There is a divide between what students are being taught within the science classroom and what they experience out in the real world. This study sought to explore possible relationships between a socioscientific issues embedded curriculum and outcome variables addressing environmental attitude and knowledge, oral and written argumentation and critical thinking skills. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to examine both within and between class differences as well as individual differences between the beginning and end of a semester of elementary school. Results indicated that socioscientific issues assist students in developing their critical thinking skills while also providing students the opportunity to be exposed to and participate in local and global environmental issues influencing the community at large. Statistical significance was found between groups in regards to attitude toward the environment, the qualitative interviews did indicate that some students provided more advanced argumentation skills by articulating alternate viewpoints on controversial environmental topics. Theoretical implications regarding the use of socioscientific issues in the classroom are presented.

Pedagogic folk-tale therapy at the lessons of informal education Summary One of he most urgent problem in the Lithuanian contemporary educational, basing itself on the humanist education principles, is the psychological climate at school, influencing pupils’ motivation to state of pupil. Supplementary education classes could have a large influence on the improvement of psychological climate. ,,The Supplementary Education Concept” is a list of the possibilities, grouped ant called functions, including: cognitive, communication, pragmatic and self-reakiztion. The mentioned concept does not include the innovative function of supplementary education, used to preserve emotional health and to improve the emotional state of a child. In essence this function is ,,social treatment” by art, also known as art therapy. ,, The Supplementary Education Concept” addresses the problems, arising in the course of after-class activity in a mainstream school. This is related to poor search for new working forms and methods, forgotten training and insufficient requalification tasks, and too little attention paid to the children’s socialization process, etc. We studied the documents, regulating supplementary education, articles of researchers and teachers on this work and formulated the problem for investigation, namely: too little attention is paid to the important issue for pupil’s socialization and creativity-planning, and organizing of systematical recreational work, used to eliminate... [to full text]

This work is meant for informal adult education research as adult informal education in Lithuania is not widely used. The above mentioned factor is based on many factors and tendencies of the previous years, i.e. qualification of the most people does not meet requirements of the market or there is lack of formal qualification, professional training system is not developed as it should be; compared to EU well developed countries only small part of the adults participate in informal adult education programs, lack of informal and self-education acknowledgement makes it harder to take part in labour market. Goal. Evaluate informal adult education status analyzing independent informal adult education situation in Lithuania. At the time of the research scientific literature and documents regulating informal adult education were analyzed as well as secondary statistics data. Possibilities of informal adult education were analyzed, too. Besides, informal and self-education identification, evaluation and acknowledgment process in Lithuania and abroad were evaluated. Vilnius city and municipality informal adult education organizing institutions (5) and adults (165) studying there participated in the research. One of the goals was to analyze studying conditions and motivation of the adults studying there. The results of the research show that the most active adults participating in the educational programs are adults of employable age, having university education and having... [to full text]

Šiame darbe nagrinėjamas 7–9 metų amžiaus vaikų kūrybinės veiklos organizavimas pramoginio ir šiuolaikinio šokio studijose. Pažymėtina, jog neformalaus švietimo srityje dirbantys pramoginio šokio mokytojai suvokdami vaikų kūrybos poreikį ir reikalingumą, neretai apsiriboja tik šokio atlikimo technikos tobulinimu, nepaiso naujų šiuolaikinių švietimo gairių, nesidomi Lietuvos Respublikos įstatymais. Šokio pamokose naudoja savo sukurtus veiklos modelius, kurie skurdina pamoką, nesuteikia galimybės vaiko kritinio mąstymo tobulėjimui. Tyrimo objektas: 7–9 metų vaikų kūrybinės veiklos organizavimas. Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti 7–9 metų vaikų kūrybinės veiklos organizavimo pramoginio ir šiuolaikinio šokio studijose ypatumus. / In this paper is about how to organize creative activities for children of age from 7 till 9 years in ballroom and contemporary dance studios. It should be noted that informal education teachers of ballroom dance understands need and necessity for children's creativity. But their teachings are often limited to dance technique improvements, ignoring modern education guidelines and laws of the Republic of Lithuania. In dance classes teachers use their own teaching models, which impoverishing the lesson and restricts from development of children critical thinking. Object of research: dance creativity activities for children aged from 7 till 9 years. Purpose of the research: to reveal the how dance creativity activities are organized during ballroom and contemporary dance studies for children aged from 7 till 9 years.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-10-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:51:14Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 sanches_g_me_bauru.pdf: 6279727 bytes, checksum: 18771c731a6e72a65591b7f8e51ee869 (MD5) / Apresenta-se um histórico sobre a televisão brasileira desde sua implantação, no modelo analógico, até os dias atuais, sob transmissão digital. Destaca-se a interatividade na TV digital. Descreve-se as características e funções das emissoras públicas e educativas com enfoque para o papel dessas emissoras na formação de cidadãos. No mesmo item, faz-se uma abordagem panorâmica sobre a Televisão Universitária Unesp (TVU), veículo para o qual destina-se o produto final deste trabalho. Elabora-se uma proposta de conteúdo educativo e interativo para a TVU com o objetivo de explorar a interatividade como ferramenta para proporcionar conhecimento ao integrante, incluindo a descrição do programete produzido, seu roteiro e sua viabilidade / Presents the history of Brazilian television since its implementation, with the analogue standardm until nowadays, with the digital television. Highlights the interactivity on digital television. Describles the characteristics and functions of educational public broadcasters focusing on its roles on formation of citizens. In the same item, does a panoramic analyze of the UNESP University Television (UTV), which is the media for the final product of this research. Draws up a proposal of interactive educational content for the UTV with the intention of explore the interactivity as a tool to provide knowledge for the interactant, including a description of the program produced, its screenplay and its viability

Planetários e observatórios oferecem a possibilidade de desenvolver um ensino contextualizado de Astronomia, permitindo a realização de atividades educativas que proporcionam acesso a uma ciência escolar mais autêntica. Com isso em vista, esta pesquisa consistiu no desenvolvimento, aplicação e análise de minicursos sobre o Sol, para o ensino fundamental e física solar, para o ensino médio em um espaço não formal de educação, o Observatório Astronômico do CDCC/USP. Tópicos como a composição química, temperatura e evolução estelar foram ensinados a partir de experimentos clássicos em uma sala totalmente dedicada ao Sol, a Sala Solar com equipamentos de baixo custo. Os cursos enfatizaram atividades práticas, observacionais e questionadoras, como discussões sobre a natureza do Sol, manchas solares e proeminências, estimativas da temperatura da fotosfera, observaçã do espectro solar na região do visível e identicação das linhas de absorção entendendo como são produzidas e que tipo de informações podem ser extraídas a partir delas. O objetivo do curso do ensino fundamental foi mostrar que o Sol e um astro dinâmico e que influencia a Terra de diversas maneiras, além de contextualizar o conteúudo ensinado com atividades práticas. O objetivo do curso do ensino médio foi compreender o papel chave desempenhado pela espectroscopia na astrofísica e permitir abordagens interdisciplinares incluíndo física moderna e química no ensino de Astronomia. A metodologia de pesquisa consistiu de uma abordagem qualitativa com a realização de questionários escritos, entrevistas semi-estruturadas e lmagens. Antes dos cursos, muitos alunos concebiam o Sol como sendo uma esfera quente de fogo, as manchas solares como sendo buracos no Sol e as proeminências como magma expelido por vulcões. Após a realizaçã dos cursos os alunos apresentaram ideias sobre o Sol e aspectos de física solar mais próximas das aceitas hoje em dia pela comunidade cientca. Esta pesquisa não ficou restrita aos ganhos cognitivos dos alunos após a realização dos minicursos, pois considerou a interação de diferentes contextos responsáveis pela aprendizagem em museus de ciências. Isso foi possível pelo referencial teórico adotado: o Modelo Contextual de Aprendizagem de Falk e Dierking. Trabalhar conteudos astronômicos de forma interdisciplinar e ao mesmo tempo de maneira ativa e questionadora traz alguns desafios para as equipes de instituições como o Observatório. As atividades elaboradas nos centros de ciências devem ter como principal objetivo despertar o interesse do aprendiz pela ciência, mas também destacamos a necessidade da oferta de minicursos para voluntários, pois a linguagem, conteúdos e metodologias em atividades mais longas podem facilitar abordagens interdisciplinares e integradoras da Astronomia com outras áreas do conhecimento científico pouco exploradas nas salas de aula. Isso pode ocorrer quando o projeto pedagógico da escola é construído coletivamente, envolvendo museus de ciências, professores, escola e alunos buscando conciliar propostas de um ensino de ciências que considere o contexto fora da escola e que ao mesmo tempo tenha relação com o que o aluno está estudando em sala de aula. / Observatories and planetariums offer the possibility of developing contextualized astronomy teaching by fostering educational activities that provide access to a more authentic school science. Thus, this research consisted in developing, applying and evaluating courses about the Sun for middle, junior high school students and solar physics for high school students in an informal educational space, the CDCC/USP Astronomical Observatory. Topics of chemical composition, temperature and stellar evolution were taught in a room totally dedicated to the study of the Sun, a Solar Room, designed with simple and inexpensive equipment. The course strongly emphasized practical, observational and inquirybased activities, such as estimation of the solar surface temperature, observation of the visible solar spectrum, identication of solar absorption lines, understanding how they are produced, and what kind of information can be extracted from the observed spectral lines. Some of the course goals were to foster the comprehension of the key role played by spectroscopy in astrophysics, to contextualize contents with practical activities, and to allow interdisciplinary approaches including modern physics and chemistry in physics teaching. The research methodology consisted of a qualitative approach by fillming the whole course and performing written questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Before the courses were applied most students conceived the Sun as a hot sphere composed of fire, sunspots as holes in the Sun and solar prominences as magma expelled by volcanoes. After the courses students presented ideas about the Sun and solar physics more closely related to the ones accepted by contemporary science. This research was not restricted to students\' cognitive gains after concluding the courses, since it considered the interaction of different contexts responsible for learning in science museums. This was possible due to the theoretical framework adopted: The Contextual Model of Learning of Falk and Dierking. Some challenges have to be faced by institutions such as the Astronomical Observatory in order to teach astronomy in an interdisciplinary form and with inquiry-based activities The activities developed at science centers must have as their main objective to motivate the public towards science, but it is also important to offer courses for volunteers, since language, contents and methodologies in longer activities can facilitate interdisciplinary approaches of Astronomy with other areas of scientic knowledge seldom explored in classrooms. This can happen when the school\'s educational project is collectively constructed including science museums, teachers, school and students by seeking to enhance teaching proposals that consider the out of school context and is related to contents taught in the classroom.

The purpose of this study was to begin constructing an expanded framework for child literacy learning with participants who educate children in formal and informal settings in literacy, the arts and environmental education. The study explored how a broader framework for child literacy learning could gain strength and purpose from our increasingly diverse and complex social environment. I used participatory arts-based research to spark dialogue and foster partnerships. The design of the study was intended to demonstrate how the arts, in this case photography, can be effective as a means of attending, exploring, and communicating ideas. Three major themes emerged: Child Literacy Practices and how they can attend to belonging and voice; Arts and Culture and the engagement of children in the arts and how this is relevant to child literacy learning ;and Environmental Destruction looking towards preparing children to be ecologically literate in the context of child literacy learning. / Graduate

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-07-10T15:03:44Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertação_Memórias_do_Mar_AyrtonBarros_2016.pdf: 953497 bytes, checksum: 30d4d0e0b6baea4e823a4150ded17e07 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T15:03:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Dissertação_Memórias_do_Mar_AyrtonBarros_2016.pdf: 953497 bytes, checksum: 30d4d0e0b6baea4e823a4150ded17e07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-21 / Investiga-se a relação entre a educação informal e a manutenção da pesca artesanal e do modo de vida dos pescadores na Colônia de pescadores Z-9 em São José da Coroa Grande, cidade do litoral sul pernambucano. Utiliza-se, desde uma articulação metodológica entre Paul Ricoeur e Ernesto Laclau, a história oral, explorando categorias como trabalho artesanal, economia solidária, economia popular, educação informal. Os dados coletados foram transcritos e analisados de forma cautelosa, a partir de categorias estabelecidas pelo encontro entre teoria e dados empíricos. Concluímos que a identidade dos pescadores é essencialmente discursiva, construindo ou perdendo potência política na medida de sua capacidade de não se deixar enredar pelas lógicas sociais dominantes, hegemonizadas pelos interesses do capital e, especificamente falando, da pesca industrial. Nisto, a educação informal se relaciona intrinsecamente com a pesca artesanal, sendo essencial a sua manutenção, na medida em que possa se contrapor aos efeitos nefastos de uma escolarização voltada para o mercado. / We investigate the relationship between the informal education and the maintenance of artisanal fisheries and the livelihood of fishermen in the colony of fishermen Z-9 in São José da Coroa Grande, a city of the southern coast of Pernambuco. We used, since a methodology joint between Paul Ricoeur and Ernesto Lacrau, the oral history, exploring categories such as craftsmanship, solidarity economy, popular economy, informal education. The collected data were transcribed and analysed carefully, using categories established by the encounter between theory and empirical data. We concluded that the identity of the fishermen is essentially discursive, building or losing political power to the extent of its ability to not to get caught by the dominant social logic, equalized by the interests of the Capital and, specifically, by the Industrial fisheries. This informal education is closelyrelated to artisanal fisheries, being essencial for its maintainance, to the extent that it can counteract the harmful effects of a market-oriented schooling.

Orientador: Ana Maria Klein / Resumo: No Brasil, as violações aos Direitos Humanos são cotidianas e ocorrem em diferentes âmbitos sociais, pela omissão ou negligência do Estado na promoção de direitos, pelas instituições que muitas vezes não reconhecem os direitos das pessoas, ou nas relações interpessoais que se pautam pelas violências e desrespeito à dignidade humana. Tais violações ocorrem em um contexto de ignorância e preconceito em relação a este conjunto de direitos que deveriam ser enfrentados por meio de ações educativas. A mídia é reconhecida como um importante agente de educação informal pelos principais documentos que orientam a Educação em Direitos Humanos no Brasil. Neste sentido, o presente estudo problematiza a abordagem dos Direitos Humanos pelos telejornais brasileiros. O trabalho está estruturado em forma de artigos que buscam responder conceitualmente e empiricamente ao seguinte problema: como os Direitos Humanos são abordados em telejornais das televisões abertas do Brasil? A abordagem empírica do problema se dá no continum qualitativo-quantitativo e as técnicas utilizadas foram pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental e análise de conteúdo. Foram analisados cinco telejornais: SBT Brasil (SBT), Jornal da Record (Record), Jornal Nacional (Rede Globo), Jornal da Cultura (TV Cultura) e Brasil Urgente (Band). Os dados foram avaliados por meio de uma ficha de análise e categorização das matérias. Os resultados encontrados demonstram ausência de informações ou menções aos Direitos Humanos, embor... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: In Brazil, human rights violations are commonplace and occur in different social spheres, by the State's omission or negligence in promoting rights, by institutions that often do not recognize people's rights, or in interpersonal relationships that are guided by violence and disrespect for human dignity. Such violations occur in a context of ignorance and prejudice in relation to this set of rights that should be faced by educational actions. The media is an important agent of informal education by the main documents that guide Human Rights Education in Brazil. In this sense, the present study problematizes the approach to Human Rights by Brazilian news programs. We structured this work in the form of articles that address the bibliographic review and the analysis of the collected data. The problem approach is in the qualitative-quantitative continuum and the techniques used were bibliographic research, documentary research and content analysis. We evaluated the data using an analysis and categorization sheet. The results found demonstrate the absence of information or mention of Human Rights, although all the matters relates with some of these rights. The news programs do not name or identify Human Rights, contributing to the ignorance and maintenance of existing prejudices in the country and failing to contribute to the formation of the viewer as a subject of rights. / Mestre

Experiential, outdoor education supports improvement in students’ problem-solving skills; collaboration and communication skills; and enjoyment in learning in the outdoors. Outdoor instruction is becoming increasingly underutilized. A residential environmental education center, located in Tennessee has conducted professional development programs in effort to increase teacher implementation of instruction in outdoor spaces. This institute revealed concern for low implementation rates to past professional development opportunities. Their newly designed, long-term professional development explored teacher’s perceived challenges and needs, then combined effective experiential pedagogy in outdoor spaces with pre-established communities of support from the participating schools in effort to contribute to experiential, outdoor instruction reform. This program entailed four workshop meetings over a seven-month time span, producing over 50 hours of face-toace contact during the training. Program leaders designed the learning experience to include effective professional development strategies; reflective assignments; and activities that related to citizen science, experiential learning, and science and engineering practices found in the recently adopted Tennessee State Science Standards. This study identified concepts of the planned, delivered, and received curricula of the workshop series to define the intentions, methodologies, and impact of the experience. The intentions of the program were aligned to the delivered curricula then the impact of the program was considered. Data collected during this qualitative study included over 15 hours of interviews; over 110 hours of observation field notes; and various artifacts including journals, handouts and applications. This long-term professional development provided a pre-established community of practice and advocated for experiential instruction in outdoor spaces; eliminating barriers; improving teacher confidence and implementation of knowledge gained; and reinforcing the professional development experience.