This qualitative case study examined the extent to which learning styles were used by teachers in four seventh and eighth grade social studies classrooms in a large suburban north Texas junior high school. The conclusions were as follows: 1) The environment on the junior high level did not afford the flexibility found in the elementary classroom. The changing of students, teachers, and the multi-purpose use of rooms did not afford flexibility of light, temperature, sound, and design preference. 2) The physical and the psychological categories had elements within each category that overlapped. A right brain activity closely aligned to a tactile/kinesthetic activity. A parallel between physical-mobility and psychological-global was noted, as well as a pattern between the global and the tactile/kinesthetic projects. 3) The split lunch period created problems for the global, kinesthetic, impulsive students. The academic environment was interrupted for a thirty minute period; students had to re-acclimate to a more analytic environment after lunch. 4) Each teacher alternated between primary style and secondary and tertiary styles. This mediation ability enabled each teacher to use all styles in lessons the researcher observed. 5) Abstract random and concrete random teachers did more group and team teaching than concrete sequential and abstract sequential teachers. Further, dominant sequential ordering in a teacher limited random activities. Whereas, dominant random ordering in a teacher limited sequential ordering activities. Both groups of teachers experienced teacher burnout when forced out of their primary style. 6) It was easier for those teachers whose primary and secondary ordering were opposite (CS/CR or AS/AR), as opposed to those whose primary and secondary ordering were the same (CS/AS or CR/AR), to align to a different environment. 7) These results suggest that teachers should not be required to stay in any one style. The flexibility of being able to alternate between styles will conserve energy and prevent teacher burnout.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sara Miranda de Lacerda.pdf: 1167848 bytes, checksum: a5b1bcc2554ed41d8cfd5b3ccfe2b3b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research is inserted in the context of the contribution of the initial formation for the activity of teaching. The intention was to investigate who is the student that is concluding his studies in Pedagogy and which is his view on teaching Mathematics in the initial years of the Primary School. A historical survey was produced of how teaching formation has being organized since the preparation of teachers to teach the first words to their pupils up to the Pedagogy course for their graduation, including some law aspects which has interfered in this trajectory. For this part of the research, studies from Tanuri, Romanelli, Saviani, Sheibe, Aguiar et al were taken into account. Once the scene for teacher graduation has been set, it was considered primordial to examine teacher formation to guide the specific studies in this area and to understand the present moment of the discussion of the activity of teaching Mathematics. For this branch, studies of Gauthier, Shulman, Tardif, Imbernón, Almeida and Biajone, Mizukami, Nacarato et al, Curi and Skovsmose were considered. Afterwards, a study of PUC/SP Pedagogy course and its new course Pedagogical Project introduced in 2006 has been performed. Last year Pedagogy course students were asked to fill in a questionnaire and a discussion group has been organized to collect their profile data and to know their view about their formation and the role of academic-scientific activities promoted by the institution to their acting as teachers who teach Mathematics in the first years of Primary School. The lecturers who teach the subjects of the thematic axis of Mathematics have been interviewed to identify their opinion on the subject. The approach chosen was the qualitative one because it provides the observation and the analysis of varied manifestations of the surveyed object. A movement of changing in the direction of the recent proposals in the area of Education was verified. What had been perceived in this study was to analyze how Pedagogy courses are reacting to the challenge of providing a formation considered appropriate for the competent professional performance / Esta pesquisa insere-se no contexto da contribuição da formação inicial para a atividade de docência. A intenção era investigar quem é o aluno concluinte do curso de Pedagogia e sua visão sobre a sua formação para ensinar Matemática nas séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Realizou-se um levantamento histórico de como os cursos de formação para a docência foram sendo organizados desde a preparação do professor de primeiras letras até a formação pelo curso de Pedagogia, incluindo alguns aspectos de legislação que interferiram nessa trajetória. Para essa parte, tomou-se por base, principalmente, estudos de Tanuri, Romanelli, Saviani, Sheibe, Aguiar et al. Estabelecido um cenário da formação de professores das séries iniciais no Brasil, considerou-se que era primordial pesquisar a formação de professores para orientar os estudos específicos e compreender o momento atual das discussões da área para o ensino de Matemática. Para isso, foram considerados, principalmente, estudos de Gauthier, Shulman, Tardif, Imbernón, Almeida e Biajone, Mizukami, Nacarato et al, Curi e Skovsmose. Em seguida, desenvolveu-se estudo do curso de Pedagogia da PUC/SP e do Projeto Pedagógico do novo curso, implantado em 2006. Aplicou-se um questionário e organizou-se um grupo de discussão para colher dados de perfil, da visão de alunos concluintes do curso de Pedagogia acerca de sua formação e o papel das atividades acadêmico-científicas promovidas pela instituição para sua atuação como professor que ensina Matemática nas séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Realizou-se entrevista com as professoras que lecionam as disciplinas do eixo temático de Matemática para identificar a visão dessas professoras sobre o tema. A abordagem escolhida foi a pesquisa qualitativa porque ela proporciona a observação e a análise de variadas manifestações sobre o objeto pesquisado. Constatouse que há um movimento de mudança em direção às recentes propostas na área de Educação. Buscou-se, neste trabalho, analisar como os cursos de Pedagogia têm respondido ao desafio de proporcionar uma formação considerada adequada para o bom desempenho profissional

Le système d'éducation expose les individus à un processus de socialisation par lequel ils intériorisent ce qui est considéré comme des valeurs appropriées. A travers le processus de cette socialisation scolaire, les élèves incorporent des valeurs majeures de la société à travers l’enseignement et les contenus pédagogiques, et cette conscience des valeurs majeures est renforcée par les attitudes et les attentes des enseignants, par leur focalisation sur telle ou telle catégorie d’élèves, ainsi que par l’impact de leurs pairs. La présente recherche vise à savoir comment le genre fonctionne pendant l’interaction enseignant-élève en classe dans les écoles primaires (publiques) de Shanghai aujourd’hui. Elle vise à observer comment agissent les stéréotypes du genre dans ces interactions. Pour répondre à ces questions, la recherche compare huit écoles primaires de Shanghai, sélectionnées en fonction des écarts des milieux sociaux et géographiques ainsi qu’en fonction de la réputation concernant la qualité de l’enseignement dans telle ou telle école. La méthode utilisée est d’abord celle de l'entretien avec des enseignants. Il s’agissait de leur demander qu’elle était leur conscience du genre, qu’elle était leur attitude à l’égard des élèves en fonction des deux sexes, ce qu’ils attendaient des garçons et des filles, et sur quelles catégories d’élèves ils focalisaient davantage leur attention au cours de l’enseignement. Tout cela sans révéler les objectifs de la recherche visant à mettre à jour leurs représentations et leurs préjugés concernant le genre. On a ensuite procédé à toute une série d’observations en classe réelle, pour vérifier si la pratique des enseignants correspondait ou non à ce qu’ils affirmaient dans les entretiens. De ces entretiens et de ces observations, il ressort que l’attention portée avant tout aux garçons est renforcé par le système de l’éducation chinoise qui met l’accent sur les résultats aux examens, et n’évalue les écoles et les enseignants qu’en fonction des notes obtenues par les élèves. Or, les stéréotypes du genre associent les questions de logique et d'imagination aux garçons qui sont censés pouvoir y répondre plus facilement que les filles ; et associent aux filles les questions « affectives » ou répétitives. Par ailleurs, les filles en classe se comportent plus docilement et font donc partie des élèves silencieux dont les enseignants ne s’occupent pas beaucoup. Ainsi, en analysant le processus d'interaction dans la classe entre les enseignants et les élèves, nous voyons que l’attitude et les préoccupations des enseignants, jouent à long terme un rôle très important pour renforcer les différences du genre. / An education system exposes individuals to a process of socialization during which the values that are considered appropriate become internalized. Through this process of socialization in schools, students adopt fundamental societal values from the pedagogic contents in class and other educational venues. The awareness of the fundamental values is reinforced by teachers’ attitudes, expectations, different focuses on specific students as well as the impact of their peers.This research aims to find out what role gender plays in the teacher-student interaction in the classrooms of the primary schools (public) in Shanghai today. It seeks to examine how gender stereotypes operate in these interactions. This study compares eight primary schools in Shanghai, which were chosen because of the diverse array of student social backgrounds, geographical locations and teachers’ quality. The methodology started by interviewing teachers in the sampled schools. We did not explicitly reveal the objectives of the questionnaires in order to avoid teacher gender prejudice. Some of the questions are: Do you have different perspectives on the roles of male and female students? Do the perspectives change your expectations about the students? What impact might this "consciousness" (or non-consciousness) about gender have on student behaviour ? What attitudes may you have expressed toward girls and boys during classroom interactions? Are there any differences or similarities in your educational expectations concerning boys and girls? How do these expectation show up in the daily life of students in the classroom? Do these expectations change across subjects taught in schools? How effectively do you deal with student behavior (docility, undisciplined attitudes, etc.) Do your responses to these behaviors differ across gender? What shades can be made according to the social and geographical situation of schools in the sense that this situation leads to a different social recruiting of students? We investigate whether the thoughts and perceptions of the teachers on gender differences correlates with academic performances of boys and girls and how these differences are built into the teacher-student relationship. [...]

Orientador: Rosa de Fátima Souza Chaloba / Banca: Jane Soares de Almeida / Banca: Vera Teresa Valdemarin / Resumo: Este trabalho reconstrói aspectos da cultura escolar de uma escola primária rural. Para isso, realizamos a análise de fontes documentais referentes a instituição. Os 217 documentos catalogados e analisados pelo pesquisador se apresentaram como importante fonte de indícios para uma caracterização geral da instituição, que foi feita por meio das informações retiradas dos livros de matrícula e ponto pessoal e por uma análise mais detalhada dos livros de atas das reuniões pedagógicas que permitiram que se visualizasse os aspectos da cultura escolar. Há no trabalho um histórico que contextualiza e caracteriza a sociedade rural em que o Grupo Escolar Comendador Pedro Morganti estava inserido, e uma reflexão historiográfica que reflete sobre a continuidade das experiências dos sujeitos escolares ao longo do tempo, como aspectos constituintes da cultura escolar / Abstract: This work reconstructs aspects of school culture in a rural primary school. For this, we performed the analysis of documentary sources relating to the institution. The 217 documents cataloged and analyzed by the researcher is presented as an important source of evidence for a general characterization of the institution, which was made through the information taken from books and personal point of registration and a more detailed analysis of the books of minutes of meetings pedagogical that enabled them to visualize aspects of school culture. There is a historical work that contextualizes and characterizes the rural society in which the School Group Commander Pedro Morganti was inserted, and an historical analysis that reflects on the continuity of the educational experiences of individuals over time, as essential elements of school culture / Mestre

Today’s primary school pupils encounter English in a wide variety of ways through the use of various forms of media. This thesis aims to research how the very youngest pupils in the Swedish primary school encounter the English language in their time outside of school and whether or not it has any impact on how they relate to the subject in school. Teachers’ views on their pupils’ habits will also be compared, as well as whether they see encounters outside the classroom as having any visible effects on the pupils. Through the use of interviews with both seven- to eight-year-old pupils and teachers, it was possible to find common forms of extramural English (EE) among the pupils, but little evidence it contributed to their views on English at school. Teachers were largely aware of their pupils’ interests and were positive towards using EE content in class, but did not feel it was possible to do so. / <p>Engelska</p>

The purpose of this paper is to investigate historical consciousness through how pupils perceive history as a school subject. Jörn Rüsen´s three dimensions, the political, the cognitive and the aesthetic, of history culture has been applied in order to highlight pupils communicated historical consciousness. Historical consciousness can be regarded as the impact our interpretations of our past has on our understanding of the present and expectations of the future. Characteristic of historical consciousness is historical time and story. Historical time is subjective and builds on experiences and expectations in which all time dimensions operates in a contemporary era, and the story is a linguistic form of historical consciousness where we communicate experiences of the past, the present and expectations for the future. Pupils in grade 2 and 3 have been interviewed to clarify their perception and interpretation of history. The three dimensions of historical culture show that it is a politically contradictory story that takes precedence over the history of teaching. The results of the analysis show that the pupils historical consciousness is limited to the past and the present, while the future has not been explicitly addressed in the teaching. At the same time, the dimensions of historical culture have highlighted that the pupils themselves have the capacity to activate and develop their historical consciousness. Aided by imagination and the creation of stories the pupils allow themselves to approach the future through their own experiences and interpretations of the past. This sets a framework for expectations and dreams of the future. The same framework enables the pupils to approach the past by entering imaginative worlds interpreted as a resemblance of life in the historical past.

The diploma thesis deals with the textbooks used by teachers of national history and geography. Most of the teachers included in my research sample use textbooks mainly for preparation of their lessons, which corresponds with the researches in the Czech Republic presented in the theoretical part of this thesis. As a complementary material used for lesson planning they use the Internet. The theoretical part is divided into four chapters. The findings of the research and the recommendations of the professional literature related to the issue of teacher's choice of curriculum and to the role of textbooks are discussed. The research related to the lesson planning, teaching methods and types of planning for the lesson is analysed and a special attention is given to the usage of various recourses e.g. encyclopaedias and educational software used for lesson planning. One chapter deals with the theory of textbooks and with the research related to their evaluation. The last chapter of the theoretical part is focused on the concept of lesson planning in the Czech Republic and the potential of textbooks usage for teaching of given subject. The empirical part is conducted by the semi-structured interviews with primary school teachers, specifically with four females and two male respondents. The findings are...

This research is concerned with the educational process within an outdoor centre involving groups of primary school children. It studies group interaction between the participants in a natural setting by taking a holistic approach, giving an account of their outdoor learning experience in the context of a group. It appears that there is little focus on groups in the outdoors, even though most outdoor programmes involve groups. Most of the research done on groups is quantitative and laboratory based. Such traditional approaches have been challenged, as empirical limitations and theoretical problems have been identified. It is argued that a study of group interactions within a natural environment, such as the outdoor classroom, would allow for a more insightful understanding of the phenomena involved, and it could also shed light on the outdoor educational process, which has been neglected by research in outdoor education. Participant observation and semi-structured interviews were used as part of an ethnographic approach. This enabled the collection of varied data, which resulted in a thick description of the phenomena explored. The findings show that the concept of team building is central to the philosophy of the outdoor centre and of its staff. The activities, which are used as learning tools, are group orientated. Teamwork is seen as essential for the learning experience at the outdoor centre. The study also revealed that the different approaches of the participants influenced the way learning was constructed. The two main themes that have emerged were empowerment and control. The empowering approaches offered support and encouragement to the participants, allowing for collaboration and cooperation to exist between them, which enabled learning to be more effective. The controlling approaches were characterised by a lack of dialogue between the participants, which interfered with the learning experience, by not creating an environment where the participants could work together as a group. A social aspect of learning was thus identified, which emphasised the importance of viewing learning as a joint process. The research shows that a well-designed process does not always result in the participants achieving the ‘desired learning outcomes’. The teachers/facilitators need to be aware of the impact that their approach may have on the learning experience of the participants.

Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2003 / Refer to document

In Sweden today, the English language is a part of our everyday lives. This means that from very young ages, children encounter the language in many different ways, media being one of the most common. This thesis aims to research if and how teachers in F-3 include this type of English in their teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL). In particular, the focus is to gain knowledge of how music/songs are being used in the classroom, and if the teachers incorporate the music that the pupils listen to in their spare time when working with music/songs. Their attitudes towards doing this is what this thesis is interested in. An empirical study was carried out with the use of interviews as data collecting method. A total of six lower primary school teachers (grades 1-3) spread out geographically in Sweden were interviewed. The results show that teachers report that they are aware of the many places where pupils encounter English, but only one of the teachers incorporate this in teaching EFL. However, the others do seem positive towards working with this and they mention many benefits in doing so. When it comes to music and songs, all teachers work with this in the subject, but once again five out of six do not include the songs that the pupils listen to, except when they in some cases pick something up in the moment. Again, even though some difficulties are mentioned, they seem positive towards this and they believe there is a possibility in including this in their teaching of EFL. However, as seen in the conclusion, time seems to be a big issue for doing so. / <p>Engelska</p>