This mixed-methods single case study explored how outcome-based instructional design can be used to incorporate social software into an existing e-learning course. Pre-service teachers enrolled in a teacher education program at a Canadian university volunteered to participate in a study where social software was incorporated into a foundations course to facilitate digital literacy development, social objects production, and reflection on how these experiences connect to future teaching practice. The instructional design process was guided by a conceptual framework and informed by W(e)Learn, a well-tested e-learning design and evaluation framework. The quantitative and qualitative data were collected from the instructional designer’s journal, participant surveys, course records and interviews. Findings provided a comprehensive view of the effectiveness of outcome-based instructional design. In general, participants achieved the expected learning outcomes for this study. There were also unexpected outcomes. For example, some learners created a virtual community of practice. Some learners had an influence on their in-service teacher’s use of social software in teaching and learning. The findings supported the literature that states an outcome-based instructional design approach can facilitate learning. The findings also revealed why participants used social software in their teaching (e.g. awareness, usefulness, and school environment). In addition, these findings can inform school board policy with regard to supporting the use of social software in teaching and learning. The integration of qualitative and quantitative findings revealed convergence and divergence between the two types of data. In addition the findings informed directions for further research, including the relationship between learners’ satisfaction and learning experiences as well as the achievement of learning outcomes. The corroboration of data also identified specific effective and iii imperfect areas of the instructional design strategies, which, in turn, informed the revision of the conceptual framework for outcome-based instructional design. This study found W(e)learn to be effective in guiding outcome-based instructional design and analyzing the achievement of expected learning outcomes. The study also contributes to theory by recommending the inclusion of two new elements into W(e)learn. Painstakingly recording the instructional design process in a journal resulted in documented practical information and lessons learned that may guide and benefit instructional designers and educators who want to incorporate software into their learning activities.

In this study the teaching of mathematics has been developed in relation to rational numbers and towards a learning activity. At the same time topic-specific mediated tools have been studied. The iterative model for learning study has been used as research approach. The purpose of the study was to explore what in an algebraic learning activity enables knowledge of rational numbers to develop. The specific questions answered by the study are how an algebraic learning activity can be formed in an otherwise arithmetic teaching tradition, what knowledge is mediated in relation to different mediated tools and what in these tools that enable this knowledge. The result of the study shows how an algebraic learning activity can be developed to support the students to understand rational numbers even in an arithmetic teaching tradition. The important details that developed the algebraic learning activity were to identify the problem to create learning tasks and the opportunity for the students to reflect that are characteristic of a learning activity. The result also shows that the mediating tools, the algebraic symbols and the general model for fractional numbers, have had significant importance for the students' possibilities to explore rational numbers. The conditions for the algebraic symbols seem to be the possibilities for these symbols to include clues to the meaning of the symbol and that the same symbol can be used in relation to several of other mediated tools. The conditions in the general model consisted of that the integer numbers and the rational numbers in the model could be distinguished and that the students could reflect on the meaning of the different parts. The general model consists of the algebraic symbols, developed in the learning activity. The algebraic symbols make the structure of the numbers visible and the general model mediates the structure of additive and multiplicative conditions that are contained in a rational number. The result of the study contributes in part to the field of mathematics education research by examining Elkonin's and Davydov's Mathematical Curriculum in a western teaching practice and in part to a development of the model of Learning study as a didactical research approach by using an activity-theoretical perspective on design and analysis.

In this study the teaching of mathematics has been developed in relation to rational numbers and towards a learning activity. At the same time topic-specific mediated tools have been studied. The iterative model for learning study has been used as research approach. The purpose of the study was to explore what in an algebraic learning activity enables knowledge of rational numbers to develop. The specific questions answered by the study are how an algebraic learning activity can be formed in an otherwise arithmetic teaching tradition, what knowledge is mediated in relation to different mediated tools and what in these tools that enable this knowledge. The result of the study shows how an algebraic learning activity can be developed to support the students to understand rational numbers even in an arithmetic teaching tradition. The important details that developed the algebraic learning activity were to identify the problem to create learning tasks and the opportunity for the students to reflect that are characteristic of a learning activity. The result also shows that the mediating tools, the algebraic symbols and the general model for fractional numbers, have had significant importance for the students' possibilities to explore rational numbers. The conditions for the algebraic symbols seem to be the possibilities for these symbols to include clues to the meaning of the symbol and that the same symbol can be used in relation to several of other mediated tools. The conditions in the general model consisted of that the integer numbers and the rational numbers in the model could be distinguished and that the students could reflect on the meaning of the different parts. The general model consists of the algebraic symbols, developed in the learning activity. The algebraic symbols make the structure of the numbers visible and the general model mediates the structure of additive and multiplicative conditions that are contained in a rational number. The result of the study contributes in part to the field of mathematics education research by examining Elkonin's and Davydov's Mathematical Curriculum in a western teaching practice and in part to a development of the model of Learning study as a didactical research approach by using an activity-theoretical perspective on design and analysis.

Studiens syfte var att beskriva hur Alternativ och Kompletterande Kommunikation (AKK) används av lärare i den anpassade skolan för att främja elevers arbete med ämnesinnehåll, språkutveckling och kognition. Studien utgick från det sociokulturella perspektivet. En kvalitativ intervjustudie genomfördes och data analyserades i en tematisk analys. Urvalet bestod av åtta lärare i den anpassade skolan. Resultatet visade att lärare använder AKK i stor utsträckning för att möjliggöra arbete med ämnesinnehåll. Användandet av AKK gynnade elevernas språkutveckling och kognition, då lärarna möjliggjorde arbete i den proximala utvecklingszonen. Både empirisk och teoretisk generalisering låg till grund för arbetet med ämnesinnehåll, och vi fann exempel på lärare som arbetade liknade en learning activity. Lärarna önskade utveckla arbetet med att tolka elevernas deltagande i ämnesarbetet, samt att få mer stöd i form av färdigutvecklade lektionsstrukturer. Eleverna utmanades att fördjupa sitt kunnande vilket också kan gynna dem i ett samhällsperspektiv på lång sikt. Resultatet av studien kan användas av lärare i det didaktiska planeringsarbetet. / The aim of the study was to describe how Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) is used by teachers in special schools to promote students' work with subject content, language development and cognition. The study was based on the sociocultural perspective. A qualitative interview study was conducted and the data was analyzed in a thematic analysis. The sample consisted of eight teachers in special schools. The results showed that teachers use AAC to a large extent to enable work with subject content. The use of AAC benefited the students' language development and cognition, as the teachers enabled work in the zone of proximal development. Both empirical and theoretical generalization was the basis for the work with subject content, and we found examples of teachers whose work was similar to a learning activity. The teachers also wanted to develop the interpretation of the students' participation in the subject work, as well as to receive more support in the form of fully developed lesson structures. The students were challenged to deepen their knowledge, which can also have long term societal benefits for students. The results of the study can be used by teachers in didactic planning work.

O objetivo desta pesquisa consiste em investigar o significado da avaliação em matemática na perspectiva histórico-cultural, focalizando a teoria da atividade. Para o desenvolvimento dessa investigação, foi formado o grupo colaborativo da Oficina Pedagógica de Matemática de Ribeirão Preto (OPM/RP), constituído por professoras da Educação Infantil e séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, as quais foram sujeitos da pesquisa. A função principal do grupo colaborativo foi proporcionar uma formação orientada às professoras sobre o ensino de matemática na perspectiva histórico-cultural, com o intuito de levantar dados sobre o processo de apropriação dos conhecimentos matemáticos pelas docentes. O processo formativo, pautado nos pressupostos da Atividade Orientadora de Ensino, privilegiou a apresentação de situações-problema, cujas soluções possibilitaram a elaboração de conhecimentos, referentes não apenas aos conteúdos matemáticos, mas, também, à prática docente: ensinar, aprender e avaliar em matemática. Na análise dos dados, utilizamos o conceito de isolado (CARAÇA, 1989, MOURA, 2000) como princípio teórico-metodológico para a compreensão do fenômeno em desenvolvimento. Os dados foram organizados em três isolados aprendizagem docente, organização do ensino e prática pedagógica, tendo em vista a relação de interdependência e fluência entre os mesmos. Na relação entre a aprendizagem docente (apropriação dos conceitos teórico-metodológicos sobre o ensino de matemática), a organização do ensino (como elaborar atividade de ensino para que os alunos se apropriem dos conceitos) e a prática pedagógica (como colocar os conceitos teórico-metodológicos em ação na sala de aula) é que o professor se desenvolve profissionalmente, isto é, aprende a ser professor em um contínuo processo formativo. A síntese sobre o processo de aprendizagem docente foi importante para a sistematização dos elementos norteadores da avaliação em matemática na perspectiva da teoria histórico-cultural. Os resultados evidenciaram que a avaliação constitui-se em um constante processo de análise e síntese e seu direcionamento é dado pelo objetivo da atividade de ensino elaborada pelo professor, ou seja, sua intencionalidade pedagógica. A característica principal da avaliação consiste no acompanhamento do processo de ensino e aprendizagem, por meio da análise do sistema de atividade, na dinâmica entre a atividade de ensino e a atividade de aprendizagem, considerando os elementos constitutivos da atividade (necessidade, motivos, objetivos, ações e operações). Por meio da análise das ações de ensino e de aprendizagem, tendo como parâmetros as características do pensamento teórico (reflexão, análise e planificação teórica), concluímos que a avaliação é mediadora entre a atividade de ensino elaborada pelo professor e a atividade de aprendizagem realizada pelos escolares. / This research aims to investigate the meaning of evaluation in mathematics from the historical-cultural perspective, focusing on the activity theory. In order to develop the investigation, a collaborative group was formed from the Oficina Pedagógica de Matemática de Ribeirão Preto São Paulo (Math Pedagogic Workshop of Ribeirão Preto OPM/RP), constituted by teachers of Educação Infantil (Brazilian Primary Education) and teachers of the first years of Ensino Fundamental (Brazilian Secondary Education), which were participants of this research. The main role of the collaborative group was to offer an oriented development to the teachers about the teaching of mathematics from the historical-cultural perspective, aiming at collecting data on the process of appropriation of mathematical knowledge by the teachers. The development process, based on the premises of the Teaching Oriented Activity, privileged the introduction of problem-solving situations, whose solutions allowed the elaboration of knowledge, referring not only to math contents, but also to the teaching practice: teaching, learning and evaluating in mathematics. In analyzing data, we used the concept of isolated (CARAÇA, 1989, MOURA, 2000) as a theoreticalmethodological principle to understand the phenomenon under development. Data were organized into three isolated teachers learning, teaching organization and pedagogical practice, having in mind the relationship of interdependency and fluency among them. It is in the relationship among the teachers learning (appropriation of theoretical-methodological concepts on the teaching of mathematics), the organization of teaching (how to elaborate the teaching activity so that students can appropriate concepts) and the pedagogical practice (how to put theoretical-methodological concepts into practice in the classroom) that the teacher develops professionally, that is, learns to become a teacher through a continuous developing process. The synthesis about the teachers learning process was important to systematize the guiding elements of evaluation in mathematics from the historical-cultural perspective. Results showed that evaluation is constituted of a continuous process of analysis and synthesis, and its north is set by the aim of the teaching activity elaborated by the teacher, that is, his/her pedagogical intentionality. The main characteristic of evaluation lies on keeping track of the teaching and learning process, by means of the analysis of the activity system, along the dynamics between the teaching activity and the learning activity, taking into consideration the activity constitutive elements (need, reasons, objectives, actions and operations). By analyzing the actions of teaching and the actions of learning, having as parameters the characteristics of the theoretical thought (reflection, analysis and theoretical rationalization), we conclude that evaluation is a mediator between the teaching activity elaborated by the teacher and the learning activity performed by the school students.

O objetivo desta pesquisa consiste em investigar o significado da avaliação em matemática na perspectiva histórico-cultural, focalizando a teoria da atividade. Para o desenvolvimento dessa investigação, foi formado o grupo colaborativo da Oficina Pedagógica de Matemática de Ribeirão Preto (OPM/RP), constituído por professoras da Educação Infantil e séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental, as quais foram sujeitos da pesquisa. A função principal do grupo colaborativo foi proporcionar uma formação orientada às professoras sobre o ensino de matemática na perspectiva histórico-cultural, com o intuito de levantar dados sobre o processo de apropriação dos conhecimentos matemáticos pelas docentes. O processo formativo, pautado nos pressupostos da Atividade Orientadora de Ensino, privilegiou a apresentação de situações-problema, cujas soluções possibilitaram a elaboração de conhecimentos, referentes não apenas aos conteúdos matemáticos, mas, também, à prática docente: ensinar, aprender e avaliar em matemática. Na análise dos dados, utilizamos o conceito de isolado (CARAÇA, 1989, MOURA, 2000) como princípio teórico-metodológico para a compreensão do fenômeno em desenvolvimento. Os dados foram organizados em três isolados aprendizagem docente, organização do ensino e prática pedagógica, tendo em vista a relação de interdependência e fluência entre os mesmos. Na relação entre a aprendizagem docente (apropriação dos conceitos teórico-metodológicos sobre o ensino de matemática), a organização do ensino (como elaborar atividade de ensino para que os alunos se apropriem dos conceitos) e a prática pedagógica (como colocar os conceitos teórico-metodológicos em ação na sala de aula) é que o professor se desenvolve profissionalmente, isto é, aprende a ser professor em um contínuo processo formativo. A síntese sobre o processo de aprendizagem docente foi importante para a sistematização dos elementos norteadores da avaliação em matemática na perspectiva da teoria histórico-cultural. Os resultados evidenciaram que a avaliação constitui-se em um constante processo de análise e síntese e seu direcionamento é dado pelo objetivo da atividade de ensino elaborada pelo professor, ou seja, sua intencionalidade pedagógica. A característica principal da avaliação consiste no acompanhamento do processo de ensino e aprendizagem, por meio da análise do sistema de atividade, na dinâmica entre a atividade de ensino e a atividade de aprendizagem, considerando os elementos constitutivos da atividade (necessidade, motivos, objetivos, ações e operações). Por meio da análise das ações de ensino e de aprendizagem, tendo como parâmetros as características do pensamento teórico (reflexão, análise e planificação teórica), concluímos que a avaliação é mediadora entre a atividade de ensino elaborada pelo professor e a atividade de aprendizagem realizada pelos escolares. / This research aims to investigate the meaning of evaluation in mathematics from the historical-cultural perspective, focusing on the activity theory. In order to develop the investigation, a collaborative group was formed from the Oficina Pedagógica de Matemática de Ribeirão Preto São Paulo (Math Pedagogic Workshop of Ribeirão Preto OPM/RP), constituted by teachers of Educação Infantil (Brazilian Primary Education) and teachers of the first years of Ensino Fundamental (Brazilian Secondary Education), which were participants of this research. The main role of the collaborative group was to offer an oriented development to the teachers about the teaching of mathematics from the historical-cultural perspective, aiming at collecting data on the process of appropriation of mathematical knowledge by the teachers. The development process, based on the premises of the Teaching Oriented Activity, privileged the introduction of problem-solving situations, whose solutions allowed the elaboration of knowledge, referring not only to math contents, but also to the teaching practice: teaching, learning and evaluating in mathematics. In analyzing data, we used the concept of isolated (CARAÇA, 1989, MOURA, 2000) as a theoreticalmethodological principle to understand the phenomenon under development. Data were organized into three isolated teachers learning, teaching organization and pedagogical practice, having in mind the relationship of interdependency and fluency among them. It is in the relationship among the teachers learning (appropriation of theoretical-methodological concepts on the teaching of mathematics), the organization of teaching (how to elaborate the teaching activity so that students can appropriate concepts) and the pedagogical practice (how to put theoretical-methodological concepts into practice in the classroom) that the teacher develops professionally, that is, learns to become a teacher through a continuous developing process. The synthesis about the teachers learning process was important to systematize the guiding elements of evaluation in mathematics from the historical-cultural perspective. Results showed that evaluation is constituted of a continuous process of analysis and synthesis, and its north is set by the aim of the teaching activity elaborated by the teacher, that is, his/her pedagogical intentionality. The main characteristic of evaluation lies on keeping track of the teaching and learning process, by means of the analysis of the activity system, along the dynamics between the teaching activity and the learning activity, taking into consideration the activity constitutive elements (need, reasons, objectives, actions and operations). By analyzing the actions of teaching and the actions of learning, having as parameters the characteristics of the theoretical thought (reflection, analysis and theoretical rationalization), we conclude that evaluation is a mediator between the teaching activity elaborated by the teacher and the learning activity performed by the school students.

The objective of this study was to gain knowledge concerning what up-per secondary students need to learn to be able to construct historical explanations while working with historical sources. The study also explored how teaching could be designed to enhance student’s capabilities. The history didactical framework took its departure in the British Historical Thinking-tradition and the methodology was based on Learning Study, an iterative research method for analysis and enhancement of teaching and learning. Empirical data originates from one Learning Study undertaken in an upper secondary school performed in cooperation with three teachers teaching three different classes. The bulk of data consists of student interviews, video recordings from research lessons and essay texts performed by the students before and after research lessons. Variation Theory was used to analyse teaching and learning with the purpose to identify critical aspects of what characterizes the capabilities and what the students needed to learn to reason about causation, interpret and use historical sources. The historical content was framed on the late 19th century phenomenon known as The Scramble for Africa where the students were supposed to reason on the causes for thescramble while working with a variety of primary sources. The methodological design of the research-lessons was based on a combination of principles from Variation Theory and Learning Activity with the ambition to form an educational practice that would allow students to discern the critical aspects and advance their learning. The results show that the students who participated in this study needed to distinguish the following critical aspects to be able to construct Historical Explanations when working with sources: Cause To distinguish temporal aspects of historical change not to confuse causes and consequences. To distinguish that historical change are caused by societal structures and intervention by historical actors and do not occur by itself. To distinguish that historical change predominantly have their origin in several causes and cannot be reduced to single causes. To distinguish that historical explanations need support from evidence. Interpret and Use Historical Sources To asses sources critically rather than view them as neutral information. To contextualize sources to avoid presentism and literal interpretations. To corroborate sources to be able to validate claims and present different perspectives in a historical explanation. To see that values and limitations of sources depend on the historical questions we seek an answer to. To distinguish the difference between authentic sources and reliable claims.

Organisational learning is conceptualised within healthcare policy as an acontextual entity to be implemented across services through a prescribed governance framework. Studies of organisational learning often exclude context in this way. The central questions of this thesis concern how and why context is relevant and important in relation to organisational learning. In order to address these issues, context and organisational learning were conceptualised as mutually constitutive activity and knowing-in-practice respectively. Taking a cultural-historical activity theoretical approach, learning is understood to be an intrinsic part of activity. These issues were explored empirically through qualitative case study in three purposively sampled Scottish primary care teams. Initial findings suggested collective learning occurred through participation in everyday activity. Team accounts of apparently the same routine object of work revealed distinctive patterns of activity. Each team seemed to be doing the same thing differently. Exploration of mediating means present in each teamâ s activity accounted for these differences: although similar on the surface, the attribution of meaning to each was contested and shaped through the cultural, historical and inherently contextual activity which they mediated within each activity system. Further analysis demonstrated members of each primary care team co-configured these objects with members of other interlinked activity systems. Different things were actually being done in similarly different ways. This showed how inherently contextual activities shaped the content of collective learning and offered an explanation of why context is relevant and important in collective learning. These findings suggest efforts to transfer knowledge as a discrete, manageable entity between situations are unlikely to succeed due to the filtering and translating effect of inherently contextual activity. From this perspective, organisational learning and related concepts such as â implementationâ and â best practiceâ become problematic. Healthcare policy concerning collective learning, within which such approaches are central, may benefit from reconsideration.

Nos últimos anos aumentou o número de pesquisas que abordam aspectos epistemológicos no ensino de ciências, destacando a ideia de que este não deve se preocupar somente com a aquisição de conceitos, mas também deve possibilitar que os alunos se apropriem das práticas epistêmicas da ciência, favorecendo assim a Alfabetização Científica. As páginas que se seguem apresentam um estudo de caso qualitativo planejado e realizado para compreender como se dá o engajamento dos alunos em práticas epistêmicas da cultura científica. Nosso principal objetivo foi analisar as práticas de inscrição realizadas pelos alunos e suas relações com a produção de explicações e argumentos durante uma atividade investigativa sobre crescimento populacional de Lemna sp. Os dados da pesquisa foram coletados durante as aulas de biologia em duas classes do primeiro ano do ensino médio (alunos com idades entre 15 e 16 anos) de uma escola pública estadual da cidade de São Paulo. A análise da sequência didática e dos relatórios produzidos pelos alunos nos forneceu evidências de que as práticas epistêmicas experimentadas pelos alunos ao longo da atividade de investigação diferem a depender do tipo de dado coletado por eles, se de acordo com o modelo explicativo já conhecido ou diferente do previsto pelo modelo. Além disso, nossa análise evidenciou que o contexto de investigação constitui-se como importante repertório interpretativo das inscrições literárias produzidas pelos alunos, favorecendo a construção de explicações com garantia nos dados coletados. O contexto de investigação também se mostrou relevante na construção de argumentos, uma vez que a maioria das justificativas utilizadas era de natureza empírica, especialmente nos relatórios dos alunos que trabalharam com dados não previstos pelo modelo explicativo. Assim, após análise da sequência didática e dos relatórios produzidos pelos alunos, encontramos evidências de que a atividade de investigação propiciou oportunidades de engajamento em práticas epistêmicas da cultura científica, especialmente aquelas relacionadas à produção e intrepretação de inscrições literárias, o que favoreceu o processo de construção de explicações e argumentos, práticas fundamentais na produção do conhecimento científico. / In recent years increased the number of researches on epistemological aspects in science teaching, emphasizing the idea that this shouldn\'t be concerned only with the acquisition of concepts, but should also enable students to take ownership of epistemic practices of science, favoring so the Scientific Literacy. Here, is presented a qualitative case study planned and conducted to understand how is the engagement of students in epistemic practices of scientific culture. Our aim was to analyze the application of practices carried out by students and their relationship with the production of explanations and arguments during an investigative activity on growth of Lemna sp population. The data were collected during biology classes from high school classes in a public high school, São Paulo city, Brazil (students aged: 15 to 16 years). The analysis of the inquiry-based learning activity and reports produced by the students provided us with evidence that the epistemic practices experienced by the students during the research activity differ depending on the data type collected by them, in accordance with the explanatory model already known by students or different predicted by these model. In addition, our analysis showed that the research context constitutes an important interpretive repertoire of literary inscriptions produced by the students, favoring the construction of explanations to assure the data collected. The research context was also relevant in the construction of arguments, since most of the justifications used was empirical, especially, in the reports of the students who worked with data not provided by the explanatory model. So after a review of inquiry-based learning activity and reports produced by the students, we found evidence that this inquiry-based learning activity led engagement opportunities in epistemic practices of scientific culture, especially those related to production and interpretation of literary inscriptions, which favored the process of construction of explanations and arguments, fundamental issues for the production of scientific knowledge.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valentina Imaculada Claudino.pdf: 3061073 bytes, checksum: f95f345dd0c72a27bf18c15dbe9afed8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-03 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This study is inserted in the Reading in Different Areas Project (LDA), developed by the Acting as Citizen Research Program (PAC PUC/SP) and aims to investigate the teaching-learning process of reading, through the work carried out with comic books (HQ)/ strips text genre, based on proceedings adopted in the LDA Project. It also intends to discuss possible transformations that might have occurred along the reading activity in the classroom. This research is inserted in the Applied Linguistics field and was developed during Portuguese Language lessons with 6th grade students Primary School children - enrolled in a state school. The study was based on the Socio- Historical-Cultural Activity Theory (Vygotsky, 1934/2003, 1934/1999, 1978/1998, 1982/1999; Leontiev, 1977, 1978 & Engeström, 1999). The discussions addressed the reading concepts and critical reading (Kleiman, 1998, 2006; Rojo, 2003, 2006; Lerner, 2006; Chartier, 1998, 2001), genre (Bakhtin, 1929/2006; Bronckart, 1999 & Schneuwly, 1999, 2004) and also the contributions of comic books (HQ)/ strips genre for the learning process in the school contexts. It was developed as a critical action-research in a collaborative perspective (Kincheloe, 1997; Magalhães, 1994, 2006, 2008 & Alarcão, 2003), which aims to promote critical thinking about one´s own action, and collaboratively promote transformations in practices. For data analysis, the context of production and thematic content through lexical choices (Bronckart, 1999, 2006) were used. The results indicated that the lessons based on didactic units served as basis for the occurrence of changes. The readers began to explor their action, discursive and linguistic capacities (Dolz & Schneuwly, 1998) throughout their reading learning processes, indicating a critical and deepened approach reading comprehension. Another observed transformation was related to collaboration and interaction in the activity that was dedicated to the sharing of senses in order to collaboratively produce meanings / Este estudo insere-se no contexto do Projeto Leitura nas Diferentes Áreas (LDA), desenvolvido pelo Programa Ação Cidadã (PAC PUC/SP) e tem como objetivo investigar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem da leitura, a partir dos trabalhos realizados com textos do gênero histórias em quadrinhos (HQ)/tira, pautados nos procedimentos adotados no Projeto LDA. Também intenciona discutir as possíveis transformações ocorridas na atividade de leitura em sala de aula. Inserida no campo da Lingüística Aplicada, esta pesquisa foi realizada durante as aulas da disciplina de Língua Portuguesa, com alunos de 6ª série do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola da rede estadual de ensino. O estudo foi fundamentado na Teoria da Atividade Sócio-Histórico-Cultural (Vygotsky, 1934/2003, 1934/1999, 1978/1998, 1982/1999; Leontiev, 1977, 1978 & Engeström, 1999). As discussões abordaram as concepções de leitura e de leitura crítica (Kleiman, 1998, 2006; Rojo, 2003, 2006; Lerner, 2006, Chartier, 1998, 2001), de gênero (Bakhtin, 1929/2006; Bronckart, 1999 e Schneuwly, 1999, 2004) e discorreram sobre o gênero HQ/tira e sua contribuição no aprendizado escolar. Este estudo foi desenvolvido à luz da pesquisa-ação crítica de cunho colaborativo (Kincheloe, 1997; Magalhães, 1994, 2006, 2008 e Alarcão, 2003), que tem por objetivo promover a reflexão crítica sobre a própria ação e propor, colaborativamente, transformações nas práticas realizadas. Para análise dos dados, foram utilizados o contexto de produção e o conteúdo temático por meio das escolhas lexicais (Bronckart, 1999, 2006). Os resultados indicaram que as aulas pautadas nas unidades didáticas serviram de base para a ocorrência de mudanças. O aprendizado da leitura passou a explorar as capacidades de ação, discursiva e lingüística (Dolz & Schneuwly, 1998) do leitor, indicando uma abordagem mais crítica e aprofundada do texto. Outra transformação observada diz respeito à colaboração e à interação na atividade que se tornou mais voltada ao compartilhamento de sentidos para a produção colaborativa de significados