The health of women is compromised by the experience of sexual abuse in childhood. Women who have been sexually abused in childhood say they are `healing', but there is little literature on this healing process. The purpose of my research is to gather stories of healing from women who were sexually abused in childhood, analyze them, and learn about healing. The themes that emerged were integrated with a chronological restorying of the women's narratives and the literature, resulting in a model of healing that addresses the complexities of women's lives.

In more than two decades of research and practical experiments in interactive digital narrative (IDN), much insight about the relationship of narrative and digital media has been gained and many successful experiments have been undertaken, as a survey of the field illustrates. However, current approaches also limit the scope of experimentation and constrain theory in interactive narrative forms original to digital media. After reviewing the "interactivisation" of legacy theory (neo-Aristotelian poetics for interactive drama, poststructuralism for hyperfiction, 20th century narratology for interactive fiction and as a general theory for IDN), the thesis introduces a theoretical framework that changes the focus from the product-centered view of legacy media towards system and the process of instantiation. The terms protostory describing the overall space of potential narratives in an IDN system, narrative design for the concrete assemblage of elements and narrative vectors as substructures that enable authorial control are introduced to supersede legacy terms like story and plot. On the practical side, the thesis identifies limitations of existing approaches (e.g. legacy metaphors like the timeline, and authoring tools that support only particular traditions) To overcome these limitations a software toolset built on the principles of robustness, modularity, and extensibility is introduced and some early results are evaluated. Finally, the thesis proposes an inclusive, open-ended iterative process as a structure for future IDN research in which practical implementations and research co-exist in a tightly coupled mutual relationship that allows changes on one side to be integrated on the other.

The use of mobile and social learning media for K-12 students continues to rapidly increase in both formal and informal learning environments. While many educational apps have been developed for adult visitors to museums and science and technology centres (STCs), very few programs exist that are specifically designed to meet the unique learning and interpretive needs of elementary students in these learning environments. This dissertation explores the inclusion and development of children’s ideas and digitally mediated interpretive activities for peers within the exhibits of the natural history gallery at the Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) in Victoria, British Columbia. In this triangulated case study, thirteen Grade 4 and 5 students, five museum interpreters, and six elementary teachers worked in teams to design educational apps for their peers using experimental software specifically designed for this project. Five design teams composed of 2-3 students, one teacher, and a museum educator designed a wide variety of science activities for the natural history gallery at the RBCM. The results of analytic triangulation indicate that mobile interpretive apps acted as imperfect but important educational mediating tools for the participants in this study. The analysis revealed that, despite initial preconceptions and frustrations students and educators had about mobile design and technologies, Grade 4 and 5 elementary students were capable and highly interested creating mobile science apps for the natural history galleries at RBCM. Students and educators designed content and activities that extended participant-based learning opportunities beyond the existing science programs and curriculum currently available at the RBCM. The dissertation concludes with an examination of how informal science institutions can move beyond educational interactivity to more participatory frameworks that include the ideas and voices of young people within mobile learning and educational app development at natural history museums and STCs in the future. / Graduate

This is the story of a project to connect the resources of a university to the struggles of a group of Congolese asylum seekers in the city of Derby. It represents a case study of a whole process: this includes a specific project established to explore how a university might fulfil its stated goals of being closely anchored in the local and regional community; and how it might engage and marshal its resources to provide educational and maybe research opportunities, while giving priority to community-based projects that tackle social disadvantage. The thesis is made up of a number of overlapping elements: there is the story of the project itself, of why the University became involved, and the nature of the interaction with a particular community, as seen through the eyes of some of the Congolese and me the project coordinator/researcher. It includes my struggles to establish a steering committee with the Congolese and the creation of a range of educational/recreational resources to help members of a community manage the difficult, stressful and even traumatic processes of asylum. The project led to the establishment of a community association and various initiatives to dialogically engage with the community and gather diverse narratives. Finally it led to various outcomes leading to what might be a ‘Reconnecting the hearts and minds’ project, that created spaces for story telling for a number of women and men migrants. The project also included an evaluation, which developed at its core, into a collection of narratives chronicling the difficult processes of forced migration, where people experience the pain of family separation, the dislocation of landing in a foreign country. A country whose language was different, whose customs were strange and where the processes of claiming asylum could be alienating, and where racism is experienced. We can call this project and its evaluation a piece of action research with a series of narratives at its heart. The project and evaluation together raise questions about the role of creative activity and narrative in managing painful transitions. There is another story within the bigger one, however, a story of a project coordinator and his relationship with the community and the University of Derby ... of initial enthusiasm followed by marginalisation and the closure of a supportive community development unit in the University; and of the placement of this role, for want of a better home, in the marketing department. This is also a narrative of registering for a doctorate, of being rejected, and of seeking to think through, with the help of others, what a good enough doctorate might entail. The end product has become a process of auto/biographical narrative reflexive research in which the narratives of the migrants intertwine with the researcher’s own; around the themes of dislocation, and of the struggles for voice and agency. The basic threads of the study are of a dislocating experience, and of how resources of hope can be found in creative activity – whether a sewing class, telling stories, fashion shows or engaging in auto/biographical narrative reflexivity. The basic argument has to do with tokenism and the disrespect that can surround university civic engagement as well as how asylum seekers are treated callously more generally; but also how resources of hope can make a difference. There is also the troubling issue of voice in research and whose story really counts; of a white, middle class male engaging with distressed women migrants, and of what might have been a silencing of the women concerned. But through values of commitment, and of learning to listen, the project became more dialogical, as evidenced in the women’s stories.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Éverton Neves dos Santos.pdf: 2737777 bytes, checksum: 270199c70fe34c0dac13c6e0060923d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-23 / A presente pesquisa foi desenvolvida no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, linha de pesquisa Organização Escolar, Formação e Práticas Pedagógicas, e investigou como os jovens universitários do Curso de Direito, na cidade de Diamantino-MT, narram suas Experiências pessoais e formativas e como estas são significadas a partir da entrada no curso. A perspectiva teórico-metodológica aproxima-se da pesquisa narrativa, conforme Clandinin e Connelly (2011), Mello (2005) e outros. Os significados foram compostos a partir de um conjunto de narrativas, produzidas pelos participantes e pelo pesquisador (notas de campo e textos de campo). Da literatura tomamos como base os estudos sobre as Experiências em Larrosa Larrosa (2002, 2004), Dewey (1994, 2008); já sobre jovens: Spósito (1997, 2005), Corrochano (2013), Dayrell (2000), Abramavoy e Esteves (2007), Abramo (1997) e outros. Em relação à Educação Jurídica: Wolkmer (1997), Warat (2000,2001), Lyra Filho (1986), Souza Júnior (1984, 1987, 2008), Streck (2004). Além de Freire (1987, 2011, 2005) e Gadamer (1997, 2002). A pesquisa abrangeu seis jovens ingressantes no Curso de Direito da Universidade do Estado de Mato GrossoUNEMAT- Campus de Diamantino. Ao reconstruir as experiências vividas, foram compostos os seguintes eixos temáticos: 1- “Vidas, Tempos e Escola: Percurso Escolar dos jovens”, no qual demonstra Experiências no/do percurso escolar, isto é as percepções dos tempos de escola; 2- “Por que Direito?: Tempos, contextos de uma escolha”, aqui subdividido em duas perspectivas: “A Família: sentidos e significados, razões de uma escolha”; “Eu vou fazer direito”: entre inspirações, status e afetos, isto é quais fatores externos de algum modo motivaram a escolha pelo Curso de Bacharelado em Direito; 3- “Jovens no Curso de Direito: Vademecum, vem comigo”, trata das Experiências que os jovens ingressos estão vivenciando no curso superior, desde a questão da identidade do “ser jovem” às reflexões da Educação Jurídica ofertada. Os resultados revelaram a complexidade da vida, do nosso tempo e das escolhas, os dilemas e as dificuldades enfrentadas no cotidiano pelos participantes. Igualmente revelam que as experiências e memórias dos jovens não seguem uma trajetória linear. As narrativas demonstram que as dificuldades da vida, o apoio, sentidos e significados da família, o status social, as inspirações, desejos, possibilidades e afetos construídos a partir e além da escola permearam as narrativas, de modo que a continuidade na formação do ser jovem e universitário perpassam as histórias contadas de um ontem, do presente e projetadas no vindouro / This research was conducted at the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Research School Organisation line, Training and Pedagogical Practices, and investigated the problem of how university students of the Law School in the city of Diamantino, MT , narrate their personal experiences and training and how these are meant from entering the course. The theoretical-methodological perspective approaches the narrative research as Clandinin and Connelly (2011), Mello (2005) and others. The meanings are composed from a set of accounts, produced by the investigator and the participant (field cards and field texts). Literature take as a basis the studies on the experiences in Larrosa Larrosa (2002, 2004), Dewey (1994, 2008); already on young: Spósito (1997, 2005), Corrochano (2013), Dayrell (2000), and Abramavoy Esteves (2007), Abramo (1997) and others. Regarding the Legal Education: Wolkmer (1997), Warat (2000.2001), Lyra Filho (1986), Souza Júnior (1984, 1987, 2008), Streck (2004). In Freire (1987, 2011, 2005) and Gadamer (1997, 2002). The research covered six (6) entering young at Law Course at the State University of Mato Grosso-UNEMAT- campus DiamantinoMt. By reconstructing the experiences were the following themes compounds: 1- Experiences in / of schooling, which will bring the perceptions of school days; 2- The contexts of choice at Law Course, which subdivided the role of family, sense and meaning; "I'm going to do right": between inspirations, Status and Affections, ie external factors which somehow motivated the choice of the course of Bachelor of Law; 3- Young at Law Course : Vademecum , come with me " , deals with the experiences that young people are experiencing tickets in the upper reaches , from the question of the identity of " being young " in reflection of the Legal Education offered . The results revealed the complexity of life , of our time and choices , dilemmas and difficulties faced in daily life by the participants. Also show that the experiences and memories of young people do not follow a linear path . The stories demonstrate that the difficulties of life, support , senses and family meanings , social status , inspirations , desires, possibilities and affections constructed from and beyond the school permeated the narrative , so that the continuity of the formation of the young college permeate the stories of yesterday , present and projected into the future

Studien handlar om självskadebeteende. Syftet med undersökningen var att få reda på vilka yttre faktorer som påverkade tre unga tjejer att börja skada sig själva. Forskningen på området anser att personer börjar skada sig själva pågrund av sexuella övergrepp i ung ålder, men det framgår tydligt i resultatet att sexuella övergrepp i detta fall inte påverkade tjejerna i studien. Till grund för tjejernas destruktiva beteende ligger traumatiska händelser i deras uppväxt både i lågstadieålder samt högstadieålder. Metoden som användes i studien var semistrukturerade intervjuer eftersom intervjuaren då kan rikta sin fulla uppmärksamhet mot respondenten. Resultatet är utformat på ett narrativt sätt vilket gjorde att resultatet kunde presenteras i berättelseform. I resultatet framkom vilka yttre påverkansfaktorer som påverkade tjejerna att börja skada sig, som till exempel föräldrars skilsmässa, eller plötslig död i deras nära omgivning.

Abstract This study discusses what 7th grade pupils tell about their writing in a cross-curricular project. The aim is to open up pupils’ points of view about writing at school. The participants of the study were 11 boys and 15 girls who had started a music class in upper comprehensive school. The material of this study comprises essays and learning diaries produced by the participants, as well as individual and group interviews of the participants. The study takes a narrative approach in both theoretical and methodological questions when trying to interpret and understand how the pupils see writing from their point of view. Collaborative writing is based on narrative starting points, so that by the narrative process one can learn new things and produce more comprehensive stories. The multidimensional examination of the material is based on narrative analysis, combining both thematic and linguistic analyses. The results indicate that the pupils’ narration expresses different kinds of conceptions of writing. Besides the traditional and creative conceptions of writing, writing is also seen as social action. The participants’ development as writers seems to be significant when they express the goals of their writing. The challenges of writing are mainly associated with the writing process. The pupils seem to regard collaborative writing as an inspiring method that enables them to practice interaction skills, such as giving and getting constructive feedback. Collaborative writing makes it possible to constitute shared meanings and to produce collective narratives. This study addresses writing at upper comprehensive school from a new perspective, as the voices of pupils have so far been quiet. The study increases understanding about pupils’ writing and the meaning of collaborative writing. The results imply that in teaching it would be important to support the writing process of each pupil. For the teacher pupils’ narration offers ways to reflect on his or her work and to develop it. The results may be helpful in developing practical teaching of writing and the teacher education in general. / Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan seitsemäsluokkalaisten kerrontaa kirjoittamisestaan oppiainerajat ylittävässä projektissa. Tavoitteena on avata oppilaiden näkökulmia koulukirjoittamiseen. Tutkimukseen osallistui yksitoista poikaa ja viisitoista tyttöä, jotka olivat aloittaneet opiskelun yläkoulun musiikkiluokalla. Aineisto koostuu oppilaiden laatimista Kirjoittajan polkuni -teksteistä, heidän ryhmä- ja yksilöhaastatteluistaan sekä oppimispäiväkirjoistaan. Kerronnallisuus on tutkimuksen teoreettinen ja menetelmällinen lähestymistapa, kun halutaan tulkita ja ymmärtää, millaisena kirjoittaminen näyttäytyy oppilaiden näkökulmasta. Yhdessä kirjoittaminen pohjautuu kerronnallisiin lähtökohtiin, jolloin kerronnan kautta opitaan uutta ja tuotetaan aiempaa kokonaisvaltaisempia kertomuksia. Tutkimusaineiston moniulotteinen tarkastelu perustuu kerronnalliseen analyysiin, jossa yhdistetään temaattista ja kielellistä analyysia. Tulokset osoittavat kerronnan ilmentävän erilaisia kirjoittamiskäsityksiä. Perinteisten ja itseilmaisua lähellä olevien käsitysten lisäksi kirjoittaminen näyttäytyy sosiaalisena toimintana. Kirjoittajana kehittyminen näyttää merkitykselliseltä kertojien esittäessä kirjoittamisensa tavoitteita. Kirjoittamisen haasteet liittyvät lähinnä kirjoitusprosessiin. Yhdessä kirjoittaminen osoittautuu projektissa oppilaita innostavaksi työtavaksi. Se mahdollistaa yhteistyötaitojen kehittämisen muun muassa rakentavan palautteen antamisen ja vastaanottamisen avulla. Yhdessä kirjoittaminen avaa mahdollisuuksia yhteisten merkitysten muodostamiseen ja yhteisöllisten kertomusten tuottamiseen. Tutkimus tarjoaa uuden näkökulman yläkoulun kirjoittamista koskevaan keskusteluun, jossa oppilaiden äänenpainoilla on ollut toistaiseksi vähän sijaa. Tutkimus lisää ymmärrystä oppilaiden kirjoittamisesta ja yhdessä kirjoittamisen merkityksestä. Opetuksessa on tärkeä tukea kaikkien oppilaiden kirjoitusprosessia. Oppilaiden kerronta avaa näkökulmia opettajan oman työn reflektointiin ja kehittämiseen. Tutkimustuloksia on mahdollista hyödyntää kirjoittamisen opetuksessa ja sen käytänteiden kehittämisessä sekä yleensä opettajankoulutuksessa.

Dissertação(mestrado)-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental, Instituto de Educação, 2009. / Submitted by eloisa silva (eloisa1_silva@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-07-24T23:19:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ida letcia gautrio da silva.pdf: 2125540 bytes, checksum: 22eade01ed73df241e6699f972b15c0c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Bruna Vieira(bruninha_vieira@ibest.com.br) on 2012-07-26T16:29:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ida letcia gautrio da silva.pdf: 2125540 bytes, checksum: 22eade01ed73df241e6699f972b15c0c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-26T16:29:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ida letcia gautrio da silva.pdf: 2125540 bytes, checksum: 22eade01ed73df241e6699f972b15c0c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Este estudo narrativo busca compreender o processo de constituição de uma professora que é a própria pesquisadora, durante o seu primeiro ano de docência, em uma escola do campo em São José do Norte (RS). A pesquisa inclui-se na linha de pesquisa Educação Ambiental: Ensino e Formação de Educadores. Para realização de tal estudo, analisam-se através da Análise Textual Discursiva (Moraes e Galiazzi, 2007), sessenta e cinco registros escritos no diário de campo sobre a sala de aula da professora. Para a realização da análise, considerou-se cada uma das escritas no diário como uma unidade de sentido. Em um primeiro momento, essas unidades de sentido passaram por um processo de categorização, em seguida, estas categorias foram organizadas por semelhanças. Na etapa seguinte, foram feitas a síntese e a reconstrução dos textos através de uma produção escrita, os metatextos. Dessa análise obteve-se a categoria intitulada “Conversas para lidar com os dilemas iniciais” e por meio desta categoria tem-se a problematização e o aprofundamento teórico do que foi importante nesse primeiro ano de docência para a professora e pesquisadora educadora ambiental. Essa categoria deu origem a cinco histórias que mostram as preocupações, as inseguranças, as satisfações, as alegrias e os dilemas da professora em seu início de carreira. Aposta-se nesta pesquisa, no potencial transformador da narrativa na construção de conhecimentos sobre os processos envolvidos na formação de educadores. Além disso, entende-se que o diário de sala de aula é um importante instrumento de refiguração da realidade do professor e que a história contada do primeiro ano profissional favorece possibilidades de reflexão e intervenção nos processos formativos. Propõe-se com esta pesquisa que a formação do professor educador ambiental seja intensificada em rodas de formação em conversas sobre os dilemas enfrentados pelos professores iniciantes, o que favorece a construção da identidade profissional do professor. Outra compreensão sobre este processo é de que o lugar possibilitará o pertencimento ao campo da Educação Ambiental. Além disso, é possível perceber a partir do trabalho realizado e das próprias dificuldades enfrentadas pela pesquisadora a presença da leitura e da escrita nas conversas em rodas de formação com produção de portfólios. Por último, a dissertação se concretiza no último capítulo mostrando uma roda de formação de professores educadores ambientais pesquisadores: a mediação do diário coletivo. / This narrative study aims at understanding my constitution process as a teacher - and as a researcher, as well - in my first year in a rural school in São José do Norte, RS. This research is included in the area of Environmental Education: Teaching and Teacher Education in the Post-Graduation Program in Environmental Education at FURG, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil. In order to carry out this study, sixty five reports I had written in my field diary about my classes were analyzed through Discursive Textual Analysis (Moraes and Galiazzi, 2007). The analysis considered that each report was a unit of sense. First of all, these units of sense went through a categorization process; afterwards, these categories were organized according to similarities. The next step comprised the synthesis and the reconstruction of the texts through written production, the metatexts. This analysis led to a category named “Talks to deal with initial dilemmas”: this category enabled the problematization and the theoretical deepening of what was more important in my first school year as a teacher/researcher/environmental educator. This category originated five stories which show my worries, insecurity, satisfaction, joy, and dilemmas when I started my career. In this research, I bet on the transformative potential of narrative in the construction of knowledge regarding the processes involved in teacher education. Besides, I understand that the class diary is an important tool to rewrite a teacher‟s reality and that the story told in the first professional year enables reflection and intervention in formative processes. In this research, I propose that teacher education in Environmental Education should be emphasized in conversation groups about the dilemmas young teachers have to face; it would favor the construction of a teacher‟s professional identity. Another important aspect of this process is that the place should enable the sense of belonging to the field of Environmental Education. In addition, based on my own work and difficulties, I could perceive the presence of reading and writing in the conversation groups with the production of portfolios. Finally, the last chapter of this thesis shows teacher education in a conversation group of environmental educators/researchers: the mediation of a collective diary.

Dissertação(mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental, Instituto de Educação, 2008. / Submitted by eloisa silva (eloisa1_silva@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-10-08T19:51:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo (1).pdf: 995235 bytes, checksum: f525f6132cc45fecbe1297489d399e0f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Bruna Vieira(bruninha_vieira@ibest.com.br) on 2012-12-01T14:58:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo (1).pdf: 995235 bytes, checksum: f525f6132cc45fecbe1297489d399e0f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-12-01T14:58:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo (1).pdf: 995235 bytes, checksum: f525f6132cc45fecbe1297489d399e0f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Esta pesquisa apresenta os sentidos emergentes da interface entre o aprofundamento teórico do conceito de resistência e as experiências profissionais de um grupo composto por quatro professores educadores ambientais em formação permanente. Dentre os professores participantes, dois possuem formação inicial em Química, um em Biologia e o outro em Geografia, sendo que todos possuem envolvimento acadêmico direto com a Educação Ambiental. Para comunicar os resultados da pesquisa, foram produzidas quatro narrativas ficcionais, onde a teoria serviu de sustentação para a trama baseada nos (auto) relatos (orais e escritos) dos professores e na convivência do pesquisador com o grupo. A metodologia utilizada foi baseada nos discursos de pesquisa narrativa, na qual o objetivo de estudo é a experiência dos participantes e esta é estudada e comunicada também de modo narrativo. Em relação ao aprofundamento do conceito de resistência, buscou-se firmar um diálogo com a literatura, ressaltando a polissemia desse conceito. A aposta foi a de não conceber as resistências enquanto limite do/no outro, mas como movimentos relacionais de constituição dos sujeitos, movimentos estes intrínsecos aos espaços de (trans)formação. Logo, é a partir das resistências e com elas que se estabelecem diálogos problematizadores, levando em consideração os contextos dos sujeitos e suas histórias. As narrativas ficcionais explicitam, justamente, esta positividade das resistências, fazendo da ficção uma possibilidade de experimentação da realidade. As histórias resultaram de uma interpretação do pesquisador dos sentidos emergentes no contexto da pesquisa e contou com a participação direta dos professores. Quanto a estes, destacou-se a intensificação do sentido de pertencimento deles ao campo da Educação Ambiental, bem como o fortalecimento desse grupo enquanto uma comunidade. Como se deu em espaços formativos, esta pesquisa também teve um papel político na constituição do pesquisador, já que através dessa experiência pode (re)significar seu papel enquanto pesquisador e professor educador ambiental em formação. Disso resultou a proposição de que as ações de pesquisa e formação em Educação Ambiental nos espaços formais são mais intensas quando o pesquisador e/ou formador se encontra imerso no contexto, sendo parte intrínseca daquilo que deseja transformar. As narrativas ficcionais visam um leitor-professor em constituição na interface com campo da Educação Ambiental e podem ser utilizadas para promover debates em espaços formativos afins. / This research presents the emergent senses of the interface between the theoretical deepening of the concept resistance and the professional experiences gained by a group of four teachers/environmental educators in an in-service program. Two of them have graduated in Chemistry, one in Biology and one in Geography; all of them are directly involved in Environmental Education. To communicate the results of the research, four fictional narratives were produced; theory has supported the plot based on the teachers’ (self) reports (both oral and written) and on the researcher’s contact with the group. The methodology was based on the discourses of narrative research, in which the objective of the study is the participants’ experience; it is studied and also communicated through narrative. Regarding the deepening of the concept of resistance, the aim was to develop a dialogue with the literature, emphasizing the polysemy of this concept. The idea was not to conceive resistance as if it were a limit concerning the others, but as relational movements - intrinsic to spaces of (trans)formation - that constitute the subjects. Thus, problematizing dialogues are developed from and with resistance, taking into account the subjects’ contexts and stories. In fact, fictional narratives expose the positivity of the resistance, turning fiction into the possibility of experimenting reality. The stories resulted from the researcher’s interpretation of the emergent senses in the context of the research; the teachers also participated in this process. Their sense of belonging to the field of Environmental Education was intensified, as well as the strengthening of this group as a community. Since this research was carried out in spaces for teacher education, it also played a political role in the researcher’s constitution; s/he can (re)signify her/his role as a researcher and as a teacher/environmental educator through this experience. Therefore, it can be proposed that actions concerning research and education in Environmental Education in formal spaces are more intense when the researcher and/or educator is immersed in the context, being an intrinsic part of what s/he wants to change. The fictional narratives are aimed at a reader-teacher who is constituted in the interface with the field of Environmental Education and can be used to promote debates in similar education spaces.

Tese (doutorado)-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental, Instituto de Educação, 2010. / Submitted by eloisa silva (eloisa1_silva@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-11-28T14:40:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 cludia da silva cousin.pdf: 8361569 bytes, checksum: 6ec58566263b028235b422a19f6bf5f1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-11-28T14:40:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 cludia da silva cousin.pdf: 8361569 bytes, checksum: 6ec58566263b028235b422a19f6bf5f1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Este trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa de doutorado, desenvolvida no Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Ambiental, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG, na linha de pesquisa Educação Ambiental: Ensino e Formação de Educadores. O problema de pesquisa buscou compreender como os processos educativos intensificam o sentimento de pertencimento em formação continuada em Educação Ambient@l. Parti de três questões, que foram: - 1. Quais discursos em Educação Ambiental emergiram nos Projetos de Ação Ambiental, a partir do planejamento, execução e avaliação? 2. Como os Projetos de Ação Ambiental contribuíram para o processo de formação dos educadores ambientais? 3. Qual a contribuição da Educação a Distância para a ambientalização de sujeitos em situação de difícil acesso ao ensino presencial? - Apostei na contribuição da pesquisa narrativa em processos formativos de educação continuada por considerar que ao narrar, o sujeito reflete, inventa-se e amplia a compreensão sobre o contexto ao qual pertence, pois estabelece relações e torna mais complexa a interpretação da realidade. A pesquisa fundamenta-se em Clandinin e Connelly (2000), que destacam que a vida é constituída de fragmentos narrativos, encenados em momentos historiados no tempo e no espaço, que podem ser entendidos em termos de unidades narrativas. Dentro desta visão, a experiência vivida torna-se o ponto chave. Nesta perspectiva, o objeto de estudo é sempre a experiência, estudada de forma narrativa, porque o pensamento narrativo é uma forma de experiência, de escrever e refletir sobre ela. Ou seja, a narrativa pode ser o fenômeno e também o método pelo qual esse fenômeno é estudado. O corpus da pesquisa foi produzido no curso de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental Lato Sensu (memorial descritivo, narrativa intitulada “Eu e a Educação Ambiental”, narrativa intitulada “O município que temos e o município que queremos”, blogs e os Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso - TCC). Utilizei a Análise Textual Discursiva como ferramenta de análise. Primeiro, realizei a desmontagem do conjunto de dados - a unitarização, a construção das unidades de significados e a codificação. Posteriormente, o processo de categorização, do qual emergiram três categorias, que foram: o pertencimento ao lugar; os discursos de Educação Ambiental; a formação de educadores ambientais em Educação a Distância. A fundamentação teórica das categorias emergentes buscou ampliar a compreensão do problema de pesquisa. Foram construídas narrativas ficcionais, entendidas como bricolagens constitutivas (Cupelli e Galiazzi, 2008), com o objetivo de problematizar as categorias e evidenciar os argumentos defendidos na tese. O desenvolvimento da pesquisa potencializou para que se defendesse o argumento de que os processos de formação em Educação Ambiental necessitam incluir no currículo o pertencimento, o planejamento e o desenvolvimento de ações de Educação Ambiental, bem como a escrita em forma de narrativa. A Educação a Distância é um aliado neste sentido, isto é, um vir-a-ser, porque permite a formação continuada no lugar onde o educador ambiental atua. Ou seja, o sentimento de pertencimento intensifica-se em processos de formação continuada em Educação Ambient@l ao naveg@r, agir e narr@r no lugar onde vivem. / This work is the result of a doctoral dissertation developed in Environmental Education: Teaching and Teacher Education, a strand in the Post-graduation Program in Environmental Education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG. The research problem aimed at comprehending how the educative processes heightened the sense of belonging in an in-service program in Environmental Education. My three starting points were: 1) Which discourses in Environmental Education have emerged from the planning, execution, and evaluation of Projects of Environmental Action?; 2) How have the Projects of Environmental Action contributed to the environmental educators’ education process?; and 3) Which contribution has on-line education brought to the subjects’ environmentalization when it was hard to attend regular classes? I believed in the contribution of narrative research to in-service education since, by narrating, a subject reflects, invents him/herself, and broadens the comprehension s/he has of the context s/he belongs to because s/he establishes relations and enriches his/her interpretation of reality by making it more complex. The research is based on Clandinin and Connelly (2000) who emphasize that life is constituted by narrative fragments which are staged in time and space and can be understood in terms of narrative units. In this point of view, the experience in life is the key. Therefore, the object of study is always the experience which is studied in a narrative way, since narrative thought is a kind of experience, of writing and reflecting upon it. In other words, narrative can be the phenomenon and the method to study this very phenomenon, as well. The research corpus was collected in the Specialization Program in Environmental Education (written profiles, narratives entitled “Environmental Education and I” and “The City we Have and the City we Want”, blogs, and term papers). Discursive Textual Analysis was used as the analysis tool. Firstly, I disassembled the set of data in a process called unitarization, the construction of units of meaning and codification. Afterwards, I carried out the process of categorization which led to the three following categories: the sense of belonging to a place, the discourses in Environmental Education, and the education process of environmental educators through on-line programs. The theoretical basis of the emerging categories aimed at broadening the comprehension of the research problem. Fictional narratives, or rather, constitutive bricolage (Cupelli and Galiazzi, 2008), were then made in order to problematize the categories and point out the arguments defended in this dissertation. The development of the research enabled me to defend that education processes in Environmental Education need to include belonging, planning, and the development of actions in Environmental Education, besides writing as narrative, in their curricula. In this sense, on-line education is an ally, i. e., a state of becoming, because it enables in-service education to take place where the educator works. In other words, the sense of belonging is heightened in processes of in-service education in Environmental Education while they s@il, act and narr@te in their places.