The changes coming out from the latest years have repercussion on all instances of living in society, generating new social, political and educational demands. Within this new context, it is extremely relevant to rethink the role of the educator, the academic and administrative procedures, as well as the importance of education for the job market (NASSIF; HANASHIRO, 2001). The present study had as general objective to map the teaching competences of the Business Administration course of UFSM in the perception of students and teachers. The research arose from a theoretical model by Alvarez and Diaz (2004) which mapped the following competences: content masterfulness, logical reasoning in the explanation, relationship, organization, evaluation methods, support to students, use of resources, motivation, professional duties, encouragement to classroom participation and theory-practice interaction. The methodology used was a quantitative research of descriptive characteristic. As to the technical procedures, a case study in the Business Administration course of a public higher education institution (IES) was carried out. By analyzing more than 1130 questionnaires, having a sample of the students (226 respondents) and another of the teachers (27 respondents), it was noticed that the teachers were well evaluated, getting means quite above the intermediary value in the scale (2.50). The results still showed that, within these competences, the most important and influential ones in the teaching performance according to the students perception were, in this order: content masterfulness, logical reasoning in the explanation and support to students. Concerning the teachers sample, the results also pointed out the content masterfulness as the most valued competence, followed by logical reasoning in the explanation and encouragement to classroom participation. Thus, it was demonstrated that there is a sort of alignment in the valuation of competences between teachers and students. Among the areas of knowledge in the course, the area of Human Sciences has stood out by presenting the higher means of the competences, within the 29 variables of the construct. The lower means registered were those of the Marketing area. / As mudanças decorrentes dos novos tempos têm repercussão em todas as instâncias da vida em sociedade, gerando novas demandas sociais, políticas e consequentemente educacionais. Em meio ao novo contexto, é de extrema relevância repensar o papel do educador, os procedimentos acadêmicos e administrativos, bem como a importância da educação para o mercado de trabalho (NASSIF; HANASHIRO, 2001). O presente estudo teve como objetivo geral realizar um mapeamento das competências docentes do curso de Administração da UFSM na percepção de alunos e professores. A pesquisa partiu de um modelo teórico de Alvarez e Diaz (2004) que mapeava as seguintes competências docentes: domínio de conteúdo, raciocínio lógico na explicação, relacionamento, organização, métodos de avaliação, suporte aos alunos, utilização de recursos, motivação, obrigações profissionais, incentivo à participação em aula e interação teoria-prática. A metodologia utilizada foi uma pesquisa quantitativa, de cunho descritivo. Quanto aos procedimentos técnicos, foi realizado um estudo de caso no curso de Administração de uma IES pública. Através da análise dos resultados de mais de 1130 questionários, contendo uma amostra discente (226 respondentes) e outra docente (27 respondentes), constatou-se que os professores foram bem avaliados, obtendo médias bem acima do valor intermediário da escala (2,50). Os resultados mostraram ainda que, dentre essas competências, as mais importantes e influentes no desempenho docente de acordo com a percepção dos discentes foram, nesta ordem: domínio de conteúdo, raciocínio lógico na explicação e suporte aos alunos. Quanto à amostra docente, os resultados também apontaram o domínio de conteúdo como a competência mais valorizada, seguida de raciocínio lógico na explicação e incentivo à participação em aula. Assim, foi demonstrado que existe certo alinhamento na valorização de competências entre docentes e discentes. Entre as áreas de conhecimento do curso, a área de Ciências Humanas destacou-se por apresentar as médias mais altas das competências, dentro das 29 varáveis do construto. As menores médias registradas foram as da área de Marketing.

This final thesis deals with the issue of social skills development of secondary school students in the Economics. The theoretical foundations of this work is to define the term of social skills and is explained his importance to the society. A substantial part of the theory is also devoted to the social skills in connection with the Framework educational program. Within the empirical part, an analysis of the FEP for BA is performed, through which the state of the method concentrated on the social skills of students is determined. Furthermore, through a questionnaire survey, the current state of acquired social skills of selected students from the first years on BA is investigated and their view on this issue. This work is also focusing on whether teachers in the Economics produce sufficient appropriate environment that would allow students to develop their social skills. The final goal is to suggest specific games and activities that allow students to improve these skills in the Economics.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka förekomsten av de matematiska kompetenserna i läroböcker för Matematik A. Centralt i studien är de sex matematiska kompetenser, som Palm et al. (2004) analyserat fram ur de nationella styrdokumenten. Dessa kompetenser är: kommunikationskompetens, modelleringskompetens, resonemangskompetens, begreppskompetens, problemlösningskompetens och algoritmkompetens. För att nå syftet genomfördes en analys av uppgifter i två läroböcker för Matematik A. Undersökningens resultat visar att alla sex matematiska kompetenser finns representerade i läroböckernas uppgifter. Begrepps- och algoritmkompetenserna dominerar starkast i båda läroböckerna (85-95 %) medan de övriga kompetenserna är svagt representerade. Resultatet som också relaterats till strävansmålen för matematik i gymnasieskolan, visar att det blir svårt att utveckla samtliga kompetenser och nå alla strävansmål enbart genom arbete i läroboken. / The purpose of this essay is to study how mathematical competences appear in text books for Mathematics A. The main objective is the six mathematical competences, which Palm et al. (2004) analysed from the national curriculum. These competences are: communication competence, modelling competence, reasoning competence, concept competence, problem solving competence and algorithm competence. To reach the purpose, an analysis of tasks in two Mathematics A text books was conducted. The result of the analysis shows that all six mathematical competences are represented in the textbooks, but the concept and algorithm competences appear extensively more in both textbooks (85-95 %) while the other competences appear briefly. The result which also is connected to the curriculum, may result in difficulties not only in developing the competences but also in reaching all curriculum goals by working solely with the textbooks.

Šiandienos gyvenimas reikalauja veržlių, drąsių, pasitikinčių savimi, žmonių, kurie nevaržomai siektų savo tikslų, bendrautų ir bendradarbiautų su kitais. Kad žmogus suaugęs taptų pilnaverte asmenybe, žinančia savo kompetencijas, gebėjimus bei įgūdžius, reikia jį ugdyti nuo mažens. Paauglystė – tai sunkiausias raidos tarpsnis, kuris gali iškreipti žmogaus vertybes, pažiūras, savęs vertinimo normas. Šiuo darbu norėta atskleisti, kokios yra teatro užsiėmimų galimybės ugdant paauglių pasitikėjimą savimi, streso valdymą, bendravimą ir bendradarbiavimą. Tyrimo tikslas — teorinėje ir praktinėje plotmėje atskleisti teatro užsiėmimų galimybes ugdant paauglių asmenines kompetencijas. Tyrimo uždaviniai: aptarti paauglių asmeninių kompetencijų ugdymo reikšmės teorines prielaidas, ištirti paauglių požiūrį į savo asmenines kompetencijas, išsiaiškinti, kaip per ugdymą teatru paaugliai pasitiki savimi, nustatyti paauglių streso valdymo galimybes teatro užsiėmimuose, išsiaiškinti paauglių bendravimo ir bendradarbiavimo galimybes teatro užsiėmimuose. Siekiant išanalizuoti rezultatus buvo pasitelkti šie metodai: psichologinės, pedagoginės literatūros apžvalga, anketinė – interviu apklausa, statistinė tyrimo duomenų analizė, fokus grupės metodas, struktūruotas interviu, mokinių atvejų analizė. Paauglystės amžius nuo 12 iki 15 metų yra itin trapus ir svarbus žmogaus gyvenime, kurio metu atrandamas tapatumas, vyksta spartus fiziologinis vystymasis, paauglius kamuoja sunkūs išgyvenimai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Nowadays our life needs assertive, brave and self-confident people who could easy strive for his goals, communicate and collaborate with others. To become a full-grown personality, who could recognize one’s competences, abilities and skills which are necessary to be developed since childhood. Adolescence is the most difficult period of development, which can distort person’s values, viewpoints and the self-assessments standards. This work was supposed to reveal what are the possibilities of the theatre classes developing adolescents’ self confidence, stress management, communication and collaboration. The aim of the research is to reveal the possibilities of theatre classes developing adolescents’ personal competences on the basis of theoretical and practical research. The main tasks are to discuss the educational importance of theoretical assumptions of adolescents’ personal competences, to explore the viewpoint to the personal competences, to sort out how confident the adolescents may be by the means of theatrical education, to find out how the adolescents may cope with stress during the theatre classes, to sort out the possibilities of communication and collaboration during the theatre classes. To analyse the results of the research the following methods were invoked: psychological and pedagogical analysis of literature, questionnaire interview survey, statistical analysis of survey data, focus group method, structured interviews and the students’ case analysis. The... [to full text]

Abstract in English Inclusion is a state where the opportunity to understand everything is given naturally. In order to support this idea as well as simply be authentic in this academic work in Inclusion Studies, the following part is an English summary of my Bachelor thesis. Using the English language – understood and spoken by a huge number of today's world population – I would like interested people who do not know German to find an access to the subject of my work. Exchange of competences and culture of relationship – abstract “Exchange of competences as a basis for an inclusive culture of relationship” is the title of my Bachelor Thesis. It means, that interpersonal exchange of abilities and understandings can be a starting point for relationships that are realised and experienced in a way that can be called inclusive (referring to “inclusion”). This work focusses especially on relationships between so-called clients and pedagogues. The thesis consists of four textual chapters from A to D. Part A describes my motivation for this work which is personal experience and presents the leading question – Does a mutual exchange of competences effect an inclusive relationship culture? – and the hypothesis: If competences are exchanged, the relationship 'clientel ⇆ pedagogue' is (on both sides) positively perceived – this feeling and in consequence the relationship itself are giving inclusivity and sustainable effectiveness to the growing process taking place on both sides. Furthermore, the methodology is described in the first chapter. The next chapter is about introducing definitions in order to ensure that the readers will fully understand the key terms and topics which are: relationships; culture and cultures; exchange and balance; competences, resources, potentials; communication; inclusion; science. Chapter C refers to two different kinds of sources in order to support and prove the hypothesis as well as to illustrate the concept. The first part of this third chapter is dealing with models from social sciences like “inclusive learning culture” (A. Zimpel 2012), “cybernEthics” (H. von Foerster 1993), hermeneutics (Joedecke 2013), Empowerment (W. Stark), Children's and Human Rights (J. Korczak; United Nations) and the Cultural-historical psychology (L. S. Vygotsky, A. N. Leontev, A. R. Luria). These concepts are compared and woven together – to be illustrated by authentic examples in the chapter's second part. I have prepared ten written surveys in a narrative style. These interviews’ subjects have been asked to talk about living in a different cultural surrounding that was at first “different” and “new” for them: they were to tell which perceptions and emotions they had? (What helped them to establish relationships to people there? How was it to perform pedagogical tasks as a “not-yet-speaking” person?) In chapter D the connections between all sources mentioned above in form are summed up. In addition, a metaphor is also created, which is called the “cultural bag”: representing the mutual growing process surrounded by the inclusive relationship culture through which the individuals’ competences could expand, the “bag of culture” is a form of container and at the same time transportable – so each part of the relationship can now individually take and use respectively apply in any new situation.

Le comité d’entreprise, institution représentative du personnel chargée d’assurer « une expression collective des salariés » dans l’entreprise a une mission sociale et culturelle d’une part, économique et professionnelle d’autre part. En matière économique ses attributions ont été marquées par de profonds changements depuis sa création en 1945. A l’origine, le comité était doté d’une mission de coopération avec l’employeur, abandonnée en 1982 au profit d’une mission de contrôle de la décision patronale. Le législateur et le juge ont conféré à ce contrôle des moyens toujours plus importants, ceux-ci restant cependant sans conséquence sur la décision finale. Le premier objectif de cette thèse est de déterminer la nature de ce contrôle atypique coexistant avec l’autre forme de participation des salariés qu’est la représentation syndicale. Une autre évolution, plus diffuse, se perçoit dans les attributions économiques du comité d’entreprise depuis le début du XXIème siècle : celle d’un possible retour à l’idée de coopération, initié par le droit de l’Union européenne qui se réfère à cette notion pour définir la relation entre représentants des travailleurs et direction. Le deuxième objectif de cette étude est d’identifier les éléments de notre droit caractérisant cette évolution. Celle-ci semble emprunter deux voies distinctes : d’une part, un accroissement du dialogue entre l’employeur et le comité quand ce dernier devient acteur de la négociation collective ; d’autre part, une négociation sur les attributions économiques, qui aboutit à l’inclusion du comité dans un processus global de concertation tout en permettant son association plus en amont de la décision patronale. / A Works Council is a company institution designed to express the workers ’collective wishes. Its mission is social and cultural as well as professional and economic. Its economic roles have been marked by some major changes since its introduction in 1945.Originally the Council was entrusted with a mission of cooperation with the management which gave way to monitoring the management’s decisions in 1982. Though new laws and court decisions have contributed to giving the Council an increasing importance in that respect, it has no sway over final decisions.The first objective of this research is to determine the exact nature of this atypical function in relation with another form of workers ’participation: the Workers ’Union. Another more subtle evolution can be perceived in the Council’s economic roles since the beginning of the 21st century: by referring to the notion of cooperation the European Union law has made it possible to restore the Council’s mission to define the relations between the workers’ representatives and the management.The second objective of this work is to identify the elements in our present French Labour Regulations characterizing this evolution, which appears to be twofold. On the one hand the dialogue between the management and the Council is enhanced when the latter takes an active part in joint negotiations. On the other hand negotiating on the Council’s economic roles has led to its involvement in the global process of consultations with the possibility of being associated earlier with the management’s final decisions.

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This thesis deals with the development of key competencies in teaching of Natural Science in the primary school stage in the system of Waldorf School. The theoretical part of the thesis expounds on the issues of the transformation of education as well as the characteristics of teaching in the system of Waldorf School. Some terms, such as - key competencies, the transformation of education, alternative trends in education, Waldorf pedagogy and its role in transforming education - are explained there. The research part of the thesis presents an action research, which is focused on the development of the key competencies in the epoch of Natural Science in the third grade of Waldorf School. One of the epochs was described by observation. The results of observations were compared by means of additional questionnaires, which were filled out by teachers. The development of the key competencies in the given epoch was described by the analysis of research. The results of the research confirmed that the educational strategy for the development of the key competencies in Waldorf School was at a very good level. The analysis of the research could be used as a source of information for the development of key competencies in other epochs of Natural Science in the third grade in primary schools. Details of the...

The aim of this master thesis is to discover correlation trends between teacher interaction style and his extent of providing opportunities for teaching how to learn. According to the results the aim is to create a prototype of the teacher interaction style, who has got the best dispositions to provide opportunities for teaching how to learn. The first and the second chapter deal with theoretical basis. Key competences, especially key competence for learning are depicted in the first chapter. The second chapter focuses on a topic of pedagogical communication and interaction and it is concluded with a discussion of the interaction style of the teacher. All the details on this research are described in the third chapter. The methodology is topped with the results, discussions and the overall finish. At the end of the work the bibliographic references, attachments, lists of figures and tables are revealed.

Au delà des principes généraux de la responsabilité sociétale, comme application des principes du développement durable, ses enjeux managériaux auxquels font face les entreprises demeurent rarement étudiés. La présente recherche s'intéresse précisément à cette question, en mobilisant le courant de la Corporate Social Responsiveness qui propose de porter une attention particulière aux changements organisationnels. Une réponse à ces problématiques managériales semble passer par les stratégies de coopération. Au regard de la littérature, les stratégies de coopération sont un moyen d'obtenir des ressources, des compétences complémentaires et de développer des capacités dynamiques. L'objet de cette thèse porte sur l'étude les stratégies de coopération comme réponse aux enjeux du développement durable, au travers de l'analyse des associations thématiques d'entreprises, dans une perspective fondée sur les ressources. La méthodologie est qualitative et vise à décrire de la manière la plus fine possible les phénomènes et processus à l'œuvre dans les associations thématiques d'entreprises, à travers deux phases d'étude. L'étude exploratoire, basée sur l'analyse des dix-sept associations thématiques recensées sur le territoire français, permet d'identifier différents profils de stratégies de coopération et d'en dresser une typologie. Ils sont définis à partir des représentations du développement durable et du rôle que se donne l'association d'entreprises. Par ailleurs, l'étude de cas explore les mécanismes de coordination à l'œuvre dans ces associations thématiques et permet d'identifier les besoins des entreprises et la nature de la réponse collective.La recherche montre en particulier une diversité d'enjeux vis-à-vis du développement durable, qui va conditionner les besoins des entreprises en termes de ressources et de compétences. Le contexte révèle une complexité de management du fait que le Développement Durable invite à considérer des valeurs et des convictions liées aux personnes qui peuvent entrer en contradiction. Une analyse précise des ressources et des compétences nécessaires aux entreprises pour opérationnaliser une démarche responsable est envisagée. Les principaux résultats sont discutés au regard des recherches antérieures. / There is a relative paucity of studies on the managerial challenges encountered by firms when achieving corporate social responsibility. The present work seeks to fill this void by mobilizing literature on Corporate Social Responsiveness (CSR) and exploring propositions that help explain the organizational changes brought about by the application of CSR. Cooperation strategy seems to be a solution for firms to overcome their managerial challenges. According to the literature, cooperation strategies constitute a “mean” to obtain resources, skills and to develop dynamic capabilities. Hence, the aim of this research is to study strategies of cooperation as a response to the managerial challenges given by the stakes of sustainable development. This is done by analyzing theme-based corporate associations, using a resource-based view. The exploratory nature of the study entails a qualitative methodology which prioritizes the description of an ongoing phenomena and processes. The present work develops in two research stages : First an exploratory phase and subsequently an in-depth case study. The exploratory phase was based on the analysis of seventeen theme-based associations identified throughout France. This initial work allowed identifying a variety of cooperation strategies, which was used to define a typology of theme-based associations. Hereafter distinctive profiles within this typology were drawn and based on : The particular representations of “sustainable development” hold by the members of these associations and on the role assumed by each firm within it. In addition, the in-depth case study allowed us to explore the mechanisms of coordination within these associations, the different motivations for firms to take part in these particular forms and the nature of the collective response. The findings show a wide range of views on “sustainable development” which will determine the needs of any given firm in terms of resources and skills. In addition, the results show that in this particular context, the management of cooperative corporate strategies proves to be a complex and challenging process. As the sustainable development principle, around which these corporative associations are formed, may reveal conflictive values and personal beliefs. The present work contributes with a detailed analysis on the resources and skills required for firms when operationalizing their social responsibility. The results are subsequently discussed in light of existing literature.