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: Corinta Maria G. Geraldi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T05:44:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_MarceminoBernardo_M.pdf: 2473262 bytes, checksum: 99fe4186271f4bdb8bcc0291d8d6f4b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Este trabalho é uma narrativa da minha formação como professor de História do ensino fundamental. Ao longo do texto contei diversas experiências diretamente relacionadas à escola, mas à medida que eu o escrevia, uma prática muito particular revelou-se central entre todas elas: o meu trabalho com projetos na E.M.E.F. ¿Pe. Melico C. Barbosa¿, em Campinas. Não foi a minha intenção elaborar uma definição para ¿trabalhos com projetos¿, mas descrever estas práticas para compreender os sentidos que lhes venho atribuindo nestes anos e de que maneira estes se articulam à minha docência. Estas articulações produzem alterações significativas nas minhas aulas, por mim aqui denominadas de ¿aulas-projeto¿. Para fazer esta narrativa, procurei confrontar as minhas memórias de professor e uma determinada auto-imagem profissional, com registros das minhas práticas - relatórios, anotações, textos de alunos etc., tomados enquanto documentos de pesquisa. Produzi estas relações tendo como perspectivas metodológicas o conceito de dialogismo, desenvolvido por Bakhtin e as reflexões de W. Benjamin em torno da história e da narrativa. Dessa maneira, tornou-se possível, para mim, poder ouvir as vozes outras que me constituem professor e dar-lhes sentido por meio dessa escrita / Abstract: This work is a narrative of my formation as a History teacher in the elementary school. In the text I told different experiences directly related to school, but while I was writing it, a very particular practice turned out to be as central among all of them: my work with projects at EMEF ¿Pe Melico Cândido Barbosa¿, in Campinas. It was not my intention to elaborate a definition about ¿ works with projects¿, but describing these practices to understand the senses I have attributed to them through these years and in which way these projects articulate to my teaching. These articulations produce meaningful alterations in my classes, being, nominated by me here, as ¿project classes¿. To make this narrative, I tried to confront my memories as a teacher and a determined professional auto image, with registers from my practice ¿ reports, writings, students texts, etc. taken as documents of research. I produced these relations having as methodological perspectives the concept of dialogism, developed by Bakhtin and the reflections of W. Benjamin around the history and the narrative. In this way, it became possible, to me, to hear the other voices that constitute me as teacher and to give them senses through this writing / Mestrado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Mestre em Educação

The diploma thesis will deal with the professional vision of teachers as one of the actual concepts of didactics, given to art education. It is based on the knowledge that professional's thinking does not take place only in terms but also through images. It will deal with vocational vision in connection with professional knowledge and action in close relation to the teaching reflection. In the research part the student will participate in the analysis of concrete art lesson recorded by video study method. She will study and compare the comments of student teachers at the observational concepts and sub-processes. In the practical part student will create and carry out own art project that will respond to selected categories of the observed video study. She will apply it to the skills of primary school pupils. She will reflects in detail implemented project in relation to the analyzed concepts. Keywords reflection, art education, didactics of art education, discourse, teacher, student, teacher learning, Professional development, professional vision, teacher knowledge, video cases, analysis, concept