University of Macau / Faculty of Education

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Education / Master / Master of Education

O aluno é uma invenção. Nem sempre existiu na história essa categoria que entendemos por aluno. A partir apenas do final do século XIX é que se pode falar em sua emergência. Assim, é também a partir daí que se inicia o processo de produção de uma nova subjetividade das crianças e dos jovens. A escola, instituição responsável por acolhê-los, é o principal agente dessa produção. Fabricar alunos torna-se sua especialização. O presente trabalho procurou discutir, ao mesmo tempo, dois aspectos dessa questão: a) a invenção do aluno como algo não acabado e definitivo, sendo produzida diariamente no cotidiano escolar; b) a associação da invenção do aluno não ao poder possuído pela escola, mas às relações de poder exercidas no seu interior. Para isso, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa de campo no intuito de observar práticas e discursos escolares que tomavam o aluno como questão. Uma escola pública estadual de ensino médio foi escolhida e o trabalho de campo realizado no decorrer dos anos de 2008 e 2009. Conversas com os alunos foram registradas no final de cada um dos anos e completaram o material de pesquisa. Inspirada na concepção de relações de poder do pensador francês Michel Foucault (1926-1984), elaborou-se uma análise que pretendeu explorar algumas das possibilidades e dos efeitos das relações de poder estabelecidas no interior da escola em termos de uma invenção cotidiana do aluno. Uma das ideias que pôde ser extraída daí é que a invenção do aluno não necessita de práticas e discursos fixos e específicos para sua realização, mas pode ser pensada como inúmeras invenções que seriam possíveis a partir de jogos, disputas, imprevisibilidades e possibilidades de inversão, abertas pelas relações escolares de poder. Ademais, procurou-se experimentar um olhar e uma escrita aberta ao acaso, ao singular, ao imprevisto, ao variado e ao repetido, multiplicados pela concepção de poder que foi assumida. / The student is an invention. Such category has not always existed in History. Only after the late 19th century it is possible to speak not only of its emergence but also the process of producing a new subjectivity of the child and the young. The school, responsible for welcoming them, is the principal agent of this production whose expertise is to make students. The present study outlines two aspects of that at the same time: a) the invention of the student as a non-ending process, being produced daily in the school routine, b) the association of the student invention not with the power possessed by school, but with the power relations exercised inside of it. In order to do so, a field research has been developed to observe practices and student discourses which took the student as an issue. A state high school was chosen and the field work conducted during the years 2008 and 2009. Conversations with students were registered at the end of each year and completed the research material. Inspired by the conception of power relations developed by French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984), an analysis has been carried out which sought to explore some of the possibilities and the effects of power relations established within the school in terms of an everyday invention of the student. This brought the idea that the invention of the student does not require fixed and specific practices and discourses to its implementation. Instead, it can be thought of an array of inventions made possible through games, contests, unpredictability as well as possibilities of inversion, that would possible by the school power relations. Furthermore, we have tried to adopt a look and a written open to fortuitousness, the singular, the unexpected, the varied and repeated, multiplied by the conception of power that was hereby assumed.

The purpose is to analyze if the students have any use of their computer education at a senior high school level or if there is a demand for them to proceed studying. Does the students background have any importance or is it their own motivation that makes the student advance to higher education. In this report we ask ourselves the question, if the students have any use of the knowledge gained at senior high school in computer studies at a higher level. Do the students have any chance for employment based on their senior high school grades in computer studies after graduation?  Do the schools that follow the senior high school guidelines within programming and databases give these students an advantage towards those that have not received the same fundamental education? The method used for the survey is a group questionnaire.  The questionnaire was distributed at one and the same time and then collected to examine the results. The survey results showed that students who seek work based only on their senior high school grades, received only a temporary position for different lengths of time. Computer education at a senior high school is a preparatory education for collage. Those students that have graduated from  senior high school and are keeping up to date with collage oriented subjects within the field of programming and databases, give their students an advantage when they begin reading at a more advanced level.

The purpose of this study was to test a conceptual model for assessing the effects of student aid on community college student persistence. A sample consisting of all students who had entered a public community college during the 1980 fall term was drawn from the database of High School and Beyond, 1980 Senior Cohort. Omitting transfer students brought the sample size to 1,364 students. The model of student persistence was based on Tinto's theory of student integration and prior research that suggested student aid may be related to the persistence of community college students. Persistence was defined as the number of terms of enrollment over a two year period (1980-81 and 1981-82). Receipt of aid was associated with lower socioeconomic status, higher tuition charges, above average high school grades, and an ethnic background other than Asian or non-Hispanic white. Aid recipients considered college costs and the availability of aid more important factors in their college choice. A model of student persistence composed of eight exogenous and five endogenous variables was tested through path analysis. It was found that the receipt of student aid did not have significant effects on any of the subsequent variables in the model. Estimation of a reduced path model omitting the aid variable did not result in a significant reduction in explained variance. Degree goals, initial expectation regarding higher education, encouragement to attend college, academic integration, and full-time work were the most important influences on persistence. These findings validated the importance of some of the major constructs in the theory of student integration, but they did not support the research hypothesis that student aid recipients would have a higher rate of persistence than nonrecipients when other factors were held constant. Since encouragement from significant others had a strong and positive association with student persistence, it was suggested that future research consider the role of encouragement on persistence. / Ph. D.