Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2016-09-14T14:58:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDRÉ LUÍS DOS SANTOS SEABRA.pdf: 1524373 bytes, checksum: 3a08e9d64fa90ada9dcb737395f8f493 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-14T14:58:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDRÉ LUÍS DOS SANTOS SEABRA.pdf: 1524373 bytes, checksum: 3a08e9d64fa90ada9dcb737395f8f493 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-17 / The pedagogy of sport while sub-area of physical education in recent decades has increased the number of studies and publications on the subject. Despite the interest in the area of physical education for the same, there are still important issues not very clear. The various methodological proposals applied in human training facilities and sports education contain a theoretical and conceptual foundation that organizes all the pedagogical thinking of the authors. The pedagogy of sport to be a sub-area of recent Constitution did not contain a study that sought to investigate the theoretical and conceptual education bases. This study proposed to fill this gap, in other words, it was intended to meet question: the theoretical basis of the various chains of sport Pedagogy points to which educational perspective? The study aimed to: discuss what educational perspectives occur, from the joint between the theoretical basis with the methodological approach of the various aspects of sport Pedagogy. To answer this question and fulfill the goal highlighted were initially identified the top authors who are producing in sub-area studies physical education "Pedagogy of sport". Later were located which authors are proposing forms of systematic didactic intervention from the Pedagogy of sport, as well as if he sought to meet the philosophical and epistemological basis of these proposals. Finally we analyzed what are the educational prospects resulting from the theoretical articulation and teaching methodologies. A theoretical study was developed from the literature search. For choice of material related to the criteria adopted scientific parameters in line with the object. And for the treatment of the data by the chosen analysis of content of Bardin. The study is divided into four chapters: Chapter 1 the problem is contextualized in order to highlight the historical emergence of sport Pedagogy. Chapter 2 presents the theoretical and conceptual bases of the various chains of educational Pedagogy of sport studied. In Chapter 3 is an attempted dialectical analysis of the emergence of current chains of Pedagogy of sport and in Chapter 4 after being made the issues solved in this study summaries was presented our concept of sport Pedagogy. / Na Pedagogia do Esporte, enquanto subárea da Educação Física, avolumou-se nas últimas décadas o número de estudos e publicações sobre a temática. Apesar do interesse da área da Educação Física por essa subárea, ainda existem questões relevantes não muito claras. As diversas propostas metodológicas aplicadas em centros de formação humana e educação esportiva contêm uma base teórica e conceitual que organiza todo o pensamento pedagógico dos autores. A Pedagogia do Esporte por ser uma subárea de recente constituição não continha um estudo que buscasse investigar suas bases teóricas e conceituais educativas. O presente estudo propôs preencher essa lacuna científica, ou seja, pretendeu-se investigar a seguinte questão: a base teórica das diversas correntes da Pedagogia do Esporte aponta para quais perspectivas educacionais? O estudo teve como objetivo central debater sob quais perspectivas educacionais ocorrem, as propostas metodológicas das diversas vertentes da Pedagogia do Esporte. Para responder a esta questão e cumprir o objetivo inicialmente destacado foram identificados os principais autores que vêm produzindo estudos na subárea Pedagogia do Esporte da Educação Física. Posteriormente, foram localizados os autores que estão propondo formas de intervenção didática sistematizada a partir da Pedagogia do Esporte, assim como se buscou conhecer a base filosófica e epistemológica destas propostas. Por fim, foram analisadas que perspectivas educacionais são resultantes da articulação teórica e das metodologias de ensino propostas. Foi desenvolvido um estudo teórico a partir da pesquisa bibliográfica. Para escolha do material adotaram-se critérios relacionados aos parâmetros científicos em consonância com o objeto. E, para o tratamento dos dados, optou-se pela Análise de Conteúdo, de Bardin. O estudo está dividido em quatro capítulos: no capítulo 1, o problema é contextualizado no sentido de evidenciar o surgimento histórico da Pedagogia do Esporte. O capítulo 2 apresenta as bases teóricas e conceituais educativas das diversas correntes da Pedagogia do Esporte estudadas. No capítulo 3, ocorre uma tentativa de análise dialética do surgimento das atuais correntes da Pedagogia do Esporte e no capítulo 4, após serem feitas sínteses das questões solvidas no estudo foi apresentada nossa concepção de Pedagogia do Esporte.

In the midst of market-based school reforms urging choice, competition, and high-stakes production of test scores, the complexities of pedagogy and its relationship to culture, power, and student learning are often overshadowed. While research on teaching in culturally diverse contexts has contributed to the development of inclusive and culturally responsive pedagogy (Banks et. al, 1995; Ladson-Billings, 1995; Gay, 2000), the fate of these practices in the face of market pressures require critical examination by those concerned with equity in schools serving disadvantaged children (Buras, 2010; Macrine, 2009; Picower, 2011). Based on a year of extensive interviewing with twenty-two instructional leaders across an urban market of charter schools, as well as interviews and participant-observations with twenty-eight teachers in four purposefully selected charter schools, this study explores whether and how school leaders and teachers make sense of competition and student culture as resources for learning in classrooms, particularly in a predominantly low-income, black/African American, and Latino community in New York City. The study also made use of school documents and reports compiled overtime by schools and charter authorizers at the city and state level. Findings indicate that a heterogeneous charter sector of independent charter schools shifted overtime to reflect homogenizing tendencies associated with the rise and concentration of schools managed by an influential bloc of private charter management organizations (CMOs). At the intersection of such shifts were teachers and instructional leaders, many of whom describe 'trading-off' on inclusive and diverse approaches to teaching in an effort to yield more tangible and marketable outcomes in the form of test scores. Case studies in four schools, however, revealed important distinctions, as differently managed schools negotiated differently the degrees to which social and cultural boundaries were formed between schools, students, and the surrounding community in which it operated. These negotiations shaped different approaches to teaching and learning and outlooks on competition. The significance of the study is its negation of a culture-free and/or value-neutral assumption about market policies, primarily by illuminating the tension and impact of such policies on specific pedagogical forms and goals. More importantly, market policies are examined in light of social (re)production theory and the extent to which deregulation disrupts or perpetuates unequal social and cultural relations of power between schools and traditionally marginalized communities.

This dissertation study explored the literacies and socialization practices that middle school youth used while engaging in a school-wide Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) class. The primary aims of the dissertation were to contribute to literature on YPAR and to examine the literacy and socialization practices that young people drew upon as resources in developing agentive identities. Relying on what is named as an agentive ecological approach, this study built upon sociocultural theories of literacy and learning to emphasize young people’s development of agency through their shared participation in a YPAR class that was shaped not only by the multiple identities they carried with them into the classroom, but also by factors such as the pedagogy of the teacher, the philosophies of school administrators, and the sociopolitical context of school. This study also relied on the ongoing traditions of critical literacy and critical pedagogy to highlight the ways that YPAR served as a mediator of important critical literacies that allowed students to learn about and directly respond to the social, historical, and cultural contexts of inequality that they encountered. Situated in one of New York City’s most ethnically diverse middle schools, this critical ethnographic study used multimodal and ethnographic methodologies to excavate the experiences of 7th and 8th grade students enrolled in a newly implemented YPAR course at their school. In this year-long course, students were apprenticed as critical social researchers of educational issues while simultaneously provided with opportunities to utilize digital media tools toward civic ends. Methods for this study included 112 hours of participant observation where the researcher captured field notes, weekly memos, and photographs of classroom life across six months of the course; three semi-structured interviews each with six randomly selected students enrolled in 13 sections of YPAR; and multimodal literacy artifacts that included YPAR film materials, Google Classroom assignments, photographs, and digital stories. Three focus group interviews were also conducted with a group of students selected for enrollment in a “YPAR filmmaking course”, where they were tasked with creating a film about the impact of YPAR on the school. This group had a unique vantage point in that that they participated in iterations of YPAR across all three years of their middle school experiences, affording a much needed phenomenological perspective. Finally, two semi-structured interviews were conducted with the teacher of the course, who also provided curriculum and planning documents for analysis. Constant comparative method and Critical Discourse Analysis were the primary methodological tools used to analyze the data in the study. Major findings revealed how the cultivation of critical literacies in the YPAR course afforded youth the opportunity to identify and respond to barriers in their educational contexts, allowing them to assert more humanizing portraits of themselves and their communities. Moreover, students’ leveraging of digital media tools toward civic ends permitted them space to offer perspectives concerning issues like Islamophobia and global violence, assisting them in the brokering of sociopolitical identities that changed the way they saw themselves, others, and the world surrounding them. Findings from the YPAR filmmaking class revealed the ways that youth constructed stories about imagined futures and their perceived role in shaping those futures, signaling new ways that critical digital literacy practices might be cultivated in service of healthy social, civic, and academic identities.

We are living are living in the age of the trigger warning— educational cultures that threaten English teachers’ ability to present psychologically upsetting literature to students who may lack the necessary resilience to tolerate highly charged literary encounters with complex issues, such as rape, violence, racism, or political strife. And yet literature is filled with conflict— artistic representations of the precise traumas that certain members of our student populations may not be able to tolerate. In order to safeguard trauma survivors from potential reactivation of traumatic stress, a handful of educational institutions promote the use of trigger warnings. But are trigger warnings effective, and, if they are, what do they teach English teachers about what happens to individuals who have endured trauma and are therefore susceptible to being triggered? The purpose of this research, which consisted of interviews and an intensive focus group with seven veteran English teachers teaching at seven distinct schools throughout the world, was to offer insights and pedagogical awareness to English teachers, so that they can better anticipate, conceptualize, and decided for themselves how to respond to students who get triggered by emotionally complex literature. In addition to the qualitative research methods used with the seven English teacher participants, this study utilizes the work and thinking of trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk in an attempt to illustrate the neurological impacts of trauma through a comprehensive overview of PET scans of trauma survivors studied in van der Kolk’s lab in Brookline, Massachusetts. Each PET scan presents key features of what can happen to the brains of survivors, and may provide significant clues into what happens among our students when they get psychologically triggered in the classroom. The dissertation concludes with a one-on-one interview with Harvard psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, and offers his insights, wisdom, and conceptualizations for this highly complex and nuanced problem.

Social emotional learning (SEL) is an increasingly important area of study, which aims to help students develop skills critical for healthy social functioning as well as academic and professional success. There is general agreement that SEL, like other subjects, should result in knowledge transfer. However, there has been little research aimed at identifying instruction methodologies that might enable such transfer. In my dissertation, I propose that SEL knowledge transfer may be facilitated by way of direct teaching of a model of the human emotion system (HES). I provide a functional definition of the emotion system, demonstrate how the principles of the HES represent the deep structures that underlie key SEL skills, discuss why the direct teaching of the HES is necessary despite the spontaneous formation of implicit models of emotion, and propose a set of components that may comprise an instructional HES model. I then describe a pilot study demonstrating that HES model learning can transfer to new problems and produce improvements in aspects of social emotional competence (SEC), specifically other awareness and empathy. Compared to the control group, the pilot’s model learning group rated “socially inappropriate” emotional responses as significantly less blameworthy, indicating greater cognitive empathy and the transfer of emotion model knowledge to a novel set of problems. A larger, follow-up study sought to replicate the results of the pilot while conducting the intervention online and exploring several additional hypotheses. The study successfully replicated the pilot’s results with respect to other-awareness, while also demonstrating that HES model learning had a positive effect on self-awareness: participants in the Model Learning condition rated their own hypothetical undesirable emotional reactions as significantly less blameworthy than those in the control condition, demonstrating increased acceptance of emotions in the self. The results also suggest HES model learning produces a stronger short-term effect on other-awareness than self-awareness, and shed new light on the design considerations for preparation for future learning (PFL) activities in the SEL context, namely, the need for precise targeting of relevant deep structures and the potential for learning interference caused by the activation of existing emotion theories. Exploratory post-hoc analyses further point to the possibility of gender playing a role in the success of HES model learning, with males potentially being more resistant to such learning than females. I discuss the study results as well as the broader significance of the HES model learning approach to SEL.

This study is a critical analysis of Waldorf teacher education in Australia. Beginning with an exposition of the central tenets of Rudolf Steiner's philosophy and educational theory, and his lectures to teachers, the author identifies what he sees as the requirements and characteristics of an ideal Waldorf teacher education program. The study next investigates the development of Waldorf teacher education provision in Australia, and surveys a wide cross-section of teachers and teacher educators in Australian Waldorf schools, to ascertain the type of preparation they received or have contributed to, and elicit their views as to its strengths and weaknesses. These findings are then critically analysed, making comparisons with Waldorf teacher education programs in other countries. The feasibility and implications of including a Waldorf course in a main-stream teacher education Faculty in Australian universities are discussed, in relation to current prevailing government policies regarding schooling and the values and emphases which these impose upon state university courses. The study concludes with proposals for change and improvement in Waldorf teacher education provision in Australia to make Waldorf teachers better prepared to educate Australian children for the 21st century, still in keeping with the essential values of Steiner education. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Graduate School of Education, 1999.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of English

The study explores perceptions of critical thinking and knowledge by New Senior Secondary Liberal Studies teachers in Hong Kong. The insights in this study have implications for the curriculum development and pedagogy, particularly regarding how we can improve the teachers training of critical thinking. Seven Liberal Studies teachers (with various levels of teaching experience and differing backgrounds) were invited to in-depth interviews about their experience teaching Liberal Studies, and particularly regarding critical thinking and knowledge, as well as their pedagogies and views of this subject. Factors such as work experience, personality, school training, and cultural identity affect ways of seeing ‘critical thinking’ and ‘knowledge’. Also, these interviews provide insights into a better pedagogy in high order thinking. We can gain understanding of the difficulties and constraints of teaching critical thinking in Liberal Studies. The research is also a critical thinking process, which is explored in conversations with participants. The study asked them to reflect on what they thought and had experienced. The participants gave useful insights and suggestions. / published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

The exploratory study examines how different stakeholders, namely the authority, teachers and students, understand values education in Liberal Studies as a core subject in Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination. Qualitative research method is mainly employed to collect data from the stakeholders. A number of issues are discussed, like the subjectivity and types of values, ways of studying values, the importance of values education in the subject, the effectiveness of learning activities and assessment. It has been found that the linear mode of authority-teacher communication and teacher-student communication have an impact on the practical implementation of values education in the subject. Time constraints, the dominant influence of the media and the misconception that values are unimportant in the public examination are perceived as major difficulties of implementing values education. The negative orientation of using multiple perspectives, the low profile of values in examinations, stakeholders’ depreciation of values and indoctrination agenda greatly undermine the credibility of the public examination. Moreover, the design of the marking scheme cultivates negative meta-values. To boost the public acceptance of the subject, suggestions have been made on how stakeholders should communicate better with one another and how assessments should be adapted so as to allay the public’s fear of unfairness. The authority should convey to stakeholders in specific terms that values education is an integral component in the curriculum. A comprehensive list of various kinds of values should be published for stakeholders to conduct holistic values review. The marking scheme should be designed after a markers’ meeting in such a way that it consists of clear guidelines and yet nonrestrictive content. / published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

Liberal Studies was introduced to the Hong Kong Senior Secondary Curriculum as a compulsory subject in 2009. Liberal Studies lays strong emphasis on students’ self-learning abilities and critical thinking skills, and reduces rote memorization or cramming of knowledge. However, the large-scale tutorial schools – also known as cram schools - which are notorious for teaching students to focus on examination materials instead of genuine learning have ironically been successful in attracting student-consumers for the subject. This dissertation describes elements students receive from tutorial schools and reasons why the elements can successfully retain student-customers, followed by a discussion on the possible impacts of tutorial school learning which may have on students’ learning and on their formal schooling. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is employed in the analysis. It is found that tutorial business have made use of a lot marketing strategies for the promotion. Not only that they employ a lot of tactics to satisfy students’ needs, but they also create and stimulate demand by boosting students’ anxiety levels and by devaluing the day school education that they are receiving. On one hand, the extent to which the so-called ‘examination techniques’ or ‘skills’ is useful to students’ learning is doubted; on the other hand, it is found that tutorial schools’ unethical business practices and their business-driven ways of teaching would impose hidden yet serious long-term impacts on students’ learning and whole-person development. Moreover, tutorial schools’ marketing strategies would hinder the education reform which is in progress. All in all, tutorial school’s hindrance to successful schooling deserves immediate attention from educational policy makers. / published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education