M.Ed. (Educational Management) / Women and authority therefore form the central theme of this research. The problematic nature of authority as experienced by female principals has led to the researcher addressing this issue and thereby establish guidelines to improve this problem. The value and uniqueness of this study lies in the empirical investigation which will use focus group interviews to identify the essential characteristics of the female principal's authority as experienced by her colleagues. 2 In the ensuing paragraphs, a concise statement of the research problem is given, facilitating the formulation of two queries, which in turn, underscore the specification of the central and specific aims of this research. Further explication of the research design follows, with reference to the nature of the literature and empirical studies conducted and finally to the sequence of this project.

M.Ed. / This study forms part of a greater ongoing research project concerning teacher competence and its assesment. The project focuses on researching teacher opinion on teacher competences identified by the initial research. The following areas of teacher competence are being researched : The learning environment Professional commitment Order and discipline Educational foundation Teacher reflection Co-operative ability Effectiveness Leadership This dissertation is part of the research undertaken regarding order and discipline and its role in teacher competence. An intensive research of the literature has given rise to a conceptualisation that consists of the following five aspects, namely : values; rules; human relationships; management of classroom behaviour; and teaching practices. This research essay focuses on classroom management behaviour as an aspect of order and discipline : implication for the management of teacher competence. Having orientated the reader to the particular field of research, the motivation and background of the problem will now be discussed.

In North America, art museums have rendered services to elementary schools since the early 1900s. Although the scope and number of these services have expanded in the past several decades, the nature of the art museum-elementary school collaborative relationship can be problematic, and even counterproductive to the enhancement of quality of art education. There are some crucial issues related to the nature of and factors underlying collaboration among elementary schools and art museums, that need to be carefully considered in order for these efforts to be successful and fruitful. Since the relationship between attitudes and behavior is reciprocal, the attitudes of art museum educators in regard to art museum-elementary school collaboration are crucial to the quality and effectiveness of any collaborative endeavors and directly impact art museums' contribution to elementary art education. Therefore, this study explores art museum educators' attitudes in regard to art museum-elementary school collaboration. The present investigation is the only study of its kind in Canada to date. From the fall of 1997 to the spring of 1998, I conducted a survey of art museum educators in the province of British Columbia, Canada as well as interviews involving nine informants working in two art museums. Moreover, in order to meaningfully interpret the interview data, I observed the informants' daily routines in these galleries and collected documents related to the two study sites. This mixed method design was used to study BC art museum educators' attitudes in regard to art museum-elementary school collaboration relative to six specific issues: 1) models of art museum/gallery-school collaboration; 2) pedagogy and methods of art museum/gallery programs for elementary schools; 3) art museum/gallery programs and resources for elementary school teachers; 4) elementary school teacher participation in school-oriented art museum education; 5) content of art museum/gallery programs for elementary schools; and 6) linkage of art museum/gallery school programs and elementary school curricula. The results of this study suggest important implications to the future of collaborative endeavors bringing together elementary schools and art museums by highlighting issues related to the dynamics of the art museum educator - elementary school teacher relationships, professional knowledge and expertise, and curriculum links that strongly impact on such partnerships. They also provide guidance for future related research. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate

This study traced the evolution of experiential education in American history museums from 1787 to 2007. Because of a decline in attendance, museum educators need to identify best practices to draw and retain audiences. I used 16 museology and history journals, books, and archives of museums prominent for using the method. I also interviewed 15 museum educators who employ experiential learning, one master interpreter of the National Park Service, and an independent museum exhibit developer. Experiential education involves doing with hands touching physical materials. Four minor questions concerned antecedents of experiential learning, reasons to invest in the method, the influence of social context, and cultural pluralism. Next is a review of the theorists whose works support experiential learning: Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, Lewin, Bruner, Eisner, Hein, and David Kolb plus master parks interpreter Freeman Tilden. The 8 characteristics they support include prior experiences, physical action, interaction with the environment, use of the senses, emotion, social relationships, and personal meaning. Other sections are manifestation of experiential learning, transformation of history museums, and cultural pluralism in history museums. The research design is descriptive, and the procedure, document analysis and structured interview. Findings are divided by decades after the first 120 years. Social context, examples of experiential learning, and multicultural activities are detailed. Then findings are discussed by patterns of delivery: sensory experiences, actions as diversion and performance, outreach of traveling trunks and of organized activity, crafts as handwork and as skills, role-playing, simulation, hands-on museum work, and minor patterns. The decline of involvement of citizens in the civic and cultural life of the community has adversely affected history museums. Experiential learning can stop this trend and transform museum work, as open-air museums and the National Park Service have demonstrated. In the future history museums may include technology, a more diverse audience, and adults in its experiential educational plans to thrive. Further research is needed on evaluation, finances, and small museums.

M.Ed. / Teaching and learning activity is characterised by effective communication. Teaching and learning as communication is successful when the learner has taken in new information with understanding. Effective teaching cannot take place unless effective communication takes place. On the other hand effective communication depends on media that are used in the teaching-learning activity (Heinich, et al, 1989: 13). In the teaching and learning of biology, educational media are important. The study of biology is a practical venture that requires the use of media e.g. realia, models, pictures and chemicals. Biology needs to be learnt through active participation, experience, observation and investigation by both the learner and the educator. This is not possible without the . use of media. In real life, the learner's senses are stimulated by media such as real objects, pictures, radio, television, books, etc. In the teaching of biology, the learner's senses must be equally stimulated. It is therefore necessary that the biology teacher be continuously reminded of the Chinese proverb which says, " I hear, and I forget; I see and I remember. I do, and I understand" (Dwyer, 1993: 194).

The purpose of the study was to (1) identify pedagogical touring competencies needed by volunteer docents in art museums, (2) catalog the competency statements into major competency categories, (3) validate the list of competency statements, and (4) compare priority designations awarded each statement by the individuals within the two major subgroups: museum staff and volunteer docents. In conclusion, many of the needs represented by the highest ranking competencies in each category are seldom addressed in the traditional volunteer docent training program. This study showed that abilities to help the child feel comfortable in the museum and combinations of abilities to help the docent make judgments regarding the presentation of the material require attention and, at the very least , special training. It is recommended that training personnel in art museums identify the needs of volunteer trainees and design training programs less on traditional guidelines and more on the specific needs appropriate to the task.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-01-22T11:33:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marina Barbosa da Cruz Teixeira.pdf: 1277272 bytes, checksum: 02c1413f662fb4f6f924613af2d288d5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-22T11:33:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marina Barbosa da Cruz Teixeira.pdf: 1277272 bytes, checksum: 02c1413f662fb4f6f924613af2d288d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-19 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Museums are cultural and educational spaces which interact with different audiences and intensely with schools. The great influx of school audiences to museum institutions led researchers to investigate the specificities and the great educational potential of this relationship, with studies aimed at improving the didactic use of student visits, understanding learning processes, evaluating practices among other aspects. Otherwise, the expansion of actions that seek to induce Full-time Program of Education in Brazil, providing extended educational times and spaces, in a multidimensional process that takes into account the city as an educational territory (Leclerc; Moll, 2012) has valued the articulation between spaces of education non-formal and formal. A recent initiative was the implementation of the Program “Mais Cultura nas Escolas” (PMCE), signed between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture to promote actions that provide the bond between the pedagogical project of public schools and cultural experiences of local communities. In this context, the present research has the apprehension problem of the senses and meanings attributed by educators on the relation museum/school in the PMCE. Through qualitative research and having as a theoretical-methodological assumption the categories of Socio-Historical Psychology, semi-directed interviews were conducted with a teacher and the pedagogical coordinator of a school enrolled in the Program in the "Museum Education" and "Heritage Education" and with the educator of the partner museum, in the city of Porto Ferreira (SP). The analysis was done through the elaboration of pre-indicators, indicators and the Meaning Core (Aguiar and Ozella, 2006) that allowed us to understand that educators see the integration between museum and school as a way to promote equity and to qualify the experience of learning, making it more meaningful and enjoyable. In addition, they see this relationship as an innovation in teaching that breaks with traditional models, a way of valuing student subjectivity, an experience of enchantment and strengthening and building identities / Os museus são espaços culturais e educativos, que dialogam com diferentes públicos e de forma intensa com as escolas. A grande afluência de público escolar às instituições museais levou diversos pesquisadores a investigarem as especificidades e o grande potencial educativo dessa relação, com estudos que objetivam a melhoria do aproveitamento didático das visitas pelos alunos, a compreensão dos processos de aprendizagem, avaliação de práticas, entre outros aspectos. Por sua vez, a ampliação de ações que procuram induzir a Educação Integral no Brasil, no sentido de proporcionar tempos e espaços educativos ampliados, em um processo multidimensional e que leve em conta a cidade como território educativo (Leclerc; Moll, 2012) tem valorizado a articulação entre espaços de educação não-formal e formal. Uma iniciativa recente foi a implementação do “Programa Mais Cultura nas Escolas” (PMCE), firmado entre o Ministério da Educação e o Ministério da Cultura, para o fomento de ações que promovam o encontro entre o projeto pedagógico de escolas públicas e experiências culturais das comunidades locais. Neste contexto, a presente pesquisa tem como problema a apreensão dos sentidos e significados atribuídos por educadores sobre a relação museu/escola no PMCE. Por meio de pesquisa qualitativa e tendo como pressuposto teórico-metodológico as categorias da Psicologia Sócio-Histórica, foram realizadas entrevistas semidirigidas com um professor e o coordenador pedagógico de uma escola inscrita no Programa nos eixos “Educação Museal” e “Educação Patrimonial” e com o educador do Museu parceiro, na cidade de Porto Ferreira (SP). A análise foi feita através da elaboração de préindicadores, indicadores e Núcleos de Significação (Aguiar; Ozella, 2006) que nos permitiram apreender que os educadores veem a integração entre museu e escola como um caminho para promover equidade e para qualificar a experiência de aprendizagem, tornando-a mais significativa e prazerosa. Além disso, veem esta relação como uma inovação no ensino que rompe com modelos tradicionais, um modo de valorizar a subjetividade do aluno, uma experiência de encantamento e de fortalecimento e construção de identidades

This study, situated in classroom practice and grounded in pedagogic wakefulness (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000), explores the nature of young children’s sense of voice as indicated through sustained interactions and representations of experiences with picturebook literature. The naturalistic research site was a grade one classroom setting in a large urban school. Student engagement and interactions with read-aloud events and responses to literature through multi-modal representations perpetuated meaning making and personal relevance. Coding procedures exemplified the nature of young children’s sense of voice as falling into two broad conceptual categories: (1) Situated Nature and (2) Experiential Nature. The Situated Nature of young children’s sense of voice revealed developmental, exploratory, and social sites of student engagement to literature. The Experiential Nature of young children’s sense of voice described three specificities of narrativity in their responses to picturebook literature: Young children’s multi-modal responses were interpreted as representative of Self- Narrativity, Interpretive-Narrativity, and Aesthetic-Narrativity. The findings contribute to a reconceptualized literacy curriculum which illuminates personal, social, and cultural identities, especially young children’s awareness of their individual sense of voice, developed through picturebook literature in primary classrooms. / xii, 151 leaves : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

The Museum of Modern Art's television project sponsored by the Rockefeller Brother's Fund between 1952 and 1955 was designed to educate a democratic and cultured citizenry through the principles and practices of modern art and liberal humanism. Through a close reading of four television programs, related policy documents and exhibitions, as well as critical, educational and promotional literature, this study will show how within the context of the MoMA's mandate and history, the television project was a decisive, yet highly troubled attempt to forge cultural citizenship through the burgeoning media of modern art and television. This exploration will establish how the television project was an integral aspect of the MoMA's efforts since World War II to situate modern art as essential to the formation of an international polity shaped around the promise of universality, yet dependent on upholding the primacy of free and creative individuals. In addressing such a challenge, this dissertation will contend that television was not necessarily antithetical to modernism, rather it was just one among an array of struggling forces falling within the rubric of the modern. Moreover, this analysis will consider the importance of culture in logics of liberal governance. In order to elucidate the dimensions of cultural democracy as they emerged through the MoMA's television project, this study will be shaped around a discussion of three components crucial to the formation and maintenance of citizenly conduct---civic education, democratic cultural communications, and cross-cultural governance. To these ends, a range of sources from the disciplines of Communications, Cultural Studies and Critical Artistic Studies will be drawn on in order to investigate the provisional links forged between modern art, media pedagogy, and cultural citizenship in the Cold War period.

The thesis describes and evaluates selected eduacational aspects of human resources management. It introduces some recent conceptions of specialization and evolution from personnel administration through personnel management to human resources management as the unity of emloyee development and utilization of their potential to achieve organization`s objectives according to their needs. It outlines the structure of human resources management (recruitment, performance management, evaluation {\dots}) and compares the aplication of principles of specialization in the work of a human resources manager and a line manager. Subsequently, several determinants of educational processes within human resource management are pointed out in connection with human factors (personality, health, human relations) and job performance (work, free time, work environment). Furthermore, educational dimension of human resources management is evaluated. In the final part Possible prognosis and future expectations are included. Namely, the worth of information for functioning of organizations and comparing the modern roles of technology with the role of humanity in the modern world.