With the dominance of the Web in education and English language learning, new literacies have emerged. This thesis is motivated by the assumption that these literacies need to be integrated into the Egyptian pre-service EFL teacher education programmes so that EFL student teachers can cope with the new reality of language teaching/learning. Therefore, the main objective of the present study is to develop a theoretical understanding of the relationship between Web-based new literacies and the teaching of TESOL in a way that supports the possibility of expanding Egyptian pre-service EFL student teachers’ language-related literacy practices by integrating some Web-based new literacies into their education programme, with specific reference to the context of Assiut University College of Education (AUCOE). This requires accomplishing minor objectives represented in: (1) identifying the range of those Web-based new literacies that Egyptian EFL student teachers need in this ICT-dominated age; (2) identifying those Web-based facilities beneficial to them, and why and how they can be beneficial; and (3) generating framework for EFL curriculum design based on both literature and empirical data. To accomplish this, a design-based research (DBR) methodology drawing on a pragmatic epistemology is developed and employed as the main research paradigm informing this design study. Thus, the research design involves a flexible three-stage research framework: (1) the preliminary phase, which acts as a theoretical and empirical foundation for the whole study, and informs a preliminary design framework; it involves reviewing relevant literature and obtaining empirical data through documentary analysis (100 documents), online questionnaire (n=50), and semi-structured interviews (n=19); (2) the prototyping phase that involves two iterations (36 participants in the first iteration, and 30 in the second) conducted in the Egyptian context to test the proposed design framework. Each iteration acts as a micro-cycle of the whole design study, and thus involves its own objectives, learning design, research methodology and procedures (in line with the main DBR methodology), and results; (3) the assessment/reflective phase which, based on the prototyping phase results, presents a final design framework for expanding EFL student teachers’ language-related literacy practices. This has implications for the EFL curriculum design process within the Egyptian context in general, and AUCOE in particular. Results indicate that throughout the two iterations, it has become evident that the process of expanding EFL student teachers’ language-related literacy practices by integrating some Web-based new literacies into the AUCOE pre-service programme is quite feasible once some design principles are considered. Some significant conclusions and educational implications are provided, along with some main contributions to knowledge in TESOL/TEFL, language-learning theory, research methodology, and educational practice as far as the Egyptian context of pre-service EFL teacher education is concerned.

Texas programs in pre-service art teacher preparation vary little. Since 1970, the National Art Education Association (NAEA) has created voluntary standards in hopes of decreasing variability among programs. In 1999, the NAEA published Standards for Art Teacher Preparation, outlining 20 content areas that art pre-service programs should provide their students. To obtain information on the implementation and the extent to which these 20 standards are being implemented, a questionnaire was sent to all programs in Texas. The 20 standards were the dependent variable for the study. The four independent variables used in this ex post facto study were: the size of the institution where the program exists; the number of full-time art faculty; the number of full-time art education faculty; and, the number of undergraduate art education students who graduated last year. The 20 standards or provisions were scored on a Lickert scale with six options: zero (not taught) to five (comprehensively taught). The response size (N = 23) was 47% of the state's 49 approved programs. The results from the survey suggest no significant difference among programs. However, the results showed a significant difference in the number of provisions taught between programs with no art educators and those with 1 to 3 art educators. One art educator seemed to increase the number of pedagogical provisions taught but did not increase the extent or enhance the degree to which each provision was taught. A comprehensively taught response to the NAEA provisions on the questionnaire was further investigated through analysis of catalog course descriptions and correspondence with participants. The results are estimated in credit hours and indicate that there may be a point where time on task decides the limit that constitutes a comprehensive preparation. Perspectives on content are discussed and regarded as too subjective to define comprehensive preparation. Comprehensive time on task varies with content, which may imply an unconscious marker of time shared by educators that defines a comprehensive preparation for each provision. Changing and local standards in art pre-service programs may have produced a range of interpretations regarding the meaning of "comprehensively taught.";

Title: Transforming teacher education of chemistry in the Czech Republic Abstract: The title of the dissertation is 'Transforming teacher education of chemistry in the Czech Republic'. The work describes and analyzes the current system of the pregraduate prospective teachers' training of chemistry at universities and faculties of science focused on teaching science as well the subsequent in-service education of chemistry teachers in this country. The work also takes into account the post-war development of education in the republic from 1945 until present and the list of all the universities and faculties that educate chemistry teachers. The most important section of this work identifies and analyzes the current state of training and further education of chemistry teachers and the design of chemistry teachers educational conception in the Czech Republic. Key words: teaching profession, undergraduate pre-service teacher training, continuing in-service teacher training/education, educational institutions, curriculum reform, lifelong educatio

Orientador: João Antonio Telles / Banca: Douglas Altamiro Consolo / Banca: Nelson Viana / Resumo: Nesta pesquisa objetivou-se estudar a formação inicial do professor de LE no contexto de laboratório de teletandem. Foca-se em quatro aspectos na graduação do professor de línguas: a orientação, a mediação, a reflexão e a aprendizagem em teletandem. Nesta pesquisa discute-se, através de um recurso tecnológico, o módulo Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro, a orientação, a mediação e a reflexão pelos alunos-professores de uma universidade estadual paulista, inseridos em um laboratório de teletandem. Neste laboratório, os alunos do curso de Letras, denominados aqui de alunos-orientadores, ministram sessões de orientação teórica e tecnológica para os alunos ingressantes no projeto Teletandem Brasil: língua estrangeira para todos, isto é, aqueles que ainda não iniciaram o seu processo de aprendizagem de língua estrangeira em teletandem. Assim, a pesquisa em questão constitui-se basicamente em três etapas: i) observação das sessões de orientação presenciais ministradas pelos alunos-orientadores no laboratório de teletandem; ii) leitura, reflexão e análise do diário-reflexivo dos alunos-orientadores acerca destas sessões de orientação teórica e iii) realização das sessões de mediação online com os alunos-orientadores pelo módulo Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro. O interesse no desenvolvimento da pesquisa surgiu pelas necessidades e inquietações na minha experiência como aluna do curso de Letras, isto é, como professora de língua estrangeira em formação inicial carente de maior orientação e reflexão da natureza que este novo contexto de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas em tandem permite oferecer. Desta forma, objetivou-se, especificamente investigar quais os possíveis impactos da experiência de orientação, dada pelo aluno de Letras, futuro professor de LE, no... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research study aimed at investigating the foreign language teacher‟s pre-service education in a teletandem‟s laboratory context. Specifically, it focuses on four aspects in the foreign language teacher‟s pre-service education: counseling, mediation, reflection and learning in teletandem. This study discusses, through a new technological resource, the Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro, the counseling, mediation and the reflection by the pre-service students from a state university in São Paulo state, inside a teletandem laboratory. In this laboratory, the undergraduate foreigner teachers, called at this study of counselor-students, provide theoretical and technological counseling sessions to the freshman students in the thematic project named Teletandem Brasil: língua estrangeira para todos, in other words, for those students who have not started their foreign language learning in teletandem process yet. Therefore, this research is basically constituted by three stages: i) observation of the face to face counseling sessions given by the counselor-students in the laboratory; ii) reading, reflection and analysis of the reflective diaries of the counselor-students about these face to face counseling sessions and iii) realization of the online mediation sessions with the counselor-students through the Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro. The interest to achieve this research arose by the needs and concerns within my experience as an undergraduate foreign language teacher, in other words, as a teacher in a pre-service education lacking more counseling and reflection of the nature that this new context of teaching and learning languages in-tandem can provide. Thus, the study aimed to investigate what are the possible impacts of the counseling sessions‟ experience, given by the... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Palma Rigolon.pdf: 533191 bytes, checksum: bf2e4027dc74a6ebb25cea3822ea7fc5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / This dissertation aims at investigating the use of monographs as a tool for critical reflection. The theoretical framework has its focus on the critical reflection moves, description, informing, confronting and reconstruction, proposed by Smyth (1992) based on Freire (1970). It was also discussed the use of monographs as tools for reflection and the Theory of Discourse Functioning (Bronckart, 1997), as a basis for the understanding of the linguistic materiality of the monographs. This research was carried out in a private university of São Paulo and the two monographs studied were developed by two groups of undergraduate students of languages attending the last term. We analyzed if the four critical reflection moves proposed by Smyth (1992) based on Freire (1970) were shown on the monograph developed by the students. The data analysis and interpretation suggest that the critical reflection actions appeared throughout the monographs, although, the action of confronting appears very little. It was also observed that the pre-service teachers were able to reconstruct their actions, although they did not refer to any theoretical basis to support their arguments. The data also showed that the pre service students were discursively engaged / Esta tese objetiva investigar a utilização da monografia como instrumento para reflexão crítica na formação inicial de professores de língua estrangeira de um curso de Letras. A fundamentação teórica deste estudo tem seu foco principal nos movimentos da reflexão crítica propostos por Smyth (1992) com base nos postulados de Freire (1970). Lingüisticamente, baseio-me na teoria do funcionamento dos discursos, tal como proposta por Bronckart (1997), para discutir a materialidade lingüística das monografias. Foram estudadas duas monografias produzidas por dois grupos de alunos-professores, pertencentes ao último ano do curso de Letras de uma instituição de ensino superior, da rede particular, da cidade de São Paulo. Analisaram-se as ações da reflexão crítica (Smyth, 1992), que se mostraram no texto das várias seções que compõem as monografias. Os resultados mostram que as ações da reflexão crítica permeiam o trabalho monográfico; porém, o movimento do confrontar aparece de forma muito sutil. Observou-se também que os participantes conseguem reconstruir suas ações, porém não utilizam base teórica para dar suporte a tais mudanças. Ficou evidenciado que os alunos-professores se responsabilizam discursivamente por suas ações

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:57:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hugo.pdf: 1071426 bytes, checksum: c17a4300846414d5eb331657dd088ae1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The conceptions and practices of teachers regarding educational assessment or educational evaluation of their pupils have been object of critical concerns for many years, on the part of innumerable educational researchers. However, looking at the conditions that are offered to the teachers for learning the complex procedure of evaluation, it can be observed that its pre-service training does not contemplate it, that there are few consistent chances of in-service training on the theme, that the critics generally have been writing more about the difficulties than have offered realistic solutions, and that the available models or approaches on what must be the process of evaluation are not concordant between them nor are they completely structured for the immediate application in classroom. Considering this picture, this study has the purpose of investigating what the difficulties are in the formation of the teacher for the evaluation of his pupils (also known as classroom assessment, pedagogical assessment classroom evaluation). To analyze the mentioned situation, we consider in the study a great amount of evaluation approaches, taken from the Brazilian, American or European academic discourses, as well as research on the formation of teachers regarding the difficulties faced for them in their education, continued or initial (in-service or pre-service training). We have interviewed 12 private school teachers of the city of São Paulo, from different subjects; they were considered as very involved in the process of learning on evaluation, by directors and/or coordinators of their schools. Based on the analysis of the teachers speech and in the presented theories, it was verified that the difficulties are of different orders: the lack of pre-service training for the evaluation process, inadequate pre-service training for teaching, the dispersion of evaluative approaches, the lack of material adjusted for the study of the different evaluative approaches, and questions related to the structure of the teaching work - number of pupils, the role of the institution where the teacher works and the relationship between the group of teachers / As concepções e as práticas dos professores do Ensino Básico, referentes à avaliação de sala de aula, têm sido objeto de crítica há muitos anos, por parte de inúmeros pesquisadores educacionais. Ao serem observadas, porém, as condições que são oferecidas aos professores para a aprendizagem do complexo procedimento da avaliação, vê-se que sua formação inicial não a contempla, que há poucas oportunidades consistentes de formação continuada sobre a temática, que os críticos que vêm escrevendo sobre ela mais têm denunciado seus problemas do que têm oferecido soluções realistas, e que as abordagens disponíveis aos professores sobre o que deva ser a avaliação não são concordes entre si nem estão completamente estruturadas para a imediata aplicação em sala de aula. Diante desse quadro, este estudo teve por finalidade investigar quais as dificuldades na formação do professor para a avaliação que realiza de seus alunos (também conhecida como avaliação de sala de aula, pedagógica ou do rendimento do aluno). Tendo por base um amplo panorama das abordagens avaliativas, presentes no discurso educacional brasileiro, norte-americano e europeu, bem como pesquisas sobre a formação de professores que tratam das dificuldades enfrentadas pelo professor para sua formação, inicial ou continuada, foram realizadas entrevistas com 12 professores de escolas particulares da cidade de São Paulo, de diferentes áreas disciplinares, considerados pelos diretores e/ou coordenadores de suas escolas como muito envolvidos no processo de aprendizagem sobre avaliação.Com base na análise das falas dos sujeitos e nas teorias apresentadas, verificou-se que as dificuldades são de várias ordens: a falta de formação inicial para as questões avaliativas, a formação inicial inadequada para o exercício da docência, a dispersão de abordagens avaliativas para consumo do professor, a falta de material adequado para o estudo das diferentes abordagens, e questões ligadas à estruturação do trabalho docente número de alunos, o papel da instituição escolar, o grupo de professores em suas interrelações

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_marcelo_de_melo.pdf: 424951 bytes, checksum: 640fdd659d848506165f0413befc130b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-04-10 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The present study aims to detect how pre-service mathematic teachers develop inequalities among their students and what are the sources of their work in this subject. In order to accomplish that, we chose Raymond Duval theoretical framework about semiotic registers of representation. According to this theory the coordination among several semiotic representational registers promote the conceptualization of a mathematical object. In this perspective, we collected and analyzed data from: institutional documents; interviews with four teachers of the investigated course; didactical materials recommended and used by them. Besides that, we used data from student s exercise books / Este trabalho teve o objetivo de detectar como professores de um curso de Licenciatura em Matemática desenvolvem desigualdades e inequações com suas classes e quais as fontes orientadoras de seu trabalho a respeito desses assuntos. Para realizar tal investigação escolhemos como referencial teórico central a teoria de Raymond Duval que trata dos registros de representação semiótica. Segundo esta teoria a coordenação de diversos registros de representação semiótica viabiliza a apreensão conceitual de um objeto matemático. Nesta perspectiva, coletamos e analisamos dados de: documentos institucionais; entrevistas com quatro professores do curso investigado; de material didático utilizado e recomendado por eles e de cadernos de alguns de seus alunos

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Initial teacher education is constantly in the spotlight regarding its quality and its effectiveness. The literature contains many claims from those who believe that it is ineffectual. The notion of the reflective practitioner was introduced and embraced as an antidote to these claims, and as an approach to break the influence of technocratic beliefs and expectations which pre-service teachers bring with them to their initial teacher education. Typically reflection targets the practicum experience. However, this study focuses specifically on the contribution of course work to the development of a reflective beginning teacher. This qualitative study invited pre-service teachers to provide insight into their initial teacher education experience: initially within a Teaching of Science methods paper, and then some 18 months later at the conclusion of their three year Bachelor of Education (Teaching) professional preparation. A critical reflexive interpretive methodology which sought authenticity within its meaning-making process developed from an initial consideration of self-study research methodology. Of particular importance was that the enquiry was authentic, participants' voices were valued and recognition was given to the implications embedded within the context within which the study occurred. Methods of data collection included in phase one were: a pre-course questionnaire, a Gestalt-like activity, and pre-service teachers' email reflections based on Hoban's (2000a) categories of learning influences, and meta-reflections from the Teaching of Science paper. The journal I kept during this phase was also drawn upon as data. Phase two data collection included a vignette, and a three part final questionnaire to which 40 pre-service teachers and nine teacher educators responded. The findings suggest that pre-service teachers' understanding of the nature of education is critical to the way in which they experience the course work within initial teacher education. This understanding shapes their perception and consideration lens through which course work is experienced. On entrance to initial teacher education this lens is described, for many pre-service teachers, as technocratic. Education is seen as a commodity, something to acquire, teaching is telling and initial teacher education is dependent on the teacher educator providing the necessary tools and techniques so the beginning teacher can do the right thing. This study suggests that such a stance toward educational experiences is a hindrance mechanism when teacher educators seek transformative teaching, learning, and reflexivity. However, when that view of education is as a process of growth and transformation toward a valued 'way of being', the perspective and consideration lens is described as professional. Rather than focusing on what a teacher does, the focus is on whom the teacher is and how this influences the teaching and learning process. Teacher educators and the institution which is the context within which course work occurs also demonstrate a mixture of technocratic and professional lenses. Important factors within initial teacher education which contribute to transformation from technocratic to professional lens include relational and pedagogical connectedness. These factors lead to valuing, ownership and justification of learning where assessment tasks are tools for personal development and where critical consideration of multiple perspectives has an important role. Relational connectedness (to self, peers, and teacher educators) is important for developing a safe, but challenging, dialogical space in which paradoxes, challenges and pre-service teachers' vulnerable sense of disorientation may be engaged. Pedagogical connectedness relates to the fit between what the teacher educator says and does. For example, a powerful approach to learning is where the pre-service teachers learn to be reflexive, by being reflexive. The study indicates the importance of institutional congruency so that what is espoused is experienced through language, assessment, teaching approaches and contextual culture. However, pre-service teachers' perception and consideration lens determines the degree to which course work is transformational. Where a technocratic lens is dominant, reflection becomes a task to be completed. Where a professional lens is dominant, reflection becomes an iterative process for improving practice by becoming professionally self aware through identifying assumptions in decisions and responses within the learning/teaching relationship, and judging those assumptions for their appropriateness in the light of a developing and critiqued personally owned educational vision.

In this paper the notion of “mathematics profiles” and “instructional behaviour profiles is introduced. A brief explanation of what these profiles are and how they were constructed and represented for preservice mathematics teachers is provided. An example of one of the participants’ profiles is included as an example. The influence of the pre-service teachers’ mathematics profiles on their instructional behaviour is then discussed. This is done with regard to using the mathematics profiles as a potential tool to optimise the development of pre-service mathematics teachers’ instructional behaviour towards a more reform-oriented approach.