This thesis describes the process of course and faculty development in college chemistry at the University of San Carlos in the Philippines. The aim of the research was to increase intellectual engagement through the implementation of a simple instructional cycle to replace a dominant lecture approach. The cycle consisted of three phases: (a) a plenary which is a short presentation of the subject matter, (b) seatwork activity where students work on problems, questions or activities with the instructor moving around the classroom, and (c) closure or summary which includes reactions to learning difficulties encountered by the instructor during phase b. The approach was designed to improve basic teaching skills and to enhance instructors' knowledge of student learning problems. The research employed qualitative and quantitative methods utilising multiple sources of data collection. Validation and reliability criteria were addressed through pluralistic epistemologies; triangulation, use of external observers, member checks, peer commentaries, and case studies. Likewise, the instructors' adaptation to the three phases in the approach were analysed together with students' perceptions of the teaching approaches in the new course. Two instructors, who were involved in the case study, taught the first version of the course having been coached by the researcher who attended almost all lessons within the semester. Analysis of the data indicated that the instructors developed teaching skills applicable in this instructional cycle approach. Problems in the implementation of the cycle were identified and used as the basis for the reconceptualization of a year-long, departmental study involving 13 instructors each of whom applied the instructional cycle to some degree. / Three instructors were able to significantly change their teaching and apply meaningful student seatwork in their lessons. Nine instructors, who were moderately successful implementers, exhibited some pedagogical growth but still had problems in maintaining a well-organised classroom environment. The other three instructors had considerable trouble in applying the new approach. The shift from lecturing to applying the instructional cycle might seem like a relatively small change, yet it is a huge step for instructors who have predominantly taught using lectures for over ten years. This situation called for support by effective intervention through a realistic and practical faculty development program. After an initial training of instructors, extensive coaching in the classroom was used during the implementation phase as well as weekly small group meetings and monthly large group seminars. The course and faculty development process led to a strong increase in chemistry and chemistry pedagogy discussions in the faculty room with increasing collegiality. After the initial implementation, the process of change has continued. Every semester more improvements are made and several other Chemistry courses have been revised using the instructional cycle model of instruction.

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Orientador: Maria Teresa Egler Mantoan / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T12:47:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Correa_RosaMaria_D.pdf: 2674378 bytes, checksum: 8cef985bed5ad6aa4a9f4fb036995ba0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Foi entre uma história e outra que lemos, ouvimos e contamos, nos encontros com autores, professores e alunos que tivemos, que fomos certificando-nos, que uma educação para todos ainda não foi alcançada e ainda demorará a acontecer. Em que pesem os esforços de organismos internacionais e os avanços políticos, sociais e econômicos que Brasil tem vivido, desde as últimas décadas do século passado, nosso ensino, ainda hoje está voltado para um aluno ideal, desconsiderado, e excluído, o aluno que não se enquadra nesse padrão. A teoria é essa, a prática dos professores no cotidiano das escolas, que optaram por ser inclusivas, não é diferente. A história que escrevemos diz da escuta das idéias e das práticas dos professores de escolas da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Belo Horizonte, em Minas Gerais, que desenvolveram a proposta do Programa Escola Plural. Nos nossos diálogos, nos nossos encontros e de ambos, encontros e diálogos, tratamos da concepção de ensino e aprendizagem, da finalidade da escola, do currículo, da avaliação, enturmação, formação de professor; da diferença e da igualdade; da inclusão e da exclusão, e da angústia que nos desampara e nos liberta para construir nossa própria história. Esta investigação apontou que, para além de decisões políticas, são necessárias ferramentas teóricas que nos encaminhem para a inclusão de todos, numa educação para todos. Foi assim, que as histórias que lemos, ouvimos e contamos, também, nos contaram outras histórias. A história desses professores, a quem faltam formação continuada e oportunidade de reconstrução da competência, e habilidades profissionais para trabalhar com o novo e o diferente. A história de integração dos "diferentes", nessas escolas, criou outra história: a da inclusão dos mais "diferentes". A história de que a inclusão tem sua angústia minimizada, pelo acesso do aluno com deficiência à escola, e não porque ele tem direito a uma educação de qualidade, independentemente, da diferença que o identifique. / Abstract: It was between a story and another that read, heard and counted in meetings with authors, teachers and students who have, that we satisfy ourselves that an education for all has not yet been reached and still take the case. In that despite the efforts of international organizations and of political, social and economic that Brazil has experienced since the last decades of the last century, our education, even today is toward an ideal student, disregard, and excluded, the student who does not fits that pattern. The theory is that the daily practice of teachers in the schools, who have chosen to be inclusive, is no different. The story says that wrote the interception of ideas and practices of teachers from schools in the Municipal Network for Education in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, who developed the proposal of the School Plural. In our dialogues, in our meetings and both meetings and dialogues, dealing with the design of teaching and learning, the purpose of the school, the curriculum, assessment, groups, training of teachers; the difference and equality, of inclusion and exclusion, and the anguish that we desampara and frees us to build our own history. This research showed that, apart from political decisions are necessary theoretical tools that we move to the inclusion of all, an education for all. It was thus that the stories that we read, hear and we, too, told us other stories. The story of these teachers, who lack training and continuing opportunity to rebuild the competence and professional skills to work with the new and different. The history of integrating different in those schools, has created another story: the inclusion of more "different". The story of that inclusion has minimized his anguish, the access of disabled students to school, not because he is entitled to a quality education, regardless of the difference that identifies. / Doutorado / Ensino e Práticas Culturais / Doutor em Educação

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 5, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-150).

Orientador: Ana Maria da Costa Santos Menin / Banca: Dagoberto Buim Arena / Banca: Ana Luzia Videira Parisotto / Resumo: A leitura e a produção textual têm sido alvo de grandes discussões por parte de educadores que atribuem o fracasso escolar ao aluno pelo fato de não saberem ler e que, ao escreverem, frequentemente, fazem narrações que não contam histórias; textos expositivos que não expõem idéias; textos argumentativos que não defendem pontos de vista nenhum. Leitura e escrita são consideradas, de um modo geral, atividades inseparáveis. Lê - se para escrever. Escreve-se para ler. A leitura é, pois, um processo no qual o leitor realiza um trabalho ativo de significados do texto, através dos seus objetivos, do conhecimento prévio. A leitura continuada e significativa leva o leitor a escrever com mais eficiência, pois a possibilidade de produzir bons textos tem sua origem na prática da leitura, espaço da construção de intertextualidade e fonte de referências modelizadoras.O presente estudo resulta de uma pesquisa de mestrado em Educação, na Unesp de Presidente Prudente, na linha de... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Reading and writing have been the subject of much discussion among educators who attribute the student failure at school to the fact that he was not able to read. When it comes to writing, stories often tell no tales, expositions present no ideas, argumentative texts put forward no points of view. Reading and writing are generally considered inseparable: you read to write; you write to read. Reading, therefore, is the process through which the reader performs the active work of interpreting a text, through its goals, using prior knowledge. Continued reading enables the reader to write significantly more effectively, because the potential to produce good texts originates in the practice of reading, the understanding of... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

169 f. / Submitted by Suelen Reis (suziy.ellen@gmail.com) on 2013-04-25T17:57:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Edmacy Souza.pdf: 1062077 bytes, checksum: a03187de8b9bb8908eb83ddea1008d74 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora Lopes(silopes@ufba.br) on 2013-04-30T16:09:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Edmacy Souza.pdf: 1062077 bytes, checksum: a03187de8b9bb8908eb83ddea1008d74 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-04-30T16:09:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Edmacy Souza.pdf: 1062077 bytes, checksum: a03187de8b9bb8908eb83ddea1008d74 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / O presente trabalho objetiva discutir as concepções de currículo presentes nas práticas pedagógicas dos professores da pré-escola. Busca ainda analisar a influência desse currículo na formação e construção da identidade sociocultural da criança de forma que possibilite a reflexão sobre as várias dimensões da educação pré-escolar, as ações, as práticas e os discursos instituídos pelos profissionais que atuam nessa etapa da educação básica. Propõe, em um primeiro momento, uma discussão sobre os pressupostos histórico-filosóficos da pesquisa segundo os quais se deu o trabalho investigativo. A pesquisa se realizou de acordo com os princípios teóricos e epistemológicos da abordagem qualitativa em uma pesquisa do tipo etnográfica, tendo como campo de investigação duas escolas públicas do município de Itapetinga, cidade localizada no Sudoeste da Bahia, que atendem crianças de quatro a seis anos de idade. Foram utilizados, como instrumentos de coleta de dados, a entrevista semiestruturada, o grupo focal e a observação do espaço educativo. Participaram dessa investigação seis professoras e suas respectivas turmas (crianças de quatro e seis anos de idade). Em relação aos resultados da pesquisa, procurou-se estar atento ao que dizia a realidade educativa, os discursos e as ações cotidianas das práticas pedagógicas, buscando compreender as concepções não só de currículo, como também de criança, infância e de educação infantil presentes nos depoimentos e atuações dos sujeitos da pesquisa. Lançando mão dos aportes teóricos, este estudo se balizou em discussões sobre infância e educação infantil de autores, como Ariès (1981), Arroyo (1995), Arce (2007, 2002,), Rousseau (2004), Sarmento (2003, 2001), Froebel (2001), Garcia (2000) e Kramer (2008, 2006, 2001, 1998,); autores da área de currículo, como Macedo (2005, 1999), Silva (1999), Burnham (1998), Comenius (2001), Freire (1997, 1996), Moreira (2006, 2000) Morin (2006, 2003, 1998) e Pacheco (2005). Os resultados do estudo apontam para a necessidade de investimento nos processos formativos dos docentes que cuidam e educam crianças nas instituições de educação infantil, tendo em vista a mudança em sua concepção de infância e currículo, ampliando e redimensionando a sua prática pedagógica para atender às necessidades das crianças e promover o seu desenvolvimento integral nos mais variados aspectos, tais como: físico, cognitivo, afetivo, motor, ético e estético. / Salvador

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-07-14T12:46:44Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) dissertação maria da conceição de carvalho v filha.pdf: 1198605 bytes, checksum: bdd9bec4d6b421bcaeae1b275b2dd110 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-14T12:46:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) dissertação maria da conceição de carvalho v filha.pdf: 1198605 bytes, checksum: bdd9bec4d6b421bcaeae1b275b2dd110 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-29 / CAPEs / A pesquisa trata da prática docente promotora de igualdade racial na primeira etapa da educação básica. Tomamos como categorias analíticas prática pedagógica docente e igualdade racial, as quais deram sustentação teórica ao trabalho. Apoiamo-nos nos estudos de Souza (2009) para a categoria prática pedagógica e nela a prática pedagógica docente. A discussão da prática docente foi referenciada nos estudos de Veiga (1989), Cunha (1989), Zabala (1998) e Freire (2013), enquanto que a categoria igualdade racial, buscamos nos estudos de Gomes (1994, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2012), Alves (2013), Sposati (2002), Jaccoud e Beghin (2002), Rocha (2007), Pereira (2010), Ferreira (2010), Silva (2014), Gonçalves e Silva (1996), além das normativas legais. Utilizamo-nos da abordagem de natureza qualitativa tendo como instrumentos para coleta dos dados a análise documental, o questionário e a observação, o que permitiu uma maior aproximação com o campo empírico. Para análise, elegemos a técnica de Análise do Conteúdo fundamentada em Bardin (1977, 2009). Os resultados evidenciam esforços por parte das professoras em desenvolver uma prática voltada à promoção da igualdade racial que se materializa a partir da organização do tempo e do espaço pedagógicos, dos conteúdos, dos materiais selecionados e das atividades desenvolvidas sobre as questões étnico-raciais; são práticas que têm como intuito promover a igualdade racial. A leitura foi utilizada como fio condutor para consolidação do conhecimento sobre a temática. A literatura utilizada como atitude pedagógica contribuiu para a construção dos processos identitários e da autoimagem das crianças. Nessa direção, as ações vivenciadas na prática pedagógica docente apontam para a possibilidade das crianças construírem um pensamento positivo sobre a cultura africana e afro-brasileira. Concluímos que a prática das professoras visa à igualdade racial a partir da organização do tempo e do espaço da sala de aula, na relação afetuosa, solidária e questionadora na produção do conhecimento. / This search deals about the practice of teaching that incentives the racial equality on the first years on the basic education. We took as analytical category the practice of teaching and racial equality, that are the theoretical basis of our work. We used as sources the searches written by Souza (2009) about the pedagogical practice, and specially the teaching. The issue about the teaching was nourished through the reading of works written by Veiga (2009), Cunha (1989), Zabala (1998) and Freire (2013). About racial equality, were used information from Gomes (1994, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2010, 2012), Alves (2013), Sposati (2002), Jaccoud e Beghin (2002) Rocha (2007), Pereira (2010) e Silva (2014), in addition the law and the Constitution were studied too. The observing, the questionnaires, the search of data and the analysis of papers were used as instruments of qualitative approach, then it allowed me to keep nearer the empirical field. The Analysis of Content, held in Bardin’s work (1977; 2009), was the method chose. The results show the strength of some teachers to develop a practice directed to incentive the racial equality, fulfilled through the organizing of content, activities, materials, time and space directed to that theme. The reading was used to guide the consolidation of knowledge about this subject. The chose literature as pedagogical attitude helped in the building of identity and black childrens’ self-steam. On this target, the actions accomplished on the pedagogical practice of teaching shows to the black childrens’ a chance of building a hopeful mind about the African and the African-Brazilian cultures. We concluded that the teachers’ practice pursuits the racial practice through the organizing of time and space in classroom, and a tender relationship, full of solidarity and an inquisitive attitude on the production of knowledge.

In the past two decades there has been an increased effort to understand the depth to which mathematics teachers must know their subject to teach it effectively. Researchers have termed this type of knowledge mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT). Even though recent studies have focused on MKT, the current literature on the subject indicates that this area remains underdeveloped. In an attempt to further refine our conception of MKT this study looked at MKT in Japan. In this thesis I explored and categorized the MKT of three experienced Japanese cooperating teachers (CTs) by looking at the content of their conversations with three Japanese student teachers (STs). I separated the MKT mentioned in these conversations into three categories: knowledge about the students' mathematical knowledge, knowledge about mathematics, and knowledge about school mathematics. I also discussed various implications of this work on the field of MKT.

Esta pesquisa busca identificar as referências didáticas sobre a Prática de Ensino de Geografia (modos de ensinar, o que ensinar, como selecionar o que ensinar) presentes em livros publicados com a finalidade de subsidiar a formação de professores de Geografia. Tais referências didáticas foram observadas nos livros selecionados tendo como orientação a epistemologia geográfica e a das ciências da Educação em um recorte temporal situado no período 1925-2014. Ao se ater às orientações epistemológicas impressas nos livros selecionados, a pesquisa procura identificar as ideias-força, consideradas como ideias e concepções situadas num determinado momento (CANDAU, 2013), que predominaram acerca do exercício da docência em Geografia, bem como busca perceber como se dá a constituição de um lugar específico da Geografia escolar no interior da ciência geográfica. Os livros escolares destinados à formação docente serão tomados como objetos culturais que, referenciados no tempo em que foram produzidos, trazem as marcas das mudanças e permanências do campo intelectual que qualifica e designa aquilo que se concebe como ciência geográfica e como ensino de Geografia. Nessa perspectiva, a relação entre autoria, editoria e difusão de concepções sobre a docência e o ensino de Geografia está metodologicamente associada à discussão da Geografia como campo de conhecimento. Na realização da pesquisa foi organizado um banco de dados a partir das informações levantadas junto às instituições públicas federais de Ensino Superior (universidades e institutos) que abrigam cursos de licenciatura em Geografia na modalidade presencial. A seleção das obras se deu a partir da pesquisa em projetos pedagógicos dos cursos que indicavam a bibliografia utilizada em disciplinas do componente curricular Prática de Ensino e no acervo virtual das bibliotecas dessas instituições. Foram produzidos mapas, gráficos e tabelas que contribuíram para a melhor compreensão da distribuição desses livros pelo território nacional, bem como da difusão de ideias e concepções sobre a Geografia e seu ensino. Assim, o trabalho está organizado em três partes, em que a primeira apresenta a constituição do corpus, objeto de análise; a segunda parte procura abordar a relação entre autoria e editoria; e a terceira identifica as ideias-força presentes nas obras analisadas. / This study seeks to identify the didactic references on the Practice of Teaching Geography (ways of teaching, what to teach, how to select what to teach) found in books published with the purpose of subsidizing the education of Geography teachers. These didactic references were observed in the selected books, based on geographic epistemology and that of education sciences, in the period between 1925 and 2014. In considering the epistemological guidelines printed in the selected books, the research seeks to identify key-ideas, taken as ideas and conceptions situated at a given moment (CANDAU, 2013), which prevailed in the exercise of teaching Geography; it also seeks to perceive how a specific place for Geography in school is established within the field of geographic science. In view of such general objectives, the study chooses as the object of analysis academic textbooks intended for teacher education to the teacher formation, and takes them as cultural objects that, in reference to the time when they were written, show the marks of change and permanence in the intellectual field that qualifies and designates what is conceived as geographic science and as teaching Geography. In this perspective, the relation between authorship, publishing work, and dissemination of conceptions about teaching in general and teaching Geography in particular is methodologically associated with the discussion of Geography as a field (BOURDIEU, 2004) of knowledge. In doing the research, a database was organized with the information gathered from the public federal higher education institutions (universities and institutes) that host undergraduate courses in Geography in the face-to-face modality. The selection of books was based on the search of pedagogical projects of the courses which indicated the bibliography used in disciplines of the curriculum program called practice of teaching and in the virtual collection of the libraries of these institutions. Maps, charts and tables were produced and they contributed to better understand the distribution of these books throughout the nation, as well as the dissemination of ideas and conceptions about Geography and its teaching. The study is organized in three parts: the first presents the making of the corpus, object of analysis; in the second part the relationship between authorship and publishing is explored; and, finally, the key-ideas present in the analyzed works are identified.

This study re-presents an open-ended process of coming to know through designing, conducting and analysing an action research project with youth and adult education teachers in Khartoum, Sudan. The inquiry responds to the overarching question: What knowledge can I generate about teaching, its development and my researcher practice through collaborative action research with teachers in Sudanese youth and adult education schools? This multifaceted focus encompasses reconnaissance into teaching practices and adult education, the processes of action research and teacher development and reflexive analysis of epistemological positioning and knowledge construction through our collaborative investigation. The action research forms the substantive basis of this thesis, constituting diverse processes of coming to know by the participating teachers and myself. Our interactions as practitioners and researchers interrogated the teachers' contextualised, practical knowledge through academic mechanisms of data collection and analysis. The teachers reflected upon their taken-for-granted understandings of education, their school contexts and their practice, and re-cast them as more complex. Participation in the study resulted in the teachers becoming ‘learners-focused' by developing greater focus on their practice, by being mufetih (observant and analytical), by being close to learners and by increased experimentalism. These dispositions were combined with a shift in the teachers' epistemological positions towards ‘authoritative uncertainty', in which partial, contextualised and contingent knowledge was recognised as legitimate, facilitating re-construction of their knowledge to develop their practice. In this narrative account, the field research is framed by my evolving theoretical understandings which informed the design, analysis and re-presentation of the study. An autobiographical introduction to my experience in Sudan outlines my nascent professional stance towards education development. I then explore my increasingly critical understanding of research on teachers and pedagogy in Africa and discourse on education quality in low-income countries. I discuss the formation of my specific researcher identity through postcolonial theorisation of my ethical stance towards making a difference in the field of practice, namely Sudanese schools. In this thesis, layered re-viewing, which derives from an epistemological stance of the partiality and contingency of knowledge, facilitates re-presentation of moments in which understanding is challenged and re-formed by theorisation and experience. Re-viewing literature and theoretical analyses brings new epistemological, ontological and ethical understandings, as my focus on ‘the practical' in field research has been supplemented in the post-fieldwork period by ‘the practical' in the academy, a contested domain of knowledge production. To conclude this thesis, the position of ‘authoritative uncertainty' is applied in the reflexive deconstruction of the study, as the action research process and outcomes are re-viewed through postcolonial and feminist theories to unpick the situated complexities of cross-cultural practitioner research and its representation. While coming to know is a continuous process, its representation in this thesis reaches an arbitrary conclusion by proposing how coming to know teaching practices, action research processes and reflexive researcher analysis might bring new perspectives to academic and policy initiatives for teacher development.