This thesis presents an ethnographic investigation of teachers’ peer-to-peer engagement in online social spaces, using the concept of teachers’ professional identity as a framework to shape and focus the study. Using Religious Education (RE) as a strong example of the wider phenomenon of teachers’ online engagement, three online social spaces (the Times Educational Supplement’s RE Forum, the National Association of Teachers of RE Facebook Page, and the Save RE Facebook Group) were investigated as case studies. A year was spent in these spaces with digital ethnographic research taking place simultaneously in each one. Data gathering primarily took the form of participant observations, in depth analysis of time-based sampled text (three 8-week samples from each space), online and offline narrative based interviews and, to a lesser extent, questionnaires, elite interviews and analysis of grey literature. The study finds that engagement in the online social spaces offered teachers opportunities to perform and construct their professional identities across a variety of topics ranging from local practical concerns to national political issues. In more practical topics the spaces could often be observed as acting as communities of practice in which professional learning took place and identities were constructed, with such online professional development influencing offline classroom practice. However, engaging across this spectrum of topics afforded users a broad conception of what it means to be a teacher, where professional identity was understood as going beyond classroom practice and integrating engagement with subject-wide, political and policy related issues at a national level. Such engagement provided many users with a feeling of belonging to a national community of peers, which, alongside political activism initiated in online interaction and meaning making debates concerning the future and identity of the subject, provided teachers with feelings of empowerment and a sense of ownership of their subject. However, the study found that teachers’ online engagement took place within structures embedded in the online social spaces that influenced and shaped engagement and the ways in which users’ professional identities were performed and constructed. These structures were linked with the design and technical affordances of the spaces, the agendas of the parent organisations that provided the spaces, and the discourses that dominated the spaces. These aspects of the spaces provided a structure that limited engagement, content and available online identity positions while additionally projecting ideal identity positions, distinctive in each space. These ideal identity positions had a constructive influence over many users who aspired to these ideals, often gaining confidence through expressing such socially validated ideals or feeling inadequate when failing to perform such ideal identity positions. Thus, this study finds a complex relationship between agency linked with active online identity performance and the constructive influence of embedded structures that contributed to the shaping of users’ engagement and their understandings of themselves as professionals and their subject.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:24:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Urvinis.pdf: 819816 bytes, checksum: cb3cbefd97bf61fdefb7a31a9e586891 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-07 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This research aims at investigating the local-global knowledge which emerges from the discoursive practices of two teachers of English who have just started the course Reflection on Action: the teacher of English learning and teaching and two other ones who have already finished the same course. Our theoretical construct is based on Contemporary Applied Linguistics on the perspective of Moita Lopes (2006a; 2006b; 2002); Kumaravadivelu (2006) and Celani (2005). This study is grounded on the binominal local-global knowledge (Canagarajah, 2005); on the official documents that guide the practice of teachers of English in the Brazilian educational context (São Paulo, 2008; Brasil, 2002; 2000; 1998) and on Vygotsky s Sociocultural and Historical Theory of teaching and learning (Vygotsky, 1930/1989; 1934/2001, among others). The research is conducted by an interpretative methodology (Myers, 1997; Moita Lopes; 1996; Erickson; 1986, among others) and the data has been collected through two instruments: a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview (Rizzini, Castro and Sartor, 1999). For analyzing and interpreting the data, three categories of analysis have been established: the category of thematic content, the observation of how the participants place their enunciates and deontic modalizations (Bronckart, 1997/1999). The study concentrates on three areas of analysis (a) senses, meanings and aims of teachinglearning English in the educational context; (2) planning and criteria for curriculum content selection; and (3) pedagogical practices. The results showed that the teachers who were taking the first module of the course Reflection on Action presented a discourse strongly supported by local knowledge, but heading to a dialogue with a global one. On the other hand, the teachers who have already finished the course achieved more autonomy to reflect about the global knowledge in their relationship to local one to promote the teaching-learning English for specific contexts / Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar os saberes locais-globais que emergem nas práticas discursivas de duas professoras de inglês iniciantes do curso Reflexão sobre a ação: o professor de inglês aprendendo e ensinando e de duas professoras egressas do referido curso. Este estudo foi realizado dentro da perspectiva da Linguística Aplicada Contemporânea, com base em Moita Lopes (2006a; 2006b; 2002); Kumaravadivelu (2006) e Celani (2005). Apoia-se nos conceitos de saber local e global (Canagarajah, 2005), nos documentos oficiais que orientam a prática dos professores de inglês no contexto educacional (São Paulo, 2008; Brasil, 2002; 2000; 1998) e na teoria de ensino e aprendizagem sócio-histórico-cultural (Vygotsky, 1930/1989; 1934/2001; 1934/2003; dentre outros). A metodologia de pesquisa utilizada foi a interpretativista (cf. Myers, 1997; Moita Lopes; 1996; Erickson; 1986, dentre outros) e a coleta dos dados foi feita por meio de dois instrumentos: um questionário e uma entrevista semi-estruturada (Rizzini, Castro e Sartor, 1999). Para a análise e interpretação dos dados foram utilizadas três categorias: conteúdo temático, observação do posicionamento enunciativo dos participantes e modalizações deônticas (Bronckart, 1997/1999). Três foram os eixos de análise: (a) sentidos, significados e finalidades de ensinar e aprender inglês no contexto educacional; (b) planejamento e critérios utilizados para a seleção de conteúdos; e (c) ações pedagógicas. Os resultados obtidos a partir da análise dos dados revelaram que as professoras ingressantes do curso Reflexão sobre a Ação apresentaram um discurso fortemente apoiado em conhecimentos locais, mas já apontando para um diálogo com os globais; por outro lado, as egressas adquiriram mais autonomia para dialogar com as teorias globais para promover o ensino-aprendizagem de inglês para contextos locais

Tyrimo objektas – etnografinio muziejaus kaip ugdymo erdvės funkcionavimas. Tyrimo tikslas – pasitelkus Lietuvos liaudies buities muziejuje taikomų eksponavimo formų, priemonių, rengiamų edukacinių programų analizę, atskleisti etnografinio muziejaus kaip ugdymo erdvės funkcionavimo specifiką. Tikslui įgyvendinti siekiama šių uždavinių: 1. išsiaiškinti prioritetines muziejų veiklos kryptis Lietuvos muziejų veiklą reglamentuojančiuose dokumentuose ir atskleisti Lietuvos liaudies buities muziejaus veiklos prioritetų ištakas bei kaitą; 2. nustatyti eksponavimo formų Lietuvos liaudies buities muziejuje specifiką; 3. ištirti mokymo bei mokymosi neformalioje Lietuvos liaudies buities aplinkoje galimybes; 4. išsiaiškinti, ar esama komercijos elementų savitoje Lietuvos liaudies buities muziejaus edukacinėje programoje – tradicinėse šventėse; 5. atskleisti ugdymo medijų naudojimo muziejuose kaitą ir tos kaitos pasekmes ugdymo procesui. Paskutiniais dešimtmečiais pasaulinėje praktikoje ugdymas yra laikomas yra visų muziejų veiklos pagrindu. Nors Lietuvos muziejų veiklą reglamentuojančiuose įstatymuose bei Lietuvos liaudies buities muziejaus statute daugiau akcentuojamos paveldosauginės muziejaus kaip institucijos funkcijos, atgavus nepriklausomybę, muziejus pradėjo teikti pirmenybę edukacinei veiklai. Nuo 1991 metų čia rengiamos veikiančios ekspozicijos, kuriose eksponatai naudojami pagal paskirtį. Jos ne tik suteikia lankytojui didesnes išmokimo bei susipažinimo su praeities kontekstu... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Subject of investigation: The functioning of the ethnographic museum as an educational space. Goal of investigation: To determine the specific nature of the functioning of the ethnographic museum as an educational space through an analysis of the forms and methods of exhibition and educational programs of the Open Air museum of Lithuania. The following tasks were pursued to implement this goal: 1. to determine the fundamental direction of priority activities of museums in documents regulating the activity of Lithuanian museums and to determine the source and changes of priority activities at the Open Air museum of Lithuania; 2. to determine the specific character of forms of exhibition at the Open Air museum of Lithuania; 3. to examine the prospects for learning and teaching within the informal environment of Open Air museum of Lithuania; 4. to determine whether there are commercial elements in the educational program of the Open Air museum of Lithuania, during traditional celebrations; 5. to elucidate changes in the use of educational media at museums and the effects of those changes on the educational process. Over the preceding decades in global practice education has been considered the foundation for all museum activities. Although laws regulating the activities of Lithuanian museums and the statute of the Open Air museum of Lithuania place greater emphasis on the heritage protection functions of the museum as an institution, following Lithuanian independence the museum... [to full text]

Questa tesi è il risultato di uno studio sul CLIL e le nuove tecnologie per la didattica nato da un insieme di fattori: il desiderio di investigare l’uso delle nuove tecnologie a scuola, considerando le possibili implicazioni, e il bisogno di migliorare la qualità dell’apprendimento linguistico attraverso la creazione di nuovi stimoli per gli studenti. Tale studio è costituito da una parte teorica e una pratica di ricerca sul campo in cui si sono presi in considerazione diversi gradi di scuola e anche corsi universitari. La ricerca ha dimostrato l’influenza positiva delle nuove tecnologie come valore aggiunto al CLIL e ha riconosciuto il ruolo chiave dell’insegnante in questo tipo di approccio bifocale. / This thesis is the result of a research study in CLIL and Technologies that arose from the combination of different factors: the desire of investigate the implementation of new technologies at school, considering the possible implication, and the need to improve the quality of language learning giving new stimuli to the students. It is based on a theoretical study and an action research which investigated different school levels and university courses. The research proved the positive stimulus of new technologies as value-added to CLIL and recognised the key role of the teacher in such a double-focus approach.

One of the challenges facing the education system in South Africa is a lack of the culture of teaching and learning. It is this challenge that prompted this research. The research investigated how the principaL as an instructional leader, can restore the culture of teaching and learning in previously disadvantaged schools. A qualitative approach was used and three schools were selected in the Sambandou Circuit of the Northern Province. The research results showed that there are general and management factors that contribute to a lack of the culture of teaching and learning. Management factors include, amongst others, lack of staff development programmes and discipline. The general factors, on the other hand, include amongst others, poor physical conditions and infrastructure in schools. In conclusion, the research recommended, amongst others, that principals conduct staff development programmes and supervise the work of educators and learners / Educational Leadership and Management / M. Ed. (Education Management)

PEREIRA, Linconly Jesus Alencar. A umbanda em Fortaleza: análise dos significados presentes nos pontos cantados e riscados nos rituais religiosos. 2012. 143 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Ceará. Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2012. / Submitted by Raul Oliveira (raulcmo@hotmail.com) on 2012-07-05T14:37:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_Dis_LJAPereira.pdf: 3749642 bytes, checksum: e0ce169258c5ffb1bbb6aacd0435c2d4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-18T14:49:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_Dis_LJAPereira.pdf: 3749642 bytes, checksum: e0ce169258c5ffb1bbb6aacd0435c2d4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-18T14:49:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012_Dis_LJAPereira.pdf: 3749642 bytes, checksum: e0ce169258c5ffb1bbb6aacd0435c2d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / This talks about the analyse of the meaning in sings points in religion celebrations of Umbanda from Fortaleza. It has as goal to understand how the relation between learning/teaching happens, as how to investigate the changing from macumba to Umbanda in Fortaleza reality, trying to understand the magic universe of Umbanda religion and african cosmology in this religion the reserarch is about quality, using afrodescendent method as an instsument to collect information an interview and abservation of the Umbanda religioners.It was made in two fases, bethween 2010 and 2011 years.Seven fathers and mothers “de santo” was interviewed, as other peaple who participate of Umbanda.This study presents the construction, describing the peaple profile this work keys. The religion is flexed in Ceará and specially in Fortaleza, analysing documents tahen from “O Povo” newspaper.This religion tries to win the prejudice from society.The pratices like Yemanjá’s party, where I was participating, helped me to do a research of Umbanda nowadays. / Esta dissertação trata da análise dos significados presentes nos pontos cantados e riscados nos rituais religiosos da Umbanda de Fortaleza. Tem como objetivos compreender de que forma se dá a relação ensino/aprendizagem e a interpretação dos significados presentes nos pontos cantados e riscados, assim como investigar a transição da Macumba para a Umbanda na realidade fortalezense, na busca do entendimento do universo mítico religioso umbandista, bem como as estratégias de percepção e esclarecimento da cosmologia africana presente nessa religião. A pesquisa é de cunho qualitativo, mediante o uso da metodologia afrodescendente e uma perspectiva etnográfica, tendo como instrumentos de coleta de dados a entrevista semiestruturada e a observação participante. A pesquisa se dividiu em duas fases entre os anos de 2010 e 2011, em que sete pais e mães-de-santo foram entrevistados, assim como outros sujeitos que faziam parte desse universo umbandista. O estudo apresenta a construção dos aspectos metodológicos da pesquisa, descrevendo profundamente a aproximação com o campo, as metodologias de pesquisa utilizadas, assim como a construção do perfil biográfico dos sacerdotes e sacerdotisas, interlocutores-chave deste trabalho. Os elementos que denotaram a consolidação das religiões de matriz africana no Estado do Ceará também foram analisados na busca de entender como se deu a consolidação da Umbanda na cidade de Fortaleza, a partir das fontes documentais primárias encontradas no jornal O Povo, na tentativa de perceber como essa religião traçou e traça estratégias de sobrevivência, resistência e enfrentamento as ações silenciadoras da sociedade cearense. As práticas como a festa de Yemanjá, que tive a oportunidade de acompanhar por todo o tempo da pesquisa, ajudaram a traçar o panorama da Umbanda nos dias atuais, a partir da perspectiva dos sacerdotes e sacerdotisas, aproximando-me dos significados presentes nos pontos cantados e riscados. Através dessas visões, busquei perceber como a relação ensino/aprendizagem dos pontos cantados e riscados acontece na atualidade, sua interpretação e como estão situados nos diversos rituais religiosos encontrados na Umbanda cearense.

Cette thèse porte sur les pratiques d’enseignement du français langue étrangère (FLE) en milieu universitaire vietnamien. L’enjeu est d’étudier ces pratiques à partir des représentations des enseignants afin d’appréhender dans leurs discours la part réservée aux méthodes d’enseignement qu’ils souhaiteraient employer au nom de référentiels théoriques issus du Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues (CECRL) à partir desquels ils ont été formés et ce qu’ils disent faire réellement dans leurs pratiques de classe dans le contexte de la culture éducative locale. Le titre « entre culture d’apprentissage et culture d’enseignement » indique le lien dynamique, dialectique voire conflictuel entre l’héritage des habitus culturels qui s’expriment à travers des pratiques et méthodes traditionnelles d’enseignement-apprentissage et les influences occidentales qui proposent d’autres modèles dont le CECRL représente l’un des aspects pour apprendre et enseigner les langues. Pris entre ces modèles passés/présents, la question est de comprendre comment les enseignants appréhendent et actualisent leurs pratiques sachant que le gouvernement vietnamien privilégie des orientations d’inspirations occidentales dans le cadre de sa politique linguistique. Deux questions traversent cette thèse : 1. Quel est l’impact de la culture éducative et sociale sur ces pratiques dans le discours des enseignants au regard de ces choix ? 2. De quelles manières et jusqu’où s’approprient-ils ces références venues d’Europe pour adapter voire contextualiser des pratiques en les reliant à l’environnement local vietnamien ? D’un point de vue méthodologique, cette thèse privilégie une démarche qualitative et s’appuie sur un corpus d’entretiens semi-directifs auprès de quinze enseignants universitaires de FLE répartis sur les trois régions Nord, Centre et Sud du pays. / This thesis is about French as foreign language teaching practices inside vietnamese academic community. Its purpose is to study these practices based on teachers’ representations in order to understand how they would use teaching methods closed to theoretical references of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages - they were trained with their theoretical references - and what they actually they say they do in their classes practices inside the educational local culture. This title « Midway between cultural education and cultural learning » identifies the dialectics or contentious connection between the heritage of cultural customs which exists inside learning-education traditional methods and western influences as the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages which represents one of the methods to learn and teach languages. Between this past and present methodologies, the issue is to understand how teachers perceive their practices when we know that vietnamese government promotes western influences in its language policy. This thesis tries to answer at 2 questions : 1. What is the impact of educative and social culture in the way teachers teach ? 2. In what ways and how far they adapt these western influences to vietnamese local context ? In methodological way, this thesis gives priority to qualitative approach and bases on fifteen academic teachers of French as foreign language interviews based in North, Center and South Vitenam.

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The aim of this diploma thesis is to show the possibilities of using the Internet in order to make language learning more effective. In the centre of attention is the language learning at secondary schools in the Czech Republic. The aims, contents and particularities of teaching German at secondary schools in the Czech Republic are defined at the beginning, followed by a discussion about convenient didactic methods according to the educational theories. Internet tools and other its characteristics, which could contribute to the efficiency improvement of language teaching, are also introduced. The thesis also pays attention to the specialized terminology. In the practical part, we can find, at first, some specific prerequisites of using the Internet in teaching a foreign language. We can also find some concrete examples of using the Internet as a support in teaching with regards to the established educational aims. All is based on my own teaching experience and on an extensive internet and foreign literature research. Some useful internet web pages are also mentioned. The thesis shows that the Internet offers quite a lot of possibilities which could, in a way, contribute to efficiency improvement in teaching German.

Os processos de formação científica do profissional Fisioterapeuta envolvem além do conhecimento científico, compreendido nos currículos, práticas profissionais que, juntamente com as configurações dos serviços, marcam a constituição de sujeitos. Neste sentido, os modos de ser dos futuros profissionais são influenciados pela organização curricular do seu curso de formação, neste caso, da Fisioterapia. Pelo fato do trabalho em saúde se aproximar de questões que envolvem a existência humana, objetiva-se com este estudo mostrar as condições e as possibilidades de determinação, bem como as implicações entre a constituição do sujeito e a formação profissional nas dimensões científica e não científica do profissional Fisioterapeuta. Coerente com este objetivo, a constituição do sujeito define o âmbito do problema de pesquisa a ser examinado, nas áreas da educação e da saúde. Este estudo tem como apoio teórico o pensamento de Michel Foucault, especialmente as obras A História da Sexualidade e A Hermenêutica do Sujeito, sendo complementado por contribuições de especialistas na área da saúde, entre os quais, Sílvio Paulo Botomé e Rubens Rebelatto. O método empregado consistiu em levantar, identificar e analisar algumas determinações na formação do sujeito que dependem do tipo de formação científica. Para isto o trabalho teve como referência a experiência do ensino do Curso de Fisioterapia da Universidade de Caxias do Sul e da Clínica de Fisioterapia desta mesma universidade, sendo ainda complementado por entrevistas com alunos, professores e profissionais da área. A dissertação compreende, além da introdução e conclusão, três capítulos, sendo o primeiro intitulado A Constituição do Sujeito e a formação profissional, o segundo, A Constituição do sujeito na formação científica profissional em Fisioterapia e o terceiro, A Constituição do Sujeito na integração ensino-serviço aprendizado. A relevância desta dissertação reside na sua contribuição para avaliar e qualificar os serviços, bem como os cursos de graduação, neste caso de Fisioterapia, mas também para e os demais cursos da área da saúde, tanto da Universidade de Caxias do Sul, quanto de outras instituições. Igualmente deduz-se destes estudos a relevância social presente nas atividades dos profissionais da área da saúde. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-06-02T17:19:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Suzete Grandi.pdf: 1000332 bytes, checksum: 319c8745b07ac8097c14713cd86b3851 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-02T17:19:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Suzete Grandi.pdf: 1000332 bytes, checksum: 319c8745b07ac8097c14713cd86b3851 (MD5) / The processes of scientific formation of the professionals in Physiotherapy involve, besides the scientific knowledge comprised in the curriculums, professional practice which, along with the service settings, marks the constitution of subjects. In this sense, the modes of being of the future professionals are influenced by the organization of the curriculum of their formation course, in this case, Physiotherapy. As the health work address issues that involve the human existence, the objective of this study is to show the conditions and possibilities of determination, as well as the implications of the constitution of the subject and the professional formation in the scientific and nonscientific dimensions of professionals in Physiotherapy. Coherent with this objective, the constitution of the subject defines the scope of the research problem to be examined in the areas of Education and Health. This study is supported by the thinking of Michel Foucault, especially the works "The History of Sexuality" and "The Hermeneutics of the Subject", and it is also complemented by contributions from experts in Healthcare, as Silvio Paulo Botomé and Rubens Rebelatto, among others. The method employed consisted of raising, identifying and analyzing some determinations in the formation of the subject that depend on the type of scientific formation. In order to do this, the work took into consideration the teaching experience at the Course of Physiotherapy of the University of Caxias do Sul and the Clinic of Physiotherapy at the same university and it is further complemented by interviews with students, teachers and professionals in the field. The dissertation includes, besides the introduction and conclusion, three chapters. The first is entitled The Constitution of the Subject and the professional formation, the second, The Constitution of the subject in professional scientific formation in Physiotherapy and the third, The Constitution of the Subject in the learning / teachingservice integration. The relevance of this dissertation lies in its contribution to assess and qualify the services as well as the graduation courses, in this case Physiotherapy, but also for other courses of the healthcare field, both from the University of Caxias do Sul, and other institutions. It is equally inferred from these studies the social relevance present in the activities of healthcare professionals.