With the escalating accountability requirements under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), educators face intensified pressure to increase student achievement. As principals strive to meet the demands of federal and state mandates intended to close the achievement gap, schools often implement various organizational structures to help improve student achievement. Changing how schools and classrooms are organized for instruction as a strategy for school improvement has been one response to this pressure. Elmore, Peterson, and McCarthy (1996) believed that changing the way schools are organized will cause teachers to teach differently; hence students will learn differently, and the overall performance of schools will increase. Many organizational patterns in elementary schools have been controversial issues for decades. One of these issues is the implementation of departmentalized classrooms in the fifth grade. Because many elementary students receive their education in a self-contained classroom from one teacher who is responsible for teaching all academic subjects, the implementation of departmentalization may address the pitfalls of the self-contained organizational setting. In the departmentalized setting, teachers provide instruction in their area of specialization and students experience greater success. Furthermore, departmentalization may help elementary schools respond to state standards while seeking to produce higher achievement among students. Many studies have examined the impact of departmentalization on student achievement with numerous opinions on the issue. The literature, however, is dated and lacks empirical evidence. As very little research explores departmentalization at the elementary level, this case study explored how departmentalization impacted staff, students, and academic achievement at an urban elementary school in Mississippi. The data collection included interviews with teachers, surveys from staff and students, observations of classrooms and planning sessions, and analysis of Mississippi Curriculum Test, II (MCT2) data. The findings of this case study revealed students were exposed to multiple teaching strategies from teachers who were able to use their planning time to create learning activities and assessments for fewer subjects. As departmentalization enhanced the fifth grade teachers’ accountability for the students’ academic and behavior performances, the teachers felt pressured into adjusting their lessons to the 90 minutes block schedule.

Este trabalho propõe uma reflexão a respeito de aspectos da produção do espaço implicados na modernização e urbanização da Martinica, a partir da segunda metade do século XX. Compondo o ultramar francês desde 1946, na condição de departamento, essa ilha do Caribe apresenta desde então um amplo processo de modernização e urbanização que toca profundamente a vida cotidiana. Embora muitas vezes apresentada e entendida pela ótica do benefício e do direito, essa situação provoca incômodos e gera críticas no sentido de uma imposição cultural e de uma continuidade da dominação colonial. No quadro de um desenvolvimento crítico e contraditório, o processo de modernização e urbanização da ilha acena com a ideia e progresso e melhoria das condições de vida, mas revela uma ilusão de acesso à cidade, direito à cidade e cidadania, que vão sendo reduzidos à noção de direito ao consumo, e mesmo nesse âmbito realizam-se precariamente. / This work proposes a reflection on aspects of the production of space involved in the modernization and urbanization of Martinique, from the second half of the twentieth century. Compounding the French overseas since 1946, on condition that department, this Caribbean island has since then an extensive process of modernization and urbanization that deeply touches everyday life. Although often presented and understood from the perspective of the benefit and the rights, this situation causes discomfort and generates critical towards a cultural imposition and a continuity of colonial domination. Under a critical development and contradictory process of modernization and urbanization of the island beckons with the idea and progress and improvement of living conditions, but revealed an illusion of access to the city, right to the city and citizenship, which will be reduced to concept of the right to consumer, and even in this context are held precariously.

Este trabalho propõe uma reflexão a respeito de aspectos da produção do espaço implicados na modernização e urbanização da Martinica, a partir da segunda metade do século XX. Compondo o ultramar francês desde 1946, na condição de departamento, essa ilha do Caribe apresenta desde então um amplo processo de modernização e urbanização que toca profundamente a vida cotidiana. Embora muitas vezes apresentada e entendida pela ótica do benefício e do direito, essa situação provoca incômodos e gera críticas no sentido de uma imposição cultural e de uma continuidade da dominação colonial. No quadro de um desenvolvimento crítico e contraditório, o processo de modernização e urbanização da ilha acena com a ideia e progresso e melhoria das condições de vida, mas revela uma ilusão de acesso à cidade, direito à cidade e cidadania, que vão sendo reduzidos à noção de direito ao consumo, e mesmo nesse âmbito realizam-se precariamente. / This work proposes a reflection on aspects of the production of space involved in the modernization and urbanization of Martinique, from the second half of the twentieth century. Compounding the French overseas since 1946, on condition that department, this Caribbean island has since then an extensive process of modernization and urbanization that deeply touches everyday life. Although often presented and understood from the perspective of the benefit and the rights, this situation causes discomfort and generates critical towards a cultural imposition and a continuity of colonial domination. Under a critical development and contradictory process of modernization and urbanization of the island beckons with the idea and progress and improvement of living conditions, but revealed an illusion of access to the city, right to the city and citizenship, which will be reduced to concept of the right to consumer, and even in this context are held precariously.

In response to the continued pressure placed on American public schools to increase academic achievement, some schools have begun to reorganize instructional environments in an effort to improve student outcomes. The current study examined one such elementary school that implemented a departmentalized model of instruction in fourth and fifth-grade classrooms in an effort to improve student learning. This longitudinal, cross-sectional study followed a sample of students and teachers over a two-year period in an attempt to ascertain how departmentalizing in the elementary school affected student and teacher perceptions and academic achievement among students in third, fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade. Student perceptions of their school, teachers, peers, and academic performance were measured using surveys and standardized achievement test scores were collected. Teacher attitudes toward departmentalization were also measured using surveys. A factor analysis of student survey results with Varimax rotation resulted in ten factors that revealed a consistent pattern of change in student perceptions when correlated. A consistent relationship between students' academic achievement and perceptions at each grade level was not found. Results suggested that students who began switching classes in elementary school had positive perceptions of their teachers and of themselves as social beings in school. Perceptions of their academic abilities, however, separated from their perceptions of their teachers over time. In contrast, students with one teacher in self-contained classrooms had positive perceptions of their teachers. These students' perceptions of their academic abilities and perceptions of themselves as social beings in school were connected to their perceived teacher-student relationships. Elementary teachers expressed concern over meeting their students' emotional needs, but otherwise reported positive attitudes toward their abilities to teach and meet their students' academic needs in a departmentalized setting. Teachers at the elementary school and the middle school felt that students who switched classes in elementary school were more prepared when they got to middle school and adjusted more quickly than students who came from self-contained elementary classrooms.

L'objectif principal de cette recherche consiste à prouver que le modèle d'intégration de la France est défaillant et rencontre plusieurs limites notables, du point de vue d'une justice ethnoculturelle, qu'il refuse toutefois de voir. Il s'agit, en clair, d'accuser une relégation des identités ethnoculturelles différenciées en France. C'est précisément une mécanique discriminatoire « d'exclusion » qui cible, de manière privilégiée, les segments différenciés de la population française, qui est mise en place par ces mêmes processus d'intégration. Trois dimensions sont nodales au bon fonctionnement, pour ainsi dire, de cette mécanique. La première – ou la dernière – est politique. Il s'agit d'un processus républicain qui fonctionne exactement à l'envers par rapport à ses propres ambitions. C'est dire, la formation d'un citoyen universel, la mise en place d'une égalité citoyenne et politique. La deuxième est sociale. Elle disqualifie et ségrègue socialement et spatialement les éléments différenciés de la population. La troisième est morale. Elle condamne les valeurs culturelles des populations différenciées en stigmatisant précisément ces identités ethnoculturelles de par des processus d'insécurité qui sont consubstantiels à la société. À partir de ce constat, la question élémentaire à une philosophie politique s'appliquant à la diversité ethnoculturelle en France consiste à se demander : 1) comment rompre le cercle vicieux de cette relégation ? 2) comment recréer de nouveaux processus d'intégration et avec quel modèle ? Le fameux 101ᵉ département français, ledit « neuf, sept, sita (six) », offre de nouvelles perspectives d'analyses par rapport à cette double problématique. / The main purpose of this dissertation is actually to prove that the French political integration model is completely failing on its goals. It meets in reality several limits. The French institution policies towards the French minorities could demonstrate this fact. The French model refuses however to see those limits. Our principal aim here is clearly to accuse about what we can call an “ethnic relegation” in France. Roughly speaking, it could be understood as a discriminatory mechanism of exclusion that targets especially some of the French population segments. This mechanism is set up by the French integration processes and seems to focus particularly the ethnic minorities. Three dimensions are really important in this relegation mechanism. The first one is a social problem. It is especially the disqualification and the segregation (socially and spatially speaking) of the French minorities. The second one is about the minorities moral values. It is set up by the social and civil insecurity. The third one is constructed by a political scheme. It means that the French republican processes are working in the wrong way regarding what kind of society they want to build. Hence, the main interrogation of a political philosophy questioning the minority problems and ethnic justice in France is : 1) how to deal with and stop this relegation? 2) how to recreate new integration processes and with what kind of model? The 101st French department, the so-called "neuf, setp, sita (six)", offers new perspectives of analysis concerning this double problem.

The purpose of this study is to offer some proof toward helping to determine the effect of departmentalization on achievement and social adjustment of fifth-grade pupils, and to determine the best possible means by which pupils in the fifth grade may become well-rounded, socially adjusted individuals, capable of self-expression, independent thinking, and proper attitudes.

Tout semble avoir été dit sur Mayotte, les Comores et la France, or le statut juridique de ce territoire n'a pas encore livré tous ses secrets, ni épuisé tous ses effets. La problématique générale de cette thèse consiste à savoir comment ce statut juridique de Mayotte peut rendre compte de la double identité, de la double appartenance de cette île. La réponse à cette question générale se décline en deux aspects très complémentaires : 1) Peut-on penser Mayotte abritée du droit international ? La réponse à cette question est négative ; 2) Peut-on penser Mayotte uniquement par référence au droit de l'État français ? Là aussi, la réponse est négative. La thèse défendue s'illustre comme suit : elle préconise la vocation internationale du statut de Mayotte et la vocation franco-comorienne de celui-ci. La vocation internationale du statut de Mayotte part de l'idée qu'il faut, aujourd'hui, dépasser le statu quo qui préside au différend territorial entre la France et les Comores. Ce statu quo est l'expression d'un antagonisme et d'un « silence » sur les rapports entre droit interne et droit international. Ce « silence » montre une opposition entre les Comores pro-internationalistes et la France, pro-interniste. Aucun dialogue ne s'ensuit. Les solutions du droit international sont au nombre de deux : une solution stricte, par application du principe de l'uti possidetis juris, soit le rattachement du territoire de Mayotte aux Comores. Une seconde solution très innovante consisterait en l'exercice d'une co-souveraineté franco-comorienne sur Mayotte. En l'état des forces politiques, les solutions du droit international paraissent délicates à mettre en oeuvre. Aussi la thèse du maintien de Mayotte française semble devoir l'emporter, mais dans une perspective modernisée. Voilà quelle pourrait être l'issue du dialogue droit interne et droit international. La vocation franco-comorienne de Mayotte signifie que le maintien de Mayotte française doit se penser en termes de double appartenance. Le renoncement, accepté par l'État comorien, devra être accompagné d'une coopération internationale bilatérale forte. C'est pourquoi le statut mahorais doit se penser en termes de double identité. Dans ces conditions, un dialogue véritable entre l'État français et l'État Comorien sur Mayotte française serait établi. On peut penser ce dialogue durable car il ne tend à donner une satisfaction exclusive ni à l'un ou ni à l'autre des protagonistes. Autant le dialogue droit interne et droit international favorise les intérêts de l'État français ; autant le dialogue qui s'ensuit doit satisfaire les deux parties. Ainsi, afin de répondre aux interrogations soulevées par notre problématique et pour mieux les appréhender, notre étude est divisée en deux parties. La première est consacrée à la vocation internationale du statut de Mayotte. La deuxième partie présente la vocation franco-comorienne du statut de cette île. / The case of Mayotte has been extensively studied. However unresolved issues regarding the legal status of the territory persist, owing to Mayotte belonging to both the Comoros and France. This study examines how the legal status of Mayotte can reflect its double identity. To answer this question, it is necessary to envision two complementary aspects of the problem: is Mayotte immune from international law? The answer is no; does Mayotte fall exclusively under French law? Again, the answer is no. This thesis reveals the opportunity for Mayotte to define itself both as an international and as a French Comorian territory. Embracing its international vocation, Mayotte would move beyond the statu quo that stems from the territorial dispute between France and the Comoros. The current situation is the symptom of an antagonism between international and domestic law which explains the absence of discussion over the case of Mayotte. The Comoros promotes international law whereas France is in favour of internal law. There are two main international law solutions: a strict one, by the application of the principle of “uti possidetis juris”, in other words the unification of Mayotte territory with Comoros. The second solution is an innovative one which would consist in a French-Comorian shared sovereignty concerning Mayotte. Considering political forces, it does not seem easy to implement international law solutions. Also, in a modernized perspective, the thesis of maintaining a French Mayotte island is to be promoted. This could eventually be the solution of internal law and international law. French-Comorian purpose about Mayotte means that the maintaining of a French Mayotte island should be thought in terms of a double belonging. The renunciation, accepted by the Comorian state, should have to be associated with a strong bilateral international cooperation. That is why the status of Mayotte also has to be thought in terms of a double identity. In these conditions, a real dialogue can be established between France and the Comoros about a French Mayotte. Thus, long-standing talks are possible because none of the protagonists will be given exclusive satisfaction. Even though the internal law and international law dialogue encourages French interests, the dialogue which follows has to satisfy both parties. Thus, to answer the questions raised by our problematic, we have divided our study into two parts, the first one is devoted to the international purpose of Mayotte’s status and the second one deals with its French-Comorian purpose.

Text in Afrikaans / Die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur word onder toenemende druk geplaas om meer en beter dienste, wat onder andere sport- en rekreasiedienste behels, aan die gemeenskap te voorsien. Dit kan daaraan toegeskryf word dat veranderinge in die omgewing plaasvind wat vereis dat die Substruktuur in die gees van die heropbou en ontwikkeling van die gemeenskap, daarby moet aanpas. Een manier om die druk op die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur te verlig is om sport- en rekreasiedienste aan die hand van eenvormige beleid te organiseer. Hieruit spruit 'n doelwit voort, te wete om beleid vir die organisering van sport- en rekreasiedienste van die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur te ondersoek. Die ondersoek omsluit die milieu waarbinne beleid ontwikkel het, byvoorbeeld die eksterne omgewing en die bestaande organisatoriese reelings wat vir sport- en rekreasiedienste in die Substruktuur geld. In die studie is bevind dat beleid vir die organisering van sport- en rekreasiedienste van die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur gebrekkig en gefragmenteerd is. Daar is ook bevind dat die organisering van sport- en rekreasiedienste, weens 'n gebrek aan beleid, tot organisatoriese leemtes, soos die duplisering van dienste en gebrekkige kommunikasie, aanleiding gee. 'n Verdere doelwit met die studie is om 'n universele beleidsmodel vir die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur saam te stel waardeur leemtes in die organisering van sport- en rekreasiedienste uitgeskakel kan word en eenvormige beleidsreelings getref kan word. Daar is bevind dat die universele beleidsmodel wetenskaplik gefundeerde riglyne vir die daarstelling van beleid bied. Sodanige bevinding het tot die gevolgtrekking gelei dat die beleidsmodel 'n ideale raamwerk skep waarvolgens plaaslike owerhede, soos die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur, probleme kan identifiseer, doelwitte kan stel, organisatoriese reelings kan tref en beleid kan formuleer, implementeer en evalueer. Dit skep in der waarheid 'n raamwerk waarvolgens beleidbepalers te werk kan gaan om beleid te bepaal. Die beleidsmodel het 'n universele toepassingswaarde omdat dit riglyne bevat wat deur enige ander plaaslike owerheid in die proses van beleidbepaling aangewend kan word. / Increased pressure is placed on the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure to provide more and improved services, such as sport and recreation services, to the community. This can be ascribed to changes taking place within the external environment and which, in the spirit of reconstruction and development, requires the Substructure to adapt to such changes. One way to relieve the pressure on the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure is to organize sport and recreation services according to a uniform policy. This resulted in an objective, namely to investigate policy for the organization of sport and recreation services of the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure. The investigation entails the environment within which policy develops, for example the external environment and the present organizational arrangements applicable to sport and recreation services in the Substructure. During the study it was determined that policy for the organization of sport and recreation services of the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure was limited and fragmented. It was also determined that, due to the lack of policy, the organization of sport and recreation services resulted in organizational shortcomings such as the duplication of services and insufficient communication. A further objective with the study is to construct a universal policy-model for the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure through which shortcomings in the organization of sport and recreation services can be limited and uniform policy arrangements can be determined. It was determined that the universal policymodel offered scientifically based guidelines for the determination of policy. The aforementioned determination lead to the conclusion that the policy-model created an ideal framework within which local governments, such as the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure, could identify problems, determine objectives and organizational arrangements, formulate, implement and evaluate policy. In fact it creates a framework within which policymakers can work to determine policy. The policy-model is of universal value because it offers guidelines which can be applied by any other local authority during the policy-making process. / Public Administration and Management / D. Admin. (Publieke Administrasie)

Text in Afrikaans / Die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur word onder toenemende druk geplaas om meer en beter dienste, wat onder andere sport- en rekreasiedienste behels, aan die gemeenskap te voorsien. Dit kan daaraan toegeskryf word dat veranderinge in die omgewing plaasvind wat vereis dat die Substruktuur in die gees van die heropbou en ontwikkeling van die gemeenskap, daarby moet aanpas. Een manier om die druk op die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur te verlig is om sport- en rekreasiedienste aan die hand van eenvormige beleid te organiseer. Hieruit spruit 'n doelwit voort, te wete om beleid vir die organisering van sport- en rekreasiedienste van die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur te ondersoek. Die ondersoek omsluit die milieu waarbinne beleid ontwikkel het, byvoorbeeld die eksterne omgewing en die bestaande organisatoriese reelings wat vir sport- en rekreasiedienste in die Substruktuur geld. In die studie is bevind dat beleid vir die organisering van sport- en rekreasiedienste van die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur gebrekkig en gefragmenteerd is. Daar is ook bevind dat die organisering van sport- en rekreasiedienste, weens 'n gebrek aan beleid, tot organisatoriese leemtes, soos die duplisering van dienste en gebrekkige kommunikasie, aanleiding gee. 'n Verdere doelwit met die studie is om 'n universele beleidsmodel vir die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur saam te stel waardeur leemtes in die organisering van sport- en rekreasiedienste uitgeskakel kan word en eenvormige beleidsreelings getref kan word. Daar is bevind dat die universele beleidsmodel wetenskaplik gefundeerde riglyne vir die daarstelling van beleid bied. Sodanige bevinding het tot die gevolgtrekking gelei dat die beleidsmodel 'n ideale raamwerk skep waarvolgens plaaslike owerhede, soos die Suidelike Pretoria Metropolitaanse Substruktuur, probleme kan identifiseer, doelwitte kan stel, organisatoriese reelings kan tref en beleid kan formuleer, implementeer en evalueer. Dit skep in der waarheid 'n raamwerk waarvolgens beleidbepalers te werk kan gaan om beleid te bepaal. Die beleidsmodel het 'n universele toepassingswaarde omdat dit riglyne bevat wat deur enige ander plaaslike owerheid in die proses van beleidbepaling aangewend kan word. / Increased pressure is placed on the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure to provide more and improved services, such as sport and recreation services, to the community. This can be ascribed to changes taking place within the external environment and which, in the spirit of reconstruction and development, requires the Substructure to adapt to such changes. One way to relieve the pressure on the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure is to organize sport and recreation services according to a uniform policy. This resulted in an objective, namely to investigate policy for the organization of sport and recreation services of the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure. The investigation entails the environment within which policy develops, for example the external environment and the present organizational arrangements applicable to sport and recreation services in the Substructure. During the study it was determined that policy for the organization of sport and recreation services of the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure was limited and fragmented. It was also determined that, due to the lack of policy, the organization of sport and recreation services resulted in organizational shortcomings such as the duplication of services and insufficient communication. A further objective with the study is to construct a universal policy-model for the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure through which shortcomings in the organization of sport and recreation services can be limited and uniform policy arrangements can be determined. It was determined that the universal policymodel offered scientifically based guidelines for the determination of policy. The aforementioned determination lead to the conclusion that the policy-model created an ideal framework within which local governments, such as the Southern Pretoria Metropolitan Substructure, could identify problems, determine objectives and organizational arrangements, formulate, implement and evaluate policy. In fact it creates a framework within which policymakers can work to determine policy. The policy-model is of universal value because it offers guidelines which can be applied by any other local authority during the policy-making process. / Public Administration and Management / D. Admin. (Publieke Administrasie)