Informational society must give the bases of mature and independent life and to form the need to learn all life and it is connected with the values which are being formed by every person all their conscious life. The object of the research: statute values of adults. The aim of the research: to analyze the statute values of adults in the environment of learning all life. The tasks of the research are: 1. to show the attitude of adults towards the learning all life; 2. to highlight the statute values of studying adults; 3. to analyze the statute values of studying adults. Methods used in the research: 1. The analysis of the scientific, methodological literature and documents; 2. The collection of data: open questionnaire; 3. The analysis of data: quality content analysis; 4. Sample selection: objective and criteria selection methods. The education as a constant and all life lasting learning process is discussed in the theoretical part of the work. The quality research is presented in the practical part of the work, where the learning adults and the lecturers working with the adults were questioned in order to determine their statute values in the environment of learning all life. The conclusions are: 1. 1. The education of adults takes place in the formal and informal system of learning. The continuous learning supplements the formal and the informal learning with the spontaneous learning, the environment that stimulates to learn and the inside-need to learn. 2. A new... [to full text]

Tendo em vista a importância da disciplina Estatística Aplicada à Administração no exercício da função do futuro administrador, pretendeu-se com este trabalho elaborar e desenvolver a estrutura do LaViE Laboratório Virtual de Estatística Aplicada à Administração um ambiente virtual de aprendizado destinado a alunos de Graduação e Pós-Graduação em Administração, e que tem por objetivo facilitar a compreensão da matéria e conciliar a motivação e a facilidade no aprendizado. O trabalho consistiu na criação da estrutura de um ambiente virtual (web page) por meio do qual os estudantes têm acesso desde a conceitos básicos da Estatística até a aplicação prática da matéria em situações modelo encontradas no cotidiano do administrador, aliando, dessa forma, a teoria à prática. Utiliza-se, portanto, da internet, a rede mundial de computadores, cujo recente crescimento no número de usuários proporcionou, juntamente com o avanço computacional e eletrônico, a revalorização da educação a distância, revelando-se um agente facilitador do processo de distribuição do conhecimento, uma vez que permite ao estudante aprender no seu contexto imediato, planejar no tempo e no espaço suas atividades de estudo, seguindo seu próprio ritmo de aprendizagem. O desenvolvimento da estrutura desse ambiente virtual de ensino-aprendizagem abrangeu as seguintes etapas: levantamento bibliográfico, análise, planejamento e desenvolvimento, implementação, utilização e avaliação. / Having in mind the importance of the discipline Statistical Applied to the Administration in the exercise of the function of the future manager, intended with this work to study and develop the LaViE structure Virtual Laboratory of Statistical Applied to the Administration a virtual environment of learning for graduation and post graduation administration students, with the purpose to facilitate the comprehension of the subject and to conciliate motivation and easiness in learning. This work consisted in the creation of the structure of a virtual environment (web Page) that promote for the students accessing since basic concepts of the Statistics until the practice application of the subject in model situations observed in manager routine, it allying the theory to the practice. It use, therefore, internet, the world network of computers, whose recent growth in the number of users provided, together with the computational and electronic advance, the revaluation of the distance learning, and revealed a facilitative agent of the knowledge distribution process, once that it allows for the students to learning in their immediate context, to planning in the time and in their space study activities according to their learning rhythm. The development of the structure of this virtual environment of teaching-learning embraced the next stages: bibliographic rising, analysis, planning and development, implementation, utilization and evaluation.

Numerous research studies have shown that when teachers take children outdoors to learn, children show an increase in cognitive, physical, social, and emotional skills. Few researchers have focused, however, on teachers and their decision to use the outdoors as a way of teaching. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore whether life experiences impact a teacher's choice to not use the outdoor environment. Ham and Shuman's model of environmental education commitment and Kaplan and Kaplan's environmental cognition theory served as the conceptual frameworks for this study. The research question was designed to explore the experiences and barriers of teachers and how these experiences and barriers affected a teacher's decision to use or not use an outdoor classroom when one was available. Data were obtained using individual interviews of a purposeful sample of seven elementary teachers from a large school district in the U.S. state of Georgia who were not using outdoor classrooms at the time of the study. Themes that emerged from data analysis were lack of time in tightly controlled class schedules, lack of administrator support, lack of staff development for teachers, weather, and lack of time to research and prepare lessons. Study findings have the potential to engender positive social change by increasing insight about the barriers teachers perceive to using the natural environment in instruction. With more knowledge about such barriers, administrators may able to encourage teachers to use the natural environment as an extension of the indoor classroom to increase academic achievement and lifelong behaviors in nature among students.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which Constructivist Learning Environment (CLE) aspects exist in primary level 4th and 5th grade Science and Technology Courses in Turkey as perceived by students and their teachers. Secondly, the study aimed at finding out whether perceptions of students on CLE differ according to certain demographic variables. Finally, the study attempted to explore the extent to which the perceptions of teachers on administrative support have a relationship with their perceptions on CLE. Subjects of the study involved 1143 primary level 4th and 5th grade students in Turkey during 2006-2007 school year from 6 socio-economic development groups as determined by State Planning Department and their 264 teachers. Data were collected in 2006-2007 Spring semester through administration of two questionnaires to the students and the teachers. Data analysis was carried out through both quantitative (repeated measures ANOVA, frequencies, means, standard deviations, MANOVA) and qualitative analysis techniques. The results of the study indicated that students and teachers perceived the current learning environment to be often constructivist. In addition, the results revealed that perception of CLE differed according to socio economic status and technology use of students. Lastly, the results revealed that there is a significant but low correlation between teachers&rsquo / perceptions on CLE and their perceptions on administrative support they received. The results revealed that students should be provided with more facilities and teachers be provided with more in-service training opportunities.

Thesis (doctoral)--Technische Universität, Dresden, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199).

Esta tese tem como temática central as práticas didáticas em Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem – AVA. Investiga as modificações que estão sendo produzidas na ação docente e evidenciadas nos registros on line das práticas didáticas em AVA. A investigação ocorre a partir dos marcos teórico e conceitual propostos pela Epistemologia Genética piagetiana. Parte de um estudo de caso das práticas didáticas on line, de um curso Técnico desenvolvido no AVA MOODLE. Elege como evidências de dados os registros escritos on line das organizações didáticas, desenvolvidas em diferentes semestres pelo mesmo docente, e as entrevistas semiestruturadas e inspiradas em alguns recursos do método clínico piagetiano. Todas as práticas on line selecionadas dos seis docentes foram analisadas por meio da análise de conteúdo. As entrevistas foram realizadas com os docentes e objetivaram conhecer: a trajetória acadêmica e profissional de cada um deles; confirmar o que fora analisado a partir dos registros escritos on line das suas práticas no ambiente virtual; compreender o que os leva a realizar mudanças na sua ação durante a organização das suas práticas didáticas on line. Chegou-se a três categorias de práticas didáticas on line: as que apresentam modificações dos formatos; as que apresentam modificações metodológicas; e aquelas que apresentam modificações dos formatos e modificações metodológicas. As modificações dos formatos compreendem as modificações de apresentação e de organização dos espaços, de apresentação e de elaboração do material didático, de comunicação das linguagens escrita, visual e audiovisual. São modificações figurativas do objeto, ou seja, constituídas apenas por configurações. E são realizadas a partir da percepção do docente em relação à organização das formas. As modificações metodológicas compreendem as modificações de comunicação e expressão e de proposta pedagógica de avaliação da aprendizagem. Essas modificações respondem às necessidades do docente e às reflexões realizadas a partir das ações. / This thesis has as its central theme the teaching practices in Virtual Environment of Learning – VEL. It investigates the changes that are being produced in the teaching activities and evidenced in the records of online teaching practices in VEL. The research occurs based on the theoretical and conceptual frameworks proposed by Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology. Part of a case study of teaching practices online, a technical course is developed in VEL MOODLE. It chooses as data evidence the online written records of the educational organizations, developed in different semesters by the teacher, and the semi-structured interviews and inspired in some features of Piaget’s clinical method. All online practices selected from the six teachers were analyzed by means of the content analysis. Interviews were conducted with teachers and they aimed to know: the academic and professional trajectory of each of them; confirm what had been analyzed from the online writing records of their practices in the virtual environment; understand what drives them to make changes in its action during the organization of their online teaching practices. There were even three categories of online teaching practice: the ones that present format changes; the ones with methodological changes; and the ones with format changes and methodological changes. The format modifications include modifications of presentation organization of spaces, presentation and preparation of the teaching material, communication of the written, visual and audiovisual languages. They are figurative modifications of the object, in other words, consisting only of configurations. And they are performed from the perception of teachers in relation to the organization of forms. The methodological changes include communication modifications and expression and pedagogical proposal for learning evaluation. Those changes meet the needs of teachers and the considerations made from actions.

Esta tese tem como temática central as práticas didáticas em Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem – AVA. Investiga as modificações que estão sendo produzidas na ação docente e evidenciadas nos registros on line das práticas didáticas em AVA. A investigação ocorre a partir dos marcos teórico e conceitual propostos pela Epistemologia Genética piagetiana. Parte de um estudo de caso das práticas didáticas on line, de um curso Técnico desenvolvido no AVA MOODLE. Elege como evidências de dados os registros escritos on line das organizações didáticas, desenvolvidas em diferentes semestres pelo mesmo docente, e as entrevistas semiestruturadas e inspiradas em alguns recursos do método clínico piagetiano. Todas as práticas on line selecionadas dos seis docentes foram analisadas por meio da análise de conteúdo. As entrevistas foram realizadas com os docentes e objetivaram conhecer: a trajetória acadêmica e profissional de cada um deles; confirmar o que fora analisado a partir dos registros escritos on line das suas práticas no ambiente virtual; compreender o que os leva a realizar mudanças na sua ação durante a organização das suas práticas didáticas on line. Chegou-se a três categorias de práticas didáticas on line: as que apresentam modificações dos formatos; as que apresentam modificações metodológicas; e aquelas que apresentam modificações dos formatos e modificações metodológicas. As modificações dos formatos compreendem as modificações de apresentação e de organização dos espaços, de apresentação e de elaboração do material didático, de comunicação das linguagens escrita, visual e audiovisual. São modificações figurativas do objeto, ou seja, constituídas apenas por configurações. E são realizadas a partir da percepção do docente em relação à organização das formas. As modificações metodológicas compreendem as modificações de comunicação e expressão e de proposta pedagógica de avaliação da aprendizagem. Essas modificações respondem às necessidades do docente e às reflexões realizadas a partir das ações. / This thesis has as its central theme the teaching practices in Virtual Environment of Learning – VEL. It investigates the changes that are being produced in the teaching activities and evidenced in the records of online teaching practices in VEL. The research occurs based on the theoretical and conceptual frameworks proposed by Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology. Part of a case study of teaching practices online, a technical course is developed in VEL MOODLE. It chooses as data evidence the online written records of the educational organizations, developed in different semesters by the teacher, and the semi-structured interviews and inspired in some features of Piaget’s clinical method. All online practices selected from the six teachers were analyzed by means of the content analysis. Interviews were conducted with teachers and they aimed to know: the academic and professional trajectory of each of them; confirm what had been analyzed from the online writing records of their practices in the virtual environment; understand what drives them to make changes in its action during the organization of their online teaching practices. There were even three categories of online teaching practice: the ones that present format changes; the ones with methodological changes; and the ones with format changes and methodological changes. The format modifications include modifications of presentation organization of spaces, presentation and preparation of the teaching material, communication of the written, visual and audiovisual languages. They are figurative modifications of the object, in other words, consisting only of configurations. And they are performed from the perception of teachers in relation to the organization of forms. The methodological changes include communication modifications and expression and pedagogical proposal for learning evaluation. Those changes meet the needs of teachers and the considerations made from actions.

Esta tese tem como temática central as práticas didáticas em Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem – AVA. Investiga as modificações que estão sendo produzidas na ação docente e evidenciadas nos registros on line das práticas didáticas em AVA. A investigação ocorre a partir dos marcos teórico e conceitual propostos pela Epistemologia Genética piagetiana. Parte de um estudo de caso das práticas didáticas on line, de um curso Técnico desenvolvido no AVA MOODLE. Elege como evidências de dados os registros escritos on line das organizações didáticas, desenvolvidas em diferentes semestres pelo mesmo docente, e as entrevistas semiestruturadas e inspiradas em alguns recursos do método clínico piagetiano. Todas as práticas on line selecionadas dos seis docentes foram analisadas por meio da análise de conteúdo. As entrevistas foram realizadas com os docentes e objetivaram conhecer: a trajetória acadêmica e profissional de cada um deles; confirmar o que fora analisado a partir dos registros escritos on line das suas práticas no ambiente virtual; compreender o que os leva a realizar mudanças na sua ação durante a organização das suas práticas didáticas on line. Chegou-se a três categorias de práticas didáticas on line: as que apresentam modificações dos formatos; as que apresentam modificações metodológicas; e aquelas que apresentam modificações dos formatos e modificações metodológicas. As modificações dos formatos compreendem as modificações de apresentação e de organização dos espaços, de apresentação e de elaboração do material didático, de comunicação das linguagens escrita, visual e audiovisual. São modificações figurativas do objeto, ou seja, constituídas apenas por configurações. E são realizadas a partir da percepção do docente em relação à organização das formas. As modificações metodológicas compreendem as modificações de comunicação e expressão e de proposta pedagógica de avaliação da aprendizagem. Essas modificações respondem às necessidades do docente e às reflexões realizadas a partir das ações. / This thesis has as its central theme the teaching practices in Virtual Environment of Learning – VEL. It investigates the changes that are being produced in the teaching activities and evidenced in the records of online teaching practices in VEL. The research occurs based on the theoretical and conceptual frameworks proposed by Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology. Part of a case study of teaching practices online, a technical course is developed in VEL MOODLE. It chooses as data evidence the online written records of the educational organizations, developed in different semesters by the teacher, and the semi-structured interviews and inspired in some features of Piaget’s clinical method. All online practices selected from the six teachers were analyzed by means of the content analysis. Interviews were conducted with teachers and they aimed to know: the academic and professional trajectory of each of them; confirm what had been analyzed from the online writing records of their practices in the virtual environment; understand what drives them to make changes in its action during the organization of their online teaching practices. There were even three categories of online teaching practice: the ones that present format changes; the ones with methodological changes; and the ones with format changes and methodological changes. The format modifications include modifications of presentation organization of spaces, presentation and preparation of the teaching material, communication of the written, visual and audiovisual languages. They are figurative modifications of the object, in other words, consisting only of configurations. And they are performed from the perception of teachers in relation to the organization of forms. The methodological changes include communication modifications and expression and pedagogical proposal for learning evaluation. Those changes meet the needs of teachers and the considerations made from actions.

Tendo em vista a importância da disciplina Estatística Aplicada à Administração no exercício da função do futuro administrador, pretendeu-se com este trabalho elaborar e desenvolver a estrutura do LaViE Laboratório Virtual de Estatística Aplicada à Administração um ambiente virtual de aprendizado destinado a alunos de Graduação e Pós-Graduação em Administração, e que tem por objetivo facilitar a compreensão da matéria e conciliar a motivação e a facilidade no aprendizado. O trabalho consistiu na criação da estrutura de um ambiente virtual (web page) por meio do qual os estudantes têm acesso desde a conceitos básicos da Estatística até a aplicação prática da matéria em situações modelo encontradas no cotidiano do administrador, aliando, dessa forma, a teoria à prática. Utiliza-se, portanto, da internet, a rede mundial de computadores, cujo recente crescimento no número de usuários proporcionou, juntamente com o avanço computacional e eletrônico, a revalorização da educação a distância, revelando-se um agente facilitador do processo de distribuição do conhecimento, uma vez que permite ao estudante aprender no seu contexto imediato, planejar no tempo e no espaço suas atividades de estudo, seguindo seu próprio ritmo de aprendizagem. O desenvolvimento da estrutura desse ambiente virtual de ensino-aprendizagem abrangeu as seguintes etapas: levantamento bibliográfico, análise, planejamento e desenvolvimento, implementação, utilização e avaliação. / Having in mind the importance of the discipline Statistical Applied to the Administration in the exercise of the function of the future manager, intended with this work to study and develop the LaViE structure Virtual Laboratory of Statistical Applied to the Administration a virtual environment of learning for graduation and post graduation administration students, with the purpose to facilitate the comprehension of the subject and to conciliate motivation and easiness in learning. This work consisted in the creation of the structure of a virtual environment (web Page) that promote for the students accessing since basic concepts of the Statistics until the practice application of the subject in model situations observed in manager routine, it allying the theory to the practice. It use, therefore, internet, the world network of computers, whose recent growth in the number of users provided, together with the computational and electronic advance, the revaluation of the distance learning, and revealed a facilitative agent of the knowledge distribution process, once that it allows for the students to learning in their immediate context, to planning in the time and in their space study activities according to their learning rhythm. The development of the structure of this virtual environment of teaching-learning embraced the next stages: bibliographic rising, analysis, planning and development, implementation, utilization and evaluation.

The aim of this study was to examine how teachers in Waldorf, Reggio Emilia and traditional pedagogy work with literacy in preschools in Sweden. We also wanted to see the similarities and differences between the pedagogical approaches in the work regarding literacy and what the teachers think about the age of children when they learn to read and write. To get answers to our questions, we used a qualitative method where we interviewed six preschool teachers in six different preschools in Stockholm County with the 3 different pedagogies. Our theory is connected to Vygotski´s four processes that are important for children in learning, which is the socio-cultural, the mediated, the situated and the creative. We have also used John Dewey´s theory, who also speaks of children's learning with respect to social relations and artistic processes. The result of the interviews showed that it is very individual when children begin to learn literacy and the teachers say that we should not stop them if they have the interest but it must come from the children's own initiative and be based on their own interests. The environment was also something that was important to the child's learning of literacy and that the teachers used activities where the children could use all their senses in various esthetics expressions.