This study aimed to investigate what constituted the professional practical knowledge of EFL experienced teachers in the Egyptian context and what the sources of their knowledge were. It also aimed to examine the relationship between the teachers’ knowledge and the contextual factors intervening in action. By delineating its focus as such, the study responds to call for reconceptualising the core of the knowledge base of teaching to focus on teaching as a knowledge-based activity and an act of common sense and reasoning, the pedagogy by which teaching is done, and the context in which it is done. The study was carried out using multiple methods for collecting qualitative and quantitative data. This design was chosen to investigate the participants’ views of professional practical knowledge and to construct their different understandings and interpretations which they brought with them. Questionnaires completed by 236 EFL experienced teachers, semi-structured interviews conducted with 14 of them and stimulated recall classroom observation data with three of them were the data collected for the current study. Although it provided a parsimonious view, quantitative questionnaire data made an important contribution to the bricolage of information built up during the study. A more in-depth understanding was gained from qualitative data using responses to the open-ended section of the questionnaire, interviews and classroom observation. Based on quantitative and qualitative data analyses, six core areas of teacher knowledge were constructed from the participants’ responses and accounts. These were: subject matter, pedagogy, students, classroom learning environment, curriculum and self. The findings also revealed a variety of sources which shaped the teachers’ professional practical knowledge including: experience, teacher education, university study in the subject department, student and peer feedback, in-service training, expert advice, student output and postgraduate study. The findings also revealed that the relationship between teacher knowledge and practice was reflected in two ways. The first was that teacher knowledge represented an operative model which underpinned practice. The second was that it informed the classroom decisions. However, not all teacher knowledge found application in practice. A variety of intervening contextual challenges were revealed to deter the actualisation of teacher knowledge in action such as the EFL exam policy, lack of time, support and resources, mismatch between teacher purposes and students’ expectations and needs, and large class size. These findings were discussed in relation to existing research evidence and context. Implications for pre-service and in-service teacher learning were also drawn based on the findings of the study.

Orientador: Jocimar Daolio / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Física / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T01:29:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Celante_AdrianoRogerio_D.pdf: 1465578 bytes, checksum: 35d09a701b043eb9aad99ed493f11e11 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: O presente estudo foi motivado por uma questão primordial: como os professores de educação física se apropriam do conhecimento acadêmico disseminado na formação superior, cotejado com outras formas do saber inerentes às suas distintas trajetórias de vida, no sentido de explicar, justificar, legitimar, atribuir sentido e significado às suas práticas pedagógicas no cotidiano escolar? Pressupondo que os saberes docentes perpassam um conhecimento tácito sobre o papel social do professor, a pesquisa em questão teve por objetivo descrever "o que fazem" esses professores durante suas práticas pedagógicas, e "como justificam aquilo que fazem" à luz das distintas formas do saber. Trata-se de uma investigação sobre os "saberes na ação" docente, e tem por finalidade descrever parte da "cultura profissional" dos professores de educação física. Os pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da pesquisa colocam-na sob a rubrica qualitativa. Fundamenta-se nas ciências sociais e baseia-se em "conceitos descritivos", que consideram não somente o que os homens são na sua natureza, mas, sobretudo, aquilo que "habita" esses homens, tais como os sentidos e significados que atribuem à vida e a tantas outras coisas. Inspirado na tradição do "fazer etnográfico", o estudo persegue uma "descrição densa", que é, ao mesmo tempo, segundo Clifford Geertz, interpretativa, visto que visa interpretar o fluxo do discurso social; microscópica, uma vez que não há interpretações antropológicas em grande escala; e de segunda mão, já que o pesquisador não tem acesso ao discurso social, mas a uma pequena porção dele trazida à compreensão pelos informantes. Apesar das divergências do ponto de vista teórico-analítico, o método etnográfico é caracterizado pelo processo interativo em campo, quando é priorizado o ponto de vista do "outro" ¿ do sujeito de pesquisa ¿, construído no bojo das tensões de identidade e alteridade entre pesquisador e pesquisados, e produto do encontro intersubjetivo entre eles. É nesse sentido que a presente pesquisa se caracteriza como um "estudo etnográfico", que se dedicou a descrever os "saberes na ação" de três professores de educação física que atuam nas séries iniciais do ensino fundamental, em escolas da rede municipal de ensino da cidade de Jundiaí-SP. A escolha dos sujeitos levou em consideração vários critérios de exclusão, reduzindo os 70 docentes da rede a um grupo de apenas cinco professores, dentre os quais somente três foram tomados como sujeitos de pesquisa. Esses últimos, além de representarem a classe profissional naquele contexto particular, caracterizavam-se como grupo ¿ condição básica para a etnografia ¿, visto que possuíam vínculo estável e duradouro com as suas respectivas escolas. A observação das aulas e o constante diálogo com os docentes possibilitaram a "tradução" de fatos e questões inerentes aos saberes docentes, mais especificamente aos "saberes na ação" que, apesar de atinentes ao cotidiano escolar, na maior parte das vezes encontram-se recônditos. Em última análise, a relação intersubjetiva entre pesquisador e sujeitos de pesquisa permitiu um olhar mais atento às idiossincrasias da docência em educação física / Abstract: The present study was motivated by one fundamental question: how do physical education teachers acquire scientific knowledge spread within undergraduate courses, compared and confronted with other forms of knowledge acquired along their life, in order to explain, legitimate, give sense and significance to their teaching actions in everyday school life? Once taken for granted that teaching knowledge exceeds the limits of a tacit comprehension of a teacher's role in society, the present study aimed to describe the behaviour of these teachers along their teaching and how they explain and legitimate their behaviour bearing in mind the various types of knowledge. We conducted a research into the teachers' "knowledge in action" in order to describe part of the physical education teachers' "professional culture" by methodological procedures drawn from qualitative research techniques, based on descriptive concepts within the social sciences. These concepts state that not only people exist within their nature, but also and mainly are what they are inhabited by, such as the sense and significance they find in life and in many other things. Inspired by ethnographic action tradition, this study pursuits a "dense description" which is, according to Clifford Geertz, at one time both interpretative, since it seeks to interprete the stream of social discourse, and microscopic, as it considers that there are no big-scaled anthropological interpretations. On the other hand, it is second-handed, because the researcher had no access to the whole of social discourse, but only to small portions of it brought to comprehension by the informants. In spite of divergences regarding the theoretical and analytical point of view, the ethnographic method is characterized by field interaction processes, in which the research subject ¿ the "other" and its point of view - is priorized, since it is built up within the tensions between identity and alterity, between the researcher and his research objects, as well as a product of their inter-subjects meeting. In this sense the present research features an ethnographic study consecrated to describe the "knowledge in action" of three physical education graduates during their teaching in classes of the three first grades in municipal elementary schools in Jundiaí (SP). Several criteria were applied during subject selection that reduced the initial sample of 70 teachers to five, out of which were selected only three. These three were, on one hand, clear representatives of their professional category in this particular setting and on the other hand, constituted a group, a fundamental condition for ethnography, for maintaining a long-term bond with their schools. Observation of physical education classes and permanent conversations with the teachers allowed to understand facts and questions intrinsic to teaching knowledge, specifically to "knowledge in action" which, although omnipresent in everyday teaching, mostly remain innermost. In the end, the relation between researcher and subjects allowed to develop a more attentive look into the idiosyncrasies of teaching in physical education. Keywords: knowledge of the teacher; teacher¿s culture; physical education on school / Doutorado / Educação Fisica e Sociedade / Doutor em Educação Física

The main purpose of this study is to assess pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of in-service physics teachers about electricity topic in high school level by developing a paper-and-pencil instrument consisting of open-ended items. The instrument was developed with four different implementations by administration to the 278 in-service physics teachers. An exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis including only PCK items was conducted in validation processes. The relations among teachers&rsquo / job satisfaction levels, perceived self-efficacy levels, years of teaching experience and specific experiences, attendance to in-service training seminars related to physics teaching programs and teachers&rsquo / PCK were also analyzed by a confirmatory structural equation modeling study in validation of test scores. SPSS and AMOS programs were used in the analyses. Results of the study showed that teachers&rsquo / perceived self-efficacy level, attendance to in-service training seminars and specific experiences were significant predictors of their PCK. Teachers&rsquo / years of teaching experience and job satisfaction level were not significant predictors of their PCK. Inter-rater reliability scores were calculated as 0.86 and 78% for scoring and coding of the participant teachers&rsquo / responses respectively. Results also showed that there are many Turkish physics teachers whose PCK scores regarding students&rsquo / learning difficulties and misconceptions are below the average and participants mostly prefer to implement direct instruction in their classrooms as the instructional strategy.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T18:49:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JESSIKA_MATOS_22_02_2011 JACK ORTEHA URGENTE quinta noite.pdf: 953148 bytes, checksum: c1b02c75bffd54d3a32ed604083f9ee5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-06 / We conducted this research with the aim of obtaining grants to questions about where and when the good teachers of Youth and Adults - EJA acquire their knowledge, develop their skills and professional practice, and how performance assessment can help improve education in this segment. The survey was conducted in CEJA - Study Center for Youths and Adults in Cuiabá / MT., with the participation of students and teachers at different stages of data collection. The Students contributed indicating the qualities of a good teacher and professional skills they should have. For teachers and evaluated, indicating helped develop such qualities as assessed by students through questionnaires and interviews. The theorical base was FREIRE (1997), SOARES (2004), CUNHA (1992), SCHÖN (2000), TARDIF (2002), PERRENOUD (2002), NÓVOA (1995), DIAS SOBRINHO (2003), AFONSO (2002), IMBERNÓN (2006) and LOWMAN (2004). These authors address topics on teaching knowledge,skills and professional evaluation of teaching performance, discuss the educational practice, promote interest in teaching investigative, reflective, politically, and dialogic, and indicate the assessment of teaching practice as one of the basic tools in sustaining the quality of teaching. The research involved a qualitative case study as works of ANDRE (2005) and YIN (2001). The interpretation of data were carried out using content analysis BARDIN (1977). With this study we could demonstrate when, where and how these teachers indicated as good teachers, with the qualities and skills displayed by the students learned to be good teachers of Youth and Adult-adult education- EJA. / Realizamos esta pesquisa com objetivo de obter subsídios aos questionamentos acerca de onde e quando os bons professores da Educação de Jovens e Adultos EJA adquirem seus saberes, desenvolvem suas competências e prática profissionais, e como a avaliação de desempenho pode auxiliar a melhoria de ensino neste segmento. A pesquisa foi realizada no CEJA - Centro de Estudos de Jovens e Adultos em Cuiabá/MT, com a participação de alunos e professores em diferentes momentos da coleta dados. Os alunos contribuiram indicando as qualidades de um bom professor e as competências profissionais que devem possuir. Quanto aos professores bem avaliados, contribuíram indicando como desenvolveram tais qualidades apreciadas pelos alunos através de questionário e entrevistas. O referencial teórico básico foi FREIRE (1996), SOARES (2004), CUNHA (1992), SCHÖN (2000), TARDIF (2002), PERRENOUD (2002), NÓVOA (1995), DIAS SOBRINHO (2003), AFONSO (2002) IMBÉRNÓN ( 2006) e LOWMAN (2004). Estes autores abordam temas sobre saberes docentes, competências e avaliação de desempenho docente profissional, discutem a prática educativa, promovem o interesse pelo docente investigativo, reflexivo, político, e dialógico, bem como indicam a avaliação da prática docente como um dos instrumentos de base na sustentação da qualidade de ensino. A pesquisa envolveu um estudo de caso qualitativo conforme obras de ANDRE (2005) e YIN (2001). A interpretação dos dados foi realizada seguindo análise de conteúdo de BARDIN (1977). Com a realização deste estudo foi possível demonstrar quando, onde e como estes professores indicados como bons professores, com as qualidades e competências indicadas pelos alunos, aprenderam a ser bons professores da Educação de Jovens e Adultos - EJA.

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