This thesis presents a draft of a diagnostic tool, intented to use to analyze mediated learning experience ("MLE") in the interactions of parents and school aged children. The first chapter deals with historical roots of MLE and theoretical concepts, which inspired Reuver Feuerstein, author of MLE. Next chapters of the thesis are giving insight to MLE parameters and connecting the parameters to the contemporary knowledge from psychological practice. The thesis is also focused on MISC approach, created by Pnina Klein, which hasn't been described yet in the czech psychological literature, even though it is based on MLE and it is commonly used in foreign research and interventional programmes. The thesis describes the structure of MLE and possibilities of it's uses. At the end of the theoretical part of the thesis, methods, based on MLE theory, used in the Czech republic, are described. Contemporary methods of analyzing interactions of parents and children are also mentioned. Research project of the thesis was focused on designing a draft of a specific form of a diagnostic tool Observed Interactions of Mediated Learning Experience (Pozorované Interakce Zkušenosti Zprostředkovaného Učení - "PIZZU"). It's contents and graphic form was created in cooperation with pedagogues and psychologists. Creating PIZZU...

The instrumental enrichment is a worldwide extended method of cognitive functions development, which has been used in the Czech Republic since 2000. Its author, Reuven Feuerstein, is strongly convinced that human being is able to modify oneself and to develop one's abilities. This method is based on elaborated theoretical concepts - especially on the theory of structural cognitive modifiability and mediated learning. This Diploma Thesis brings essentials information about the concepts related to the cognitive modifiability and considers tools of its application. In the qualitative study, we focus on Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment. In the course of ten moths we observed six clients of the DYS-Centrum Praha we attempted to map changes (or their manifestations) which might have appeared during the intervention. We acquired data by the process of observation (participative observation and video-analysis) and via semistructured interviews. We were interested in changes of cognitive functions manifestations, quality of language, quality of autonomous work and ability to process with the information efficiently. We registered changes in each of these areas. Some of them, were notable only during the FIE lessons, others also displayed at home or at school environment. Key words: cognitive...

Orientador: Maria Júlia Canazza Dall'Acqua / Banca: Roseli Aparecida Parizzi / Banca: Cristiano Mauro Assis Gomes / Resumo: A presente pesquisa aborda a temática da educação de indivíduos com deficiência mental severa a partir das estratégias pedagógicas utilizadas por professoras de Educação Especial. Sua realização justifica-se por abordar o processo educacional de uma população, até então, pouco investigada e, também, por unir dois eixos de discussão de maneira inovadora: a Teoria da Modificabilidade Cognitiva Estrutural (MCE) desenvolvida por Reuven Feuerstein - tendo como aspecto principal a Experiência de Aprendizagem Mediada (EAM) - e a educação de alunos severamente prejudicados. Sob o enfoque da Teoria de Feuerstein, o professor desenvolve sua função não apenas como transmissor de conhecimento, mas como mediador, interpondo-se entre os estímulos do ambiente e o aluno. Nesse sentido, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo descrever e analisar de que maneira está sendo implementado o processo educacional de alunos com deficiência mental severa, enfocando as estratégias pedagógicas utilizadas pelas professoras de Educação Especial na cidade de Araraquara. Os procedimentos para sua execução iniciaram-se com a definição dos perfis das professoras, seu mapeamento e a posterior localização das mesmas. Definidos os participantes, a coleta dos dados se deu por meio de três instrumentos: entrevista semiestruturada realizada com as professoras, protocolo de observação e registro em diário de campo. Usou-se a análise qualitativa dos dados, a fim de permitir a extração de maior riqueza de detalhes do cotidiano observado. Dessa forma, os resultados apresentam uma descrição do trabalho das professoras participantes, evidenciando suas opiniões acerca de suas práticas, assim como a identificação das estratégias pedagógicas utilizadas. A partir da vasta gama de informações expostas sobre a atuação dessas educadoras, a conclusão deste estudo identifica algumas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research deals the issue of education for individuals with severe mental disabilities from the pedagogical strategies used by teachers of Special Education. Its implementation justified in fact that the educational process deal with a few investigated population, besides combine two strands of thread in an innovative way, as the Theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability (SCM) developed by Reuven Feuerstein, with its main aspect, the Mediate Learning Experience (MLE), and education of severely impaired students. By the approach of Feuerstein's theory, the teacher develops his function not only as a transmitter of knowledge, but as facilitators between the stimuli of the environment and the student. The main objective of this research is based on the intention to describe and analyze how it's being implemented the educational process of students with severe mental disabilities, focusing on the pedagogical strategies used by teachers of Special Education in Araraquara city. The procedures for its implementation began with the establishment of profiles of teachers, their mapping and location. Defined the participants, the data collection was by means of three instruments: semi structured interviews with teachers, protocolo of observation and recorded in a field diary. Data analysis was treated in a qualitative way, as this approach allows the extraction of an immense wealth of detail of the daily observed, requiring the researcher a thorough treatment. The results provide a description of the work of the four participating teachers, demonstrating some of their views about their own practices and to identify the pedagogical strategies user by them. From the wide range of information exposed on the performance of educators, is offered as a conclusion to identify among their actions, some which may be related to the criteria governing the application of mediation... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

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The thesis deals with the topic of diagnostics in children with behavioral problems and disorders. In the theoretical part the author describes commonly used terminology and the width of issues related to caring for these children. The Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Program is described and built on later in the practical section where the author introduces her own new method called "Children Together". The practical part of the thesis deals with action research aiming at improving author's practice in the field of special education and at evaluating the potential of the new method. The analysis of audio recordings from lessons and semi-structured interviews and two other supplementary research methods were utilized throughout the research. The outcomes of the research allow for a conclusion that the method "Children Together" can provide us with a volume of valuable assessment data on younger elementary-school-aged children. Towards the end of the thesis the author also identifies features of the method most valued by selected professionals, the ways how the method has been improved during the research and how it could be improved further on. The final product of the research is a method that is useful in special education practice, under certain conditions. The potential of the method has...

Thesis deals with the use of mediated learning experience in the focus on the communication skills of preschool children. Thesis follows up the theoretical knowledges of preschool education especially content of it and related to main documentes. Thesis describes the development of child in preschool age and describes the speech development and speech impairments. Thesis is focused on the mediated learning experience, its principles, goals and also on the theory of structural cognitive modifiability. In the last part of thesis is describede the program of Feuerstein instrumental enrichment, which is the main part of the research. The goal of thesis is to analysed the use of the Feuerstein instrumental enrichment program in the focus on development of preschool children's communication skills.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LAEL - Regina Maria Loreto de Oliveira.pdf: 400212 bytes, checksum: 70a1367ac863b9c75a8ecb5ad1440bd3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-20 / According to the educators Freire (1976, 1983, 1986, 2002, 2004) and Gadotti (2003),Youth and Adults Education (EJA henceforth, referring to Educação de Jovens e Adultos in Portuguese) allows pupils to comprehend their own language and to have access to the means of cultural production, prioritizing a dialogic relation between the students and the teacher, who plays, according to the psychologist Vygotsky (1984, 1993, 1994, 1999) and a Brazilian researcher of his studies, Kohl (1992, 1995, 2004), the mediator role, in such a way the learner becomes independent and autonomous. This study aims at assessing, through questionnaires answered by twelve EJA English language teachers, six of them working at public school and the others at private school in Sao Paulo, not only what their perceptions about mediation and teacher-mediator are, but also verifying how an authoritarian and non-dialogical conception still prevails in the teachers discourse. This questionnaire is a translation into Portuguese of twelve questions elaborated by Feuerstein (1980, 2002), who is a psychologist as well, each one associated with one parameter of mediation considered by the alluded theorist and studied by the Brazilian followers Martins de Souza et al. (2003). The teachers answers were investigated under the perspective of Halliday s (1985/1994) systemic- functional grammar, focusing on Modalization, internally realized by the Modal Operator and the Mood Adjunct expressed through causality and externally realized by adding a pseudo-sentence, the Grammatical Metaphor, which may be phrased subjectively and objectively. The recurrent utilization of must, have to, need and can in the answers denotes that the teachers are not acquainted with mediation in the scope of EJA / De acordo com os educadores Freire (1976, 1983, 1986, 2002, 2004) Gadotti (2003), o EJA, Ensino de Jovens e Adultos, é aquele que permite ao educando compreender a língua nacional e ter acesso aos meios de produção cultural, priorizando uma relação dialógica entre alunos e professores, devendo estes últimos, segundo o psicólogo Vygotsky (1984, 1993, 1994, 1999) e uma das divulgadoras de sua obra no Brasil, Kohl (1992, 1995, 2004), atuar primordialmente como elementos mediadores de molde a formar aprendizes autônomos e independentes. Este estudo tem por objetivo principal aferir, através de questionários respondidos por doze professores de língua inglesa de EJA, sendo seis da rede pública e seis da rede privada de ensino no município de São Paulo, quais suas percepções sobre mediação e professor-mediador, assim como verificar o quanto uma concepção autoritária e não dialógica de ensino ainda prevalece no discurso dos docentes. Este questionário contém a tradução de doze questões elaboradas pelo psicólogo Feuerstein (1980, 2002), cada uma das quais associada a um parâmetro de mediação por ele considerado relevante e estudado pelos divulgadores de sua obra Martins de Souza et al. (2003). As respostas aos questionários foram analisadas sob a perspectiva da gramática sistêmico-funcional (Halliday,1985/1994), focalizando a Modalização, realizada internamente pelo operador finito modal e pelo adjunto de modo freqüência e externamente realizada pela adição de uma pseudosentença, a metáfora gramatical, que pode ser objetiva ou subjetiva. A utilização recorrente de deve, tem, precisa e pode nas respostas aponta para professores que não costumam utilizar a mediação no âmbito do EJA

This master's thesis deals with the Instrumental Enrichment Method of Reuven Feuerstein. It provides an introduction to the method as well as examples of its application in institutionalized Preschool education. The aim of the thesis is to provide insight into aspects of introducing the method as a part of Preschool education. The theoretical part desribes the theoretical framework of the method and defines the method in relation to Preschool education. The theoretical part of the thesis also deals with the principles and Czech legislation of current Preschool education and related inclusive education. The practical part of the thesis derives from a qualitative research on the real practice introduction of the method in institutionalized Preschool education. Research data are based on individual interviews with the nursery school headmasters. The interviewers were from various nursery schools across the Czech Republic, which are registered in the Register of Ministry of Education. The results of the research provide the respondents's opinions and experiences of various extent. Many overlaps were found in content of testimonies, which provides method enrichment in various areas of institutionalized preschool education. The research also brings out data on the organizational issues of introducing the...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Instrumental Enrichment, an educational program developed by Reuven Feuerstein, which attempts to improve an individual's ability to reason. A meta-analysis was performed on studies that had been conducted between the years 1979 to 1996. Thirty-six studies were analyzed according to their results from measurements in the cognitive/visual-perceptual, academic achievement and affective domains. The results from the meta-analysis were mixed. There were significant combined effect sizes of 0.24 for non-verbal ability, 1.41 for verbal ability, and 0.60 for one combination of full-scale ability. Significant effect sizes for measures of visual perception and visual-motor ability were 0.42, 0.71 and 1.68. There were also significant effect sizes for general achievement and for one combination of math achievement at 0.26 and 0.29 respectively. The intellectual achievement locus of control effect size was significant at 0.33. (Cohen (1988) considers an effect size of 0.20 to be small, that of 0.50 to be of medium size, and that of 0.80 to be large.) All effect sizes for reading were non-significant as was that for the Learning Potential Assessment Device. All other measures, such as those for self-confidence, self-concept, motivation and attitudes, in the affective domain were non-significant. One effect size for motivation and attitudes was significantly negative, indicating that the control group outperformed the treatment group. The results are discussed in terms of near- and far-transfer of learning.

This final thesis is focused on analysing the support of cognitive development of the clients of a social services centre through its activities which are aimed at a concrete target group senior citizens. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether the senior citizens' cognitive skills are developed through these activities or whether these activities have other meanings for the clients. Another aim is to find out whether the criteria concerning development of cognitive skills, the way they were defined by Reuven Feuerstein, are fulfilled. Another part of the thesis is also a description of the activities held by the social services centre so that a reader could understand the results better.