Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College, 2005. Action Research Paper (M.A.)--Wheaton College, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (l. 125-129).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2009. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Oct. 22, 2009). Thesis advisor: Mary Jo Reiff. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This work is inserted into the line of research in Special Education of the Master‟s Degree in Education of the Graduate Program in the Federal University of Santa Maria. It was based on experiences in public schools, where students with learning disorders are present in a significant number and, considering the delimitation of students referred to Special Education by the National Policy of Special Education in the Perspective of Inclusive Education in 2008, are no longer part of the pedagogic assistance by Special Education teachers. The focus of this study was to analyze how the assistance of students with learning disabilities is happening, from the perspective of teachers. The research was characterized as qualitative and descriptive and used semi-structured interviews with eight Special Education teachers of municipal schools of Santa Maria and an enclosed questionnaire with the manager responsible for the area within the Municipal Education in Santa Maria, as instruments to collect data. For interpretation and assessment of the data, the technique of content analysis of Bardin (2008) was used. As a result, the research has shown that students with learning disabilities remain in regular classrooms at school. Some are assisted in the school environment by the Special Education teacher, but most are referred to care services outside the school, exempting the school from the responsibility of students not being able to learn. It also showed that Special Education is not being seen by teachers as an epistemological field of knowledge but as a service, a support, a modality. And finally, it‟s highlighted the importance of continuity in discussions of Special Education and Inclusive Education, especially when considering the design of synonymy in which both have been addressed, which should not occur in both the teachers' speech and theoretical references and, therefore, being imperative to deepen and clarify the differences pertaining to each area of knowledge and pedagogical action. / A pesquisa se insere na linha de pesquisa em Educação Especial do curso de Mestrado em Educação do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Constituiu-se a partir de vivências em escolas públicas, onde alunos com transtornos de aprendizagem se apresentam em um número bastante significativo e, considerando a delimitação do alunado da Educação Especial prevista pela Política Nacional da Educação Especial na Perspectiva da Educação Inclusiva de 2008, não fazem mais parte do atendimento pedagógico por professores de Educação Especial. O foco deste estudo foi analisar como está acontecendo o atendimento dos alunos com transtornos de aprendizagem na visão dos professores. A pesquisa caracterizou-se como qualitativa descritiva e contou com instrumento para coleta de dados de uma entrevista semiestruturada com oito professores de Educação Especial da rede municipal de ensino de Santa Maria e um questionário fechado com o gestor responsável por esta área na Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Santa Maria. Para interpretação e apreciação dos dados, utilizou-se a Técnica de Análise de Conteúdo de Bardin (2008). Como resultados, a pesquisa mostrou que alunos com transtornos de aprendizagem permanecem nas salas de aula do ensino comum das escolas. Alguns são atendidos no ambiente escolar pelo professor de Educação Especial, mas a maioria é encaminhada a serviços de atendimento externos à escola, fazendo com que esta se exima da responsabilidade sobre a não aprendizagem de seus alunos. Também se evidenciou que a Educação Especial não está sendo vista pelos professores como um campo epistemológico do saber e sim como um serviço, um apoio, uma modalidade. Por fim, destaca-se a importância da continuidade nas discussões acerca da Educação Especial e da Educação Inclusiva, principalmente ao se considerar a concepção de sinonímia em que ambas vêm sendo abordadas, fato que tanto na fala dos professores como nas referências teóricas não deveria acontecer tornando, portanto, imprescindível o aprofundamento e o esclarecimento das diferenças atinentes a cada área de saber e à ação pedagógica.

This final thesis introduces empathy like one of the target of education and learning. It defines the terms emotion and emotional intelligence. It gives information about the notion education in the free time ? its characteristic, targets and methods. It deals with possibilities of development of empathy during the education in the free time. It describes the targets of the education in preschool and school age. It deals with the historical development of the term, evolutional conditions to empathy and the connections with the moral cognizance in the chapter about empathy. It describes some of the factors that can develop the empathetic behaviour in the last chapter.

Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-27T19:13:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Mateus de Almeida Granada.pdf: 3764222 bytes, checksum: 6aa5fc982c1f166860f45a32bb6f402d (MD5) Mateus de Almeida Granada.pdf.jpg: 3341 bytes, checksum: d570d20438df18fb39c6c7dbb8cab3b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present work consists of an insertion proposal of current issues as Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in high school through the Modern and Contemporary Physics. In order to meet this purpose didactic modules were developed and applied that adapt to the school curricula and guidelines suggested by the National Curriculum Guidelines and also, at the same time, discuss topics of optical properties of materials. Thus, the material contributed to the presentation of valid and clear treatments about the interaction of radiation with the matter (subject), studying quantum aspects that relate to physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials. The didactic modules were implemented for a target public of seventy-three (73) senior High School students of the Military School in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. The material has its structure organized in the form of an electronic site, containing five virtual modules which include, mainly, dissertative-argumentative texts and media resources. The development of the didactic modules is anchored in learning meaningful of Ausubel, in which, the information must interact and anchor on the relevant concepts already existing in the cognitive structure of the student. For this purpose the construction of the material, as well as its application, had as basic structure of a initial problematization, organization of knowledge and application of knowledge, proposed by Delizoicov and Angotti. The evaluation of new acquired concepts in relation to the interaction of radiation with the matter (subject), by part of the students, allowed satisfactory results in teaching and learning of the proposed objectives. This evaluation was performed by the comparative method of conceptual maps. The conceptual maps showed that the material has established itself as an efficient methodology in the insertion of the optical properties of materials through Nanoscience. / O presente trabalho consiste em uma proposta de inserção de temas atuais como Nanociência e Nanotecnologia no Ensino Médio por meio da Física Moderna e Contemporânea. Para atender a esse propósito foram desenvolvidos e aplicados módulos didáticos que se adaptam aos currículos escolares e orientações sugeridas pelos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais e também, ao mesmo tempo, abordam tópicos de propriedades ópticas de materiais. Dessa forma, o material contribuiu para a apresentação de tratamentos válidos e claros a respeito da interação da radiação com a matéria, estudando aspectos quânticos que se relacionam com propriedades físicas e químicas de nanomateriais. Os módulos didáticos foram implementados para um público alvo de 73 alunos do terceiro ano do Ensino Médio do Colégio Militar da cidade de Santa Maria, no Rio Grande do Sul. O material tem sua estrutura organizada em forma de um sítio eletrônico, contendo cinco módulos virtuais que contemplam, principalmente, textos dissertativo-argumentativos e recursos de mídia. O desenvolvimento dos módulos didáticos esta ancorado na aprendizagem com significado de Ausubel, em que, a informação deve interagir e ancorar-se nos conceitos relevantes já existentes na estrutura cognitiva do aluno. Para tal intento a construção do material, bem como sua aplicação, teve como estrutura básica uma problematização inicial, organização do conhecimento e aplicação do conhecimento, propostos por Delizoicov e Angotti. A avaliação dos novos conceitos adquiridos em relação a interação da radiação com a matéria, por parte dos alunos, permitiram resultados satisfatórios no ensino e aprendizagem dos objetivos propostos. A referida avaliação foi realizada por método comparativo de mapas conceituais. Os mapas conceituais mostraram que o material firmou-se como uma metodologia eficiente na inserção de propriedades ópticas de materiais por meio da Nanociência.

A quasi-experimental study was conducted within the context of the University of North Florida's EXCEL (Excelling in Clinical Education Learning) teacher preparation program to investigate the impact of three types of educational treatment on the attitudes toward diversity of preservice teachers. Data were collected and analyzed based on the pretest/posttest measures of three self-reporting instruments: Cross Cultural-Adaptability Inventory, the Cultural Diversity Awareness Inventory, and the Bogardus Social Distance Scale. The preservice teachers (N = 208; K-12 regular and special education majors) experienced the following treatments: (1) informal seminar studies of multicultural education issues accompanied by a field experience in a non-culturally diverse public school classroom; (2) informal seminar studies of multicultural education issues accompanied by a field experience in a culturally diverse public school classroom; and (3) no seminar studies of multicultural education issues and no field experience in a public school classroom. The weekly on-campus seminars were conducted by four clinical educators (master teachers from neighboring districts on alternative assignments for two years). In addition, with-in group attitudinal differences toward diversity of preservice teachers enrolled in the fieldbased seminars were examined based on variates of field placement, seminar instructor, gender, age, race, educational major, association with culturally different people, and teaching grade level. Examination of relationships between groups, based on ANOVA and ANCOVA results at the .05 level of confidence, reveals the followings: (1) no significant differences were found in attitudes toward diversity of preservice teachers enrolled in the field-based seminars focusing on issues of diversity, but significant differences were found between the control and experimental groups at both the onset and end of the study (experimental group had higher mean scores), (2) significant differences were found within-groups for the demographic variates of seminar instructor, age, race, association with people of diversity, and grade level, (3) significant (although minimal) differences were found in attitudes toward diversity between preservice teachers enrolled in the seminars focusing on issues of cultural diversity as compared to the control group of students not enrolled in the seminars (experimental groups had higher mean scores), (4) no significant differences were found between the experimental groups to support the assumption that field experiences within Culturally diverse settings have a positive effect on the attitudes of preservice teachers toward diversity, and (5) although positive significant differences were found between the control and experimental groups following the completion of the multicultural seminars, all three groups remained at the social distance preference level "having merely as a speaking acquaintance" in working with the culturally different as measured on the Bogardus and far below the normed population on the Cross Cultural Adaptability Inventory factor Flexibility/Openness (FO).

Angesichts der pluralen und heterogenen Angebotslandschaft intergenerationalen Lernens fragt diese Dissertation, über welche pädagogischen Handlungen, Interaktionen und Steuerungseinflüsse sich intergenerationale Lernkulturen konstituieren, vor dem Hintergrund welcher gesellschaftlicher Tendenzen bestimmte Handlungen und Steuerungseinflüsse relevant werden und welche Ausdrucksformen von intergenerationaler Erwachsenenbildung dabei entstehen. Im theoretischen Pfeiler widmet sich diese Arbeit dem intergenerationalen Lernen auf mehreren Ebenen. Aufgrund der bestehenden Vielfalt und Komplexität an begrifflichen Rahmungen, gesellschaftlichen Hintergrundentwicklungen sowie theoretischen Konstruktionen werden intergenerationale Lernkulturen auf einer begrifflichen, gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen, theoretisch konstituierenden und institutionell systematisierenden Ebene beschrieben und definiert. Auf der Basis der dort vorgenommenen begrifflichen Abgrenzungen und Systematisierungen kann der Begriff sowie die Erscheinungsformen intergenerationaler Lernkulturen eingegrenzt und weitergehend empirisch untersucht werden. Dazu wird im empirischen Pfeiler der Arbeit eine zweistufige triangulative Explorationsstudie angesetzt, die durch eine Programmanalyse und Experteninterviews gekennzeichnet ist. Das Untersuchungsfeld verortet sich dabei auf der Mesoebene erwachsenendidaktischen Handelns und ist durch Interferenzen zwischen der makro- und mesodidaktischen Handlungs- und Interaktionsebene (Zeuner, 2009) gekennzeichnet. Aus den Befunden der Untersuchung lässt sich schlussfolgern, dass dichotome Adressat/-innenbeschreibungen, Begegnungs- anstatt Lernprozesse und wirtschaftliche anstatt pädagogische Orientierungen bei den Programmplanenden intergenerationaler Programme handlungsleitend für ihre Planungsarbeit sind. Es zeigt sich darüber hinaus, dass intergenerationale Lernkulturen einen sehr geringen Professionalisierungsgrad aufweisen und dass der gesellschaftliche Bedarf intergenerationalen Lernens in symbolischen Generationenbeziehungen instrumentalisiert wird. Die Relevanz der Studie liegt damit insbesondere in einem bildungswissenschaftlichen Beitrag zu einer Generationentheorie für die Erwachsenenbildung, einer theoretischen Konturierung des Intergenerationalitätkonzepts, unter Bezug auf eine erwachsenenpädagogische Generationentheorie, einem Beitrag zur Programm- und Planungsforschung sowie in dem empirischen perspektivverschränkenden Beitrag zur Professionalisierungsforschung innerhalb beigeordneter Bildungsangebote. / Seeing the diverse and plural programs in the field of intergenerational learning, it is interesting to find out about the pedagogical and didactic actions and interactions as well as the influences of governance and regulation in intergenerational learning cultures. In the theoretical part of this thesis intergenerational learning is described and defined on the level of conceptual and socioscientific approaches, theoretical constitutions and institutional systematisation. Based on the proposed conceptual differentiations, the empirical investigations will elucidate the field of intergenerational learning. As a result the empirical work focuses on a triangulative study combining a program analysis with theory generating expert interviews. The case of study is positioned in the mesodidactic level and is characterised by interferences between makro- and mesodidactic level of action and interaction (Zeuner, 2009). The theoretical and empirical findings present patterns of intergenerational learning cultures that show an unspecific and dichotomous description of the intended audience. The findings also show that typically intergenerational encounters are more prominent than intended and critically reflected learning processes. Moreover, economic interests overbalance pedagogical interest. Consequently, intergenerational learning is interpreted as a rather low professionalised exploited field of continuing education, where generational encounters are supposed to be pedagogical.

Visual modeling concept of integrated constructs (essence) of mathematical objects in teacher training of humanistic area is presented as technology of education in problem solving. The main goal of innovative approach is student’s activity in mathematics on generating of concrete essence manifestations on concepts, methods, theorems, algorithms, procedures and so on. Such student’s activity should be: · Success in an area of actual interests and person’s experience and reached by perception; · Have high level of variability in visual modeling; · Success in domain of reflection process stimulation. Similar creative behavior of persons is typical for actors, dancing, and figure skating and so on. Now we show that such technology will be fruitful for teacher training in mathematics for humanistic specialties.

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The study draws on theories of society, learning, planning and design, democracy, identity formation, and cultural change to inquire into children’s participation in the social sphere. The thesis emerges from the growing literature in the sociological and educational study of childhood, identity, space and culture. A case study approach, using a variety of participatory methods and photographic visual evidence, is employed to investigate the substantive issue of children’s participation in changing their locales in a contemporary Scottish context. Two main cases are narrated: the first concerns primary school children’s experience in participating in changing school grounds throughout Scotland; the second details the experience of one local authority’s efforts to enhance public play provision for children with disabilities. Local socio-cultural / spatial practices used in the construction of children’s participation and their places of learning, work, and play are described. Children are found to be ‘positioned’ between adult desires to increase children’s participation in matters that affect them, while at the same time, adults may wish to protect children from perceived dangers. The context for children’s participation takes cognisance of the influences of schooling, the exclusion of children from the workplace, as well as the influences of technology, the media, and the changes in family make-up. One central finding of the thesis is that children’s experience of participation appeared to be constructed out of ‘essential beliefs’ about the relations between children and adults, the nature of the child and the child’s ‘place’ in society.