The problem undertaken in this study was that of making an effort to determine, in so far as was possible, the reading interests of the students enrolled in the high school at Nocona, Texas, during the 1954-1955 school session. A secondary phase of the problem was to compare these reading interests with those of students enrolled in nine other typical high schools of comparable size in other sections of Texas, as determined by means of a questionnaire survey.

Orientador: Pedro da Cunha Pinto Neto / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T11:53:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_RosanedeBastos_D.pdf: 2634538 bytes, checksum: 1e7300a5dceb3a449730a8c484003d27 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Esta tese tem como objetivo analisar o Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola (PNBE) e sua representatividade na sistemática de funcionamento das escolas públicas brasileiras como um dos sustentáculos do Programa Nacional do Livro e Leitura (PNLL), uma Política de Estado que entrou em vigor em 2006. O PNBE, criado em 1997 pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC), com o apoio do Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE) e da Secretaria de Educação Básica (SEB), distribui, desde 1998, acervos literários, obras de referência e de pesquisa a estudantes e professores de escolas públicas do Ensino Infantil, Fundamental, Médio e Educação de Jovens e Adultos cadastradas pelo censo escolar realizado, anualmente, pelo Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP). O trabalho de campo foi realizado de 2008 a 2013 e foram escolhidas duas escolas públicas de Campinas (SP) que estrearam, em 2009, o Programa "Sala de Leitura" da Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo. Os procedimentos envolveram análise documental do PNBE e PNLL, levantamento dos acervos de ambas as escolas, identificação dos livros e seus respectivos programas de origem, o acompanhamento e observação da dinâmica das Salas de Leitura, com vistas a analisar a utilização dos acervos e a visitação dos alunos. Os dados revelam que os livros do PNBE ainda não foram incorporados ao contexto escolar, o tempo concebido aos alunos para uso da sala e exploração dos livros é pequeno, as professoras responsáveis pelas Salas de Leitura não têm uma função definida, o que compromete o processo de formação de leitores. Também foi possível constatar que o PNBE e o PNLL atuam em contextos separados e estanques e que as políticas de leitura federal, estadual e municipal se sobrepõem em movimentos mais divergentes do que convergentes em termos de formação de leitores. A temática da distribuição de livros e das políticas de leitura é aqui ampliada com uma pesquisa in loco na Inglaterra (Reino Unido), com o objetivo de analisar situações distintas, porém com algumas características similares, quanto ao uso do livro e estímulo à leitura em escolas públicas. A principal contribuição desta pesquisa é tentar identificar os caminhos que impedem a efetivação das políticas públicas de leitura dentro das escolas públicas, a partir da indagação central que permeia a tese: "Afinal, se distribuir livros não forma leitores, então qual deve ser o rumo das políticas para o fomento da leitura no Brasil?". Os resultados da pesquisa revelam que a distribuição de livros, sem a formação de mediadores de leitura, como está previsto no PNLL, não resolve o anacrônico problema da leitura no País, e que a não efetivação das políticas de leitura se deve a uma limitação governamental em definir que tipo de educação se quer para o País. / Abstract: This thesis aims to analyze the National School Library Programme (PNBE) and its representation in the structure of Brazilian public schools as one of the pillars of the National Book and Reading Policy (PNLL), that came into effect in 2006. The PNBE, created in 1997 by the Ministry of Education (MEC), with support from the National Fund for Education Development (FNDE) and the Department of Basic Education (SEB), distributes, since 1998, literary collections, reference works and Research to students and teachers in public schools - from Primary to Middle Education, and Youth and Adults Education - enrolled at school census conducted annually by the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP). Fieldwork was conducted from 2008 to 2013 and two public schools in Campinas (SP) were chosen to start, in 2009, the program "Reading Room" of the Department of Education of the State of São Paulo. The procedures involved documentary analysis of PNBE and PNLL, inventory of both school collections, identification of books and programmes which they belong to, monitoring and observation of the Reading Rooms dynamics, aiming to analyze the use of the collections and the room visitation. The data reveals that the books of PNBE have not yet been incorporated into the school context, the time designed for students to use the room and explore the books is short, the teachers in charge of the Reading Rooms do not have a defined function, which compromises the readers' formation process. It was also possible to learn that the PNBE and the PNLL operate in separate contexts and that the local, state and federal reading policies overlap each other in a more divergent than convergent movement related to the reading formation. The thematic of book distribution and reading policies is here extended to a research in loco in England (United Kingdom) in order to analyse different situations, however, with some similarities related to the use of the book and reading stimulation in state schools. The main scientific contribution of this work is trying to identify the ways that prevent the state policies of reading from being effective inside schools, what starts with the initial question that permeates this work: "After all, if distributing books doesn't make readers, then how should be the policies to promote reading in Brazil? ". The research results show that book distribution, without the formation of reading facilitators, as suggested in PNLL, does not solve the anachronistic reading problem in the country, and that the lack of effectivity relating the reading policy is due to a governmental limitation in defining what kind of education is expected. / Doutorado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Doutora em Educação

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The purpose of this project will be to supply teachers, specifically those of second grade students, with a variety of activities that match to appropriate comprehension strategies using California Young Reader Medal nominated books for the year 2000 at the primary level as read-alouds.

This study is the result of an evaluation conducted at the Sam Houston Secondary School library in Corsicana, Texas to determine if the needs of students were being met.

This study explores distinct levels of meaning from images of picture books perceived by 3- to 5-year-old children and investigates how the certain visual perception factors influence children's meaning making and if these factors are correlated. The literature review supports associations among visual perception, information, picture books, meaning, and children. Visual perception serves as the first channel that filters and interprets visual information, and picture books provide visual and verbal experience for children, who constantly search for meaning. Children age 3 to 5 years are potential users of picture books because pictorial information is considered useful to children's learning tasks. Previous research reveals that various factors influence visual perception, and meaning has been mostly associated with its semantic significance in information retrieval. In information science, little research has focused on young children's own way of categorizing information, especially visual information. In order to investigate the distinct levels of meaning perceived by children, the investigation employed both qualitative and quantitative methods including unobtrusive and participant observation, factor analysis, content analysis, and case study. The result of this study contributes to understanding the cognitive process of children related to visual literacy and their interpreting visual information in a digital environment.

The purpose of this thesis is to explore how politic in the field of children´s and young people´s reading has been formulated and motivated during different periods. The analysis comprises political discussions from three periods: the 1910s discussion about how to promote good and inexpensive reading for pleasure, the 1950s political debate about light entertaining literature and comic books, and the political discussion about decreasing reading ability and reading promotion that followed the impaired Swedish results from PISA 2012. The overall issue for the thesis is how the view of children’s reading and children as readers that is expressed in the political discussions differs from each other, as well as how those differences could be explained in relation to the social and cultural policy context. The method is comparative history analysis. The resource material consists of documents from the Swedish Parliament and government official reports. A theoretical point of departure is the childhood studies research and the concept of children as beings or becomings. The analysis also uses theories about literary value and ideas about the function of reading. One of the findings is that children’s reading during all three periods is of great importance, for the children themselves as well as for the future of society. There are also differences. Over time, the discussion has moved from the question of a material lack of good books to a worry about inability and lack of interest in reading. While the 1910s and the 1950s discussions are about “good” and “bad” or “harmful” literature, the 2010s discussion pay more attention to reading as an activity and view reading in all its aspects as truly positive. It is also possible to see a shift in the debate from a collectivistic focus on public education and the citizen’s cultural progress, to a more individualistic approach that emphasizes participation and different ways to acquire literature. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

The focus of this study is on the development of an original script designed to introduce concepts of structural and transactional analysis to elementary school children. Included in Chapter One are reviews of Transactional Analysis and the PAC communication model. Classroom application of Transactional Analysis principles is examined in Chapter Two. Chapter Three examines needs and characteristics of young children. Qualities of good children's literature are discussed in relationship to the selection and explication of script material. The manuscript appears in Appendix B. This report accepts evidence that Transactional Analysis training can be an additive part of the elementary school curriculum. It further proposes that story material conscientiously designed for young children could prove effective and entertaining training vehicles for Transactional Analysis concepts.