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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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As concepções da álgebra articuladas aos conteúdos de Matemática no Ensino Fundamental

Guimarães, Jailma Ferreira 22 October 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jailma Ferreira Guimaraes.pdf: 3322182 bytes, checksum: 49d85192d85fd9d00189a9a241df7ee7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-22 / This study it has the objective to apply and to analyze four activities sequences have being contemplated block-type divided content of the Mathematics presented by the National Curricular Parameters of Basic Teaching PCNEF articulated to the four conceptions of Algebra proposals by Usiskin as arithmetical generalized, study of procedures to decide certain types of problems, study of the relations between largeness s and study of the structures. For in such a way we choose as the Theory of the Registers of Representation arrives in a port theoretical described Semiotics for Raymond Duval. The citizens of the research had been five students of 6º grade to the teach school Basic of the Public school in the Bahia to Ibicaraí city. The analyses of the productions carried through for the students in set with the transcriptions of the recorded interviews during the activities sequences application had pointed that it had difficulty in making the conversion this graphical register in the register of departure for the numerical register, of the register of the natural language with respect to the algebraic register. The story of the participants contributed to understand the strategies and procedures of the resolutions used for the students. The difficulties related to education and learning of Algebra become to obvious. The activities disclose and analyze on difficulties in the understanding and basic slight knowledge the Algebra s conceptions. The PCNEF affirm that to guarantee the development of the algebraic thought the students must be in activities that interrelate the different conceptions of Algebra. After the analyses of the results we conclude that the activities sequences application was an efficient strategy to guarantee our objectives considered initially / Este estudo tem como objetivo desenvolver sequências de atividades, articulando os quatro blocos de conteúdos de matemática apresentados pelos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais do Ensino Fundamental - PCNEF com as concepções da álgebra propostas por Usiskin como aritmética generalizada, estudo de procedimentos para resolver tipos de problemas, estudo das relações entre grandezas e estudo das estruturas. Para tanto, escolhemos como aporte teórico a Teoria dos Registros de Representação Semiótica descrita por Raymond Duval. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram cinco estudantes do 6º Ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola da rede municipal da Bahia no município de Ibicaraí. As análises das produções realizadas pelos estudantes em conjunto com as transcrições das entrevistas gravadas durante a aplicação das sequências das atividades apontaram que houve dificuldade de alguns alunos em fazer a conversão do registro gráfico para o registro numérico, do registro da língua natural para o registro algébrico. O relato dos participantes contribuiu para entendermos as estratégias e procedimentos empregados nas resoluções. Percebemos que alguns desses alunos não tinham domínio nas operações fundamentais, além de apresentarem certa dificuldade em interpretação. Notamos que no contato com a primeira atividade eles estavam ansiosos em dar uma resposta exata. No decorrer da resolução das atividades eles foram evoluindo, buscaram fazer a leitura, interpretação, estratégias de soluções e argumentação do que realizaram e como realizaram através das entrevistas. Considerando a nossa prática, ao realizar esta pesquisa percebemos o quanto é difícil elaborar uma sequência de atividade e planejar estratégias de como aplicar estabelecendo objetivos. Identificamos que o importante não é ter materiais, livros didáticos em que os exercícios aparecem prontos, mas sim o que pode contribuir para a aprendizagem. É necessário e de fundamental importância que o professor saiba escolher ou elaborar situações-problema que possibilitem aos alunos investigar, elaborar estratégias de resolução e assim tornar possível a generalização e abstração do conhecimento
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Strategie vzdělávání v České republice : národní program vzdělávání / Strategy of Education in the Czech Republic

Brož, René January 2012 (has links)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the selected strategic documents of education in the European Union, in the Czech Republic and in the Liberec region. This thesis summarizes knowledge of the development in the European area, the development of legislation and the national attitude from the point of view of strategies of education. The conclusion is based on the previous attitudes mentioned above and compared with the National Programme of Education. Relevant opinions of politicians and experts influencing the further development of the education system in the Czech Republic are presented in the thesis as well. The conclusion of this thesis is the case study of requirements of the National Programme of Education. The theses defines the frame of the National Programme of Education in the Czech Republic and suggests the possible content and related executive structure.
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Currículo de história no ensino médio e avaliação de egressos: a relação entre os documentos orientadores da disciplina e os exames oficiais (ENEM e Vestibulares) - 2009-2013 / History curriculum in high school and evaluation of graduates: the relationship between the guiding documents of discipline and official examinations (ENEM and Vestibular) -2009-2013

Cosme Freire Marins 29 April 2016 (has links)
Este trabalho analisa a relação entre as competências, habilidades e concepções metodológicas enunciadas nos documentos oficiais orientadores do currículo de História elaborados pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC) e o que se avalia no Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem) e em seis universidades públicas, no período de 2009 a 2013. Partiu-se de uma afirmação do MEC de que a abordagem pelo Enem dos temas, competências e habilidades propostos pelos documentos nacionais orientadores do currículo poderia levar as escolas a incorporá-los em seu próprio currículo. No desenvolvimento da pesquisa foram abordados os estudos de alguns pesquisadores do tema currículo, o qual é concebido como resultado de um processo de construção social em que os vários agentes que exercem influência no campo educacional disputam a legitimidade de seus interesses. Um elemento essencial para o currículo é a disciplina, por meio da qual os professores especialistas são os responsáveis pela abordagem dos conhecimentos em sala de aula. Contudo, o currículo oficial nacional passa por várias esferas de poder, disputa e negociação até chegar à escola, sendo a relação estabelecida em sala de aula entre professor e aluno a última esfera desse complexo processo. Assim, as disciplinas escolares gozam de relativa autonomia ao executarem o currículo real, o que dificulta a efetivação plena do currículo oficial. Por outro lado, as abordagens realizadas pelos exames vestibulares e pelo Enem não se traduzem em sua efetivação integral por parte das escolas, devido, também, às esferas de poder que há entre a realização dos exames e o que é efetivado em sala de aula. Observou-se que há algumas propostas pelos documentos oficiais mais avaliadas nos exames, em detrimento de outras que foram contempladas em menos de 10% das questões de cada instituição. As competências e procedimentos mais avaliados dizem respeito a itens mais fáceis de se mensurar, por um lado, e mais presentes na prática da disciplina, tanto na universidade quanto nas escolas, por outro. Dessa forma, o MEC segue em seu processo de busca de apoio e legitimação, tanto do currículo nacional oficial quanto do Enem processo este que atualmente ganha novos elementos com a discussão da Base Nacional Comum Curricular para o Ensino Médio (BNCC). / This paper analyzes the relationship between skills, abilities and methodological concepts set out in guiding official documents of the history curriculum designed by the Ministry of Education (MEC) and which is evaluated in the National Secondary Education Examination (Enem) and six public universities, in the period 2009 to 2013. The starting point was a MEC\'s claim that the approach by Enem of subjects, skills and abilities proposed by guiding national curriculum documents could lead schools to incorporate them into their own curriculum. In the development of this research studies of some researchers concerning the theme \'curriculum\' have been approached, that is understood as the result of a process of social construction in which the various agents that influence the educational field dispute the legitimacy of their interests. An essential element in the curriculum is the discipline through which specialist teachers are responsible for the approach of knowledge in the classroom. However, the official national curriculum goes through several levels of power, dispute and negotiation to get to school, and the relationship established in the classroom between teacher and student is the last sphere of this complex process. Therefore, school disciplines enjoy relative autonomy in executing the real curriculum, which hinders the full realization of the official curriculum. On the other hand, the approaches made by the entrance examinations and the Enem not translate into a full adoption by schools, due also to the spheres of power that exists between the exams and what is effected in the classroom. It was observed that there are some proposals for official documents more evaluated in the tests, at the expense of others that have been covered in less than 10% of the questions of each institution. The skills and procedures more appraised are concerned to the items easier to measure, on the one hand, and more gifts in the practice of discipline, both at the university and in the schools, on the other. Thus, the MEC follows in its process of searching for support and legitimacy, both the official national curriculum as the Enem - a process that currently earn new elements to the discussion of the Common National Base Curriculum for Secondary Education (BNCC).
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"A questão da neutralidade: um debate necessário no ensino de ciências" / The neutrality question: a necessary debate at science’s education.

Paulo Roberto dos Santos 02 April 2004 (has links)
O presente estudo é resultado de uma pesquisa teórica, de natureza filosófico-educacional em torno da tese da neutralidade da ciência negada explicitamente pelos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais nos volumes que tratam do ensino de Ciências Naturais. O documento reitera insistentemente que o ensino de ciência deve favorecer a reflexão sobre o caráter não-neutro da ciência e suas implicações políticas e sociais, porém não oferece uma definição clara do conceito de neutralidade. Nosso objetivo foi o de identificar os elementos que devem compor uma noção adequada de neutralidade, sendo um dos requisitos o de que a negação da neutralidade da ciência não implique alguma forma de relativismo. Um autor que tem se dedicado a essa questão é Hugh Lacey, cujos trabalhos foram tomados como referencial básico em todas as nossas reflexões. O aspecto fundamental da filosofia da ciência de Lacey é sua abordagem da racionalidade científica em termos de valores (valores cognitivos e valores sociais), não em termos de regras, como acontece na tradição positivista. Ao processo epistemológico de seleção de teorias em termos de compromisso com um conjunto de valores exclusivamente cognitivos, Lacey atribui o atributo da imparcialidade. A defesa da imparcialidade não impede que os valores não-cognitivos (sociais) tenham também um papel essencial na prática científica. A presença de valores sociais no interior da ciência pode dar-se no nível das escolhas tecnológicas concretas – neutralidade aplicada –, e num nível mais abstrato denominado por Lacey de nível das estratégias – neutralidade cognitiva. Em última análise, é a estratégia que vai restringir os tipos de teorias que podem ser desenvolvidas e investigadas pela ciência moderna que, por conseguinte, carece de neutralidade cognitiva. Tal ciência é ensinada nas escolas como modelo único e fechado de racionalidade científica. Nossa conclusão é que uma maneira de se trabalhar o tema da neutralidade de forma construtiva é apresentá-la indiretamente aos alunos, ou seja, mostrando e discutindo outros possíveis sistemas explicativos da natureza. Numa sociedade realmente democrática, é importante que se valorizem os conhecimentos adquiridos por meio de abordagens alternativas. / This present study is the result from a theoric research, of philosophical and educational nature, around the thesis of science’s neutrality explicitly denied by the National Curriculum Parameters, on the books regarding the Natural Sciences teaching. The document says insistently that the teaching of science must aid the reflection about the non-neutral character of science and its political and social implications, however it does not offer a clear position of the concept of neutrality. Our goal was identify the elements that must be part of a proper notion of neutrality, being one of the requested items that the denial of science’s neutrality does not imply any shape of relativism. One author that has been dedicating himself to this question is Hugh Lacey, whose works have been taken as basic references at all our reflections. The fundamental aspect of Lacey’s science’s philosophy is his approach of science’s rationality on values’ terms (cognitive values and social values), not in terms of rules, as it happens at the positivist tradition. To the epistemological process of selection of theories in terms with compromise of a key of exclusively cognitive values, Lacey sets the attribution of impartiality. The defense of impartiality does not stop the non-cognitive values (social) from having an essential role at the scientific practice. The presence of social values at science’s core can happen at the technological choices’ level – applied neutrality – and, in a more abstract way, named by Lacey ‘strategy level’ – cognitive neutrality. In the end, it is the strategy that will restrict the kind of theories that can be developed and investigated by modern science that, as a consequence, lacks cognitive neutrality. Such science is taught in schools as a single model, away from scientific rationality. Our conclusion is that a way to work with the theme of neutrality in a constructive way is to present it indirectly to the students, that is, showing and discussing other possible systems that explain Nature. In a really democratic society, it is important to praise the knowledge acquired by other alternative approaches.
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Legislação sobre a formação em Educação Física no Brasil : formando professores ou profissionais? /

Metzner, Andreia Cristina. January 2019 (has links)
Orientador: Alexandre Janotta Drigo / Resumo: A trajetória histórica da formação em Educação Física mostra que a legislação marcou, e ainda marca, a sua constituição enquanto profissão. No Brasil, a Educação Física foi construída por meio de embates políticos, epistemológicos e ideológicos. Assim, essa área traz arraigada em si características do passado que necessitam ser superadas. Deste modo, a presente pesquisa teve como principal objetivo investigar as Diretrizes para a formação de professores expressas na legislação e as consequências políticas e pedagógicas no campo de formação em Educação Física. Este estudo é de cunho qualitativo e do tipo pesquisa descritiva-analítica. Os dados foram coletados usando-se uma entrevista semiestruturada, composta de quatro questões abertas. A amostra foi composta por 20 profissionais de Educação Física, sendo cinco representantes de cada um dos seguintes grupos: GRUPO A - Entidade Científica com Atuação Nacional; GRUPO B - Coordenação de Curso de Licenciatura em Educação Física; GRUPO C - Sistema de Regulamentação Profissional; GRUPO D - Pesquisadores que estudam Formação Profissional em Educação Física. Os resultados mostraram que a perspectiva geral dos participantes dos grupos B, C e D indica que houve avanços ao longo da história, principalmente, porque as Diretrizes apresentaram uma preocupação maior com a dimensão pedagógica no currículo dos cursos de licenciatura, com o fortalecimento da identidade do professor, com a definição do perfil do licenciado e com a especificidade... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The historical background of Physical Education initial professional education demonstrates that legislation has profoundly influenced its constitution as a profession. In Brazil, the history of Physical Education is marked by political, epistemological and ideological debates. In this sense, this area is embedded in historical characteristics that need to be overcame. Thus, the objective of the present study was to investigate the guidelines regarding initial teacher education and the political and pedagogical consequences on Physical Education initial professional education. This is a qualitative descriptive-analytic study. Data were collected through semi structured interview consisted of four open-ended questions. Participants comprised 20 Physical Education professionals, divided into four groups (five participants each): GROUP A – members of a scientific entity of national scope; GROUP B – coordinators of Physical Education teacher education programs; GROUP C – members of professional regulation system; GROUP D – scholars who do research on Physical Education initial professional education. According to the general perspectives of the participants of groups B, C and D, the findings indicate that there were advances as the guidelines brought a greater concern regarding the pedagogical dimension in the teacher education curriculum, strengthening teachers´ identity, defining the profile of teachers and specifying teacher education. With specific regard to Physical Educatio... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor
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Innovation Education within the Technology Curriculum in Iceland

Thorsteinsson, G., Denton, H., Page, T., Yokoyama, E. 05 1900 (has links)
No description available.
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The origin of craft education in Iceland

Thorsteinsson, Gisli, Olafsson, Brynjar, Yokoyama, Etsuo 31 October 2009 (has links)
No description available.
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'n Ondersoek na lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding in die grondslagfase / Annemarie Loubser

Loubser, Annemarie January 2010 (has links)
In die Grondslagfase is Lewensvaardighede een van drie leerprogramme wat deur die Departement van Onderwys voorgeskryf en verder in die Nasionale Kurrikulumverklaring uiteengesit word. Lewensvaardighede fokus op die ontwikkellng van lewenswaardes en stel die ontwikkeling van verantwoordelike en gedissiplineerde landsburgers. van Suid-Afrika ten doe!. Teen die agtergrond van die bogenoemde oorkoepelende uitkoms van Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding, was die doel van die studie om antwoorde op die volgende navorsingsvrae te ViFld: • Wat is Grondslagfase-onderwysers se houding teenoor Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding? • Is daar 'n verband. tussen sekere biografiese veranderlikes en Grondslagfaseonderwysers se houding teenoor Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding? • Hoeveel tyd bestee Grondslagfase-onderwysers daagliks aan die onderrig van leerders se lewensvaardighede? • Verskil die daaglikse tydsbesteding aan die onderrig van Lewensvaardighede, Gesyferdheid en Geletterdheid betekenisvol van mekaar? • Is daar faktore wat Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding in die Grondslagfase belemmer? • Watter aanbevelings kan gemaak word om die onderrig van Lewensvaardighede in die Grondslagfase te bevorder? Ten einde bogenoemde vrae te beantwoord is 'n gekombineerde (kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe) navorsingsmetode geTmplementeer. Data is deur middel van 'n gestruktureerde vraelys by 'n steekproef van Grondslagfase-onderwysers in die Potchefstroom en Klerksdorpskooldistrikte van die Noordwes Provinsie ingesamel en die inllgting is statrsties geanaliseer: Die kwantitatiewe fase van die ondersoek is opgevolg deur 'n kwalitatiewe fase waartydens onderhoude met Grondslagfase-onderwysers gevoer is. Voortspruitend uit die kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe resultate, is die volgende gevolgtrekkings gemaak, wat in diepte in die verhandeling bespreek sal word: • Grondslagfase-onderwysers se houding teenoor Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding is oor die algemeen oorwegend positief. • Daar is 'n verband tussen sekere biografiese veranderlikes en Grondslagfaseonderwysers se houding teenoor Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding. • Die meerderheid van die Grondslagfase-onderwysers bestee tussen 25% en 35% van hulle daaglikse tyd aan die onderrig van Lewensvaardighede. • Die tyd wat 'Grondslagfase-onderwysers daagliks aan die onderrig' van Lewensvaardighede, Gesyferdheid en Geletterdheid bestee, verskil betekenisvol van mekaar. Die meeste tyd word daagliks aan die onderrig van Geletterdheid bestee, gevolg deurGesyferdheiden Lewensvaardighede. • Daar is bepaalde faktore wat die suksesvolle. aanbieding van Lewensvaardighede -in die GroRdslagfase belemmer. Op grond van die bevindinge van die ondersoek, is bepaalde aanbevelings aan die hand gedoen om die onderrig van Lewensvaardighede in die Grondslagfase te bevorder. / Life Skills, as prescribed by the Department of education, is one of three learning programmes in the Foundation Phase as reflected in the Nationa1 Curriculum Statement. Life Skills focuses on the development of values for life and has as a goal, the development of responsible and disciplined citizens for South-Africa. Against the-background of the above mentioned super ordinate outcome of Life Skills education the aim of the study was to find answers to the following research questions: • What is the attitude of Foundation Phase teachers towards the teaching of Life Skills? • Is there a connection between specific biographical variables and the Foundation Phase teacher's attitude towards Life Skills? • How much time do Foundation Phase teachers spend daily on teaching Life Skills to learners? • Is there a significant difference on the time spent daily on die teaching of Life Skills, Numeracy and Literacy? • Are there factors that hinder the teaching of Life Skills in the Foundation Phase? • What recommendations can be made to promote the teaching of Life Skills in the Foundation Phase? In order to answer the above questions, a mixed research method (quantitative and qualitative) was implemented. Data were gathered by means of a structured questionnaire from a random sample of Foundation Phase teachers in the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp school districts of the North West Province, and the information was analysed statistically. The quantitative phase of the investigation was followed bya qualitative phase during which personal interviews with Foundation Phase teachers were conducted. Originating from the quantitative and qualitative results, the following recommendations were made that will be intensiv.ely discussed in the dissertation: • The attitude of Foundation Phase teachers towards Life Skills education are in general positive. • There is a correlation between some biographical variables and the Foundation Phase teachers' attitude towards Life Skills education. I • The majority of the Foundation Phase teachers spend between 25% and 35% of their daily time on the education of Life Skills. • The daily .input that Foundation Phase teachers spend on the teaching of Life Skills, Numeracy and Literacy differ meaningfully from each other. Most of the time is spent on the teaching of Literacy, followed by Numeracy and Life Skills. • There are specific factors that hinder the successful presentation of life Skills in the Foundation Phase. Based on the results of the investigation, specific recommendations were made to promote the teaching of Life Skills in the Foundation Phase. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.
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'n Ondersoek na lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding in die grondslagfase / Annemarie Loubser

Loubser, Annemarie January 2010 (has links)
In die Grondslagfase is Lewensvaardighede een van drie leerprogramme wat deur die Departement van Onderwys voorgeskryf en verder in die Nasionale Kurrikulumverklaring uiteengesit word. Lewensvaardighede fokus op die ontwikkellng van lewenswaardes en stel die ontwikkeling van verantwoordelike en gedissiplineerde landsburgers. van Suid-Afrika ten doe!. Teen die agtergrond van die bogenoemde oorkoepelende uitkoms van Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding, was die doel van die studie om antwoorde op die volgende navorsingsvrae te ViFld: • Wat is Grondslagfase-onderwysers se houding teenoor Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding? • Is daar 'n verband. tussen sekere biografiese veranderlikes en Grondslagfaseonderwysers se houding teenoor Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding? • Hoeveel tyd bestee Grondslagfase-onderwysers daagliks aan die onderrig van leerders se lewensvaardighede? • Verskil die daaglikse tydsbesteding aan die onderrig van Lewensvaardighede, Gesyferdheid en Geletterdheid betekenisvol van mekaar? • Is daar faktore wat Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding in die Grondslagfase belemmer? • Watter aanbevelings kan gemaak word om die onderrig van Lewensvaardighede in die Grondslagfase te bevorder? Ten einde bogenoemde vrae te beantwoord is 'n gekombineerde (kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe) navorsingsmetode geTmplementeer. Data is deur middel van 'n gestruktureerde vraelys by 'n steekproef van Grondslagfase-onderwysers in die Potchefstroom en Klerksdorpskooldistrikte van die Noordwes Provinsie ingesamel en die inllgting is statrsties geanaliseer: Die kwantitatiewe fase van die ondersoek is opgevolg deur 'n kwalitatiewe fase waartydens onderhoude met Grondslagfase-onderwysers gevoer is. Voortspruitend uit die kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe resultate, is die volgende gevolgtrekkings gemaak, wat in diepte in die verhandeling bespreek sal word: • Grondslagfase-onderwysers se houding teenoor Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding is oor die algemeen oorwegend positief. • Daar is 'n verband tussen sekere biografiese veranderlikes en Grondslagfaseonderwysers se houding teenoor Lewensvaardigheidsopvoeding. • Die meerderheid van die Grondslagfase-onderwysers bestee tussen 25% en 35% van hulle daaglikse tyd aan die onderrig van Lewensvaardighede. • Die tyd wat 'Grondslagfase-onderwysers daagliks aan die onderrig' van Lewensvaardighede, Gesyferdheid en Geletterdheid bestee, verskil betekenisvol van mekaar. Die meeste tyd word daagliks aan die onderrig van Geletterdheid bestee, gevolg deurGesyferdheiden Lewensvaardighede. • Daar is bepaalde faktore wat die suksesvolle. aanbieding van Lewensvaardighede -in die GroRdslagfase belemmer. Op grond van die bevindinge van die ondersoek, is bepaalde aanbevelings aan die hand gedoen om die onderrig van Lewensvaardighede in die Grondslagfase te bevorder. / Life Skills, as prescribed by the Department of education, is one of three learning programmes in the Foundation Phase as reflected in the Nationa1 Curriculum Statement. Life Skills focuses on the development of values for life and has as a goal, the development of responsible and disciplined citizens for South-Africa. Against the-background of the above mentioned super ordinate outcome of Life Skills education the aim of the study was to find answers to the following research questions: • What is the attitude of Foundation Phase teachers towards the teaching of Life Skills? • Is there a connection between specific biographical variables and the Foundation Phase teacher's attitude towards Life Skills? • How much time do Foundation Phase teachers spend daily on teaching Life Skills to learners? • Is there a significant difference on the time spent daily on die teaching of Life Skills, Numeracy and Literacy? • Are there factors that hinder the teaching of Life Skills in the Foundation Phase? • What recommendations can be made to promote the teaching of Life Skills in the Foundation Phase? In order to answer the above questions, a mixed research method (quantitative and qualitative) was implemented. Data were gathered by means of a structured questionnaire from a random sample of Foundation Phase teachers in the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp school districts of the North West Province, and the information was analysed statistically. The quantitative phase of the investigation was followed bya qualitative phase during which personal interviews with Foundation Phase teachers were conducted. Originating from the quantitative and qualitative results, the following recommendations were made that will be intensiv.ely discussed in the dissertation: • The attitude of Foundation Phase teachers towards Life Skills education are in general positive. • There is a correlation between some biographical variables and the Foundation Phase teachers' attitude towards Life Skills education. I • The majority of the Foundation Phase teachers spend between 25% and 35% of their daily time on the education of Life Skills. • The daily .input that Foundation Phase teachers spend on the teaching of Life Skills, Numeracy and Literacy differ meaningfully from each other. Most of the time is spent on the teaching of Literacy, followed by Numeracy and Life Skills. • There are specific factors that hinder the successful presentation of life Skills in the Foundation Phase. Based on the results of the investigation, specific recommendations were made to promote the teaching of Life Skills in the Foundation Phase. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.
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What is my Pedagogy? Shifting Understandings and Practices of Teachers in Government Schools in Kashmir, India

Mir, Gulshan Ara Tabassum 10 July 2013 (has links)
India’s pledge towards universalization of elementary education by 2015 is a desirable goal. Having achieved progress towards universal accessibility to schooling, the problem of providing quality schooling through a necessary paradigm shift, is still a major challenge. This qualitative research study seeks to portray the nature of pedagogy in four elementary classrooms in Srinagar, Kashmir and understand its shifting nature with reference to the National Curriculum Framework (2005). Specifically, this study examines teachers’ classroom pedagogical practices, their understandings of pedagogy, the ways they encourage and manage student participation in classroom and the level of support and training they receive from government agencies. The findings of this study will have implications for both teachers and students, their specific roles, their understanding of pedagogy, classroom practices and more importantly students. This study recommends ‘contextually suitable’ pedagogical methods, informing teachers about effective teaching strategies, and outlining specific classroom participation strategies for students.

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