Nesta tese procuro identificar e compreender de que modo os estudantes de Educação Física (EF) da Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (ESEFID/UFRGS) atribuem sentidos à docência, e como o estágio curricular supervisionado influencia a produção/alteração desses sentidos. A escolha da temática ocorre a partir de um “olhar” lançado sobre meu próprio processo formativo. Especificamente, ao reconhecimento do lugar que ocuparam determinados eventos, experiências e pessoas, a partir dos quais foi possível compreender a docência por outros sentidos: prioritariamente em seu sentido formativo, procurando superar a exclusividade do sentido pautado por uma racionalidade técnica e instrumental. Assim, partindo do pressuposto de que os sentidos que atribuímos a determinados fenômenos no mundo estão, de algum modo, relacionados à maneira com que experienciamos e interpretamos esses fenômenos; e que, no interior da Formação Inicial (FI) em EF, o estágio se constitui em espaço/tempo privilegiado quanto à apresentação de outras possibilidades de leitura da docência, formulei o problema de pesquisa: que sentidos são atribuídos à docência pelos estudantes de Educação Física da ESEFID/UFRGS e como o estágio curricular supervisionado influencia a produção/alteração desses sentidos? Servindo-me de observações participantes, de registros em diário de campo, de entrevistas e de análise de documentos como opções teórico-metodológicas, desenvolvi uma pesquisa narrativa com a qual construí e aprofundei conhecimentos sobre as interpretações e sentidos conferidos à docência em EF na perspectiva de oito estudantes de EF da ESEFID/UFRGS – colaboradores O processo analítico e interpretativo dos argumentos e das narrativas dos colaboradores apontou para determinados eventos que, no percurso formativo dos estudantes, podem ser entendidos como aqueles com potencial para influenciar a produção de sentidos à docência em EF. Constituí três blocos interpretativos para olhar para esses eventos: a) O potencial das experiências anteriores à FI na produção de sentidos sobre a docência em EF; b) O potencial do estágio na produção de sentidos à docência em EF; c) Os limites e possibilidades do estágio na produção de sentidos à docência em EF: nexos com a produção curricular. No interior de cada bloco interpretativo foi possível perceber que são múltiplos os sentidos atribuídos à docência, e também são múltiplos os eventos e experiências que, no decorrer do processo formativo, possuem capacidade para influenciar a produção e/ou alteração de sentidos para a docência em EF. As narrativas dos colaboradores apontam para algumas experiências que parecem ter sido mais significativas: as experiências discentes, com distintas possibilidades de docência em EF à época da Educação Básica, e a influência das ideias e sentidos atribuídos por grupos de referência no âmbito da cultura; a experiência docente propiciada pelo estágio, assumindo este uma posição “luciferiana”, no ensejo de elucidar as possibilidades e os limites da docência enquanto criação humana; e a organização curricular do curso em EF experienciada, pela qual parece-me que a produção de sentidos à docência está relacionada à capacidade das disciplinas curriculares em apontar respostas às demandas e limites que cada estudante vai identificando na experiência docente propiciada pelo estágio É possível pensar que a organização curricular, ao destinar espaços e tempos para eventos que favorecem a apresentação e discussão de outras (novas) formas de enxergar a docência em EF, possibilita aos estudantes dessa instituição formadora desvelar outros sentidos em relação a esse ofício. / In this thesis, I try to identify and to understand how Physical Education (PE) students from the Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Dance School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (ESEFID/UFRGS) attribute senses to teaching and how the supervised academic training affect the production and alteration of such senses. The choice of the theme takes place from a “review” on my own educational process, more specifically speaking, by recognizing the place that certain events, experiences and persons have occupied and through which it was possible to understand teaching from other senses: as a priority, from its educational sense, in the search to overcome the exclusivity of the sense that features a technical and instrumental rationality. Therefore, considering that the senses we assign to certain phenomena in the world are somehow related to the way how we experience and interpret such phenomena; and, that within the Initial Education (IE) in PE, the practice comprises a privileged space/time as to the presentation of other possibilities of viewing teaching, I have formulated the research problem as follows: which senses are attributed to teaching by the Physical Education students of ESEFID/UFRGS and how the supervised academic training affect the production/alteration of these senses? Guided by participative observations, records in field diary, interviews and analysis of documents as theoretical and methodological options, I have developed a narrative research that allowed me to build and to deepen the knowledge about the interpretations and senses assigned to PE teaching in the perspective of eight PE students from ESEFID/UFRGS – collaborators The analytical and interpretative process of the collaborators` arguments and narratives drew the attention to certain events that, over the students` educational path, can be understood as those with potential to influence the production of senses to PE teaching. I have built three interpretative blocks in order to look at these events: a) The potential of experiences previous to the IE in the production of senses about PE teaching; b) The practice potential in the production of senses to PE teaching; c) The practice limits and possibilities in the production of senses to PE teaching: links with the academic production. Within each interpretative block, it was possible to perceive that the senses assigned to teaching are multiple and that events and experiences over the path of the education process that have the capacity to influence the production and/or alteration of senses for PE teaching are also multiple. The collaborators` narratives point to some experiences that seem to have been more significant: learning experiences with distinct teaching possibilities in PE at the time of the Basic Education as well as the influence of ideas and senses assigned by reference groups in the realm of culture; the teaching experience provided by the practice which takes over a “luciferian” position with the objective of clarifying the possibilities and the limits of teaching as a human creation; and the academic organization of the PE experienced course whereby it seems to me that the production of senses to teaching is related to the capacity of the academic disciplines to provide responses to the demands and limits that each student identify in the teaching experience provided by the practice When the academic organization allocates spaces and time for events that benefit the presentation, discussion and other (new) forms of viewing PE teaching, one can think that it renders possible to the students of this educational institution to unveil other senses regarding this professional activity. / En esta tesis busco identificar y comprender cómo los estudiantes de Educación Física (EF) de la Escuela de Educación Física, Fisioterapia y Danza de la Universidad Federal del Rio Grande do Sul (ESEFID/UFRGS) atribuyen sentidos a la docencia y cómo la práctica académica supervisada influye en la producción y en la alteración de estos sentidos. La escogencia de la temática ocurre desde una “mirada” sobre mi propio proceso de formación y más específicamente al reconocimiento del lugar que ocuparon determinados sucesos, experimentos y personas a partir de los cuales fue posible comprender la docencia a través de otros sentidos: prioritariamente en su sentido de formación, buscando superar la exclusividad del sentido enmarcado por la racionalidad técnica e instrumental. Así, suponiendo que los sentidos que atribuimos a determinados fenómenos en el mundo están, de algún modo, relacionados a la manera con que experimentamos e interpretamos estos fenómenos; y que, al interior de la Formación Inicial (FI) en EF, la práctica se constituye en espacio/tiempo privilegiado en cuanto a la presentación de otras posibilidades de lectura de la docencia, he formulado el problema de investigación: ¿qué sentidos atribuyen, a la docencia, los estudiantes de Educación Física de la ESEFID/UFRGS y cómo la práctica académica supervisada influye en la producción y alteración de estos sentidos? Sirviéndome de observaciones participantes, de registros en diario de campo, de entrevistas y de análisis de documentos como opciones teóricas y metodológicas, desarrollé una investigación narrativa con la cual construí y profundicé conocimientos acerca de las interpretaciones y los sentidos conferidos a la docencia en EF desde el punto de vista de ocho estudiantes de EF de la ESEFID/UFRGS – colaboradores El proceso analítico e interpretativo de los argumentos y de las narrativas de los colaboradores apuntó para determinados sucesos que, en el recorrido de la formación de los estudiantes, pueden ser entendidos como aquellos con potencial para influir en la producción de sentidos a la docencia en EF. He constituido tres bloques interpretativos para darle una mirada a estos sucesos: a) El potencial de los experimentos anteriores a la FI en la producción de sentidos acerca de la docencia en EF; b) El potencial de la práctica en la producción de sentidos a la docencia en EF; c) Los límites y posibilidades de la práctica en la producción de sentidos a la docencia en EF: nexos con la producción curricular. Al interior de cada bloque interpretativo fue posible percibir que son múltiples los sentidos atribuidos a la docencia, así como son múltiples los sucesos y experimentos que, en el curso del proceso de formación, tienen capacidad de influir en la producción y/o alteración de sentidos para la docencia en EF. Las narrativas de los colaboradores apuntan para algunos experimentos que parecen haber sido los más significativos: los experimentos discentes, con distintas posibilidades de docencia en EF a la época de la Educación Básica, y la influencia de las ideas y sentidos atribuidos por grupos de referencia en el ámbito de la cultura; el experimento docente propiciado por la práctica, asumiendo ésta una posición “luciferiana”, con el objetivo de aclarar las posibilidades y los límites de la docencia como creación humana; y la experimentada organización curricular del curso en EF por la cual, paréceme, que la producción de sentidos a la docencia está relacionada con la capacidad de las disciplinas curriculares en apuntar respuestas a las demandas y a los límites que cada estudiante identifica en el experimento docente ofrecido por la práctica Es posible pensar que la organización curricular, al destinar espacios y tiempos para sucesos que favorecen la presentación y discusión de otras (nuevas) formas de ver la docencia en EF, posibilita a los estudiantes de esa institución formadora desvelar otros sentidos en relación con este ofi

Considerando que tanto a música quanto a escola contribuem para a constituição de nossas identidades, este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar os discursos de licenciandos/as em música acerca da diversidade de gênero e sexualidade, em suas relações com a música. Os objetivos específicos propostos foram: identificar/visibilizar quais significados sobre gênero e sexualidade estão sendo compartilhados, naturalizados e legitimados; identificar/visibilizar como esses significados circulam; e identificar/visibilizar por quem esses significados são compartilhados. Adotando uma abordagem qualitativa, utilizei como ferramenta para a produção do material empírico a entrevista semiestruturada com licenciandos/as em música de quatro instituições de ensino superior de Curitiba-PR. Para a realização da análise do material empírico produzido na relação com o/as participantes, foram utilizadas algumas estratégias da teoria fundamentada nos dados. No que se refere à perspectiva analítica, recorri às formulações dos estudos feministas e da teoria queer. A investigação realizada permitiu dizer que os sentidos partilhados pelo/as licenciando/as trouxeram divergentes formas de significação da diversidade de gênero e sexualidade, as quais posicionam os sujeitos em distintos lugares. Reconhecer essas divergentes formas de significação é assumir que nas redes de representação a “realidade” terá muitas versões e que os processos de conhecer são construídos social e culturalmente. Os saberes que compõem os sistemas de significação do/as licenciado/as sobre a diversidade de gênero e sexualidade não foram reconhecidos como tendo sido constituídos em seus cursos de licenciatura em música. O silêncio sobre a articulação música/gênero/sexualidade nos espaços acadêmicos atravessou a percepção do/as licenciando/as em música. Esse silêncio configura um discurso que invisibiliza outros modos de ser para além da matriz hétero-cis-normativa. / Considering that both music and school contribute to the constitution of our identities, the aim of this thesis was to investigate the discourses of bachelor in music education students about gender and sexuality diversity, and its relations with music. More specifically, it aimed: to identify/make visible meanings of gender and sexuality that are being shared, naturalised, and legitimated; to identify/make visible how those meanings circulate; and to identify/make visible by whom these meanings are shared. Adopting a qualitative approach, the empirical material was produced through semi-structured interviews with four music education students from four higher education institutions from Curitiba-PR, Brazil. The empirical material was analysed using some of the strategies of grounded theory and further interpreted based on ideas from the field of feminist studies and the queer theory. The meanings shared by the music education students revealed divergent ways of making sense of gender and sexuality diversity, ways that locate people in distinct places. To recognize these divergent ways of sense making is to assume that, in the representation networks, “reality” will have multiple versions and the processes of knowing are socially and culturally constructed. The knowledge that constitutes the students’ systems of meaning about gender and sexuality diversity was not recognized as being constructed through their undergraduate courses. The silence about the interaction between music, gender and sexuality in the higher education settings goes through the students’ perception. This silence configures a discourse that makes invisible other ways of being beyond the hetero-cis-normative matrix.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lucimeire.pdf: 2579583 bytes, checksum: 1f79a90ec6a8cd20a51dd7e0c340d561 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-20 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This work reports a research which aim was to investigate whether and how 5th series/ 6th year of elementary school students are sensitized by and create strategies to solve situations involving the perception and generalization of patterns. Mason (1996), Vale & Pimentel (2005), Radford, Bardini & Sabena (2007) and Machado (2006) works gave the main base for the research. For the investigation it was created and applied a didactic sequence, inspired by stages of the methodology of Didactic Engineering as reported by Machado (2002). The a posteriori analysis was a multidimensional: analysis of the protocols, audio and video. The experiments involved 33 students from a public school in the suburb of Sao Paulo. It was concluded that pupils were sensitized by the subject, and had appropriate of the considered problems. So, pupils showed capacity of to observe, to analyze, to recognize and to express a sequence pattern, in addition to express the generality symbolically, in explicit or implicit way, either by verbal or written speech, by actions, by gestures, by signs or by rhythms / Esta dissertação relata uma investigação cujo objetivo foi investigar se e como alunos de uma 5ª série/6º ano do Ensino Fundamental são sensibilizados e criam estratégias para resolver situações que envolvem a percepção e generalização de padrões em seqüências. Os trabalhos de: Mason (1996) Vale e Pimentel (2005), Machado (2006) e Radford, Bardini e Sabena (2007) constituíram a principal fonte das escolhas teóricas feitas. Para a coleta de dados elaborou-se e aplicou-se uma seqüência didática, inspirada nas fases da Engenharia Didática, conforme Machado (2002), sendo que a análise a posteriori foi multidimensional, pois englobou: análise dos protocolos, de áudio e de vídeo. As atividades da seqüência foram propostas a 33 alunos de uma escola pública da periferia de São Paulo. Concluiu-se que os alunos da 5ª série/6º ano foram sensibilizados, pois se apropriaram dos problemas propostos. Essa apropriação possibilitou aos alunos observar, analisar, reconhecer e expressar de modo explícito ou implícito, seja pelo discurso oral ou escrito, pelas ações, pelos gestos, pelos sinais ou pelos ritmos, a regularidade de seqüências que apresentavam um padrão

This paper addresses the question of whether higher education Hispanic students of different nationalities have different perceptual learning style preferences. Independent samples t-tests findings suggest the country of origin of a Hispanic student's parents has a statistically significant relationship (n=165, p<0.0073) with student's learning style preferences. ANOVA results also identified a statistically significant relationship between SES and group learning style (p<0.004,) and between visual learning style and two factors: age (p<0.011) and family education (p<0.033).

Thesis (Ph.D. (Educational Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2018 / The primary aim of this study was to investigate the growing rate of dropout phenomenon within the ambiance of higher education and to develop a support model for lower-postgraduate students. Anchored within Maxwell’s (2012) model of qualitative design, this case-study research has employed the deficit theory and the theory of transactional distance to guide the investigation. While the theoretical evidence was garnered through the application of traditional (narrative) literature review design, the empirical evidence was achieved by targeting lecturers, administrative officers and dropout students. These participants were only those who have respectively taught an advanced communication research (COM4809) module which is offered in the department of communication science as part of the honours programme, who have been involved into the administration of the module in the same department and who have dropped out of COM4809 between 2011 and 2016. Purposive selection technique was used to sample distinct units of analysis at various levels. At the first level, the University of South Africa (Unisa) was used as a case ODL university. At the second level, COM4809 was used as an ideal module to demonstrate that dropout is prevalent at an honours postgraduate level within the ODL domain. At the third level, lecturers were also purposively included into the study since they were key informants. With regard to administrative officers, a census approach was adopted to include the only two administrative officers who have been involved in the administration of COM4809 between 2011 and 2016. Dropout students were selected using snowball and purposive sampling techniques. While the purposive selection of dropout students from the given dataset (statistical information) of 219 dropouts, which was requested from the information and communication department (ICT), was used, the snowball selection method came into play when lecturers identified twenty-one dropout students from their personal records and furnishing the researcher with detailed contact information about them. However, the researcher has managed to hold focus-group interviews with a group of six dropout students and telephonic interviews with ten dropout students, summing up to 16 participants. Focus-group interviews were also undertaken with a cohort of eight lecturers while another seven lecturers have participated in the in-depth interviews. Data were analysed through the use of qualitative content analysis method, and O’Connor and Gibson’s (n.d) design viii    to analyse qualitative data was used. To ensure the credibility and dependability of findings, a triangulated approach to data collection and analysis were used. The study unveiled four major themes on dropout factors, namely: dropout factors associated with students’ personal circumstances, with lecturers’ personal circumstances, with institutional (academic) circumstances and with those factors which are determined by circumstances of other units of analysis (other research contexts). The study has further revealed that while the majority of factors can be controlled, others cannot. Based on the findings and the literature, an integrated honours student-centred support model (IHSCM) was developed to serve as a framework within which to understand dropouts of lower-postgraduate students in an ODL institution. Findings have demonstrated the importance of providing support services in an ODL environment and advocate for a holistic approach towards addressing attrition. The proposed model is envisaged to better expound dropout attributes, which lead students to discontinuing their studies in the ODL environment, and to assist ODL institutions to effectively address the concern. ODL institutions, which want to apply the proposed IHSCM, should do that with caution in mind owing to the fact that the model is not yet tested. Hence, it is inferable to suggest that future research should focus on its impact in the reduction of dropouts of honours students in ODL contexts.   Key words: Student dropout (attrition), dropout student, open and distance learning (ODL) institution, Higher education institution, distance education, student support intervention (services, intervention, mitigation strategy) and student support model (framework).

Academic advising for online learners has been identified in prior research as an important student service. However, little research exists to assist advisers in knowing how best to serve this growing group. The purpose of this study is to close that research gap by determining if and how online and on-campus learners differ in how they rate the importance of various functions of academic advising as well as determining if their frequency of access to academic advising and source of advising information differed. Additionally, the research examines if the types and levels of learning for online learners varied by frequency of advising, source of advising information, and satisfaction with advising received. Participants in the non-experimental, survey-based, exploratory research study include 6,368 undergraduate students pursuing a bachelor's degree at three public institutions including two four-year institutions and one community college. Participants received a survey asking them about their experiences with and attitudes towards academic advising. Results indicate that online and on-campus learners differ in how they rate the relative importance of the different functions of academic advising and that those differences are uniquely related to learners' status as online learners. Additionally, online learners reported more of the types of learning expected from academic advising when they received their advising from an adviser as opposed to advising tools (e.g., web sites, advising guidelines) or their informal social networks, when they were advised more frequently, and when they were satisfied with the advising they received. Implications for practice and suggestions for future research are discussed.

The purpose of this study is to present an empirical pattern of social equity in Chinese higher education by investigating university students. Student socio-economic background influences access to, and socio-economic conditions in, higher education, and this, in turn, influences student career aspirations. The theoretical background of the study is interdisciplinary and a conceptual framework built on theories and previous research is used to analyse Chinese higher education in a historical, social and economic context. A questionnaire survey was administered at six public universities in the Southwest region of the country to explore students’ socio-economic background, costs and how they finance their studies, as well as their future career aspirations. The relationships between the factors investigated were examined using factor analytical techniques and linear structural relations (LISREL) analysis. The findings indicate that the students come from all socio-economic strata but a disproportionately large number are from high-income families. Students from urban areas are over-represented while rural girls are significantly under-represented. Although the gap between the lowest and highest study costs is enormous, the findings confirm that the average cost of higher education in China far exceeds the average annual income, even for urban residents. Moreover, about one-third of students and their families utilised financial resources other than family such as student loans, borrowing, and other forms of financial assistance. A structural model linking student socio-economic background, enrolment in elite institutions, costs and means of financing education with career aspirations is developed and tested in three stages in order to shed light on the conceptual framework and to present a pattern of social equity. The results show that family socio-economic status has only a modest impact on student access to and in higher education. On the other hand, having social origins in a well-developed community exerts an influential effect. Although study and living costs, and means of financing studies, are influenced by student socio-economic background, they intend to have positive impacts on student career aspirations. While enrolment in elite institutions has a strongly positive impact on costs, it has a moderately negative impact on aspirations to pursue advanced degrees. In conclusion, the study finds that the patterns of socio-economic factors influencing student upward mobility in present-day China are different from those of ancient China and from those previous Communist leaders attempted to achieve only 20 years ago.

Although higher education typically strengthens people with disabilities' chances to be in a competitive job market as a viable leverage to break away from poverty (Council of Canadians with Disabilities, 2014), the contemporary marketization of higher education within the era of neoliberalism has made degrees and diplomas increasingly unaffordable. The federal government responded to this predicament by increasing the Canada Social Transfer (CST) to offer up-front targeted funding to students with disabilities in 2008 (Kirby, 2011). However, virtually no literature has acknowledged whether financial grants meaningfully provide student with disabilities with an equitable opportunity to engage in post-secondary education (PSE). Using a critical discourse analysis (CDA) on government online materials that address federal and provincial disability grants for post-secondary students with disabilities in Alberta and Ontario, this thesis reveals how the neoliberal rhetoric of personal responsibility colonizes government disability grants and leaves students with "more responsibility" and "less control" over their finances in an already disabling world. / October 2015

Introduction e-Learning has been integrated and implemented in education and training to the level that it is now a well-established global practice. If used judiciously, e-Learning is a tool that enables active, individual and flexible learning. When integrated into medical education, it offers features that allow lecturers to be not merely content distributors, but also facilitators of learning. Aim The aim of this study was to assess the readiness of students to make the shift from traditional learning, to the technological culture of e-Learning. Methods An observational, cross-sectional, analytical study design was used and data was collected using a validated questionnaire. The sample comprised of all students enrolled in the first year nursing programme at the Durban University of Technology registered for anatomy and physiology in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from each participant prior to conducting the study. Results Three quarters (77/101 76%) of the participants were females. The psychological readiness score was noted to be high in the “could be worse” category (pre-72%, post- 64%). The technological readiness score was noted to be in the “dig deeper” category (pre- 58%, post- 65%) whilst the equipment readiness score fell in the e-Learning “not ready category” (pre- and post- 68%). Discussion The Chapnick Readiness Score Guide was used to analyse psychological, technological and equipment readiness. e-Learning has been identified as a multi-disciplinary field, which is dominated by information technology. Technological and equipment readiness factors of e-Learning are easier to resolve than the psychological readiness factor. Recommendations Although e-Learning could be a key tool in nursing education, a few factors require attention before it can be effectively implemented in this tertiary level education facility. / Thesis (M.Med.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2014.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Leadership and Foundations. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.