The thesis, as the title suggests, focuses on education of Geography and analysis of Geography as a subject at Prague grammar schools. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the impact of curricular changes on teaching Geography. Furthermore, the thesis is to analyze the ideas of the Geography teachers on teaching methods and content taught to students in their lessons. The work also evaluates the variety of opinions of the pedagogues concerning this topic. It also discusses their different views on a new form of the state leaving exam. Moreover, it looks for the answer whether the new exam might change the methodology of Geography. This work is mainly based on a critical evaluation of expert materials as far as the school reform is concerned. The empirical part itself consists of the survey results and the assessment of directed interviews with 11 respondents, who are the Geography teachers at nine Prague grammar schools.

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This study combines analytical and narrative modes of historical enquiry with educational policy sociology to construct a history of media in education in Scotland. It uses the development trajectory of a single case, media education in Scotland's statutory education sector, to deconstruct and reconstruct a history of the institutional relationship between the Scottish Film Council (SFC) and the Scottish Education Department (SED) that stretches back to the 1930s. Existing literature describes media education in Scotland as a phenomenon located in the 1970s and 1980s. This study disaggregates media education discourse and dissolves chronological boundaries to make connections with earlier attempts to introduce media into Scottish education in the context of Scotland's constitutional relations within the UK. It employs historical and socio-cultural methods to analyse the intersections between actors and events taking place over six decades. The analysis and interpretation of the data is located in three time periods. Chapter 3 covers the period from 1929 until 1974 when, on the cusp of the emergence of the new texts and technologies of film, the SFC was established to promote and protect Scottish film culture and audio-visual technologies. During this time, the interdependence of teachers, the film trade and the educational policy-making community led to the production, distribution and exhibition of new and popular forms of text to national and international acclaim. By juxtaposing public and private documents circulating on the margins of statutory education, this chapter generates a new understanding of the importance of film and its technologies in Scotland in the pursuit of a more culturally relevant and contemporary model of education. It also describes how constraints upon Scotland’s cultural production infrastructure limited its capacity to effect significant educational change. In the 1970s, cultural, political and educational ferment in pre-devolution Scotland, created a discursive shift that gave rise first to media education and then to Media Studies. Articulating documents with wider discourses of educational and cultural change and interviews with key players, Chapter 4 describes a counter-narrative gaining momentum. The constraints of the practices of traditional subjects and pedagogies combined with the constraints on Scottish cultural production gave shape and form to the media education movement. Significantly for this study, the movement included influential members of Scottish education’s leadership class. Between 1983 to 1986, the innovative Media Education Development Project (MEDP) aimed to place media education at the centre of teaching and learning in Scottish education. This was fully funded by the SED, managed by the Scottish Council for Educational Technology (SCET) and the SFC and implemented by the Association for Media Education in Scotland (AMES). The MEDP overlapped briefly with another initiative in SCET, the Scottish Microelectronics Development Project (SMDP). During this period, Media Studies enjoyed rapid success as a popular non-advanced qualification in the upper secondary and further education sectors. Media education, however, did not. Chapter 5 explores the links between the MEDP and the SMDP through the agency of three central actors: SCET, the SFC and AMES in the context of a second term of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government. This study concludes that between 1934 and 1964, the SFC was a key educational bureaucracy in Scottish education. The SFC’s role as an agent of change represented the recognition of a link between relevant and contemporary Scottish cultural production and the transformation of statutory education. Between 1929 and 1982 three iterations for media and education in Scotland can be discerned. In 1983, the MEDP began a fourth but its progress faltered. The study suggests that if a new iteration for media and education in Scotland in the twenty-first century is to emerge, an institutional link between media culture, technology and educational transformation requires to be restored.

This dissertation explores the types of professional communities that are built when teachers work in initiatives that, in various forms, link them to teachers from other countries. In doing so it explores the types of knowledge that may be exchanged by the building of these communities and the value that teachers put upon these different forms of knowledge. Therefore, this study is situated in the broad theoretical context of discussions related to the building of professional communities but explores this within a specifically international context. The most significant findings that this dissertation identifies are: that the teachers involved built the professional communities that are most important to them in more exploratory ways and with more agency than is suggested by other related research, and in connection to this that those professional communities that the participants attached most significance to were consistently alternative to the immediate workplace. It was also found that whilst the teachers involved in this study problematised the possibility of directly transferring specific classroom strategies, stories about teaching were seen by all to be useful vehicles for exchanging other forms of knowledge, for enabling affirmation and for co-constructing moral purpose. These findings have potential implications for policy and practice as they indicate that structures that focus exclusively on developing communities within schools may need to be enriched by those that provide teachers with the flexibility to discover and build communities in alternative ways too. The primary data collection method used when conducting this research was interview. The participants who were interviewed came from two countries, namely England and Macedonia. This entirely qualitative approach is positioned within an interpretivist paradigm. However, it is argued that contributions to theoretical debates regarding the nature of professional communities can still be made.

This dissertation examines the relationship between PDE-School and the evolution of the Index of Basic Education Development (IDEB) in Maceió, in the years 2007 to 2011 The IDEB was instituted as an index that measures the quality of Brazilian education, and PDE-school constitutes a management strategic planning process, aimed at providing financial support school units, and is coordinated by the school's leadership and developed in a participatory manner by the school community, with the goal of improving the management of the school improve the quality of education it offers and ensure greater efficiency and effectiveness in the processes it develops. In this research, we sought to answer the following question: schools that are receiving PDE-School feature are raising your IDEB? Thus, the work was characterized by a qualitative approach, with the object of study of the evolution of the relationship IDEB with PDE-School. The methodology used to collect data was the analysis of bibliographic and documentary analysis. Systematization of data as a parameter had drawn up by the MEC / INEP, among them, laws, decrees, orders, manuals, reports and plans. The organization of the study was structured into four sections: the first deals with the State Reform and its impact on Brazilian Educational Policy, in 1990; the second, the issue of quality in education policy in Brazil; the third addresses the PDE-School and IDEB: concepts and implementation in the school context, and the fourth section discusses the Education Policy in Maceio elements for analysis of PDE-School and IDEB. This work shows to be relevant to the area of policy and management education, the extent of explicit contradictions own educational policy and quality of education within the school units. The results demonstrated that it can not join the rising IDEB Public Schools Maceió, in the years 2007-2011, the receipt and application of resources of the PDE-School. / A presente dissertação analisa a relação entre o PDE-Escola e a evolução do Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (IDEB) em Maceió, nos anos de 2007 a 2011. O IDEB foi instituído como um índice que mede a qualidade da educação brasileira, e o PDE-Escola se constitui em um processo gerencial de planejamento estratégico, que visa dar suporte financeiro as unidades escolares, e é coordenado pela liderança da escola e desenvolvido, de maneira participativa, pela comunidade escolar, com o objetivo de aprimorar a gestão da escola, melhorar a qualidade do ensino que oferece e garantir maior eficiência e eficácia nos processos que desenvolve. Nesta pesquisa, buscou-se responder a seguinte questão: as escolas que estão recebendo o recurso PDE-Escola estão elevando o seu IDEB? Assim, o trabalho caracterizou-se por uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, tendo como objeto de estudo a relação da evolução do IDEB com o PDE-Escola. A metodologia utilizada para a coleta de dados foi a de análise de bibliografias e análise documental. As sistematizações dos dados tiveram como parâmetro os documentos elaborados pelo MEC/INEP, dentre eles, leis, decretos, portarias, manuais, relatórios e planos. A organização do estudo foi estruturada em quatro seções: a primeira trata da Reforma do Estado e seus impactos na Política Educacional Brasileira, nos anos de 1990; a segunda, a questão da qualidade nas Políticas Educacionais no Brasil; a terceira aborda o PDE-Escola e o IDEB: concepções e implantação no contexto escolar, e a quarta sessão trata da Política Educacional em Maceió: elementos para análise do PDE-Escola e do IDEB. Esse trabalho mostra-se relevante para a área da política e gestão da educação, na medida em explicita contradições da própria política educacional e qualidade da educação no âmbito das unidades escolares. Os resultados demonstraram que não se pode associar a elevação do IDEB das escolas públicas de Maceió, nos anos de 2007 a 2011, ao recebimento e aplicação dos recursos do PDE-Escola.

The central aim of my thesis is to compare the objectives of the concept of Waldorf education since the foundation of the education until the present time. At the beginning the thesis deals with Rudolf Steiner, who founded thiseducational system almost one hundred years ago. Here its aim is to represent the basic ideas of Steiner, which later served as a basis of Waldorf education and became popular worldwide. Development of Waldorf schools worldwide, especially in the Czech Republic, is another part of the thesis. Furthermore, I compare the aims of Waldorf educational concept at the beginning and today. I describe changes that have occurred mainly in the Czech Republic, but I could not omit changes abroad. In my thesis I try to capture the positives and negatives of Waldorf schools compared to traditional schools.

Cette thèse se propose d’étudier les mutations engendrées par la globalisation numérique au sein de dispositifs de formation à distance. Elle s’intéresse au cas spécifique des universités ouvertes dans plusieurs pays. Ces systèmes, qui permettent généralement l’accès aux études à distance et sans condition spécifique d’admission, diffusent de façon massive des programmes d’enseignement. Majoritairement présentes en Asie, elles se sont implantées dans de nombreux pays, en particulier dans le Commonwealth. Le cas des universités ouvertes permet ainsi d’adopter une perspective comparative, sur des terrains habituellement peu fréquentés par la recherche francophone. À travers l’analyse d’entretiens confrontés à des discours institutionnels, la thèse s’appuie sur une méthodologie permettant de qualifier la transition numérique au sein de huit universités ouvertes du monde, en Afrique, en Europe et en Asie. Elle propose un modèle de compréhension des mutations subies dans ces organisations distancielles dans une perspective globale (MOTION). Ce modèle permet de décrire un système dans sa dynamique d’évolution et d’anticiper les évolutions futures. / This thesis explores the variations of digital globalization within distance-learning systems. It studies the specific case of open universities in different countries. These systems, which generally provide access to post-secondary education with no prior requirement for admissions, develop educational programs on a massive scale. These programs, located in many countries, are predominantly active in Asia and most particularly in the Commonwealth. This example allows us to adopt a comparative perspective in an area that is not typically explored through Francophone research. Through the analysis of interviews contrasted to institutional discourses, the thesis presents a methodology qualifying the digital transition in eight open universities of the world: Africa, Europe and Asia. It proposes a model for understanding the transformations experienced in these distance-learning organizations within a global perspective (MOTION). This model provides a description of the dynamics within a system’s evolution process and anticipate future evolutions.

隨著各縣市陸續成立地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算，使得國中小開始具有發展「學校本位財務管理」之契機。復因近來教育界也開始關切「學校創新經營」如何在國中小特色學校實施的議題。只是「學校本位財務管理」及「學校創新經營」都是一種經營管理的手段，因此本研究希望進一步探討其是否能達到提升「學校效能」之目的。 　　本研究採用文獻分析法、訪談法及問卷調查法進行研究。訪談法方面，發展出「地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算與國中小學校本位財務管理關係訪談大綱」作為研究工具，並採立意抽樣方式從臺北市、高雄市、新北市、桃園縣、基隆市等5個縣市抽取11位受訪者進行電話訪談。至問卷調查方面，則以「學校本位財務管理、學校創新經營與學校效能調查問卷」為研究工具，並以已成立地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算且獲教育部補助國中小特色學校經費之49個學校教職員作為研究對象，採簡單隨機抽樣方式進行問卷調查並剔除無效問卷，獲得有效樣本數802份。本研究除採用結構方程模式分析方法及LISREL8.72軟體分別驗證學校本位財務管理、學校創新經營及學校效能之內涵外，也進一步據以探討學校本位財務管理、學校創新經營及學校效能之間的關係。並且也透過平均數及SPSS13.0軟體來瞭解學校本位財務管理、學校創新經營及學校效能之現況。此外，更透過具潛在變項的路徑分析及Mplus 5.0軟體，來探討填答者的不同背景變項(包括性別、現任職務、教育程度、服務年資、服務地區、學校規模)是否分別對於學校本位財務管理、學校創新經營及學校效能具有預測效果。 本研究可獲得幾個主要研究結論如下： 一、「地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算」與國中小「學校本位財務管理」關係之訪談結果 　(一)簡言之，縣市政府成立地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算以後，其所轄國中小多能具備附屬單位預算之特性及優點，並有助於落實「學校本位財務管理」的理念。 　(二)地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算在相關制度規劃或授權方面的待改善之處 　　1.各縣市政府基於財政考量，仍對其地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算自訂額外的限制，有待逐步協調放寬之可行性。 　　2.非直轄市之地方政府認為宜成立專業、專責的會計單位，以處理地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算相關事務。 　　3.地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算之預算執行規定及作業方式經常變動，且業務相關人員異動頻繁，造成許多預算執行困擾。 　　4.「地方教育發展基金會計資訊系統」之開發過程並未充分訪談會計人員需求，且系統不夠穩定而功能不足，故仍有待改善。 　(三)多數(6位)受訪者較喜歡「地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算」的運作型態，另有3位認為還好(或各有利弊)，2位則相對傾向於較不喜歡。 二、學校本位財務管理、學校創新經營及學校效能之實施現況方面 　(一)成立地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算以後，國中小「學校本位財務管理」之實施現況尚屬略高程度(M=3.88)。 　(二)成立地方教育發展基金附屬單位預算之國中小特色學校，其「學校創新經營」實施程度很高(M=4.06)，且具有很高的學校效能(M=4.09)。 三、學校本位財務管理、學校創新經營及學校效能之關係方面 　(一)「學校本位財務管理」對於「學校創新經營」具有高度正向的直接效果(γ1=.78)，此顯示學校本位財務管理之實施程度越高，越有助於提高學校創新經營之實施情形。 　(二)「學校創新經營」對「學校效能」具有高度正向的直接效果(β1=.92)，此顯示學校創新經營之實施程度越高，越有助於提高學校效能。 　(三)雖然「學校本位財務管理」並不能對「學校效能」產生顯著的直接效果，但「學校本位財務管理」卻可透過「學校創新經營」來對「學校效能」產生間接效果(其效果量為.72)。亦即「學校本位財務管理」實施程度越高，越能透過促進「學校創新經營」實施程度之提高，進而間接提升「學校效能」。 四、背景變項對學校本位財務管理、學校創新經營及學校效能之效果方面 　(一)對於學校本位財務管理具有顯著效果之背景變項，計有性別(男>女)、現任職務(行政人員>教師)、服務地區(直轄市>一般縣市)、學校規模(12班以下>25班至48班)等4個變項。 　(二)對於學校創新經營具有顯著效果之背景變項，計有性別(男>女)、現任職務(行政人員>教師)、學校規模(12班以下>49班以上；12班以下>25班至48班)等3個變項。 　(三)對於學校效能具有顯著效果之背景變項，計有性別(男>女)、現任職務(行政人員>教師)、學校規模(12班以下>49班以上；12班以下>25班至48班)等3個變項。 　　最後，本研究並依據上述研究成果，提出各項具體建議。 / With the establishment of the affiliated units’ budget of local education development fund by many municipalities and counties, there are more and more opportunities to develop the “school-based financial management” (SBFM). And there were more and more researches stress the way to implement the school innovative management in specialist schools in the academic circles. However, the “school-based financial management” and “school innovative management” are both parts of the management methods. Therefore, the present study wanted to explore whether these two management methods can achieve the purpose of enhancing “school effectiveness.” 　　The present study adopted three approaches, including “literature review,” “interview,” and “questionnaire survey.” In terms of the interview, the present study designed “the outline of the interview on the relationship between affiliated units’ budget of the local education development fund and school-based financial management in junior high schools and elementary schools” as an instrument. The present study chose 11 participants from the county government and schools in the Taipei city, Kaohsiung city, New Taipei city, Taoyuan County, and Keelung city by purpose sampling. Eventually, the present study had interviewed those participants by telephone. In the aspect of questionnaire survey, the study designed the “questionnaire of the school-based financial management, school innovative management and school effectiveness” as the instruments. Teachers and staff from 49 specialist schools were the participants, and they were from schools that implemented the affiliated units’ budget of local education development fund. The present study distributed questionnaires by simple random sampling, and got 802 valid samples after gathering and deleting some invalid questionnaires. The study not only took structural equation modeling and the software of LISREL8.72 to confirm the contents of the school-based financial management, school innovative management, and school effectiveness respectively, but also confirmed the relationships of the school-based financial management, school innovative management, and school effectiveness. Moreover, the present study adopted means and the software of SPSS13.0 to understand the current situations of the school-based financial management, school innovative management, and school effectiveness. Furthermore, the present study adopted the path analysis with latent variables and the software of Mplus5.0 so as to understand whether the context variables of the subjects would have predictive effects on the school-based financial management, school innovative management, or school effectiveness. Those context variables included the sex, position, education level, seniority, district, and school size of the participants. 　　There were some major conclusions made as follows: 1.The results of the interview on the relationship between “affiliated units’ budget of the local education development fund” and “school-based financial management in junior high schools and elementary schools” 　(1) In brief, junior high schools and elementary schools had most of the properties and advantages of the affiliated units’ budget after the municipality and county governments establishing the affiliated units’ budget of the local education development fund, and it’s helpful for the schools to implement the “school-based financial management.” 　(2) The deficiencies of the affiliated units’ budget of local education development fund: A. There are still some additional restrictions of the affiliated units’ budget of local education development fund made by the municipal and county governments, which should be loosened. B. Other county governments except for municipal governments suggest that they need to set up a professional special agency to conduct those affairs of the affiliated units’ budget of local education development fund. C. The regulations and operations of the affiliated units’ budget of local education development fund always change, and the staff redeploy too often, so that there are some problems in the process of practices. D. The interviews of the accountants’ needs are insufficient during the development process of “the accounting system of local education development fund”. Furthermore, the system is unstable and its functions are insufficient, so there is still room for improvement. 　(3) As for the preference degree of the affiliated units’ budget of local education development fund, most of the participants (6 participants) felt “like”, 3 participants felt “fair”, and 2 participants felt relatively “unlike.” 2.The current situation of the school-based financial management, school innovative management, and school effectiveness (1) The current situation of the school-based financial management belonged to the extent of slightly high (M=3.88) after establishing the affiliated units’ budget of the local education development fund. (2) The specialist schools’ practice extent of the “school innovative management” was very high (M=4.06), and their “school effectiveness” was also very high (M=4.09) after establishing the affiliated units’ budget of the local education development fund. 3.The relationships between school-based financial management, school innovative management, and school effectiveness (1) “School-based financial management” has far-reaching and positive direct effects(γ1=.78) on “school innovative management”. That is, the higher the implement degree of “School-based financial management” is, the higher practice degree of “school innovative management” will be. (2) “School innovative management” has far-reaching and positive direct effects(β1=.92) on “school effectiveness”. That is, the higher the practice degree of “school innovative management” is, the better the “school effectiveness” will be. (3) Although the “School-based financial management” has no significant effect on “school effectiveness”, “School-based financial management” has an indirect effect on “school effectiveness” through the “school innovative management” (the indirect effect size is .72). In other words, when the practice degree of “School-based financial management” is higher, the “school effectiveness” will be enhanced indirectly through the “school innovative management” 4.The effects of the context variables on the school-based financial management, school innovative management, and school effectiveness (1) 4 context variables have significant effects on the school-based financial management. These variables involve sex, position, district, and school size. (2) 3 context variables have significant effects on the school innovative management. These variables include sex, position, and school size. (3) 3 context variables have significant effects on the school effectiveness. These variables are sex, position, and school size. Finally, according to the results of the present study, there were some suggestions be proposed.

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