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Trata-se de dissertação de mestrado que pretende aprofundar a reflexão sobre a música e a educação na infância. Nesse sentido, não se trata de inventariar metodologias do ensino musical ou considerações de caráter técnico-musical para aplicações didáticas, mas a possibilidade de uma educação da infância que tenha como objetivo o encontro entre professor e aluno, a busca de auto-conhecimento e a expressão, através da música. A autora coloca no primeiro capítulo, Parte A, uma abordagem antropológica da música, pensando-se na universalidade dos sons humanos que se ouve e se produz, sugerindo o conceito Fundamentos sonoros do ser para distinguir a música enquanto som, não restringindo-se à canção ou teoria musical. A partir desses fundamentos, coloca-se a Paisagem sonora, enquanto sons que rodeiam o ser humano, distinguindo-se duas qualidades que a constitui, a paisagem sonora natural e a cultural, e a conversão semiótica das paisagens, como um exercício de reconstruir e ressignificar o mundo. Questiona-se a paisagem sonora contemporânea e a importância do resgate mitico no Prelúdio, rumo ao oceano. Para assim, adentrar-se na relação do mito com a música, no Refrão, Música Oceânica, em que se apresenta o conceito da música profunda que habita o ser humano e que o entrelaça na relação pedagógica. Na segunda parte, Parte B, articula-se os conceitos colocados aos princípios da educação, com o Vestido azul: desdobramentos educacionais do encontro, trazendo à tona as possibilitudes da relação mestre-discípulo numa educação para a infância, explicitada em experiências da trajetória da autora como professora em atividades musicais com crianças. No final, como uma Última nota, coloca-se um encaminhamento da pesquisa, com reflexões que unem as teorias abordadas com as experiências vividas, sugerindo ao educador da infância o exercício da sensibilidade através da expressão musical. / This dissertation is about a study that intends to go underneath the reflection of music and education in the childhood. This way, its not about creating new methodologies on how teaching music or technical-musical considerations for didatic aplications, but the possibility of a childhood education focused on an encounter between professor and pupil, the search for self-knowledge and inner expression through music. The author describes on the first chapter, Part A, an antropological approach of music, considering the universality of human sounds the one hears and produces, suggesting the concept of Sonorous principles of the being to distinguish music as a sound, instead of minimizing it to song or simple musical theory. This way, the Sonorous Landscape is presented, as the sounds that surround the human being, differing two qualities that embodies it: the sonourous natural landscape and the sonourous cultural landscape and also the semiotical convertion of the landscape as a way to rebuild and remeaning the world. Contemporary sonorous landscape is questioned, also is pointed the relevance of the mythical rescue, in Prelude to the ocean, going deep on the relationship between music and myth, in Refrain, Oceanic Music, presents the concept of profound music that lives in the human being and puts him in contact with the pedagogical relations. In the second part, Part B, the concepts put on educational basis are articulated, with Blue Dress: educational unfold of the encounter, brings to light the possibilities of the relationship master-pupil on the childhood, explicited on the authors experience as a teacher in musical activities with children. In the end, as Last note, reflections are made with the approached theories and lived experience suggesting to the educator the exercise of sensibility through musical expression.

O objeto deste trabalho é a reflexão sobre as noções de Espaço-tempo e Ancestralidade na Educação Ameríndia: desdobramentos de Paulo Freire na província de Chimborazo, Equador, como proposta para compreender os processos educativos não escolarizados desenvolvidos ao interior dos povos de matriz ameríndia, especificamente os grupos de língua kichwa da Província de Chimborazo e como neste diálogo educativo as noções de espaço-tempo e ancestralidade são fundamentais para compreender a educação como processo coletivo, cultural e simbólico. Se procura caracterizar também como é apropriado o diálogo educativo entre os educadores Paulo Freire (Brasil) e Leonidas Proaño (Equador), pelas comunidades Kichwa através da figura arquetipal e cosmológica da árvore. Entre os objetivos centrais deste trabalho está apresentar a educação ameríndia como uma dimensão educativa cotidiana na realidade destas comunidades que se enraíza e fundamenta na relação com os ancestrais, na relação com a natureza, na cultura andina, na coletividade e na vivência simbólica, mantendo uma lógica, uma estrutura e uma proposta própria, que não está nem pensada, nem estruturada com os parâmetros e padrões filosóficos e lógicos da cultura ocidental de matriz européia. Para tanto,os referenciais teórico-metodológicos para esta investigação estão embasados na própria filosofia ameríndia (ainda que não reconhecida como tal por parte de estudiosos ocidentais e exemplificada em Leopoldo Zea, José María Arguedas, Estermann e outros) e a tradição ocidental mais próxima para este diálogo que é, principalmente, a fenomenologia existencial (M. Merleau-Ponty e Gastón Bachelard) e a mitohermenêutica (Ortiz-Osés e Ferreira Santos), que auxiliam a compreender melhor o existir ameríndio. / The object of this work is a reflection on concepts of Space-time and Ancestry in Amerindian Education: unfoldings of Paulo Freire in the province of Chimborazo, Ecuador, as a proposal to understand educative processes not schooled, developed in the matrix of amerindian people, specifically groups of Kichwa language from province of Chimborazo and how concepts of space-time and ancestry are fundamental in this educative dialogue to understand education as a collective, cultural and symbolic process. It also demands characterize how educative dialogue between educators Paulo Freire (Brazil) and Leonidas Proaño (Ecuador) is appropriated by Kichwa communities through archetype and cosmological picture of the tree.One of the central objectives of this work is to present amerindian education as an educative dimension in daily reality of these communities that is fixed and based on the relationship with ancestors, the relationship with nature, in the Andean culture, in the community and in the symbolic experience, maintaining a logic, a structure and a peculiar proposal, which is neither designed nor structured with philosophical and logical parameters and patterns of western culture from European matrix. Thus, theoretical and methodological references for this research are based on the amerindian philosophy (though not recognized as such by western researchers and exemplified in Leopoldo Zea, José María Arguedas, Estermann and others) and the closer western tradition to this dialogue that is, mainly, the existential phenomenology (M. Merleau-Ponty and Gastón Bachelard) and myth herneneutics (Ortiz-Osés and Ferreira Santos), which help better understand the amerindian being.

O objeto deste trabalho é a reflexão sobre as noções de Espaço-tempo e Ancestralidade na Educação Ameríndia: desdobramentos de Paulo Freire na província de Chimborazo, Equador, como proposta para compreender os processos educativos não escolarizados desenvolvidos ao interior dos povos de matriz ameríndia, especificamente os grupos de língua kichwa da Província de Chimborazo e como neste diálogo educativo as noções de espaço-tempo e ancestralidade são fundamentais para compreender a educação como processo coletivo, cultural e simbólico. Se procura caracterizar também como é apropriado o diálogo educativo entre os educadores Paulo Freire (Brasil) e Leonidas Proaño (Equador), pelas comunidades Kichwa através da figura arquetipal e cosmológica da árvore. Entre os objetivos centrais deste trabalho está apresentar a educação ameríndia como uma dimensão educativa cotidiana na realidade destas comunidades que se enraíza e fundamenta na relação com os ancestrais, na relação com a natureza, na cultura andina, na coletividade e na vivência simbólica, mantendo uma lógica, uma estrutura e uma proposta própria, que não está nem pensada, nem estruturada com os parâmetros e padrões filosóficos e lógicos da cultura ocidental de matriz européia. Para tanto,os referenciais teórico-metodológicos para esta investigação estão embasados na própria filosofia ameríndia (ainda que não reconhecida como tal por parte de estudiosos ocidentais e exemplificada em Leopoldo Zea, José María Arguedas, Estermann e outros) e a tradição ocidental mais próxima para este diálogo que é, principalmente, a fenomenologia existencial (M. Merleau-Ponty e Gastón Bachelard) e a mitohermenêutica (Ortiz-Osés e Ferreira Santos), que auxiliam a compreender melhor o existir ameríndio. / The object of this work is a reflection on concepts of Space-time and Ancestry in Amerindian Education: unfoldings of Paulo Freire in the province of Chimborazo, Ecuador, as a proposal to understand educative processes not schooled, developed in the matrix of amerindian people, specifically groups of Kichwa language from province of Chimborazo and how concepts of space-time and ancestry are fundamental in this educative dialogue to understand education as a collective, cultural and symbolic process. It also demands characterize how educative dialogue between educators Paulo Freire (Brazil) and Leonidas Proaño (Ecuador) is appropriated by Kichwa communities through archetype and cosmological picture of the tree.One of the central objectives of this work is to present amerindian education as an educative dimension in daily reality of these communities that is fixed and based on the relationship with ancestors, the relationship with nature, in the Andean culture, in the community and in the symbolic experience, maintaining a logic, a structure and a peculiar proposal, which is neither designed nor structured with philosophical and logical parameters and patterns of western culture from European matrix. Thus, theoretical and methodological references for this research are based on the amerindian philosophy (though not recognized as such by western researchers and exemplified in Leopoldo Zea, José María Arguedas, Estermann and others) and the closer western tradition to this dialogue that is, mainly, the existential phenomenology (M. Merleau-Ponty and Gastón Bachelard) and myth herneneutics (Ortiz-Osés and Ferreira Santos), which help better understand the amerindian being.

This thesis is an analysis of teacher perceptions of the implementation of their school's comprehensive school reform, and the George W. Bush administration's federal educational policy, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Data were collected by a research team as a part of the National Longitudinal Evaluation of Comprehensive School Reform (NLECSR), a project under the direction of the American Institutes for Research (AIR). The thesis is a supplemental qualitative analysis by the author who was part of the NLECSR research team from 2004 through 2005. The NLECSR had a quantitative component (called the Core Study) consisting of a large-scale national survey, and a qualitative component (called the Focus Study) consisting of interviews and observations in a smaller subset of schools in five urban districts in the central and eastern United States. AIR was primarily responsible for the quantitative study while researchers at USF were responsible for the qualitative work. This thesis exploited a major strength of the Focus Study, which made classrooms within schools the unit of analysis. This thesis analyzed data from three schools from one of the five Focus Study districts. Three research questions predominate: First, what do teachers who are implementing CSR say about how NCLB impacts their work? Second, what do teachers' responses reveal about how well NCLB as a policy aligns or misaligns with implementing CSR? Third, where might these perceived policy conflicts lie? Thematic analysis revealed perceived competing pressures in the development of social capital, or the collective commitment, relational trust and communications that foster productive or supportive exchanges between teachers, students and other school stakeholders. I found that the NCLB mandates and sanctions were perceived by teachers as unfair, at odds with the goals of reform and potentially detrimental to some of the gains won through implementing CSR, such as social capital.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2005. / Title from second page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [3], vi, 75 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-37).

The study records narratives told by 11 black and coloured ex-pupils, who between 1992 and 1998 gained access to being educated at a private European school in the suburbs of Johannesburg. The contextualised stories of how they developed "texts of identity" for themselves within the multicultural setting of the school were used to explore a process called "rewriting the self". The identity of the school also is contextualised within its own socio-cultural community, as well as that of multiculturalism in schools. The study is placed within a postmodern Community Psychology epistemology, with a social constructionist "lens" attached to it. The excess of a social construction "lens" (such as "anything goes") is countered by defining the key notions of "texts of identity" - a "sense of self", "human diversity" and "multiculturalism" - within the collapsed boundaries of sameness and differences, global and local, as well as personal and collective notions of the self. The notion of transformation is contextualised as part of the process of "rewriting the self". This is illuminated by means of discourses of the past and human agency/empowerment as well as those related to the South African history of colonisation and apartheid. Narrative discourses also are introduced as a related epistemology and used to construct the ex-pupils' narratives within an Action Research mode, formulated in three ever-widening and interlocking phases. In the process of re-telling their stories the ex-pupils gained self-knowledge regarding how their schooling experiences allowed them to "stretch across (their) boundaries" and re-identify themselves anew. The vantage point was achieved by means of the ex-learners deconstructing their stories as part of a series of reflexive conversations. The insights yielded in this manner achieved the objective of the narrative research procedure. Viewed in a wider South African context, the ex-pupils' personalised stories highlight important issues that help or do not help South Africans make sense of their past and re-identify themselves within new boundaries. One issue that still hamstrings South Africans "rewriting the self" is the dominant discourses of the past regarding race and culture. It is suggested that a "common humanity" discourse (as well as that of "hybridity") be developed more fully as the way out. / Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)

Observations show that antagonising and depressing relationships among individuals and communities are being experienced. In this regard, against the background of a cursory description of the Hindu life-view, the research examines a Hindu perspective on the pedagogic significance of the relationship structure by means of the phenomenological, exemplaric and historical methods. Since man is always in a situation in the world, which influences his being in the world, an attempt to analyse features of modern society in order to establish their effect on the actualisation of authentic Hindu relationships has been undertaken. Examples of these features are materialism; narcissism and hedonism; egalitarianism and globalism; technocracy; secularism and nihilism; violence and also pessimism. In order to properly understand the Hindu life-view and its relevance with regard to the child's authentic relationships, the relationship between the child and significant others, such as parents, family/relatives, other fellow human beings, educator/teacher, community, himself, objects and God, is presented from a Hindu perspective. An analysis of these relationships reveals that a pedagogic relationship structure can be identified. Relevant components of this structure, such as communication, understanding, trust, authority and religiosity are explained from a Hindu perspective. The thesis demonstrates that authentic (Hindu) relationships make it possible to determine sound education principles. In fact, it is demonstrated that authentic relationships and sound education principles are but two sides of the same coin. As such the vital role, which authentic relationship(s) plays with regard to the actualisation of education principles, is discussed from a Hindu perspective. In concluding the study, several recommendations are made. In the final analysis, it is suggested that poor and meaningless relationships can to a certain extent be seen as a response to disregard particular life-views and focus on the promotion of a global society. Sound relationships, on the other hand, can only be established and maintained by identifying norms and values in a world which has contradictory and confusing values. This means that adults and children ought to obey the demands of their life-view, especially because the relationship structure becomes pedagogically significant in terms of a particular life-view. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Philosophy of Education)

This study investigated the seemingly conflicting and incompatible ideological positions that post-apartheid South Africa appears to straddle. On the one hand, South Africa is an aspiring liberal democracy courtesy of its constitution of 1996, which is liberal in that it enshrines a wide range of rights and freedoms for the individual. On the other hand, the same constitution recognises the institution of traditional leadership, whose claim to power is hereditary and not by popular vote. Thus the study established that South Africa is an aspiring liberal democracy that is also heavily steeped in African traditions and cultures. It offered a rebuttal of the view that existence and recognition of traditional institutions of politics and governance in a liberal democracy is a fundamental contradiction. Drawing on the literature the study showed that liberal democracies such as Japan, the United Kingdom (UK), Belgium, The Netherlands and Spain, have had monarchies from time immemorial. But their monarchies are not a hindrance to either liberalism or liberal democracy. The study underscored the importance of Ubuntu as a socio-cultural discourse in South Africa, more so given that South Africa is an African country whose population is 80 per cent African. Concomitantly the study proposed a philosophy of education that amalgamates some aspects of liberal education with some aspects of African traditional education. Aspects of liberal education that were found to pertain to the amalgamation are ‘cultivating humanity’ and ‘narrative imagination’, while aspects of African traditional education are the values and principles implicit in Ubuntu, the latter understood as a humane normative concept. At a practical classroom level the study proposed that such an amalgamated philosophy of education would be attained through storytelling and the teaching of history through chronology and causation. As a form of ‘narrative’, storytelling reveals the finite in its fragile uniqueness and illustrates how the past influences and shapes the present, and how the present determines aspects of the past that are useful and meaningful today. Similarly the teaching of history through chronology and causation enables the students to organise their historical thought processes and construct their own probable historical narratives. The teaching of history through chronology and causation therefore offers the students multiple opportunities to gain a better understanding of historical events, and lessons that can be learn from such events. / Psychology of Education / D. Ed. (Philosophy of Education)