Este trabalho resulta de uma pesquisa observacional participante desenvolvida no período 2002-2005, onde acompanhamos um grupo de professores, da escola pública da Grande São Paulo, comprometidos num programa de formação continuada. Neste contexto investigamos: Como os professores atuam no grupo e como desenvolvem um processo de enfrentamento de situações problemáticas presentes na sua prática? Como e que competências eles mobilizam neste processo de enfrentamento? Como ocorre o processo de reflexão crítica coletiva e individualmente? O objetivo das atividades desenvolvidas pelo grupo de professores era o estudo do eletromagnetismo para a elaboração de uma seqüência de ensino e implementação desse planejamento na sua sala de aula. Exploramos as relações entre o desenvolvimento profissional, a prática reflexiva e a inserção dos professores num contexto problemático e complexo que ocorre numa aula típica do ensino médio. Destacamos três momentos principais deste envolvimento: o estudo dos conteúdos; o planejamento didático (incluindo sua estruturação, implementação em sala de aula e a reflexão coletiva sobre essa implementação); e a complexidade na sala de aula. O primeiro momento aponta para o problema do professor que procura aprender o conteúdo com segurança. O segundo é relativo à ação do professor em configurar e guiar sua prática, contemplando a multiplicidade de elementos que se apresentam nesse contexto. O terceiro consiste no enfrentamento da complexidade educacional mais abrangente. O desenvolvimento do programa, envolvendo a produção e aplicação de um planejamento, permitiu o engajamento dos professores no grupo de discussão envolvendo os pares para o enfrentamento de problemas genuínos da sala de aula. Isto representou um processo importante para uma formação autônoma e duradoura, compartilhada também pelos pares. Os resultados obtidos nos permitem falar em resolução de problemas sem cair na armadilha da racionalidade técnica ou desconsiderar a natureza das situações envolvidas. É a necessidade imposta pelo trabalho do professor, de ter que oferecer uma solução, nestes sistemas complexos; de enfrentar a complexidade resolvendo problemas. / This work is the result of a participating observational investigation carried on during 2002-2005 where a group of public school teachers from the Great São Paulo area has been followed up in a continuing training program. In this context we investigated: How the teachers behaved in the group and how they developed a process for facing difficult situations that emerged in their practice? Does the critical reflection process occur collectively or individually? The objective of activities carried out by the teachers group was the study of electromagnetism aiming to the elaboration of a teaching sequence and the implementation of this planning in their classrooms. We explored the relations between professional development and reflective practice and the insertion of teachers into a problematic and complex context that occurs in a typical secondary teaching classroom. Three principal moments are outstanding in the process: the study of contents, didactic planning (including its structuring and implementation); and the classroom complexity. The first moment points to the problem of the teacher who makes an effort to learn the contents soundly. The second is connected to the teacher action in configuring and guiding his practice, contemplating the multiplicity of elements that are present in this context. The third deals with facing the educational complexity in a broader sense. The development of the program with the production and application of a planning enabled the engagement of teachers in the discussion group involving their peers for facing genuine classroom problems. This represented an important process for an autonomous and everlasting formation, shared also by their peers. The results we obtained enable us to talk about problem resolution, without being trapped by technical rationality or neglecting the nature of the involved situation. It is the need imposed by the teacher of having to offer a solution in these complex systems: of resolving problems facing complexity.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:32:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELA REGINA DA SILVA.pdf: 2675487 bytes, checksum: a9541e4cae7cb9b645e751f012b452b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-15 / Publicity is an activity that is rooted in history and has become necessary to provide information about ideas, services and products that otherwise would not reach consumers. Advertisers have a lot of scientific knowledge and technical and artistic resources that construct their messages and that in the long run give them a certain power to influence the consumer. That power can be utilized conscientiously to benefit society, but, because of the abuses committed against it, many see it as distrustful. Considering that advertisers ought to be conscious of their social responsibility and have a more ethical practice, an awareness that could be learned through education, this work tries to answer the following problem: how to conciliate humanistic and ethical education with professional education in the field of Social Communication, specifically speaking in Publicity and Advertising? Thus, this work has the objective of investigating whether or not the pedagogical practice of the researcher provides reflections in the sense of educating reflective and ethical professionals faced with questions proper to the area of publicity. The approach adopted for the study is an investigation about the practice itself consisting of the reflective process by means of questioning in the conduction of the plan of educational intervention of the teacher under various views: that of the student, the institution, the director and the researcher herself. The study was done in an institution of higher learning in the State of S?o Paulo, in the Social Communication course where there is a pedagogical experiment that according to its proposal appears to be a good opportunity for the conscious raising of these students and future professionals. The analyses done about teaching practice indicate types of professional conduct in the sense of being ardently desired by the questioning presented, producing valid reflections for contexts of the same nature. This work follows the line of research University, Teaching and Education of Teachers . Key words: Education of teachers, reflective practice, ethical professional education, social communication. / A publicidade ? uma atividade que se engendrou na hist?ria e tornou-se necess?ria para prestar informa??o sobre id?ias, servi?os e produtos, que, de outra maneira, n?o chegariam aos consumidores. O publicit?rio se vale de muitos conhecimentos cient?ficos e recursos t?cnicos e art?sticos para construir suas mensagens, o que lhe acaba conferindo um certo poder de influ?ncia sobre o consumidor. Tal poder pode ser utilizado conscientemente a favor da sociedade, mas, por conta de abusos cometidos contra ela, ? vista com desconfian?a por muitos. Considerando que o publicit?rio deva estar atento para sua responsabilidade social e que tenha uma pr?tica mais ?tica, conscientiza??o que se daria por meio da educa??o, este trabalho busca responder ao seguinte problema: como conciliar a forma??o human?stica e ?tica e a forma??o profissional no campo da Comunica??o Social, mais especificamente da Publicidade e Propaganda? Assim, este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar se a pr?tica pedag?gica da pesquisadora proporciona reflex?es, no sentido da forma??o de profissionais reflexivos e ?ticos, diante de quest?es pr?prias da ?rea da publicidade. A abordagem de pesquisa adotada ? a investiga??o sobre a pr?pria pr?tica que consiste no processo reflexivo por meio de questionamento na condu??o do plano de interven??o educacional do professor sob diversos olhares: o do aluno, da institui??o, do orientador e o da pr?pria pesquisadora. O estudo foi realizado em uma institui??o de ensino superior do interior do estado de S?o Paulo, no curso de Comunica??o Social em que ocorre uma experi?ncia pedag?gica que, pela sua proposta, mostra-se como uma boa oportunidade de conscientiza??o desses alunos e futuros profissionais. As an?lises realizadas sobre a pr?tica docente indicam formas de conduta profissional no sentido almejado pelo questionamento apresentado, produzindo reflex?es v?lidas para contextos de mesma natureza. Este trabalho est? inserido na linha de pesquisa Universidade, Doc?ncia e Forma??o de Professores .

The study deals with the creation of gallery educational programs based on cooperation with artists and curators. The text is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part we try to define theoretical discursive field of art, galleries and gallery education. In the practical part we design gallery educational programs in cooperation with the artists and verify them with the children's group. KEYWORDS gallery education, discourse, visual culture, art work, contemporary art

The aim of this thesis was to explore Swedish pharmacist students’ learning during pharmacy internship. Internships are meant to introduce students to professional practice. Education programs have to reflect changes in the professional role, and take into account that learning in a professional practice setting differs from organized formal education. This thesis includes both quantitative and qualitative research approaches and applies workplace learning theories. A scheme for measuring pharmacy students’ reflective ability was developed and shown to be feasible and reliable. Factors important for reflection were found to be primarily social and contextual, especially trained tutor and small pharmacy size. Notably, learning style or critical thinking did not correlate to students’ reflective ability. Tutors and students perceived that students used a wide variety of activities supporting learning of a broad repertoire of knowledge and skills, preparing them for coming professional working life. Tutors are most important to support learning. However, the current curriculum and formal activities do not address all these outcomes and learning activities used, e.g. workplace learning. The first overall conclusion is that internship plays an essential part in the pharmacist education program. The integration of formal and informal learning activities during internship, including raising awareness of incidental learning, is important to support students in learning the professional practice of pharmacy. This integration could possibly be strengthened by introducing further tutor training, different assignments, and by using portfolios. The second conclusion is that the community of practice is essential for students’ learning during internship, especially the student-tutor interaction. Hence, the entire social context has to be considered and it is important to ensure a good learning environment at pharmacies during internship. In summary, this thesis contributes to the understanding of students’ learning during pharmacy internship and introduces educational research on the Swedish undergraduate pharmacy education programs.

A Journey from the Wordless is a study of the development of the author’s own professional knowledge.  After an introductory chapter on theory and method, there are four chapters treating of the author`s academic training as an artist (Ch. 2), a presentation and analysis of his own exhibitions (Ch. 3), a chapter on a cooperative effort entitled Pompeii in Time and Space (Ch. 4), and a concluding discussion of the nature of personal knowledge (Ch. 5). Questions are addressed concerning artistic knowledge; how it is built and transferred and how it is developed and transformed. Since the author`s own professional knowledge is the object of the research, special perspectives on personal experience emerges that otherwise would be difficult to articulate. The thesis is also a contribution to the debate surrounding artistic research in the visual arts, focusing on the importance of reflection and analysis in art education and creative art work. / QC 20100824

This thesis focuses on the ways in which theoretical models based in rhetorical studies can be used to enhance both the understanding and the practice of communication. In particular, my project shows that rhetoric and communication theory can provide a foundation for improving communication practice. <p>Every communicative act takes place within a context, as Lloyd F. Bitzer established. This same understanding of the centrality of situation to communicative effectiveness permeates the work of several other theorists whose work is discussed in this thesis, among them Wayne C. Booth, Kenneth Burke, George L. Dillon, Barnett Baskerville, and Donald Schon. <p>Using Bitzers conception of the rhetorical situation as the theoretical focus, two main concerns are addressed in the thesis: the relationship between rhetoric and the practice of technical communication, and the integration of theory and practice as the foundation of rhetorical understanding. The first three chapters present a series of theoretical models, and the practical use of this theory is tested by an exercise in writing a public speaking handbook for engineering undergraduates (presented as Chapter Four of the thesis). The audience for this handbook is specific and the purpose is narrow to give advice on preparing, practising, and presenting design presentations to professors and clients. This experiment is then followed by a reflection on the writing process and some conclusions about the relationship between rhetorical theory and communicative practice.<p> The key result of this research and case study is a deepened understanding of how rhetoric operates or how it should be studied. As a rhetorician, I found it discouraging even at times humiliating to discover how much difficulty I had in adapting my discourse to a specific audience. This research makes clear that an understanding of theory without a solid grounding in practice is insufficient for rhetorical mastery. While my original goal was to demonstrate the usefulness of theory to improving practice, this thesis shows as well the extent to which rhetorical theory also depends on an understanding of the demands and constraints of actual practice.

This thesis focuses on the ways in which theoretical models based in rhetorical studies can be used to enhance both the understanding and the practice of communication. In particular, my project shows that rhetoric and communication theory can provide a foundation for improving communication practice. <p>Every communicative act takes place within a context, as Lloyd F. Bitzer established. This same understanding of the centrality of situation to communicative effectiveness permeates the work of several other theorists whose work is discussed in this thesis, among them Wayne C. Booth, Kenneth Burke, George L. Dillon, Barnett Baskerville, and Donald Schon. <p>Using Bitzers conception of the rhetorical situation as the theoretical focus, two main concerns are addressed in the thesis: the relationship between rhetoric and the practice of technical communication, and the integration of theory and practice as the foundation of rhetorical understanding. The first three chapters present a series of theoretical models, and the practical use of this theory is tested by an exercise in writing a public speaking handbook for engineering undergraduates (presented as Chapter Four of the thesis). The audience for this handbook is specific and the purpose is narrow to give advice on preparing, practising, and presenting design presentations to professors and clients. This experiment is then followed by a reflection on the writing process and some conclusions about the relationship between rhetorical theory and communicative practice.<p> The key result of this research and case study is a deepened understanding of how rhetoric operates or how it should be studied. As a rhetorician, I found it discouraging even at times humiliating to discover how much difficulty I had in adapting my discourse to a specific audience. This research makes clear that an understanding of theory without a solid grounding in practice is insufficient for rhetorical mastery. While my original goal was to demonstrate the usefulness of theory to improving practice, this thesis shows as well the extent to which rhetorical theory also depends on an understanding of the demands and constraints of actual practice.

Research by design refers to the design of architectural research as an integral part of architectural design processes. In 1980s, it emerged as a third way in design research that was dominated until then by the methods of natural sciences and humanities. With this new formulation of design research, a methodological and epistemological transformation occurs, leading to the integration of practical knowledge into architectural research. The primary epistemological question transforms from knowing what design is and knowing how to design to knowing what through the act of design. The integration of the act of design in research transforms the status of design in design research from being an object of inquiry to being a research approach. In the literature on research by design, this transformation is often related with Donald Sch&ouml / n&rsquo / s conceptualization of &ldquo / reflective practice.&rdquo / The main discussion of reflective practice is primarily methodological rather than epistemological. Although it provides methodological insights, it is not sufficient to constitute an epistemological basis for research by design. Thus, the epistemological basis of research by design has not yet been adequately defined. In this study, the notion of &ldquo / reflective practice&rdquo / is investigated in a broader context relating it to its sources in the concepts of &ldquo / tacit knowledge&rdquo / and &ldquo / action research.&rdquo / A conceptual framework for research by design is constructed by relating these concepts with the discussions on research by design and with practical philosophy, the implications of which has remained rather uninvestigated in this context. Aristotle&rsquo / s elaboration of knowledge generation in action and the concept of phron&amp / #275 / sis (practical knowledge, prudence, or practical wisdom) constitute the underpinning of this conceptual framework. The conceptual framework that is constructed on the basis of the key concepts in practical philosophy is discussed in the context of architectural design education. When architectural design education is formulated as a process of research by design within this framework, knowledge generated in the educational design processes promises not only to improve the particular educational context and architectural education but eventually to contribute to architectural knowledge.

This study reports a reflection upon the experience of a multiyear elementary school learning community designed for improved teaching and learning. The exploration uses interview data to describe the perceptions and reflections of the principal and teachers directly engaged in this project of educational reform. The goal of this process is to gain a deeper understanding of the experience and to determine to what factors the participants attribute the outcomes of this project. Through an auto-ethnographic reflective critical practice inquiry and extended interviews, this study describes the context and environment of this learning community and how the participants reflect on their experiences in that community. It also provided an opportunity for participants to review and explain their perceptions and attributions regarding both the measured and the unintended outcomes associated with this learning community project. Results from teacher and administrator reflections indicate that the strength of a multiyear learning community is the positive relationships that they foster and the institutional consistency for both parents and students. Evidence from the interviews indicates that teachers' expectations for outcomes of multiyear learning communities may differ from those of administrators, and be less concerned with improved achievement measures than other, relationship-focused outcomes. A key implication of this study is that, although the principal players involved in the creation and implementation of this learning community use terms that describe or refer to the overall experience as very successful, test scores did not respond significantly to this innovation. This suggests that comprehensive plans need to be developed in advance to assure appropriate and accurate methods of measuring success in innovations such as this.

Many people in Western culture experience systemic separation from an intimacy with the natural world and as a result, suffer a disconnection from their own natures. As an educator, my interest in the epistemological and ecological implications of nature-based, reflective learning as a form of initiation into maturity and calling led me to explore how education might create the conditions for consciously turning around the whole human with potential for turning around the whole world. Drawing from insights and wisdom from depth psychology, ecopsychology, mythology, philosophy, the poetic traditions, literature, spiritual practices, and curriculum studies, and by adopting Jung’s psychology of individuation as a theoretical backbone for this body of work, I sought to fully flesh out and discover how we might reclaim and embody our original human wholeness (our individuated natures), and how education might be a catalyst for this. I have organized this study in such a way as to align with three central themes found universally in all rites of passage and that mirror my own heuristic research journey, namely: the separation, the threshold experience, and the return. In the separation stage, I offer an historical perspective for much of Western culture’s current incongruence with nature. In addition, I provide a critique of how contemporary educational practices with their overt focus on profit-making and careerism further reinforce this dualistic thinking. As a counterbalance, at midpoint of this study, I set forth on my own deep phenomenological threshold-crossing immersions into nature. This research became, in effect, a (re)search of self where surprisingly more of my own calling was revealed to me through the hermeneutics of powerful, wild teachings. At the conclusion, as I (re)turn “from the woods”, my findings are shared (in part) as pedagogical examples of life-enhancing, less codified and embodied practices designed with the whole person—body, mind, and soul—(and earth), in mind that may support students (and teachers) in discovering their particular and deeply fulfilling ways of belonging to and contributing toward a living ecology. A symbolic artifact (a ‘body’ of work) accompanies and completes this work (Figure 3). / Graduate / 0727 / 0525 / 0534 / hilaryjl@telus.net