Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juarez Bernardino de Oliveira.pdf: 2981045 bytes, checksum: 1023cab932ba7f3f59fff70f779e5ad7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-21 / This research analyzes the receiving of poor orphan girls the history of the Dona Placidina Institute of Mogi das Cruzes from 1931 to 1966. The Institute was a primary catholic school created in 1931, to receive poor orphan girls according to the demanded will of a priest of that city. Priest João Lourenço de Siqueira, who left all his estate for the Archdiocese of São Paulo to found the Institution. The Institute, ran by the Sisters of São Vicente de Paulo de Gysegem, along the years, became an important private school in the city and began to receive an important part of the Mogiana elite. In this study I try to understand which social function the supportless childhood started to be taken into account in the Institute, from its foundation until 1966, when the intership was closed - sector which received the orphan girls - and the leaving of the Sisters of São Vicente from the Institute. The research analyzes the acting of different interlocutors who contributed to the conformation of the Institute. For that, I've used as sources, the intern laws of the Institute, the board meeting records, the reports delivered to the Archdiocese, city authors' articles and local newspapers. Inspired by the analyses of the English Historian Edward Palmer Thompson, I tried to understand the importance that the poor orphan childhood acquired in the life of the Institution, inspite of the constant decrease in the number of poor orphan girls received / Esta pesquisa analisa o atendimento de meninas órfãs pobres na trajetória do Instituto Dona Placidina de Mogi das Cruzes de 1931 a 1966. O Instituto era uma escola primária católica criada, em 1931, para atender meninas órfãs pobres em cumprimento as exigências testamentárias de um padre da cidade, Pe João Lourenço de Siqueira, que deixou todos os seus bens para que a Arquidiocese de São Paulo fundasse a Instituição. O Instituto, administrado pelas Irmãs de São Vicente de Paulo de Gysegem, ao longo dos anos, tornou-se uma importante escola particular da cidade e passou a atender parte importante das filhas da elite mogiana. Neste estudo busco compreender qual a função social que a infância desvalida passou a desempenhar no Instituto, da sua fundação até 1966, ano que marca o fechamento do internato - setor que atendia as órfãs - e a saída das Irmãs de São Vicente do Instituto. A pesquisa analisa a atuação dos diferentes interlocutores que contribuíram para a conformação da Instituição. Para isso, utilizei como fontes os estatutos do Instituto, as atas das reuniões de diretoria, os relatórios encaminhados para a Arquidiocese, crônicas de autores da cidade e jornais de circulação local. Inspirado nas análises do historiador inglês Edward Palmer Thompson busquei compreender a centralidade que a infância órfã pobre adquiriu na vida da Instituição, apesar da constante diminuição do número de meninas órfãs pobres atendidas

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The purpose of this study was to assess how graduating students at St. Paul’s High School are fulfilling the characteristics of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association’s Profile of the Graduate at Graduation. These characteristics include being open to growth, intellectually competent, religious, loving, and committed to doing justice. While these five characteristics are identified as desired traits for graduates of St. Paul’s, there has not yet been an evaluation process undertaken in order to gauge student attainment of these characteristics. The methodology involved a document analysis, a collection of data from the sixty-two JSEA schools’ websites, and four interviews with St. Paul’s graduates from 2014. The three-fold approach allowed for a deep understanding of the context and experience of the Profile. This allowed for a reflection that showed there is a successful outline for creating a culture where the Graduate at Graduation is central to the mission of JSEA schools, which in turn makes the characteristics attainable.

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Catholic schools need to examine the barriers to, benefits of, and interventions needed when implementing inclusive practices into their institutions. Catholic schools are experiencing an increase in enrolled students identified with learning and behavioral needs; however, they frequently lack resources and expertise to provide the necessary support for these students and their families to succeed. Research studies identify teacher attitudes and perceptions regarding inclusive practices as vital factors to create successful culture change. A single group pretest-posttest design, incorporated into this action research study, measured the attitudes and stress of teachers before and after a 14-week long intervention for eight target students with ADHD. The Attitudes Toward Inclusive Education Scale (ATIES), adapted for this setting, was completed by 26 teachers. The Index of Teaching Stress (ITS) was completed by each teacher for each target student in their class for a total of 53 teacher-student dyads. Data analysis included two, one-tailed, paired-samples t-tests. A moderate effect (d= .471) that was statistically significant (p The implications of this study suggest the importance of providing appropriate interventions and accommodations to better support teacher-student relationships, and that a greater buy-in and understanding is needed by the teachers to change their overall attitudes toward inclusivity. Effective professional development is crucial for teachers and students alike to be better informed of the potential academic and social challenges of an ADHD diagnosis and how to best support these specific needs. Further, creating a more inclusive school environment requires stakeholders to develop clear mission statements, approve budgets that include wellness and resource programs, and design daily bell schedules that allocate time for support outside of the student’s normal classes. The limitations of this action research include generalization beyond a private high school setting, experimenter effect, teachers self-reporting, and not having a comparison or control group. Suggestions for further research include incorporating a qualitative component to better understand the effectiveness of an intervention, and running interventions for female groups, middle-school-aged students, and other specific diagnoses for comparative results.

This is an historical investigation into the provision of education services for deaf children in the State of New South Wales in Australia since 1860. The main focus is those deaf children without additional disabilities who have been placed in mainstream classes, special classes for the deaf and special schools for the deaf. The study places this group at centre stage in order to better understand their educational situation in the late 1990s. The thesis has taken a chronological and thematic approach. The chapters are defined by significant events that impacted on the education of the deaf, such as the establishment of special schools in New South Wales, the rise of the oral movement, and aftermath of the rubella epidemic in Australia during the 1940s. Within each chapter, there is a core of key elements around which the analysis is based. These key elements tend to be based on institutions, players, and specific educational features, such as the mode of instruction or the curriculum. The study found general agreement that language acquisition was a fundamental prerequisite to academic achievement. Yet the available evidence suggests that educational programs for most deaf children in New South Wales have seldom focused on ensuring adequate language acquisition in conjunction with the introduction of academic subjects. As a result, language and literacy competencies of deaf students in general have frequently been acknowledged as being below those of five their hearing counterparts, to the point of presenting a barrier to successful post-secondary study. It is proposed that the reasons for the academic failings of the deaf are inherent in five themes. / PhD Doctorate

Catholic educational leaders serve as the primary faith leaders in their school community and remain influential in the public discourse of Catholic education. As insiders understanding the contextual educational landscape, and who are at the forefront of renewal and change within their own school communities, Catholic educational leaders are critical in providing an account and understanding of how their lived experience contributed to the formation of their Catholic identity. Through their daily interactions with parents, students, stakeholders, politicians, and community, their ability to articulate their Catholic identity as a school leader is imperative for the broader understanding of Catholic education. This study, grounded in narrative inquiry methodology, explored the question “What is the lived experience of Catholic educational leaders in relation to shaping, informing, and influencing the conceptual formation of Catholic identity in 21st century schools?” This question resonates with the necessity to better understand how Catholic identity is lived authentically within Catholic schools for leaders who are entrusted with leading a diverse faith community. Four Catholic educational leaders share their stories of experience, working within a relational three-dimensional space of temporality, sociality, and place as key considerations of inquiry. By living, reliving, telling, and retelling their stories to live by, threads of coherence and continuity link their personal, professional, and spiritual landscape. Participant findings generated four organizing categories: Catholic identity, Catholic education, Catholic leadership, and relationships. Each category was subsequently framed with additional sub-categories to further develop and deepen Catholic identity as a storied landscape of experience within the framework of the three- dimensional narrative inquiry. Navigating this inquiry space gave rise to contradictions and tensions surrounding the articulation and expression of Catholic identity the difficult and complex role of Catholic educational leadership, the turmoil of an educational landscape that is challenging the relevance of Catholic education, and the dynamic and every evolving influence relationships have on faith formation. To both insiders and outsiders of Catholic education, this study illuminates a better understanding of how Catholic educational leaders shape, form, and influence the conceptual formation of their Catholic identity in 21st century schools. It also provides a lens to view how diversity and unity of Catholic identity is constructed and understood narratively. / Graduate

This thesis emphasizes the debate about the use of written correspondence as a source for the study of the History of Education and especially the history of Catholic religious education. The research focuses specifically on Chiara Lubich´s epistolary writing, an Italian Catholic school teacher who, in the 40s of the twentieth century, founded the Focolare Movement, a movement that emerged in the religious sphere, spread in over 180 countries and has ecumenical openness, as well as promoting inter-religious and intercultural dialogue. Chiara used letters as a privileged way to keep in touch with the people she was forming in the spirit of the Movement and it became a standard practice in her life and in the history of the Focolare. The thesis defended is that Chiara took letters as a training resource able to reach people and places where she could not be physically present and, throughout her life and mediated by the Focolare Movement, created an educational approach by epistolary means that, by its reputation in religious and social contexts, can be considered as a different perspective in Catholic pedagogy. The research aims to identify and analyze how Chiara´s teaching activity through epistolary medium was configured and, specifically, what formative approach is contained in these writings. The temporal cut of the analysis has been established according to various frameworks: Chiara´s educational performance as a primary school teacher, during the decades of the 30´s and 40´s of the twentieth century, the epistolary practice in those decades, and the production of messages for collegamenti (wide range connections among many), in the 80´s of the same century. This research has an historical approach and uses letters as an object and as a source. The main field of research consists of two sets of letters of Chiara: the first set contains letters between 1943 and 1949, and the second one, writings between 1981 and 1984. The analysis was carried out by reading and classification with preparation of thematic charts. The theoretical foundation of the research is based on the concepts of representation, ownership and materiality, by Roger Chartier; habitus, charisma, religious field, symbolic relations and cultural capital of Pierre Bourdieu; in addition, Michel de Certeau´s strategy and tactic were used. Studying Chiara´s epistolary writing helped to understand the life of a Catholic teacher in fascist Italy and also get to know the activities of a woman who, even outside the school walls, provided training, education and transmission of Catholic values to people from different parts of the world, through letters imbued with the principles of unity, mutual tolerance, communion, solidarity and fraternity. / Esta Tese enfatiza o debate acerca dos usos das correspondências como fonte para os estudos de História da Educação e, sobretudo, da História da Educação religiosa católica. A investigação se debruça de modo específico sobre a escrita epistolar de Chiara Lubich, uma professora católica italiana que, na década de 40 do século XX, fundou os Focolares, um Movimento nascido no âmbito religioso, foi difundido em mais de 180 países e possui abertura ecumênica, diálogo inter-religioso e intercultural. Chiara utilizava correspondências como um meio privilegiado para manter-se em contato com as pessoas e isso se tornou uma prática constante em sua vida e na história dos Focolares. Defende-se a Tese que Chiara adotou as cartas como um recurso de formação capaz de chegar a pessoas e lugares onde ela não poderia estar fisicamente e que, ao longo de sua vida e mediada pelo Movimento Focolarino, criou uma abordagem educativa por meio epistolar que, pela sua notoriedade em âmbito religioso e social, pode ser considerada uma perspectiva diferenciada de pedagogia católica. A investigação tem como objetivos identificar e analisar como se configurou a atividade docente de Chiara por meio epistolar e, especificamente, verificar qual a abordagem formativa contida nestes escritos. O recorte temporal da análise foi estabelecido em diferentes marcos: a atuação docente de Chiara como professora primária, durante as décadas de 30 e 40 do século XX; a prática epistolar nas referidas décadas e a produção das mensagens para os collegamentos, na década de 80 do século referendado. Esta investigação tem enfoque histórico e utiliza cartas como objeto e como fonte. O principal universo pesquisado é composto por dois epistolários de Chiara: o primeiro com correspondências entre os anos 1943 e 1949; e o segundo, com escritos entre 1981 e 1984. A análise foi realizada por meio de leitura e fichamento com elaboração de quadros temáticos. O suporte teórico da pesquisa está fundamentado nos conceitos de representação, apropriação e materialidade, de Roger Chartier; habitus, carisma, campo religioso, relações simbólicas e capital cultural de Pierre Bourdieu; além de estratégia e tática de Michel de Certeau. Estudar a escrita epistolar de Chiara possibilitou conhecer a vida de uma professora católica na Itália fascista e ainda acompanhar as atividades de uma mulher, que mesmo fora dos muros da escola, proporcionou, por meio de cartas (imbuídas nos princípios de unidade, tolerância mútua, comunhão, solidariedade e fraternidade), formação, instrução e transmissão de valores católicos a pessoas de diversas partes do mundo.

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