“Becoming” is a natural phenomenon that is experienced throughout one’s life, and yet it does not appear to involve a simple process. This study was about how preservice teachers become teachers. As such, it was focused on the developmental processes that preservice teachers experience as their conceptions of teaching and their teacher identities change throughout their teacher education program. Although the two developmental aspects have been importantly considered by teacher educators when setting goals for teacher education and have been popular topics to educational researchers, few studies have explicitly observed how conceptions of teaching and teacher identities are related to each other in preservice teachers’ professional development trajectories. In a longitudinal study that tracked eight preservice teachers for three semesters of their teacher preparation, naturalistic observations of student teaching and semi-structured interviews served as the primary data sources. Data analysis was inductive and interpretative, using the qualitative methods of grounded theory. All of the preservice teachers in the study experienced conceptual change in their conceptions of teaching toward the direction aligned with their teacher education program, though their developmental patterns varied in terms of nature, speed, and distinctiveness. In the process of conceptual development, preservice teachers’ attention shifted from a focus on self to a focus on students, which I called an outward journey. They also evolved their teacher identities throughout the program with increasing confidence in becoming a teacher every semester. The formation of their teacher identities began by recognizing self as a teacher as positioned by others and continued with self-cultivation as a teacher, a process I called an inward journey. Needing continuous validation and reflection, the two journeys were closely related, sharing some characteristics and mechanism of growth and reciprocally influencing each other. Through interpretation of the data, I concluded that these two journeys cannot be separated from each other but, instead, should be integrated into external and internal development of becoming a teacher. As lifelong learners, preservice teachers are beginning the continual journey of becoming a good teacher throughout their career. / text

The General Medical Council now requires that all new medical graduates in the United Kingdom should be able to ‘function effectively as a teacher’. This thesis explores multiple perspectives on what this means, and the implications for medical student learning in relation to teaching. There is a lack of existing literature exploring how those involved in the undergraduate medical curriculum conceptualise teaching or what it means to function effectively as a teacher. There is also a lack of literature on what teaching recent medical graduates undertake, and what, if any, learning outcomes in teaching they and other key stakeholders think should be core for the undergraduate medical curriculum. To address these gaps in the literature, original data were gathered using 1) a Delphi study with eighteen experts in medical education, 2) semi-structured interviews with nineteen recent medical graduates, and 3) focus group interviews with twelve final year medical students. The three data sets were analysed individually, compared, then synthesised with the existing literature. All three participant groups articulated a wide range of conceptions of teaching, with considerable variation both within and between groups. The great majority thought that all medical students should learn about teaching as part of the undergraduate medical curriculum. Almost all of the recent graduates and medical students viewed teaching as part of the role of junior doctors working in the UK, although only two thirds of the recent graduates said they saw themselves as teachers. The recent graduates reported having delivered a wide range of teaching in their first year of work as junior doctors, and this correlated well with the range of teaching medical students reported having received from junior doctors. Teaching undertaken by recent medical graduates could be grouped into three broad categories: informal opportunistic teaching, semi-formal pre-arranged teaching, and formal organised teaching. A total of 153 learning outcomes in teaching were suggested and rated by the expert Delphi panel in terms of how appropriate they were for UK undergraduate medical curricula. Many of the graduates and students also suggested some learning outcomes in teaching before rating the 153 learning outcomes arising from the Delphi. All three groups indicated that they thought most of the 153 learning outcomes in teaching should be core for all UK undergraduate medical curricula, although there was some variation within and between groups. The majority of these learning outcomes have not been previously suggested in the literature for UK undergraduate medical curricula, but are consistent with literature on teaching competencies expected of more senior doctors. This thesis offers new insights on what teaching means to experts in medical education, recent medical graduates and current students, comparing these between groups and with the educational literature. It also offers multiple perspectives on core learning outcomes in teaching for UK undergraduate medical curricula, and greater understanding of the teaching undertaken by UK medical graduates. This thesis could help those responsible for undergraduate medical curricula to prioritise, refine and exemplify detailed learning outcomes in teaching, ensuring their graduates are more prepared for practice. It will also be of interest to policy-makers, programme directors, teachers, students, junior doctors, administrators and academics involved in medical and allied healthcare education. It is hoped that this thesis will encourage stakeholders to reflect on what teaching means to them, the role of junior doctors as teachers and the implications of learning about teaching as part of the undergraduate medical curriculum, leading to greater engagement, scholarly debate and research in this area. This in turn may lead to doctors delivering better quality teaching, to students and trainees in medicine and other disciplines receiving better teaching, and consequently to patients experiencing better healthcare.

<p>In Colombia, as in the US, higher education institutions are charged with the twofold responsibility of training well-rounded professionals and pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Faculty enact this dual responsibility through their teaching and research duties, among other job-related functions. Also like in the US, research has increasingly become the foremost function of faculty at most prominent Colombian universities. As the emphasis on research increased, teaching became regarded as a simpler activity that requires less effort and resources. Moreover, while discussions about the importance of quality teaching and the need to better train faculty to enact their teaching function are common, promotion and rewards systems at Colombian universities fail to reflect a real commitment to quality teaching. Research has taken precedence over teaching, and often is perceived as the only scholarly function of faculty. While this continued perception cannot be attributed to a single reason, I hypothesize that how faculty conceive of their teaching role impacts our ability to make a compelling case for the scholarly nature of teaching.</p> <p> </p> <p>Testing this hypothesis requires a systematic approach to exploring faculty’s conceptions of teaching within a context. To that aim, I pose this research question: What are conceptions of teaching held by Colombian engineering faculty interested in improving their teaching? I advance a framework for exploring conceptions of teaching drawing from Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory and previous scholarly works on faculty’s conceptions and beliefs about teaching. Drawing upon this framework, I explore the beliefs, practices, and contextual factors of Colombian engineering faculty at three institutions. While these faculty members differ in terms of their disciplinary backgrounds, teaching experience, and research activity—both disciplinary and educational, they all share an interest in improving their teaching practice. This exploration first takes an analytic approach to identify the pieces that constitute participants’ conceptions of teaching, and then knits those pieces together to look at participants as wholes.</p> <p><br></p><p>The literature on conceptions of teaching has usually classified them between traditional teacher-centered to more sophisticated student-centered views. However, I believe that there is a continuum worth exploring defined by these extreme views. In fact, I argue that there are multiple continua—or dimensions—that merit exploration. Such dimensions include perceptions about the role of teachers, the role of students, the nature of knowledge, the purpose and means of assessment, and the outcomes of education—previously explored in the relevant literature—and views of the interaction between college teaching and research—a dimension distinctive of the present study. My findings suggest that while the role of the teacher and of students, and the nature of knowledge can be described by the teacher- to student-center and knowledge-transmission to knowledge-construction continua, the latter three dimensions are better described along different scales. Moreover, while there are certain correlations between these dimensions (e.g., perceptions of the role of the teacher as a guide correlate with perceptions of a more active role of the students) none of them alone can accurately describe the nuances of an individual’s conception of teaching. </p> <p> </p> <p>Conceptions of teaching uncovered and characterized in this multidimensional way can inform professional development programs that go beyond the diffusion of pedagogical innovations to a perspective transformation among participants. Specifically, my findings corroborate that changes in faculty views of assessment toward more formative stances foster positive transformations in faculty’s overall conception of their teaching role and duties. My findings also suggest that faculty members intrinsically interested in improving their teaching constitute the seed to start educational reform. Community-building efforts to bring together these faculty should, in the long term, help transform the views of academic administrators, thus fostering lasting reform in the perception and recognition of teaching as a scholarly function of faculty.</p>

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The theme Biological Evolution is of extreme importance in the field of Biology, mainly for allowing an integrated view from knowledge about living beings. From the point of view of its didactic transposition, the theme is problematic, because it shows itself permeated by epistemological obstacles, of ideological, philosophical and theological base. This makes its approach in classroom context particularly difficult, both in teaching, by teachers and in learning by pupils. It was taken into account the importance of Biological Evolution to be effectively worked in the schools joining it to other biological knowledge. This work aimed to identify and analyze the conceptions on Biological Evolution of Biology teachers of the high schools in the state public schools of Santa Maria. This research was of qualitative approach, using a questionnaire as collecting instrument. For analyzing the data, the content analysis was used, which prioritized the textual analysis to biological evolution concepts, from which the categories emerged. These categories are: meanings of the evolution, evolutionary process functions, evolutionary factors and evolutionary dimensions. According to the response adequacy, the categories emerged from the analysis of evolutionary theory and human evolution issues. The evolutionary theory, though corroborated by several authors, still causes dilemmas in the cognitive thought of the teachers of biological area. This is caused by the overlapping of ideas defended by theory with other social, religious and mainly epistemological aspects. / O tema Evolução Biológica é de extrema importância no campo da Biologia, principalmente por permitir uma visão integrada dos conhecimentos acerca dos seres vivos. Do ponto de vista da sua transposição didática, este tema torna-se problemático, pois mostra-se permeado por obstáculos epistemológicos, de fundo ideológico, filosófico e teológico, o que torna sua abordagem no contexto de sala de aula particularmente difícil, tanto no ensino, por parte dos professores, quanto na aprendizagem, por parte dos alunos. Portanto, levando-se em consideração a importância da evolução biológica ser efetivamente trabalhada nas escolas integrando-a com os outros conhecimentos biológicos, este trabalho teve como objetivo identificar e analisar as concepções sobre evolução biológica de professores de Biologia do ensino médio das escolas públicas estaduais de Santa Maria. Esta pesquisa foi de abordagem qualitativa, utilizando como instrumento de coleta um questionário. Para a análise e interpretação dos dados foi utilizada a análise de conteúdo, priorizando a análise textual para os conceitos de evolução biológica, da qual emergiram as categorias: significados da evolução, funções de processos evolutivos, fatores evolutivos e dimensões evolutivas. Da análise das questões de teorias evolutivas e evolução humana emergiram categorias de acordo com a adequação das respostas. A Teoria Evolutiva, embora corroborada por diversos autores, ainda causa dilemas no pensamento cognitivo de professores da área biológica, ocasionados pela sobreposição de ideias defendidas pela teoria com outros aspectos sociais, religiosos e principalmente epistemológicos.

This study examined preservice science teachers&rsquo / conceptions about teaching and learning, self-efficacy beliefs, learning approaches and images of themselves as a science teachers. The study was also interested in examining the possible relationships among preservice science teachers&rsquo / conceptions about teaching and learning, learning approaches and self-efficacy beliefs. The study was carried out during 2011-2012 spring semester at three different public universities in Ankara. A total of 208 senior preservice science teachers who were volunteers involved. Data were collected through Draw-A-Science-Teacher-Test Checklist, Teaching and Learning Conceptions Questionnaire, Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument, and The Learning Approach Questionnaire and analyzed by descriptive statistics, paired-sample t-test and canonical correlation analysis. Paired-sample t-test analyses results showed that preservice science teachers prefer constructivist conception more than traditional conception / and meaningful learning approaches more than rote learning approaches. Besides, preservice science teachers were also found to have generally high sense of self-efficacy beliefs in science teaching. Moreover, the results of the DASTT-C showed that preservice science teachers&rsquo / perspectives of science teaching conception is 42.7% student-centered, 7.0% teacher-centered and 50.3% neither student-centered nor teacher-centered. Furthermore, the canonical correlation analysis revealed that the first canonical variate demonstrated that preservice science teachers&rsquo / constructivist conception and traditional conception are associated with their self-efficacy beliefs and learning approaches.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Abstract Clinical teachers’ experiences of nursing and teaching Clinical nurse teachers’ experiences of nursing and teaching undergraduate nursing students on clinical placement are explored in this thesis because of concerns about the quality of nursing students’ learning outcomes. The aim was to identify variation in clinical teachers’ conceptions of nursing and their conceptions of, and approaches to teaching undergraduate nursing students. The study was significant because clinical teachers’ conceptions of nursing and approaches to clinical teaching have not been researched previously. Underpinning the study was a phenomenographic perspective on learning and teaching. This perspective views learning and teaching in terms of how they were experienced. Experience of nursing and clinical teaching, for example, can be understood in terms of related ‘what’ and ‘how’ aspects. The ‘what’ aspect concerns how nursing and clinical teaching were understood. The ‘how’ aspect is concerned the ways nursing and clinical teaching were approached. Experience of nursing and clinical teaching were described and analysed in terms of the separate ‘what’ and ‘how’ aspects and are understood in terms of the relationship between each of the aspects. Data from semi-structured interviews with twenty clinical teachers were analysed using phenomenographic research techniques (Marton & Booth, 1997) in order to identify variation in how nursing and clinical teaching were experienced. To extend the description, the research also sought to identify the empirical relationships between each of the aspects investigated. Key aspects of variation in clinical teacher experiences of nursing and clinical teaching and associated relationships have been identified. The results suggest that clinical teachers who adopted a student-centred approach to teaching conceived of nursing and clinical teaching in complex ways. The phenomenographic approach provides for an experiential and holistic account of clinical teaching: a perspective absent in nursing education research literature. The research findings extend knowledge that will assist with preparation and support of clinical teachers.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Abstract Clinical teachers’ experiences of nursing and teaching Clinical nurse teachers’ experiences of nursing and teaching undergraduate nursing students on clinical placement are explored in this thesis because of concerns about the quality of nursing students’ learning outcomes. The aim was to identify variation in clinical teachers’ conceptions of nursing and their conceptions of, and approaches to teaching undergraduate nursing students. The study was significant because clinical teachers’ conceptions of nursing and approaches to clinical teaching have not been researched previously. Underpinning the study was a phenomenographic perspective on learning and teaching. This perspective views learning and teaching in terms of how they were experienced. Experience of nursing and clinical teaching, for example, can be understood in terms of related ‘what’ and ‘how’ aspects. The ‘what’ aspect concerns how nursing and clinical teaching were understood. The ‘how’ aspect is concerned the ways nursing and clinical teaching were approached. Experience of nursing and clinical teaching were described and analysed in terms of the separate ‘what’ and ‘how’ aspects and are understood in terms of the relationship between each of the aspects. Data from semi-structured interviews with twenty clinical teachers were analysed using phenomenographic research techniques (Marton & Booth, 1997) in order to identify variation in how nursing and clinical teaching were experienced. To extend the description, the research also sought to identify the empirical relationships between each of the aspects investigated. Key aspects of variation in clinical teacher experiences of nursing and clinical teaching and associated relationships have been identified. The results suggest that clinical teachers who adopted a student-centred approach to teaching conceived of nursing and clinical teaching in complex ways. The phenomenographic approach provides for an experiential and holistic account of clinical teaching: a perspective absent in nursing education research literature. The research findings extend knowledge that will assist with preparation and support of clinical teachers.

Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-25T21:10:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Neuraides Ribeiro Silva.pdf: 1994427 bytes, checksum: 265265c21ae5a303fbb3e1c4ed859cb4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-05-26T12:53:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Neuraides Ribeiro Silva.pdf: 1994427 bytes, checksum: 265265c21ae5a303fbb3e1c4ed859cb4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-26T12:53:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Neuraides Ribeiro Silva.pdf: 1994427 bytes, checksum: 265265c21ae5a303fbb3e1c4ed859cb4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-21 / O presente trabalho trata de uma pesquisa de mestrado, realizada no período compreendido entre os anos de2012-2014, que objetivou investigar que concepções orientam professores no ensino da Matemática por meio da resolução de problemas no 3º ano do 1º ciclo do ensino fundamental em escolas públicas do município de Cuiabá – MT. Realizamos uma breve contextualização histórica e política dos processos de estruturação e organização dos cursos de formação de professores dos anos iniciais no Brasil, apresentamos resultados de algumas pesquisas sobre formação de professores dos anos iniciais e o ensino da Matemática e, trouxemos algumas considerações acerca da formação continuada. Para auxiliar nossos estudos e reflexões utilizamos autores como Tanuri (2000), Gatti e Barreto (2009), Gatti e Nunes (2008), Rego e Mello (2002), Fiorentini (2002), Curi (2005), Shulman (1992) e Palma (2010). Fizemos a retomada de algumas abordagens acerca das concepções de Matemática, realizamos uma breve contextualização sobre o surgimento da Educação Matemática e apresentamos a organização do ensino da Matemática dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental, no contexto brasileiro e do município de Cuiabá, a partir dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais e da Matriz Curricular de Referência para o Ensino da Matemática (CUIABÁ, 2010), as quais foram ancoradas nos estudos deWielewski (2005), Caraça (2000), Ponte (1992), Garnica e Souza (2012), Fiorentini (2012 e 1994), Miorim (1993), Kilpatrick (1992), Nagle (1974) e Fonseca (2012). Propomos a apresentação de algumas abordagens acerca do entendimento de pesquisadores como Klein (2006) e Ponte (1992) em relação ao significado de "concepção" e de dados de alguns pesquisadores como Serrazina (2014),Coelho (2005), Tardif (2002), Onuchic (1999), Cury (1999), Ponte (1992), Fennema e Leof (1992), Ball (1991), Thompson (1982) entre outros, que tratam de concepções de professores acerca do ensino da Matemática e a Resolução de Problemas no ensino fundamental, com o intuito de caracterizar e explicitar nossa compreensão acerca do nosso objeto de estudo. Propomos caracterizar alguns significados acerca dos termos Resolução de Problemas, problema, problemas matemáticos, tipos de problemas e sua aplicação no ensino da Matemática, utilizando os estudos de Polya (1978 e 1995), Marco (2004), Dante (1988 e 1991), Klein e Pereira (2011), Lupinacci e Botin (2004), Curi (2004), Charles e Lester (1982), Kantowski (1981), Wielewski (2005), Soares e Pinto(2001), Pereira (2002), Huerte e Bravo (2006), Silveira (2001), Echeverría e Pozo (1998). Ao identificarmos essas concepções compreendemos de maneira mais coerente como as mesmas vêm sendo construídas a partir das relações que esses professores estabelecem com sua formação e os documentos que utilizam para orientar seus planejamentos de ensino. Nesse contexto, justifica-se o desenvolvimento da presente investigação, a qual teve como metodologia a pesquisa qualitativa fundamentada em Bogdan e Biklen (1994), Minayo (2003), Soares (2010), Fiorentini e Lorenzato (2012), Lüdke e André (1986) e que se desenvolveu por meio de proposição de questionário, realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas, análise de documentos (livros e cadernos dos alunos; cadernos de planejamentos dos professores). Foi possível identificar que os professores verbalizam suas concepções de ensino de Matemática por meio da resolução de problemas, com foco num trabalho onde a resolução de problemas é concebida como um conteúdo matemático 9 que auxilia na aprendizagem das operações aritméticas. Quando utilizados, são como exercícios de fixação dessas operações, o que não caracteriza o uso da resolução de problemas enquanto metodologia de ensino. / This paper deals with a Master thesis held in the period between the years de2012- 2014, which aimed to investigate which conceptions guide teachers in teaching Mathematics for me ow dam problem solving in the 3rd year of the 1st cycle of basic education in public schools city of Cuiabá - MT. Realism's a brief historical and political context of the processes of structuring and organization of training courses for teachers in the early years in Brazil, we present some results of research on teacher education and the early years mathematics teaching and brought some considerations about the continued training to assist our studies and reflections authors use as Tanuri (2000), Gatti and Baker (2009), Gatti and Nunes (2008), Mello and Rego (2002), Fiorentini (2002), Curi (2005), Shulman (1992), Palm (2010). We made the resumption of some approaches to the conceptions of mathematics, conducted a brief background on the emergence of mathematics education and present the organization of mathematics teaching in the early years of elementary school, in the Brazilian context and the city of Cuiabá, from Parameters National Curriculum and the curriculum Matrix of Reference for Teaching Mathematics (CUIABÁ, 2010), which were anchored in studies Wielewski (2005), Caraça (2000), Bridge (1992), Marco (2004), Garnica and Souza (2012), Fiorentini (2012 and 1994) Miorim (1993) Kilpatrick (1992), Nagle (1974) and Fonseca (2012). We propose to present some approaches to the understanding of researchers such as Klein (2006) and Bridge (1992) on the meaning of "design" and data of some researchers as Serrazina (2014), Rabbit (2005), Tardif (2002) , Onuchic (1999), Cury (1999), Bridge (1992), Fennema and Leof (1992), Ball (1991), Thompson (1982) among others, dealing with teachers' conceptions about mathematics teaching and the resolution of problems in elementary school, in order to characterize and clarify our understanding of our object of study. We propose to characterize some meanings on the terms Troubleshooting, problem, math problems, types of problems and their application in the teaching of mathematics, using studies of Polya (1978 and 1995), Marco (2004), Dante (1988 and 1991), Klein and Pereira (2011), and Lupinacci Botin (2004), Curi (2004), Charles and Lester (1982), Kantowski (1981), Wielewski (2005), Pinto and Smith (2001), Pereira (2002), and Huerte Bravo (2006), Silveira (2001), and Pozo Echeverria (1998). By identifying these concepts in a more coherent way to understand how they have been constructed from these relationships that teachers establish with their training and the documents they use to guide their planning of ensign. Knesset context, it is appropriate to the development of this research, which had as its research methodology to qualitative basedend Bogdan and Biklen (1994), Minayo (2003), Smith (2010), and Lorenzato Fiorentini (2012), Lüdke and Andrew (1986) which was developed by proposition questionnaire, achievement semistructured interviews, analysis of documents (books and notebooks for students, contract schedules of teachers). It was possible to identify that teachers verbalize their conceptions the teaching mathematics through problem solving, focusing on a job where problem solving is conceived as a mathematical content that aids the learning of arithmetic operations. However, when used, are as exercises in fixing these operations, which does not feature the use of problem solving while teaching methodology.

Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2017-06-01T19:36:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Isadora Maria Falbot dos Santos.pdf: 1001855 bytes, checksum: 9fc521d29db07a3a618b254fe77eefa5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-06-05T16:37:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Isadora Maria Falbot dos Santos.pdf: 1001855 bytes, checksum: 9fc521d29db07a3a618b254fe77eefa5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-05T16:37:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Isadora Maria Falbot dos Santos.pdf: 1001855 bytes, checksum: 9fc521d29db07a3a618b254fe77eefa5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-04 / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo identificar as concepções de professores de língua inglesa a respeito da situação atual do ensino da disciplina em escolas públicas. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de um questionário semi-aberto aplicado a quatro professoras de língua inglesa do Ensino Fundamental de duas escolas de Cuiabá. Ao analisar os dados, buscamos compreender o que é ensinar língua inglesa, quais metodologias utilizam, se conhecem os documentos oficiais sobre o ensino e se suas concepções são semelhantes a estas propostas. Os resultados nos revelam que a maior parte desses professores alicerça sua prática em uma perspectiva que ainda coloca os alunos como receptores dos conteúdos a serem ministrados pelo professor. Isso não estimula a autonomia dos alunos e também não prioriza a educação para a formação de cidadãos que possuam meios para progredir no trabalho e em seus estudos futuros. Essa concepção diverge do que recomendam os documentos curriculares nacionais e do estado de Mato Grosso, que se fundamentam na interação como base para o ensino-aprendizagem. Esperamos que as reflexões por nós levantadas possam colaborar para as discussões sobre o aprendizado de línguas estrangeiras no contexto das escolas públicas brasileiras. / This research aims to identify the conceptions of teachers of English about the current situation of teaching this subject in public schools. Data collection was performed through a questionnaire of subjective questions to four English language teachers of elementary school from two schools of Cuiabá. In analyzing the data, we look for understanding what teaching English language, what methodologies they use, if they know the official documents about education and the teachers’ views are similar to these proposals. The results reveal that most of these teachers founded their practice in a perspective that still puts students as receivers of content to be taught by the teacher. This does not encourage students’ autonomy and also does not prioritize education for the formation of citizens who have the means to progress at work and in their future studies. This conception differs from that is recommended by the national official documents and of Mato Grosso too, which are based on the interaction as a basis for teaching and learning. We hope that the reflections raised by us can contribute to discussions on the learning of foreign languages in the context of Brazilian public schools.

[pt] A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar as influências das famílias sobre as práticas pedagógicas nas escolas privadas de Belford Roxo, procurando identificar se há divergência entre as concepções dos professores e das famílias. A pesquisa se desenvolveu em três escolas privadas, de pequeno e médio porte, autônomas e de prestígio, que atendem, em sua maioria, a classe popular do município de Belford Roxo. A metodologia adotada para a produção de dados foi a de caráter qualitativo, composta em duas etapas: realização de entrevista semiestruturada, com duas professoras e uma coordenadora do Ensino Fundamental I de cada uma das três instituições escolares investigadas, totalizando nove entrevistas; aplicação de questionários para as famílias dos alunos, com perguntas abertas e fechadas, totalizando vinte e um respondentes. Além disso, utilizou-se a página do Facebook de cada instituição, para uma análise documental, em busca de compreender como a comunidade escolar, a família e os professores apresentam suas concepções sobre a lógica de funcionamento da escola. A análise dos dados das entrevistas contou com o método de análise temática. Constatou-se que são escolas privadas que vêm crescendo, em comparação com as da rede pública da região, mas com poucos parâmetros das autoridades governamentais, principalmente no que tange à ausência de dados sobre o desempenho educacional dos alunos. Essas escolas destacam-se como escolas de prestígio para as famílias por oferecerem uma educação de qualidade, de modelo conteudista e tradicional, baseadas no uso de livro didático, cujo foco central da aprendizagem está na memorização, repetição e nos resultados das avaliações. Evidenciou-se que esse formato de ensino possui influências das famílias que pagam a escola e, por isso, acreditam que esse é o melhor ensino para seus filhos. A maioria dos professores possui baixos níveis de formação acadêmica, e não há nenhuma organização por meio da escola para promover um aperfeiçoamento profissional através de formação continuada. Conclui-se que a prática pedagógica é submetida a uma lógica de ensino regulador, acumulativo e tradicional, que inibe a autoria e a criatividade docente, justificada por essas escolas se submeterem às influências do mercado e das próprias famílias. Evidenciou-se que não há grandes desencontros entre as concepções das escolas, das famílias e dos professores no que tange ao processo de ensino- aprendizagem. Esse cenário perpetua-se como um ciclo vicioso de repetição das práticas-pedagógicas tradicionais, com poucos avanços, mantidos, principalmente, pelos limites da formação dos professores, seja inicial e continuada, pela constante influência das famílias, juntamente com a falta de regulação dos governos. Aposta-se na necessidade de novos estudos para a compreensão de como se efetiva o processo de aprendizagem dos alunos no cotidiano da sala de aula, a fim de aprofundar as questões evidenciadas nesta pesquisa. / [en] The present research aims to investigate the influences of families on pedagogical practices in private schools in Belford-Roxo, seeking to identify whether there is divergence between the conceptions of teachers and families. The research was carried out in three small and medium-sized autonomous and prestigious private schools, which attend, in general, to the popular classes in the city of Belford Roxo. The methodology adopted for the production of data was of a qualitative nature, composed of two stages: semi-structured interviews with two teachers and a coordinator of Elementary I, of each of the three school institutions investigated, totaling nine interviews; application of questionnaires to the students families with open and closed questions, totaling twenty one respondents. In addition, the Facebook page of each institution was used for documentary analysis in order to understand how the school community, family and teachers present their conceptions about the logic of how the schools function. The data from the interviews were analyzed using the thematic analysis method. It was found that these are private schools that have been growing in comparison with the public network in the region, but with few parameters from the government authorities, especially regarding the absence of data on the educational performance of students. These schools stand out as prestigious schools for families because they offer quality education with a content-based and traditional model, based on the textbook, the central focus of learning of which is on memorization, repetition and the results of evaluations. It was evident that this educational format is influenced by the families who pay for the school and believe that this is the best education for their children. Most teachers have low levels of academic training and the schools do not offer to promote professional improvement through continuing education. The conclusion is that the pedagogical practice is submitted to a regulatory, accumulative and traditional teaching logic that inhibits the teachers authorship and creativity, justified by the fact that these schools submit themselves to the influences of the market and of the families themselves. It is evident that there is not much disagreement between the conceptions of schools, families and teachers in relation to the teaching-learning process. This scenario is perpetuated as a vicious cycle of repetition of traditional pedagogical practices with little progress, maintained mainly by the limits of teacher training, both initial and continuing, and by the constant influence of families, along with the lack of government regulation. We believe that new studies are needed to understand how the learning process of students takes place in the classroom, in order to deepen the issues highlighted in this research.