Im vorgelegten Materialband wird illustriert, wie im Rahmen der ethnografischen Erforschung der Praxis des Ganztagsangebotes von Grundschule und Hort mittels der Technik \"Ablaufgrafik\" Informationen zum zeitlichen und territorialen Ablauf des Ganztagsprogrammes dokumentiert und in der Begegnung mit Feldakteuren reflektiert werden konnten.

This diploma thesis focuses on the history and the presence of the schools in Dobronín, small village. The aim of the diploma thesis was to analyze the circumstances, the absence of the students, and the classes. It is a historical-comparative thesis. For all the needed information, I used the literature (both in electronic and book form), especially chronicles and school reports available at the school Dobronín and in District Archive in Jihlava. The diploma thesis focuses on the period 1882 - nowadays, and besides, contains the history of the time when just one small school with one class was allowed for the Czech children. Currently, there is an elementary school in Dobronín. Individual schooling in the focused burgher school is above expectations in comparison with other villages. Surprisingly, they have zero unexcused absence for the past few years. However, the historical resources shows that even though the students are present in the school, the teaching may be interrupted by both planned and unexpected events. Key words Czech school, German school, burgher school, country school, schooling, elementary school

The findings of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2006 highlighted concerns about support for and the quality of reading literacy teaching in South African primary schools. In South Africa there is a paucity of research outlining schooling conditions and teachers’ reading literacy teaching practices especially in the Intermediate Phase. The aim of this mixed methods study was to explore schooling conditions and teaching practices for the implementation of the curriculum for Grade 4 learners’ reading literacy development across a range of education contexts. Two research sub-questions explored in two research phases were used to investigate the overall question which was: What influence do schooling conditions and teaching practices have on curriculum implementation for Grade 4 reading literacy? In phase one, PIRLS 2006 principal and teacher questionnaire data were re-classified for secondary analysis according to language of instruction (English First Language or English Additional Language) and the mean performance of each participating class of learners on the PIRLS 2006 international benchmarks and further benchmarks established to reflect the performance of the majority of South African learners. Response distributions on selected classroom level variables detailing teacher characteristics and reading literacy teaching practices as well as selected school level variables describing teaching conditions impacting the teaching of reading literacy were compared across each reclassified benchmark sub-sample. In phase two, six school and teacher case studies were purposively selected from each of the sub-samples to complement and extend the findings from the analysis of the survey data using multiple qualitative data sources. The findings revealed that differences in schooling conditions and teaching practices across the PIRLS achievement spectrum were generally aligned to differences between advantaged, high achieving schools and disadvantaged low-achieving schools. Thus, the study provides insights into the high levels of between-school inequalities for the development of Grade 4 reading literacy and school and classroom level reasons for such inequalities. On the basis of the findings, recommendations for policy, teacher practice and teacher education, and further research are provided. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Science, Mathematics and Technology Education / unrestricted

South Tyrol is an autonomous province, which belongs to the Italian Republic. Its territory is specific for several reasons. This is caused by the historical development and also by the fact that South Tyrol is a crossroad where the Germanic culture and language meets the Romanesque one. The citizens are usually bilingual. The language issue offers a large number of topics, which can be further examined. This thesis is focused on language use in the public sector nowadays. First, the historical context of the South Tyrolean question will be explained with focus on language because the current state results from past events. Second, I will explore three following areas of the public sector: communication with public administration, politicians and at school. The main emphasis will be again placed on language. Next, I will deal with the language model of South Tyrol. My goal is to try to answer this question: Is the described model functional, stable and possibly transferable?

The aim of this study is to contribute to an understanding of the need for collaboration in creating education plans and school placements for children and youth placed in out-of-home care. By interviewing nine representatives from social services, the municipal education department and primary and secondary schools, this study addresses tensions that arise in school planning in the critical phases for this target group: prior to placement in out-of-home-care and upon return home.Previous studies have found that children and youth placed in out-of-home care receive insufficient support for their education, and that collaboration functions better when the collaboration is well-anchored in organizational management, but worse, at an operational level, when there is less understanding of the collaborating partners’ competences and guidelines. This study has used the theory of institutional logics as a framework to highlight the material practices (routines and role descriptions) and symbolic constructions (intentions and values) that constitute each institution’s motive for organizational collaboration in providing schooling for children and youth in out-of-home-care. Through qualitative semi-structured interviews inspired by narrative method, it has emerged that social services are driven by an urgent logic, the education department by a judicial logic and the schools by both a pragmatic and a holistic logic. By creating procedures based on the interviewees' statements regarding prioritized tasks, the framework of institutional logics has clarified the tensions that arise when contrasting logics compete in the critical phases of child and youth placement. These tensions consist of a dichotomy between care and education, neither party seeing the entirety of the needs of the clients/students and shortcomings in communication. This study has also highlighted the presence of institutional voids in the collaboration process. There are elements in collaboration that the parties cannot influence, such as laws and guidelines on confidentiality, approaches to guardians of children and youth in placement as well as difficulties in collaborating with other municipalities as each one has different routines and expectations. / Syftet med denna studie är att bidra med kunskap om samverkan kring planering av skolgång och skolbyte för placerade barn och unga. Genom intervjuer med nio representanter från socialtjänst, utbildningsförvaltning och skola har denna studie kunnat presentera de spänningar som uppstår i planerandet av skolgång i de särskilt kritiska faserna inför en placering och när placerade flyttar hem igen.  Tidigare studier har funnit att placerade barn och unga inte får de förutsättningar de behöver för att klara skolan och att samverkan fungerar bättre när det är väl förankrat i ledningen men sämre på verksamhetsnivå där det finns mindre kunskap om samverkansparternas befogenheter och riktlinjer. Studien har använt teorin om institutionella logiker som teoretiskt ramverk för att synliggöra de materiella praxis (rutiner och rollbeskrivningar) och symboliska konstruktioner (intentioner och ingångsvärden) som utgör var samverkansparts rationalitet och motiv till samverkan inom det organisatoriska fält som är planering av skolgång för placerade barn och unga. Genom kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med inspiration av narrativ metod och tematisk analys har det framkommit att socialtjänsten drivs av en akut logik, utbildningsförvaltningen av en rättslig logik och skolan av både en pragmatisk och en holistisk logik. Genom att skapa gångordningar utifrån intervjupersonernas utsagor om prioriterade arbetsuppgifter i samverkan har logikerna kunnat synliggöra de spänningar som uppstår när logikerna möts i de kritiska faserna. Dessa spänningarna består av en dikotomi mellan behandling och utbildning, att ingen av parterna ser helheten i placerades ärenden och att det brister när det kommer till överlämning av information till varandra. Genom det teoretiska begreppet institutionella vakuum har studien synliggjort att det finns element inom samverkan som parterna inte kan påverka. Det gäller till exempel frågor om lagar och riktlinjer kring sekretess, förhållningssätt till vårdnadshavare samt svårigheten att samverka med externa kommuner när alla kommuner har olika rutiner och förväntningar.

Le plus souvent, les études sur les adolescents en Afrique Subsaharienne ne portent que sur quelques pays et ne permettent pas toujours de généraliser les conclusions à l’ensemble de la zone subsaharienne. D’ailleurs, ce travail , qui couvre 24 pays de cette zone, n’a pas non plus permis d’établir des profils de fécondité adolescente basés sur la situation géographique des pays. En effet, l’hétérogénéité des pays en matière de fécondité précoce a été mise en évidence. Hétérogénéité qui, en fait, le reflet de pratiques et de traditions différentes entre les pays en matière de nuptialité. La maternité survenant essentiellement dans le cadre d’une union, le mariage précoce constitue le principal facteur de la fécondité précoce. Les pays ayant le calendrier nuptial le plus tardif ont aussi une très faible fécondité adolescente. Toutefois, le recul du mariage précoce dans tous les pays ne s’est pas accompagné d’une baisse aussi importante de la fécondité précoce soit du fait d’une arrivée plus rapide des premières naissances après le mariage, soit en raison d’une croissance des naissances hors mariage, signe de mutations sociales importantes dans les sociétés africaines. La croissance de l’urbanisation et de la scolarisation contribue à retarder l’entrée en union alors que l’âge au premier rapport sexuel évolue plus faiblement. En conséquence une sexualité de plus en plus prémaritale se développe au fil des générations. / Most often, studies of adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa include only a few countries and do not always generalize the findings to the entire sub-Saharan zone. Moreover, this work, which covers 24 countries in the region, has also failed to establish profiles of adolescent fertility based on the geographical location of countries. Indeed, the heterogeneity of the country's early fertility has been demonstrated. Heterogeneity, in fact, reflect different practices and traditions between countries in terms of marriage. Maternity occurring mainly in the context of a union, early marriage is the main factor of early fertility. The countries with the schedule the later marriage also have a very low adolescent fertility. However, the decline of early marriage in all countries was not accompanied by a decrease in early fertility as important either because of a faster arrival of first births after marriage, either because of growth of births outside marriage, a sign of significant social change in African societies. The growth of urbanization and schooling helps to delay the entry into union while the age at first intercourse evolves more slowly. Consequently sexuality increasingly premarital develops over generations

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In this thesis I have studied the British author C.S. Lewis´s conversion story as it is presented in his autobiography, more specifically his schooling at Malvern College. I have chosen to study his school period since Lewis himself puts great value on how his youth and school period made him into the person who in the 1930s became a Christian, not only including but putting great emphasis on these events in his conversion story. The purpose of my study is to examine the importance of Lewis’s schooling at Malvern College and the relation it has to his conversion story as written in his autobiography. My focus question is, “Why does Lewis describe his school period in such detail in his conversion story?”. To analyze my material, Lewis’s autobiography, I use a hermeneutic method. To answer the focus question, I use Roy Baumeister´s theory of “self-presentation”, which argues that there are two types of motives regarding why individuals present themselves in a certain way; “pleasing the audience” and “self-construction”. The first motive is that the individuals present themselves in line with thoughts and expectations of a certain group. “Self-construction”, on the other hand, is when individuals present themselves to a general audience and they are motivated, with their presentation, to achieve their own goals. Based on my contextualization of the schooling as a part of the larger conversion story told in Lewis’ autobiography, and especially through my analysis of the part describing his time at Malvern College, as well as through earlier research on the topic, the following are examples of conclusions that I have made: in comparison to prior research, in which each researcher presented one conclusion each, Lewis writes about his schooling at Malvern College for different reasons depending on the context, depending on what Lewis wants to achieve in that part. I have also made a conclusion that even though Lewis takes a firm stand that the events in the book will only be included if they contribute to his conversion story the events, the part I have analyzed in this thesis, does not contribute to the story of how Lewis abandoned atheism and turned to Christianity.

Im vorgelegten Materialband wird illustriert, wie im Rahmen der ethnografischen Erforschung der Praxis des Ganztagsangebotes von Grundschule und Hort mittels der Technik "Ablaufgrafik" Informationen zum zeitlichen und territorialen Ablauf des Ganztagsprogrammes dokumentiert und in der Begegnung mit Feldakteuren reflektiert werden konnten.

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