Cette recherche montre l’écart entre les intentions politiques et institutionnelles et les pratiques des professeurs des écoles, qui sont partielles et hétérogènes. Il existe une pluralité de points de vue sur la légitimité et la pertinence de l’enseignement laïque des faits religieux, qui demeure un objet scolaire discuté. Un pan de notre étude est consacré à l’analyse des pratiques de professeurs enseignant les faits religieux pour éduquer à la laïcité. Ceux-ci, en prenant en charge l’enseignement de questions vives, ont dû faire preuve d’ingéniosité pédagogique, se traduisant par des bricolages rendus nécessaires par la rareté des outils, le manque de formation et l’absence de préconisations institutionnelles quant aux savoirs intermédiaires adéquats. Si, globalement, leurs pratiques répondent aux objectifs principaux de l’enseignement des faits religieux, notamment éduquer à la laïcité, aborder ces sujets suppose un investissement personnel lourd, pour l’enseignant comme pour ses élèves, et renvoie chacun à ses systèmes de valeurs. Les principaux écueils relevés sont liés au respect de l’obligation de neutralité (difficulté à se représenter sa pertinence pédagogique, sa transposition). En l’absence d’outils et de formation dédiés, certains enseignants sont démunis. L’association ENQUÊTE a été créée en 2010 pour répondre à ce besoin. Elle souhaite contribuer à réduire l’écart entre les intentions institutionnelles favorables à l’enseignement des faits religieux dans le cadre d’une éducation à la laïcité et les pratiques des professeurs, via des formations et des outils, et aussi à promouvoir cet enseignement et cette "éducation à" auprès des acteurs politiques et institutionnels. / This research highlights a gap between political and institutional intentions, and practices of school teachers, which are partial and heterogeneous. There is a plurality of views about the legitimacy and relevance of teaching about religions and beliefs in a secular way, which is still a very much debated school subject. One part of this study is dedicated to the analysis of teachers' practices when teaching about religions and beliefs in order to educate to laicity. To address these sensitive education issues demands creativity. Because of a scarcity of tools, lack of training and very few institutional recommendations about adequate intermediate knowledge, teachers have had to cobble together their own teaching materials. Overall, their practices meet the main purposes of teaching about religions, especially to educate to laicity. Nonetheless, dealing with these subjects requires a heavy personal investment, for the teacher as well as for their students, and brings back each one to his own value systems. The main identified pitfalls are linked to the neutrality obligation : they find it difficult to represent their pedagogical relevance and to translate it into their teaching. Many teachers feel helpless when confronted to the lack of dedicated tools and training. ENQUÊTE is an association that was created in 2010 in order to address this issue. Its first objective is to contribute, via trainings and tools, to reducing the gap between institutional intentions that favour teaching about religions and beliefs – as part of the education to laicity – and teachers' practices. Its second goal is to promote this teaching among political and institutional actors.

O estudo aqui apresentado insere-se na linha de pesquisa História da Educação e Historiografia. Trata-se da análise dos programas de ensino produzidos entre 1887 e 1929 no Estado de São Paulo, identificando os saberes escolares (matérias e conteúdos) escolhidos para serem ensinados nos seguintes tipos de escolas públicas primárias existentes no período: as escolas isoladas, as escolas-modelo, os grupos escolares, as escolas-modelo isoladas e as escolas reunidas. Para cada uma dessas modalidades de escolas, havia um programa de ensino específico a ser cumprido, significando, portanto, que as crianças que as freqüentavam não tinham a oportunidade de acesso aos mesmos saberes escolares. A partir do exame dos programas de ensino - os quais eram incorporados na legislação escolar ou publicados sob a forma de anexos na mesma - buscou-se atentar para aspectos como a permanência, o acréscimo e/ou a exclusão de determinados saberes escolares, além do modo como esses eram apresentados, isto é, se eram apenas descritas as matérias que deviam ser ensinadas ou se eram também detalhados os conteúdos de cada uma delas. Com isso, foi possível concluir que as finalidades principais das escolas primárias eram a nacionalização e a moralização dos alunos, embora, no caso das escolas isoladas, aquelas não tenham sido seus focos iniciais. Outro objetivo da pesquisa foi procurar referências à questão dos programas de ensino feitas por diversos profissionais da educação ao longo do período. Para isso, foram investigados relatórios de professores, de diretores de escolas-modelo e de grupos escolares (encontrados sob a forma de manuscritos), bem como de inspetores escolares. Nesse caso, eles também consistem em manuscritos, mas posteriormente passaram a ser incluídos nos Anuários do Ensino do Estado de São Paulo (1907-1926). Além disso, foram estudados textos de três periódicos educacionais paulistas cujos colaboradores, geralmente, ocupavam posições de destaque na hierarquia do sistema público de ensino do Estado de São Paulo (professores e exalunos da Escola Normal, diretores de escolas, entre outros): Revista de Ensino (1902-1918), Revista Escolar (1925-1927) e Educação (1927-1929). O recurso aos relatórios de ensino e às publicações pedagógicas permitiu entrever, especialmente, a participação ativa dos diversos sujeitos escolares no tocante ao debate em torno do que ensinar nas escolas primárias. Como fundamentação teórica, os principais autores utilizados foram André Chervel e Dominique Julia, que propõem a história das disciplinas escolares como meio de desvendar a cultura escolar, além de Ivor Goodson, um dos expoentes da história do currículo. / This study is included in the field of Education History and Historiography. It is an analysis about the courses of studies elaborated between 1887 and 1929 in São Paulo, identifying the school knowledge (subjects and contents) selected to be teached in the following types of public primary schools existed in the period: isolated schools, model schools, graded schools, isolated model schools and reunited schools. For each model of school, there was a specific course of studies to be complied, meaning, thus, that the children that they attended couldnt have access to the same school knowledge. Through the investigation of the course of studies - that were incorporated in school legislation or attached in it - it aimed to pay attention to aspects as stability, addiction, and/or exclusion of certain school knowledge, besides the way that they were presented, it means, if only they described the subjects to be teached or if they detailed the contents of each one. This way, it was possible to conclude that the main goals of the primary schools were the nationalization and the moralization of the students. However, in case of isolated schools, those werent the initial focus. Other intent of this research was look for references about the issue of course of studies made by different educational professionals during the period. For this objective, it were analyzed teachers, principals of model schools and graded schools (they are found as manuscripts) and inspectors reports. In this case, they also can be found as manuscripts, but later they were included in the Anuários do Ensino do Estado de São Paulo (1907-1926). Besides, it were investigated texts published in three educational magazines which authors, generally, kept high positions in the hierarchy of São Paulos public educational system (teachers and old students of Normal School, principals of schools, and others): Revista de Ensino (1902-1918), Revista Escolar (1925-1927) and Educação (1927-1929). Through the utilization of the educational reports and the educational magazines it was able to note the active participation of the different educational professionals involving discussion about what to teach in primary schools. As theoretical standpoint, the main authors that have been used were André Chervel and Dominique Julia, who suggest the history of school subjects as a way to discover the school culture, and Ivor Goodson, one of the exponents of the history of curriculum.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T21:16:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 8 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O estudo focaliza o processo de institucionalização progressiva da escola pública primária na área rural de Joaçaba – SC entre 1938 e 1961. Analisa as políticas públicas educacionais direcionadas a esse nível de ensino e suas imbricações na constituição da cultura escolar. A escola pública nessa região de Santa Catarina torna-se pública a partir de 1938, quando é nacionalizado o ensino primário em âmbito estadual e federal. Nesse período as escolas das áreas de colonização, como as teuto-brasileiras de Santa Catarina, sofrem uma interrupção e descaracterização no quadro de sua cultura escolar. Instituições com conotação étnica e confessional são fechadas ou transformadas em instituições públicas. O estudo analisa aspectos relacionados à organização administrativa, à manutenção da escola e ao espaço escolar. Abrange também os desafios da docência na área rural, bem como práticas escolares, avaliativas e comemorativas. A discussão é desenvolvida na perspectiva teórica das políticas públicas educacionais e da cu / This study focuses on the deployment and institutionalization process at the public primary school in the rural area of Joaçaba-SC between the years of 1938 and 1961. It analyses the educational public policies directed to this educational level and its role in the scholar culture formation. The public school in this region of Santa Catarina became public in 1938 when the primary education was nationalized both in the states and in the country. In that time, the schools in colonization areas, such as German-Brazilian in Santa Catarina, had their scholar cultural frame interrupted and disconfigured. From institutions with ethnic and denominational connotation, they got closed or were transformed in public institutions. This study analyses aspects related to the administrative organization, to the school maintenance and to the scholar area in relation to the scholar buildings. It covers also the challenges of teaching in rural areas as well as scholar, assessable and celebrational practices. The discussion is d

O estudo aqui apresentado insere-se na linha de pesquisa História da Educação e Historiografia. Trata-se da análise dos programas de ensino produzidos entre 1887 e 1929 no Estado de São Paulo, identificando os saberes escolares (matérias e conteúdos) escolhidos para serem ensinados nos seguintes tipos de escolas públicas primárias existentes no período: as escolas isoladas, as escolas-modelo, os grupos escolares, as escolas-modelo isoladas e as escolas reunidas. Para cada uma dessas modalidades de escolas, havia um programa de ensino específico a ser cumprido, significando, portanto, que as crianças que as freqüentavam não tinham a oportunidade de acesso aos mesmos saberes escolares. A partir do exame dos programas de ensino - os quais eram incorporados na legislação escolar ou publicados sob a forma de anexos na mesma - buscou-se atentar para aspectos como a permanência, o acréscimo e/ou a exclusão de determinados saberes escolares, além do modo como esses eram apresentados, isto é, se eram apenas descritas as matérias que deviam ser ensinadas ou se eram também detalhados os conteúdos de cada uma delas. Com isso, foi possível concluir que as finalidades principais das escolas primárias eram a nacionalização e a moralização dos alunos, embora, no caso das escolas isoladas, aquelas não tenham sido seus focos iniciais. Outro objetivo da pesquisa foi procurar referências à questão dos programas de ensino feitas por diversos profissionais da educação ao longo do período. Para isso, foram investigados relatórios de professores, de diretores de escolas-modelo e de grupos escolares (encontrados sob a forma de manuscritos), bem como de inspetores escolares. Nesse caso, eles também consistem em manuscritos, mas posteriormente passaram a ser incluídos nos Anuários do Ensino do Estado de São Paulo (1907-1926). Além disso, foram estudados textos de três periódicos educacionais paulistas cujos colaboradores, geralmente, ocupavam posições de destaque na hierarquia do sistema público de ensino do Estado de São Paulo (professores e exalunos da Escola Normal, diretores de escolas, entre outros): Revista de Ensino (1902-1918), Revista Escolar (1925-1927) e Educação (1927-1929). O recurso aos relatórios de ensino e às publicações pedagógicas permitiu entrever, especialmente, a participação ativa dos diversos sujeitos escolares no tocante ao debate em torno do que ensinar nas escolas primárias. Como fundamentação teórica, os principais autores utilizados foram André Chervel e Dominique Julia, que propõem a história das disciplinas escolares como meio de desvendar a cultura escolar, além de Ivor Goodson, um dos expoentes da história do currículo. / This study is included in the field of Education History and Historiography. It is an analysis about the courses of studies elaborated between 1887 and 1929 in São Paulo, identifying the school knowledge (subjects and contents) selected to be teached in the following types of public primary schools existed in the period: isolated schools, model schools, graded schools, isolated model schools and reunited schools. For each model of school, there was a specific course of studies to be complied, meaning, thus, that the children that they attended couldnt have access to the same school knowledge. Through the investigation of the course of studies - that were incorporated in school legislation or attached in it - it aimed to pay attention to aspects as stability, addiction, and/or exclusion of certain school knowledge, besides the way that they were presented, it means, if only they described the subjects to be teached or if they detailed the contents of each one. This way, it was possible to conclude that the main goals of the primary schools were the nationalization and the moralization of the students. However, in case of isolated schools, those werent the initial focus. Other intent of this research was look for references about the issue of course of studies made by different educational professionals during the period. For this objective, it were analyzed teachers, principals of model schools and graded schools (they are found as manuscripts) and inspectors reports. In this case, they also can be found as manuscripts, but later they were included in the Anuários do Ensino do Estado de São Paulo (1907-1926). Besides, it were investigated texts published in three educational magazines which authors, generally, kept high positions in the hierarchy of São Paulos public educational system (teachers and old students of Normal School, principals of schools, and others): Revista de Ensino (1902-1918), Revista Escolar (1925-1927) and Educação (1927-1929). Through the utilization of the educational reports and the educational magazines it was able to note the active participation of the different educational professionals involving discussion about what to teach in primary schools. As theoretical standpoint, the main authors that have been used were André Chervel and Dominique Julia, who suggest the history of school subjects as a way to discover the school culture, and Ivor Goodson, one of the exponents of the history of curriculum.

MA (Linguistics) / Department of Communication and Applied Language Studies / The study investigates why English is chosen as a language of learning and teaching by School Governing Bodies in selected public primary schools in Vhembe District. Historically, only English and Afrikaans were regarded as official languages that could be used as media of instruction in schools. The advent of democracy in 1994 saw nine most spoken languages in South Africa, besides English and Afrikaans, being elevated to the level of official languages. These languages included Tshivenda, Sepedi, Xitsonga, Sesotho, Seswati, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana and isiNdebele, Since the South African constitution guarantees equal status to all the eleven major languages that are spoken in South Africa, one would expect to find schools choosing other languages, besides English, as a language of learning and teaching. The Language-in-Education Policy Act of 1997 stipulates that, for the first three years of schooling, learners should be taught in home language. The South African Schools Act number 84 of 1996, gives the mandate to determine the language of learning and teaching to School Governing Bodies (SGB). Amidst this freedom of choice, English remains the language of choice in public primary schools of Vhembe District. Studies have indicated that learners cannot cope with the sudden switch from home language to English, and that they end up failing or even dropping out of school. This study aimed to find out why English remains the language of choice for learning and teaching despite the fact that SGBs have the power to choose indigenous languages. The study was undertaken in the following municipalities: Collins Chabane and Makhado. A collective case study was used as a research design. Twelve respondents, from six selected schools, namely; six SGB chairpersons and six school Principals participated in the study. Respondents were purposively selected because they were the ones responsible for school governance matters. Three data collection methods were used, namely; observations, interviews and document anlysis. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings revealed that SGBs lack capacity to execute their duties as school governors, and that English remains the language of choice because of the status it has in the economic and academic world. The study also found that SGBs cannot choose African languages because they are not developed as languages of science and technology. Conclusions drawn from this study are that SGBs do not participate in the v drafting of the language policy because most members are illiterate and are not aware of the power vested in them by SASA to determine the language policy of their schools. The study also concluded that home languages are not chosen as media of instruction because there are no learning and teaching materials in those languages, and also that home languages are not used as media of instruction in secondary schools and tertiary institutions that admit learners from these primary schools. A major recommendation of the study is that indigenous languages should be developed into languages of science and technology if they are to be used as languages of teaching and learning, and that there should be a programme designed to assist grade 4 learners with the transition from using home language as medium of instruction, to using English as medium of instruction. / NRF

This study evaluates the school feeding programme at Magog Primary School. It sets out as its objective to find out how the programme operates and its potential impact on school children, including challenges, if any, and recommends solutions to mitigate the challenges. It was motivated by the need to provide information which could be used as a basis to ensure that the nutritional and educational objectives of the National School Nutritional Programme are achieved. A review of literature demonstrated that, within the developmental framework, the point of view of civil society, government and the academia on the school feeding programmes are a valuable strategy to intervene in the nutritional and cognitive development of learners. It also made it evident that there are diverse views as to whether the School Feeding Programme is achieving its intended objectives. The findings of this study suggest that, although the programme has the potential to improve nutrition and health, enrolment, attendance and cognitive development, there are still some challenges and areas that need to be addressed and improved. These challenges arise as a result of lack of effective monitoring and evaluation, geographical location of the schools and other implementation flaws. The consequences are that the objectives of the National School Nutritional Programme are placed at risk. / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)

This study evaluates the school feeding programme at Magog Primary School. It sets out as its objective to find out how the programme operates and its potential impact on school children, including challenges, if any, and recommends solutions to mitigate the challenges. It was motivated by the need to provide information which could be used as a basis to ensure that the nutritional and educational objectives of the National School Nutritional Programme are achieved. A review of literature demonstrated that, within the developmental framework, the point of view of civil society, government and the academia on the school feeding programmes are a valuable strategy to intervene in the nutritional and cognitive development of learners. It also made it evident that there are diverse views as to whether the School Feeding Programme is achieving its intended objectives. The findings of this study suggest that, although the programme has the potential to improve nutrition and health, enrolment, attendance and cognitive development, there are still some challenges and areas that need to be addressed and improved. These challenges arise as a result of lack of effective monitoring and evaluation, geographical location of the schools and other implementation flaws. The consequences are that the objectives of the National School Nutritional Programme are placed at risk. / Development Studies / M. A. (Development Studies)