Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-05-12T14:17:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 trajetorias_professores.pdf: 19200962 bytes, checksum: d7148390fed2924ec7d01a9988f1656e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T14:17:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 trajetorias_professores.pdf: 19200962 bytes, checksum: d7148390fed2924ec7d01a9988f1656e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Milton Valente / Este estudo trata da história do ensino rural no período de 1940 a 2009, a partir da memória de oito professoras e dois professores que atuaram em classes multisseriadas da rede pública municipal, na região de Lomba Grande, município de Novo Hamburgo/RS. Memórias são analisadas sob a perspectiva do tempo social, no sentido que trata Halbwachs, envolvendo recordações coletivas desse grupo de sujeitos: quando a memória permite aos sujeitos assumir o seu lugar na rede das relações sociais inscritas no contexto, a prática social torna-se decisiva para compreensão da prática de um grupo. A pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa, utiliza a metodologia da História Oral, valendo-se de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, além da análise documental a partir de documentos escritos (documentos oficiais, leis, decretos, imagens e demais documentos impressos e manuscritos), encontrados ao longo do percurso investigativo. Sob o referencial da História Cultural, a análise está estruturada em duas dimensões: as memórias de formação e as memórias da prática pedagógica. Assim, a partir das trajetórias deste grupo de professores, complementada por demais dados empíricos, foi possível compreender um significativo percurso da história da educação pública municipal rural, constatando-se três fases distintas: os primeiros tempos, quando se processa a constituição das Escolas Isoladas; uma segunda fase, aqui caracterizada como a consolidação da escola pública em Lomba Grande; e a terceira, aqui considerada como a fase de reestruturação da escola pública rural. Quanto às memórias de formação, constatou-se a influência da representação docente acerca dos tempos de alunos de mestre-único. Sobre as memórias de prática, evidenciaram-se aspectos referentes a estratégias construídas pelos professores para darem continuidade a sua escolarização, construindo formas próprias de qualificar seu trabalho em classes multisseriadas. / This study approach around multigrade classes teachers memories, building history of rural education (1940-2009), at the region of Lomba Grande, the city of New Hamburg/ RS/Brazil. Memories are analyzed from the social time Halbwachs perspective: when memory allows individuals to take his place in the network of social relations inscribed within the social practice, is crucial to understanding the practice of a group. The research was qualitative, with the methodology of oral history, by semi-structured interviews, and also documentary analysis from written documents (official documents, laws, decrees, images and other printed and manuscripts documents), founded along the course of investigation. Under the frame of Cultural History, the analysis is structured in two dimensions: teaching formations memories and the teaching practices memories. Thus, from the trajectories of this group of teachers, complemented by other empirical data, its possible to understand a significant route of the history of rural local public education, there being three distinct phases: the first time, when processing the constitution of Isolated Schools and a second phase, characterized as the consolidation of Lomba Grande public school, and the third, regarded here as the phase of restructuring rural public school in that place. The formations memories allowed visualize the single master representation atteaching students time. On the other hand, teaching practices memories brings up strategies built by the teachers for their own education, creating forms to qualify the multigrade classes work.

Thesis (M. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / The Department of Basic Education has a duty of ensuring that all children enjoy free and equal access to basic education despite their socio-economic status and backgrounds. The South African constitution also recognises universal access to quality primary education as a fundamental human right. This compels the Department of Basic Education to ensure that every child is provided with basic primary education at no cost, hence the expansion of no-fee schools and the National Schools Nutrition Programme. In an attempt to fulfil the Millennium Developmental Goal 2, which advocates for the provision of equal access to primary education, the multi-grade teaching practice was then introduced to ensure the provision of education to children in sparsely-populated and rural communities. However, this type of teaching practice comes with myriad difficulties which teachers face as they manage curriculum delivery. This study, therefore, seeks to examine the various difficulties that teachers face as they have to deal with multi-grade teaching and how they overcome those difficulties. The literature revealed that multi-grade teaching is not limited to the South African situation alone, but a global phenomenon practised in both developing and developed countries. It also emanates from the literature that multi-grade teaching, if used correctly and effectively could yield positive results. The study adopted a qualitative research approach. This study follows a case study design. Following that the study adopted the qualitative research approach, data collection tools linked to the approach were used and included: Interviews, document review and observations. A principal, teacher and parent from three schools managing difficulties associated with multi-grade classes were purposively sampled. The research findings, based on the interviews, document review, observation and the literature reviewed revealed that the insufficient backing from the Department of Basic Education, heavy workload of teachers and general shortage of teaching staff are some of the difficulties that teachers in multi-graded schools have to grapple with. Based on the findings, the researcher concludes that the dearth of intervention from the Department of Basic Education hugely affects the effective curriculum delivery in multi-graded schools. To mitigate the identified difficulties, the researcher recommended that a different post-provisioning norm and funding model for the multi-graded schools be experimented with.