The scholastic geography of Lithuania has experienced the period of reforms during the past two decades. The imperative of the education shift has been determined by economical, social and cultural changes. The subject-matter of education and the training process have been corrected. It is a matter of great relevance to ascertain whether the subject-matter of geography education conforms to the requirements set by the documents of the Education System. The study contains the analysis of the conception of the education subject-matter and the structural parts of it. General structural model of geography science, as the basic source for the formation of the education subject-matter, is presented, the analysis of its elements is performed. The formation stages of geography science and the subject-matter of education are highlighted by emphasizing the basic periods of the education shift (scholastic geography to the education reform, contemporary scholastic geography). The content analysis of the schoolchildren achievements determined by the General Programmes and Education Standards is performed. The schoolchildren conception of geography is examined.

My aim in this work is to identify and contextualize the goals driving contemporary post-secondary education reform in New Brunswick. I do this by grounding the 2007 Advantage New Brunswick Report and New Brunswick Action Plan in the general historical context of higher education. I provide a descriptive account of the policies under review with a view to the ideals of a liberal arts education. Through a critical theory framework, I relate the contents of the policies under review to neo-liberal ideology, professional, bureaucratic and managerial hegemony. My focus is on the place of the liberal arts and humanities in a system dominated by the corporate imperatives of professionalization, specialization and bureaucratization. I propose as a response to neo-liberal policies that seek to make education instrumental to the needs of the market returning to history, philosophy and classics as the core of a liberal arts education.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and their families perceived their school experiences in Québec. IBD is one of many “invisible” chronic diseases. It is considered invisible because it occurs internally without significant observable external symptoms. However, children with IBD experience painful and fluctuating physical symptoms caused by intestinal inflammation, as well as the side effects from medications. As a result, they require special accommodations while they attend public or private school. The Québec Education Act (2010) stipulates that adequate services for a diverse student population must be provided. Consequently, the research sought to answer the following questions: What are the experiences of parents and children with IBD enrolled in general education classrooms? And, what are the experiences of their brother or sister? To research these questions, a case study method was used with five families. The two instruments used to collect the data were, (1) individual semi-structured interviews that followed a modified version of Seidman’s (2006) in-depth interviewing approach and (2) drawings of the family by siblings. The data were analyzed inductively. This study was the first to use a qualitative approach with multiple methods that were guided by Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (1979) and Turnbull and Turnbull’s family systems theory (2001). The findings revealed that, unlike many studies on families of children with special needs, these families with a child with IBD functioned relatively well. At the microsystem level, mothers assumed responsibility as the primary caregiver. Siblings experienced their own challenges, such as feelings of parental neglect. Nonetheless, they also maintained nurturing roles. Within the mesosystem level, the home and school relationship was impacted. Parents and children with IBD experienced school personnel who lacked awareness of IBD and provided insufficient classroom support, especially at public schools. Hence, parents-(predominantly mothers) played an integral role in advocating for necessary accommodations on their child’s behalf. In contrast to many studies on children with disabilities, children with IBD in this research had many friends in and outside of school. In the exosystem, parents struggled with feelings of guilt at having to balance employment and the high financial expense of caring for a child with IBD. They relied on assistance from government services and their IBD association. At the macrosystem level, family members believed that children with IBD were perceived negatively by society because of the lack of public awareness and the stigma that surrounds the topic of incontinence. This study makes contributions to systems theories and provides practical recommendations to school personnel and parents.

This diploma thesis deals with the ethical education of social workers. First, it deals with the education of social workers in the field of social work and it points to the importance of the standard in the education not only in the field of social work. It also points out the importance of ethics in the education of social workers and the overall education system at universities. At the same time, it examines whether the current education system of the future social workers in the field of ethics is set in such a way that the future social workers gain the necessary knowledge and therefore whether the content of the minimal ethical standard meets the content and effect of teaching the ethics of professors at universities. Research focuses both on cantors and on the future social workers.

Esta tese aborda os processos de significação dos conhecimentos em arte no ensino em Moçambique. O foco é a apreensão dos sentidos que circulam na prática docente das disciplinas referentes às artes visuais, visando refletir acerca das relações entre educação, arte e conhecimento no Sistema Nacional de Educação. A pesquisa foi motivada pela possibilidade de evidenciar a contribuição do aprendizado de/em arte e promover a produção artísticacultural, a percepção, a compreensão, a interpretação do meio envolvente intermediado por intervenções conscientes e transformadoras para o desenvolvimento humano; pela necessidade de refletir não só sobre a ausência de investimentos em recursos humanos, tecnológicos e materiais na área de Artes em Moçambique, como também sobre o tratamento tecnocrático dado a esta área de conhecimento. O referencial teórico-metodológico baseou-se na semiótica discursiva para analisar os textos/entrevistas dos professores formadores da Universidade Pedagógica e consubstanciar os sentidos produzidos e reproduzidos. Ressalta que a significação se constrói através da produção e apreensão dos efeitos de sentidos, na relação do sujeito com o currículo. O corpus de pesquisa foi constituído a partir de entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com sete professores. As análises mostraram sentidos que emergem a partir da presença do Outro, o ensino de arte na Educação Visual, que causa estranhamentos no Sistema Nacional de Educação. As significações apresentam-se dentro da circularidade entre as disciplinas de Desenho Técnico/Geométrico e Educação Visual/Artes e apontam efeitos de sentidos que focalizam a dualidade entre o inteligível e o sensível, num contexto em que a priori se deveria processar a interdisciplinaridade. As conclusões apresentam posições discursivas que espelham o ajustamento entre as competências e performances do querer fazer e do querer ser em relação à área artística e ao Outro em oposição. Por outro lado, visualizaram-se sentidos que destacam o ensino de Artes como importante para o desenvolvimento humano, mas pouco valorizado e considerado sem complexidade. Revelam ainda o desenho geométrico como área caracterizada pela inflexibilidade dentro do Sistema Nacional de Educação. / This thesis addresses the meaning processes from knowledge in art in education in Mozambique. The center of attention is the meaning apprehension that surrounds teaching practice in the disciplines related to visual art, aiming to reflect about the relation among education, art and knowledge in the National Education System. The research was motivated by two reasons: the possibility to evidence the contribution of learning of/with art by promoting artistic and cultural production, the perception, comprehension, interpretation of the context intermediated by conscious and transforming interventions to the human development; and, by the necessity of reflecting not only about the absence of investment in human resources, technology and materials in art domain in Mozambique, but also about the technocratic treatment that is given to the knowledge field. The theoretical and methodological referential is based on discursive semiotic in order to analyze the texts/interviews from teachers trainers from the Pedagogical University and consubstantiate the produced and reproduced meaning. Based on this perspective, it is emphasized that meaning is produced through production and apprehension of meaning effects, which results from the relation between the subject and the curriculum. The research corpus was established by semi-structured interviews made with seven teachers. The analysis showed meanings that emerged from the presence of the Other, teaching art in Visual Education, that causes estrangement in the National Education System. The meanings are visible inside the circularity of the disciplines of Geometric/Technical Drawing and Visual/Art Education and they indicate meaning effects that focus on the duality between sensible and intelligible, in a context that a priori should manage the interdisciplinarity. The conclusions reveal discursive positions that mirror the adjustment between competencies and performances of wanting to do and wanting to be in relation to the artistic domain and to the Other in opposition. On the other hand, meanings that highlight art teaching as something import to human development, but underestimate and considered without complexity are identified. It also discloses the geometric drawing as a discipline characterized by the inflexibility inside the National Education System.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T15:08:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4958522 bytes, checksum: 8910e11b287dd7a813972256190e35ae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aims to examine the implementation of democratic management in the public schools of the city of João Pessoa - Paraiba, from the deployment of spaces and participatory mechanisms provided for in the Municipal System of Education - SME, seeking to understand the limits and possibilities of Democratic Management, to be adopted both as a theoretical literature about the democratic management of public schools, popular education, participation, school administration, national and local education laws, based on the qualitative method, but resorting to strategies employed in multimetodológicas quantitative and qualitative research, and used as instruments of data collection the questionnaire with open and closed questions and the technique of participant observation accompanied by a diary. The analysis of the implementation of mechanisms and opportunities for participation by schools shows how the concrete possibilities of democratic management, the implementation of mechanisms and opportunities for participation, with the absence of limits on participation of students in the Class Councils, the lack of service employees and secretary general and parents in planning meetings and teaching and the absence of the local community in the deliberative councils School. We conclude that democratic management is being implemented, but the participation of school and local community is not taking place in its fullness. / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a implementação da Gestão Democrática nas Escolas Públicas Municipais da cidade de João Pessoa Paraíba, a partir da implantação dos espaços e mecanismos de participação previsto no Sistema Municipal de Ensino - SME, buscando compreender os limites e possibilidades da Gestão Democrática. Para tanto se adotou como referencial teórico a literatura a cerca da gestão democrática da escola pública, educação popular, participação, administração escolar, legislação educacional nacional e municipal, fundamentado no método qualitativo, mas, recorrendo-se a estratégias multimetodológicas empregadas na pesquisa quanti-qualitativa, tendo utilizado como instrumentos de coleta de dados o questionário com questões abertas e fechadas e a técnica de observação participante acompanhada de um diário de campo. A análise sobre a implantação dos mecanismos e espaços de participação pelas escolas aponta como possibilidades concretas da gestão democrática, a execução dos mecanismos e espaços de participação, tendo como limites a ausência da participação dos alunos nos Conselhos de Classes; a ausência dos funcionários de serviços gerais e secretaria e dos pais nas reuniões e planejamentos pedagógicos e a ausência da comunidade local nos Conselhos Deliberativos Escolares. Conclui-se que a gestão democrática está sendo implementada, porém a participação da comunidade escolar e local, não está se dando na sua plenitude.

Esta tese aborda os processos de significação dos conhecimentos em arte no ensino em Moçambique. O foco é a apreensão dos sentidos que circulam na prática docente das disciplinas referentes às artes visuais, visando refletir acerca das relações entre educação, arte e conhecimento no Sistema Nacional de Educação. A pesquisa foi motivada pela possibilidade de evidenciar a contribuição do aprendizado de/em arte e promover a produção artísticacultural, a percepção, a compreensão, a interpretação do meio envolvente intermediado por intervenções conscientes e transformadoras para o desenvolvimento humano; pela necessidade de refletir não só sobre a ausência de investimentos em recursos humanos, tecnológicos e materiais na área de Artes em Moçambique, como também sobre o tratamento tecnocrático dado a esta área de conhecimento. O referencial teórico-metodológico baseou-se na semiótica discursiva para analisar os textos/entrevistas dos professores formadores da Universidade Pedagógica e consubstanciar os sentidos produzidos e reproduzidos. Ressalta que a significação se constrói através da produção e apreensão dos efeitos de sentidos, na relação do sujeito com o currículo. O corpus de pesquisa foi constituído a partir de entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com sete professores. As análises mostraram sentidos que emergem a partir da presença do Outro, o ensino de arte na Educação Visual, que causa estranhamentos no Sistema Nacional de Educação. As significações apresentam-se dentro da circularidade entre as disciplinas de Desenho Técnico/Geométrico e Educação Visual/Artes e apontam efeitos de sentidos que focalizam a dualidade entre o inteligível e o sensível, num contexto em que a priori se deveria processar a interdisciplinaridade. As conclusões apresentam posições discursivas que espelham o ajustamento entre as competências e performances do querer fazer e do querer ser em relação à área artística e ao Outro em oposição. Por outro lado, visualizaram-se sentidos que destacam o ensino de Artes como importante para o desenvolvimento humano, mas pouco valorizado e considerado sem complexidade. Revelam ainda o desenho geométrico como área caracterizada pela inflexibilidade dentro do Sistema Nacional de Educação. / This thesis addresses the meaning processes from knowledge in art in education in Mozambique. The center of attention is the meaning apprehension that surrounds teaching practice in the disciplines related to visual art, aiming to reflect about the relation among education, art and knowledge in the National Education System. The research was motivated by two reasons: the possibility to evidence the contribution of learning of/with art by promoting artistic and cultural production, the perception, comprehension, interpretation of the context intermediated by conscious and transforming interventions to the human development; and, by the necessity of reflecting not only about the absence of investment in human resources, technology and materials in art domain in Mozambique, but also about the technocratic treatment that is given to the knowledge field. The theoretical and methodological referential is based on discursive semiotic in order to analyze the texts/interviews from teachers trainers from the Pedagogical University and consubstantiate the produced and reproduced meaning. Based on this perspective, it is emphasized that meaning is produced through production and apprehension of meaning effects, which results from the relation between the subject and the curriculum. The research corpus was established by semi-structured interviews made with seven teachers. The analysis showed meanings that emerged from the presence of the Other, teaching art in Visual Education, that causes estrangement in the National Education System. The meanings are visible inside the circularity of the disciplines of Geometric/Technical Drawing and Visual/Art Education and they indicate meaning effects that focus on the duality between sensible and intelligible, in a context that a priori should manage the interdisciplinarity. The conclusions reveal discursive positions that mirror the adjustment between competencies and performances of wanting to do and wanting to be in relation to the artistic domain and to the Other in opposition. On the other hand, meanings that highlight art teaching as something import to human development, but underestimate and considered without complexity are identified. It also discloses the geometric drawing as a discipline characterized by the inflexibility inside the National Education System.

Este trabalho busca trazer robustez aos resultados observados em estudos comparativos entre escolas públicas e privadas do Brasil, que indicam uma maior capacidade da rede particular de ensino em gerar qualidade educacional. Para isso, uma abordagem quantílica, baseada na seleção em observadas, foi realizada. Vale ressaltar que, ao contrário de outras abordagens, a realizada nesta dissertação tem inferência assintótica. A base de dados utilizada foi a do SAEB de 2005, para as provas de matemática de oitava série. Novamente foi evidenciada uma superioridade das escolas privadas, mesmo controlando para diversas covariadas de alunos, professores e escolas. Este fato fortalece a possibilidade de implantação de políticas de cupons para escolas particulares, apesar de haver a necessidade de estudos adicionais sobre o assunto. Em relação às covariadas que reduziriam a distância entre as distribuições de notas de alunos de escolas públicas e privadas, constatouse que fatores determinantes do grupo de alunos na escola e na sala (peer group effects) seriam os mais importantes. Isso corrobora com resultados de outros trabalhos que evidenciam a importância desses fatores para explicar a maior efetividade das escolas privadas em relação às escolas públicas. / This paper aims at bringing strength to the results observed in other studies that point out a larger ability of the private school network to generate quality education in Brazil. To achieve that result, this study applies a quantile approach based on the selection on observable variables. Note that unlike other approaches , the one applied in this dissertation has asymptotic inference. The data base used in this study was that of SAEB 2005 for math tests in the 8th grade. As in other studies, here again the superiority of the private schools was made evident, even though various students\', teachers\' and schools\' covariates are controlled. This result strengthens the possibility of a policy of quotas for private schools, although additional studies on the subject are necessary. In relation to the variables that would reduce the distance between the grades distributions of students on public and private schools, peer group effects were observed to be the more important ones. These results are similar to the ones observed in other studies that point out the importance of the peer group effects to explain the higher effectiveness of the private schools in comparison to the public schools.

Este estudo tem como foco de análise o funcionamento dos Conselhos de Classe no regime escolar dos ciclos na rede pública municipal de ensino de Santo André, região do ABC paulista, em três gestões administrativas (1997-2008). A pesquisa acompanha o processo de implementação dos Ciclos e dos Conselhos de Classe, desde o seu advento, cuja operacionalização se dá no âmbito de uma política progressista de educação. Nessa perspectiva, o estudo tem como objetivos: investigar a relação entre a concepção pedagógica dos Ciclos e a forma como foram encaminhadas as discussões dos alunos em situação de fracasso escolar; analisar as queixas e os encaminhamentos mencionados pelos professores nos Conselhos de Classe; investigar a incidência dos dados apresentados nas atas dos Conselhos de Classe nas modalidades da Educação Infantil e do Ensino Fundamental e analisar o entendimento dos sujeitos educacionais que vivenciaram a concepção pedagógica dos Ciclos e dos Conselhos de Classe e que obtiveram êxito em sua prática, seja em sala de aula ou na gestão educacional. A pesquisa é de natureza qualitativa, baseada em dados documentais, observações e entrevistas semiestruturadas, realizadas com professores e técnicos da Secretaria de Educação e Formação Profissional (SEFP). As análises destacam os diferentes vieses e desafios da implementação da política educacional no atendimento à diversidade e aos diferentes ritmos de aprendizagem. Busca mostrar que o trato pedagógico direcionado a alunos em dificuldade de aprendizagem evidencia os esforços, as possibilidades e as contradições encontradas no discurso dos diferentes segmentos que compartilham da realidade escolar. Percebe-se que mesmo dinamizando a prática pedagógica ou propondo outros critérios de composição das turmas, o que ocorre é um movimento de inércia que reforça a constante busca pela homogeneização do alunado. As premissas discutidas neste trabalho destacam o êxito e o fracasso escolar como temas que colocam os desafios vividos na realidade educacional em contínuo debate. / This study examines the functioning of the Class Councils in the scheme of school at Public cycles of Santo Andre, region of the Great ABC at metropolitan Sao Paulo´s area, in three administrative managements (1997-2008). The research followed the implementation process of Cycles and the Class Councils, since its advent, whose operation is done within a progressive education policy. From this perspective, the study aims to investigate the relationship between the pedagogical concept of cycles and how it was dealt with the issue of school failure; aims to analyze the complaints and referrals referred by teachers in the class councils; investigate the data presented in reports of the class councils, in terms of Early Childhood Education and Elementary School, and to analyze the educational understanding of the subjects who experienced the pedagogical concept of cycles and the Class Councils who were successful in their implementation, whether in the classroom or in educational administration. The research is qualitative, based on documentary evidence, observations and interviews, conducted with teachers and technicians of the Department of Education and Professional Training (SEFP in portuguese). The analysis highlights the different aspects and challenges of implementing educational policy in meeting the diversity and different learning paces. It seeks to show that the pedagogy used in students with learning disabilities is a sum of efforts and possibilities but also the contradictions in the speech by the different segments that share the theme. It is noticed that even by increasing the teaching practice or from other criteria of class composition, what happens is a movement of inertia that reinforces the constant search for the homogenization of the students. The cases described provide evidence that the success and failure at school is an issue under constant debate.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 deizevicentedasilvaarosa.pdf: 2145207 bytes, checksum: 0899c425b3d8966c4129a1e44815522c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-28 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A pesquisa buscou conhecer como os sistemas municipais de ensino têm sido afetados pelas políticas do governo federal. A questão central é a implementação da política nacional para a avaliação educacional no ensino fundamental municipal e seus possíveis efeitos. O objetivo geral centrou-se na compreensão sobre como os sistemas municipais que adotam o ensino fundamental em regime desseriado, têm incorporado as práticas discursivas da política nacional para a avaliação da educação básica. O objeto do estudo foi a política educacional dos sistemas municipais de Duque de Caxias/RJ, Niteroi/RJ e São João de Meriti/RJ, para a organização do ensino fundamental de forma desseriada, no período compreendido entre os anos de 1997 e 2011, inclusive. O percurso teórico-metodológico fundamentou-se em autores que favoreceram a reflexão sobre a interpretação ativa no contexto local, do discurso das políticas educacionais nacionais de avaliação educacional - Ball (1992, 2009), Fairclough (2010), Van Dijk (2010), Draibe (2001), Casassus (2001) e Shiroma (2001). São apresentados como centrais para a compreensão das relações entre as políticas central e local os conceitos de federalismo, descentralização, autonomia e colaboração. A análise dos discursos textuais focalizou: a implementação municipal do ensino desseriado e de suas propostas para a avaliação educacional; as discursividades das políticas nacionais e municipais nas décadas de 1990 e 2000; e alguns resultados da avaliação educacional nacional realizada nos municípios investigados. Os resultados da pesquisa apontam para mudanças discursivas na avaliação educacional municipal, favorecidas pela cultura de avaliação e de monitoramento dos resultados. A concepção de qualidade educacional referendada na competitividade, na produtividade, na eficiência e na eficácia, permeou os discursos vinculados à justiça social, gestão democrática, participação, inclusão e cidadania. Sendo adotada no discurso nacional, esta linguagem foi incorporada pelos sistemas municipais de ensino em suas propostas pedagógicas e normatizações para a implementação do ensino desseriado. / The research sought to know how the local systems of education have been affected by the policies of the federal government. The central issue is the implementation of the national policy for educational assessment in elementary municipal and its possible effects. The overall objective focused on the understanding of how municipal systems that adopt school under desseriado, have incorporated the discursive practices of the national policy for the evaluation of basic education. The study focused on the educational policy of the municipal systems of Duque de Caxias/RJ, Niteroi/RJ and São João de Meriti/RJ, for the organization of fundamental education so desseriada in the period between the years 1997 and 2011, including. The theoretical and methodological route was based on authors who favored the reflection on the active interpretation in the local context, the discourse of national educational policies educational assessment - Ball (1992, 2009), Fairclough (2010), Van Dijk (2010), Draibe (2001) Casassus (2001) and Shiroma (2001). Are presented as central to understanding the relationship between central and local political concepts of federalism, decentralization, autonomy and collaboration. The analysis of textual focused: the implementation of the municipal education desseriado and their proposals for educational evaluation, the discourses of national and municipal policies in the decades of 1990 and 2000, and some results of the national educational assessment conducted in the municipalities investigated. The survey results point to discursive shifts in educational evaluation municipal, favored by the culture of evaluation and monitoring of results. The design of educational quality endorsed on competitiveness, productivity, efficiency and effectiveness, permeated the discourses related to social justice, democratic management, participation, inclusion and citizenship. Being adopted in the national discourse, this language was incorporated by local systems of education in their pedagogical and norms for the implementation of teaching desseriado.