Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-63).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-63). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (January 19, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-56)

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2018-02-07T15:57:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Elias pascoal 2.pdf: 13562588 bytes, checksum: 838bba144d3a58a024aa22d5c0f9c6eb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-07T15:57:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elias pascoal 2.pdf: 13562588 bytes, checksum: 838bba144d3a58a024aa22d5c0f9c6eb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-31 / This research aimed to recognize the work activity of the teachers of the Professional and Technological Education% u2013 EPT in Goiás amid the changes brought by the current configuration of Professional Education. To this end, we sought to know and analyze the teaching work in its constitutive dimensions, in the identification of its actors, what they do and what concrete conditions in which their work activity is effective, and, thus, can subsidize the elaboration of public policies for this type of education. In order to do this, it was decided to investigate the work of the teaching professionals, who work specifically in the technical education of medium level, in the cities of Goiânia and Aparecida de Goiânia, in the units of SENAI, identifying these subjects and the conditions of exercise of the teaching practice . The following subjects were considered: directors, coordinators / supervisors and teachers. With regard to these subjects, it is important to situate that the category of teaching work covers both the subjects in their complex working definitions and the conditions in which the activities are carried out in the school context. It is a research based on the Materialist-Historical Dialectic method, a qualitative approach and a critical conception of education, with interviewing, questionnaire application and documentary analysis, preceded by the literature review produced in the area. In order to study scientifically the practical reality, in a way articulated with the theoretical formulations of Antunes (1999, 2001, 2004, 2006), Cunha (1997), In this paper, we present the results of a study carried out by Frigotto (1995, 1999) and the results obtained by Ferreira (1994, 2000, 2004, 2007), Freitas (1998; , which made possible new analysis alternatives for the current demands experienced in this modality of performance in SENAI - GO. The data obtained in the interviews with the managers and the questionnaires applied to the teachers proved the pedagogy fetish thesis of the competence evidenced in the vision of professional education equivalent to a product, whose objective is the labor market, in which Professional Education remains in favor of the system of production and antagonistic to the real interests of the worker, of the school identified with him. In this context, the teaching work, in addition to an instrumentalizing action configured in the work of the instructor, should constitute an instrumentalizing action configured in the work of the instructor, should constitute an instrumentalizing action in the work of the instructor, should constitute a dyadic action emancipating and organic intellectuality, using a more dialogic methodology, with more social ideals and more diversified. / Esta investigação teve como objetivo reconhecer a atividade laboral dos docentes da Educação Profissional e Tecnológica %u2013 EPT em Goiás em meio às mudanças trazidas pela atual configuração da Educação Profissional. Para este alcance, bus-cou-se conhecer e analisar o trabalho docente nas suas dimensões constitutivas, na identificação de seus atores, o que fazem e quais as condições concretas em que se efetiva sua atividade laboral, podendo, assim, subsidiar a elaboração de políticas públicas, para esta modalidade de ensino. Para tal, optou-se por investigar o trabalho dos profissionais docentes, que atuam especificamente, no ensino técnico de nível médio, nas cidades de Goiânia e Aparecida de Goiânia, nas unidades do SENAI, identificando esses sujeitos e as condições de exercício da prática docente. Foram considerados sujeitos da pesquisa: diretores, coordenadores/supervisores e professores. Com relação a esses sujeitos, é importante situar que a categoria trabalho docente abarca tanto os sujeitos nas suas complexas definições laborais quanto as condições em que as atividades são realizadas no contexto escolar. Trata-se de uma pesquisa com base no método Materialista-Histórico Dialético, em uma abordagem qualitativa e em uma concepção crítica de educação, com realização de entrevistas, aplicação de questionário e análise documental, antecedidos pela revisão da literatura produzida na área. Procurou-se realizar uma combinação e articulação de aspectos quantitativos e qualitativos da pesquisa empírica, a fim de estudar cientificamente a realidade prática, de modo articulado com as formulações teóricas de Antunes (1999; 2001; 2004; 2006), Cunha (1997), Enguita (1989), Ferreti (1994, 2000, 2004, 2007), Freitas (1998; 2011), Frigotto (1995; 1999; 2001; 2005), Kuenzer (1996; 1997; 1998; 2003, 2007, 2010) dentre outros, o que oportunizou novas alternativas de análises para as demandas atuais vivenciadas nessa modalidade de atuação no SENAI - GO. Os dados obtidos nas entrevistas aos gestores e pelos questionários aplicados aos professores comprovaram a tese do fetiche da pedagogia da competência evidenciada na visão de ensino profissional equivalente a um produto, cujo objetivo é o mercado de trabalho, em que a Educação Profissional continua posicionada a favor do sistema de produção e antagônica aos reais interesses do trabalhador, de escola identificada com ele. Nesse contexto, o trabalho docente, para além de uma ação instrumentalizadora configurada no trabalho do instrutor, deveria se constituir numa ação instrumentalizadora configurada no trabalho do instrutor, deveria se constituir numa ação instrumentalizadora configurada no trabalho do instrutor, deveria se constituir numa ação didaticamente emancipadora e de intelectualidade orgânica, utilizando uma metodologia mais dialógica, com ideais mais sociais e mais diversificada.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2009 May 26

Doctor of Philosophy / Curriculum and Instruction Programs / Kakali Bhattacharya / Thomas Vontz / The purpose of this study was to better understand constructs of national identity in transnational space by illuminating the processes and relations of national identity disruption and development. This study is pertinent as cultural and social identities are traditionally framed by nation-centric processes in education. However, the effects of globalization continue to transform education through learning abroad initiatives and changing migration behaviors, which necessitates perspectives de-centering the nation as an assumed boundary. The theoretical framework for this study was transnationalism. A transnational perspective has brought new focus to educational research and national identity development by questioning the multiculturalist assumption of nationality as stable national identity and exploring the concepts of national identity and nationalism in transnational spaces created by globalization. The methodological approach was critical autoethnography as informed by narrative inquiry, in which I critically examined my own disruptive experience as a teacher in the Marshall Islands by engaging in retellings of experiences with one of my former Marshallese students as an informant. The method of interactive interviewing with an informant was necessary to develop a critical lens and to connect individual reflexivity with writing ethnographically to relate to broader human experience. Qualitative coding methods were applied to our retellings as thematic analysis to categorize accounts in the narrative. Finally, writing as a method of inquiry and analysis was used to explore emotions, positionality, and perspective. Through iterations of performing narrative with the informant and applying narrative analysis I found that the theme of belonging was apparent as a personal feeling in our narrative. Recognizing this as the theme posed another question; how does this address the original guiding question: what is a sense of belonging in terms of relations and processes? To answer this I considered space-sensitive understandings of belonging as a transnational perspective. This conclusion reconceptualized and grounded national identity development in the materiality of belonging as a feeling to reflect (1) the material consequences of physical characteristics, (2) the allocation of resources, and (3) language as power. In curriculum and instruction, this understanding of belonging as process could reinforce the ideological inclusivity of multiculturalism while liberating constructs of identity from the constraints of the nation. This perspective could have implications on the development of students’ national and transnational identities, allowing for the recognition of diversity without diminishing issues of difference such as racism, sexism, classism, and xenophobia in society creating students capable of celebrating difference while recognizing inequity and promoting social critique.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Acadia University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-155). Also available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

La thèse étudie, à partir du cas des pensionnats privés internationaux de Suisse romande, les mécanismes de l’acquisition d’un pouvoir social sur l’espace et d’une gestion spatiale des ressources, notamment économiques, pour les établissements et pour les élèves. La thèse porte sur les mécanismes par lesquels les pensionnats produisent des ancrages sur le territoire suisse pour les élèves et les anciens élèves. Cette recherche repose sur des entretiens semi-directifs auprès de plusieurs établissements privés, avec directeurs et managers, anciens élèves, enseignants et tuteurs d’internat et sur un travail socio-historique et quantitatif. La première partie étudie au XXe siècle la genèse progressive du secteur du secondaire privé des « pensionnats pour étrangers » et des « écoles internationales » de la région lémanique. L’attraction des grandes fortunes, notamment européennes et états-uniennes, dans ces écoles privées et l’organisation locale de ce secteur éducatif se sont appuyées sur des discours et des pratiques liées aux ressources du territoire suisse. Si les pensionnats suisses occupent aujourd’hui une place périphérique dans le monde international des certifications d’une éducation « d’élite », récemment, de nouveaux processus d’intégration financière mondiale et de défense de la place éducative suisse permettent de redéfinir leur mise en concurrence dans un espace international « d’écoles d’élites ». La deuxième partie porte sur le rôle que joue l’espace suisse dans des stratégies de placement multidimensionnelles en pension par les familles fortunées et sur les rapports à l’espace suisse des élèves et anciens élèves. La notion d’école « refuge » prend un triple sens, celui d’éducation « familiale » et affective de la vie à l’internat, celui d’un évitement des institutions très sélectives sur le plan scolaire et celui lié à un envoi en pension sur le territoire suisse. Les origines nationales des élèves se sont progressivement transformées depuis les années 1950 pour accueillir des nouvelles fortunes non européennes et non américaines, mais les anciens élèves continuent de revenir ou de rester en Suisse. Les forces de rappel des anciens élèves sur le territoire suisse sont le fruit d’une tension : manifestation d’une centralité suisse de leurs carrières financières, espace protecteur face à des incertitudes familiales, politiques et nationales. / The thesis examines how international boarding schools in Switzerland have been producing spatial resources for their students and alumni. The research is based on socio-historical analysis, quantitative analysis, and on semi-directive interviews with headmasters and managers, alumni, teachers and boarding staff at a diversity of international private schools in the Lake Geneva region. The first part of the thesis focuses on the emergence of the private educational sector progressively uniting « boarding schools for foreigners » and « international schools ». Since the beginning of the 20th c., schools have promoted their territorial resources for attracting the very rich, notably from Europe and the United States, and organized sectorial interests accordingly. Swiss boarding schools now have a peripheral part to play in the international spheres of certification and accreditation that govern elite education on a global scale. Nevertheless, recent processes of financialization of the educational sector and ways of protecting the Swiss educational sector contribute to redefine their place within internationalizing governance schemes of elite schools. The second part of the thesis examines the role played by spatial resources in wealthy families’ educational strategies in Switzerland and the spatial relations to Switzerland that students and alumni develop. The notion of « refuge school » or « recovery school » encompasses three dimensions : the « family » education that the boarding schools promote, parental strategies of avoiding selective national educational systems, socio-political determinations. Under the rise of non-European and non-American wealthy clienteles, students’ national origins have changed since the 1950s, but alumni continue to stay or come back to Switzerland. This results from a tension : Swiss centrality for financial careers and protection against family, political and national uncertainties.

Thesis (LLD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / The general public should have wide access to copyrighted materials for education and research. However, since the current copyright law system subtly favors copyright holders, it is time to re-evaluate copyright law to ensure it meets its original purpose of promoting the learning of the society. The research primarily focuses on how to broaden copyright limitations and exceptions for the public to access and use learning materials. Within the framework of the copyright law system, other mechanisms that allow users to access copyrighted materials at a reasonable price also are considered. Such mechanisms include an efficient collective copyright management system and various licensing schemes. In an information network environment, it is time for developing countries to reform copyright law in order to promote education and research. It is hoped the findings of this study not only benefit South Africa and People's Republic of China, but also provide insights and guidelines to other developing countries with similar conditions.

Globalization and English-language predominance situate English teachers as increasingly influential mediators of both language and culture. In the iconic multicultural hub of Ontario, Canada, teachers work within a causal nexus of social theories of language, the information and communication technologies revolution, and unprecedented global interdependency. Changes in English curriculum reflect these trends, from references to “global citizenship,” to stress on “intercultural communication,” “cultural sensitivity,” and Information and Communication Technology (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2007). Delegated gatekeepers of both linguistic and critical literacies, and facing new questions about the purposes and priorities of their discipline, Ontario English teachers must negotiate the divide between an inherited curriculum and the impacts of sociocultural transformation on changing literacy needs. To contribute to a professional dialogue about teaching English in a multicultural society and global age, this thesis presents findings from interviews with fifteen Ontario secondary English teachers. The focal question, “How is English changing?” introduces a range of pressing issues, such as: displacing the canon, practicing intercultural communication, balancing a democratic discourse, or “common culture,” with respect for diverse values, and managing opposing views and resistance to English curriculum change. The data reveal how English teachers across levels of experience occupy contrasting positions on the curriculum change debate. In part, this can be explained in terms of epistemological orientations. The participants represent three categories: Adaptation, Applied Research / Collaborative Inquiry, and Activism, each by turn more geared toward reconceptualizing English for social diversity and global consciousness. Beyond these classifications, the teachers reflect dissonant perceptions, sometimes personal ambivalence, on the changing role of text choice, and written and oral dialogue in the English classroom. From passionate defenses of Shakespeare, to radical measures to revamp book lists for cultural relevance, to remarkable illustrations of curriculum linked with global consciousness and civic action, the responses of the English teachers delineate zones of difficulty, change, and possibility. They help, too, to catch sight of a new horizon: the English classroom as a space for “cultural conversation” (Applebee, 1994) where canon- and teacher-centred dialogue give way to intertextual (Bakhtin, 1981; Kristeva, 1980) and intercultural (R. Young, 1996) transactions.