers' self-reflection while teaching, and (6) Teachers' expectations on students. / There are three aspects of engagements: affective engagement, behavioral engagement and cognitive engagement. Students display different levels of engagements due to their teachers' behaviors while teaching. This research found that students' behavioral engagement is associated with superficial affective engagement but does not necessarily correlate with cognitive engagement. On the other hand, cognitive engagement is closely associated with profound affective engagement. It was also found that students' engagement is influenced by the following psychological factors: (1) autonomy, competence and relatedness of the Self Determination Theory, (2) self-efficacy, and (3) students' learning goal orientation. In order to elevate students' engagement, teachers have to provide learning opportunities at a suitable level of difficulties for the students and at the same time, challenging and exciting. Teachers should let students to have enough autonomy when they are striving hard for success. If students exert effort to reach their goals, they can get the sense of self-efficacy. / This research also discovered that students' learning goal orientation is very complicated. It is not a dichotomy. In the process of learning, students should go through the process of internalization, which is the most essential indicator of cognitive engagement. The researcher noticed that three of the teachers' behaviors may generate students' pseudo-learning: (1) teachers' didactic approach, (2) I-R-E (Initiation-Response-Evaluation) approach, (3) teachers' low expectation on students. Thereof, dispositional factors may not be the reason for students' lack of motivation in learning. Learning motivation may be the outgrowth of teachers' behavior while teaching. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) / 李帶生. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 379-394). / Advisers: Hin Wah Wong; Sin Pui Cheung. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-03, Section: A, page: 0859. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 379-394). / Li Daisheng.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:01:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bernadete Veronica Schaeffer Hoffman.pdf: 4955596 bytes, checksum: 014403bc82016d8545d73400b0d8c601 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-28 / Este estudo, inserido no campo da educação matemática, foi desenvolvido no Programa de Pós-Graduação do Centro de Educação da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo PPGE/CE/UFES. Desenvolvemos uma investigação qualitativa do tipo pesquisa-ação com práticas colaborativas que buscavam responder ao questionamento central: o que nós, professores, compreendemos da aprendizagem matemática do aluno quando trabalhamos com diferentes formas de comunicação? Para respondê-la, inserimo-nos em três escolas municipais de Serra e Vitória, atuando junto a três professores e suas turmas, a saber, duas turmas de 5º ano e uma turma de 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental. A produção de dados aconteceu entre maio e dezembro de 2011, em 98 encontros que incluíram: momentos de conversas e planejamentos com os professores; aulas ministradas pelos professores regentes observadas por nós; e aulas ministradas por nós observadas por eles. As compreensões construídas nessas atuações se deram a partir do diálogo com autores que teorizam sobre educação; educação matemática; matemática; leitura, escrita e oralidade como formas de comunicação em matemática. Os experimentos de ensino desenvolvidos nas três escolas sugerem que práticas de diferentes técnicas de leitura ajudaram na compreensão de textos com linguagem matemática, dentre estes os textos de resolução de problemas, ampliando conhecimento também em outras disciplinas escolares. Ao falar e escrever sobre um conceito matemático em outros gêneros discursivos, o aluno organizava seu pensamento de forma a melhor compreendê-lo e aprofundava entendimento de conceitos. Ainda tivemos indícios de que formas variadas de comunicação matemática, tais como a representação pictórica na construção de algoritmos não formais, estimularam a resolução de problemas desafiadores enquanto o aluno criava estratégias próprias de solução. O estudo ainda permitiu aprendizagens aos professores, possibilitandolhes compreender pensamentos e sentimentos do aluno em relação à matemática. Isso favoreceu o desenvolvimento de atividades em que alunos pudessem ressignificar crenças e sentimentos em relação à disciplina através de tarefas de caráter lúdico. Enfim, a pesquisa sugere que alunos e professores aprendem matemática com significado ao entrelaçar diferentes formas de comunicação e construir pequenas comunidades de aprendizagem, em que se oportunizam várias interações em aulas de matemática, tais como, (a) interação aluno/aluno, (b) interação aluno/professor/conhecimento, (c) interação professor/aluno/texto e (d) interação aluno/texto/aluno. Essas interações levavam professores à compreensão do que alunos sabiam e não sabiam, possibilitavam-lhes reflexões sobre práticas docentes e indicavam-lhes possibilidades de intervenções nos processos de ensino, aprendizagem e avaliação de matemática / This study, of the field of mathematics education, was developed in the Graduate Education Program of Center of Education at Federal University of Espírito Santo PPGE/CE/UFES. We have developed a qualitative inquiry as an action research with collaborative practices that seek to answer the main question: What do we comprehend from pupils mathematics learning when we work with different forms of communication? In order to answer it we worked with three municipal schools from Serra and Vitória, acting together with three teachers and their classrooms, respectively, two 5th grade classes and one 6th grade class from elementary school system. The data produced took place between May and December 2011, in 98 meetings that included: moments of conversations and planning with the teachers, teachers lessons observed from us, and teachers observations from our taught lessons. The understandings built up from these performances happened through the dialogue with authors who theorize about education; mathematics education; mathematics; reading, writing and speaking as forms of mathematics communication. The teaching experiments developed in the three schools suggest that the practices of different reading techniques helped to text understanding in mathematics language, among them problem solving texts, also expanding knowledge in other school subject areas. By speaking and writing about a mathematical concept in other discursive genres, the pupil organized his/her thinking in a way to better understand it and also broadened concept understandings. We still had evidences that diverse forms of mathematics communication, such as pictorial representations in the construction of non formal algorithms, have stimulated challenging tasks of problem solving while the student created its own solution strategies. The study also allowed teachers learning, while letting them understand pupil s thoughts and feelings towards mathematics. This favored the development of activities in which students could give new meanings to beliefs and feelings about the subject through the use of playful tasks. Finally, the research suggests that students and teachers learn mathematics with meaning by intertwining various forms of communication and building small learning communities, in which diverse interactions are proposed in mathematics lessons, such as, (a) interaction between student/student, (b) interaction between student/teacher/knowledge, (c) interaction between teacher/ student/text, and (d) interaction between student/text/student. These interactions led teachers to the comprehension of what pupils knew and did not know, allowed them reflections about the teaching practices, and indicated possibilities of intervention in the processes of mathematics teaching, learning and assessment

This research examines problematic and taken for granted issues in Scottish Secondary Education, from a critical community psychological perspective. Young people are positioned as central to the research, in particular young people experiencing exclusion being the most disempowered group in education, and to fully understand problems they experience the thesis develops a standpoint with young people. Methodologically the research is grounded in a particular approach to praxis. Critical reflection, action and knowledge construction all influence one another cyclically in complex relationships, at times conflicting and at others developing together dialogically and these relationships are embraced and reflected upon carefully. Power and knowledge are viewed as being inextricably linked and knowledge, what is legitimated within a certain frame of reference as ‘truth’ or ‘reality’, is viewed as being constructed by dominant groups with the power to do so. Ethnography was carried out in three educational settings: a mainstream High School; a Special School in a city centre catering for young people experiencing exclusion; and a Youth Project where permanently excluded young people were on an alternative curriculum. Qualitative methods were used in a varied and tailored way for each setting and group of people and included Participatory Action Research and group work with young people, interview and group work with teachers, active participation in settings leading to fieldwork notes, and collection of textual information. Analysis involved careful examination of a wide variety of material, drawing on various methods of discourse analysis. The research material was analysed for the ways in which education made possible and placed limits on legislation, social practices, ways of speaking and ways of being. The assumption that adults must be in control of young people in education was found to be absolute and pervasive, stemming from societal ideas of young people, but also perpetuating them. This emerged throughout my research, from practices in mainstream school to ways of speaking available to adults and young people. Inclusion, while often spoken of in relation to equality and social justice, in practice is often conditional, and is re-positioned in this thesis as a form of control. School exclusion is often described in education as being expelled or suspended, but is repositioned in this research more generally as being excluded from learning and peers, and is argued as inherently problematic. Problematic, institutional, educational discourse is constructed as often placing limits on ways of speaking, such that critical reflection and action within secondary education becomes very difficult for adults and young people. Ways of speaking available to young people are examined and demonstrate that while education imposes particular ways of speaking and being, young people find opportunities to resist and reconstruct. Ways of being are examined, between adults and young people in educational settings, and an account of performance of resistance and compliance between young people and adults is developed. This research draws on a complex and multi disciplinary use of theory, literature, methodology and methods, and in doing so constructs an account of young people’s experiences in education that is based on a standpoint with young people. By grounding the research in the interests of young people, particularly those experiencing school exclusion, it challenges assumptions of dominance and control that have implications for education as a whole and all those operating within.

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

The study investigates the potential of teacher talk in enhancing learner capacity to negotiate learning, premised on a view of classroom interaction as guided construction of knowledge. It examines the extent to which levels of oracy - essentially, awareness of the language of instruction, and the ability to use it more effectively - can be raised by exposing teachers to an in-service distance education language-based course. The main research questions are: a. What are the effects of the course in classroom text and discourse on oracy in the high school classroom? b. How can the quality of classroom discourse be assessed in a relatively systematic and objective manner? With regard to the second question, an analytical framework was developed that defined three key constructs in terms of discourse acts, namely teacher dominance, teacher effectiveness and learner initiative, and these constructs formed the basis of the three hypotheses. Patterns of interaction in English, mathematics and geography classes during the first year of high school in Harare, Zimbabwe (main study) and Zomba, Malawi (supplementary study) were analysed. The Zimbabwe study used a pretest-posttest control group design, with six teachers in the experimental group and three as controls, while the Malawi study used a posttest-only control group design with three teachers in each group. The experimental groups took part in an intervention programme known as the Litraid Project, a course on classroom text and discourse. The findings, interpreted both quantitatively and qualitatively, showed that after intervention the experimental group teachers dominated classrooms less and used discourse input more consciously and effectively. Similarly, their learners showed improved ability to negotiate learning, as reflected in their heightened levels of initiative and discourse output, both in class and group discussion. Hence the conclusion that classroom praxis, specifically in English second language situations, benefits from a conscious enhancement of oracy, leading to more effective teaching and learning. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (Linguistics)