Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FranciscoATS_DISSERT_.pdf: 2461406 bytes, checksum: 8103c11dd552d0c65bf3fb4420f4c09f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-02 / This research has as its object of study practiced in the daily curriculum of Youth and Adults in their midst and considered discussion of the concepts of knowledge as regulation and emancipation. The camp of our research relates to the knowing / doing the teachers of this modality of education, in the Escola Centro Educacional Dr. Amorim-CEPA, the city of Ass?/RN and is articulated to the emerging desire to understand how cooperating teachers have thought, organized and practiced the curriculum in order to consider the many complex situations that are present in everyday school life. Our tour was guided by the need to study the relationship between the regulated curriculum and practiced in everyday adult education, as well as to understand, from the knowing / doing of the teachers, the conceptions that guide their teaching practices and, therefore, reflect on this Reality curriculum in order to better signify then. In this sense, we turn to the fundamentals of qualitative research, adopting the procedures of documentary research, participant observation and semi-structured interview, which allowed us to enter a universe of complex dimensions, senses, and that add significant difference, because the forms of use of various practitioners are and unique, in that enroll in school life and define their brand identities. The predominance of a traditional teaching practice nature by a process of training and teaching experience, the lines of flight, volatilities and inventiveness promoted by the circumstances of everyday life are some of the conclusions we draw from the data collected. This reality, we infer that the practice of teachers varies between regulation and emancipation, being this time, many challenges to be faced, namely the process of continuing education, the conceptual understanding of the subject curriculum and the existence of relational different knowing / doing produced, used and created in/from the school routine of Youth and Adults / Este trabalho de investiga??o tem como objeto de estudo os curr?culos praticados no cotidiano da Educa??o de Jovens e Adultos e considera em seu bojo de discuss?o as concep??es do conhecimento de regula??o e emancipa??o. O nosso campo de pesquisa se relaciona aos saberes/fazeres das professoras da referida modalidade de ensino, no Centro Educacional Dr. Amorim-CEPA, no munic?pio de Ass?/RN e est? articulado com o desejo emergente de entender como as professoras investigadas t?m pensado, organizado e praticado os curr?culos de modo a considerar as diversas situa??es que se fazem presentes no cotidiano escolar. Nosso percurso foi orientado pela necessidade de refletir acerca da realidade curricular da EJA, a fim de melhor compreender e signific?-la, estudar as rela??es complexas do curr?culo regulamentado na pr?tica cotidiana das professoras da EJA, bem como compreender, a partir dos saberes/fazeres das professoras, as concep??es que norteiam suas pr?ticas pedag?gicas e curriculares. Neste sentido, recorremos aos fundamentos da pesquisa qualitativa, adotando os procedimentos da pesquisa documental, entrevista semiestruturada e observa??o participante, que nos permitiu adentrar num universo de dimens?es, que agregam sentidos e significados diferenciados, pois as formas de uso dos praticantes s?o diversas e singulares, na medida em que inscrevem no cotidiano escolar suas marcas e definem suas identidades. A predomin?ncia de uma pr?tica pedag?gica com cariz tradicional resultante de um processo de forma??o e experi?ncia docente; as linhas de fuga, volatilidades e inventividades promovidas pelas circunst?ncias do cotidiano s?o algumas das conclus?es a que chegamos a partir dos contextos investigados. Dessa realidade, entendemos que a pr?tica das professoras oscila entre a regula??o curricular prescritiva e emancipat?ria, constituindo uma rede de saberes/fazeres/poderes, complexa e desafiadora a ser compartilhada nos processos de forma??o continuada, no aprofundamento conceitual da tem?tica curr?culo e na compreens?o relacional da exist?ncia de diferentes saberes/fazeres criados, usados e produzidos no/do/com os cotidianos escolares da Educa??o de Jovens e Adultos

Concept "value-action gap" is most often mentioned in frame of behavioral studies of individial approach to ecological issues. Its meaning lies in description of a gap that opens between values claimed by respondents and their consequent actions (people act in accordance with values which are different than those pro-environmental values that they originally signed up to). There also is a concept of "knowing-doing gap" which stems from a different context and describes different situations. Its authors demonstrate how many corporations/firms/organizations employ disfunctional/ineffective management practices and ways of work organization - and all that in a situation when responsible employees and managers know about better practices. Furthermore, those employees are being continually educated about those more effective practices; corporation/firm also has plans of implementation of those done by hired consultants and all those plans would have had better results, should they be implemented. But despite this knowledge and good experiences of other organizations - managers keep on working using old inefective means. In this text I examined whether it is possible to identify a combination of those two concepts/phenomena in a frame of discourse related to expert knowledge about a state of natural...

Technology integration continues to be a professional development concern, especially in elementary schools. It remains unclear why there is a difference between how teachers talk about using technology and how they apply it in teaching reading. The purpose of this study was to explore professional development options that would help teachers connect theory to practice by studying their decision-making process. The conceptual framework was based on elements of the knowing-doing gap and reflective practices. The research questions explored (a) the decision-making process, (b) reflective practices used during decision-making, (c) professional development that facilitates closing the knowing-doing gap, and (d) recommendations from participants to improve upon professional development. In a case study design, 10 K-4 teachers participated in one 60-minute interview, one follow-up interview, and one 45-minute focus group. With the use of typological analysis, transcripts were coded for initial and emerging themes. Results indicated that integrating mobile devices was highly dependent upon teachers being self-directed learners. Teachers relied on informal collegial interactions when deciding to use mobile devices. Continuous professional development that addresses adult learning styles was recommended by the teachers to support technology adoption. Improvements to reading instruction lead to positive social change by increasing student achievement, thereby preparing students to be world citizens in a competitive global market.