Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-05-08T14:11:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Luiza Seixas.pdf: 1521072 bytes, checksum: 9e3c28c5d3cc03c3216eb4c905eee3e6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora Lopes(silopes@ufba.br) on 2013-05-08T18:51:47Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Luiza Seixas.pdf: 1521072 bytes, checksum: 9e3c28c5d3cc03c3216eb4c905eee3e6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-08T18:51:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Luiza Seixas.pdf: 1521072 bytes, checksum: 9e3c28c5d3cc03c3216eb4c905eee3e6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / A presente dissertação é um estudo que tem como intenção analisar a construção de significados de práxis por alunos do Curso de Pedagogia da UFBA. Seu delineamento teve como base teórico metodológica a abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa, através da perspectiva epistemológica multirreferencial e do aporte crítico fenomenológico. O levantamento de dados e informações se processou por meio de instrumentos de investigação (questionário aberto e entrevistas semi-estruturadas); de observação direta; e de pesquisa documental. Os dados e informações obtidos foram analisados e interpretados, fundamentalmente, à luz do método de Análise Contrastiva. A primeira parte desse trabalho focaliza os significados de práxis construídos pelos alunos, contrastando informações levantadas, referenciais teóricos e observações de campo. A segunda enfoca a compreensão de práxis pedagógica revelada pelos estudantes, examinando como os resultados do processo de significação influenciam a (re)elaboração de práticas educativas; e a terceira discute as contribuições do currículo do curso investigado para os processos de significação e (re)elaboração da práxis indicadas pelos entrevistados. / Salvador

Este artículo busca reflexionar sobre la labor antropológica en el campo de las políticas de educación superior, específicamente en el área de extensión universitaria, a partir de mi desempeño profesional en una universidad pública nacional de Argentina. Resumiré brevemente aspectos centrales de uno de los programas donde participo y el marco institucional del que formo parte. La selección del caso radica en su potencialidad para pensar la praxis antropológica, dado que condensa varias cuestiones que hacen a mi labor cotidiana y que atraviesan las diversas etapas o instancias en las que son producidas las políticas «extensionistas»: diseño/diagnóstico, planificación, ejecución y evaluación. Me interesa analizar la intervención del antropólogo o antropóloga en un área (la extensión universitaria) que emergió como el nexo entre la universidad y la comunidad, con el fin de contribuir a la transformación social desde una perspectiva que, sin embargo, hace (¿o hacía?) hincapié en la transferencia de conocimientos. Revisaré el concepto de extensión y las nuevas nociones que van ganando terreno. Como ejes para pensar la antropología aplicada, abordaré la distancia crítica y el involucramiento empático; la «aplicabilidad» de conceptos y metodologías etnográficas o la antropología como praxis, y finalmente, el trabajo interdisciplinario. / This article seeks to reflect on anthropological work in the field of higher education policy, specifically in the area of University Extension. This proposal tackles this issue from my own professional performance at a national public university in Argentina. I briefly summarize key aspects of one of the programs where I participated, as well as its corresponding institutional framework. The relevance of the case lies in its potential to reflect on anthropological praxis, and it encompasses several issues related to my daily work. Anthropological praxis crosscuts the various stages or levels which compose «extension» policies, namely design, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation. My purpose is to analyze the anthropologist’s intervention in this area —university extension—, that represents the «nexus» between the university and the community », in order to contribute to social transformation. However, this perspective emphasizes (or probably emphasized?) knowledge transfer. I examine the notion of extension and the new concepts that are gaining ground. To think applied anthropology, I consider the following topics: the critical distance and the empathic involvement; the «applicability» of concepts and ethnographic methodologies, anthropology as a praxis; and, finally, interdisciplinary work.

Orientador: Orly Zucatto Mantovani de Assis / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T00:27:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Magnani_ElianaMaria_D.pdf: 4275895 bytes, checksum: a6e6639da46836ca3b438ebce9862075 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa resultou de uma longa caminhada, durante a qual se identificou que muitos educadores apresentavam dificuldades no entendimento e atendimento aos interesses e necessidades lúdicas infantis. Diante disso, e da (re) implantação de brinquedotecas ocorridas, desde 2004, pela Secretaria de Educação, nos Centros Municipais Infantis (CMEIs), de uma cidade do sudoeste do Paraná, resolveu-se compreender a práxis ludo-pedagógica de professoras da pré-escola. Inicialmente, visitaram-se todos os (treze) Centros e, em seguida, ministrou-se um curso para educadores dessas instituições. Durante sua realização, identificou-se que havia entre eles três concepções referentes ao brincar: dirigido, livre e mediado. Essas informações serviram como condução para este estudo. Posteriormente, analisaram-se em quatro CMEIs (denominados de cores): a concepção e a função das professoras no tocante ao brincar e brinquedoteca; como eram selecionados e adquiridos os brinquedos que compunham o acervo desse ambiente; e com o que e como as crianças brincavam em diferentes tempos e espaços dessas instituições. Realizaram-se as ações por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas, questionários, observações e filmagem da prática lúdica das professoras. Na revisão teórica, verificou-se que a função lúdica do professor tem-se desenvolvido de forma muito tímida. Entretanto, as mudanças socioeconômicas que garantiram à criança o direito de frequentar uma instituição educacional, juntamente com o surgimento da brinquedoteca e de outras ideias para entretenimento que incentiva o consumo de brinquedos industrializados e tecnológicos requerem do professor a revisão de sua práxis. Os autores apresentados apontam que o ambiente educacional precisa fornecer às crianças e aos professores diversos materiais lúdicos, mas afirmam que mais importante do que os objetos é a interação criança-criança e criança-adulto. Winnicott e Piaget sustentam essa ideia e referem que as brincadeiras são significativas para as crianças, por isso os educadores necessitam compreender como ocorre o processo de desenvolvimento integral infantil a fim de favorecê-lo. Do primeiro autor utilizou-se a noção da mãe que pelo brincar insere a criança na sociedade. Do segundo autor fez-se uso da noção de que o jogo propicia o desenvolvimento da criança, que acontece pela interação com o meio. Nos CMEIs, constatou-se que o brincar dirigido ocorria na sala e na brinquedoteca e dependia das escolhas das professoras. No tocante ao brincar livre, acontecia somente no parque, onde elas apenas cuidavam das crianças. Quanto ao brincar mediado, resumia-se a pequenos atos isolados. Após análise das atividades, considera-se que a concepção das professoras acerca do brincar e da brinquedoteca está permeada de ideias empiristas. Para alterar esta situação faz-se necessário a revisão das atitudes bem como a mudança das políticas educacionais. / Abstract: This research has been resulted of a long where has been identified that many teachers presented some difficulties in understanding and giving assistance to the child playful interest and needs. In the light of this, and from the implementation of playrooms, since 2004, by the Education Department, at the child Municipal Centers, in a City the west of Parana, it has been decided to comprehend the teachers ludopedagogical practice of elementary school. At first it has been visited, all (thirteen) CMEIs (child Municipal Centers) and, following it has been taken a course to educators of such institutions. While the course, it has been identified three different conceptions about playing: led, free and mediated. These information helped as the master line of the study. Later, it has been analyzed the educators conception about playing and playrooms; how they have selected the toys that are part of the environment collection; what is the teacher's perception abut their duties related to the child playful activities, and how and what the children play with in different moments and spaces at the schools. Everything has been accomplished through semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, samplers and filming of teachers playful practices. On the theoretical review, it has been shown that the teacher entertaining functions have been developed in a very shy way. However, the social and economical changes that guarantee the child the right of attending an educational institution, along with the emergence of the playful and other ideas for leisure and entertainment which encourages the use of industrialized and technological toys and games demand from the teacher, the review of his practice. The authors indicate that the educational environment needs to provide the children and teaches several playful material, but they stand that more important than the objects is the interaction child-child-adult. Winnicott and Piaget support such idea and state that the games are very meaningful for the kids, that's why the educators need to understand how the child integral development process happen in order to help them. From the first author, it has been used the notion of the good enough mother who holds the needs of her child and through playing, is inserted in society. From the second author the use of notion that the games promote the child development, which happens through the interaction between the physical and social environment. It has been verified at the colored CMEIs (child Municipal Centers) that the led playing happened in the classroom and in the playroom and it was up the teachers choice. About the free playing, it happened only at the park, where they just take care of children without any interaction. Regarding to the mediated playing happened only in isolated moments. After analyzing the activities, it has been considered that the teachers conception about playing and the playroom is led mainly by the empiricist idea. To change the situation would be necessary a review of the attitudes, as well to change the educational government policies. / Doutorado / Psicologia Educacional / Doutora em Educação

Orientador: Renê José Trentin Silveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T09:08:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Almeida_EdsondeSouza_M.pdf: 1159868 bytes, checksum: 402e04c8ce4d28f8955c1f8b89e5787d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O presente trabalho se propõe a analisar o papel do ensino de Filosofia na formação dos estudantes para o exercício da cidadania, visto ser este preparo a principal justificativa para a recente reincorporação da disciplina em caráter obrigatório no currículo das escolas de Ensino Médio. Para tanto, optamos por uma abordagem histórica da noção de cidadania, partindo da Antiguidade grega, passando pela Época Moderna, com destaque para as formulações de Hobbes e Locke, e culminando com a análise de como ela se manifesta atualmente nas políticas educacionais brasileiras, sobretudo a partir do final dos anos 1990. Esta análise debruçou-se prioritariamente sobre os seguintes documentos oficiais: a Constituição Federal de 1988; a LDBEN (Lei nº 9394/96), que estabelece as novas bases do que seria uma educação para a cidadania; os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN); as Orientações Educacionais Complementares aos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN+); as Orientações Curriculares Nacionais, entre outros. Procuramos demonstrar que tais políticas não proporcionam aos educandos uma efetiva emancipação, posto que se baseiam em uma concepção individualista da cidadania, a ?cidadania nova?, proposta pelos ideólogos do neoliberalismo e voltada à satisfação dos interesses e necessidades do capital. Em contraposição a essa concepção, tentamos apresentar um outra, baseada nos pressupostos do materialismo histórico dialético, mais precisamente nas contribuições de Antonio Gramsci, a qual denominamos ?cidadania da práxis?. O ensino de Filosofia, a nosso ver, pode favorecer o preparo do jovem para essa cidadania, o qual, dentro do espaço escolar, deve contar com a participação decisiva do professor, que se destaca como um intelectual próximo das massas e, portanto, como potencial mediador de um processo didático-pedagógico contra-hegemônico, constituído a partir de um novo princípio educativo que não dicotomize trabalho intelectual e trabalho manual, possibilitando às classes subalternas a educação de si mesmas na arte de governar, como propôs Gramsci. Para tanto, o aluno deve se constituir como novo sujeito histórico capaz de elaborar uma concepção de mundo crítica, consciente, de ser participante na construção da história do mundo e de guiar-se a si mesmo, sem aceitar de modo passivo e servil aquilo que constituirá e definirá sua própria personalidade. / Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the role of philosophy teaching in the formation of students for citizenship, therefore this is the main justification for the recent reincorporation of this required subject in the curriculum of secondary schools. To this, we opted for a historical approach to the notion of citizenship, from the Greek antiquity, through the Modern Era, with emphasis on the formulations of Hobbes and Locke, and culminating with an analysis of how it manifests itself today in Brazilian educational policies, especially from the late 1990s. This analysis leaned at primarily on the following official documents: the Constitution of 1988, the LDBEN (Law nº. 9394/96) down new foundations for what would be an education for citizenship: the National Curriculum Parameters (PCN); Supplemental Educational Guidelines for National Curriculum Parameters (PCN+); National Curriculum Guidelines, among others. Demonstrate that such policies do not provide to learners an effective emancipation, since it is based on an individualistic conception of citizenship, the "new citizenship", proposed by the ideologists of neoliberalism and focused to satisfying the interests and needs of the capital. In contraposition to this conception, we have tried to show another one, based on the assumptions of historical and dialectical materialism, more precisely in the contributions of Antonio Gramsci, which we call ?praxis of citizenship?. The teaching of philosophy, in our view, can help prepare the young for such citizenship, which, in the school environment should have the decisive role of the teacher who stands out as an intellectual close to the masses and, therefore, as potential mediator of a didactic and pedagogic process counter-hegemonic, composed, from a new educational principle that don't dichotomized intellectual job and manual labor, enabling the lower classes an education by themselves in the art of government, as propose Gramsci. For this, the student should it be a new historical subject able to develop a criticize conception of the world, conscious, to be part in the production of the history of the world and guide itself, without accepting passively and servile what will constitute its personality. / Mestrado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Mestre em Educação

[pt] Esta pesquisa examina o clássico problema do conceito metalinguístico de palavra na história dos estudos sobre a linguagem. Estende-o sobre o pano de fundo da linguística de inspiração wittgensteiniana, sobretudo nas vozes de Roy Harris (1988, 1997, 2002, 2004), Sylvain Auroux (1992), Nigel Love (1989, 2004, 2007), Talbot Taylor (1996, 2000, 2008), dando-lhe uma formulação sob o prisma da filosofia da linguagem de Quine (1960), no contexto da experiência por ele denominada como Tradução Radical. Percorrido esse trajeto, toma por objetivo específico verificar a configuração do problema da palavra em um modelo teórico contemporâneo, a Abordagem Construcionista da Gramática, nos termos de Goldberg (1995, 2006), e, também, nos termos da adoção e expansão dessa hipótese sobre a gramática feita pelo tipologista Croft (1999, 2001). A partir da exploração dos pressupostos teóricos, princípios de análise e metalinguagem assumidos e empregados por esse modelo, discute-se o tipo de reconhecimento que a palavra recebe como categoria e unidade da língua. Será demonstrado que a palavra tem um estatuto ambíguo na Abordagem Construcionista, hesitando entre a subversão e a continuação da tradição. Considerando-se a perspectiva wittgensteiniana da linguagem como forma de vida como critério de seleção de uma teoria que melhor enfrente o clássico embaraço experimentado pelas diferentes, e, por vezes, rivais teorias linguísticas, postula-se que a Abordagem Construcionista, despojada de suas ambições explicativas e mentalistas, é superior às demais teorias linguísticas contemporâneas, por ser aquela que (i) dá a ver a linguagem como práxis, como forma de vida regulada, mas irredutível e volátil, e não como sistema objetivo e fixo de representação; (ii) se atém a descrição das línguas particulares e não aspira à explicação universal da essência da linguagem; (iii) prefere uma análise que parta do todo para as partes, uma análise holística, e não atomística da linguagem; (iv) acomoda a descrição das práticas metalinguísticas específicas das comunidades de fala em exame – práticas que são as responsáveis últimas pela forma gramatical – reunindo assim melhores condições para evitar um indesejável porém historicamente recorrente imperialismo metalinguístico. / [en] This dissertation examines the classical problem of the metalinguistic word concept in the history of language studies. The problem is exposed under the perspective of Wittgenstein’s view of language, taking into consideration the works of Wittgensteinian linguists such as Roy Harris (1988, 1997, 2002, 2004), Sylvain Auroux (1992), Nigel Love (1989, 2004, 2007), Talbot Taylor (1996, 2000, 2008). The problem, then, is formulated in the context of the Radical Translation hypothesis of the analythical Philosopher W. Quine (1960). After that the following aim is set: to investigate the problem of the word as a linguistic and a category unit within the framework of the Cronstructionist Approach to language as proposed by Goldberg (1995, 2006), and extended by the typologyst W. Croft (1999, 2001). After presenting and exploring the theoretical assumptions, analytical principles and metalanguage used in the construcionist program, the recognition of the word as a unit and a category is evaluated within this language theory. It is demonstrated that the word has an ambiguous status in the constructionist approach: it hesitates between having its centrality subverted (replaced by the construction), and keeping the traditional Sausserean form/meaning pairing. Under the guidance of a Wittgensteinian perspective of language as a form of life a set of criteria is posed to indicate the theory which is best equipped to face the classical problem of the word. It is claimed that the Constructionist Approach, relieved from explicative and mentalist ambitions, is superior to the ones with which it contends due to the following reasons: (i) it is the one which best gives evidence of language as praxis, as a governed form of life, which is also irreducible and volatile, rather than a fixed and objective representational system; (ii) it is the one which best privileges description rather than explanation; (iii) it is the one that favors a holistic approach rather than an atomistic approach to language phenomena; (iv) it is the one that best accommodates the description of metalinguistic practices particular to specific speech communities – practices which are ultimately responsible for grammatical form –, being thus able to avoid an undesirable and yet historically recurrent metalinguistic imperialism.

Das Thema Technik spielt bei der frühen Philosophie Heideggers eine entscheidende Rolle, paradigmatisch zu sehen an der Analyse des Zeuggebrauchs in Sein und Zeit und in dem Wek Phänomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles. Man kann sogar von einer impliziten Technikphilosophie in den frühen Vorlesungen von Freiburg und Marburg sprechen. Der rote Faden meiner Arbeit durchläuft die Rekonstruktion der phänomenologisch-hermeneutischen Wurzeln des Technikhermeneutik-Paradigmas. Das Denken Martin Heideggers über die technische Praxis kann im Lichte der frühen hermeneutischen Phänomenologie entziffert werden. Die sog. Ontologisierung der Praxis des frühen Heideggers erlaubt uns die technische Praxis besser zu erklären und zu verstehen. Eine Begründung der Technik muss die Möglichkeitsbedingung technischen Handelns thematisieren. Handeln ist keine Anwendung theoretischen Wissens im Mittel-Zweck-Schema. Es geht um eine pragmatische Wende der Phänomenologie. Die Technik besteht nicht prinzipiell aus Geräten und Artefakten, sondern aus Gebrauch, Praxis und Potential. Das Verhältnis von Mitteln und Zwecken darf nicht verkürzt werden, weil wir das Mittel-Zweck-Schema in einer Bewandtnisganzheit erfahren. Diese heideggersche Betrachtung der technischen Praxis gilt als eine Subversion der traditionellen Handlungstheorie. Die Analyse situativen Handelns und Wissens ermöglicht einen neuen Ansatzpunkt für die Technikphilosophie. Diese phänomenologische Auffassung Heideggers hat Konsequenzen für die begriffliche Rekonstruktion der technischen Praxis und damit für die Technikphilosophie überhaupt.:Einleitung / 6 i. Systematische Bedeutung der Arbeit / 6 ii. Aufbau der Arbeit / 12 iii. Ziel und Motivation der Arbeit / 14 iv. Stand der Forschung zur Technikphilosophie Heideggers / 15 Kapitel I. Rekonstruktion der hermeneutischen Phänomenologie Heideggers / 17 § 1. Der phänomenologische Rahmen des frühen Heidegger / 18 1.1 Von der Logik zum Leben: Dissertation und Habilitation / 18 1.2 Die Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls / 25 1.3 Heideggers frühe Betrachtung über die Zeit / 34 1.4 Erste Lehrveranstaltungen: zur Erfahrung des Umweltlichen / 38 § 2. Hermeneutische Radikalisierung der Phänomenologie / 47 2.1 Die Fundamentalkritik Heideggers an der theoretischen Phänomenologie / 48 2.2 Die Grunderfahrung der bedeutsamen Lebenswelt / 51 2.3 Die urchristliche Religiosität als Modell des faktischen Lebens / 56 § 3. Hermeneutik der Faktizität als Ontologie / 64 3.1 Die hermeneutische Wende der Phänomenologie Heideggers / 65 3.2 Die Überwindung des Subjekt-Objekt-Schemas mit In-der-Welt-sein / 70 Kapitel II. Heideggers Rezeption und Radikalisierung der aristotelischen Philosophie / 75 § 4. Phänomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles / 78 4.1 Aristoteles aus der phänomenologisch-hermeneutische Perspektive / 79 4.2 Analytik aus der hermeneutischen Situation / 85 4.3 Die Verfassung des verrichtenden Umgangs auf ontologischer Ebene / 90 § 5. Die fundamentale Konstitution des Daseins als Πρξις / 99 5.1 Aristoteles und der Zugang zum Leben / 100 5.2 Die φρόνησις als die angemessene Art des ληθεύειν der ζωή / 106 5.2.1 Über den Unterschied zwischen ποίησις und πρξις / 109 5.2.2 Die hierarchische Verschiebung der φρόνησις statt der σοφία / 113 5.3 Die strukturalen 'Homologien' zwischen Nikomachischer Ethik und Sein und Zeit / 118 § 6. Der fundamentale Unterschied zwischen Vorhandenheit und Zuhandenheit / 123 6.1 Der ontologische Primat der Zuhandenheit / 124 6.2 Die drei Transformationen des Zuhandenen / 131 Kapitel III. Technikphilosophie als Technikhermeneutik / 137 § 7. Die frühe Technikphilosophie Martin Heideggers / 139 7.1 Die Grundprobleme der Technikphilosophie / 140 7.2 Die hermeneutische Phänomenologie des technischen Handelns / 143 7.3 Heideggers Weltlichkeitsanalyse als Überwindung des Mittel-Zweck-Schemas / 146 § 8. Die grundlegenden Aspekte einer Technikhermeneutik / 152 8.1 Der konstitutive Situations-Bezug der technischen Praxis / 153 8.2 Die Tragweite des impliziten Wissens für die Technikphilosophie / 157 8.3 Die hermeneutische Aufgabe der Technikphilosophie / 161 Fazit und Ausblick / 166 Literaturverzeichnis / 171

no abstract available / Practical Theology / (M.Th.(Pastoral Therapy)

This practice-led thesis explores ways in which to integrate art and material culture studies as a manifestation of philosophy’s process thread. In doing so, its goal is to generate a praxis which is able to come to holistic terms with the fragmenting dualism of subject-object binaries. By seizing my own subjectivity in its representation of this problem, the thesis develops a performance-led practice which seeks to overcome the barriers that its divisive ‘I’ presents to process. This interdisciplinary project is an explicit response to the figure of Friedrich Nietzsche; his bearing helps to constitute its methodology and repertoire as his presence is creatively teased from the pages of his own books. Part One of the thesis discusses how the mimetic aims of artistic representation were harnessed to challenge my own subjectivity’s singular sense of authority. Thereafter, Nietzsche’s pre-modern temperament comes to enable a holistic consideration of the perceptual ambiguity within Jacques Lacan’s geometric model of ‘seeing things’. Part Two engages with representation as a method of making difference for the bridging of subject-object divisions. This occurs as subjective experience and is extended to some inorganic others, producing creative outcomes which aim to access a cosmological principle of affect that is identified with Nietzsche’s thesis of will to power. The third part of this thesis aligns the research aim, of making apparent the oneness of the cosmos, with the shamanic dimensions of some vintage slapstick cinema. In its development, it comes to terms with the subjective gaze and identifies process-led strategies for challenging and changing its outlooks. This provides a background for Part Four, which marks the beginning of my attempts to engage the gaze of other people in processes that procure and ideally affect their perspectives. While the first four parts of the thesis demonstrate the progress of the research project through the deployment of art and its affecting capacities, its final two parts put the work of philosophy into aesthetic effects, and represent artworks that constitute elements of the thesis itself. Part Five evidences my art practice re-engaging with the world through a project which holistically involves the outlooks of subjects, whilst nevertheless challenging their perceptual precepts. Part Six discusses a performative experiment that consolidates and tests the research findings in a potentially affective structure, expressed through Laurence Halprin’s RSVP cycle. Finally, as it reflects on the potential healing capacities of my practical research and the possibilities for ‘doing’ philosophy, the thesis details how an art-making that embraces both visual and material cultures through the eventness of performance might be able to overcome the problematic perceptual divides that limit the progress of process logics.

Principals and vice-principals occupy a vital role in our public schools. They hold politically and organizationally powerful positions to influence change and support educational reform. Riehl (2000) points out that one’s practice of leadership is influenced by one’s identity, thus knowing who administrators are is significant. Although understanding who our formal administrators are is still an emerging area of scholarly inquiry, most of the educational literature focuses on administrators from the mainstream, dominant culture. Little attention has been given to who our visible minority principals and vice-principals are, especially within in a Canadian and British Columbia context. This study explores how the life histories and life experiences of visible minority principals and vice-principals of BC who are immigrants and children of immigrants have created their identities. In particular, how have their experiences as “other” influenced their praxis as formal school leaders? Using a life history methodological approach, data were gathered through semi-structured in-depth interviews. Six themes and three sub-themes emerged from the interviews that highlight participant life experiences, meaning and learning about their identity and praxis as leaders. Participants linked their present views, beliefs, and approaches to leadership with events and personal experiences from their past. Participants’ enactment of school leadership was informed by their experiences trying to fit in with mainstream culture; identity issues and cultural identity development; connecting with minority students and families; needing to promote diversity; being mentored and now being mentors; and influencing change. Therefore, a connection was made by the research participants between who they are as leaders and how their experiences have influenced them. / Graduate / 0514 / shailoo@uvic.ca

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