This study examines whether aggression and prosocial behavior shape changes in perceptions of friendship quality within stable reciprocal best friend dyads. A longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was used to investigate whether individual characteristics predict changes 6 to 12 weeks later in perceptions of relationship support and negativity. The sample included 76 same-sex dyads drawn from classrooms in grades 4 (M = 9.48 years) through 6 (M= 11.43 years) in two public schools in the United States. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

During the classroom teachings, teachers performed multiple roles. This include guided participation and scaffolding which helped to facilitate students in learning. During teaching, teachers should have continuous self-reflection and make suitable adjustment based on students' immediate responses so that they can always learn at the Zone of Proximal Development. / In the recent years, students' engagement has been the focus of concern in the US. Various studies have found that students' academic performances were directly affected by students' engagement. In Hong Kong, research on this topic has not yet been found. This research aimed to find out how the behaviors of three primary school English teachers' affect their students' engagements. The teachers were observed on how they presented their lessons on one of the units of the textbooks. Each teacher chose three students as samples of this research. Ways of data collection included: lesson observation, video-taping of classroom teaching, in-class tape-recording of the sample students, and interviewing the teachers and sample students. / The findings of this research perceived the following six behaviors that were of vital importance to students' engagement: (1) Providing learning opportunities for students, (2) Roles of teachers, (3) Student-teacher dialogue, (4) Teachers' demand on students' understanding of what they have been taught, (5) Teachers' self-reflection while teaching, and (6) Teachers' expectations on students. / There are three aspects of engagements: affective engagement, behavioral engagement and cognitive engagement. Students display different levels of engagements due to their teachers' behaviors while teaching. This research found that students' behavioral engagement is associated with superficial affective engagement but does not necessarily correlate with cognitive engagement. On the other hand, cognitive engagement is closely associated with profound affective engagement. It was also found that students' engagement is influenced by the following psychological factors: (1) autonomy, competence and relatedness of the Self Determination Theory, (2) self-efficacy, and (3) students' learning goal orientation. In order to elevate students' engagement, teachers have to provide learning opportunities at a suitable level of difficulties for the students and at the same time, challenging and exciting. Teachers should let students to have enough autonomy when they are striving hard for success. If students exert effort to reach their goals, they can get the sense of self-efficacy. / This research also discovered that students' learning goal orientation is very complicated. It is not a dichotomy. In the process of learning, students should go through the process of internalization, which is the most essential indicator of cognitive engagement. The researcher noticed that three of the teachers' behaviors may generate students' pseudo-learning: (1) teachers' didactic approach, (2) I-R-E (Initiation-Response-Evaluation) approach, (3) teachers' low expectation on students. Thereof, dispositional factors may not be the reason for students' lack of motivation in learning. Learning motivation may be the outgrowth of teachers' behavior while teaching. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) / 李帶生. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 379-394). / Advisers: Hin Wah Wong; Sin Pui Cheung. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-03, Section: A, page: 0859. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 379-394). / Li Daisheng.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:01:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bernadete Veronica Schaeffer Hoffman.pdf: 4955596 bytes, checksum: 014403bc82016d8545d73400b0d8c601 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-28 / Este estudo, inserido no campo da educação matemática, foi desenvolvido no Programa de Pós-Graduação do Centro de Educação da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo PPGE/CE/UFES. Desenvolvemos uma investigação qualitativa do tipo pesquisa-ação com práticas colaborativas que buscavam responder ao questionamento central: o que nós, professores, compreendemos da aprendizagem matemática do aluno quando trabalhamos com diferentes formas de comunicação? Para respondê-la, inserimo-nos em três escolas municipais de Serra e Vitória, atuando junto a três professores e suas turmas, a saber, duas turmas de 5º ano e uma turma de 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental. A produção de dados aconteceu entre maio e dezembro de 2011, em 98 encontros que incluíram: momentos de conversas e planejamentos com os professores; aulas ministradas pelos professores regentes observadas por nós; e aulas ministradas por nós observadas por eles. As compreensões construídas nessas atuações se deram a partir do diálogo com autores que teorizam sobre educação; educação matemática; matemática; leitura, escrita e oralidade como formas de comunicação em matemática. Os experimentos de ensino desenvolvidos nas três escolas sugerem que práticas de diferentes técnicas de leitura ajudaram na compreensão de textos com linguagem matemática, dentre estes os textos de resolução de problemas, ampliando conhecimento também em outras disciplinas escolares. Ao falar e escrever sobre um conceito matemático em outros gêneros discursivos, o aluno organizava seu pensamento de forma a melhor compreendê-lo e aprofundava entendimento de conceitos. Ainda tivemos indícios de que formas variadas de comunicação matemática, tais como a representação pictórica na construção de algoritmos não formais, estimularam a resolução de problemas desafiadores enquanto o aluno criava estratégias próprias de solução. O estudo ainda permitiu aprendizagens aos professores, possibilitandolhes compreender pensamentos e sentimentos do aluno em relação à matemática. Isso favoreceu o desenvolvimento de atividades em que alunos pudessem ressignificar crenças e sentimentos em relação à disciplina através de tarefas de caráter lúdico. Enfim, a pesquisa sugere que alunos e professores aprendem matemática com significado ao entrelaçar diferentes formas de comunicação e construir pequenas comunidades de aprendizagem, em que se oportunizam várias interações em aulas de matemática, tais como, (a) interação aluno/aluno, (b) interação aluno/professor/conhecimento, (c) interação professor/aluno/texto e (d) interação aluno/texto/aluno. Essas interações levavam professores à compreensão do que alunos sabiam e não sabiam, possibilitavam-lhes reflexões sobre práticas docentes e indicavam-lhes possibilidades de intervenções nos processos de ensino, aprendizagem e avaliação de matemática / This study, of the field of mathematics education, was developed in the Graduate Education Program of Center of Education at Federal University of Espírito Santo PPGE/CE/UFES. We have developed a qualitative inquiry as an action research with collaborative practices that seek to answer the main question: What do we comprehend from pupils mathematics learning when we work with different forms of communication? In order to answer it we worked with three municipal schools from Serra and Vitória, acting together with three teachers and their classrooms, respectively, two 5th grade classes and one 6th grade class from elementary school system. The data produced took place between May and December 2011, in 98 meetings that included: moments of conversations and planning with the teachers, teachers lessons observed from us, and teachers observations from our taught lessons. The understandings built up from these performances happened through the dialogue with authors who theorize about education; mathematics education; mathematics; reading, writing and speaking as forms of mathematics communication. The teaching experiments developed in the three schools suggest that the practices of different reading techniques helped to text understanding in mathematics language, among them problem solving texts, also expanding knowledge in other school subject areas. By speaking and writing about a mathematical concept in other discursive genres, the pupil organized his/her thinking in a way to better understand it and also broadened concept understandings. We still had evidences that diverse forms of mathematics communication, such as pictorial representations in the construction of non formal algorithms, have stimulated challenging tasks of problem solving while the student created its own solution strategies. The study also allowed teachers learning, while letting them understand pupil s thoughts and feelings towards mathematics. This favored the development of activities in which students could give new meanings to beliefs and feelings about the subject through the use of playful tasks. Finally, the research suggests that students and teachers learn mathematics with meaning by intertwining various forms of communication and building small learning communities, in which diverse interactions are proposed in mathematics lessons, such as, (a) interaction between student/student, (b) interaction between student/teacher/knowledge, (c) interaction between teacher/ student/text, and (d) interaction between student/text/student. These interactions led teachers to the comprehension of what pupils knew and did not know, allowed them reflections about the teaching practices, and indicated possibilities of intervention in the processes of mathematics teaching, learning and assessment

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The study investigates the potential of teacher talk in enhancing learner capacity to negotiate learning, premised on a view of classroom interaction as guided construction of knowledge. It examines the extent to which levels of oracy - essentially, awareness of the language of instruction, and the ability to use it more effectively - can be raised by exposing teachers to an in-service distance education language-based course. The main research questions are: a. What are the effects of the course in classroom text and discourse on oracy in the high school classroom? b. How can the quality of classroom discourse be assessed in a relatively systematic and objective manner? With regard to the second question, an analytical framework was developed that defined three key constructs in terms of discourse acts, namely teacher dominance, teacher effectiveness and learner initiative, and these constructs formed the basis of the three hypotheses. Patterns of interaction in English, mathematics and geography classes during the first year of high school in Harare, Zimbabwe (main study) and Zomba, Malawi (supplementary study) were analysed. The Zimbabwe study used a pretest-posttest control group design, with six teachers in the experimental group and three as controls, while the Malawi study used a posttest-only control group design with three teachers in each group. The experimental groups took part in an intervention programme known as the Litraid Project, a course on classroom text and discourse. The findings, interpreted both quantitatively and qualitatively, showed that after intervention the experimental group teachers dominated classrooms less and used discourse input more consciously and effectively. Similarly, their learners showed improved ability to negotiate learning, as reflected in their heightened levels of initiative and discourse output, both in class and group discussion. Hence the conclusion that classroom praxis, specifically in English second language situations, benefits from a conscious enhancement of oracy, leading to more effective teaching and learning. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (Linguistics)

In South Africa students from disadvantaged educational backgrounds enrol at institutions of higher learning underprepared for the academic work expected of them. One reason for this is that English in South Africa is primarily an urban language and both Black children and teachers, especially in rural areas, lack sufficient exposure to it (Lemmer 1995) and at tertiary institutions students are expected to communicate efficiently in the language of instruction. The real-world problem at issue is ultimately the need for these students studying through the medium of English to develop their ability to participate actively in tutorials to improve both their academic understanding and their spoken discourse competence, which includes the ‘highly complex task of participating in talk-in-interaction’ (Dalton-Puffer 2007:280). Underlying the present study, then, is the conviction that through frequent interaction in the language of instruction, students will not only gain competence in speaking skills, but also deepen and expand their knowledge of their subject areas. This conviction led to the introduction of tutorials on a trial basis in my department and the study sought to develop a framework for analysing patterns of interaction in the tutorials that would also address the question of how the quality of such patterns might be assessed. The main construct investigated was ‘participation effectiveness’ (the quantity of speaker discourse acts and turns and speaker initiative at discourse act and turn-taking levels) and the overall findings indicated that third-year students participated more effectively than first-years; females performed better than males; and males in male-led tutorials used more discourse acts than females; while females in female-led tutorials did better than males. The analyses of effects of tutor discourse behaviour on student participation revealed that the types of questions tutors used and how they were combined were strong determinants of students' participation effectiveness. Although the approach of the study is essentially quantitative, the operationalisation of this main construct's two key components, namely 'participation' and 'initiative', forms a basis for also deriving more qualitative insights into this academically very important genre of spoken discourse. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Linguistics)

This research addresses the effect of pedagogical ways-of-knowing in higher education design programmes such as Graphic Design, Interior Design, Fashion, and Industrial Design. One problematic aspect of design studio pedagogy is communication between teachers and students about the aesthetic visual meaning of the students’ designed objects. This problematic issue involves ambiguous and divergent ways-of-knowing the design meaning of these objects. The research focus is on the design teacher role in design studio interactions, and regards pedagogical ways-of-knowing as the ways in which teachers expect students to know visual design meaning. This pedagogical issue is complicated by the fact that there is no agreed-upon corpus of domain knowledge in design, so visual meaning depends greatly on the social knowledge retained by students and teachers. The thesis pursues an explanation of pedagogical ways-of-knowing that is approached through the philosophy of critical realism. How it is that particular events and experiences come to occur in a particular way is the general focus of critical realist philosophy. A critical realist approach to explanation is the use of abductive inference, or inference as to how it is that puzzling empirical circumstances emerge. An abductive strategy aims to explain how such circumstances emerge by considering them in a new light. This is done in this study by applying Luhmann’s theory of the emergence of cognition in communication to teacher ways-of-knowing in the design studio. Through the substantive use of Luhmann’s theory, an abductive conjecture of pedagogical ways-of-knowing is mounted. This conjecture is brought to bear on an examination of research data, in order to explain how pedagogical ways of-knowing constrain or enable the emergence of shared visual design meaning in the design studio. The abductive analysis explains three design pedagogical ways-of-knowing: design inquiry, design representation and design intent. These operate as macro relational mechanisms that either enable or constrain the emergence of shared visual design meaning in the design studio. The mechanism of relation is between design inquiry, design representation and design intent as historical knowing structures, and ways-of-knowing in respect of each of these knowing structures. For example, design inquiry as an historical knowing structure has over time moved from ways-of-knowing such as rationalistic problem solving to direct social observation and later to interpretive cultural analysis. The antecedence of these ways-of-knowing is important because communication about visual meaning depends upon prior knowledge, and teachers may then reproduce past ways-of-knowing. The many ways-of-knowing that respectively relate to design inquiry, design representation and design intent are shown to be communicatively formed and recursive over time. From a Luhmannian perspective, these ways-of-knowing operate as variational distinctions that indicate or relate to the knowing structures of design inquiry, design representation and design intent. This is the micro-level operation of pedagogical ways-of-knowing as relational mechanisms in design studio communication. Design teachers’ own ways-of-knowing may then embrace implicit way-of-knowing distinctions that indicate the knowledge structures of design inquiry, design representation and design intent. This implicit indication by distinction is the relational mechanism that may bring design teachers’ expectation that this and not that visual design meaning should apply in communication about any student’s designed object. Such an expectation influences communication between teachers and students about the potential future meaning of students’ designs. Consequently, shared visual design meaning may or may not emerge. The research explanation brings the opportunity for design teachers to make explicit the often implicit way-of-knowing distinctions they use, and to relate these distinctions to the knowing structures thus indicated. The study then offers a new perspective on the old design pedagogical problem of design studio conflict over the meaning of students’ designs. Options for applying this research explanation in design studio interactions between students and teachers are therefore suggested.

Acompanha: Diálogo em sala de aula: interações mediadas pela investigação matemática / Esta pesquisa consiste em investigar as interações ocorridas entre os participantes de uma aula de Investigação Matemática, onde o conteúdo abordado foi a função seno e seus parâmetros. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de cunho qualitativo, que tem como objetivo responder à questão: “As interações que podem ser desencadeadas pela Investigação Matemática possuem potencial para a aprendizagem?”. Para tanto foi usada uma sequência de quatro atividades que foram aplicadas para estudantes do Ensino Médio. Cada etapa desta pesquisa esta embasada pelos pressupostos teóricos da Investigação Matemática, como prática pedagógica e as análises dos dados estão fundamentados no Diálogo. Os instrumentos utilizados para coleta dos dados versaram sobre gravações em áudio, registros escritos dos alunos e registros da professora. Foi possível constatar que as interações desencadeadas pela Investigação Matemática possuem potencial para a aprendizagem. Relacionada a pesquisa foi produzido um produto educacional que reuniu as atividades desenvolvidas para esta pesquisa, alem de outras que farão parte dos roteiros e que ficará à disposição dos professores por meio de um link disponibilizado na página do programa de mestrado. O produto educacional é composto por atividades que poderão auxiliar professores de Matemática em suas aulas. / This research consists of investigating the interactions that took place between the participants of a Mathematical Research class, where the content covered was the sine function and its parameters. This is a qualitative research, whose objective is to answer the question: "Can the interactions that can be triggered by Mathematical Research have the potential for learning?" For this purpose a sequence of four activities were used that were applied to high school students. Each stage of this research is based on the theoretical presuppositions of Mathematical Research, as pedagogical practice and the analysis of the data are based on the Dialogue. The instruments used to collect data were about audio recordings, written records of the students and teacher records. It was possible to verify that the interactions triggered by Mathematical Investigation have potential for learning. Related to the research was produced an educational product that gathered the activities developed for this research, in addition to others that will be part of the scripts and that will be available to teachers through a link available on the page of the master program. The educational product is composed of activities that may help teachers of Mathematics in their classes.

Acompanha: Caderno pedagógico: Jogos pedagógicos como estratégia de aprendizagem promovida pela interação entre a família e a escola / Esta dissertação apresenta uma pesquisa que envolve a escola, os educandos e famílias. As atividades enquadram-se na modalidade de jogos pedagógicos utilizados no primeiro momento em ambiente escolar e, posteriormente, em ambiente familiar. A investigação está organizada com reflexões acerca dos seguintes assuntos: jogos pedagógicos, envolvimento familiar no contexto escolar; ensino de Ciências Naturais nos anos Iniciais. O objetivo da pesquisa é propor uma estratégia de ensino com a interação família por meio de uso de jogos pedagógicos com conteúdos de Ciências. As atividades foram desenvolvidas em uma instituição pública com duas turmas do 3º ano do Ensino Fundamental I, envolvendo o educando e pelo menos um familiar. O trabalho inicia com uma oficina de jogos para os familiares em que se fez uma reflexão sobre os benefícios dessa prática. Foram utilizados jogos pedagógicos em sala de aula para que os educandos se habituassem a formar equipes, seguir regras e organizar-se para esse tipo de trabalho no ambiente escolar e familiar. A partir de avaliação diagnóstica foi observado o nível de leitura e escrita dos educandos, a qual orientou a construção das atividades sobre o conteúdo “Estados físicos da água e seus ciclos na natureza” da disciplina de Ciências Naturais. Essa prática serviu de base para a organização de um caderno pedagógico sobre o uso de “jogos pedagógicos como estratégia de aprendizagem promovida pela interação entre a família e a escola”. Os resultados do estudo apontam que os conteúdos do ensino de Ciências Naturais, o jogo pedagógico e o envolvimento familiar podem ser grandes aliados para uma aprendizagem significativa. / This dissertation presents a research that involves the school, the students and the families. The activities are part of the pedagogical games modality, used in the first moment in a scholar environment and later, in the family environment. The investigation is organized with reflections about the following subjects: pedagogical games, familiar involvement in the scholar context, the teaching of Natural Science in the first years of Elementary School. The objective of this research is propose a strategy of teaching with the family interaction using pedagogical games With Science content. The activities were developed in a public institution with two classes from the third year of Elementary School, involving the student and at least one family member. The work begins with a class about games for the family, where it is made a reflection about the benefits of this practice. Pedagogical games were used in the classroom so that the students got used to make teams, follow rules and get organized for this kind of work in the scholar and familiar environment. From the diagnosed evaluation was observed the level of reading and writing of the students, which orientated the construction of the activities about the content “Physical States of the Water and its cycles in the Nature” from the subject Natural Science. This practice served as a foundation for the organization of a pedagogical notebook about the use of “Pedagogical Games as strategies of learning promoted by the interaction between the family and the school.” The results of the study point that the contents of the subject Natural Science, pedagogical games and the familiar involvement may be of great benefit in the process of learning and teaching.

Acompanha: Caderno pedagógico: Jogos pedagógicos como estratégia de aprendizagem promovida pela interação entre a família e a escola / Esta dissertação apresenta uma pesquisa que envolve a escola, os educandos e famílias. As atividades enquadram-se na modalidade de jogos pedagógicos utilizados no primeiro momento em ambiente escolar e, posteriormente, em ambiente familiar. A investigação está organizada com reflexões acerca dos seguintes assuntos: jogos pedagógicos, envolvimento familiar no contexto escolar; ensino de Ciências Naturais nos anos Iniciais. O objetivo da pesquisa é propor uma estratégia de ensino com a interação família por meio de uso de jogos pedagógicos com conteúdos de Ciências. As atividades foram desenvolvidas em uma instituição pública com duas turmas do 3º ano do Ensino Fundamental I, envolvendo o educando e pelo menos um familiar. O trabalho inicia com uma oficina de jogos para os familiares em que se fez uma reflexão sobre os benefícios dessa prática. Foram utilizados jogos pedagógicos em sala de aula para que os educandos se habituassem a formar equipes, seguir regras e organizar-se para esse tipo de trabalho no ambiente escolar e familiar. A partir de avaliação diagnóstica foi observado o nível de leitura e escrita dos educandos, a qual orientou a construção das atividades sobre o conteúdo “Estados físicos da água e seus ciclos na natureza” da disciplina de Ciências Naturais. Essa prática serviu de base para a organização de um caderno pedagógico sobre o uso de “jogos pedagógicos como estratégia de aprendizagem promovida pela interação entre a família e a escola”. Os resultados do estudo apontam que os conteúdos do ensino de Ciências Naturais, o jogo pedagógico e o envolvimento familiar podem ser grandes aliados para uma aprendizagem significativa. / This dissertation presents a research that involves the school, the students and the families. The activities are part of the pedagogical games modality, used in the first moment in a scholar environment and later, in the family environment. The investigation is organized with reflections about the following subjects: pedagogical games, familiar involvement in the scholar context, the teaching of Natural Science in the first years of Elementary School. The objective of this research is propose a strategy of teaching with the family interaction using pedagogical games With Science content. The activities were developed in a public institution with two classes from the third year of Elementary School, involving the student and at least one family member. The work begins with a class about games for the family, where it is made a reflection about the benefits of this practice. Pedagogical games were used in the classroom so that the students got used to make teams, follow rules and get organized for this kind of work in the scholar and familiar environment. From the diagnosed evaluation was observed the level of reading and writing of the students, which orientated the construction of the activities about the content “Physical States of the Water and its cycles in the Nature” from the subject Natural Science. This practice served as a foundation for the organization of a pedagogical notebook about the use of “Pedagogical Games as strategies of learning promoted by the interaction between the family and the school.” The results of the study point that the contents of the subject Natural Science, pedagogical games and the familiar involvement may be of great benefit in the process of learning and teaching.