Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-21T12:47:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Cinthia Dileine Ruzzante Tibério.pdf: 1183874 bytes, checksum: 3c1e7d0d18e8fb96e6cdffdfe7e8ed22 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-21T12:47:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cinthia Dileine Ruzzante Tibério.pdf: 1183874 bytes, checksum: 3c1e7d0d18e8fb96e6cdffdfe7e8ed22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The use of the language became deeply consolidated in the human culture, in addition to its use to communicate and share information. The language also has several social and cultural uses, such as identity expression, social stratification, maintenance of the community and entertainment. In this context, there were several studies which aimed to better understand the aspect considered important to assure the success of this ability, the process of the acquisition and development of the language. Our interest in adapting the Peabody Test of Vocabulary through Images to the Brazilian Portuguese raised due to the lack of tools to evaluate the vocabulary in early ages. This test evaluates the receptive vocabulary from two and a half years old up to over 90 years old. The lack of research focused on the extension of the receptive vocabulary of children in Brazilian literature contributed for this research, once in the literature in other countries there are studies referring to this extension. Once this issue is very relevant for the Brazilian education to monitor the amount of receptive vocabulary, this paper aims to determine the extension of the receptive vocabulary in a group of Brazilian children between two and six years old. The Peabody was applied in a private kindergarten school in São Paulo. The sample includes 100 children between two and a half years old and six years old. The results of this study were added and the average and the standard deviation were estimated according to the age and sex separately. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted in order to determine the influence of the age and sex upon the performance of the Peabody test and Tukey post hoc test to check the evolution of the receptive vocabulary in all ages. The evaluation of the receptive vocabulary with the Peabody test concludes that there is a significant difference in the performance of the Peabody depending on the age. The results indicate that the children had a greater extension of the receptive vocabulary according to their age – the older they were the better results they had. The extension of the vocabulary increased up to five years old, however, there was not a significant difference in the group of children between five and six years old, once the average was very similar. It was also observed that the data revealed there was not a significant difference considering the sex of the children / O uso da linguagem tornou-se profundamente consolidado na cultura humana, além de ser empregada para comunicar e compartilhar informações. A linguagem também possui vários usos sociais e culturais, como a expressão da identidade, a estratificação social, a manutenção da unidade em uma comunidade e o entretenimento. Neste contexto, vários estudos foram realizados no sentido de melhor compreender o aspecto que assumem ser importante para garantir o sucesso desta habilidade, o processo de aquisição e desenvolvimento da linguagem. Devido à escassez de instrumentos de avaliação do vocabulário em idades precoces, surgiu nosso interesse de adaptar para o Português Brasileiro o Teste de Vocabulário por Imagens Peabody. O teste avalia o vocabulário receptivo a partir dos dois anos e seis meses de idade até os 90 anos ou mais. A ausência de pesquisas referentes à extensão do vocabulário receptivo de crianças na literatura brasileira contribuiu para a realização desta pesquisa, uma vez que na literatura de outros países já existem estudos referentes a esta extensão. Sendo essa uma questão de grande relevância para a educação brasileira monitorar a quantidade de vocabulário receptivo, o presente estudo teve como objetivo determinar a extensão do vocabulário receptivo de um grupo de crianças brasileiras de 2 a 6 anos. A aplicação do Peabody foi realizada em uma escola de educação infantil, da rede escolar particular da cidade de São Paulo. A amostra foi constituída por 100 crianças, com idade compreendida entre 2 anos e 6 meses a 6 anos. Os resultados obtidos neste estudo foram somados, estimado a média e o desvio-padrão para cada faixa etária e sexo separadamente. Foi conduzido uma análise de variância (ANOVA) com fins de determinar a influência de idade e sexo sobre o desempenho no teste Peabody e o teste post hoc de Tukey para testar se a evolução do vocabulário receptivo foi em todas as faixas etárias. A avaliação do vocabulário receptivo com o teste Peabody permitiu concluir que existe diferença significante no desempenho no Peabody em função da idade. Os resultados indicaram que as crianças tiveram uma extensão maior de vocabulário receptivo conforme o aumento da idade. A extensão do vocabulário foi crescente até os 5 anos, mas não houve diferença significante no desempenho entre as crianças de 5 e 6 anos, pois apresentaram médias muito semelhantes. Observamos também que dados revelaram que não houve efeito significativo quanto ao sexo das crianças

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-08-31T12:53:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Josoé Durval Aguiar Júnior.pdf: 1066895 bytes, checksum: 2006fa84ccaeae9ef95cbe752a821865 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-31T12:53:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Josoé Durval Aguiar Júnior.pdf: 1066895 bytes, checksum: 2006fa84ccaeae9ef95cbe752a821865 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This thesis presents research that aims to analyze what happens in early childhood education schools, in nursery schools, when there is the presence of male teachers. We intend to gather elements to understand the male teaching profession in early childhood education, specifically in daycare centers, listening to the teachers in Early Childhood Education Centers in the city of São Paulo, about how they perceive their job in the process of babies’ formation. We also intend to outline those professionals’ profile and, based on official documents and legislation, describe the conditions of those male professionals’ admission in this professional space, identifying what the Municipal Department of Education has been doing to welcome and integrate those professionals in the school units. Therefore, we try to gather elements to outline those new professional teachers’ profile in early childhood education: the teachers of babies and, specifically, the male teacher of babies. This research has a qualitative nature, accomplished by means of documental analysis and electronic forms answered by 24 professionals (from 170 teachers of Early Childhood Education Centers that work in the Municipal Department of Education of São Paulo). As theoretical support, we have used texts related to the teaching profession and its specificities, with Roldão’s contribution; to the work of and in the daycare center and the performance of the teachers of babies, with Rosemberg’s, Barbosa’s and Falk’s studies; and to the issues about gender and the teaching profession in early childhood education, with Apple’s contributions. The results obtained (organized in charts and tables) allowed us to confirm the research hypothesis that: a) The early childhood education teachers that work in Early Childhood Education Centers suffer from prejudice of the school community personally (sexual orientation, temper and social conduct) and professionally (technical competence, formation, experience with the age group and reasons why they have chosen the career); and b) The educational system is still not prepared to receive such professional and support the ones involved, once there are not specific actions to welcome and guide those professionals, in their performance in daycare centers. Male teachers have been admitted in the Municipal Department of Education of São Paulo, without the discussion by the managers, teachers and parents of the resulting conflicts and problems. There are not references or political actions that have approached this theme. The municipal publications have ignored this fact so far / Esta dissertação apresenta pesquisa que visa analisar o que acontece nas escolas de educação infantil, em berçários, quando há presença de professores do sexo masculino. Pretende-se reunir elementos para compreensão da docência masculina na educação infantil, especificamente nas creches, ouvindo os próprios professores em Centros de Educação Infantil na cidade de São Paulo, sobre como percebem seu trabalho no processo de formação dos bebês. Pretende-se ainda traçar o perfil desses profissionais e, com base em documentos oficiais e legislação Descrever as condições de ingresso desses profissionais homens nesse espaço profissional, identificando o que a Rede Municipal de Educação tem feito para acolher e inserir esses profissionais nas unidades escolares. Procura-se, assim, reunir elementos para definir o perfil desses novos profissionais docentes na educação infantil: os professores de bebês e, especificamente, o professor homem de bebês. Trata-se de pesquisa de natureza qualitativa, realizada por meio de análise documental e de formulários eletrônicos respondidos por 24 profissionais (de um total de 170 professores de Centros de Educação Infantil que trabalham na rede municipal paulistana. Como apoios teóricos são utilizados textos relativos ao trabalho docente e suas especifidades, com a contribuição de Roldão; ao trabalho da e na creche e à atuação dos professores de bebês, com os estudos de Rosemberg, Barbosa e Falk; e às questões sobre gênero e docência na educação infantil, com as contribuições de Apple. Os resultados obtidos (organizados em quadros e tabelas) permitiram confirmar as hipóteses de pesquisa de que: a) Os professores de educação infantil atuantes em Centro de Educação Infantil sofrem preconceito por parte da comunidade escolar nas esferas pessoal (orientação sexual, temperamento e conduta social) e profissional (competência técnica, formação, experiência com a faixa etária e motivos que os levaram a escolher a carreira) e b) O sistema educacional ainda não está preparado para receber tal profissional e dar suporte aos envolvidos, já que não há ações específicas para acolhimento e orientação desses profissionais, em sua atuação nas creches. Professores homens estão ingressando na Rede Municipal de Ensino de São Paulo, sem que os conflitos ou problemas decorrentes sejam discutidos por gestores, professores e pais. Não há bibliografia ou ação política que aborde esse tema. As publicações municipais ignoram esse fato

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-09-25T13:16:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Kátia Cristina Aureliano Pelinson.pdf: 983983 bytes, checksum: 8eb56f1afa19841963f08f5ab0812a17 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-25T13:16:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kátia Cristina Aureliano Pelinson.pdf: 983983 bytes, checksum: 8eb56f1afa19841963f08f5ab0812a17 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The aim of the present research was to investigate the meanings made by the preschool teacher about the affective dimension in the teaching-learning process. The methodological theoretical framework adopted was Socio-Historical Psychology. The research participants were two teachers with twenty years of experience in early childhood education at the public school and private school in the city of São Paulo. Data collection was carried out through conversational dynamics, and this material, the empirical basis of the study, was transcribed and submitted, for analysis purposes, to the procedures suggested by Aguiar and Ozella (2006) called nuclei of signification; these analyzes allowed us to identify the meanings made by the participants regarding the affective dimension in the teaching-learning process, pointing out their meanings: a The affective and cognitive dimension are indissociable in pedagogical practice; b) the role and quality of mediation provide the approximation of the individual with the object of knowledge in a meaningful way; c) The teacher has a fundamental role in the development of the student in the school environment, given that their listening, interventions and theoretical and practical knowledge allow the student to constitute in their social relations; d) The attentive gaze of the teacher recognizes the student as being complete / O objetivo da presente pesquisa foi investigar as significações constituídas pelo professor de educação infantil acerca da dimensão afetiva no processo ensinoaprendizagem. O referencial teórico metodológico adotado foi a Psicologia Sócio- Histórica. As participantes da pesquisa foram duas professoras com vinte anos de experiência em educação infantil da escola pública e da escola privada da cidade de São Paulo. A coleta de dados ocorreu por meio da dinâmica conversacional, e esse material, base empírica do estudo, foi transcrito e submetido, para fins de análise, aos procedimentos sugeridos por Aguiar e Ozella (2006) chamados de núcleos de significação; essas análises permitiram-nos identificar as significações constituídas pelas participantes a respeito da dimensão afetiva no processo ensino-aprendizagem, apontando suas acepções: a) a dimensão afetiva e cognitiva são indissociáveis na prática pedagógica; b) o papel e a qualidade da mediação propiciam a aproximação do indivíduo com o objeto de conhecimento de forma significativa; c) o professor tem papel fundamental no desenvolvimento do aluno no ambiente escolar, tendo em vista que a sua escuta, intervenções e conhecimentos teóricos e práticos permitem que o aluno se constitua em suas relações sociais; d) o olhar atento do professor reconhece o aluno como ser completo

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivos principais: discutir a noção que crianças de cinco anos desenvolvem, ao final da aplicação de um programa, sobre o que é Educação Física, contrastando-a com aquela originalmente apresentada pelo aluno no início da pesquisa; bem como investigar e discutir o envolvimento dos alunos nas atividades propostas pelo programa de Educação Física que serviu de base a este estudo. Uma turma, composta por vinte e cinco crianças de cinco anos, de uma escola da Rede Municipal de Educação Infantil de São Paulo, teve um total de 32 aulas de Educação Física, de 50 minutos cada, duas vezes por semana. Essa turma foi submetida a uma entrevista no início e no final do programa visando avaliar a noção que apresentavam sobre o que é educação física. A entrevista foi interpretada mediante a metodologia de análise de conteúdo (TRIVINOS, 1987). Os resultados evidenciaram mudanças significativas e positivas no grupo quanto ao conceito sobre o que é Educação Física. Metade da turma foi selecionada, aleatoriamente, para ser filmada em sete aulas do programa. Para análise das filmagens, utilizou-se a Escala de Envolvimento para crianças pequenas, desenvolvida por Ferre Leavers, que apresenta uma lista de oito sinais ou indicadores de envolvimento: 1) concentração; 2) energia; 3) complexidade e criatividade; 4) expressão facial e postura; 5) persistência; 6) tempo de reação; 7) expressões verbais; e 8) satisfação. A partir desses indicadores, foi medido o nível de envolvimento das crianças nas atividades, classificando-o em uma escala de 1 a 5, em que: a ) Nível 1: sem atividade; b) Nível 2: atividade interrompida freqüentemente; c) Nível 3: atividade mais ou menos contínua; d) Nível 4: atividade com momentos intensos; e) Nível 5: atividade intensa mantida. Com a escala foi verificado o nível de envolvimento das crianças nas atividades, além disso, constatou-se também que o instrumento utilizado pode ser uma importante ferramenta de apoio para o professor na investigação e na melhoria da prática pedagógica, pois permite analisar a adequação do ambiente preparado, a escolha dos materiais, a interação do professor com as crianças, a interação entre as crianças, entre outros / The main aims of this research are: to discuss the conception that five years old children have about what Physical Education is when a program about it is offered to them, and the way this conception changes after the program, as well as investigate and discuss the students´ involvement in activities proposed by the Physical Education program which is the base of this study. One of the groups, composed by 25 five years old children from a municipal São Paulo City puerile school, had 32 fifty minutes Physical Education classes twice a week. This group was interviewed at the beginning and at the end of the program and the aim of this interview was to evaluate the conception they previously had about what Physical Education is. The interview was interpreted in the light of content analysis methodology (TRIVINOS, 1987). The results highlighted positive and meaningful changes about the groups point of view about what Physical Education means to them. One half of the group was chosen, randomly, to be filmed during seven program classes. To analyze these classes, the Movement Scale for young children, proposed by Ferre Leavers, which presents a list of 8 involvement signs, was used. These 8 signs are: 1) concentration; 2) energy; 3) complexity and creativity; 4) facial expression and posture; 5) persistence; 6) reaction time; 7) oral expressions; and 8) satisfaction. These mentioned characteristics (signs) were used to point out these young childrens involvement level and, besides, were a very useful methodological tool for classifying, from 1 to 5, the childrens involvement level: a) Level 1: no activity; b) Level 2: frequently interrupted activity; c) Level 3: more or less continuous activity; d) Level 4: intensive movements activity; e) Level 5: continuous intensive activity. By using the Movement Scale, the childrens involvement level in the activities was checked. Moreover, it was evidenced that the used methodological tool can be an important support to the teacher who wants to investigate and get better pedagogical practices, because it allows a wide variety of ways to analyze whether the environment is appropriate or not, what kind of interaction does the teacher have with children, what kind of interaction do they have with each other, and so on

Η παρούσα έρευνα έχει στόχο τη διερεύνηση των απόψεων των παιδιών προσχολικής ηλικίας στην Ελλάδα για τη στοματική υγεία και των πρακτικών που εφαρμόζουν ως προς αυτή. Έλαβαν μέρος 72 παιδιά από Δημόσια Νηπιαγωγεία της Πάτρας και 60 γονείς που κλήθηκαν να απαντήσουν συμπληρωματικά για τις πρακτικές που εφαρμόζονται από τα παιδιά τους. Το εργαλείο που χρησιμοποιήθηκε για τη συλλογή των δεδομένων ήταν αυτό των ατομικών συνεντεύξεων για τα παιδιά και αυτό των ερωτηματολογίων για τους γονείς. Τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας έδειξαν ότι τα παιδιά διέθεταν γνώσεις για τη στοματική υγεία, την οποία αντιμετώπιζαν ισότιμα με τη γενική υγεία, τους τρόπους προάσπισής της και την τερηδόνα, και η άποψη τους για τον οδοντίατρο ήταν θετική. Εντούτοις, σε αρκετές περιπτώσεις οι απόψεις τους φάνηκαν να διαφέρουν σημαντικά από την επιστημονική άποψη. Η συμπεριφορά τους ως προς τη στοματική υγεία κρίθηκε μέτρια. Τα παιδιά βούρτσιζαν τα δόντια υπό την επίβλεψη των γονέων και επισκέπτονταν τον οδοντίατρο για προληπτικούς λόγους, όμως η συχνότητα με την οποία πραγματοποιούνταν αυτά ήταν χαμηλότερη από την ενδεδειγμένη. Ακόμη, κατανάλωναν αρκετά συχνά ζαχαρούχα προϊόντα. Συνολικά, τα παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας έδειξαν να διαθέτουν δυνατότητες κατανόησης, γεγονός που σημαίνει ότι με τις κατάλληλες εκπαιδευτικές παρεμβάσεις είναι δυνατό να σημειωθεί βελτίωση στο κομμάτι των γνώσεων και κατ’ επέκταση στο κομμάτι της συμπεριφοράς που υιοθετούν για τη στοματική υγεία. / The present study aims to investigate young children’s perspectives and practices towards oral health, in Greece. The participants of the study were 72 children from public kindergartens of Patras and 60 parents that were asked to respond complementary accordingly their children’s practices. The data was collected through individual interviews for the children and questionnaires for their parents. The results showed that children possessed knowledge about oral health issues, practices sustaining oral health, and decay. In addition, oral health was treated equally with general health and children’s opinion about dentists was positive. However, in several cases, their views were found to differ significantly from the scientific perspective. Their behavior regarding oral health was considered moderate. The children brushed their teeth under the supervision of their parents and visited the dentist for preventive reasons, but the frequency of these was lower than necessary. Yet, children consumed sugary products quite often. Overall, the preschoolers were shown to have capabilities of understanding, meaning that with the appropriate educational interventions the knowledge about oral health may be improved and thus, the behavior they adopt may be improved as well.

After Lithuania had gained its independence, there arose the necessity for non-native speakers living in Lithuania to learn the state language. More and more other nationality families become interested in their children learning the state language. In connection with this, in the pre-school institutions as well as schools, the number of schoolchildren grows. Naturally, their education becomes problematic. Aim of the research: to reveal the difficulties bilingual children meet while learning the state language in the pre-school groups and try to forecast learning problems they may encounter in the first class. Moreover, to analyze their prognostic validity and to evidence the possible help. In the research took part 80 children who have bilingual or multilingual problems in the pre-school group and after three months in the first class. There were presented the analyses of the pre-school and the first class teachers. The tasks of the research: • to realize the abilities of bilingual, multilingual children in the state language; • to understand how has changed communication abilities of the same researched children in the primary school in comparison with the pre-school group; • to state the most often learning problems that bilingual and multilingual first class pupils face while learning the state language; • to understand the kind of methodological-practical help that is needed by the learners facing the difficulties... [to full text]

The dissertation explored didactical situations, in which mathematical concepts in nursery schools are created and specified. It discusses the link between two issues related to institutional pre-school mathematics education. These are: Do children in nursery schools have opportunity to discover mathematical concepts? What is characteristic for didactical situations, in which it happens? Dissertation is organised according to a scheme "theory-methodology-empirical findings". Presented research is realized as qualitative, data material is formed by written narratives, chosen analytical procedures belong to the framework grounded theory method. In the main research I managed not only to compare individual narrations of teachers from nursery schools and identify various teachers´ actions, practises and types of didactical situations, but also to find the form of the mathematical didactical situation in the environment of nursery schools.

Text in Afrikaans / The researcher is qualified as a pre-school teacher and experiences that pre-schoolers behave negatively at times. The researcher was exposed to playtherapy techniques in post-graduate studies . These techniques could be used by pre-school teachers to handle negative behavior. The question arises if pre-school teachers are already applying these techniques . This question is researched in this study by using research questionnaires . The study was done in and Tshwane. The dissertation consists of five chapters. In the first chapter the research proposal is discussed. The second chapter covers terms like play and playtherapy with reference to the pre-schooler . Chapter three looks at the pre-schooler, pre-school education and negative behavior. In chapter four the results of the research are presented and discussed. In the last chapter, chapter five, conclusions, recommendations, a general conclusion and a closing remark are made. / Social Work / M. Diac. (Play Theraphy)

In recent years parents´ requests have been increasing for the inclusion of two-year-old children into pre-school facilities. Due to this fact Infant Groups have started to exist. There will be an amendment of the Education Act that will come into force in 2020. According to the amendment it will be obliged to educate two-year-old children in the pre-schools. A qualitative research survey which was done by means of observations and interviews was used to summarize the results of this diploma thesis. The first aim was to compare the differences between the provision of childcare of two-year-olds in the Kindergartens and the Infant Groups. The main difference between the Kindergartens and the Infant groups lies in lower amount of children in the Infant groups. The number of pedagogical staff is mostly the same that is why it is not possible to take care of two-year-old children individually in the Kindergartens. The second aim was to compare boarding in the Kindergartens and the Infant groups. It was shown that the menu in the Kindergartens is in compliance with the Consumer basket. The menu is evaluated every month. The evaluation is not obligated in the Infant groups therefore variety of menus was assessed on the basis of repetition rate of particular meals in the school canteen per month. The boarding in the Infant groups is comparable to the Kindergartens in most categories including keeping a recommended water intake. Unfortunately, the main courses have been found severe lack of fresh vegetables in offer in the Infant groups.

The aim of this thesis is analysis of the market situation of pre-school education in the Czech Republic. It consists of theoretical and practical parts. In the theoretical part, there is a focus mainly on legislation, general overview of the educational system and description of institutions for pre-school care and education. The practical part deals with the statistic about amount of children and pre-school institutions, the current situation and outlook for the future. Finally, there are SWOT analysis for the pre-school education and advice for those thinking about doing business in this area.