The study explores teachers’ experiences in book clubs and how these experiences inform their pedagogical practices. Framed by a social constructivist epistemological stance, grounded in the work of narrative inquiry, and conceptualized by transactional reader-response theory, this study explores why teachers join and sustain book club membership, the ways books clubs are used to create meaning, how participating in a book club influences pedagogical practices, and ways in which clubs are used to negotiate aspects of their teaching identities and subjectivities. Through a multifaceted qualitative research design, I worked with thirteen teachers who belong to (or have recently belonged to) a book club as a separate entity from their teaching lives. I conducted interviews with thirteen teachers; attended three meetings of three separate book clubs to contextualize the study; and administered written reading profiles to explore participants’ reading practices. This research argues that teachers join and remain in book clubs for social interaction, intellectual stimulation and motivation to read ‘quality’ literature. Knowledges are created and validated by a community of readers capable of such recognition in a forum that does not otherwise exist. Club meetings are used in different and complex ways to negotiate teaching subjectivities and push back against fixed notions of the teacher identity. Further, this study showcases a myriad of ways that teachers’ experiences in book clubs enter the classroom both explicitly and implicitly.

The thesis focuses on teachers’ pedagogical subject knowledge and teaching of reading in English as a second language (L2) in Botswana Primary Schools. The participants consisted of ten teachers from four lower primary classrooms setting. To carry out the research, I adopted the qualitative methodology. The three modes of inquiry used in the study are semi-structured interviews, classroom observations and stimulated recall interviews. All the data were transcribed, coded and analysed qualitatively. For organisation purposes, the NVivo 8 software package was used in handling the interview data gathered from the study. The findings revealed that teachers’ classroom practices were not always consistent with their pedagogical subject knowledge. They demonstrated having knowledge on how reading ought to be taught and it was observed that in most cases, their beliefs were not put into their classroom practices. This research highlighted the importance of the phonics instructions in teaching early reading, which most of the teachers’ practices revealed that they lack confidence in teaching. Therefore, this seems to have an impact on the learners in lower classes because this level is considered the foundation, which needs solid base of reading strategies. Most recent studies have revealed that a lack of phonics based on reading instructions leave learners without important decoding skills necessary in recognizing letter/sound relationships in reading. It emerged that most of the activities observed focussed on word level because more emphasis was placed on decoding than comprehension. Although the study indicates that teachers face a number of challenges, which might have an impact in practising their espoused beliefs, it seems that they did not get proper foundation from pre-service training with phonics instructions. Hopefully the insights presented in this study can lead to increased awareness of how reading can be effectively taught and how teachers base classroom practices on their experiences and the contexts within which they work.

The singer faces some significant challenges in learning to read music, namely that their instrument has no physical domain for pitch and they must sing two languages simultaneously. When those challenges are combined with the fact that they often arrive in college with less well-developed literacy skills compared with instrumentalists, and that musical literacy instruction is often linked immediately with theoretical analysis before literacy has been established, it is not surprising that singers graduate with graduate degrees with poor musical literacy skills. Using principles of second language acquisition and reading theory, this paper seeks to present a case for the separation of theory and literacy in college curricula, and proposes that such a development will not only see the musical literacy skills of singers improve, but can be seen as the foundation for the connection of performance and theoretical streams of musical study in higher education.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T15:10:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1246003 bytes, checksum: 92a9688046fb670d13ddaac7e4ef37d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-07-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The cyber culture can to be a pedagogic space that allows tools for the construction of new reading practices, valuing creativity, affection, interaction and group growing in the perspective of reader s formation. It was built some reflexions over the importance and the meaning of Reading in the educational process, with a critical comprehension of the reading's pedagogical processes and the systematic brought up by technological evolution and the consequent appearance of the digital reading, that is, the tools available on the cyber culture. It has made an analysis about the relationship of the Reading and the School, outstandingly fundamented in the thoughts of Freire over reading and on Levy's about cyber culture. It was intended to demonstrate how the manipulation of information and communication technologies can be an important tool to increase the motivation and dynamics of the reading's process development, hence establishing, according to the pedagogical conception that makes it's utilization viable, an efficient and contemporary relationship. For this matter, methodologically inspired in Pichon-Rivière, operative groups were built, where it was developed pedagogical activities of reading, analysis and interpretation of texts. As a result it was attested the viability of the genesis proposition of this research, that is, through the elements of the cyber culture it is possible to create easening conditions to the formation of selfmotivated and critical readers, over all capable of analyzing and interpreting texts. / A cibercultura pode ser um espaço pedagógico que possibilita ferramentas para a construção de novas práticas de leitura, valorizando a criatividade, a afetividade, a interação e o crescimento grupal na perspectiva da formação de leitores. Nesse estudo construíram-se reflexões sobre a importância e o significado da Leitura no processo educacional, uma visão crítica dos processos da pedagogia da leitura e a sistemática atual frente à evolução das tecnologias informacionais e o conseqüente surgimento da leitura digital, ou seja, as ferramentas disponibilizadas na cibercultura. Teceu-se uma análise sobre a relação entre Leitura e Escola e fundamentou-se destacadamente no pensamento de Freire sobre leitura e no de Lévy sobre a cibercultura. Buscou-se demonstrar como a utilização das tecnologias da informação e da comunicação pode ser uma ferramenta importante para motivar e dinamizar o desenvolvimento do processo de leitura, estabelecendo assim, dependendo da concepção pedagógica que viabilize sua utilização, uma relação eficiente e contemporânea. Para tanto, metodologicamente inspirado em Pichon-Rivière, construiu-se um grupo operativo, onde se desenvolveu atividades pedagógicas de leituras, análise e interpretação de textos. Como resultado atestou-se a viabilidade do argumento gênese da presente pesquisa, ou seja, através de elementos da cibercultura é possível criar condições facilitadoras para a formação de leitores críticos e automotivados, sobretudo capazes de analisar e interpretar textos.

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Submitted by Jailda Nascimento (jmnascimento@pucsp.br) on 2016-10-21T19:23:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Márcia Lenise Bertoletti.pdf: 2423188 bytes, checksum: 1844487fdcddfc05d4c713cbfffcedde (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-21T19:23:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Márcia Lenise Bertoletti.pdf: 2423188 bytes, checksum: 1844487fdcddfc05d4c713cbfffcedde (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-09 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present research, placed in the research line Reading, writing and teaching of Portuguese Language of Portuguese Language Studies Programme, has its theme focused on the relationship between Linguistic Education, teacher and textbook in the 9th grade of elementary school from public schools, in reference of knowledge building and the reading comprehension by ApEn, in the light of Linguistic Education. The questions that orientated this research were 1 "How Linguistic Education, teacher and textbook make possible to the ApEn the building of his knowledge in relation to the traditional teaching model?", 2 "What way Linguistic Education favor the teacher, or EnAp, to stop being a knowledge transmission to be an advisor, who aids ApEn to build his own knowledge?", 3 "The teacher, or EnAp, understands the concept of Linguistic Education to be able to transfer it to the pedagogical reading activities?", and 4 "The new role of EnAp is motivated in the textbook?". Its goals are to identify the building of knowledge and the reading comprehension by ApEn through the relationship between Linguistic Education, teacher and textbook; to investigate which will be the strategies to enable EnAp to let being a person that just transmit knowledge to be a mediator in the teaching-learning process; to identify in the textbooks the opportunities and strategies offered to the AnEn, in a active role, reaches the reading comprehension; to identify how the transposition of Linguistic Education is done by EnAp to ApEn in the practice of classroom; to investigate how the Linguistic Education is merged or not in the textbooks; to identify if the EnAp is stimulated through textbook to act in an autonomous way. A review of the literature was performed based upon data from Linguistic Education theoretician (PALMA and TURAZZA (2014), LOMAS (2003), FIGUEIREDO (2010)), Reading and Reading Pedagogy (KLEIMAN (2013), SOLÉ (2009) e FIGUEIREDO (2010)), and Active Methodologies (MOSATTO (2016)). As part of the analyzed material, it was applied 06 questionnaires, being the respondents 9th grade teachers in elementary school from public schools, and the analysis of the reading activities from a Portuguese Language textbook for 9th grade. 8 The results showed that the Linguistic Education, through the work with active methodologies and textual genre, stimulates the EnAp to assume his new role as a mediator, giving voice to ApEn. The textbooks need to follow this change making available more room to ApEn autonomy during this practice in the classroom. The reading activities suggested in the textbook must be more aligned to the Linguistic Education to enable ApEn to build his own knowledge / A presente pesquisa, situada na linha de pesquisa Leitura, escrita e ensino de Língua Portuguesa do Programa de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa, tem por tema a relação entre Educação Linguística, professor e livro didático no 9º ano do ensino fundamental em escolas públicas, no que se refere à construção do conhecimento e à compreensão leitora pelo ApEn, à luz da Educação Linguística (EL). As perguntas que orientaram a pesquisa foram 1 "Como a Educação Linguística, o professor e o livro didático possibilitam ao ApEn a construção de seu conhecimento em relação ao modelo tradicional de ensino?", 2 "De que modo a EL favorece o professor, ou EnAp, a deixar de ser um transmissor de conhecimento para se tornar um orientador, que auxilia o ApEn a construir seu próprio conhecimento?", 3 "O professor, ou EnAp, entende o conceito de EL para que possa transpô-lo para as atividades pedagógicas de leitura?" e 4 "O novo papel do EnAp é estimulado no livro didático?". Seus objetivos são identificar a construção do conhecimento e a compreensão leitora do ApEn por meio da relação entre a Educação Linguística, o professor e o livro didático; averiguar quais seriam as estratégias para EnAp deixar de ser apenas um transmissor de conhecimento para se tornar um mediador no processo de ensino-aprendizagem; identificar nos livros didático as oportunidades e estratégias oferecidas para que o ApEn, em um papel ativo, atinja a compreensão leitora; identificar como a transposição da EL é feita pelo EnAp para o ApEn na prática da sala de aula; averiguar como a EL está incorporada ou não aos livros didáticos; identificar se o EnAp é estimulado no livro didático a agir de forma autônoma. A pesquisa bibliográfica para a construção da parte teórica desta dissertação foi feita com base em teóricos da Educação Linguística (com PALMA e TURAZZA (2014), LOMAS (2003), FIGUEIREDO (2010)), da Leitura e da Pedagogia da Leitura (com KLEIMAN (2013), SOLÉ (2009) e FIGUEIREDO (2010)) e das Metodologias ativas (MOSATTO (2016)). Para compor o material de análise, foram aplicados 06 questionários, sendo os respondentes professores do 9º ano do ensino fundamental de escolas públicas, e a análise de uma atividade de leitura de um livro didático de Língua Portuguesa do 9º ano do ensino fundamental. 6 O resultados obtidos mostraram que a EL, por meio do trabalho com metodologias ativas e gêneros textuais, motiva os EnAp a assumir seu novo papel de mediador, dando voz aos ApEn. Os LD precisam acompanhar essa mudança disponibilizando mais espaço para que o ApEn tenha autonomia em sua docência. As atividades de leitura sugeridas nos LD devem estar mais alinhadas com a EL para que o ApEn construa seu próprio conhecimento

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:33:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Terra Reis de Grammont.pdf: 3400741 bytes, checksum: 2aa3b615b5e91975edd783944fffdabf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-13 / Reading pedagogy: schoolbook analysis under the Linguistic Education perspective is the outcome of an investigation carried out from 2009 to 2012 following the Portuguese language reading, writing and teaching research track from the Portuguese Language Studies Program from the Pontific Catholic University of São Paulo, guided by Prof., Dr. Dieli Vesaro Palma, PUC-SP Linguistic Education for Portuguese Teaching research group leader PUC-SP GREDLINP-. The following research has intended to analyze it under the Linguistic Education perspective in what way the schoolbook explores the reading pedagogy so the following questions can be answered: 1. What is the reading model which rests under the schoolbook? 2. How do the authors try to awake the learners´ previous knowledge? So the analysis is done we have used the critic interpretative research, which lies in the research qualitative paradigm, aiming for analyzing the Portuguese Language schoolbook text interpreting and comprehension exercises of the Fundamental School II 6th grade from school collection Portuguese Languages, featuring William Roberto Cereja and Thereza Cochar Magalhães as authors. We conclude that the cognitive reading model awakened by the questions was interactive, although the majority is bottom-up, contrasting with the top-down (KLEIMAN, 2008 and KATO, 1990). The authors try to awake the readers-learners´ previous knowledge through the interpreting questions, besides saving a section in each unity for this purpose. Therefore, we consider achieving satisfactory our goal: 1. Discovering what reading model rests under the proposal of the analyzed LD. 2. Analyzing how the authors try to awake the learners´ previous knowledge / A pedagogia da leitura: análise de material didático na perspectiva da Educação Linguística é o resultado de uma investigação realizada de 2009 a 2012, situada na linha de pesquisa Leitura, Escrita e Ensino de Língua Portuguesa do Programa de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Foi orientada pela Profª. Drª. Dieli Vesaro Palma, líder do Grupo de Pesquisa em Educação Linguística para o Ensino de Português GPEDLINP, da PUC-SP da PUC-SP. A presente pesquisa objetivou analisar, pela perspectiva da Educação Linguística, de que forma o livro didático trabalha a pedagogia da leitura, com a finalidade de responder às perguntas: 1. Qual o modelo de leitura que subjaz à proposta do LD? 2. De que forma os autores tentam acionar o conhecimento prévio dos aprendentes? Para a análise, fazemos uso da pesquisa interpretativista crítica, que está inserida no paradigma qualitativo de pesquisa, com o intuito de analisar os exercícios de compreensão e interpretação de texto, do livro didático de Língua Portuguesa, do 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental II, da coleção didática Português Linguagens, dos autores William Roberto Cereja e Thereza Cochar Magalhães. Concluímos que as questões propostas fundamentam-se no modelo interativo de leitura, de base cognitiva, embora haja a predominância do modelo ascendente (bottom-up), em comparação ao descendente (top-down) (KLEIMAN, 2008 e KATO, 1990). Os autores tentam ativar os conhecimentos prévios dos leitores-aprendentes por meio das perguntas de interpretação, além de destinarem uma seção de cada unidade com esta finalidade. Assim, consideramos ter atingido satisfatoriamente os nossos objetivos, a saber: 1. Constatar qual o modelo de leitura que subjaz a proposta do LD analisado. 2. Analisar de que forma os autores tentam acionar o conhecimento prévio dos aprendentes

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T18:49:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao.pdf: 30140054 bytes, checksum: c5f54ca62713b24505a238af3d1f37a3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-13 / The research entitled " The children s literary prose in textbook: an instrument of pedagogical utilitarism or object of pleasure?" involves, thematically, the identification and analysis of the theoretical and methodological concepts, guiding the proposed practices by the textbook of Elementary Education (4th and 5th grades) for the reading of literary texts for children. The study, centered in the dialogic discourse (bakthinian and peircean) and the theory of intertextuality, it aims to reflect on the dual function of children s literature in the classroom: to instruct and amuse, to delight and teach, investigating the relationship between the quality of children s text and the methodology that is dispensed by the textbooks, its potential to arouse the reader reactions of sensible knowledge of the world or simply to serve as an educational tool-utility in carrying out diverse activities of the superficial nature on the read text (fill in forms, reading limited to scripts built of peripheral issues about the content of the text, copies, grammatical notes unrelated of the poetic message constructed by literary language in texts). We opted for Qualitative Research, defining it as a method of data collection for the case study, the Document Analysis. The objects of analysis are selected by the researcher Textbooks, among the examples listed by the guide of the National Textbook Program (NPDB) 2010. We found, with this investigation, that the literary text is treated, in the researched textbooks, as utilitarian object, as a monossemic discourse, unlinked from the real, human and social world. / A pesquisa intitulada A prosa literária infantil em livros didáticos: instrumento de utilitarismo pedagógico ou objeto de prazer? envolve, tematicamente, a identificação e análise das concepções teóricas e metodológicas, norteadoras das práticas propostas pelo livro didático da Educação Fundamental (4º e 5º anos) para a leitura do texto literário infantil. O estudo, centrado no discurso dialógico (bakthiniano e peirceano) e na teoria da intertextualidade, objetiva refletir sobre a dupla função da literatura infantil na sala de aula: instruir e dar prazer, investigando a relação existente entre a qualidade dos textos infantis e a metodologia que lhes é dispensada pelos livros didáticos, sua potencialidade para despertar no leitor reações prazerosas de conhecimento sensível do mundo ou simplesmente para servir de instrumento pedagógico-utilitário na execução de atividades diversas de natureza superficial sobre o texto lido (preenchimento de fichas; leitura limitada a roteiros constituídos de questões periféricas sobre os conteúdos do texto; cópias; observações gramaticais desvinculadas da mensagem poética construída pela linguagem literária dos textos). Optou-se pela Pesquisa Qualitativa, definindo-se como método de coleta de dados para o estudo de caso, a Análise Documental. Os objetos de análise são Livros Didáticos selecionados pela pesquisadora, dentre os exemplares indicados pelo guia do Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD) 2010. Constatou-se, com esta investigação, que o texto literário é tratado, nos livros didáticos pesquisados, como objeto utilitário, como um discurso monossêmico, desvinculado do mundo real, humano, social.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-18T17:54:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao.pdf: 30140054 bytes, checksum: c5f54ca62713b24505a238af3d1f37a3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-13 / The research entitled " The children s literary prose in textbook: an instrument of pedagogical utilitarism or object of pleasure?" involves, thematically, the identification and analysis of the theoretical and methodological concepts, guiding the proposed practices by the textbook of Elementary Education (4th and 5th grades) for the reading of literary texts for children. The study, centered in the dialogic discourse (bakthinian and peircean) and the theory of intertextuality, it aims to reflect on the dual function of children s literature in the classroom: to instruct and amuse, to delight and teach, investigating the relationship between the quality of children s text and the methodology that is dispensed by the textbooks, its potential to arouse the reader reactions of sensible knowledge of the world or simply to serve as an educational tool-utility in carrying out diverse activities of the superficial nature on the read text (fill in forms, reading limited to scripts built of peripheral issues about the content of the text, copies, grammatical notes unrelated of the poetic message constructed by literary language in texts). We opted for Qualitative Research, defining it as a method of data collection for the case study, the Document Analysis. The objects of analysis are selected by the researcher Textbooks, among the examples listed by the guide of the National Textbook Program (NPDB) 2010. We found, with this investigation, that the literary text is treated, in the researched textbooks, as utilitarian object, as a monossemic discourse, unlinked from the real, human and social world. / A pesquisa intitulada A prosa literária infantil em livros didáticos: instrumento de utilitarismo pedagógico ou objeto de prazer? envolve, tematicamente, a identificação e análise das concepções teóricas e metodológicas, norteadoras das práticas propostas pelo livro didático da Educação Fundamental (4º e 5º anos) para a leitura do texto literário infantil. O estudo, centrado no discurso dialógico (bakthiniano e peirceano) e na teoria da intertextualidade, objetiva refletir sobre a dupla função da literatura infantil na sala de aula: instruir e dar prazer, investigando a relação existente entre a qualidade dos textos infantis e a metodologia que lhes é dispensada pelos livros didáticos, sua potencialidade para despertar no leitor reações prazerosas de conhecimento sensível do mundo ou simplesmente para servir de instrumento pedagógico-utilitário na execução de atividades diversas de natureza superficial sobre o texto lido (preenchimento de fichas; leitura limitada a roteiros constituídos de questões periféricas sobre os conteúdos do texto; cópias; observações gramaticais desvinculadas da mensagem poética construída pela linguagem literária dos textos). Optou-se pela Pesquisa Qualitativa, definindo-se como método de coleta de dados para o estudo de caso, a Análise Documental. Os objetos de análise são Livros Didáticos selecionados pela pesquisadora, dentre os exemplares indicados pelo guia do Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD) 2010. Constatou-se, com esta investigação, que o texto literário é tratado, nos livros didáticos pesquisados, como objeto utilitário, como um discurso monossêmico, desvinculado do mundo real, humano, social.

In my earlier work, ‘First steps towards a rhetorical hermeneutics of literary interpretation’ (2006), I argued that academic reading takes the form of an argument between readers. Four serious weaknesses in that account are its elision of the distinction between reading and discourse on reading, its inattention to non-academic reading, its exclusive focus on ‘interpretation’ as if this constituted the whole of reading or of discourse on reading, and its failure to theorise the object of literary reading, ie. the work of literature. The current work aims to address all of these problems, together with those created by certain other approaches to literary reading, with the overall objective of clearing the ground for more empirical studies. It exemplifies its points with examples drawn primarily from non-academic public discourse on literature (newspapers, magazines, and the internet), though also from other sources (such as reading groups and undergraduate literature seminars). It takes a particular (though not an exclusive) interest in two specific instances of non-academic reception: the widespread reception of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses as an attack on Islam, and the minority reception of Peter Jackson’s film trilogy The Lord of the Rings as a narrative of homosexual desire. The first chapter of this dissertation critically surveys the fields of reception study and discourse analysis, and in particular the crossover between them. It finds more productive engagement with the textuality of response in media reception study than in literary reception study. It argues that the application of discourse analysis to reception data serves to problematise, rather than to facilitate, reception study, but it also emphasises the problematic nature of discourse analysis itself. Each of the three subsequent chapters considers a different complex of problems. The first is the literary work, and its relation to its producers and its consumers: Chapter 2 takes the form of a discourse upon the notions of ‘speech act’ and ‘authorial intention’ in relation to literature, carries out an analysis of early public responses to The Satanic Verses, and puts in a word for non-readers by way of a conclusion. The second is the private experience of reading, and its paradoxical status as an object of public representation: Chapter 3 analyses representations of private responses to The Lord of The Rings film trilogy, and concludes with the argument that, though these representations cannot be identical with private responses, they are cannot be extricated from them, either. The third is the impossibility of distinguishing rhetoric from cognition in the telling of stories about reading: Chapter 4 argues that, though anecdotal or autobiographical accounts of reading cannot be taken at face value, they can be taken both as attempts to persuade and as attempts to understand; it concludes with an analysis of a magazine article that tells a number of stories about reading The Satanic Verses – amongst other things. Each of these chapters focuses on non-academic reading as represented in written text, but broadens this focus through consideration of examples drawn from spoken discourse on reading (including in the liminal academic space of the undergraduate classroom). The last chapter mulls over the relationship between reading and discourse of reading, and hesitates over whether to wrap or tear this dissertation’s arguments up.