<p><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"><font face="Times-Roman" size="3"> <p align="left">The purpose of this study was therefore to address the following primary research question: &lsquo / What effect would a specially designed, developed, implemented and evaluated Material Science (MS) course have on serving teachers in terms of their perceptions and knowledge/understanding regarding content in MS and instructional practice in D&amp / T?&rsquo / </p> </font></font></p>

For effective teaching to take place in secondary schools, teachers need to be adjusted positively towards reality and need to possess a thorough knowledge of the learning material which they offer. Teachers can be helped to adjust positively towards reality and also possess a thorough knowledge of the learning material if their didactic professional needs are being satisfied through in-service education and training. ln-service education and training aims at improving teachers' competence and performance in the classroom situation. This study aims at identifying the didactic-professional in-service education and training needs of secondary school teachers in the Northern Province. The following didactic-professional needs are identified: • The need to improve secondary school teachers' academic competence. • The need to update teachers' knowledge and skills to be able to cope with professional technological changes in the classroom. • The need to appraise secondary school teachers' in the classroom situation. The study also aims at determining the shortcomings of the strategies currently being used in the in-service education and training of secondary school teachers and also at finding strategies in order to improve the present situation. The sample of this study comprises 244 randomly selected teachers, 1 05 randomly selected managers and all subject advisors (n=11) in the former Venda in the Northern Province. Data was collected from the above sample, through the use of a questionnaire. A Likert type scale was used in the questionnaire. In conclusion, some of the findings of this study are as follows: • Appraisal of teaching activities in the classroom is fair or poor. It is recommended that teachers be appraised to help them to identify their weak points and also to give them advice on their teaching. Principals, deputy principals and departmental heads need to be involved in this process. • Reflective practice of teachers is fair or poor. It is recommended that principals, deputy principals and departmental heads create conditions favourable to teachers to collaborate and cooperate in their schools. • Panel inspection sometimes occurs or rarely occurs. It could be of help to teachers if inspectors of schools conduct panel inspection to help teachers to identify the areas they need to improve their teaching. • Assistance to secondary school teachers by subject advisors sometimes occurs or rarely occurs. Again here it could be of help if subject advisors render their assistance to secondary school teachers to enable them to identify their weak points. • ln-service training centres only cater for teachers teaching. grade 12. It is recommended that in-service training centres cater for all teachers in secondary schools. • Class visits by circuit managers sometimes occur or rarely occur. It is recommended that circuit managers visit classrooms to acquaint themselves with what is happening there. • College programmes for improving professional competence are average or below average. It is recommended that college programmes for improving professional competence be improved in the Northern Province. • Short courses and seminars at the in-service training centres are fair or poor. It is recommended that they be improved to help secondary school teachers with their didactic-professional needs. / Thesis (MEd)--PU for CHE, 1999

For effective teaching to take place in secondary schools, teachers need to be adjusted positively towards reality and need to possess a thorough knowledge of the learning material which they offer. Teachers can be helped to adjust positively towards reality and also possess a thorough knowledge of the learning material if their didactic professional needs are being satisfied through in-service education and training. ln-service education and training aims at improving teachers' competence and performance in the classroom situation. This study aims at identifying the didactic-professional in-service education and training needs of secondary school teachers in the Northern Province. The following didactic-professional needs are identified: • The need to improve secondary school teachers' academic competence. • The need to update teachers' knowledge and skills to be able to cope with professional technological changes in the classroom. • The need to appraise secondary school teachers' in the classroom situation. The study also aims at determining the shortcomings of the strategies currently being used in the in-service education and training of secondary school teachers and also at finding strategies in order to improve the present situation. The sample of this study comprises 244 randomly selected teachers, 1 05 randomly selected managers and all subject advisors (n=11) in the former Venda in the Northern Province. Data was collected from the above sample, through the use of a questionnaire. A Likert type scale was used in the questionnaire. In conclusion, some of the findings of this study are as follows: • Appraisal of teaching activities in the classroom is fair or poor. It is recommended that teachers be appraised to help them to identify their weak points and also to give them advice on their teaching. Principals, deputy principals and departmental heads need to be involved in this process. • Reflective practice of teachers is fair or poor. It is recommended that principals, deputy principals and departmental heads create conditions favourable to teachers to collaborate and cooperate in their schools. • Panel inspection sometimes occurs or rarely occurs. It could be of help to teachers if inspectors of schools conduct panel inspection to help teachers to identify the areas they need to improve their teaching. • Assistance to secondary school teachers by subject advisors sometimes occurs or rarely occurs. Again here it could be of help if subject advisors render their assistance to secondary school teachers to enable them to identify their weak points. • ln-service training centres only cater for teachers teaching. grade 12. It is recommended that in-service training centres cater for all teachers in secondary schools. • Class visits by circuit managers sometimes occur or rarely occur. It is recommended that circuit managers visit classrooms to acquaint themselves with what is happening there. • College programmes for improving professional competence are average or below average. It is recommended that college programmes for improving professional competence be improved in the Northern Province. • Short courses and seminars at the in-service training centres are fair or poor. It is recommended that they be improved to help secondary school teachers with their didactic-professional needs. / Thesis (MEd)--PU for CHE, 1999

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No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Lucimeire da Silva Furlaneto.pdf: 2592459 bytes, checksum: 9548c0c5dd9bc100c7dc9b24b26c3852 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-18 / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar e discutir as concepções de leitura dos professores de Língua Portuguesa mobilizadas nas atividades de leitura no curso de formação continuada intitulado “Letramentos do professor: Vivências de Leitura e Escrita em Língua Materna”, conduzido na Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, campus de Cuiabá. Para tal propósito, nós analisamos os enunciados produzidos e circulados pelos professores-cursistas como sujeitos sócio e historicamente constituídos. A metodologia de pesquisa de análise dos dados é de abordagem qualitativa à luz da perspectiva de uso da linguagem enunciativo-discursiva de Bakhtin e o Círculo ([1952-53], 2010); ([1929], 2012), e do aporte teórico socio-histórico de ensino e aprendizagem de Lev Vygotsky (2007[1930]). Para analisar os dados coletados nos questionários aplicados aos cursistas, embasa-se nos pressupostos da metodologia quantitativa de Bauere Gaskell (2012) e fundamenta-se na abordagem de pesquisa qualitativa de Bogdan e Biklen (1994). O principal propósito do curso de formação continuada de professores é ajudar o educador a situar contextualmente suas práticas no domínio escolar como também nas aulas de Língua Portuguesa com os alunos. No escopo do curso, apresentou-se momentos de vivências de leitura, escrita e reescrita, focados em diferentes textos de gêneros discursivos que circulam em diversas esferas discursivas. Nossas análises revelaram que o letramento do professor é bastante restrito e que, apesar de continuadas formações, a atualização destes dentro das novas perspectivas de ensino é deficitária, concorrendo para uma atuação confusa e teoricamente mista em sala de aula. Verificamos que os vários cursos de formação continuada dos professores da rede pública não estão contribuindo efetivamente para mudanças em suas práticas de ensino de leitura e escrita em sala de aula. Assim, confirmamos a nossa hipótese de que as práticas de letramentos do professor mobilizadas nas atividades de ensino de leitura possam estar intimamente relacionadas mais a um problema de cultura profissional do que a uma questão de área de conhecimento. Por fim, destacamos que cursos pontuais de curta duração de 60 horas não são suficientes para sanar estes problemas, apenas para detectar e levantar mais algumas questões. Portanto, acreditamos que o processo de formação deva ser contínuo e assessorado por mais de um ano letivo a fim de que possa promover mudanças significativas nas atividades e práticas de ensino de leitura numa perspectiva de formação de sujeitos críticos e cidadãos. / The present research has the aim to analyse and argue about the conceptions of Portuguese language teachers´ reading mobilized inthe reading activities at the in-service teacher education course intitled “Teacher´s literacy: livings on reading and writing in Portuguese Languageconducted at Mato Grosso´s Federal University”, in the campus of Cuiabá. For such purpose, we analysed the utterances produced and circulated by the teachers attendants of the course as social and historical constituted subjects of discourses. The research methodology of data analysis is qualitative approachin the light of Bakhtin and the Circle´s enunciative-discoursive use of language perspective ([1952-53], 2010); ([1929], 2012), and Lev Vygotsky`s social-historical teaching and learning theoretical framework(2007[1930]). To analyse the data collected atthe questionnaires applied at the course attendants, it grounds upon the assumptions in Bauer and Gaskell quantitative methodology (2012), and it also relies on Bogdan and Biklen´s qualitative research approach (1994). The primary purpose of continuing professional education course for teachers is to help the educator to contextually situate their practices in the school domain but also in the Portuguese language lessons with students. In the scope of the course, it has presented moments of living experiences in reading, writing and rewriting, focused on diversified texts in various speech genres that circulate in different discursive spheres. We found that the various continuing teaching education courses for public school teachers are not effectively contributing to changes in their teaching practice of reading and writing in the classroom. Therefore, we confirmed our hypothesis that the practices of literacies which the teachers mobilize in teaching reading activities may be more closely related to a problem of professional culture than a matter of knowledge areas. Finally, we highlight that short in-lenght courses of 60 hours are not enough to remedy these problems, only to detect and raise a few more questions. Therefore, we believe that the training process must be continuous and assisted by more than one school year in order that can promote significant changes in the activities and practices of teaching reading in a formation perspective of critical.

Orientador: Sergio Ferreira do Amaral / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T08:39:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Basso_Ilda_D.pdf: 2814201 bytes, checksum: 2e44d9b7fa96e9a7fce9e52f3e305d40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A formação continuada pode ser analisada de diferentes perspectivas e em várias vertentes. No caso da presente pesquisa, discutem-se questões relacionadas à formação continuada, às competências e ao uso da linguagem digital. Por isso seus objetivos são conhecer as concepções dos professores sobre a linguagem digital e o uso da mesma nas escolas Públicas de Campinas e região; identificar as competências requeridas dos professores para o uso da linguagem digital nas práticas pedagógicas em sala de aula. A amostra da pesquisa foi composta de 136 participantes professores em formação continuada. A investigação se deu por meio da aplicação de questionários e escala Likert, e a sua essência é a identificação de competências necessárias ao uso da linguagem digital na formação continuada de professores., cujos resultados apontam a necessidade de uma mudança na concepção de ensino e aprendizagem da escola e do professor dentro deste contexto tecnológico, além de investimentos para o acesso aos suportes tecnológicos para fins pedagógicos. / Abstract: Continuing education may be analyzed from different perspectives. The present study discusses issues related to continuing formation, competences and the use of digital language. Its objectives are to know teachers' thoughts about digital language and its use in public schools in the city of Campinas and neighbor areas; to identify teachers' required competences for using digital language in classroom pedagogical practices. The sample was formed by 136 teachers in continuing education. The investigation involved the application of questionnaires and Likert scale, and its essence is the identification of the necessary competences for using digital language in teacher continuing formation. Results point the need for a change in the concept of teaching and learning in a technological context, in terms of the school as well as of the teacher. There is also the need of investments to provide access to technological supports for pedagogical ends. / Doutorado / Educação, Ciencia e Tecnologia / Doutor em Educação

Dentre os muitos e bem conhecidos problemas relacionados ao ensino de Ciências, a falta de planejamento dos professores vem contribuindo para agravar ainda mais esses problemas. Na prática escolar existe grande dificuldade em compreender a necessidade de um processo de planejamento e de torná-lo real. Atualmente o planejamento é rejeitado por professores que por obrigação se limitam a elaborar seu plano burocraticamente, apenas para atender as exigências da Instituição. Esta pesquisa buscou investigar as concepções sobre planejamento e elaboração do plano de curso de sete professores de Química de escolas estaduais de São Paulo que participaram do Projeto Laboratório Didático Virtual (LabVirt) desenvolvido pela Escola do Futuro da Universidade de São Paulo. Buscou investigar também a possibilidade de uma ação de formação contínua ter efetividade prática na promoção de mudanças significativas na elaboração dos planos de curso destes professores, enfatizando não apenas os conteúdos, mas também os objetivos, os métodos, os recursos e a avaliação. Os dados desta pesquisa foram coletados na forma de questionários, entrevistas e planos de curso pré e pós-projeto e organizados em mapas cognitivos por permitem uma visão idiossincrática de cada indivíduo. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que os professores entendem o processo de planejamento como necessário para organizar os conteúdos conceituais que serão ensinados durante o ano. Seus planos de curso seguem o modelo padrão estabelecido pela maioria das escolas (objetivo, conteúdo, metodologia e avaliação) e não refletem o \"quê fazer\" do professor. As atividades desenvolvidas no LabVirt pouco contribuíram para modificações nos planos de curso, na medida que os planos elaborados pós-projeto são praticamente idênticos aos do pré-projeto. Apesar disso, todos assumem que o fato de ter um plano de aulas bem organizado, facilita e orienta a prática docente mostrando então que perceberam a importância do planejamento no seu dia-a-dia. / Among the many and well-known problems related to science education, the poor preparation of teaching plannings make these problems worse. Most in-service teachers have difficulties to understand the necessity of the planning process, and to bring it to reality. In general, teachers reject planning, for they consider it only as an imposition of the school´s bureaucratic structure. The aim of this research was to investigate the conceptions on planning and the elaboration of course plans of seven Chemistry teachers working in public schools from the state of São Paulo, and which took part in the Virtual Didactic Laboratory Project (LabVirt) developed by the \"Escola do Futuro\" of the University of São Paulo. Another aim was to investigate the effects of an in-service teacher education action designed to promote significative changes in the elaboration of course plans, which should focus not only contents, but also objectives, methods, resources and assessment. Data of this research consisted in answers to questionnaires, interviews and plannings which were collected before and after the LabVirt activities. Data were organized in cognitive maps, which allowed an idiossincratic view the participants. The results suggested that the teachers understand the planning process as necessary to organize the conceptual contents that will be taught during the year. Their annual plannings follow the established pattern in most schools, and do not properly reflects the teachers´ practices. The activities developed in the LabVirt project brought few contributions to the modification of course plans, since the plans elaborated after the project activities were practically the same those made before them. However, most teachers recognized the importance of a well-elaborated class plan. The importance of planning to their everyday practice seemed to have been assimilated by the teachers.

This phenomenological inquiry delved into the lived experience of what it is like to have anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially fatal allergy, for those in the teacher education context. Hence, an understanding of the phenomenon of living with a severe allergy as well as the impact it has on the professional development of teachers emerged. Three pre-service teachers with first-hand experience of anaphylaxis participated in a series of in-depth interviews over the course of five months. Guided by the hermeneutic approach to phenomenological research outlined by Max van Manen as well as the philosophical writings of Bernd Jager on the social experiences of eating, several essential themes surfaced. The lived experience of anaphylaxis can thus be understood through two actions: ‘The Inhale’ which is associated with perceived barriers of anaphylaxis and ‘The Exhale’ which is a sense of relief one experiences when one is managing an anaphylactic allergy. The three most significant contexts where these actions notably hindered or empowered pre-service teachers were: ‘The Habi(table) Environment’, the concept of safe spaces for those with anaphylactic allergies, ‘The Confron(table) Environment’, represented by spaces beyond a safe environment where there is a need to confront the allergy, and ‘The Respec(table) Environment’ which is an inter-subjective space between those with allergies and those without who are able to negotiate their needs with one another, allowing for the creation of respectable community. These themes, comprised of two actions and three contexts, thus serve to offer a sense of what it is like to live with and manage anaphylaxis. They also sensitize educators toward developing thoughtful, pedagogical responses to the increasing rates of anaphylaxis in the classroom.

This thesis is a documentation of an empirical study in which qualitative methods were employed to investigate the current programmes offered to pre-service Creative Arts teachers at selected South African universities. The subject, Creative Arts, is one of the compulsory learning areas for grades R - 9 in all South African public schools as prescribed by the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement of 2011. In order for learners to gain maximum benefit from the subject Creative Arts, pre-service teachers should be educated to gain an understanding of the interrelatedness of the different art forms. The theoretical framework underpinning this study is Mezirow's theory of transformative learning which is based on critical reflection. Pre-service teachers should therefore be encouraged to critically reflect on the learning process, rethinking their own perspectives and constructing new knowledge in the process of discourse with others. Information on the current programmes offered at five South African universities involved in this collective case study, was extrapolated from interviews with both lecturers of Creative Arts programmes, and pre-service teachers enrolled for courses in Creative Arts. Furthermore, observations were done at various sites to obtain an in-depth perspective of how the arts are presented at these institutions. Findings revealed that most universities offer Creative Arts programmes with an arts specific approach. This corresponds with the demands of artistic disciplines, and especially performance arts, which require the development of practical skills which should be developed over an extended period. Although developing these specialized skills and knowledge in each art form is important, the discrete presentation of these arts may limit opportunities for students to experience integrated arts activities. Moreover, pre-service teachers need practice in school based settings to hone their teaching skills in delivering meaningful arts activities to learners. The recognition of common grounds between the different art disciplines makes the merging of these arts into the broad subject, Creative Arts possible. These commonalities should be further explored, especially in a South African context where African arts are inherently integrated. Benefits of co-operative curriculum planning between the departments of Basic and Higher Education in the provision of competent and skilful teachers for Creative Arts is the key to successful arts education in South African schools. / Thesis (DMus)--University of Pretoria, 2016. / Music / DMus / Unrestricted

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This qualitative study sought to explore reasons why social studies teachers chose to teach controversial issues and counternarratives in their classroom in an era where doing so is dangerous for teachers and their job security, and how they go about doing so in their classrooms. The theoretical framework of this study encompassed the notion that the five selected teachers embodied and practiced elements of Foucauldian parrhēsía, which is teaching the truth despite the risk of doing so, despite not having explicit knowledge of this particular philosophy, and utilized counternarratives and controversial issues as a means of challenging dominant social norms to bring about a more just and equitable society. The existing literature suggests that their pre-service teacher education provided little influence on their decisions, despite the positive historical, personal, and democratic outcomes from teaching a curriculum exploring controversial issues and counternarratives. Five teachers were recommended for this study due to their reputations for teaching controversial issues and counternarratives in their social studies classrooms. After interviewing and observing these teachers, a number of interesting findings came to light, including a list of best practices for how to teach controversial issues in the classroom, reasons why the teachers taught controversial issues in the classroom, structures of support and barriers for teaching a critical social studies curriculum, and differences between those who believed they taught controversial issues in their classroom but did not, and those who actually did.

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