D.Ed. / Major concern has been expressed both nationally and internationally about the effectiveness of schools. Programmes have been put in place to increase school effectiveness, but these seem to have had very little effect. Why have these programmes not increased school effectiveness? Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that most researchers have not asked the stakeholders themselves about their needs regarding school effectiveness. This study has been undertaken in an attempt to provide some answers. This study followed a qualitative research method: administering and processing open-ended questionnaires. There is a need teachers who show evidence of specific caring characteristics such as, inter alia, helpfulness, patience, availability, kindness and responsibility. A number of guidelines and recommendations (based on stakeholder needs identified in this study) on how to develop a caring attitude in schools are suggested. Further research is strongly recommended into aspects such as: needs of learners of different ages and cultures; views of the teachers, principles and parents specifically on school effectiveness in South Africa. PROBLEM: The restructuring of schools and the continuing low pass rate of school-leavers leads one to consider the following question: Is carinq a determining factor in school effectiveness and if so, to what extent are key players aware of it and do they consciously apply it? AIM: To investigate attitudes of key players regarding caring for the learner as a prerequisite for school effectiveness. To investigate the viability of its application in real schools. The research that resulted was exploratory, descriptive and contextual. A data analysis indicates that in present-day schools there is a greater need for individual care than is at present being provided.there is a need teachers who show evidence of specific caring characteristics such as, inter alia, helpfulness, patience, availability, kindness and responsibility. A number of guidelines and recommendations (based on stakeholder needs identified in this study) on how to develop a caring attitude in schools are suggested. Further research is strongly recommended into aspects such as: needs of learners of different ages and cultures; views of the teachers, principles and parents specifically on school effectiveness in South Africa.

Orientador: Roberto Akira Goto / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T11:55:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bolognesi_Roselaine_D.pdf: 879933 bytes, checksum: 228393232bc89d7a44be70e66461ab54 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A presente tese consiste numa análise do discurso althusseriano e de suas apropriações e interpretações na área educacional brasileira. Partiu-se da questão seguinte: que efeitos de sentidos foram produzidos pelos textos de Louis Althusser sobre a ideologia e seu papel na reprodução social e como repercutiram nos trabalhos escritos por teóricos e estudiosos brasileiros da educação? Para trabalhar tal questão foram empregados os conceitos teóricos da Análise de Discurso de linha francesa. / Abstract: This thesis is an analysis of Althusserian discourse and its appropriations and interpretations in the Brazilian education. We started from the question: what meaning effects were produced by the texts of Louis Althusser on ideology and its role in social reproduction and as echoed in the writings of theorists and scholars of Brazilian education? To work this question were used theoretical concepts of French school of discourse analysis. / Doutorado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Doutora em Educação

Orientador: Pedro Ângelo Pagni / Banca: Rodrigo Pelloso Gelamo / Banca: Divino José da Silva / Banca: Fernando Bárcena Orbe / Banca: Alexandre Filordi de Carvalho / Resumo: O que está proposto na forma deste trabalho de tese se integra ao projeto de pesquisa de doutorado com o qual procuramos investigar o paradigma antropológico na filosofia da educação, isto é, a crítica ao entendimento da educação como um projeto antropológico fundamental. A configuração antropológica do pensamento, que converte a filosofia em uma analítica do homem, e a concepção de uma estrutura antropológico-humanista na educação impedem o exercício de um pensamento crítico e criativo, porque paralisam, ao incidirem sobre uma filosofia da representação e do sujeito transcendental, o exercício de pensamento em face do desafio de investigar o tema do acontecimento na práxis educativa. Desse modo, se por um lado é importante fazer uma análise da configuração antropológica do pensamento e uma crítica à concepção antropológico-humanista predominante nas reflexões sobre a educação, por outro, temos a intenção de sugerir que outra possibilidade é pensar o exercício do pensamento filosófico no campo da educação como uma experiência e um acontecimento. Ou seja, propomos realizar, a partir de Gilles Deleuze e Michel Foucault, um exercício de pensamento em que a filosofia da educação seja pensada no deslocamento entre dois domínios distintos e conflitantes acerca da natureza e do modo de pensar ou exercer a filosofia (e, por conseguinte, de pensar filosoficamente a educação): por um lado, a imagem antropológica do pensamento, isto é, a configuração da filosofia moderna como analítica da finitude, que ainda nos é atual, e que enquanto uma filosofia do Mesmo permanece sendo essencialmente uma filosofia da representação; e, por outro lado, a abertura da filosofia para uma nova imagem do pensamento ou um pensamento sem imagem, quer dizer, sem postulados... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The proposal for this thesis integrates to the doctor degree‟s search work in which it is investigated the anthropological paradigm in philosophy of education, it means, the critics to educational understanding as a fundamental anthropological project. The anthropological configuration of the thought, which converts philosophy into a man analysis, and the conception of an anthropological-humanistic structure in education impede the critic and creative thought exercise, as they paralyze, by focusing on a philosophy of representation and of the transcendental subject, the exercise of the thought facing the challenge of investigating the event theme into educational praxis. Thereby, if by one hand it is important to analyze the anthropological configuration of the thought and a critic to the predominant anthropological-humanist conception on the reflections about education, on the other hand, we intend to suggest that the other possibility is to think the exercise of the philosophical thought into education field as an experience and an event. In other words, we propose to perform, from Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, a thinking exercise in which philosophy of education is thought regarding the displacement between two distinct and conflicting domains involving nature and the way of thinking or to exercise the philosophy (and, therefore, to think philosophically about education): on one hand, the anthropological image of the thought, or else, the configuration of the modern philosophy as finitude analysis, that is still updated for us, and as a Self philosophy is kept being essentially a philosophy of representation; and, on the other hand, the philosophy opening to a new image of the thought or a non-image thought, it means without postulates or presuppositions: a thought of the event. We propose... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

The problem of this study was to determine to what extent contemporary adult education theory has similarities to and origins in ancient Athenian ideas about education. The methodology used in the study combined hermeneutics and the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas. Primary sources incuded Aristotle, Plato, Aristophanes, and Diogenes Laertius; secondary sources included Jaeger, Marrou, Dover, and Kennedy. In the analysis of Athenian adult education, three groups of adult educators were identified—the poets the sophists, and the philosophers. The poets were the traditional educators of the Greek people; their shared interest or way of perceiving the world emphasized the importance of community cohesion and health. In Athens in the mid-fifth century B.C., a new group of educators, the sophists, arose to fill a demand of adults for higher and adult education in the skills necessary to participate in the assembly and courts. The sophists emphasized a pragmatic human interest and taught the skill of rhetoric. Socrates and Plato created a new school of educators, the philosophers, who became vigorous ideological opponents of both the poets and the sophists. The philosophers exhibited a transcendental interest or approach to knowledge; the purpose of life was to improve the soul, and the preferred way of life was contemplative rather than active. The philosophers taught the skill of dialectic. Paideia was a Greek word that originally referred to childhood education but which came to mean education throughout the lifespan and the civic culture that supported education. Athenian citizens perceived their paideia to be among their greatest virtues, an attainment which could not be lost to the fortunes of time as could wealth or position. Modern adult education lacks the concern for the communal and transcendental human interests that were important to many ancient Greeks. Modern cultures tend to promote strong individuation of personality and to idealize pragmatic and individualistic concerns. Researchers in the field of adult education often assign to human nature the pragmatic and individualistic qualities of adult learners, but fail to recognize how these features reflect ideologies peculiar to modern American society.

Millions of students with disabilities in the United States have access to educational programming to assist and provide special education support services. In existence for mere decades, special education as it currently stands was founded on groundbreaking legislation and refining law in the form of the Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The most recent revision of this law in 2004 significantly extended parents' rights to be decision-makers in the educational planning process for children with disabilities. A litany of research into parent experiences of the IEP and special education process reveals that parents consistently report feelings of being marginalized in the decision-making process. A systematic literature review conducted by the author revealed that parents and family members of children with ASD report broadly similar themes of dissatisfaction with the special education process and communicating with staff. The current research proposal seeks to investigate the interaction experiences with Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (LSSP) personnel of parents and family members of elementary-aged children with ASD. LSSPs, recognized as possessing expertise on autism spectrum disorder amongst special education evaluation personnel, often conduct evaluations for students with ASD.

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This dissertation aimed to spotlight a prevalent issue in lifespan development and learning that is under-appreciated in educational research and practice. Many children in the United States and abroad learn to coordinate fundamental motor actions with maladaptive postural deviations that impose excessive stress and strain on musculoskeletal structures. The stabilization of maladaptive movement patterns during a critical period of psychomotor development produces non-structural sagittal misalignments of the spine, including Forward Head Posture (FHP) and Postural Thoracic Hyperkyphosis. Moreover, the reproduction of maladaptive movement patterns may be associated with the development of musculoskeletal disorders and associated chronic pain conditions that impact the global public. The researcher employed philosophical synthesis to describe and explain the adverse effects of maladaptive postural coordination on lifespan human development while amplifying its origins in early childhood. Principles from the traditions of Pragmatism and Dynamical Systems Theory are applied to develop a positive model of adaptive psychomotor learning and development that is seamlessly integrated into Early Childhood Education curriculum and learning formats. To this end, Early Childhood Education should structure learning experiences to guide the discovery and stabilization of adaptive movement patterns that (1) accomplish fundamental action goals in the here-and-now and (2) support the health of the changing neuromuscular-skeletal system across its lifetime. Therefore, the researcher proposes a model of early learning in which the study of the body-self is seamlessly woven into all aspects of the general ECE curriculum.

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