Orientador: João José Caluzi / Banca: José Agatha Parrilha da Silva / Banca: Denise Fernandes de Mello / Resumo: Este estudo foi desenvolvido a partir das observações realizadas pelo professor/pesquisador, durante as aulas de arte ministradas na educação básica, e do questionamento: como os alunos percebem a relação da arte com as outras disciplinas, mais especificamente com as ciências? Dessa forma, a pesquisa tem por objetivo: analisar as concepções dos discentes sobre as disciplinas arte e ciências, bem como propiciar uma reflexão sobre as práticas artísticas e científicas relacionadas à fotografia. Preliminarmente o estudo faz uma reflexão sobre as produções artísticas e científicas, para, em seguida, propor alguns questionamentos revelados pela invenção da fotografia sobre a concepção da imagem como realidade e das ciências como verdade. Tais questionamentos foram discutidos junto aos discentes do 9º ano do ensino fundamental de uma escola pública do interior de São Paulo, a partir de uma sequência didática de cunho interdisciplinar, abordando os conteúdos de ciências e arte aplicados no desenvolvimento da fotografia. Nas respostas dos discentes observou-se a necessidade de práticas interdisciplinares para ampliar e desconstruir determinadas imagens equivocadas que os alunos possuem em relação à arte e à ciência. Desta pesquisa resultou um livro como produto educacional, cuja finalidade é subsidiar a prática docente em propor estudos interdisciplinares relacionando arte, ciências e fotografia. / Abstract: This study was developed from the observation made by the teacher/ researcher during the art classes taught in basic education and the questioning: How do the students realize the relation of art to order disciplines, more specifically the sciences? In this way, the research had the objective of analyzing the students' conceptions about the disciplines of art and sciences, as well as providing a reflection on the artistic and scientific practices related to photography. Preliminarly the study makes a reflection on artistic and scientific production, and then propose some questions revealed by the intervention of photography about the conception of the image as reality and the sciences as truth. These questions were discussed with the students of the 9th year of elementary school in a public school is a small town of São Paulo State, based on an interdisciplinary didactic sequence, addressing the contents of science and art applied in the development of photography. In the responses of the students, the need for interdisciplinary practices was observed to expand and descontruct certain mistaken images that the students posses in relation to art and science. This research resulted in a book as an education product, whose purpose is to subsidize teaching practice in proposing interdisciplinary studies relating art, science and photography / Mestre

Middle school literature advocates interdisciplinary team organization as a structure that enhances student learning and teacher satisfaction. In an interdisciplinary team, teachers responsible for different content areas collaboratively plan the instructional program for a shared group of students. Yet, fewer than fifty percent of the nation's middle schools use an interdisciplinary team structure, and research indicates that teams are fragile and temporary. Few studies were found that described interdisciplinary team organization at the team or individual teacher level. The purpose of this case study is to describe the structure, dynamics, and outcomes of interdisciplinary teams of teachers in middle schools. The collection, analysis, and evaluation of data focused on four areas: (a) team structure including goals, roles, and leadership; (b) team dynamics ("teamness"), including collaboration, cohesion, and communication; (C) teacher affective outcomes of satisfaction, efficacy, and stress; and (d) teacher behavioral outcomes of curriculum and instruction and counseling and discipline. The researcher collected data from five sources of evidence including documents, structured interviews, key informant interviews, direct observation, and questionnaires. Two middle schools that were implementing interdisciplinary team organization for the first year were selected for the study. Their differences in demographics, teaming structure, and district/school history allowed for a basis of comparison and contrast. The data were organized and presented in four case studies of interdisciplinary teams and two cross-case analyses, providing a descriptive account of the experiences of teachers involved in an interdisciplinary team structure. The results of the study indicated that: Structural variables affected team planning. The level of teacher collaboration on teams was a developmental process. Teachers derived professional benefits and personal satisfaction from teaming and experienced a reduction of stress. Barriers of time and training impeded team effectiveness in the area of developing and implementing interdisciplinary curriculum. Further research on effective team practices is warranted, particularly on the effects of group process training and the developmental nature of team collaboration. In addition, further research is recommended on the effects of an interdisciplinary team structure on student learning outcomes and on teachers' day-to-day instructional practices in the classroom.

This dissertation analyzes the representation of sugar plantation societies in nineteenth and twentieth century Puerto Rican literature. Using an interdisciplinary approach, I study the socio-historical, political, and economic development of the sugarcane industry in Puerto Rico as represented in the literary works of Manuel Zeno Gandía, Enrique A. Laguerre, René Marqués, and Rosario Ferré. Scholars have tended to examine their works separately; however, I study how these writers from different literary generations develop a cohesive literary project, reshuffling the periodization of Puerto Rican literature by their focus on the sugar industry. Consequently, the literary works intersect with each other to provide a complete picture of the evolution and decline of the sugar plantation and its effects on the social imaginary of Puerto Rico. I use this term to mean both social practices of Puerto Rican society as well as its class stratification and political struggles. My theoretical approach is based on Antonio Benítez Rojo, "The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective" (1992), where the sugar plantation is defined as the principal unifying entity across the Caribbean, repeated continuously through time and space. I also rely on socio-historiographical approaches developed by Ramiro Guerra, Francisco Scarano, and Ángel Quintero Rivera, whose analyses of the sugar cane industry in the Caribbean shed light on class conflicts, primarily between the sugar oligarchy and factory workers. This dissertation suggests a homology between the socioeconomic structure of the sugar plantation and the Puerto Rican literary canon. I conclude that Puerto Rican writers have recoded the imaginary of the plantation in response to political events and economic shifts within the sugar industry. While Manuel Zeno Gandía and René Marqués promote and redefine its value system, other writers, such as Enrique A. Laguerre and Rosario Ferré, have transgressed the hacienda system to articulate the voice of those communities marginalized by the sugar plantation.

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This thesis has studied the differences in value change of different groups of eighth grade students when exposed to different lessons on a particular aspect of the environment (forests) ranging from a single discipline approach to an interdisciplinary approach -utilizing the subjects of science and history.Three groups viewed a historical-social, biotic, and historicalsocial-biotic (combination) presentation respectively and were then administered a test (the Semantic Differential developed by Osgood, Suci, and Tannenbaum, 1957). In addition, there was a control group (administered the test only) to determine if there were any significant value changes held by the students after viewing the presentations. The results of the study were broken down into four groups.The test results of males and females were also computed because of the difference in development within this age group. The two-way analysis of variance (AMOVA) was used to analyze the findings.The study showed no significant differences between group mean scores. In this research, therefore, no value change occurred as a result of viewing the presentations nor were there differences as a result of subject matter presentation.Ball State UniversityMuncie, IN 47306

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-142). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-142). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-142). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-258). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-142). Also available on the Internet.