A presente pesquisa configura-se como um estudo de caso de natureza qualitativa que procurou analisar e tecer algumas considerações importantes a respeito de um curso livre experimental de inglês básico on-line - denominado Beginner Grammar Writing (BGW)-, com enfoque no desenvolvimento das habilidades de leitura e de escrita. Esse curso foi oferecido para alunos de diferentes países cuja língua materna não é o inglês, e ministrado, concomitantemente, por duas professoras da área, residentes em países distintos. Procurou-se verificar se o curso, que adotou uma metodologia de ensino-aprendizagem colaborativa/comunicacional, veio a se tornar uma comunidade de aprendizagem, a partir das características apontadas por vários teóricos, e das quais elegemos as seguintes: interesses comuns, empatia, sociabilidade colaborativa e tempo de exposição no grupo. Os dados obtidos foram coletados ao longo do curso em questão, no primeiro momento em que foi oferecido. Esses dados consistem em documentos digitais do curso (tais como e-mail dos alunos, e-mail trocados entre as professoras, registros de participação dos estudantes no fórum e em sessões de chat) e na observação participante da professora/pesquisadora ao longo de todo o curso. O estudo fundamentou-se nas teorias da comunicação escolar, comunicação on-line, de aprendizagem colaborativa e no referencial teórico a respeito de comunidades virtuais (de aprendizagem). A reflexão sobre os dados recolhidos e a análise efetuada apontaram algumas questões relevantes a respeito de ensino de inglês on-line na perspectiva de uma metodologia de ensino-aprendizagem colaborativo/ comunicacional e mostraram que o curso BGW atingiu o objetivo de promover a aprendizagem coletiva. A análise de dados confirmou ainda que uma comunidade de aprendizagem foi criada e é mantida como tal a partir do curso BGW aqui estudado. / The present study is a qualitative case study of an experimental English basic on-line course, entitled Beginner Grammar Writing (BGW), with emphasis on the development of writing and reading skills. This course was offered to students from different countries, whose native language was not English, and was delivered simultaneously by two teachers of English, resident in distinct countries. The study attempted to verify whether the students in the course, which adopted a teaching and learning collaborative/communicational methodology, became a learning community from the characteristics described by several theoreticians and from which we selected the following: common interests, empathy, collaborative sociability and time of exposure in the group. The data were collected from the course when it was first offered. Data consisted of digital documents (such as students´ e-mail, e-mail exchanged between the teachers, questionnaires, registers of students´ participation in the discussion forum and in the chat sessions, and some others) and the participative observation of the teacher/researcher throughout the course. The theoretical framework was based on the communicative theory, the collaborative learning approach and the theoretical referential on virtual learning communities. The data showed that the BGW course reached its objective of promoting a collective learning. The data also confirmed that a learning community was created and is maintained as so from the course studied.

摘要 本研究採問卷調查法，針對雙北(臺北市、新北市)高級中學教師就校長正向領導、教師專業學習社群與學校創新經營之關係進行探討。寄發 650位教師樣本，回收問卷491份，回收率為 75.54%。有效問卷 461 份，有效問卷回收率為 71 %。首先以平均數、標準差等來描述雙北高級中學校長正向領導、教師專業學習社群與學校創新經營的現況；另以平均數差異考驗(t-test)和單因子變異數分析(One-Way ANOVA)來檢定不同背景變項的雙北高級中學校長正向領導、教師專業學習社群與學校創新經營之知覺反應差異情形；再以Pearson 積差相關檢視其相關性；最後再採逐步多元迴歸分析法，考驗校長正向領導與教師專業學習社群之各分層面對學校創新經營的預測力。最後，將研究發現，提出建議，以供未來相關研究作參考。 壹、高級中學校長正向領導、教師專業學習社群及學校創新經營之現況 貳、不同背景變項在校長正向領導、教師專業學習社群及學校創新經營之差異情形 参、校長正向領導、教師專業學習社群及教師教學創新呈現正相關情形 肆、校長正向領導、教師專業學習社群對學校創新經營具有預測作用，以「分享教學實務」層面的預測力最佳 一、學校創新經營「行政管理創新」層面四個變項的聯合預測力達65.5% 二、學校創新經營「課程教學創新」層面四個變項的聯合預測力達67.3% 三、學校創新經營「學生活動創新」層面三個變項的聯合預測力達64.7% 四、學校創新經營「資源運用創新」層面五個變項的聯合預測力達68.1% 五、學校創新經營「校園環境創新」層面四個變項的聯合預測力達62.1% 六、學校創新經營整體層面五個變項的聯合預測力達80% 根據研究發現，本節將依據主要研究發現及結論，提出具體建議，以供教育行政機關及學校行政單位、高中教育相關人員及後續研究參考。 關鍵詞：校長正向領導、教師專業學習社群、學校創新經營 / Abstract In this study, a questionnaire survey was conducted to explore the relationship among the positive leadership of principals, professional learning community of teachers and school innovation management in high school teachers of Taipei City and New Taipei City. 650 samples were sent and 491 samples were collected. The recovery rate was 75.54%. There was a total of 461 valid questionnaires and a valid response rate of 71%. First, using the average, standard deviation and etc. to describe the current status of positive leadership of principals, professional learning community of teachers and school innovation management in high schools of Taipei City and New Taipei City; second, use t-test and One-Way ANOVA to examine the perceptual response differences among positive leadership of principals, professional learning community of teachers and school innovation management in the high schools of the two cities with background variables; then, use Pearson product difference to review the correlations; last, with multiple stepwise regression analysis to test the predictability of positive leadership of principals, professional learning community of teachers and school innovation management. Finally, the study results will make recommendations for future reference. I. The current perceptual situation of positive leadership of principals, professional learning community of teachers and school innovation management in high schools is in good condition. II. Different background variables are found in positive leadership of principals, professional learning community of teachers and school innovation management III. The positive leadership of principals, professional learning community of teachers and school innovation management show a positive correlation IV. The positive leadership of principals, professional learning community of teachers and school innovation management have a predictive effect, the level of “sharing teaching practice” has the highest predictability. 1. A level of four variables in school innovation management “Administrative Management Innovation” has reached a predictability of 65.5%. 2. A level of four variables in school innovation management “Curriculum Instruction Innovation” has reached a predictability of 67.3%. 3. A level of three variables in school innovation management “Student Activities Innovation” has reached a predictability of 64.7%. 4. A level of five variables in school innovation management “Resource Utilization Innovation” has reached a predictability of 68.1%. 5. A level of four variables in school innovation management “Campus Environment Innovation” has reached a predictability of 62.1%. 6. A total of five variables in school innovation management has reached a predictability of 80%. According to research study, it is hoped that the findings of this study can lead to substantial suggestions for the reference of educational administration, school administrative unit, high school personnel and further studies. Keywords: positive leadership of principals, professional learning community of teachers, school innovation management

This inquiry is the exploration and understanding of a case study: the nine-year-old learners of an inner-city school in South Africa and their experiences of democratic South Africa as citizens. Their expressions informed me on how they perceived their democratic identities and their understandings of their citizenship. From the acquired understandings and identities I sought to extend the current conceptions of citizenship education. This study was informed by the interpretivist paradigm and guided by a conceptual framework. <p.The literature on citizenship and citizenship education concerning the young child highlighted associated concepts and theories. I employed Dewey’s theory on building a learning community and Waghid’s expansion of compassion and imaginative action. Theories used concerning young children and their construction of citizenship were the postcolonial and transforming society theory, informing that children as young as nine years can engage in notions such as citizenship and democracy. From the literature, I identified the knowledge, skills and values needed for a child to participate as an active and accountable citizen; content also offered by the South African national curriculum. This curriculum envisages the future citizen as the responsible citizen who will embrace democratic values in their everyday lives and contribute to nation-building. The data collection methods and data collection instruments were designed in a child-centred way to facilitate selfexpression. The constructivist grounded theory analysis assisted in generating significant insights. The nine-year-old learners expressed their identification with the South African democracy and its values such as social justice, which aligned with the South African ideal of social cohesion and nation-building. However, they expressed little knowledge about and no active participation in democratic processes. They expressed concern about their unsafe neighbourhood and the social injustices they encountered in their community. The young learners expressed the desire for change to transform South Africa into a ‘better nation’ to secure their and other citizens’ future. Key findings confirmed statements made by scholars in this field: citizenship education has to acknowledge the life experiences of children in order to be meaningful (thus contextualize citizenship) and to assist young children to contribute to democracy. However, the democracy can only be sustained and strengthened if the learners are knowledgeable about democratic processes and possible threats to these processes. In addition, young children need to be participants in the democracy and not only observers. The nine-year-old learners expressed the passion to do what is expected of them but seemingly lacked the participatory skills and opportunities they needed. / Thesis (PhD (Learning Support, Guidance and Counselling))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Early Childhood Education / unrestricted

Denna uppsats har som syfte att undersöka hur den svenska karriärstegsreformen har kommit att gestalta sig i praktiken vad gäller implementeringen av förstelärare i grundskolan. Hur har förstelärarollen kommit att formas, och vilka faktorer har påverkat hur det har blivit? Den så kallade karriärstegsreformen infördes 2014 genom att statsbidrag infördes för huvudmän för att inrätta ett nytt karriärsteg, försteläraren. Genom att ta utgångspunkt i reformens syften, så som de beskrivs i de statliga styrdokumenten, och i forskning kring skolutveckling, ledarskap i skolan, implementering av reformer och lärares professionalism, har en enkätundersökning genomförts bland förstelärare och rektorer i fyra kommuner. Som verktyg för analys har fyra möjliga sätt att förstå förstelärarollen använts utifrån Thelin (2015, 2016): utvecklare, utbildare och utvecklingsledare, beroende på vem står i centrum för utvecklingen och lärandet samt försteläraren som föredöme. Studiens resultat visar att samtliga fyra inriktningar på förstelärarollen går att återfinna i praktiken. Förekomsten av ett formellt, kommunicerat uppdrag och om tid har avsatts inom tjänsten för försteläraruppdraget påverkar hur förstelärarens roll formas. När tid och uppdrag har getts, är utvecklingsledarrollen vanlig och försteläraren arbetar med, och ges kompetensutveckling för, att leda kollegialt lärande i linje med de faktorer som enligt skolutvecklingsforskningen bygger upp ett hållbart utvecklingsarbete. Reformens syfte kan utläsas som karriärutveckling eller skolutveckling, och även rollerna utvecklare, och föredöme syns i studiens material. Dessa roller bidrar mer begränsat till utveckling av skolan, i fokus står de egna eleverna och för rollen föredöme är utnämningen till förstelärare i första hand en bekräftelse på utveckling som redan har skett. Studien bidrar med kunskap som kan öka medvetenheten kring hur uppdrag, och organisatoriska faktorer påverkar vilken effekt förstelärares arbete får för skolutveckling. Reformen infördes för bara några år sedan. Kunskap om hur förstelärarrollen i praktiken har kommit att formas, och vilka faktorer som påverkar det, bidrar till att öka möjligheten till medvetna val som kan gynna skolans utveckling. / The swedish career services for teachers reform was introduced in 2014. Some years later the “first teacher” has become a common role in schools. The aim for this reform was to rise educational results in swedish schools, to make the teacher as a profession more attractive and to start a process that would lead to more professional teachers. The impact from an advanced skilled teacher has been focused in Sweden, as in other countries in the OECD.  At the same time, the swedish schools have at tradition of a flat organisation, that this new career service has come to challenge. The essay aims at examining how the Swedish career reform has come to light in practice regarding the implementation of teachers in compulsary school. By taking aim of the reform, as described in the state governing documents, and research on school improvement, curriculum theory, educational leadership and teachers' professionalism, a survey has been created and answered by principals and “first teachers” in four different communalities. The study result shows that the ”first teacher”  work in different roles, and that factors like task, time and education will affect what kind of role that will be enacted. Building a sustainable educational leadership and creating a culture of collaborative learning will be depending on how this carreer teacher service reform will be implemented. The study contributes with knowledge that can raise awareness about how assignments, and organizational factors affect the effect of  “first teachers” work for school development. The reform was introduced a few years ago, and by studying how it has so far been set against the different perspectives on school development, the choices can be made that lead to the desired result.

Cette recherche transdisciplinaire est à la croisée de la didactique des langues, de l’interculturel, des sciences du langage et des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour l’Enseignement. En nous appuyant sur les théories autour de la communauté de pratique, des stratégies d’écrit interactif, de la conscience interculturelle, et du parler bilingue, cette thèse tente de démontrer comment une communauté d’apprentissage se développe, quelles sont les pratiques interculturelles et bilingues utilisées par les membres de la communauté pour co-construire des connaissances dans un cadre de webcollaboration. Pour cette expérimentation, nous avons choisi le jumelage de classes distantes réunissant un groupe d’étudiants en France apprenant le chinois et un groupe d’étudiants en Chine apprenant le français. Le cadre pédagogique était basé sur un scénario actionnel et un projet collaboratif. Nous avons conçu à cet effet une plateforme d’échanges comprenant un blogue et un forum où les participants pouvaient interagir. L’analyse de notre corpus était à la fois quantitative et qualitative. Notre objectif était de décrire l’émergence d’une communauté d’apprentissage, les différents niveaux de conscience interculturelle, ainsi que les réflexions et les pratiques bi-plurilingues. / This transdisciplinary research is at the intersection of language teaching, intercultural studies, linguistics and information and communication technologies for education. Drawing on theories around community of practice, strategies for interactive writing , intercultural awareness, and bilingual communication, this thesis attempts to demonstrate how a learning community develops, what are the intercultural and bilingual practices used by the members of the community to co-construct knowledge in a context of webcollaboration.For this experiment, we chose a class e-twinning with a group of students learning Chinese in France and a group of students learning French in China. The pedagogical framework was based on an action-based scenario and a collaborative project. We designed for this purpose an exchange platform including a blog and a forum where participants could interact. The analysis of our corpus was both quantitative and qualitative. Our purpose was to describe the emergence of a learning community, the different levels of intercultural awareness, as well as the bi-multilingual practices and reflections.

The aim of the research was to investigate the relationship between facilitation, computer software and the learner in teaching a computer-integrated lesson. South Africa has recently changed their education system from that of content-based to that of outcomes-based. With these changes came the introduction of e-Education. The Government e-Education goal is that every South African learner in the general and further education and training bands will be ICT (Information and Communication Technology) capable by 2013. Educators are expected to facilitate these classes without having being trained as facilitators in a computer environment. Most educators’ follow an instructivist mode of teaching and the researcher decided to do a case study at a school in the Western Cape to investigate the role of an educator in a computer environment. The researcher also wrote the computer-mediated software for the educator to use in his lesson. The software was written for a lesson on Physical Science which was not the field of study of the educator. The educator, however, is a computer technician. These issues raised questions as to what the methodology of teaching of this educator would be, how would the learners interact with the facilitator and the content and to what degree learning would take place with regards to transfer of skills and knowledge. From the literature survey the researcher compiled a checklist of what the role of an educator in a computer environment should be whereby the educator was assessed. A questionnaire was compiled whereby the learners evaluated the software that was used for this computer integrated lesson. The learners had to write a pre- and post-test to determine whether content was transferred in this lesson and they were asked to perform a practical experiment to determine their skills. This dissertation shows how good facilitation, coupled with pedagogically well-designed software and good learner participation leads to a successful learning community. Copyright / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted

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The purpose of this study was to explore the essence of professional learning experiences shared by teachers who participated in a professional learning community (PLC) at a New York City high school in the South Bronx. Guided by Hord's PLC characteristics and Bruner's constructivism theories, this phenomenological study addressed the research questions of what PLC practices urban high school teachers employ to support the academic-literacy achievement of their students of low social economic status (SES); the role of administration in the PLC process; and the roles of a shared mission, values, vision, norms, and collaborative knowledge on the functioning of the PLC. Data collected from the 6 PLC teachers included semi-structured individual interviews, observations of PLC meetings over a 2-month period, participating teacher reflective journal entries, and a researcher's log. Manual data analysis consisted of reading raw data multiple times to determine patterns, themes, and relationships. Additionally, concept and descriptive coding approaches facilitated data source analysis. Gerund words and short phrases generated labels and categories that resulted symbolic representation. The results were that the urban high school teachers demonstrated Hord's PLC characteristics and Bruner's constructivism theories within their PLC's practices and principles leading to decision-making and solutions to problems such as improving teachers' literacy practices, students' literacy skills and classroom behavior, and school wide Individualized Educational Plan process. The findings of this study support the engagement of urban high school teachers in self-directed PLC activities that may promote social change by improving literacy instruction and literacy achievement among students of low SES.

This study reports on the use of action research methodology to generate a critical reflective collaborative setting. The aim was to infuse the institution with the results of this study in order to stimulate debate on the issues regarding change in practice and systems. The suitability of Internet communication technologies, more specifically the online learning community, is evaluated as a delivery mode that would address today&#8217;s learning needs. This required the collaborative construction of knowledge in a community setting with the teacher enabling communication and interaction, and facilitating and stimulating the sharing and testing of ideas and constructs. But such a learning scenario was found to be significantly challenging to the current print-based learning experience. It implied a challenge to teaching and support staff as well as the questioning of the efficiency and legitimacy of current instructional design staff and procedures used. The teaching responsibilities and commitment in the online community was outlined as against current print-based teaching practice. The current development and production culture, which restricts innovation and change in practice and systems significantly, came under pressure. The success of the online learning community in the Unisa context was nevertheless significant and it has the potential to serve as an opportunity to re-examine print-based production and delivery and to devise strategies and solutions to increase the quality significantly. / Faculty of Education / D. Ed.