Project work has gained a prominent place in research for its significant educational potential (Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Fallik et al., 2008). Teachers, however, have not been providing project work with a prominent place in the elementary classroom (Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Fallik et al., 2008; Rogers et al., 2010; Tse, Lam, Lam, & Loh, 2005). To encourage and support teachers in practicing Project-Based Learning (PBL), we need to understand what motivates teachers to enact PBL, the challenges they face in doing so, and ways to support teachers in overcoming these challenges. To examine teachers’ lived experiences in enacting student-centered project work, the current study used the method of participatory action research (PAR). This method included the active participation of a teacher (Megan) and me (the principal researcher) in the design, enactment, and reflection upon a constructivist, whole-class project in an eastern Ontario Grade 5 classroom. The study was structured around two research questions: (1) what did we perceive as challenges and benefits of organizing and enacting a student-centered project, and (2) how did we perceive that our collaboration in organizing, enacting, and reflecting upon this project impacted our thinking and practices with regard to project work? Megan’s and my reflections were collected over the course of the project through two semi-structured interviews, diary writings, a pre-structured planning journal, and three semi-structured discussions. Megan and I perceived project work as beneficial to students’ engagement and learning. Enacting the project was challenging, as we lacked the management and organizational skills to enact project work efficiently, and we possessed a strong desire to control the direction of the project. Megan and I were further challenged by students’ lack of skills and comfort with the project’s demands and the lack of school support and time we needed for the project. Collaboratively experiencing and reflecting upon the project demonstrated how essential these challenges were in increasing Megan’s and my comfort, appreciation, understanding, and skills in enacting project work. Based on these findings, the study encourages teachers to collaboratively design, experience, and reflect upon project work in the context of their classrooms. / Thesis (Master, Education) -- Queen's University, 2012-04-09 16:30:00.451

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the English teaching program at G&uuml / lhane Military Medical Faculty and suggest a new program based on the Monitor Model. The study, as an example of a systematic study of a language program and that of a proposed syllabus, is expected to aid the practice of English Language Teaching in Turkey. The data sources were 230 students, 25 doctors and 7 teachers. The data analysis showed that students do not like the contents of the course books. Students reported speaking and reading as priority skills. To understand and translate medical material, to get an overseas assignment, to talk to foreigners and to follow lectures were the common language-related goals. Students&amp / #8217 / , institution&amp / #8217 / s and doctors&amp / #8217 / needs and goals and available resources were surveyed and a new second language teaching program was suggested for Phase 1. A general curriculum model and a program design model were also suggested together with the syllabuses for Phase 1. In the suggested program, grammar, writing and other conscious learning activities are separated from comprehension or (subconscious) acquisition-based activities. The suggested design has three topic-based syllabuses organized in modular format for three levels: Advanced, intermediate and elementary. For the majority advanced level classes new materials need to be developed and for elementary and intermediate levels new course books are suggested. A sample module was prepared, piloted and the results are discussed. The piloted module was found better than the previous form of the lessons both by the students and the teachers.

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Submitted by FERNANDO SILVERIO DE LIMA null (limafsl@hotmail.com) on 2017-06-21T14:12:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Final Fernando Lima.pdf: 3553110 bytes, checksum: 4145b44bf1b7bfc91a1570a6263d67ed (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-06-21T14:41:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 lima_fs_dr_sjrp.pdf: 3553110 bytes, checksum: 4145b44bf1b7bfc91a1570a6263d67ed (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-21T14:41:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lima_fs_dr_sjrp.pdf: 3553110 bytes, checksum: 4145b44bf1b7bfc91a1570a6263d67ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-29 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Esta pesquisa estuda a formação de professores de língua estrangeira de uma perspectiva histórico-cultural. O arcabouço teórico propõe o diálogo entre a psicologia de Vygotsky e seus colaboradores, os desdobramentos desses trabalhos com foco na instrução, bem como perspectivas da Educação e Linguística Aplicada na formação de professores. Por meio de pesquisa narrativa com desenho qualitativo longitudinal, foram reconstruídas as trajetórias de três professoras de língua inglesa em formação inicial ao longo de quatro anos. As narrativas orais e documentos escritos levaram à proposição da trajetória profissional sob a forma de um espiral em que os diferentes eventos se relacionam e cada avanço é marcado pela passagem de uma etapa anteriormente percorrida. Neste espiral, as diferentes lacunas encontradas foram entendidas longitudinalmente como tentativas de avanço que retornam a uma etapa incompleta, que apesar de percorrida, representa limitações que causam impacto no avanço do estágio atual. Essas lacunas foram encontradas: a) entre a idealização da profissão e o choque de realidade configurado nas exigências do curso de Letras como um nível linguístico além do real; b) nas tentativas de internalização de ferramentas disponibilizadas para o desenvolvimento do professor (diários de leitura, relatórios, planos de aula); c) no papel da prática no curso contrapondo o ingresso antecipado na profissão sem o devido preparo e d) na relação entre conceitos científicos introduzidos durante estágio supervisionado e os conhecimentos cotidianos do professor. As implicações deste estudo propõem que a perspectiva histórico-cultural possibilita a interpretação do perfil contemporâneo do professor de línguas como um processo complexo em que os conflitos servem de ponto de partida para compreender as lacunas que competem com o desenvolvimento. / This research dwells on foreign language teacher education from a cultural-historical perspective. The theoretical framework comprises Vygotsky’s psychology and his colleagues, developments of their research for instruction, as well as perspectives from Education and Applied Linguistics regarding teacher education. Through narrative inquiry with a longitudinal qualitative design, the pathways of three English teachers in initial education were reconstructed throughout four years. The oral narratives and written accounts lead to the proposition of the teacher development pathway as a spiral in which different events are related and each progress is characterized by the shift to a stage previously traveled. In such spiral, different gaps became evident and were longitudinally interpreted as attempts for progress while traveling back to a stage that remained incomplete and impacts current advance. These gaps were found: a) between the idealistic view of the profession and the reality shock through the expectations of the education program towards language proficiency; b) in the attempts to internalize tools that became available for teacher development (i.e., reading diaries, reports, lesson plans); c) in the role of practice in college as opposed to early entrance in the professional field without proper preparation and d) in the relation between scientific concepts introduced during the internship and the teacher’s everyday concepts. The implications of this inquiry propose that a cultural-historical perspective provides a way to conceptualize the contemporary profile of foreign language teachers as a complex process in which conflicts emerge as the starting point for understanding the gaps that compete with teacher development. / FAPESP: 2013/04431-6

In Spring 2020, East Tennessee State University, along with colleges and universities around the world, was forced to abruptly transition from face-To-face, on-campus courses to online courses in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This contribution reflects on the faculty and student experience of transitioning general chemistry lecture and laboratory to an online format.

This is an ethnographic case-study of research and development practices taking place in an interdisciplinary project between education and computer sciences. The Ensemble-project, part of the Technology Enhanced Learning programme (2008-12), has studied case-based learning in a number of diverse settings in Higher Education, working to develop semantic technologies for supporting that learning. Focussing on one of the six research settings, the discipline of archaeology, the current study has had three purposes. By opening up to scrutiny the practices of research and development, it has firstly sought to understand how a shared research question is answered in practice when divergent research approaches are brought to bear upon it. Secondly, the study has followed the emergence of a piece of semantic technology through these practices. The third aim has been to assess the advantages and disadvantages of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) in studying unfolding, open-ended processes in real time. Through critical ethnographic participation, multiple ethnographic research methods, and by drawing on ANT as theoretical practice, the study has shown the precarious and unpredictable nature of research and development work, the political nature of research methods and how multiple realities can be produced using them, and the need for technology development to flexibly respond to changing circumstances. We have also seen the mutual adoption and extension of practices by the two strands of the project into each others’ domains, and how interdisciplinary tensions resolved, while they did not disappear, through pragmatic changes within the project. The study contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS) where studies on the ‘soft sciences’, such as education, are few, and a new field of Studies in Social Science and Humanities (SSH) which is emerging alongside and from within the STS. Interdisciplinary endeavours between fields pertaining largely to the natural and the social sciences respectively have not been studied commonly within either field.