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Em 2016, já são 15 escolas, entre municipais e estaduais. Estes programas, contudo, carecem, na maioria dos casos, de um planejamento e elaboração mais cuidadosos, sobretudo no que diz respeito ao arcabouço teórico que os sustenta. Esta dissertação se inicia, portanto, justamente acompanhando a evolução do conceito de bilinguismo desde Bloomfield (1933) até García (2009). A revisão bibliográfica nos leva a uma discussão mais concentrada no tema da Educação Bilíngue e suas formas ‘fracas’ e ‘fortes’, seus modelos e tipos, seus fatores condicionantes e a função de se educar ‘bilinguamente’ no século XXI – o referencial teórico é delineado por Baker e Prys Jones (1998), Hornberger (1991), Hamers e Blanc (2000) e García (2009). Ao fim, esboça-se uma visão geral da Educação Bilíngue no Brasil, e apresenta-se uma análise do Programa Escolas Bilíngues da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro. Constata-se que, a partir dessa visão geral, como afirmou Pereira (2006), a intenção não é integrar os grupos de minorias socialmente desfavorecidos – como mostra a história da Educação Bilíngue no Brasil. No que concerne ao Programa Escolas Bilíngues, seu projeto não parece ter sido desenvolvido levando em consideração todos os fatores que envolvem uma educação com esse propósito de formação. Além disso, não identificou-se adequação específica para crianças de escolas públicas localizadas, em sua maioria, em comunidades pobres da cidade, como a Pavuna. Espera-se, com esta dissertação, aprofundar o conhecimento acerca do tema, e colaborar para a expansão dos estudos no campo da Educação Bilíngue no país / This dissertation aims to offer a review of the concept of bilingualism and the theme of bilingual education, as well as to present an analysis of the Escolas Bilíngues Program of the City of Rio de Janeiro. Such research is necessary in a context like ours, marked by an enormous linguistic plurality, by various situations of bilingualism and multilingualism. Added to this is the recent phenomenon of an increased demand and consequent growth in the number of bilingual schools in the country’s urban centers. In Rio de Janeiro, since 2013, new public schools have been running bilingual programs every year. By 2016, there are already 15 schools. However, these programs lack, in the majority of the cases, a more careful planning and elaboration, especially with regard to the theoretical framework that underpins them. This dissertation begins, therefore, precisely following the evolution of the concept of bilingualism from Bloomfield (1933) to García (2009). The bibliographical review leads us to a more focused discussion on the theme of Bilingual Education and its ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ forms, their models and types, their conditioning factors and the role of educating ‘bilingually’ in the 21st century – the theoretical framework is outlined by Baker and Prys Jones (1998), Hornberger (1991), Hamers and Blanc (2000), and García (2009). Finally, an overview of Bilingual Education in Brazil is portrayed, and an analysis of the Escolas Bilíngues Program of the City of Rio de Janeiro is presented. It is clear that, from this overview, as stated Pereira (2006), the intention is not to integrate socially disadvantaged minority groups – as the history of Bilingual Education in Brazil shows. Regarding the Escolas Bilíngues Program, its project does not seem to have been developed taking into account all the factors that involves this type of education. Moreover, specific suitability was not identified for the children that attend these public schools, located mostly in poor communities of the city, such as Pavuna. It is hoped, with this dissertation, to deepen the knowledge about the subject, and to collaborate for the promotion of the studies in the field of Bilingual Education in the country

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Itamaragiba Chaves Xavier_Tese.pdf: 1188097 bytes, checksum: 6f72d909911ddd8f65626e17b84cf485 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-09 / Sem bolsa / O tema desta tese insere-se nos debates sobre a instrução pública primária no Brasil Império. O período de análise tem início em 1822, com a independência do Brasil, e finaliza em 1857, com a queda do gabinete que Couto Ferraz fazia parte como Ministro dos Negócios do Império. O primeiro projeto de instrução pública do Brasil Independente é o de Martim Francisco Ribeiro d?Andrada Machado, apresentado à Assembleia Geral Legislativa Brasileira em 1823; o segundo é o de Januário da Cunha Barbosa, apresentado à Assembleia Legislativa em 1826. Tais projetos seguiram os princípios educacionais de Condorcet, o qual defende a escola pública laica e financiada pelo Estado, mas não controlada por este. No entanto, a legislação aprovada no período analisado nega os seus ideais. Diante disso, surge a seguinte pergunta: por que a concepção de escola de Condorcet, que está presente nos dois primeiros projetos de instrução pública do Brasil Independente, não consta na legislação educacional brasileira no período de 1822-1857? O referencial teórico-metodológico empregado pauta-se no materialismo histórico. As fontes utilizadas são: os escritos produzidos por Condorcet; a Constituição do Império do Brasil, de 1824; o Ato Adicional, de 1834; a legislação educacional produzida na Corte do Brasil; os Anais do Parlamento Brasileiro, de 1823; as Falas do Trono; e os projetos de instrução pública de Martim Francisco d?Andrada Machado (1823) e de Januário da Cunha Barbosa (1826). Concluímos que os pressupostos educacionais defendidos por Condorcet não aparecem na legislação educacional primária aprovada porque o pensamento dominante, entre os políticos brasileiros, compreendia que a instrução pública primária deveria formar sujeitos respeitadores das leis e das hierarquias sociais. Para incutir esses ideais na sociedade brasileira, a escola era usada como aparelho ideológico de Estado e os princípios morais vinculados aos dogmas da Religião Católica Apostólica Romana eram centrais. / The subject of this dissertation is part of the discussions on the primary public education in the Empire of Brazil. The study period begins in 1822, with the independence of Brazil, and ends in 1857, with the fall of the chamber occupied by Couto Ferraz as the Minister of Empire Affairs. The first public education project of an independent Brazil was proposed by Martim Francisco Ribeiro d'Andrada Machado, presented to the Brazilian Legislative General Assembly in 1823, and the second by Januário da Cunha Barbosa, presented to the Legislative Assembly in 1826. These projects followed the educational principles of Condorcet, which defended a secular public school financed, but not controlled by the State. However, the legislation approved in the study period denied such ideals. Therefore, the following question arises: why Condorcet?s framing of school, which is present in the first two Independent Brazil?s public education projects, is not found in the Brazilian educational legislation in the period of 1822-1857? The study?s theoretical and methodological basis is the historical materialism. The sources used are: the writings produced by Condorcet, the Constitution of the Empire of Brazil, 1824, the Additional Act of 1834, the educational legislation produced in the Court of Brazil, Annals of the Brazilian Parliament, 1823, the Throne Speeches, and the public education projects by Martim Francisco d'Andrada Machado (1823) and Januário da Cunha Barbosa (1826). In conclusion, the educational assumptions advocated by Condorcet were found not to appear in primary education legislation because of the dominant thinking among Brazilian politicians at the time, who understood that the primary public education should train individuals to be respectful of the laws and social hierarchies. In order to instill these ideals in the Brazilian society, school was used as an ideological state apparatus and moral principles linked to the tenets of Roman Catholic Religion were central.

The present study investigated the perspective of students from private and public schools about the existence of interdisciplinarity between the contents of Sciences and Physical Education. The subject of interdisciplinarity is understood as a way of conducting the classroom, in which a theme is proposed by approaches of different subjects. That is to comprehend, to understand the parts that connect different areas of knowledge in order to bring something innovative, to open wisdoms, recover possibilities and overcome the fragmented thinking. The research subjects included 1830 students from junior high (6th, 7th and 8th grades) and high school (1st, 2nd and 3rd grades in the Brazilian educational system), of which 1030 were from public schools and 800 studied in private schools in the city of Santa Maria (RS Brazil), aged between 10 and 18 years old. The subjects answered to the following question: Do you believe that there is a relation between Sciences and Physical Education? Yes or no and justify your answer. The research results are presented as 2 articles e 1 manuscript. Among the several results obtained we can highlight as the most relevant Article 1, in which 33% of junior high and 38% of high school students possess the perception that the subjects of Physical Education and Sciences are connected. Manuscript 2 reveals that 77,9% to 79,2% of high school students realize there is an interdisciplinary relation between the knowledge from Sciences and Physical Education. Whilst in Article 3, when analyzing the results obtained, 74,6% of high school students from public school and 59,2% from private schools did not find any interdisciplinary relation between Sciences and Physical Education in their school. As final conclusion we detected that in both private and public schools, whether the students were from junior high or high school, they have the opinion that there is an interdisciplinary relation between these knowledges. / O presente estudo investigou entre alunos de escolas da rede pública e da rede privada de ensino, qual a visão dos mesmos sobre a existência de interdisciplinaridade entre os conteúdos das disciplinas de ciências e de educação física. A temática interdisciplinaridade é compreendida como uma forma de trabalhar em sala de aula, no qual se propõe um tema com abordagens em diferentes disciplinas. É compreender, entender as partes de ligação entre as diferentes áreas de conhecimento, unindo-se para transpor algo inovador, abrir sabedorias, resgatar possibilidades e ultrapassar o pensar fragmentado. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram 1830 alunos, sendo 1030 alunos da rede pública e 800 alunos da rede privada de ensino fundamental (6ª, 7ª e 8ª séries) e de ensino médio (1ª, 2ª e 3ª séries), de Santa Maria-RS, com idades entre 10 e 18 anos, os quais responderam à seguinte pergunta: Você acredita que exista relação entre as Ciências e a Educação Física? Sim ou Não e Justifique . Os resultados da pesquisa estão apresentados na forma de 2 artigos e 1 manuscrito. Dentre os vários resultados obtidos podemos destacar com maior relevância no Artigo 1, que 33% dos alunos no Ensino Fundamental e 38% no Ensino Médio, possuem a percepção de que as disciplinas de Educação Física e as Ciências, conectam-se. No Manuscrito 2, no ensino médio, pode-se perceber, através da análise das respostas que 77,9% a 79,2% dos alunos possuem a percepção de interdisciplinaridade entre os saberes nas áreas de ensino de ciências e de educação física. Para o Artigo 3, na análise dos resultados obtidos, em torno de 74,6% no ensino público e 59,2% no ensino privado, para os alunos do ensino médio existe relação interdisciplinar entre Ciências e Educação Física na escola. Como conclusão final detectamos nos resultados obtidos tanto nas escolas públicas como nas escolas privadas, quer sejam do ensino fundamental, quer sejam do ensino médio que os alunos têm a opinião de que existe relação interdisciplinar entre os saberes.

Located in Central Africa, Cameroon is considered the driving force of the sub-region due to its strategic location in the center of the African continent. During the last five years, the country has been under the constant threat of a large range of disasters like floods, droughts, landslides, epidemics, etc. In such a context, the government is implementing several strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction in the country. Under the lead of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, the Directorate of Civil Protection, coordinates Disaster Risk Reduction activities through a network of over 379 decentralized institutions and international partners (Ayanji, 2004). Despite a high level of deployment, these activities still prove to have a low level of efficiency on the field. Results from the literature review suggest that this may be due to strategies for public education and public awareness that do not mirror stakeholders’ needs, capacities, and background. There is a need to: (1) identify the failures of the pre-existing public education and public awareness strategy, (2) assess the educational needs and capacities of each category of actors, (3) select adequate instructional methods and tools and (4) ensure the effectiveness and sustainability of the newly proposed strategy. The aim of this work, which is a three-year PhD project funded by the AXA Research Fund, is therefore to propose a public education and public awareness model adapted to the Cameroonian context, using Technology Enhanced Learning to strengthen capacities and competencies of stakeholders involved in the problem of climate change. The study makes use of a mixed method approach. From the literature review, four categories of actors involved into the climate change education process in the country have first been identified namely (1) government, (2) educational institutions, (3) Non-Governmental Organizations and (4) communities. A sample population has been driven from each category using the Respondent Driven Sampling method. Then data were collected during a six-month field trip in Cameroon, using semi-structured interviews (McNamara, 1999), qualitative survey (Fowler, 2009), direct observation (Bernard, 2006) and focus group discussion (Krueger & Casey, 2009). Findings from data analyses, performed using Epi info software for quantitative data and MAXQDA software for qualitative data show that: the educational strategy is not clearly defined; there is a lack of adequate infrastructures; technologies available are not properly used: either they are not evenly accessible, or when accessible they do not match learners’ capacities and competencies. Finally, quality criteria for the evaluation of the existing educational strategy are not met, thus failing to ensure it sustainability. The conceptual solution proposed in this work makes use of the concept of learning communities, especially Community of Practice as proposed by Lave and Wenger (1991) to develop an information and knowledge sharing community system to establish best practices for improving community resilience to climate change impact. This Community of Practice will operate essentially offline with a selected domain, a well-defined and structured community, and a practice that makes use of identified technologies already available among communities and, most importantly, that mirrors the Cameroonian socio-cultural context. One unexpected factor that had to be taken into consideration while determining adequate technology tools, is the actors’ perception, or rather say actors’ (un)acceptance of “new technologies”, which render the design of the instructional model quite challenging. / Kamerun ist ein Land in Zentralafrika. Aufgrund seiner strategischen Lage in der Mitte des afrikanischen Kontinents, gilt das Land als die treibende Kraft der Sub-Region. Während der letzten fünf Jahre wurde Kamerun Opfer von ständigen Bedrohungen einer Vielzahl von Katastrophen wie Überschwemmungen, Dürren, Erdrutsche, Epidemien, usw. In diesem Kontext hat die Regierung eine Reihe von Strategien zur Verringerung der Katastrophenrisiken imstande gebracht. Dies wurde unter der Leitung vom Ministerium der territorialen Verwaltung und Dezentralisierung und vom Amt für Katastrophenschutz durchgeführt. Weiterhin nahmen mehr als 379 dezentrale Institutionen und internationale Partner an diese bedeutende Aktion teil (Ayanji, 2004). Die bei diesem Großeinsatz getroffenen Maßnahmen haben aber bisher eine sehr geringe Effizienz auf dem Feld gebracht. Eine nähere Betrachtung im Zusammenspiel mit entsprechender Literatur lassen folgendes vermuten: die Strategien zur Sensibilisierung sind auf die Bedürfnisse, Kapazitäten und Hintergründe der Akteure nicht angepasst. Demnach sind folgende Tatsachen in Betracht zu ziehen: (1) Identifikation der Ausfälle der bevorstehenden Awareness-Strategie; (2) Bewertung den pädagogischen Bedürfnissen und Kapazitäten der einzelnen Kategorien von Akteuren; (3) Auswahl geeigneter Unterrichtsmethoden und Tools; (4) Gewährleisten der Wirksamkeit und Nachhaltigkeit der neu vorgeschlagenen Strategie. Diese Arbeit stammt aus einem dreijährigen Promotionsprojekt finanziert von der AXA Research Fund. Das Ziel der Arbeit ist der Vorschlag eines Awareness-Modells, das an dem kamerunischen Kontext angepasst ist, und das die Bildungstechnologie zur Stärkung der Kapazitäten und Kompetenzen der beteiligten Akteure des Klimawandels nutzt. Aus der Literatur sind vier Kategorien von Akteuren identifiziert worden: Die Regierung, Bildungseinrichtungen, nationale und internationale Organisationen, Gemeinschaften. Die Studie folgt einer Mixed-Method Forschung. Eine Stichprobe wurde aus jeder Kategorie von Akteuren mit Schneeballauswahl-Methode gezogen. Dann wurden Daten während einer 6-monatigen Studienreise in Kamerun gesammelt. Diese wurde in Begleitung mit semi-strukturierten Interview (McNamara, 1999), qualitativen Erhebung (Fowler, 2009), direkter Beobachtung (Bernard, 2006) und Gruppendiskussion (Krueger & Casey, 2009). Die Daten wurden analysiert mit Epi-info Software für quantitative Daten und MAXQDA Software für qualitative Daten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen Folgendes: - Die pädagogische Strategie ist nicht klar definiert - Mangel an angemessenen Infrastrukturen - Die verfügbaren Technologien sind nicht vorhanden und teilweise falsch eingesetzt. Sie sind entweder nicht gleichmäßig verwendet oder sie stimmen mit den Fähigkeiten der Lernenden nicht überein. - Qualitätskriterien für die Bewertung der bestehenden Ausbildungsstrategie sind nicht erfüllt Die vorgeschlagene konzeptionelle Lösung, die in dieser Arbeit verwendet wird, benutzt das Konzept der Learning Communities, insbesondere "Community of Practice" wie von Lave und Wenger (1991) beschrieben. Ziel ist es, ein Informations- und Wissensaustausch Community-System zur Förderung bewährter Verfahren im Sinne der Verbesserung der Gemeinschaft gegenüber Auswirkungen des Klimawandels zu schaffen. Diese Community of Practice wird offline mit einer ausgewählten Domäne, eine gut definierte und strukturierte Gemeinschaft, und eine gut gestaltete Praxis funktionieren. Ein unerwarteter Faktor, der bei der Bestimmung der angemessenen Technologie-Tools berücksichtigt werden müsste, ist die Wahrnehmung der Akteure oder besser gesagt die (Un-)Akzeptanz der "Neuen Technologien" durch die Akteure. Dies macht das Design des Instruktionsmodells zu einer richtigen Herausforderung.

This thesis deals with the key ideas of the popular education concept of Professor Tomáš Trnka, who is considered to be a leading theorist of popular education in the interwar Czechoslovakia, and who has significant merits in the gradual constitution of andragogy as an independent scientific discipline. The main focus of the thesis is on the analysis of his key publications The Basics of Popular Education (published in 1934) and Popular Education, its theory, components, methods and organization (published in 1946). The text aims to provide a comprehensive overview of Trnka's work in the field of popular education, with regards to relevant andragogical and historical contexts. The thesis also contains a critical evaluation of Trnka's work and a reflection of its development in the following historical periods. Key words: Tomáš Trnka, popular education, public education, Masaryk Institute for Popular Education, interwar Czechoslovakia, content analysis

In this dissertation, I examine three major aspects of Germany's education system from an empirical public finance perspective. First, I analyse the effects of strong demographic shifts by considering how the East German Länder responded to the rather dramatic decline in the number of students in primary schools (1993-2002). The demographic shock is a consequence of collapsing birth rates after German Reunification. Previous results from the literature, which rely on data from rather stable demographic periods, suggest that public resources are incompletely adjusted to shrinking cohort size such that large reductions in the student population translate into important increases in spending per student and not in significant reductions of public resources allocated to education. Evidence from a panel of 5 East German Länder over the 1993-2006 period suggests, however, that resource adjustments have been considerable, especially in the years when student cohorts were actually decreasing. Adjustments have been less tight in the period when student numbers stagnated such that the 50% decrease in cohort size has translated into a 25% increase in the teacher/student-ratio. Second, I test whether partisan theory can help to explain the practise of ability-tracking in West Germany. The analysis starts from the empirical observation that in the German education system – where tracking is practised very early compared to other OECD countries – the correlation of parent’s education or income with their children’s track choices is very strong. Thus, students whose parents have a high-education background have significantly higher probabilities of attending a high-ability track. Partisan theory states that political parties when in office pursue the interests of their members and electoral constituencies. Political parties representing highly educated households should therefore support the practise of ability-tracking and advocate higher education spending on the tracks for good students. Evidence from a panel of 10 West German Länder over the 1979-2006 period suggests that German political parties support tracking if they represent high-education households and oppose tracking if they represent lower educated households. The results also suggest that political parties tend to allocate public resources towards the track in which party members’ or party electorate’s offspring is overrepresented. Third, research-oriented higher education in Germany is almost exclusively provided by the public sector, which highlights the importance of measuring university cost efficiency, because market exit and entry – which ensure efficient resource use in the private sector – virtually do not exist (see e.g., Hanushek, 2002). Based on a panel of 70 German public universities over the 1998-2003 period I provide evidence about the factors that benefit efficient resource use in the German higher education landscape. I analyse whether relatively liberal university regulation improves the cost efficiency of public universities as suggested in the literature (see Aghion et al., 2008). The results show that liberal university regulation indeed contributes to more efficient use of resources. Moreover, I find that a prosperous private economic environment seems to reduce university costs.

El acceso a la educación es un tópico relevante para la investigación económica, desde su relación con las expectativas de ingresos del individuo hasta su relación con el desarrollo económico de un país, a través del capital humano. Se destaca que en Perú la educación superior tiene el mayor retorno económico percibido y real, por lo cual el estudio del acceso a la misma es de particular interés. La literatura académica plantea que el acceso está relacionado con características individuales, familiares y del entorno educativo del estudiante. Si bien la mayor parte de investigaciones en el campo destacan el rol de los ingresos familiares sobre el acceso a la educación superior, se considera relevante para Perú analizar otros factores puedan influir sobre el acceso a la educación superior. La presente investigación analiza el acceso a la educación superior a través de la decisión de la cantidad de años de estudios que toma el individuo con base en una función de utilidad que considera que el estudiante elige la cantidad de años de educación que cursará dependiendo de la utilidad que esta puede brindarle, sujeto a características individuales y de su entorno. Como resultado, esta investigación identifica que existen características individuales del estudiante que influyen sobre el acceso de este las universidades y dentro de estas destaca que características del estudiante recogidas por el tipo de gestión del colegio donde estudian, tienen un rol significativo sobre la probabilidad del acceso a una universidad. / Access to education is a relevant topic for economic research, from its relationship with the individual's income expectations to its relationship with the economic development of a country, through human capital. It is highlighted that in Peru higher education has the highest economic return, for which the study of access to it is of particular interest. The academic literature states that access is related to individual and family characteristics, as well as to the educational environment of the student. Although most research in the field highlights the role of family income on access to higher education, for Perú it is considered relevant to analyze other factors that may influence access to higher education. This research analyzes access to higher education (universities) through the decision of the number of years of education that the individual takes, based on a utility function that considers that the student chooses the number of years of education that he will study depending on the utility that it can provide, subject to individual and environment characteristics. As a result, this research identifies that there are individual characteristics of the student that influence his access to university; and within these it highlights that the characteristics of the student represented by the type of management of the school where they study, have a significant role on the probability of access to a university. / Trabajo de investigación

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis examines how the writings of Caleb Mills impacted the development of public education in Indiana and includes an edition of two unpublished addresses by Mills, “A Lecture on Popular Education” and “Knowledge is Power.” The addresses provide a much-needed glimpse of some of Caleb Mills’ efforts other than his famous addresses as “One of the People.” The works demonstrate how the education reformer outlined his views regarding the ideals of proper education found in his much better known “One of the People” addresses and also highlight the education debate that has continued into the early twenty-first century.

Increasing levels of teacher attrition in special education within Bahamian public schools are preventing students with learning disabilities from achieving their learning goals within inclusive classroom settings. Addressing factors that influence attrition is vital to enhance the quality of education and the efficacy of educators while supporting positive social change. The purpose of this general qualitative study was to ascertain why Bahamian educators leave special education. This was achieved by exploring the influencing factors that have incited the decisions of public special education teachers within The Bahamas to resign or request premature retirement from the teaching profession, as well as how job satisfaction influences teacher retention within The Bahamas' public education system. Twelve Bahamian public educators (8 former special educators, 3 current reading specialists, and 1 current resource teacher) from a major city were randomly selected to participate in semistructured interviews. Data were analyzed via open coding. Job satisfaction, social cognitive, and social cognitive career theories were used as a lens through which to understand educators' career decisions. Findings revealed that Bahamian educators leave special education due to (a) lack of specialized training, (b) lack of administrative support, and (c) burnout. Contrary to existing literature, findings revealed that poor student behavior does not significantly influence attrition among educators, and a love for children does not significantly motivate teachers to remain. Mentoring and induction programs were cited as ineffective means of teacher retention. Educators are more likely to stay when they feel valued, appreciated, supported, and respected by administrators, colleagues, and parents.

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