Context: The purpose of this research was to examine if the educational approach (the Approach) adopted at Kilnbarn Residential Special School (the School) secured the developmental learning pathways for its pupils. All pupils were diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) and many had single or multiple comorbid conditions. The research sought to understand how their parents could be substantive partners and co-creators in the design, modification, and implementation of the Approach. It was a unique feature of Kilnbarn’s Approach to fulfil the potential of parents to be co-creators and co-therapists in their child’s progress. Objective: The case study became one of the instruments in which to test the School’s effectiveness in meeting the needs of its pupils. It enabled a review of the School’s methodology, curriculum and organisational practices. The Approach was designed to provide secure developmental learning pathways for its pupils, improving their quality of life and independence. Method: The case study design, was chosen as it was considered the most appropriate research model. A Parents’ Questionnaire, distributed annually over 3 consecutive years (2004-6) was the evidential basis for this study. Interviews and collected data were used to analyse and evaluate the progress of the School through parents’ eyes. Results: The combination of parents working with professionals to maximise the culture of “technical eclecticism” seems to be, in the light of this case study, best suited to the needs of children diagnosed with autism, SLD and comorbid conditions. The child should be immersed in a consistent approach across all areas of their life. Improvements in well-being, communication and joint action routines, sleep balance, a healthy diet, physical exercise, incontinence and behaviours was observed. Conclusion The study identified that parents could be substantive partners and influencers in the design and modification of the Kilnbarn Approach. The Approach secured developmental learning pathways for its pupils and appeared to improve their quality of life. Parents as co-creators and co-therapists had regained ownership of their child’s quality of life, learning outcomes and personal development. From the experience and unique evidence of this case study schools should utilise and profit from the mass resource of their parents. It has been shown that the Kilnbarn Approach was, during the research, an effective and suitable intervention for the many children it served. It is hoped that further studies in this field will explore the concept of a “technical eclectic” approach that further validates and brings together interventions that are conceptually grounded and incorporates evidence-based focused intervention practices.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-09-11T19:47:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Denise de Almeida Ostler.pdf: 3485406 bytes, checksum: dd57eff51b1bb1816d6de413d38c32fc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-11T19:47:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Denise de Almeida Ostler.pdf: 3485406 bytes, checksum: dd57eff51b1bb1816d6de413d38c32fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study aimed at investigating the impact occurred during the process of introducing and implementing a Full-Time Education Programme, and its developments, observed in teachers’ and students’ practice, as well as verifying students’ performance levels in the teaching-learning process from special education. The investigation was carried out in two schools at the Baixada Santista, in São Paulo, Brazil, during the period comprised between 2014/2015. Both schools operated in a regular part-time regime, but one of them started to operate under a full-time regime as from 2015. The theoretical reference used was based on contributions from authors from inclusive education, including public policies, its applicability and the process of teacher training. They are: Mazzotta (2005); Jannuzzi (2012); Lopes, Fabris (2013); Mantoan (2006, 2009); Stainback, Stainback (1999, 2008), amongst others. The reference for Full-Time Education, include authors such as: Teixeira (1994); Costa et al.(2008); Paro (2001) , amongst others. Research started with bibliographical research and document analysis, taking into consideration national and international legal documents (including legal texts on inclusive and full-time education), as well as propositions from São Paulo State Secretary of Education. It was enhanced through a qualitative approach field research. Based on the analysis of the data collected, teachers, pedagogical coordinators and school managers were interviewed and their narratives were collected. The results emerged from the categories identified in the analysis. Significant impact on the students from special education was observed in the implementation of the new programme. This involved offering specialized assistance to impaired students after or before school hours, extended periods of permanence of both teachers and student and a series of conflicts generated in teachers’ managers’ and community’s routines, which brought severe repercussions at structural, pedagogical and managerial levels. Effectiveness aspects are highlighted, as well as non-effectiveness aspects, in the process of teaching and learning, with implications in the development of special education students’ competencies, access, permanence and terminality, which are essential elements for a quality basic education programme, guaranteed by law, by right. / Este estudo teve como objetivo investigar o impacto ocorrido no processo de implementação e implantação do Programa Ensino Integral e os desdobramentos nas práticas educativas dos professores, bem como verificar o nível de desempenho do processo ensino-aprendizagem dos alunos da educação especial. A investigação foi realizada em duas escolas da Baixada Santista, no período de 2014/2015, ambas de regime regular de ensino, passando uma delas em 2015, a funcionar em regime integral. O referencial teórico contou com contribuições de autores da educação inclusiva, incluindo as políticas públicas, sua aplicabilidade e o processo de formação docente. São eles: Mazzotta (2005); Jannuzzi (2012); Lopes, Fabris (2013); Mantoan (2006,2009); Stainback; Stainback (1999,2008), entre outros. Sobre o ensino integral recorreu-se a autores como: Teixeira (1994), Costa et al. (2008), Paro (2001), entre outros. Iniciou-se pela pesquisa bibliográfica e análise documental, considerando documentos legais internacionais e nacionais (incluindo a legislação da educação inclusiva e integral), assim como, as proposições da Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo. Complementou-se com a pesquisa de campo, de abordagem qualitativa. Com base na análise do conteúdo foram coletadas narrativas de professores, do coordenador pedagógico e dos gestores das escolas investigadas, por meio de questionários e entrevistas; os resultados configuraram-se a partir das categorias de análise.Constatou-se impacto significativo mediante a implantação do novo programa referente ao atendimento especializado para o aluno com deficiência no contraturno, assim como, em relação ao aumento nas horas de permanência na escola, além dos conflitos gerados no cotidiano escolar para professores, gestores e comunidade, com contundente repercussão nas dimensões pedagógicas, estruturais e de gestão. Destacaram-se aspectos de efetividade, assim como, de não efetividade do processo ensino-aprendizagem, com implicações no desenvolvimento de competências, acesso, permanência e terminalidade dos alunos da educação especial, quesitos fundamentais de uma educação básica de qualidade, garantida por lei como direito.

The study takes place in the context of the Southern African Development Community’s Regional Environmental Education Programme (SADC REEP). The SADC REEP is a programme of the Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Directorate of the SADC Secretariat. The programme is implemented through four components namely policy, networking, training and learning support materials development. The bulk of the policy budget is in the form of seed funding to support policy initiatives in the member states. The intention of this study is to illuminate factors that influence the deployment and use of seed funding to support environmental education policy processes within the SADC REEP. To sharpen the understanding of the context within which these activities take place, the study looks at the global and regional landscape of policy events and their influence on policy in the sub-region. The study also looks at the landscape of the fields within which environmental education is embedded, the power relations, and the notion of agency in environmental education policy processes. The discourse in environmental education policy processes is analyzed by drawing on Bourdieu’s constructivist structuralism to highlight some of the social and institutional complexities in dynamic fields, capital and policy context. The research takes a qualitative interpretative approach using case study methodology to explore the processes and influences that have a bearing on the SADC REEP policy sub-component, specifically the deployment and use of seed funding for policy initiatives. The findings show the complexity of the variables at play in shaping the processes of developing and reviewing environmental education policies in the sub-region. These variables include discourse that is used, economics and politics of the responsible institutions and actors, as well as relationships between the environmental field and education field. The results point towards a need to clearly understand the policy context within which the SADC REEP is operating in order to make correct assumptions, to develop realist expectations, and to put in place appropriate mechanisms that will effect the expectations. The study recommends further probing of the relationship between the actors and networks in relation to the success of policy processes. It also recommends a further exploration of the SADC REEP’s open-ended approach with respect to articulating the monitoring and consolidation of the successes in supporting environmental education policy processes.

The diploma thesis focuses on the description of the current state of Czech education. First of all, it represents the objectives and concepts of elementary education in the Czech Republic and brings closer to the requirements of the Framework Education Programmes. It describes closer the importance of key competencies and objectives of the educational field Citizenship Education. In the next part the diploma thesis introduces a program Philosophy for Children, whose principles correspond to a great extent with the objectives of elementary education, and therefore it seems to be a suitable tool for educating and education pupils. The empirical part will then offer a specific model of teaching built on the basis of Philosophy for Children and will assess its suitability for achieving the objectives of the educational field Citizenship Education.

This diploma thesis deals with the matter of protection of feral animals against trafficing. The theme is composed for use at primary school within the framework of project teaching. The work is divided into theoretical and practical section, according to the content. The matter of CITES is expressed in the theoretical part, also the educational activities in the zoological gardens are described in this part (including the educational offer of the Zoo Ohrada) and last but not least the basic concepts for didactical aspect of the thesis are defined. The practical part includes a questionnaire studying the pupils´ attitude to animals generally; evaluation of educational activities offered by the zoological garden Ohrada (included evaluation of the commute); and the project itself. The outcome of the thesis is to check the service ability of the project in practise.

The thesis is focused on the description of Personal and Social Education as a subject in teaching languages in primary schools. It describes the changes in the educational system of the Czech Republic and deals with the explanation of Personal and Social Education in different contexts. The aim is to determine how teachers understand targeted integration of this topic and how they work with it during language lessons. The results of how teachers perceive this subject, how it is classified and how they are successful in achieving the goals specified in the FEP are also part of this work.

The Diploma thesis is focused on experience with the realization of the prevention on primary schools. The aim of my thesis was to find out, if the schools engage in prevention activity and how the realization and efficacy looks like. The thesis consists of two parts. The first part is theoretical and the second is research. In the first chapter of the theoretical part I dealt with risk behaviour, I briefly described its particular forms. In the second chapter of the theoretical part I focused on the content of the word prevention, primary prevention in curricular documents and scholar primary prevention. In the second section of the thesis, which is the practical part, I have collected information and opinions of different subjects on realization preventive programs at school. I compared the results of the research of two grammar schools. The first type of the collection of data was questionnaire research qualitative research. The date we have gained provided us the information about the opinions of the efficacy of preventive programs from the point of view of the pupils. The second type of collected data was an interview with the Methodist of the prevention. This information show us a different point of view on risk behaviour, its prevention and efficacy of the realization primary prevention activity.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 DissDFdc.pdf: 1247606 bytes, checksum: 4e59ebc166c150c8f3724ee03ff8c948 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-29 / Não recebi financiamento / The National Curricular Guidelines (DCN) of the 2002 Dentistry Undergraduate course are guidelines to be observed in curricular organization that must be necessarily adopted by all higher education institutions (HEI). The overall objective of this study was to analyze the pedagogical projects of the courses (PPC) Dental Public Universities of the State of São Paulo (SP) in the light of DCN. This research is qualitative. The study subjects were five dental courses of SP who had their PPC reformulated after the DCN. The first collection of information was through secondary data obtained from the PPS of each educational institution. The documentary analysis of PPC courses was held in the light of DCN for graduation in dentistry and PPC courses were analyzed using an array of analytical categories. The eight analytical categories used in the analysis of PPC were divided into two areas: 1. Professional profile (general profile, health care, health management and health education) and 2 Course structure (organization of the course, design of teaching learning, teaching methods and learning and assessment). The second source of information consisted of primary data collected through semi-structured interview with the five coordinators of the courses, defined as the study subjects. The semi- structured interviews were conducted in person with three coordinators and through Skype with two coordinators of the courses, and were composed of questions about PPC and student education from the perspective of DCN and acting for the NHS. Qualitative analysis of the interviews took place from the content analysis technique, thematic modality defined by Bardin. The analysis of PPC in the light of DCN demonstrated suitability in general, with some observations regarding verbatim parts of the DCN in PPC, not matching the reality of course, little detail in relation to health management at all PPC analyzed and teaching methodologies learning and assessment still on traditional modes of education in relation to the powers described in DCN. / As Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais (DCN) do curso de Graduação em Odontologia de 2002 constituem orientações a serem observadas na organização curricular que devem ser necessariamente adotadas por todas as Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES). O objetivo geral do presente estudo foi analisar os Projetos Pedagógicos dos Cursos (PPC) de Odontologia das Universidades Públicas do Estado de São Paulo (SP) à luz das DCN. A presente pesquisa é de natureza qualitativa. Os sujeitos do estudo foram cinco cursos de odontologia do estado de SP que tiveram seus PPC reformulados após as DCN. A primeira coleta de informações se deu por meio de dados secundários, obtidos do PPC de cada instituição de ensino. A análise documental dos PPC dos cursos foi realizada à luz das DCN para a graduação em Odontologia e os PPC dos cursos foram analisados por meio de uma matriz de categorias analíticas. As oito categorias analíticas utilizadas na análise dos PPC foram divididas em dois eixos: 1-Perfil profissional (perfil geral, atenção à saúde, gestão em saúde e educação em saúde) e 2-Estrutura do curso (organização do curso, concepção de ensino-aprendizagem, metodologias de ensino e aprendizagem e avaliação). A segunda fonte de informações foi composta por dados primários coletados por meio de entrevista semiestruturada junto aos cinco Coordenadores dos Cursos, definidos como os sujeitos do estudo. As entrevistas semi estruturadas foram feitas presencialmente com três coordenadores e por meio de Skype com dois coordenadores dos cursos, e foram compostas por questões sobre o PPC e formação do aluno na perspectiva das DCN e atuação para o SUS. A análise qualitativa das entrevistas se deu a partir da técnica de análise de conteúdo, modalidade temática definida por Bardin. A análise dos PPC à luz das DCN demonstrou adequação de forma geral, com algumas observações em relação à reprodução textual de partes das DCN nos PPC, não condizendo com a realidade do curso, pouco detalhamento em relação à gestão em saúde em todos os PPC analisados e metodologias de ensino aprendizagem e avaliação ainda nos modos tradicionais da educação, em relação às competências descritas nas DCN.

This diploma thesis describes Framework Education Programme for Basic Education, its aims, key competencies and cross-curricular subjects. It also mentions educational area Man and World of Work and its particular components. This diploma thesis also summarizes some teachers{\crq} opinions on Framework Education Programme for Basic Education, creation of School Education Programme and their putting into practice. Second part of this thesis describes a project which allows pupils to learn history of engineering within the frame of the region and wider outskirts. The thesis contains a proposal how to work and process how the pupils worked and what results they have achieved.

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.