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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1929. / Vita. Published also as Teachers college, Columbia university, Contributions to education, no. 335. Bibliography: p. 169-170.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: David Selby.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2007. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2757.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Idaho, 2005. / Also available online in PDF format. Abstract. "April 2005." Includes bibliographical references.

The past decade has been witness to a growing concern with the political, moral and social capacity of young people to demonstrate ‘active citizenship’. Alongside the introduction of citizenship education in schools there has been evidence of increased political and public anxiety about how young people integrate within their local communities. All of this has taken place in the context of broader social policy debates about how individuals demonstrate social responsibility in late modern, advanced liberal democracies. This study investigated how young people define and experience active citizenship in their everyday, real world settings. It comprised workshops and focus groups with 93 young people aged 14-16 living in the East Midlands. Using an adaptive theory design, the investigation utilised definitions generated by young people to build an applied theory of active citizenship. Young people in this study defined active citizenship in terms of membership and status, social responsibility and to a lesser extent, political literacy. Through a process of deliberation, they determined six concepts to be most important in thinking about active citizenship. These were ‘rights’; ‘responsibilities’; ‘care for others’; ‘control’; ‘making decisions’, and ‘respect’. These concepts were explored in relation to the everyday experiences of young people. Young people experience active citizenship differently within and between each context of their lives (proximate, community and institutional levels) showing high degrees of related skills and awareness. Whilst communities and institutions offer some opportunities for young people to test and develop citizenship identities, they also present significant barriers.

Soon after the political handover in 1997, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government had introduced a series of education and curriculum reforms. Such reforms is said to be proceeded in response to teenagers' lack of national identification towards their motherland China, and also to the public discourse addressing the economic challenges and competition in the universal trend of globalization. Although a few studies had unveiled the underlying values of Confucianism, neo-liberalism and market ideology under these objectives, how the new definitions of "ideal citizens" is understood and promoted in the actual school settings, and how those values influence the process of students' identity construction and their vision on their life trajectories, remains unknown. Drawing on the data from an ethnographic research conducted in 2010, this thesis illustrates how the qualities of an "ideal citizen" propagated in the education and curriculum reform would be understood and transformed in two very different schools in Hong Kong. One is a long-established girls' school located in a middle-class district, which has a reputation of providing "all-rounded" education and nurturing future woman-leaders; the other one is being considered as a "academically-low band" school located in remote area, which struggled to survive and started to admit "Non-Chinese speaking" (NCS) students from Pakistan, Nepal and Philippines three years ago in order to solve the problem of insufficient intake of local students. Apart from the halfyear participant-observation in the two campuses, in-depth interviews of the 2 school principals, 13 teachers, 19 students and 2 alumni of the two schools have also been conducted. Other school documents including official school magazines, school reports as well as students’ publications have also been collected as supporting information. Due to the different historical background, the school management strategy and most of all, the composition of students from very different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, the two schools had developed very different ideas and definition of an "ideal citizen", and thus led to different directions of school policies and expectations on students. Through the examples of the provision of the “Other learning Experience” (OLE) and students’ participation patterns in Chapter Five, the different language policies and students’ ability in languages in Chapter Six, and the process of the construction of femininities of young girls in Chapter Seven, this study shows how the problematic of class, gender and ethnics domination still exist under the new context of education reform. This study also reveals that while Hong Kong policy-maker claimed that the education reform ‘bears upon the equity and balance of our society', the socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicity and gender which traditionally being viewed as factors that differentiate education outcomes in sociological studies are completely ignored in the reform.

La ricerca approfondisce il contributo pedagogico degli Oratori alla formulazione di un concetto di cittadinanza planetaria. Gli oratori, istituzioni religiose italiane e contesti di formazione ed educazione rivolti alle giovani generazioni, stanno attualmente affrontando un’inedita sfida multiculturale: la crescente presenza di minori di origine straniera interpella questi dispositivi nella loro capacità di accoglienza, integrazione e accompagnamento dei giovani nello sviluppo di un senso di convivenza e cittadinanza in prospettiva planetaria, volto al rispetto e alla valorizzazione delle diversità nella costruzione di un bene comune condiviso. Attraverso l’utilizzo di strumenti di indagine quantitativa e qualitativa (interviste ai responsabili, focus group con adolescenti, indicatori di valutazione) e le attuali riflessioni sul tema dell’interculturalità e della cittadinanza planetaria, la ricerca approfondisce le potenzialità dell’educazione informale che prende forma nelle trame delle esperienze, degli apprendimenti e dei contesti quotidiani. / The research focuses on the pedagogical contribution of Oratories to formulate a global citizenship concept. Oratories, peculiar Italian religious institutions and educational contexts, are now involved in a multicultural challenge: the increasing participation of minors of foreign origins stimulates Oratories, as educational “devices”, to improve their capacity of reception and integration. Moreover, Oratories can educate minors creating a sense of living together and the concept of citizenship in global perspective, which aim should be the construction of a shared common good through the respect and valorization of human diversity. According to the current development on the intercultural and global citizenship and using quantitative and qualitative research methods (interviews with educators, focuses groups with teenagers, evaluation indicators), the research focuses on the role of informal education in a integral human development, through the social dimensions and everyday relationships, learning and experiences.

A l'occasion de deux recherches menées autour de la question de l'éducation à l'environnement et au développement durable nous avons pu observer que ce champ était exposé à des controverses de tous ordres : scientifiques, éthiques, politiques, techniques, etc… autant que piégé par toutes sortes de représentations sociales fondées ou erronées. Le corollaire pratique de ces controverses a été le recours au débat comme moyen de mieux comprendre les enjeux en présence, de dépasser les représentations « automatiques » ou « aveugles » de la réalité afin de prendre des décisions raisonnables. Notre problématique porte sur l'identification des conditions d'efficacité du débat réglé et argumenté, et sur l'observation des mécanismes qui permettent au débat de servir de cadre pour l'apprentissage à la mise en problème, à la co construction de savoirs et à l'éducation à la citoyenneté dans et hors l'école, mais aussi dans les organisations, depuis les associations jusqu'aux entreprises. Notre thèse est qu'il existe, dans la forme même des débats et plus largement des échanges langagiers, une articulation génératrice d'apprentissages et de volonté d'agir, entre d'une part les types d'arguments élaborés et exposés par les locuteurs et d'autre part la manière dont s'effectuent les échanges. Autrement dit, il existe une relation d'ordre cognitif entre effort de rationalisation au niveau des argumentations et effort de communication au niveau des interactions langagières. / On the occasion of two researches around the issue of environmental education and sustainable development we have seen that this field was exposed to all kinds of controversy: scientific, ethical, political, technical, etc. as well as trapped by all kinds of social representations based or erroneous. The practical corollary of this controversy was the use of debate as a means to better understand the issues at stake, beyond the representations of "automatic" or "blind" to reality in order to make reasonable decisions.Our problem concerns the identification of the conditions of efficiency and reasoned debate settled, and observation mechanisms that allow the debate to provide a framework for learning the setting problem, the co-construction of knowledge and citizenship education in and out of school, but also in organizations, from associations to businesses. Our work will focus on describing these conditions and lead to the development of a typology of debates according to criteria of greater or lesser efficiency in terms of problematization, co-construction of knowledge and effective action. Our thesis is that there exists, in the form of debates and more broadly language exchanges, generating a joint learning and willingness to act, on the one hand between the types of arguments developed and presented by the speakers and secondly how to perform the exchange. In other words, there is a relationship between cognitive rationalization at the level of argumentation and communication efforts at linguistic interactions.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-02-25T14:32:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 fernandaluizadefaria.pdf: 1287656 bytes, checksum: cb33a774db1a9f04b5a04b0266b3a265 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-03-03T13:30:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 fernandaluizadefaria.pdf: 1287656 bytes, checksum: cb33a774db1a9f04b5a04b0266b3a265 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-03T13:30:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 fernandaluizadefaria.pdf: 1287656 bytes, checksum: cb33a774db1a9f04b5a04b0266b3a265 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-10 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente estudo discute sobre a Estratégia de Ensino por Estudo de Caso (EEEC). Um instrumento que se baseia na participação ativa do aluno, visando o aprendizado de conhecimentos específicos, atrelados ao desenvolvimento de habilidades que possam contribuir para o exercício da cidadania; objetivo maior do Ensino Médio segundo a LDB 9394/96. A EEEC se dá através de casos investigativos que trazem uma problemática. Nesta atividade o aluno é convidado a solucionar o caso e o professor atua principalmente como mediador. É uma estratégia pouco utilizada no ensino de Ciências em nível superior, sendo esse número ainda mais reduzido no Ensino Médio. A fim de divulgar a EEEC, proferimos um minicurso para os professores de Química das escolas da cidade de Juiz de Fora, no estado de Minas Gerais. Dentre os 12 docentes participantes, a partir da disponibilidade destes, três foram convidados a aplicar a EEEC em uma de suas turmas do Ensino Médio. Baseando-nos nesta experiência, investigamos a concepção do professor e do aluno sobre essa estratégia de ensino, a fim de avaliar as suas possibilidades e limitações no Ensino Médio. Para tal, algumas aulas, que permearam a aplicação da atividade, foram observadas, os casos construídos pelos docentes foram avaliados. Ademais, foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com os três professores e os alunos responderam a um questionário. A partir do corpus construído, foi realizada, para a sua interpretação, a Análise de Conteúdo com a formação de categorias significativas. Os resultados mostraram que os docentes elaboraram narrativas que abordavam temas sociais oportunos, capazes de evocar discussão e conscientização, além de serem interessantes e próximos do cotidiano dos alunos. Os professores compreenderam bem a essência da EEEC, verificando o potencial dessa atividade para contribuir com a formação da consciência de cidadania. Além disso, opinaram que a vivência com a atividade pode trazer contribuições para a sua prática pedagógica. Os docentes destacaram também, obstáculos relevantes que permearam a execução da atividade, como: o tempo, os recursos para a pesquisa e as dificuldades na elaboração dos casos. Os alunos demonstraram satisfação com a estratégia, revelando que gostaram do tema abordado, de trabalhar em grupo e de como a atividade foi conduzida. Eles destacaram que a realização da EEEC trouxe contribuições, como: a conscientização a partir do tema proposto, a aquisição de conhecimentos e o estímulo de algumas habilidades. / This study discusses the Case Study Education Strategy (CSES), an instrument based on active student participation. CSES is aimed at learning specific knowledge linked to the development of skills that can contribute to the exercise of citizenship, which is a higher education goal according to LDB 9394/96. CSES consists of investigative cases that bring up a problem in which the student is asked to solve, and the teacher acts primarily as a mediator. This strategy is seldom used in science teaching at the college level, and even more rarely applied in high-school. In order to promote the CSES, we conducted one short course for Chemistry teachers at schools in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. Based in time availability of 12 participating teachers, three of them were invited to apply CSES in one of their high school classes. Founded on this experience, we investigate the notions of teacher and student about this teaching strategy, in order to learn about CSES possibilities and limitations of usage in high-school. To achieve this goal, some classes that permeated the implementation of activity were observed; cases proposed by the teachers were evaluated; a semi-structured interview was conducted with the three teachers; and the students answered a questionnaire. The interpretation of the corpus built by the preceding actions was performed by content analysis, with the formation of meaningful categories. The results showed that teachers developed narratives addressing timely social issues, which have been able to evoke discussion and awareness, as well as being interesting and close to the daily life of students. It was also verified that teachers have understood the essence of CSES, verifying the potential of this sort of activity as a contribution to the formation of a well-aware citizen; the teachers expressed the opinion that such experience may actually contribute to their pedagogical practice. Teachers also highlighted noteworthy obstacles that permeated the activity execution, as time consumption, necessary resources for research and difficulties in the preparation of the cases-studies. In addition, students also expressed satisfaction with the strategy, revealing that became fond of the topic discussed, and enjoyed working as groups, and how the activity was conducted; the students noted that CSES activity brought up contributions like the awareness about the proposed theme, the acquisition of new knowledge, and the development of skills.