Thesis {Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1998. / Bibliography : p. 328-344.

Mémoire (M.A.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1990. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thesis (DAppLing)--Macquarie University, Division of Linguistics and Psychology, Dept. of Linguistics, 2009. / "December 2008". Bibliography: p. 299-327.

Thesis (Ph. D.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 2, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

As information becomes more widely available, the library finds itself in a position where new paths need to be explored on which to reach out to users. Learning Commons have developed internationally as a way to stimulate active learning and to prioritise social interaction over the material collection. By using Chalmers University of Technology as a case study, the aim of this study has been to clarify the concept of Learning Commons from a Swedish perspective and to contribute to the representation of diverse interpretations worldwide by so doing. Chalmers was the first Swedish library to institute a Learning Commons in 2016 and so the study has come to focus on organizational factors driving its establishment and on how the term is used locally. The library’s perspective has been point of departure with a rich material found in business plans, project plans and other officially drafted documents concerning its coming into existence and evaluation thereof. Complementary information was gathered from e-mail conversations with the prefect and a more informal perspective added through the library’s blog and some newspaper articles on the topic. All documents have been studied using a qualitative content-based analysis with a concept analytical angle. Theoretical premises were found in materiality and constructivism as concepts, in combination with an overarching starting point in organization theory. The analysis showed that the library and the Learning Commons were seen as two distinct concepts, where the main distinguishing characteristic was found in the focus on the collection and user respectively. The Learning Commons further functions as a testing ground for new ideas, which fit more easily in a new context. Related to these questions of organizational development, the physical structure has shown to be an efficient mediator of change, imprinted as it is with symbolism prompting certain behaviour. A closer collaboration with Chalmers University and a more perceptive way in relation to users has, together with adjustments to prevalent pedagogy, environmental thinking and strengthening of the profile internationally as well as socially formed the Learning Commons of Chalmers. It has shown to be an appreciated part of the present and future library.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-26T13:44:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 1182010 bytes, checksum: f3a8b4a035a6cc39f46b066d42e1f429 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-26 / This research, based mainly on the Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis, investigates the co-construction of knowledge through the adjacent pair question-answer interaction between teacher and students in classroom. Data were collected through participant observation and audio recording of the talk-in-interaction in a class of the Technical Course in Agroecology integrated to high school, in a Federal Institution from Minas Gerais. After collecting the data, the recordings were transcribed and analyzed from an emic perspective, as suggested by Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson (1994) and Garcez (2008) for whom this type of work is the "description of human social action by the observation data of natural occurrence of this action through the use of language" (GARCEZ 2008, p. 22). The data analysis was divided into two sections considering the activities performed by the teacher and the students. The first section was divided into two stages, the first one refers to the interaction between the teacher and the group of students who did a presentation on Sustainable Development, and the second moment corresponds to the interaction between the teacher and the group who presented about Biofuels. The second section is an analysis of interactional talk between the teacher and the whole class, which was called Co-Construction of Knowledge. The analysis revealed that the use of questions and answers on the interaction between teacher and students is very frequent and it does not happen unpretentiously, on the contrary, it happens articulately and, in some situations, is strategically directed to the production and interpretation of a common meaningful discourse. Considering the objective of this research, it corroborates the importance of studying this dialogic pair to understand how the talk- in-interaction is organized in the classroom for the joint construction of knowledge. / Esta pesquisa, fundamentada principalmente na teoria da Análise da Conversa Etnometodológica (ACE), investiga a co-construção do conhecimento através do par adjacente pergunta-resposta na interação entre professor e alunos em sala de aula. Os dados foram coletados através da observação participante e da gravação em áudio da fala-em-interação de uma turma do Ensino Médio de um curso Técnico Integrado em Agroecologia de uma Instituição Federal do Interior de Minas Gerais. Após a coleta dos dados, as gravações foram transcritas e analisadas a partir de uma perspectiva êmica, como sugerem Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson (1994) e Garcez (2008) para quem este tipo de trabalho consiste na descrição da ação social humana pela observação de dados de ocorrência natural dessa ação mediante o uso da linguagem (GARCEZ, 2008, p. 22). A análise dos dados foi dividida em duas seções de acordo com a atividade interacional executada pelo docente e pelos estudantes. A primeira seção foi subdividida em dois momentos, o primeiro referente à interação entre o professor e o grupo de alunos que apresentou o seminário sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável, já o segundo momento corresponde à interação entre o docente e o segundo grupo que apresentou um trabalho sobre o tema Agrocombustíveis. A segunda seção consiste na análise da fala interacional entre o professor e toda a turma, momento que denominamos Co-Construção do Conhecimento. Com as análises foi possível perceber que o uso de perguntas e respostas na interação entre professor e aluno é algo frequente e não acontece de forma despretensiosa, mas articulada e, em algumas situações, estrategicamente direcionada para a produção e interpretação de um discurso significativo comum. O que permite, diante do objetivo desta pesquisa, reafirmar a importância do estudo desse par dialógico para compreender como a fala-em-interação na sala de aula é organizada para a construção conjunta do conhecimento.

RESEARCH PROJECTS: 1 RESEARCH PROJECT ONE: A literature review: Constructivism: An alternate approach to teaching and learning. Abstract The constructivist perspectives on learning have helped enhance science educators' understanding of how students make sense of their lived experiences. Constructivism purports to be a transformation of the traditional curriculum. As such this article starts with a brief overview of behaviorism: the scientific approach to education. The main tenets underlying constructivism, how constructivism guides educators to change their classroom practice, and the implications to science teaching have been reviewed. 2 RESEARCH PROJECT TWO (Empirical study): Being Constructive: College students' learning of work and heat as aspects of the energy concept based a constructivist approach. Abstract This study is an extension of a literature review on constructivism as an alternate teaching and learning approach discussed in research project one. It is an empirical study concerning the use of a learning module based on a constructivist approach to develop pre-service student teachers' understanding of work and heat as aspects of the energy concept. The data consisted mainly of transcripts of students' interviews, written responses to questionnaires designed in the form of a worksheet, and comments from non-participant observers and students. The results seem to suggest that a carefully designed learning module based on a constructivist teaching and learning approach may be a valuable tool in developing pre-service student teachers' understanding of work and heat. 3 RESEARCH PROJECT THREE (Empirical study): A College in transition: A case study of the readiness of a college in the Eastern Cape province to implement Outcomes-Based Education in an Education Development centre. Abstract Curriculum 2005 premised on Outcomes-Based Education is the new curriculum framework for South Africa. It signifies a paradigm shift in education from the traditional 'telling-listening' relationship between the teacher and the learner to one that emphasises leamer-centred approach to the teaching process. Teachers, though recognized as crucial to the educational transformation process in the country have also being identified as ill-equipped to meet the challenges posed by Outcomes-Based Education. This study starts with a brief overview of the South African curriculum and the main tenets underlying Outcomes-Based Education. The institutional conditions and whether the lecturers at a college in the Eastern Cape province perceive the need for a change in their classroom practice were also investigated. Bearing in mind the need for further research to validate the findings of this study, positive indicators that emerged from the study suggest the readiness of the college to implement Outcomes-Based Education at the proposed Education Development Centre.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:24:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 adauto_alves_silva.pdf: 1095429 bytes, checksum: d96e6fc1694e1a1b1f69cbb1751781b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-11-11 / Many have been researchers who have ventured into research and publications around the acquisition of oral and written language, motivated by different objectives. The focus of this research is focused in Sonia Borges (2006a, 2006b, 2010), who have brought contributions to the field of acquisition of written language, based on the interactionist theory of Claudia de Lemos (2002) that relies on the structuralism of Saussure and Jakobson reframed the lacaniana approach. Theses authors put in discussion the cognitive psychological assumptions the acquisition of oral and written language by which the child elaborates hypotheses about language and will fallow gradually toward speech and writing cumulatively; it is a psychological subject-epistemic subject centered consciousness. On the other hand, interactionist theory, here assumed, will cover the subject of the unconscious subject of psychoanalysis. Therefore, it is intened as a general goal, analyze errors, considered as masks the subjectivity in textual productions of elementary students II (6th to 9th grade), according to the proposal of Sonia Borges, performing a class with cognitive-constructivist approach of Emilia Ferreiro. To empirically substantiate our search, analyze some writings of students from 6th to 9th grade, the local public school, José Canuto, the city of Barreiros Pernambuco productions, highlinghting, in the analysis, the proposed showdawn. Thus, our inquiry assumes seek to better understand the emergence of errors in textual productions, considering the treatment by cognitive psychological theory and the place occupied by structuralist theory we assume as a reference point for this search. We intend, therefore, that there are discussions on the subject, to the extent that we believe that only through worries, you can be aware, going in the direction, not the answers, but the questions that make us uneasy. / Muitos têm sido os pesquisadores que têm se aventurado em pesquisas e publicações em torno da aquisição de linguagem oral e escrita, motivados por objetivos os mais variados. O foco desta pesquisa está centrado na abordagem de Sônia Borges (2006a, 2006b, 2010), que tem trazido contribuições ao campo da aquisição de linguagem escrita, com fundamento na teoria interacionista de Cláudia de Lemos (2002) que se apoia no estruturalismo de Saussure e de Jakobson ressignificado pela psicanálise lacaniana. Essas autoras colocaram em discussão os pressupostos psicológicos cognitivos de aquisição de linguagem oral e escrita segundo os quais, a criança elabora hipóteses sobre a língua e vai seguindo paulatinamente em direção à fala e a escrita de forma cumulativa; trata-se de um sujeito psicológico, sujeito epistêmico centrado na consciência. Por outo lado, a teoria interacionista, aqui assumida, vai abarcar o sujeito do inconsciente, sujeito da psicanálise. Pretendeu-se, portanto, como objetivo geral, analisar os erros, considerados como marcas de subjetividade, nas produções textuais dos alunos do ensino fundamental ll (6º ao 9º ano), de acordo com a proposta de Sônia Borges, realizando um confronto com a abordagem cognitivo-construtivista de Emília Ferreiro. Para fundamentar empiricamente a nossa Pesquisa, analisamos cinco (5) produções escritas de alunos do 6º ao 9º ano, do colégio público municipal, José Canuto, da cidade de Barreiros, Pernambuco, destacando, nessa análise, o confronto proposto. Assim, a nossa indagação partiu do pressuposto de procurar entender melhor o surgimento dos erros nas produções textuais, considerando o tratamento dado pela teoria psicológica cognitiva e o lugar ocupado pela teoria estruturalista que assumimos como ponto de referência nesta pesquisa. Almejamos, desse modo, que haja discussões a respeito do tema, na medida em que acreditamos que, somente por meio de inquietações, será possível haver conhecimento, indo em direção, não das respostas, mas das perguntas que nos fazem inquietar.

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This project examines online learning tools and software that are applicable to K-12 and post-secondary distance learning environments. Powerpoint, Webquest and Inspiration 7 have been utilized to develop a lesson plan and storyboard that incorporate the constructivist theory of learning. An accompanying Web site, "Learning Tools for the On-Line Student," serves as a resource for instructional technology educators and includes information on designing lesson plans and evaluating students. The site also provides links to online tools and software that are useful in online learning environments.