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The general aim of this thesis is to evaluate the conditions for fieldwork implementation and its level of employment in a given region. This aim is followed in three areas: 1) Definition of framework for fieldwork in strategic documents. 2) Analysis of fieldwork employment in a given region. 3) Analysis of teachers' approaches towards fieldwork. For the purpose of this thesis four grammar schools located within the Decin county were observed. The present situation pertaining to the employment of fieldwork was mapped in order to lay the foundation for an improvement of teaching techniques in geography. The issue of fieldwork is approached from different points of view: an institutional perspective (i.e. opportunities of fieldwork as defined in curricular documents, a subjective perspective based on the experience of teachers within the Decin county (i.e. empirical investigation).

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Parent-teacher meetings are well-established and attended by a high proportion of parents. This places significant demands on both schools and families. However, little research involving direct observation within secondary schools has been reported. I have investigated parent-teacher meetings at one English secondary school, my aims being to explore the aims of parents and teachers and the nature of their relationships. My findings will be of interest to parents and teachers, as well as researchers and school leaders. I collected audio recordings of parent-teacher conversations over two years and conducted one-to-one interviews with parents, students and teachers. I analysed my data using conversation analysis and interpreted my findings using politeness theory. I found that the aims of parents and teachers can be divided into two categories. Instrumental aims are directly concerned with educational outcomes, whereas interpersonal aims relate to the individual needs of the participants and do not necessarily affect students’ learning. I also found that the behaviour of the participants in my study was not consistent with models based on partnership, opposition, or market forces. My findings do, however, support a model in which teachers assume the role of ‘expert’ and control conversations. For researchers, my findings question the way in which Epstein’s typology is used to classify parent-teacher meetings and suggest that the presence of students during meetings may be significant. My study has also highlighted politeness theory as a useful tool for interpreting parent-teacher behaviour. For families and schools, my research raises questions regarding the use of parent-teacher meetings to influence students. My study also suggests that parents and teachers do not make productive use of their limited contact time. My study provides up-to-date and reliable data regarding a widespread educational practice. My methodology may also provide a useful template for researchers wishing to investigate parent-teacher conversations. Future research involving contrasting schools would indicate whether my findings were context-related or more general. The occupational backgrounds of parents and the roles played by students may also be worthy of further investigation.

This thesis is focused on the phylum Tardigrada. The main goal is to implement this topic into the curriculum of primary and secondary education. The thesis is divided in two parts - theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part comprises five basic topics: the general introduction to phylum Tardigrada and other moss fauna; extraction methods; analysis of textbooks for primary and secondary schools; and application of obtained knowledge about phylum Tardigrada in education. In this thesis, water bears are used as model organisms for creating practical suggestions for teaching methods and forms that can be used when implementing this theme into a teaching process. The empirical part presents the results of extensive study focused on the occurrence of Tardigrada in moss from variety of habitats in the Czech Republic and its implication for practical use. Keywords: moss fauna, cryptobiosis, education, teaching methods, research, analysis of textbooks

Employee education alongside with skilled employees motivated to further development is currently becoming both an important part in the development of companies and a significant competition advantage in all markets worldwide. The aim of this thesis is to analyze educational systems in Czech companies and to evaluate the educational process of employees. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical one and practical one. The first part deals with defining theoretical concepts related to education, the theory of corporate education and trends in corporate education. The second part is focused on the research of corporate education in Czech companies. The research is based on the internal documentation and interviews with the HR representatives in the company HOCHTIEF CZ, and interviews with experts in the field of corporate education from the company DMC management consulting.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-01-19T10:48:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Katia Regina Conrad Lourenço.pdf: 6053674 bytes, checksum: 834c8176fadfcae7627eeb63744e88d8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-19T10:48:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Katia Regina Conrad Lourenço.pdf: 6053674 bytes, checksum: 834c8176fadfcae7627eeb63744e88d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-20 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The main purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to reveal and expose the connection between Deaf culture and school curriculum showing the importance of working with both unified: a Deaf Curriculum. This work assumptions that there is a Deaf culture; however, this is still not socially or academically, recognized; this condition, is essential to affirmation of Deaf rights. The main claim sustained here is a Deaf Curriculum, made up by Deaf community which the natural language applied is LIBRAS; because is a right to the deaf subject an education that recognizes and values its own difference, characteristic and peculiarities: a Deaf Culture. Current education is not able to guarantee the rights to a Deaf subject mainly because of incapacity and/or unaccepting of their own culture and identity and it’s happening because of the knowledge lack around Deaf culture. Also impacts directly on their development and specially does not supports their rights as citizens as well. To investigate this issue this doctoral dissertation presents an study from the main experts in Deaf Culture; analysis of some studies regarding Deaf Culture; theories of identity, and also of Deaf Identities and also the epistemology of Brazilian Sign Language – LIBRAS. Also it’s going to present a research in curriculum, raising the critical points regarding of pre-training, bringing issues about political rights of Deaf community, we propose the curriculum that is presented by the Deaf, the Curriculum in LIBRAS. To sustain the whole theory, looked for discuss the practice of all these ideas and reflections as well. The Deaf communities was the subject of this research and were analyzed and observed directly under the school space, choosing spaces that is prioritizing the use of LIBRAS to teaching, as the case of current Bilingual Schools (it’s offered in few places in Brazil, since it is not an offer guaranteed, schools where is being using the native language of the Deaf). It has been proven that experiences shared within of deaf community allow the Deaf to feel able and lives an own culture The deaf that grown up in contact with other Deaf, are raised to live in a Deaf reality, since that period, up to adults, participating in the Deaf movements, building up their own identity and enable to enjoy fully their citizenship, in full exercise of their rights / O objetivo central desta tese é desvelar o elo entre a cultura Surda e o currículo escolar e a importância de se trabalhar com ambos unificados como um só: um Currículo Surdo. Trazemos neste trabalho o pressuposto de que existe cultura Surda, no entanto, isto ainda não está, socialmente e academicamente, reconhecido; condição esta que é indispensável para a afirmação dos direitos dos Surdos. O direito que sustentamos aqui é de um Currículo Surdo, constituído pela comunidade Surda e cuja língua natural é Libras; pois é de direito ao sujeito Surdo uma educação que reconheça e valorize sua sua diferença e suas especificidades, suas particularidades: a Cultura Surda. O problema fundamental, então, é que a educação não tem sido um direito assegurado aos Surdos devido a seu impedimento e à inaceitação de sua cultura e identidade; e isso se dá pelo desconhecimento da cultura Surda; desconhecimento tal que impede o reconhecimento da mesma, o seu desenvolvimento no currículo escolar dos Surdos e, sobretudo, o cumprimento de seus direitos como cidadãos. Para investigar este problema, apresentamos, no decorrer desta tese, um estudo a partir dos principais e precursores estudiosos da Cultura Surda; análise de alguns estudos consolidados da Cultura Surda; teorias da Identidade, das Identidades Surdas, do Ser Surdo e da Epistemologia da Língua de Sinais. Após localizar também a pesquisa em currículo, levantar críticas à semi-formação, trazer questões do desempoderamento e direitos políticos dos Surdos, propomos o currículo que é apresentado pelo Surdo, o Currículo em Libras. Para sustentar toda a teoria, buscou-se discutir também a prática de todas estas concepções e reflexões. O objeto de pesquisa foram as comunidades surdas, analisadas sob observação participativa dentro do espaço escolar, escolhendo espaços de aprendizagem que priorizassem o uso da Libras, como é o caso das atuais Escolas Bilíngues (oferecidas em poucos lugares do Brasil, já que não é uma oferta garantida, escolas onde a língua de instrução é a língua materna dos Surdos). Comprovou-se que as experiências compartilhadas dentro da comunidade surda permitem aos Surdos se sentirem capazes e sujeitos culturais. Surdos que crescem em contato com outros Surdos são criados para viver em uma realidade Surda e desde esse período, até quando já adultos, participando dos movimentos Surdos, constroem sua identidade e se habilitam a usufruir inteiramente de sua cidadania, no pleno exercício dos seus direitos

Emotional aspects of teaching impact on classroom relationships, as well as on teacher burnout and resilience. The research reported here contributes towards understanding emotional knowledge in initial teacher education. Using particularly Boyatzis and Goleman’s ideas of emotional competence, a four-quadrant framework was constructed, showing emotional knowledge as categories of self- and social awareness and self- and relationship management. This framework was tested in an inquiry to support student teachers during their work-based learning in classrooms. The research aimed to find the meanings attached to emotional knowledge by these student teachers and their school placement mentors. One hundred and nineteen student teachers following a primary postgraduate programme provided an opportunity sample of participants. After introduction to the framework, eighty-four completed an online survey, self-reporting both their emotional knowledge and their confidence in making those self-reports. Eleven agreed to provide written reflections during school placements, to participate in a focus group and be interviewed. Their mentors supplemented this with interviews and their written end-of-placement reports on the student teachers. In a mainly qualitative and interpretivist approach using thematic analysis, responses were coded using ATLAS.ti software and triangulated across data sets. This built a picture of how emotional knowledge was understood. The research found that student teachers used emotional knowledge in managing behaviour and building trusting and respectful relationships with mentors and pupils while participants experienced it as a developmental part of reflective practice. The findings were used alongside the ideas of dealing with emotions by transforming teacher knowledge and Zembylas’ concept of emotional ecologies, thereby developing a new theoretical framework for emotional knowledge. The main recommendation - that teacher educators prepare student teachers to explicitly recognise emotions and use emotional knowledge – has relevance to any work that involves dealing with emotions. The thesis also points towards empirical research into the re-theorised model.

Considerando que a escola deve formar indivíduos preparados para o exercício da cidadania, ela precisa apresentar os conteúdos, definidos no cronograma escolar, de uma forma mais aproximada ao cotidiano do aluno. O objetivo deste trabalho é a proposição de uma sequência didática para preparar e orientar estudantes do ensino médio à visita técnica em setor de radiologia hospitalar como um recurso potencialmente significativo para o ensino de radiações ionizantes, e ampliar a qualidade na formação do estudante de ensino médio, a partir da vivência de experiências que locais distintos da tradicional sala de aula oferecem. A visita técnica é um recurso didático-pedagógico que obtém ótimos resultados educacionais, pois os estudantes podem observar os conceitos analisados em sala num ambiente real, tornando o processo mais motivador e significativo para a aprendizagem, fazendo com que se amplie ao estudante o conceito de integração, de reflexão e ação, teoria e prática. A sistematização das várias etapas do trabalho, tanto em nível da prática pedagógica, como da investigação teórica, baseou-se na estratégia das unidades de ensino potencialmente significativas (UEPS). Com a expectativa de apoiar outros professores que tenham interesse em trabalhar o tema radiações ionizantes, ao final foi gerado como produto da presente dissertação uma sequência didática em oito aulas, que envolvem a preparação prévia da visita técnica ao setor de radiologia hospitalar, a visita em si, e a abordagem posterior para consolidação dos conteúdos. Para a análise dos resultados foram utilizados métodos qualitativos, como a construção de mapas conceituais, dramatização e construção de maquetes. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2017-09-04T16:42:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Leomar de Bortoli.pdf: 2798584 bytes, checksum: eb697f1145e5e332808a5b38436b48ed (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-04T16:42:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Leomar de Bortoli.pdf: 2798584 bytes, checksum: eb697f1145e5e332808a5b38436b48ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-04 / Whereas the school must train individuals prepared for the exercise of citizenship, it must display the contents more closely related to the daily life of the student. The objective of this work is to propose a didactic sequence to prepare and guide high school students to technical visit in a hospital radiology department as a potentially significant resource for the teaching of ionizing radiation, and increase the quality of training high school student from the life experiences that different sites of traditional classroom offer. The technical visit is a didactic-pedagogic resource that get great educational results, as students can observe the concepts discussed in class in a real environment, making it a more motivating and meaningful process for learning, causing it to expand the student the concept of integration, reflection and action, theory and practice as well. The systematization of the various stages of the work, both in terms of pedagogical practice and theoretical research, was based on the strategy of potentially significant teaching units. With the expectation of supporting other teachers who are interested in working the issue ionizing radiation, at the end it was generated as a product of this dissertation a didactic sequence in eight classes, which involve the prior preparation of the technical visit to the hospital radiology department, the visit itself, and further approach to consolidation of the contents. For the analysis of the results were used qualitative methods, such as the construction of concept maps, role play and building models.

This thesis focuses on the development of key competences in the lessons of Spanish language at senior elementary schools. It deals with the characteristics of the key competences, the work with them and their development in the lessons of Spanish language. The aim of the thesis is to describe the current situation in the development of key comptences and propose how the teachers and pupils should work in the Spanish language lessons to support the development of these competences to the maximum.