Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-03-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:33:02Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ciriaco_kt_me_prud.pdf: 1835478 bytes, checksum: dedc3e23016489f430db0385ab707dd8 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este estudo relata os resultados de uma dissertação de mestrado vinculada à linha de pesquisa “Práticas e Processos Formativos em Educação” do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da FCT/UNESP e tem como objetivo central investigar, no processo de trabalho pedagógico de professores que ensinam Matemática na Educação Infantil (pré-escola) e nos Anos Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental (1º ano), os condicionantes e as racionalidades que emergem de suas práticas pedagógicas pós-ampliação do Ensino Fundamental, bem como a formação docente frente a essas questões. A relevância do problema se fundamenta na Lei 11.274/2006 que determina a matrícula obrigatória da criança de seis anos no Ensino Fundamental, gerando sem dúvida, conseqüências e desafios ao trabalho pedagógico dos professores. Para tal, selecionamos duas Escolas de Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental (EMEIFs) pertencentes à Rede Municipal de Educação de Presidente Prudente (SP). Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa optamos por uma abordagem qualitativa e pela análise de conteúdo para as categorias de análises dos dados. Inicialmente analisamos as orientações mencionadas tanto pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC), em pareceres e documentos oficiais, quanto nos Subsídios para o trabalho pedagógico com crianças em idade de 5 e 6 anos do município de Presidente Prudente (SP), que esclarecem aspectos sobre a ampliação do Ensino Fundamental no tratamento dado aos aspectos pedagógicos a serem adotados para a disciplina de Matemática. Pelo planejamento dos professores foi possível identificar os conteúdos matemáticos que são predominantes nas turmas observadas e conjecturas sobre as formas de abordagem dos mesmos. Da análise dos dados conclui-se que: (1) a formação inicial dos professores tem se mostrado... / This study reports the results of a Master's thesis research linked to the line Formative Processes and Practices in Education Program Graduate Education in the FCT / UNESP and has as main objective to investigate, in the process of educational work of teachers teach Mathematics in Early Childhood Education (preschool) and in the early years of elementary school (1st year), the conditions and the rationales that emerge from their teaching post-expansion of primary education and teacher training in the face of these issues. The relevance of this problem is based on the Law 11.274/2006 that determines the mandatory registration of children of six years in elementary school, creating undoubtedly consequences and challenges for the educational work of teachers. To this end, we selected two preschools and elementary school (EMEIFs) belonging to the Municipal Education Presidente Prudente (SP). For the development of research we chose a qualitative approach and content analysis for categories of data analysis. We first analyze the guidelines mentioned by both the Ministry of Education (MEC), on reports and official documents, as in grants to educational work with children aged 5 and 6 years in the city of Presidente Prudente (SP), which shed light on the aspects expansion of primary education in the pedagogical aspects of treatment to be adopted for Mathematics. By planning the teachers were able to identify the mathematical contents are predominant in the observed classes and ways to approach them. Data analysis concludes that: (1) the initial training of teachers has proved insufficient as... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

<p> This study compared data related to National Board Certification (NBC) of mathematics teachers in a South Florida school district. Data included 1,162 student scores on the 2014 AP Calculus AB exam, student gender, student grade level, and eligibility for free or reduced price lunch (FRL) status. Teachers completed the Standards&rsquo; Beliefs Instrument (SBI) (Zollman &amp; Mason, 1992) to determine alignment of their beliefs with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards. Interviews were conducted with five NBC mathematics teachers to understand how they incorporate best mathematics teaching practices in their daily instruction.</p><p> A t-test analysis revealed that students taught by NBC teachers scored significantly higher (M = 3.70) on the AP Calculus AB Exam than those taught by non-NBCTs (M = 2.74); Cohen&rsquo;s <i>d</i> (.6429) indicated a moderately large effect size. No causation is to be implied; various confounding factors may also contribute to the variance in student scores.</p><p> Three factorial ANOVA tests were performed to test interaction effects. Two significant interaction effects were detected: (1) NBCT status and student grade level; and (2) NBCT status and student FRL (free and reduced price lunch) status. No significant interaction was found between NBCT status and student gender. </p><p> With a reliability estimate using Cronbach&rsquo;s alpha, a second t-test was conducted. A statistically significant difference was found regarding the mean scores of NBCTs and non-NBCTs regarding their beliefs according to the vision of the NCTM. NBCTs generally have practices that align more with the NCTM mathematics teaching standards. Interviews with five NBC teachers of AP Calculus provided rich qualitative descriptions of their teaching philosophies, approaches, and best practices contributing to student success. </p><p> The results of this study reinforce evidence from previous research that the process of obtaining the NBC contributes to a teacher&rsquo;s professional expertise and is related to student success; however, since there may be other confounding factors related to teachers, students, and their schools, the NBC cannot be considered the sole factor contributing to student success in AP coursework and exams.</p>

This is an ethnographic study from within mathematics teacher education in Sweden. A methodological insider approach enabled to view teacher education from the students’ perspectives, by focusing how discursive power-relations affected what becoming mathematics teachers brought forward as concerning during two years of education. I took a socio-political theoretical perspective and understood discourse, power and positioning as dynamically interrelated concepts, which allowed the analysis to foreground several aspects simultaneously and to illustrate elusive phenomena as they occurred and disappeared. The results show that the mathematics education and mathematics discourses are open and multifaceted and reveal empowered positionings, whereas the language/culture and institutional discourses both are narrower and more constraining. These constraints, in turn, affect students’ possibilities to enact empowered positionings within the more open discourses. The core of education, that is mathematics and mathematics education, may therefore be obscured by discourses of “truths”. The study shows a need for further research on how to strengthen students’ possibilities to influence their education, and to ask questions like why education is organised this way, and who benefits from that.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2005-11-10Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:51:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 garcia_tmr_me_rcla.pdf: 912020 bytes, checksum: 4d969ad11f8aab8b21a9dd6e475c6732 (MD5) / O objetivo dessa pesquisa é identificar aspectos importantes da inserção da tecnologia informática nos programas de formação inicial de professores de Matemática. Utilizando uma abordagem de pesquisa qualitativa, de caráter interpretativo, foi realizada uma investigação sobre o uso da Internet no contexto de um trabalho com projetos, dentro do estágio supervisionado do Curso de Ciências - Habilitação em Matemática da Faculdade Estadual de Educação, Ciências e Letras de Paranavaí - Paraná. Os resultados do trabalho destacam duas situações: a primeira mostrando o que ocorre quando os futuros professores atuam como usuários de alguns recursos da Internet, compreendendo-a como um espaço a ser explorado; a segunda apresenta os sentimentos e impressões dos futuros professores quando atuam como autores, produzindo e divulgando informações na Internet, vista então, como um espaço a ser habitado. A análise dos dados apresenta algumas possibilidades e desafios que as tecnologias digitais trazem para a formação inicial de professores de Matemática, especialmente quando se articulam ao trabalho com projetos. / The objective of this research is to identify important aspects of introducing information technology into mathematics teacher education programs. Using a qualitative research approach, of an interpretive nature, an investigation was conducted regarding the use of the Internet in the context of a project work, in a supervised traineeship in the Sciences Program - Qualification in Mathematics, of the State College of Education, Sciences, and Letters of Paranavaí, in the state of Paraná. The results of the study highlight two situations: the first demonstrates what occurs when future teachers act as users of some Internet resources, understanding it as a space to be explored; the second presents the feelings and impressions of future teachers when they act as authors, producing and disclosing information on the Internet, seen then as a space to be inhabited. The data analysis presents some possibilities and challenges offered by digital technologies for the education of future mathematics teachers, especially when they are linked with project work.

Orientador: Leny Rodrigues Martins Teixeira / Banca: Edda Curi / Banca: Maria Raquel Miotto Morelatti / Resumo: Este estudo relata os resultados de uma dissertação de mestrado vinculada à linha de pesquisa "Práticas e Processos Formativos em Educação" do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da FCT/UNESP e tem como objetivo central investigar, no processo de trabalho pedagógico de professores que ensinam Matemática na Educação Infantil (pré-escola) e nos Anos Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental (1º ano), os condicionantes e as racionalidades que emergem de suas práticas pedagógicas pós-ampliação do Ensino Fundamental, bem como a formação docente frente a essas questões. A relevância do problema se fundamenta na Lei 11.274/2006 que determina a matrícula obrigatória da criança de seis anos no Ensino Fundamental, gerando sem dúvida, conseqüências e desafios ao trabalho pedagógico dos professores. Para tal, selecionamos duas Escolas de Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental (EMEIFs) pertencentes à Rede Municipal de Educação de Presidente Prudente (SP). Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa optamos por uma abordagem qualitativa e pela análise de conteúdo para as categorias de análises dos dados. Inicialmente analisamos as orientações mencionadas tanto pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC), em pareceres e documentos oficiais, quanto nos Subsídios para o trabalho pedagógico com crianças em idade de 5 e 6 anos do município de Presidente Prudente (SP), que esclarecem aspectos sobre a ampliação do Ensino Fundamental no tratamento dado aos aspectos pedagógicos a serem adotados para a disciplina de Matemática. Pelo planejamento dos professores foi possível identificar os conteúdos matemáticos que são predominantes nas turmas observadas e conjecturas sobre as formas de abordagem dos mesmos. Da análise dos dados conclui-se que: (1) a formação inicial dos professores tem se mostrado... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study reports the results of a Master's thesis research linked to the line "Formative Processes and Practices in Education" Program Graduate Education in the FCT / UNESP and has as main objective to investigate, in the process of educational work of teachers teach Mathematics in Early Childhood Education (preschool) and in the early years of elementary school (1st year), the conditions and the rationales that emerge from their teaching post-expansion of primary education and teacher training in the face of these issues. The relevance of this problem is based on the Law 11.274/2006 that determines the mandatory registration of children of six years in elementary school, creating undoubtedly consequences and challenges for the educational work of teachers. To this end, we selected two preschools and elementary school (EMEIFs) belonging to the Municipal Education Presidente Prudente (SP). For the development of research we chose a qualitative approach and content analysis for categories of data analysis. We first analyze the guidelines mentioned by both the Ministry of Education (MEC), on reports and official documents, as in grants to educational work with children aged 5 and 6 years in the city of Presidente Prudente (SP), which shed light on the aspects expansion of primary education in the pedagogical aspects of treatment to be adopted for Mathematics. By planning the teachers were able to identify the mathematical contents are predominant in the observed classes and ways to approach them. Data analysis concludes that: (1) the initial training of teachers has proved insufficient as... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: Miriam Godoy Penteado / Banca: Rosana Giaretta Sguerra Miskulin / Banca: Regina Célia Grando / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar e discutir de questões relacionadas às expectativas e dificuldades de licenciandos em Matemática associadas ao uso da Tecnologia Informática (TI) na escola. Os participantes desta investigação eram alunos do último ano do curso de Licenciatura em Matemática, da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (campus de Campina Grande), no Estado da Paraíba. Os dados apresentados nesta dissertação foram coletados basicamente em três momentos: (1) durante a realização de entrevistas com 16 licenciandos sobre suas expectativas para o uso da TI; (2) em um mini-curso organizado para que os participantes planejassem aulas em que a informática estivesse presente, com o objetivo de implementá-los durante o estágio supervisionado, e; (3) na realização de 05 entrevistas, após o término do estágio supervisionado dos participantes do minicurso. Outras informações importantes vieram de conversas síncronas (chats) e trocas de e-mails com os licenciandos ao longo da disciplina de estágio. Após os procedimentos de análise dos dados coletados, foi possível identificar temáticas associadas às expectativas, que versam sobre a própria formação docente dos entrevistados e sobre ao uso pedagógico da TI, e outras associadas às dificuldades destes professores em formação. Além destas, dificuldades surgidas ao planejar o uso da TI, e possíveis causas geradoras de dificuldades, também foram apresentadas e discutidas. No final deste trabalho, considerações necessárias, principalmente aos curso de Licenciatura em Matemática concernente ao uso educacional dessa tecnologia, foram feitas. / Abstract: This study has aimed to analyse and discuss questions related to expectations and difficulties of pre-service mathematics teacher education students with the use of Computing Technologies (CT) at school. The research was developed with last-year students of Mathematics teacher education at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (major campus), state of Paraíba, in the Northest of Brazil. The data presented in this research were collected in three stages: (1) through interviews with 16 students about their expectations of the use of CT; (2) in a workshop, where the participants prepared classes plans using that technology with the objective of executing them later during a supervised practice, and; (3) through 05 interviews after the end of the supervised practice carried out by the workshop participants. Other important pieces of information came out from chats and e-mails exchanged among the students along their supervised practice discipline. After the analyses procedures of the collected data, it was possible to identify different thematics associated with the expectations and dificulties. Some thematics deal with the interviewees' own Teacher Education and about the pedagogical use of CT. Other thematics are linked to difficulties of those teachers in formation, arised during the planning and reflection on the use of CT, as well as possible reasons that had created them. At the end of this work, necessary considerations have been pointed out, especially to graduation courses on Mathematics teacher education concerning the use of educational technology. / Mestre

The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate how future pre- and primary school mathematics teachers change their approaches to mathematics and mathematics education during their subject studies, and also how this view has affected their teaching of mathematics after graduation. A qualitative interview method was used in combination with observations, notes, sound recordings, video recorded mathematics classes and materials produced by the teacher in order to answer the research questions. The research was carried out in two parts.The institutional theory has been used as theoretical framework throughout. This perspective was supplemented by a design theoretical perspective in part two.In the first investigation it became clear that the language used by the students is under change, and that they use terms from the national curriculum as well as the aims of the programme syllabus when they discuss mathematics teaching. The results from the observations later show that four out of five of the teachers have a clear connection to the sort of teaching they said they want to conduct, in that there is a clear relationship between the sort of teaching that they claim to perform and the sort of teaching they actually perform. From the overall results, it is apparent that teachers one year after graduation describe that they feel well prepared for teaching mathematics in preschool and primary school. This is interesting in the light of their dissatisfaction with the limited emphasis on concrete recommendations and &quot;tips&quot; directly after their graduation. In fact, the teachers said that in practice it turned out that their education provided a more stable and secure foundation than they described it to be shortly after having completed their mathematics studies. They say that during their education they developed knowledge and skills that enabled them to be better prepared for their future work roles than they believed themselves likely to become. / Disputationen sker den 2009-10-16, Tillbergsalen, Campus Konradsberg, hus T, Rålambsvägen 32, Stockholm, 10:00

This study has investigated the take-up, at a range of South African tertiary institutions, of Open Educational Resources (OER) designed for mathematics teacher education. Although numerous studies (e.g. Darling-Hammond, 2006; Jonassen & Rohrer-Murphy, 1999; Loughran, 2006) have identified criteria for the development of quality materials for teacher education, and have investigated ways in which these have been and should be used, little attention has been paid to the implications of these findings for the use of OER in teacher education. In 2006 the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE) initiated the ACEMaths project to pilot a collaborative materials design and adaptation process in response to a Department of Education call for large scale teacher upgrading programmes leading to an Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in priority areas. Nine South African tertiary institutions formed the collaborative group for the development of Mathematics teacher education materials. Six of these institutions committed to using the pilot materials in their teacher education programmes in 2007. Methodologically, the research is a case study of cases (Adler & Reed, 2002), in which the varying uses of the materials in these six institutional sites constituted the individual cases. At each site data were gathered from session observations, questionnaires and interviews. Artefacts, such as examples of customised materials, were also collected. Cross case analysis revealed that institutions used the ACEMaths materials in both similar and different ways and in a range of programmes. Findings from this analysis and their implications for both initial inter-institutional designing and subsequent intra-institutional re-designing and re-use of OER are discussed.

A presente dissertação é relativa a uma investigação sobre as potencialidades e limitações do trabalho de um grupo colaborativo durante a formação inicial de professores que ensinam frações. Participaram da pesquisa alunos de um curso de Pedagogia. O objetivo principal da pesquisa foi identificar as concepções de frações que os estudantes apresentam e analisar de que modo a participação nas atividades de um grupo colaborativo podem contribuir para o processo de ressignificação de tais concepções. Para tanto, constituiu-se um grupo de oito alunas de um curso de Pedagogia, que interagiram durante um total de oito encontros, nos quais foram produzidos os dados para a análise. Como referencial teórico nos aproximamos da teoria sócio-histórica de Vygostky, da educação matemática crítica de Skovsmose e dos estudos sobre grupos colaborativos e das comunidades de prática, dentre outros que tomam por objeto a formação de professores que ensinam matemática, em especial nos cursos de Pedagogia. A abordagem metodológica adotada foi a qualitativa com a utilização de diferentes tipos de registros, permitindo a triangulação dos dados. Identificamos alguns limitadores durante o percurso: o período curto de realização do trabalho, a postura dos participantes internalizada e apropriada através do ambiente acadêmico que reproduz crenças e discursos sem uma adequada construção conceitual e, principalmente, significativas dificuldades com relação ao conteúdo matemático de frações. Em contrapartida, algumas características ou dimensões de um grupo colaborativo foram evidenciadas. Os participantes demonstraram diferentes identidades de participação, compartilharam um objetivo comum, um empreendimento mútuo e as tarefas foram compartilhadas. A pesquisadora, como sendo também uma integrante do grupo, foi provocada a desenvolver as diferentes dimensões de sua participação. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa mostrou ser viável o trabalho com grupos colaborativos na formação inicial considerando o contexto, particularidades dos participantes da pesquisa e as atividades desenvolvidas. / This thesis reports a research about the potentialities and restrictions of collaborative group work during initial training of teachers who teach fractions. Teaching academics took part in this research. The main objective was to identify the notion of fractions held by the students and to analyze the way in which participation in the activities of a collaborative group may contribute to the process of re-establishing the meaning in those conceptions. In order to do so, a total of eight students of the teaching course interacted in eight meetings through which data was produced for the analysis. As a theoretical basis we used Vykotsky’s Socio-historical Approach, Critical Mathematics Education by Skovsmose and studies about collaborative work, communities of practice, among others whose object is vocational training of Math teachers, especially in teaching courses. The methodological approach chosen was qualitative and interpretative with the use of different types of register, allowing triangulation of data. Some limitations were identified in the process: the short duration of the project, participants’ attitudes internalized and borrowed from the academic environment, which reproduces beliefs and discourses without an appropriate conceptual construction, and, mainly, important difficulties related to the mathematical subject: fractions. On the other hand, some characteristics or dimensions of a collaborative group were evidenced. The participants demonstrated different identities of participation, shared a common objective, a mutual undertaking and the tasks were shared. The researcher, as part of the group, was provoked to develop different dimensions of participation. The group knew how to determine priorities, drawing its paths and building its history of participation. This way, the research showed that working with collaborative groups in teachers’ education is practicable, taking into account the context and particularities of the participants and the activities developed.

For many preservice elementary and secondary teachers, the first time they encounter the notion that mathematics can be taught in ways other than what they experienced is in their teacher preparation program. Therefore, the potential impact of the mathematics teacher educator on the understanding and development of preservice teachers is immense, especially as that impact is considered in connection to the various reform efforts related to mathematics education that have spread across the country for the past three decades. Given the scarcity of systematic research focused on mathematics teacher educators, the author sought to understand defining characteristics of that role. He looked specifically for beliefs that mathematics teacher educators have in common as well as shared ways of enacting their craft by interviewing 16 university professors from around the United States who support the learning and development of preservice and inservice mathematics teachers. The beliefs that emerged from this study related to mathematics teaching, the learning of mathematics teaching, and the teaching of mathematics teaching. Potential communities of practice were also identified, through which the enactment of mathematics teacher educators' craft could be better understood. The specific beliefs and ways of interacting are discussed in terms of how they can support development and reflection among current and prospective mathematics teacher educators, as well as how they can support continued systematic research of mathematics teacher education.