Orientador: Elizabeth Piemonte Constantino / Banca: Cláudio Edward dos Reis / Banca: Wilka Coronado Antunes Dias / Banca: Ivone Tambelli Schimidt / Banca: Raimunda Abou Gebran / Resumo: Existe uma procura crescente pelas vagas oferecidas pelos cursos técnicos. As matrículas cresceram para além dos 70% entre 2002 e 2010. Tornou-se fundamental voltarmos o olhar para tal segmento educacional, pois, as mudanças no mercado de trabalho formal, aliado a promulgação da Lei nº 11.741, que desvincula o Ensino Médio da Educação Profissional, forçou-nos a compreender essa população diferenciada, que hoje adentra os bancos escolares da Educação Profissional. Após a aplicação de questionários e da utilização do critério socioeconômico da ABIPEME (Associação Brasileira de Institutos de Pesquisa de Mercado) o perfil do aluno que está matriculado nos diversos cursos da Escola Técnica Estadual Pedro D'Arcádia Neto, em Assis, é o de uma população com uma pequena superioridade numérica feminina, nascidos, em sua maioria, na cidade de Assis, com idade média em torno de 24 anos, que estudam no período noturno, são solteiros, sem filhos, moram com os pais, muito interessados nas novas tecnologias, trabalham, não freqüentam a biblioteca, são oriundos de escola pública, apresentam objetivos claros e esperam uma boa formação voltada para o mercado de trabalho, pretendem, em curto prazo, trabalhar e continuar estudos universitários; entendem que a Internet, os amigos e a televisão atendem suas necessidades de lazer e dependem financeiramente dos pais, que por sua vez, apresentam o Ensino Médio completo e trabalham, em sua maioria, na área de serviços. Os respondentes caracterizam-se por pertencerem às classes socioeconômicas B e C / Abstract: There is an increasing demand for the vacancies offered by the technical courses. The enrollments outgrew above 70% between 2002 and 2010. It has rendered fundamental to turn our eyes to such an educational segment because the changes in the formal job market, associated with the promulgation of the Law 11.741, that disentails the High School from the Professional Education, has forced us to comprehend this distinct population, which goes into the Professional Education. After the application of questionnaires and the utilization of the socioeconomic criteria established by ABIPEME (Associação Brasileira de Institutos de Pesquisa de Mercado) the profile of the student enrolled in the various courses of the Escola Técnica Estadual Pedro D'Arcádia Neto, in Assis, is that of a population with a small numerical feminine superiority, born mostly in Assis, with a mean age around 24 years old, studying at night, single, without children, living with their parents. They are very interested in new technologies, they work, they do not attend library, they came from public schools and show clear objectives and hope for a good formation directed to the work market. They also intend to work and get into college, they understand that Internet, friends and television fulfill their needs of leisure. Finally, they are financially dependent from their parents, which, in turn, present complete High School studying and do outside works. The respondents characterized themselves as pertaining to B and C socioeconomic classes / Doutor

Abstract: This work focuses on the Mathematics teacher's practice in the System of Continuing Progression of the State of São Paulo. The groups of students involved in this research are of those who failed the eighth grade of primary education and are now doing extra class studies through the Teaching and Learning Project of Cycle II at the state of São Paulo. The objective of this research is to identify and to show the actions and the problems related to the pedagogical practice of the Mathematics teacher and to check if this actions propitiate, or not, advances in the process of learning of the these specials groups of students that are at the end of the basic education. This study also tried to show the daily routine of the Mathematics teacher who works in such particular classes and how they think, act and work with the interference of an institution as well as the relationships inside it. A qualitative approach was used in this research and the processes of investigation utilized were: documental analysis focused on the analysis of the already mentioned Project, application of questionnaire, class observation and interviews with the teachers. The analysis of the collected data revealed the teacher's disbelief about the project, mainly about the way that it was planed, promoted and implemented. The absence of schools's infrastructures and of others institutional conditions were highlighted as an obstacle for the project's success. One of the pointed conditions is referred to the way how schools are still working from the administrative view, similar to the series schools. Some of the investigated Mathematics teacher's revealed compromising with the project and showed as singular practice to work with these special students and even without the ideal conditions they arrived to guarantee learning conditions for them. It concludes that only with State, teachers and schools's compromising, students's learning conditions can be guarantee. / Orientador: Laurizete Ferragut Passos / Banca: Rosana Giaretta Sguerra Miskulin / Banca: Ana Lucia Manrique / Mestre

Pensar a formação docente na contemporaneidade exige atentar para as discussões que perpassam os campos da Comunicação e da Educação. A cultura midiática influencia nossa construção identitária, por isso é essencial que o espaço educativo inclua em seus conteúdos programáticos diferentes formas de abordar os processos educomunicativos, a fim de que estudantes possam compreender as lógicas que os regem em suas relações com a sociedade. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi realizar uma experiência pedagógica com narrativas fílmicas nas Licenciaturas (Pedagogia e Letras) da Universidade de Taubaté. A metodologia utilizada foi a observação-participante. A prática aconteceu no espaço destinado às Atividades Acadêmico-Científico-Culturais (AACC). Exibimos principalmente filmes que fogem aos padrões tradicionais que os sujeitos participantes da pesquisa conhecem. Depois das exibições, acontecia uma discussão entre professora pesquisadora e alunos, sobre aspectos por eles considerados significativos. Por meio de relatos escritos e de gravações, procurou-se identificar como os estudantes atribuíam sentidos aos filmes vistos. O segundo propósito foi pensar um projeto com filmes que atenda às necessidades do público-alvo pesquisado. Observou-se que uma prática educomunicativa com o cinema/filmes na formação docente das Licenciaturas em questão pode contribuir para ampliar o capital cultural dos discentes, logo, para sua construção identitária pessoal e profissional. / Thinking about teacher formation in the contemporary world requires attaining to discussions that comprise the fields of Communication and Education. Media culture influences our identity construction, therefore, it is essential that the programmed contents in the learning environment contain different strategies of approaching the educommunication processes so that students may understand the logics that govern their relations with society. The aim of this research was to carry a teaching experience with film narratives in the Teaching Colleges of the University of Taubaté (General Pedagogy and Language Pedagogy). Participant observation was the methodology used and the practice happened in the space used for the extracurricular activities of the students (Atividades Acadêmico-Científico-Culturais - AACC). The movies to be shown in the practices were chosen for being different from the types of film narratives that the subjects participating in the research were used to knowing. After the exhibition discussions were carried between the professor and the students about aspects they considered relevant. Through written and recorded reports this research tried to identify how students gave meaning to what they had watched. The second purpose was to think of a project with movies that attended to the demands of this target audience. The educommunication practice with cinema in teacher formation may contribute to broadening the cultural capital of the students researched and may, therefore, add to the construction of their personal and professional identities.

Context. SE is a growing field in both academia and industry, online SE education becomes more and more prevalent recent years. Massive Open Online Courses, as an emerging type of open educational resource, provide SE courses a much wider development space. But on the other hand, MOOCs limit SE courses because its low completion rate. Game elements are used to address this issue, but the impact of game elements on completion rate of specific MOOCs and SE courses in MOOCs are not clear. It is necessary to find whether and how game elements could help students finish SE courses. Explore the method and idea of improving SE courses in MOOCs through game elements. Objectives. In this study authors investigate what game elements are applied in SE courses in MOOCs platforms, evaluate the impact of MOOCs game elements on SE courses completion situation. Based on the analysis and summary of the data and result, propose suggestion to improve SE courses. Methods. Authors conduct a systematic literature to find the game elements used in SE courses in MOOCs. Conducting the survey to get the data of the MOOCs game elements on completion situation in general and data of survey is analyzed by mathematical statistics. The interview is used to find how the game elements of MOOC and SE education simulation impact on learning SE courses on MOOCs by inductive content analysis. Results. In systematic literature review, 23 studies are selected from 358 papers of six databases. Forty-one responses of questionnaires are received and twenty interviewees take part in this study. Authors find that game elements have been applied in MOOCs in various ways and research results about effort of game elements are positive. In this study, the results of analyzing the received data in survey show that there is no significant impact of game elements on course completion rate. The interview shows that specific game element is necessary for students finishing their courses and some game elements are not well designed in students’ perspective. Two specific suggestions to improve SE courses are proposed according to survey and interview result. Conclusions. This research collects data through SLR, survey and interview, and evaluates the impact of game elements on SE course completion situation through analysis, comparison and summary. The result is helpful to people who design and develop the game elements in MOOCs platform. Focusing on the character of SE education and SE courses, some suggestion of designing and modifying the game elements are provided. This enables the game elements designer to target designing and arranging game elements better.

The introduced graduation theses deals with the issue of legal regime of land associated with water. In the four major fields, which are water courses, land relations in area protection of water, land relations in areas endangered with high flood and land relations connected to waterworks, the theses analyses legal regulations of land relations with the emphasis on limitations of ownership, which conclude from these relations. In the center of attention of the theses are the laws in the water act, laws which are inferior to the legal force of the water act and laws in the new civil code.

The impacts of golf courses and golf estate developments are great and definite. Proof of this can be seen in several Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), that have been submitted to the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Conservation (GDACE) in terms of the Environmental Conservation Act (ECA) (1989) and the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) (1998). The question is how to limit these impacts on the environment. Guidelines on how to manage and mitigate these impacts are of fundamental importance, to ensure the conservation of the environment. These guidelines should set principles for the management of the environment from cradle to grave, for future golf course and golf estate developments. The main objective of this study was to develop guidelines for Environmental Management Plans (EMP) specifically focused on golf course developments in the Gauteng Province. To achieve this, a comprehensive study was conducted on the factors pertaining to the environmental process by evaluating previous EIA reports and the associated EMP’s as well as the supporting documentation. The EMP’s were evaluated and several shortfalls were identified. The EIA scoping reports were then appraised and ranked accordingly. The scoping reports assess the impacts on the environment. These impacts must be mitigated in the development process. These impacts and mitigation measures must be documented in an EMP. Hence, the connection between the EIA scoping reports and the EMP’s. Several inadequacies were recognized with respect to the inclusion of all the mitigatory measures for all the impacts as identified in the EIA scoping reports. The conclusions drawn in the evaluations were used to develop the guidelines for EMP’s. The guidelines given here will assist in future compilations of EMP’s for golf courses. It is highly recommended that GDACE and environmental consultants adopt this standard in preparing and evaluating applications. / Prof. J.T. Harmse

The purpose of this study was to create and examine the conceptual and psychometric properties of four components that comprise 'programme outcome' sought by distance educators, and to examine the extent to which student (socio-demographic) and programme (e.g. duration) variables related to them. This ex post facto study utilised the records of 773 correspondence students enrolled at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for the 1984 Summer session and who submitted one or more assignments. Four variables were derived from the data set - completion rate, deviation (lateness in submitting assignments), turnaround (time taken to return marked assignments) and grades. These variables were more conceptually defensible than the NUEA or other formulae typically used to measure 'outcomes'. It was hypothesized that when students had to wait longer for the return of their assignments in the first quarter of the course, completion rate would be lower, but this would not happen after the course was half over. When students were late submitting assignments, it was expected that their completion rate would be lower than those submitting on time. It was found that turnaround had a significant association with completion rate throughout the course. Deviation, that is, delays in submitting assignments, was also related to completion. Each of the four variables had significantly different associations with programme outcome. The measures employed here can be used elsewhere as the data that comprise them are found in the records of most distance education programmes. This should facilitate research in distance education and provide practitioners with a way to monitor programmes. / Education, Faculty of / Educational Studies (EDST), Department of / Graduate

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Given the competing contexts of teacher education, it is important to uncover what teacher educator knowledge concerning curriculum design and development emerges in design, implementation, and instruction during the transition from in-person to online contexts. Yet, there is little research that uncovers teacher educator knowledge in curriculum making generally, and more specifically, how this knowledge is carried forward or changed as teacher educators create and enact online teaching. Because transitions are an important time to uncover tacit and embodied understanding, in this self-study of teacher education practice (S-STEP), I examined my own teacher educator knowledge during planning, teaching, and reflecting as I shifted to teaching online. Seven strands of teacher educator knowledge were represented in analytic narrative vignettes and identified as knowledge of content, fixed and fluid elements of course design, milieu, pedagogical intent, preservice teacher knowledge and belief, the value and fragility of relationships, and theory. Then I examined each of the strands separately as a way to discuss findings more holistically. By shifting the teaching context, I questioned and deepened my knowledge of preparing preservice teachers. Further, the analysis revealed how these seven strands of my teacher educator knowledge were interconnected, made stronger, and interacted differently during the stages of planning, teaching, and reflecting. Such intimate study of my own teacher educator knowledge revealed my obligations, responsibilities, and commitments to preservice teachers and the students they will teach. Studies that examine the shifts in teaching context have the potential to identify and highlight the complexities of teacher educator knowledge, thereby making a useful contribution to the research conversation in teacher education. By recognizing and naming their teacher educator knowledge, teacher educators can sharpen and improve their practice as they design courses, especially including improvements in online teacher education, participate in constructing programs, and defend their programs in accreditation processes.

The problem addressed in this study was that the Compass Learning Odyssey program, a self-paced online intervention, was being utilized to allow middle school students at the target school to recover course credits in the core subjects of language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, but its effectiveness had not been studied. The Compass Learning Odyssey program provided remediation opportunities for students who had failed one or more academic core courses and allowed for credit retrieval, course completion and grade promotion. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the implementation of summer credit retrieval online program on the overall retrieval of credits by all Grade-8 student participants and student participants in subgroups of gender and ethnic groups. The credit retrieval program had been in effect in the school since the 2006-2007 school year, but its effectiveness had not been studied. The researcher used de-identified retrospective data to answer the research questions. One-way analysis of variance and t tests were conducted to determine for each year and overall for the 4 years if there was a statistically significant difference in the impact of the implementation of the summer credit retrieval online program on (a) the overall retrieval of credits by Grade-8 students in the summer program, (b) the quality points earned by gender and ethnic subgroups, (c) the students retrieving core credits, and (d) the core courses retrieved by gender and ethnic groups.The results of the study showed that all students passed the quarter modules with at least a grade of D, with 75% of students making average progress with a grade of C. There was not a statistically significant difference between subjects studied. Ninety-three percent of the students participating in the summer credit retrieval program were able to recover enough core credits to be promoted. Suggestions for program improvements and recommendations for future research are included.