NOVÁKOVÁ, D.: Contents of hidden curriculum as learning contents of Art Education. [Diploma thesis] Prague 2015 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department of Art Education, 126 pages The thesis is tackling the hidden curriculum, in particular the hidden contents which take place in art education. It researches possible use of these contents in teaching of art education. The thesis has a character of qualitative explorative probe. The methods of research are observations and informal interviews. The study shows that the contents of the hidden curriculum bear an interesting educational potential for art education. However, teachers often do not register the contents or register but do not use them. The aim of the probe is thus to identify the various contents of the hidden curriculum in the practice of art education (with relation to socio-cultural and artistic context) and outline how they can be grasped. Subsequently, one content is specifically transformed into the design of art education, realized and reflected. Art part of the thesis is conceived as the author's art work reflection, focusing on the hidden side of her art work.

The diploma thesis deals with the issue of motivation for further education in helping professions. The aim of the thesis is to analyse the current forms of motivation in a selected area of helping professions in the Czech Republic. Attention is paid to the characteristics of the field of helping professions, personal specifics and competences of workers in helping professions and ethical aspects of work in helping professions. The issue of further education with a focus on continuing professional education in the helping professions is discussed. Barriers to further education in the selected group are also elaborated. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the issue of motivation, selected motivational approaches and motivation of workers in the helping professions to participate in educational activities. The thesis includes a quantitative empirical investigation aimed at analysing the motivation for continuing professional education of health care and education workers. The results of the quantitative questionnaire are analysed by descriptive statistics and then verified by test statistics in order to find out the specifics of the motivation of helping professions and to verify how the motivation to further professional education differs among the selected helping professions. A partial aim of the...

In the last ten years the Church of England has tried, by means of two reports leading to what I term the ‘Hind settlement’, to re-configure its provision of theological education. The tensions generated by the attempt to hold together different discourses and to impose regional re-organisation in the context of complex developments both in higher education and in patterns of lay and ordained ministry form the basis of my critique of Hind. I argue that Hind’s recourse to the image of the ‘body of Christ’ in the service of an instrumentalist model of ministry exposes inadequacies of a theological anthropological, Christological and ecclesiological nature. I identify a medieval text, Piers Plowman, as a conversation partner which offers a different way of negotiating an analogously difficult set of issues around learning, discipleship and power. My hermeneutical approach to the poem sees its primary impetus as arising from the constant interplay between the experiences of daily life and the attempt to work out a personal and social understanding of salvation. By comparing the ways in which Hind and Langland explore learning as measurable progress, and lay and clerical models of learning, I propose that Piers Plowman offers some valuable resources to the next stage of the Hind process. Not only does the poem foreground the chaotic co-existence of multiple voices in a marketplace of competing definitions of learning, and acknowledge the recalcitrance of communities when presented with opportunities to change, but it also, in the figure of Piers, hints at the possibility of going beyond the lay/clerical impasse. The poem’s recognition of sin and the need for repentance, in contrast to Hind language of management and effectiveness, and its requirement of the reader to participate in the making of new meaning, present an ongoing challenge to a culture of ‘learning outcomes’.

Resultados em avaliações nacionais como Prova Brasil e Saeb dão indícios de que o ensino/aprendizagem de Matemática na Escola Básica tem sido deficiente. Na tentativa de entender como o aluno aprende para que o ensino ocorra de forma adequada a esse modo de construir o conhecimento, vários estudos têm sido realizados a respeito da Epistemologia do conhecimento. A Epistemologia de Gaston Bachelard afirma que a construção do conhecimento se dá com um movimento de ruptura frente ao conhecimento previamente estabelecido, com uma resistência à racionalização desse conhecimento denominado obstáculo epistemológico. O didata francês Brousseau traz a idéia de obstáculo epistemológico em Matemática como um obstáculo ligado à resistência de um saber mal adaptado e o vê como um meio de interpretar determinados dos erros recorrentes e não aleatórios cometidos pelos estudantes quando lhes são ensinados alguns conceitos matemáticos. A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo identificar obstáculos epistemológicos no ensino/aprendizagem de números reais por meio de questionários aplicados a alunos de 4ª série (ou 5º ano) a 8ª série (ou 9º ano) do Ensino Fundamental. / Results in national evaluations as Prova Brasil and Saeb give indications of that education/learning of Mathematics in the Basic School has been deficient. In the attempt to understand how the students learn so that education occurs of adequate form to this way to construct the knowledge, some studies have been carried through regarding the knowledges Epistemology. The Gaston Bachelards Epistemology affirms that the construction of the knowledge occurs through a movement of rupture front to the knowledge previously established, with a resistance to the rationalization of this knowledge called epistemological obstacle. The French didata Brousseau brings the idea of epistemological obstacle to Mathematics as an obstacle to the resistance of one to a badly suitable knowledge and sees it as a way to interpret some of the recurrent and not random errors committed by the students when some mathematical concepts are taught to them. The present research had for objective to identify to epistemological obstacles in education/learning of real numbers by means of applied questionnaires the students of 4th to 8th grade.

The final thesis focuses on thema education and development of employees. The aim is to define these terms and explain the main theoretical approaches to education and development of employees. The first part of final thesis states new knowledge which were afterwards applied into practice during the research. Research, based on questionnaire completed by employees, is aimed at evaluation of project efficiency in a concrete company. The goal of project is to implement a new education strategy. At the end of practical part the survey results and improvement suggestions to project are described.

Resultados em avaliações nacionais como Prova Brasil e Saeb dão indícios de que o ensino/aprendizagem de Matemática na Escola Básica tem sido deficiente. Na tentativa de entender como o aluno aprende para que o ensino ocorra de forma adequada a esse modo de construir o conhecimento, vários estudos têm sido realizados a respeito da Epistemologia do conhecimento. A Epistemologia de Gaston Bachelard afirma que a construção do conhecimento se dá com um movimento de ruptura frente ao conhecimento previamente estabelecido, com uma resistência à racionalização desse conhecimento denominado obstáculo epistemológico. O didata francês Brousseau traz a idéia de obstáculo epistemológico em Matemática como um obstáculo ligado à resistência de um saber mal adaptado e o vê como um meio de interpretar determinados dos erros recorrentes e não aleatórios cometidos pelos estudantes quando lhes são ensinados alguns conceitos matemáticos. A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo identificar obstáculos epistemológicos no ensino/aprendizagem de números reais por meio de questionários aplicados a alunos de 4ª série (ou 5º ano) a 8ª série (ou 9º ano) do Ensino Fundamental. / Results in national evaluations as Prova Brasil and Saeb give indications of that education/learning of Mathematics in the Basic School has been deficient. In the attempt to understand how the students learn so that education occurs of adequate form to this way to construct the knowledge, some studies have been carried through regarding the knowledges Epistemology. The Gaston Bachelards Epistemology affirms that the construction of the knowledge occurs through a movement of rupture front to the knowledge previously established, with a resistance to the rationalization of this knowledge called epistemological obstacle. The French didata Brousseau brings the idea of epistemological obstacle to Mathematics as an obstacle to the resistance of one to a badly suitable knowledge and sees it as a way to interpret some of the recurrent and not random errors committed by the students when some mathematical concepts are taught to them. The present research had for objective to identify to epistemological obstacles in education/learning of real numbers by means of applied questionnaires the students of 4th to 8th grade.

This qualitative case study combined teacher and student interviews with observations of one physical education class to facilitate understandings of physical education learning communities. Watkins’ (2005) definition of a learning community was used as a framework to conceptualise the study. I found that physical education teachers in this study do actively develop their classes as learning communities. Five key findings are discussed. Physical education learning communities exist in a number of different forms that can be related to a learning community continuum. The learning community’s positioning on the continuum is directly related to student agency in learning. It was found that student agency is promoted through a discourse of inquiry. In this study inquiry is a central tenet of a learning community as learning is viewed as a cognitive and socio-cultural constructivist function resulting in knowledge generation (Brown, 1997 cited in Alton Lee 2003; Sewell, 2006; Watkins, 2005). As inquiry learning is a social process in a learning community, it is concurrently supported by a discourse of community, promoting students’ ability to work altruistically and collaboratively, learning together. It was found that the explicit teaching of socio-moral outcomes through socio-cultural pedagogies enhance positive peer relationships and is essential to the promotion of an altruistic discourse of community. The discourses of community and inquiry are dialectically related and communicate clear messages to students about the expectations of behaviour and learning within an altruistic community. The early stages of a physical education learning community are based on the genuine and altruistic student-teacher relationships which provide a springboard to allow opportunities for teachers to have further conversations about learning. Finally, evidence in the study suggests that philosophy plays a significant role in both the growth and oppression of the evolution of a learning community. This study suggests that the relationship between the philosophy of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007), the physical education teachers and the economic neoliberal context influences the development of learning communities in physical education.

This thesis examines the potential of a learning outcome-led model of curriculum design to influence how students perceive learning in education studies within a modular context of a new university. It identifies and compares the conceptions of learning held by students and lecturers on traditional and outcome-led modules, and it explores and specifies the design factors which shape these conceptions. The issue is located within the interpretivist paradigm for the research seeks understanding which derives from the perceptions, attitudes and beliefs that students and their lecturers hold about learning in a given context. But the methodology employed is not wholly consistent with this paradigm, for a qualitative approach is complemented by the use of factor analysis techniques to facilitate the identification of the design features which influence how students perceive learning. The approach is thus eclectic drawing on quantitative methods to examine what is essentially qualitative data. An innovative model of learning outcome-led design is proposed, implemented and modified as a result of the research. The learner is placed at the centre of the learning experience which is defined as incorporating three domains: the teaching context; the assessment régime; and the directed learning undertaken by students outside of taught sessions. The model incorporates a trichotomy of outcomes which define the subject -specific, the transferable skills and the generic academic outcomes which influence directly both the content and process of learning, and which successful students are expected to achieve on completion of a module. The findings show that five design features influence how students perceive learning: the clarity of expectations; congruence between the content and process of each domain of the learning experience; direction in respect to the learning activities which should be undertaken in each domain to achieve the outcomes; and the content and process of the teaching context. The data suggest that a much higher profile should be given to metacognitive skills in curriculum development in HE because how students perceive both the process and the content of learning profoundly influences their conception of learning and, consistent with the underpinning theory, how they approach learning and therefore ultimately the kind of outcomes they achieve. The research leads to recommendations for the modification of the three models of learning in context; Ramsden (1988), Biggs (1990b) and Prosser (1995), which are presented and analysed in the thesis. The findings suggest that the learning experience should be redefined to specify the three domains - the teaching context, assessment régime and directed learning - and that clarity of expectations, metacognitive skills and congruence between the content and process of learning in each of the domains should be articulated as directly influencing students' conceptions of learning. The models should also seek to indicate that learning outcomes influence how students perceive learning, and that therefore they feature both at the starting point and as the end product of a contextualised learning process. The findings relating to students' conceptions of learning show that the study of outcome-led modules has resulted in a much greater degree of congruence between how lecturers and students perceive learning in a given module and that fewer students studying outcome-led modules hold a quantitative conception of learning. This suggests that the outcome-led model does have the potential to improve teaching and learning and consequently that there is an educational rationale for curriculum development premised on this model.

Thesis (M.Litt.) - University of Glasgow, 2008. / M.Litt. thesis submitted to the Department of Education, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

Thèse (M.Ed.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2006. / Bibliogr.: f. [94]-100. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU