Dissertation (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2009. / Directed by Hephzibah Roskelly; submitted to the Dept. of English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 13, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212).

Work in the six chapters first formulates thesis of the need to address the problem of loss of quality of teaching of the Catholic religion. This is then given to the second chapter, which carefully considers its history. After a brief third chapter which collectively will talk about alternative education speak collectively alternative education is included in this current analytical processing analysis Montessori and Waldorf education. It analysis processes the history of the founders of both pedagogies and the relation to the didactic triangle educator - curriculum - student. The sixth chapter is a synthesis of findings and draw conclusions about the relationship of spirituality to Christianity and usability of teaching methods. Keywords Christianity, education, Montessori, Waldorf, teacher, student

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A ética do brincar está sujeita à criação e à desconstrução, engendra-se por ser uma máquina política e uma prática de ensinar experimental (segundo as questões da vida contemporânea). Opera com a pedagogia na educação e com a pedagogia na saúde, produzindo outra pedagogia, com articulação contemporânea vívida. Flerta (e tira partido) da filosofia, das artes, da pedagogia, e cria métodos pra educação e pra saúde. Produz entrecomposição com ações de ensino, pesquisa e extensão na universidade, em que a Ética coloca movimentação, pondo coletivos a brincar. Trata-se do contemporâneo como desafio na educação superior, num cenário nacional e internacional, para promover outra perspectiva de docência e formação de profissionais de saúde na universidade. Compromete-se com uma política de educação para todos e para cada um, desde a aprendizagem na deficiência, no autismo, na saúde mental, como na não deficiência. Afirma a pedagogia como ciência da multiplicidade, da entrecomposição. O texto funciona por sua escritura, com entoados, argumentos e procedimentos, ao modo filosófico e artístico, e funciona por uma entrecomposição engenhosa, articulada, simétrica e complementar das partes da Tese: pathos; efeitos poiéticos; criação; riso; espaço de habitação; escrita; curandeira; arteira; geringonça; relicário; acúmulo; lúdica; descabimento; experimentação; deambulação; desconstrução; composição; som; presença; jardim; cuidado; condução; intuição; máquina política; máquina experimental; ética experimental. Perspectiva axiológica. O método foi o do relicário, ensaio com os guardados de escola, de unidades de saúde, de contato com o fazer em educação e em saúde mental. / The ethics of playing is subject to the creation and deconstruction, is engendered by to be-being a political machine and experimental ethical (issues of contemporary life). It operates with pedagogy in education and pedagogy in health, producing another pedagogy, with vivid contemporary articulation. Quibble with (and takes advantage of) philosophy , with art, with pedagogies and creates methods for education and health. Produces amongst-composition in teaching activities, research and extension at university where the Ethics starts movimentation, putting collectives to play. It is about the contemporary higher education, a national and international scene, providing another perspective of teaching and training health professionals at the University. It is committed to an education policy for all and for each one, from the learning disability, in autism, mental health, and in no impairment. Claims pedagogy as science of multiplicity into amongst-composition. The text works by its writing, with intoned, arguments and procedures, philosophical and artistic way, and works for an ingenious amongst-composition, articulated, symmetrical and complementary to parts of the thesis: pathos; "poiétical" effects; creation; laughter; living space; writing; healer; naughty; contraption; shrine; accumulation; ludic; misplaced; experimentation; ambulation; deconstruction; composition; sound; presence; garden; caution; conduction; intuition; political machine; experimental machine; experimental ethics. Axiological perspective. The method was the relicary, assay with things found and saved from schools, health units, contact with the making in education and mental health.

A ética do brincar está sujeita à criação e à desconstrução, engendra-se por ser uma máquina política e uma prática de ensinar experimental (segundo as questões da vida contemporânea). Opera com a pedagogia na educação e com a pedagogia na saúde, produzindo outra pedagogia, com articulação contemporânea vívida. Flerta (e tira partido) da filosofia, das artes, da pedagogia, e cria métodos pra educação e pra saúde. Produz entrecomposição com ações de ensino, pesquisa e extensão na universidade, em que a Ética coloca movimentação, pondo coletivos a brincar. Trata-se do contemporâneo como desafio na educação superior, num cenário nacional e internacional, para promover outra perspectiva de docência e formação de profissionais de saúde na universidade. Compromete-se com uma política de educação para todos e para cada um, desde a aprendizagem na deficiência, no autismo, na saúde mental, como na não deficiência. Afirma a pedagogia como ciência da multiplicidade, da entrecomposição. O texto funciona por sua escritura, com entoados, argumentos e procedimentos, ao modo filosófico e artístico, e funciona por uma entrecomposição engenhosa, articulada, simétrica e complementar das partes da Tese: pathos; efeitos poiéticos; criação; riso; espaço de habitação; escrita; curandeira; arteira; geringonça; relicário; acúmulo; lúdica; descabimento; experimentação; deambulação; desconstrução; composição; som; presença; jardim; cuidado; condução; intuição; máquina política; máquina experimental; ética experimental. Perspectiva axiológica. O método foi o do relicário, ensaio com os guardados de escola, de unidades de saúde, de contato com o fazer em educação e em saúde mental. / The ethics of playing is subject to the creation and deconstruction, is engendered by to be-being a political machine and experimental ethical (issues of contemporary life). It operates with pedagogy in education and pedagogy in health, producing another pedagogy, with vivid contemporary articulation. Quibble with (and takes advantage of) philosophy , with art, with pedagogies and creates methods for education and health. Produces amongst-composition in teaching activities, research and extension at university where the Ethics starts movimentation, putting collectives to play. It is about the contemporary higher education, a national and international scene, providing another perspective of teaching and training health professionals at the University. It is committed to an education policy for all and for each one, from the learning disability, in autism, mental health, and in no impairment. Claims pedagogy as science of multiplicity into amongst-composition. The text works by its writing, with intoned, arguments and procedures, philosophical and artistic way, and works for an ingenious amongst-composition, articulated, symmetrical and complementary to parts of the thesis: pathos; "poiétical" effects; creation; laughter; living space; writing; healer; naughty; contraption; shrine; accumulation; ludic; misplaced; experimentation; ambulation; deconstruction; composition; sound; presence; garden; caution; conduction; intuition; political machine; experimental machine; experimental ethics. Axiological perspective. The method was the relicary, assay with things found and saved from schools, health units, contact with the making in education and mental health.

A ética do brincar está sujeita à criação e à desconstrução, engendra-se por ser uma máquina política e uma prática de ensinar experimental (segundo as questões da vida contemporânea). Opera com a pedagogia na educação e com a pedagogia na saúde, produzindo outra pedagogia, com articulação contemporânea vívida. Flerta (e tira partido) da filosofia, das artes, da pedagogia, e cria métodos pra educação e pra saúde. Produz entrecomposição com ações de ensino, pesquisa e extensão na universidade, em que a Ética coloca movimentação, pondo coletivos a brincar. Trata-se do contemporâneo como desafio na educação superior, num cenário nacional e internacional, para promover outra perspectiva de docência e formação de profissionais de saúde na universidade. Compromete-se com uma política de educação para todos e para cada um, desde a aprendizagem na deficiência, no autismo, na saúde mental, como na não deficiência. Afirma a pedagogia como ciência da multiplicidade, da entrecomposição. O texto funciona por sua escritura, com entoados, argumentos e procedimentos, ao modo filosófico e artístico, e funciona por uma entrecomposição engenhosa, articulada, simétrica e complementar das partes da Tese: pathos; efeitos poiéticos; criação; riso; espaço de habitação; escrita; curandeira; arteira; geringonça; relicário; acúmulo; lúdica; descabimento; experimentação; deambulação; desconstrução; composição; som; presença; jardim; cuidado; condução; intuição; máquina política; máquina experimental; ética experimental. Perspectiva axiológica. O método foi o do relicário, ensaio com os guardados de escola, de unidades de saúde, de contato com o fazer em educação e em saúde mental. / The ethics of playing is subject to the creation and deconstruction, is engendered by to be-being a political machine and experimental ethical (issues of contemporary life). It operates with pedagogy in education and pedagogy in health, producing another pedagogy, with vivid contemporary articulation. Quibble with (and takes advantage of) philosophy , with art, with pedagogies and creates methods for education and health. Produces amongst-composition in teaching activities, research and extension at university where the Ethics starts movimentation, putting collectives to play. It is about the contemporary higher education, a national and international scene, providing another perspective of teaching and training health professionals at the University. It is committed to an education policy for all and for each one, from the learning disability, in autism, mental health, and in no impairment. Claims pedagogy as science of multiplicity into amongst-composition. The text works by its writing, with intoned, arguments and procedures, philosophical and artistic way, and works for an ingenious amongst-composition, articulated, symmetrical and complementary to parts of the thesis: pathos; "poiétical" effects; creation; laughter; living space; writing; healer; naughty; contraption; shrine; accumulation; ludic; misplaced; experimentation; ambulation; deconstruction; composition; sound; presence; garden; caution; conduction; intuition; political machine; experimental machine; experimental ethics. Axiological perspective. The method was the relicary, assay with things found and saved from schools, health units, contact with the making in education and mental health.

La presente ricerca è volta a collegare l'ambito artistico all'educazione degli adulti. Primo obbiettivo della ricerca è stato riconoscere le peculiarità dell'apprendimento adulto per potere individuare quali tra esse fossero da considerare irrinunciabili in una pedagogia per il patrimonio artistico. Il primo capitolo è dedicato a ripercorrere la letteratura critica relativa al tema dell'apprendimento degli adulti nei musei per mettere in luce: 1) le caratteristiche dell'apprendimento adulto che devono essere considerate nel progettare attività rivolte a questo tipo di pubblico. 2) le teorie pedagogiche maggiormente diffuse in ambito museale americano e che influenzano le esperienze europee. Il secondo capitolo nasce come continuazione del primo e tenta di offrire un'alternativa al modello costruttivista di museo, portando all'attenzione il concetto di persona derivante dalla posizione filosofica realista. Il terzo capitolo si divide in due parti: la prima rende conto della fase di osservazione condotta presso il Solomon Guggenheim Museum, il Metropolitani Museum of Art e il Museum of Modern Art di New York. Presso tali istituzioni museali ho individuato un'attività che per la metodologia adottata ha costituito il modello di riferimento per la fase applicativa della ricerca condotta presso il Museo dell'Ottocento di Milano e descritta nella seconda parte del capitolo. I risultati della sperimentazione hanno confermato la validità di tale metodologia e hanno aperto il campo a nuove riflessioni. / The aim of this research is to make a connection between art and lifelong learning. The first goal of the study was to underline the specific features of adult's learning to identify which should be considered as crucial in the artistic heritage pedagogy. The second goal was to study an approach to the artwork that fitted the requirements of adult's learning. The first chapter is dedicated to consider: 1. the essential characteristics of adult's learning to be considered in the process of planning activities and 2. the most widespread pedagogic theories in American museums, and how they influence European works. The second chapter tries to describe an alternative to the constructivistic model of the museum, focusing on the concept of person that arise from the realistic philosophy. The third chapter is formed by two parts: in the first it is described a period of participant observation at the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art of New York. During that period, I identified an activity that formed the methodological basis for the practical activity I realized at the Museo dell'Ottocento of Milan. This activity is described in the second part of the chapter. The results of the groundwork confirmed the high quality of the methodology and encourage further studies.

In the eighties of the twentieth century society returns to narrative, which is known as "narrative turn". In connection to that started to develop the so-called interdisciplinary narratology in the nineties, from which as a subdiscipline is based a new field econaratology. The theoretical part of the thesis shows where the field has its roots in the context of literary theory of narrative and environmental education. Econaratology is a field that examines the potential of stories for the development and realization of environmental education's topics. It uses stories through which it develops environmental sensitivity, meets the objectives of environmental education and develops inner motivation of students to take care of the nature. The practical part of the thesis introduces the specific use of econaratology in practice. In a qualitative study were used semistructured interviews with the persons of selected environmental education centers and selected forest pedagogues. The aim of the research was to understand the question of how the selected centers do work with the narrative method. Keywords: environmental education, econaratology, environmental education centre, forest pedagogy, narrative theory, story, narration

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Fostering students’ creativity in school subjects has recently become a central focus of educational researchers, educators, and educational policymakers around the world. In Kuwait, educational researchers and teacher educators have supported the need to foster students’ creativity via a national curriculum. Yet, the Ministry of Education has conducted few studies to explore practitioners’ perspectives on how to foster creativity through the current curriculum. The overall aims of this study were to explore science teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and practices in fostering creativity in science classrooms as well as to investigate the influences of sociocultural factors on teachers’ beliefs and practices in fostering creativity. The study also examined the consistency and inconsistency levels between teachers’ beliefs and practices. The study has a qualitative nature that stands on an interpretive worldview. The methodology uses eight case studies, each of which consisted of a male science teacher and one of his classes. Multiple methods were used, including semi-structured interviews (pre- and post-observational interviews), student focus groups, unstructured observations, participants’ drawings, and field notes. The analysis was based on thematic analysis model proposed by Braun and Clarke (2006). Thematic findings and case studies findings were drawn from the analysis of the data collected. In general, the thematic findings indicated that science teachers are able to define the meaning of creativity and its main aspects. Professed pedagogical beliefs enforce four teaching approaches to foster creativity in the science classroom: the teaching of thinking skills, inquiry-based learning, cooperative learning, and practical investigation (experimentation). The teachers believe that these approaches could promote students’ creativity in science classroom when specific sociocultural factors facilitate the effectiveness of such approaches in terms of fostering creativity. Three interdependent categories represent these facilitating factors: (1) educational setting-related factors, (2) teacher-related factors, and (3) student-related factors. Differences and similarities appeared when these professed beliefs were compared to the applied classroom practices. The thematic analysis revealed several themes underlying the main categories. Extensive teacher-centred practices and modest student-centred practices were evident; more specifically, the observations revealed primarily teacher-centred approach inside the science classes. Meanwhile, student-centred approaches were modestly applied in comparison to teacher-centred activities. The teachers justified their practices in accordance with the sociocultural factors that mediate their beliefs and practices as well as the role of their goal orientation. The science teachers perceived the mediating factors as constraints that prevent them from applying their beliefs about fostering creativity in classroom practices. Multiple constraining factors emerged, and they were categorised into personal, external, and interpersonal constraints. Concerning the case study findings, consistencies and inconsistencies were identified using a cut-off point as an analytic technique to classify teachers’ beliefs and practices into traditional (non-creativity fostering), mixed, or progressive (creativity fostering). The case study findings identified four consistency and inconsistency levels characterizing teachers’ beliefs and practices: traditional (consistent level), mainly traditional (inconsistent level), mixed (consistent level), and mainly progressive (inconsistent level). Each level was represented by an exemplary case study. The exemplary case studies revealed that sociocultural contexts influence teacher’s belief-practice relationship with respect to fostering students’ creativity in science classroom. Further, the thematic and case study findings were discussed in relation to the existing body of knowledge, followed by an illustration of significant conclusions, including some implications, contributions, limitations, and future suggestions.