Although successful integration of technology into classrooms has proven beneficial to the learning process, little is yet known about how teachers respond to the introduction of technology and why some choose to use it while others do not. Using Sandoltz' stages of teacher technology adoption as a framework, this multiple case study utilized historical data that captured the experiences of teachers in 2001--2002 to determine the process of teachers' adoption of innovations into existing classroom practices. Participants included a purposive sample of eight 5th- and 6th-grade teachers from 3 schools. Data sources included teacher interviews, classroom observations, and video recordings of classroom practices for each teacher. Analysis included deconstruction by research question to identify patterns and emerging themes. The findings in this study showed that the voluntary nature of participation in technology integration activities contributed to students' success. It also indicated that teachers who received on-going grant support had greater success integrating technology into instructional practices. This study contributes to positive change by providing a tool that can be used by policy makers and staff developers to better improve the adoption of current and future technological innovations where resistance may occur.

Thesis (M.A. (English Language and Linguistics))--Rhodes University, 2006.

CUNHA, Elizangela Vale. Programa Mais Educação: avaliação do processo de implementação na Escola Municipal Casimiro Montenegro. 2013. 99f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Avaliação de Políticas Públicas, Fortaleza (CE), 2013. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-01-10T13:41:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-EVCUNHA.pdf: 1084651 bytes, checksum: 09a8a3a1e512fd87f61564f76a941d16 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-01-10T15:54:53Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-EVCUNHA.pdf: 1084651 bytes, checksum: 09a8a3a1e512fd87f61564f76a941d16 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-01-10T15:54:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-EVCUNHA.pdf: 1084651 bytes, checksum: 09a8a3a1e512fd87f61564f76a941d16 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / The object of study in this research is the More Education Program, a public policy of comprehensive education through expansion of the times and places of learning established by the Ministry of Education (MEC). The study aims at evaluating the implementation process of the program, through the research study in a public school in Fortaleza - CE, therefore chosen as the locus Municipal School Casimiro Montenegro. We study different concepts and practices of holistic education, found in authors such as: Teixeira (1962), Paulo Freire (1968), Guara (2006), Cavaliere (2000), among others which motivated the research. We reflect on the concepts of comprehensive education present in subjects involved and analyze the school routine and the repercussion of More Education Program in the local community, and also relate to the intersectionality. The study assumes that the school alone can not fully develop their students. It is an evaluative study with a qualitative approach, which sought to include the voice of many subjects through interviews and focus groups, which were instrumental in data collection. It enabled to perceive the actions of the Program for the building of an intersectoral practice. / A presente pesquisa tem no objeto de estudo o Programa Mais Educação, política pública de educação integral, através da ampliação dos tempos e espaços de aprendizagem, instituída pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC). O estudo tem como objetivo principal avaliar o processo de implementação do programa, através do estudo de investigação em uma escola pública do município de Fortaleza – CE. Para tanto escolhemos como lócus a Escola Municipal Casimiro Montenegro. Estudamos diferentes concepções e práticas de educação integral, encontrado em autores como: Anísio Teixeira (1962), Paulo Freire (1968), Guará (2006), Cavaliere (2000), dentre outros que fundamentaram a investigação. Refletimos sobre as concepções de educação integral presentes nos sujeitos envolvidos e analisamos o cotidiano escolar e as repercussões decorrentes do Programa Mais Educação na comunidade local, e relacionamos, ainda, com a intersetorialidade. O estudo parte do pressuposto de que a escola sozinha não é capaz de desenvolver integralmente seus alunos. Trata-se de uma pesquisa avaliativa, com abordagem qualitativa, que buscou contemplar a voz dos diversos sujeitos por meio de entrevistas e grupos focais, que foram determinantes para a coleta de dados. Possibilitou perceber as ações do Programa para a construção de uma prática intersetorial.

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Since the school subject Swedish as a second language was established in the Swedish school system in the mid-1990s, the organization of the subject has varied widely across schools, and the outcomes have been poor. This thesis investigates these problems linguistically. The main objective is to explore the school subject Swedish as a second language in relation to the language of students taking the subject. Another aim of this thesis is to illuminate the complex relation between the Swedish language and the use and conception of Swedish as a second language. A critique of the concept of ‘language’ and of language attitudes in the school context is a recurring theme in the thesis. The thesis contains four papers addressing different aspects of the school subject Swedish as a second language. Paper I examines texts and oral presentations from a group of students born in Sweden, analyzing their language from a normative, mainly grammatical, perspective. Paper II develops a model for analyzing text as activity. In Paper III, the model from paper II is applied to analyze students’ narrative texts written as responses to an assignment, focusing on texts that received failing grades. Papers I and III include comparisons with Swedish as a language and as a school subject. Paper IV, finally, analyzes views of language in policy documents. One critical result of the thesis is the identification of a need for a raised awareness about language in schools and society. In the current situation it is hard to establish a discrete boundary dividing the language of students in the subject Swedish as a second language from the language of students in the subject Swedish, but differences can be observed, which in some sense resonates well with the definition of the subject given by the policy documents. Swedish as a second language in schools can be vaguely defined as Swedish with non-Swedish or foreign markers. The vague definition of the subject and the many linguistic conditions built into the subject entail that Swedish as a second language does not seem well-suited for anyone. Employing a combination of a traditional and an alternative view of language, as proposed in this thesis, may be a fruitful way to accommodate all students.

A escola de tempo integral tem feito parte de discursos políticos, documentos e metas educacionais do país como uma possível (e promissora) proposta para o alcance de uma educação de qualidade. Considerando isso, este trabalho teve por objetivo analisar o Projeto Escola de Tempo Integral, criado pela Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo em 2005. Este Projeto incentivou a participação de escolas de tempo parcial da rede estadual de ensino que tivessem salas de aula em número suficiente para atendimento em período integral, além do interesse da comunidade escolar em aderir à iniciativa. Neste modelo, crianças e adolescentes do 1º ao 9º ano do ensino fundamental teriam a possibilidade de realizar atividades em período integral dentro da própria escola, cuja Matriz Curricular era composta por aulas comuns às escolas de tempo parcial e por oficinas, de diversas áreas temáticas, na Parte Diversificada do currículo. Tendo este Projeto como norteador, essa pesquisa buscou aprofundar questões referentes ao ensino fundamental em tempo integral e ao direito à educação de qualidade por meio de pesquisas documental e bibliográfica, com consulta e análise de documentos oficiais, bem como com a realização de pesquisa de campo, para conhecimento da dinâmica deste Projeto numa escola da rede estadual de São Paulo. Foram realizadas entrevistas com crianças, pais/responsáveis, professores, gestores e responsáveis pelo Projeto em nível central. Verificou-se que a escola pesquisada não passou por nenhuma reestruturação para o atendimento de crianças em período integral, não recebeu recursos financeiros diferenciados e as orientações para implementação do Projeto foram insuficientes, influenciando, negativamente, o clima escolar e o trabalho pedagógico. A participação da comunidade foi, praticamente, inexistente e a única prioridade pedagógica explícita, os resultados a serem alcançados nas provas do SARESP, visando atingir a meta do indicador de avaliação estadual de desempenho escolar dos alunos o IDESP. / The term full-time school has been part of political speeches, documents and educational goals in Brazil as a possible (and promising) proposal to achieve quality education. Taking this into consideration, this thesis had the purpose of analyzing the Full-Time School Project, devised by the Sao Paulo State Education Department in 2005. Such Project encouraged the participation of part-time schools from the state system which had sufficient classrooms to operate in full-time scheme, in addition to the interest of the school community in taking on the initiative. According to this model, children and teenagers from 1st through 9th grade of elementary/middle school would have the possibility of performing activities full time within the school, whose curriculum matrix consisted of the same classes taught in the part-time schools and workshops, from several subject areas, in the diversified portion of the curriculum. Taking this Project as a guiding element, my research sought to take an in-depth look into the issues concerning full-time elementary/middle school and the right to a quality education through documental and bibliographical review, consulting and analyzing official documents, as well as a field research, in order to get to know the dynamics of this Project in a school of the Sao Paulo state education system. Interviews were conducted with children, parents/guardians, teachers, managers and the officers in the charge of Project on the central level. I have found that the school being researched did not go through any restructuring process in order to serve the children in a full-time routine, did not get extra financial funds and guidance to implement the Project were insufficient. This adversely affected the school ambience and the pedagogical work. The involvement of the community was virtually non-existent and the only explicit pedagogical priority was the results that should be achieved in the SARESP (institutional assessment) tests, whose goal was to reach the score of state assessment of the students´ academic achievement IDESP.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-05-07T12:59:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Valter de Almeida Costa.pdf: 932928 bytes, checksum: de08ad24cd2ef7cc9110edc03721c066 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-07T12:59:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valter de Almeida Costa.pdf: 932928 bytes, checksum: de08ad24cd2ef7cc9110edc03721c066 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study examined, in the curricular reorganization process promoted by the Municipal Secretary of Education of São Paulo, which instituted the Authorial Cycle as the final stage of Primary Education, the aspects related to the Collaborative Study of Authorship, the C.S.A., which was developed by students of this cycle, under the guidance of their teachers. The general objective was to analyze the process of implanting these Collaborative Studies of Authorship by identifying their difficulties and achievements in the schools observed. The specific objectives of the study constitute an analysis of how this project, in these schools, addressed or not more political themes, from the perspective of social criticism, in the context of an era in which there is increasing pressure for the progressive depoliticization of the curriculum / Essa pesquisa analisou dentro do processo de reorganização curricular promovido pela Secretaria Municipal de Educação de São Paulo, que instituiu o Ciclo Autoral como etapa final do Ensino Fundamental, os aspectos relacionados ao Trabalho Colaborativo de Autoria, o T.C.A. que passou a ser desenvolvido por alunos desse ciclo, sob a orientação de seus educadores. Possui, então, como objetivo geral a análise do processo de implantação desses Trabalhos Colaborativos de Autoria identificando suas dificuldades e conquistas nas escolas pesquisadas. Constituíram seus objetivos específicos, a análise de como esse projeto abordou ou não temas mais políticos nessas escolas, em uma perspectiva de crítica social, no contexto de uma época em que cresce a pressão pela progressiva despolitização do currículo

Esta tese teve por objetivo geral analisar a implicação profissional com os apoiadores de humanização e os articuladores de Educação Permanente em Saúde (EPS) dos municípios do Departamento Regional de Saúde (DRS) de Araraquara/São Paulo. Trata-se de uma pesquisa-intervenção Socioclínica, de abordagem qualitativa, realizada com os apoiadores de humanização e os articuladores de EPS dos 24 municípios que compõem o DRS em questão. Foram realizadas entrevistas individuais com 07 sujeitos que desenvolviam ambas as funções em seus municípios e 12 entrevistas grupais, sendo 11 compostas pelo apoiador e articulador e 01 composta por um grupo de 06 apoiadores do município. Portanto, 35 apoiadores e articuladores participaram da pesquisa-intervenção em questão. Foram também utilizados enquanto dispositivos analíticos para a produção dos dados desta pesquisa-intervenção: dez encontros mensais com os apoiadores e articuladores; sete encontros de planejamento e análise e o diário de pesquisa. As entrevistas e os encontros com os apoiadores e articuladores foram transcritos e as apreensões feitas nos encontros de planejamento e análise foram redigidos no diário de pesquisa. Todo esse material, bem como outras anotações feitas em diário, foi analisado a partir dos princípios da Socioclínica Institucional, sendo que um deles corresponde aos momentos de restituição, possibilitando um aprofundamento coletivo das análises realizadas. Os resultados foram apresentados a partir das dimensões libidinal, ideológica e organizacional que compõem a implicação profissional. Dessa forma, identificamos e analisamos com os apoiadores e articuladores os atravessamentos que a profissão inicial (enfermeiro, dentista, psicólogo, etc.) exerce sobre o fazer apoio; a contradição em se pensar em um perfil pronto para o desenvolvimento dessa função; os sentimentos de desânimo, pessimismo e otimismo enquanto componentes da dimensão ideológica que também atravessam o fazer apoio e a articulação de EPS; o tempo, o modo de fazer a gestão e o poder político enquanto analisadores da dimensão organizacional dos apoiadores e dos articuladores; e a ausência/presença do desejo, a vontade de agradar os profissionais de saúde, desenvolvendo uma relação harmônica no trabalho enquanto pistas analisáveis da dimensão libidinal dos apoiadores e dos articuladores. Na medida que o trabalho de análise com os apoiadores e articuladores prosseguiu, mudanças nos modos de se pensar e fazer apoio às equipes de saúde e também o pensar sobre o trabalho de apoiar e articular a EPS foi se modificando, fazendo com que esses profissionais entrassem, eles mesmos, em processos de EPS, refletindo e interrogando o próprio trabalho. O pesquisador ao realizar a análise de implicação também se colocou em processo de interrogação de sua prática, experienciando também a EPS em ato. Concluímos que a análise de implicação profissional consiste em um potente dispositivo disparador de processos de EPS / This thesis had as general objective to analyze the professional implication with the humanization supporters and the articulators of Permanent Health Education (PHE) of the municipalities of the Regional Department of Health (RDH) of Araraquara/São Paulo. It is a Socioclinic intervention research, with a qualitative approach, carried out with the humanization supporters and the articulators of PHE of the 24 municipalities that compose the mentioned RDH. Individual interviews were carried out with 07 participants who performed both functions in their municipalities and 12 group interviews, of which 11 were composed of the supporter and articulator and 01 were composed of a group of 06 supporters of the municipality. Therefore, 35 supporters and articulators participated in the intervention research in question. They were also used as analytical devices for the production of the data of this intervention research: ten monthly meetings with the supporters and articulators; seven planning and analysis meetings and the research diary. The interviews and meetings with the supporters and articulators were transcribed and the apprehensions made in the planning and analysis meetings were written in the research diary. All this material, as well as other diary entries, were analyzed based on the principles of Socioclinic Institutional, one of which corresponds to the moments of restitution, allowing a collective deepening of the analyzes carried out. The results were presented from the libidinal, ideological and organizational dimensions that make up the professional implication. In this way, we identify and analyze with the supporters and articulators the crossings that the initial profession (nurse, dentist, psychologist, etc.) exercises on making support; the contradiction in thinking of a ready profile for the development of this function; the feelings of discouragement, pessimism and optimism as components of the ideological dimension that also cross the support and articulation of PHE; time, management and political power as analysts of the organizational dimension of supporters and articulators; and the absence/presence of desire, the willingness to please health professionals, developing a harmonious relationship at work as analysable clues to the libidinal dimension of supporters and articulators. As the work of analysis with the supporters and articulators continued, changes in ways of thinking and supporting health teams and also thinking about the work of supporting and articulating the PHE was changing, causing these professionals to enter, themselves, in processes of PHE, reflecting and questioning the work itself. The researcher, when performing the implication analysis, also put himself in the process of interrogating his practice, also experiencing PHE in action. We conclude that the professional implication analysis consists of a powerful device triggering PHE processes

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-11-10T17:17:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ELIANE PEREIRA DOS SANTOS CASTRO.pdf: 1480175 bytes, checksum: c862666fe1213a1b4c5a22c3c726f4c0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-10T17:17:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ELIANE PEREIRA DOS SANTOS CASTRO.pdf: 1480175 bytes, checksum: c862666fe1213a1b4c5a22c3c726f4c0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-31 / The present dissertation aims to study the policy of continuing education in the state of Tocantins for high school teachers in the period between 2011 to 2015. It also analyzed how the subjects of the research, who participate or participated in continuing education, perceive training in their professional performance. Continuing education is an important aspect of education, inserted in the pedagogical and administrative dimensions. Pedagogical, because we understand that continuing education is a process of continuous teaching and learning. It means a relationship in which the teachers are in the permanent condition of apprentices and the school as locus for the socialization of the knowledge hitherto produced. Administrative, because it is only effective through recognition of the need for such training for quality education. Understanding this need as a right to quality education, continuing education must be standardized and operationalized by the State, even if society has contributed to its planning. How is the Continuing Education Policy of High School Teachers in the state of Tocantins and what are the consequences of this policy in the appreciation of the teacher? The reflections were theoretically provided in official documents and researchers such as Brzezinski (2017), Frigotto; Ciavatta; Ramos (2005), Gatti (2008), Gentili (2001), Gil (2002), Gramsci (2006), Gruppi (1996), Ianni (1996), Konder (2002), Kuenzer (2002), Marx; Engels (2007) and Mesquita (2014), among others. The methodological path employed is anchored in dialectical historical materialism, so the study was carried out in qualitative and quantitative methodological research. The following procedures were defined: analysis of official documents, legislation, theoretical reference and questionnaires applied to the subjects of the research, which totaled 65 (sixty-five). These subjects work in 5 (five) municipalities of Tocantins, they are: Ananás, Araguanã, Babaçulândia, Barra do Ouro and Wanderlândia. It is observed in the teachers' statements that one of the characteristics that they find important in the continuous formations is the exchange of experiences and suggestions, reflecting on the contributions of the learning process experienced by each one. The data evidences the need for a renewal in the elaboration of the public policies of continuing education of teachers, especially of the High School, who need a better attention. The state of Tocantins is still focused on a process of formation for secondary education linked to the actions of the federal government. Professional appraisal policies also require an investment in a public tender for teachers, so that professionals can access the achievements of the Tocantins State's Position, Careers and Compensation Plan (PCCR), which until now is serving only to effective teachers, which in this research correspond to 31% of the subjects interviewed. / A presente dissertação tem por objetivo estudar a política de formação continuada no estado do Tocantins para os professores do Ensino Médio, no período compreendido entre os anos 2011 a 2015. Também analisou como os sujeitos da pesquisa, que participam ou participaram de formação continuada, percebem essa formação na sua atuação profissional. A formação continuada se constitui em um importante aspecto da educação, inserida nas dimensões pedagógica e administrativa. Pedagógica, porque entendemos que a formação continuada é um processo de ensino e aprendizagem contínuo. Significa uma relação em que os docentes estão na permanente condição de aprendizes e a escola como lócus para a socialização do conhecimento até então produzido. Administrativa, porque ela só se efetiva por meio de um reconhecimento da necessidade dessa formação para uma educação de qualidade. Compreendendo essa necessidade enquanto direito à educação de qualidade, a formação continuada deve ser normatizada e operacionalizada pelo Estado, mesmo que a sociedade tenha contribuído para a sua planificação. Como se dá a Política de Formação Continuada dos Professores do Ensino Médio no estado do Tocantins e quais os desdobramentos dessa política na valorização do professor? As reflexões realizadas foram aportadas, teoricamente, em documentos oficiais e pesquisadores como Brzezinski (2017), Frigotto; Ciavatta; Ramos (2005), Gatti (2008), Gentili (2001), Gil (2002), Gramsci (2006), Gruppi (1996), Ianni (1996), Konder (2002), Kuenzer (2002), Marx; Engels (2007) e Mesquita (2014), dentre outros. O caminho metodológico empregado se ancora no materialismo histórico dialético, assim, o estudo foi realizado na pesquisa metodológica qualitativa e quantitativa. Definiram-se os seguintes procedimentos: análise de documentos oficiais, legislação, referencial teórico e questionários aplicados aos sujeitos da pesquisa, que totalizaram 65 (sessenta e cinco). Esses sujeitos trabalham em 5 (cinco) municípios do Tocantins, são eles: Ananás, Araguanã, Babaçulândia, Barra do Ouro e Wanderlândia. Observa-se nas falas dos professores que uma das características que eles acham importante nas formações continuadas é a troca de experiências e sugestões, refletindo sobre as contribuições do processo de aprendizagem vivenciado por cada um. Os dados evidenciam a necessidade de uma renovação na elaboração das políticas públicas de formação continuada de professores, principalmente do Ensino Médio, que carecem de uma melhor atenção. O estado do Tocantins ainda está voltado a um processo de formação para o Ensino Médio atrelado às ações do governo federal. As políticas de valorização profissional precisam também de um investimento em concurso público para professores, pois assim os profissionais poderão ter acesso às conquistas existentes no Plano de Cargos, Carreiras e Remuneração (PCCR) do estado de Tocantins, que até o presente momento está atendendo apenas aos professores efetivos, que nesta pesquisa correspondem a 31% dos sujeitos entrevistados.

This dissertation examines the organisational background to the modern British health education movement, largely by reference to the origins and forty years' history of the Central Council for Health Education (1927-1968), the first body attempting to impart leadership and national coherence to a diffuse and eclectic field of educational practice and health promotion which has found secure administrative foundations difficult to establish. The study begins with a review of nineteenth and early twentieth century influences contributing to the character and status of the movement in its pioneering years. The predominantly propagandist roots and voluntary sector affinities with which it emerged from half and century's precursory endeavours profoundly affected health education's opportunities to advance with other aspects of health care and education in the inter-war years. By then, health education had become a diffuse and unco-ordinated field of minor, local authority initiatives and separatist campaigning by specialist, national health charities, remaining largely outside the remit of health and education professions and neglected officially. How the challenge of countering developmental difficulties fell to a minor professional body rather than an officially promoted one, is a question critical to any interpretation of later developments, and the subject of further enquiry. Subsequent investigation focuses on the evolution of the central agency which resulted, the Central Council for Health Education, particularly its thirty years' quest for official recognition and stature, and the strategies and services devised in this cause. It is a story of persistent and widespread enterprise, significant in many of its ideas but constrained in their effective development by enduring failure to attract Government support and to progress beyond the limited subscription income and essentially propagandist aspirations of local public health services. Adjudged ineffective by the 'Cohen Enquiry' of 1960-64, Government intervation proved forty years late in seeking to redress the problems of inadequate central provision, when in 1968 an officially funded Health Education Council replaced its neglected predecessor. The investigation reveals the classical dilemma of a multi-disciplinary field failing to transcend the divisive character of its own interests, in search for developmental coherence, and failing, consequently, to command effective professional and political support.