This study, The lived experiences of black women academic researchers at the University of South Africa, investigated the factors that impacted on the lives of the black women academics at Unisa in the College of Education. It was a phenomenological study wherein the participants shared their lived experiences through in-depth interviews. This was a qualitative study that employed an interpretive paradigm. This permitted the view that reality is multiple layered. It took into account the various viewpoints of the participants as different realities that were narrated in this report by using the verbatim quotations of the participants. The findings revealed that Black women academic lecturers at Unisa faced challenges in the teaching and learning area. They had no ownership of modules that they taught because they were not primary lectures. They experienced racism and alienation from both Black and White academics that have long been at Unisa. White staff questioned their qualifications and, they received no orientation in the teaching of ODL modules. In the research area, challenges concerned the supervision of postgraduate students and article writing for publication. It also arose that they received less support from senior colleagues and from their supervisors in their personal studies. There was general complaint about the 2010 Unisa mentoirship programme but there was commendation of the recent CEDU mentorship programme. The participants felt that Unisa should introduce academic support programmes that would cater for staff over the age of 50 because the current programmes only cater for those below 50 years of age. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Comparative Education)

Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien bieten heute neuartige Möglichkeiten für den Unterricht. Die didaktisch ertragreiche Nutzung dieser neuen Medien verlangt allerdings die Veränderung sowohl der Organisation wie auch der Methoden und Rollen des Lehrens und Lernens, die, wie empirische Studien zeigen, bei großen Teilen der Lehrerinnen und Lehrer noch aussteht. Zielstellung dieser explorativen Studie ist die Entwicklung und empirische Überprüfung eines Lehrerfortbildungskonzeptes, das eine nachhaltige Veränderung des unterrichtlichen Handelns bewirken kann. Im theoretischen Teil der Arbeit werden zunächst mediendidaktische Erkenntnisse diskutiert und daraus der inhaltliche Ansatz der Fortbildung, die Umsetzung einer problemorientierten Lernumgebung mit neuen Medien im Fach Englisch entwickelt. Die Ursachenanalyse der bestehenden didaktischen Defizite im Unterricht mit neuen Medien aus Sicht der professionswissenschaftlichen Forschung zum Lehrerwissen und -handeln zeigt die Veränderungsresistenz unterrichtlicher Routinen, aufgefasst als Unterrichtskripts, auf. Hier setzt die Fortbildung methodisch mit einem dreischrittigen Verfahren an, das den Erwerb neuen Wissens mit dessen praktischer Erprobung und Reflexion verbindet. Dem empirischen Teil der Arbeit liegt ein Prä-Post-Untersuchungsdesign zugrunde, zu denen die unterrichtlichen Handlungsmuster der Lehrpersonen als Niederschlag ihrer Unterrichtsskripts im Fremdbeurteilungsverfahren erfasst werden. Die Analyse der Veränderung auf Gruppenebene mit quantitativen Verfahren und die Auswertungen auf Ebene der einzelnen Lehrpersonen mittels typisierender Verfahren zeigen eine Hinwendung zu einem problemorientierten Lehren und Lernen sowohl im Hinblick auf die gewählte Aufgabenstellung als auch in ihren Ablauf- und Interaktionsmustern. Insgesamt weist die Studie das Fortbildungskonzept als einen fruchtbaren Ansatz dafür aus, eine Neuorientierung beim Unterricht mit neuen Medien anzustoßen. / In today’s modern information society and knowledge economy new media offer novel possibilities for teaching and learning processes in school. Nevertheless, an effective use of new media in instruction requires changes in its organisation as well as in teaching methods and the role of the teacher. Empirical studies show that many teachers still have to implement this kind of reorientation. This explorative study aims to develop and test a concept for the professional development of teachers, which leads to a sustained change of their teaching. Based on prior research on media in instruction, a theoretical framework is developed that applies problem-based learning to the professional development of teachers of English. Also, didactical deficits in the use of new media in instruction are analyzed with a focus on teachers’ cognition. It shows that the existing teaching routines, represented in the form of lesson scripts, constrain a reorientation of teacher performance. Hence, the professional development focuses on changing these routines by devising a procedure consisting of three steps, which combines the acquisition of new knowledge with practicing it and reflecting the practice. The empirical part of this thesis is based on a pre-postdesign. For all participants of the professional training the patterns of action in class were observed and tested in a third-party assessment. The data was transformed into lesson scripts. Both the analysis at group level, which used quantitative methods, and the analysis on the individual level of the teacher using classifying methods showed that after the training the participants made more use of problem-based teaching and learning. This reorganisation happened on the level of the chosen tasks as well as with regard to the interaction models. All in all, the study showed that the concept of professional training developed for this study is a promising approach to initiate the required reorientation in education with new media.

Orientador: Aparecida Mari Iguti / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T08:15:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro_ThiagoFigueiredo_M.pdf: 3221194 bytes, checksum: d79cd1511dcb239d46ed687486593eb9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Saúde é um direito social conquistado, e a efetivação deste direito só se cumpre com o enfrentamento dos seus dois principais entraves: financiamento em saúde e gestão dos recursos humanos em saúde. O Brasil tem lidado com a questão dos recursos humanos em saúde através de programas governamentais que têm por finalidade o provimento de profissionais e a melhoria da qualidade da formação destes. O PROVAB ¿ Programa de Valorização do Profissional da Atenção Básica e o Programa Mais Médicos são os dois mais recentes programas na área. O presente trabalho objetiva refletir e analisar, a partir da experiência do Sujeito-Pesquisador como Supervisor do PROVAB e do Programa Mais Médicos, sobre o papel da supervisão prática nestes programas, e também sobre suas potencialidades e limites como ferramenta pedagógica. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza qualitativa e exploratória, baseado em relatos de experiências do Sujeito-Pesquisador, ocorridas no período de 2013 a 2015. Realiza-se um estudo descritivo dos programas, em seguida são relatadas as experiências selecionadas de supervisão, e por fim realiza-se a construção de categorias de análise. São delimitados três grupos de categorias: supervisão em contexto, papel da supervisão e ferramentas de supervisão. A pesquisa encontra seus limites na contemporaneidade aos fatos, que dificultam o encontro de dados e fontes distintas às fornecidas pelo governo federal, além da própria escolha metodológica, que remete os achados ao olhar implicado do autor. Com este trabalho, verifica-se que a prática de supervisão no PROVAB e no Programa Mais Médicos tem grande potência pedagógica, e que uma melhor definição do papel do supervisor, assim como a incorporação de novas ferramentas, tal qual o Grupo Balint-Paidéia e a Supervisão Ampliada, são algumas das propostas para o avanço dessas políticas. Novos estudos são necessários, para ampliar o olhar dos profissionais, gestores, equipe, usuários sobre os programas e, verificar as mudanças ocorridas, e a influência/potência da supervisão nestas mudanças / Abstract: Health is a conquered social right, and the fulfillment of this right only occurs with the confrontation of its two main obstacles: financing and management of the health workforce. Brazil deals with the issue of human resources for health through government programs to provide professionals and improve the quality of training. The PROVAB - "Professional Enhancement Program Primary Care" (Professional Improvement Program Primary Care) and (More Medical Program) "More Doctors Program" are the two most recent programs in this field. This article aims to reflect and analyze, from the experience of the subject-researcher as a Supervisor on the role of practical supervision in these programs on their potential and limits as a pedagogical tool. This is a study of qualitative and exploratory nature, based on reports of subject-researcher experience, during the period from 2013 to 2015. The author develops a descriptive study of the programs and reports selected supervisory experiences, and finally performs the construction of analysis categories, organized into three groups: supervision in the context, the role of supervision and supervision tools. The research finds its limits in the contemporaneity to the facts, making it difficult to collect different data and sources provided only by the federal government, also in from the specific methodological choice, referred the findings to the implicated author's look. With this work, it seems that the practice in supervision on the PROVAB "More Doctors Program" has great educational power, and that a better definition of the role of the supervisor as well as the incorporation of new tools, such as Balint-Paideia¿s Groups and the "enhanced supervision" are some of the proposals for the advancement of these policies. More studies are needed to broaden the perspectives of professionals, managers, team members about the programs and verify the changes occurred, and the influence / power of the supervision in these changes / Mestrado / Política, Planejamento e Gestão em Saúde / Mestre em Saude Coletiva

The Czech Republic and Scotland rank similarly in international pupil's performance tests. However, education systems of these countries differ greatly. This research has three main focus areas: 1) general aspects of Scottish education including teaching methods, school and real life connections in teaching, and school leaver's destinations 2) studying Chemistry and teaching at university 3) Chemistry in the senior phase of secondary education and the change of topics and exam paper brought in with the new Curriculum for Excellence. Comparative analysis of syllabi, exam papers, government publications and OECD reports was used and personal experience from an exchange study programme at a Scottish university and a work placement at a secondary school in England were utilized. The Higher exam paper was translated and Czech secondary students sat the test Furthermore, teacher trainees and Chemistry teachers were asked to evaluate the test. Results show that Czech students are taught different things and are accustomed to different ways of being tested, ones that are more focused on knowledge and less on critical thinking. Chemistry education in Scotland is more focused on school and real life connections and newest scientific discoveries. Therefore, Chemistry support notes for the senior phase were analyzed...