Thesis (D.Ed.) in Educational Leadership--University of Maine, 2008. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 216-226).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

Esta tese enfrenta uma dificuldade tradicional da pesquisa em Educação, que é a de associar a cultura que já existe anteriormente ao sujeito e o seu direito de se apropriar dela de maneira não dogmática. Essa dificuldade tem sido acompanhada de dicotomias que nos levam ora a centralizar o currículo no sujeito - o que tende a suprimir o papel de transmissão cultural da escola -, ora no conhecimento como um fim em si mesmo, o que tende a silenciar a voz do sujeito. Ao identificar que as soluções propostas atualmente pelas filosofias liberais fazem uma falsa inclusão do sujeito, reivindicamos propostas que o incluam de fato - propostas éticas. Nossa principal hipótese é a de que este problema educacional carrega problemas filosóficos em torno do conceito de \'conhecimento\' e nos propomos a dissolvê-lo através da desnaturalização do que estamos acostumados a chamar de \'conhecimento\' e de uma posterior redefinição do papel fundamental da escola em diálogo com diferentes filosofias da educação. Para desnaturalizar o conhecimento, realizamos uma terapia wittgensteiniana da linguagem no contexto da física com o intuito de dissolver as dicotomias levantadas e de colher argumentos para o debate geral a respeito do papel da escola. A terapia é realizada através da análise pragmática da linguagem utilizada nos textos de Newton e das criações marginais feitas a partir de sua mecânica pelos físicos André Assis, Julio Garavito e Ernst Mach. Esta metodologia de trabalho reflete a própria natureza da dificuldade, que é a de associação entre \'universal\' e \'particular\'. O diálogo nos levou a redefinir o significado de \'transmissão cultural\' e de \'voz do sujeito\' de acordo com as necessidades do nosso tempo e com as limitações epistemológicas dos conteúdos que escolhemos para compor o currículo escolar, nos auxiliando a escapar a dificuldade inicial e a construir critérios éticos e epistemológicos para a redefinição do papel da escola. A partir dos novos significados, defendemos um papel fundamental da escola em nosso tempo: o de descolonizar o conhecimento. Em outras palavras, a escola, que muitas vezes é considerada como não responsável pela solução de problemas sociais, possui, sim, a grande responsabilidade na libertação das mentes colonizadas, e assim, a de auxiliar na retirada do conhecimento do controle de poucos através da desmistificação da imagem de mundo que o suporta. Essa tarefa só pode ser realizada pela escola pública, única instituição obrigatória para todos e que é consagrada por sua estreita conexão ao conhecimento. / This thesis faces a traditional difficulty of the educational research, which is that of transmitting the pre-existing culture and maintaining the subject\'s right to share it in a non-dogmatic way. This difficulty is usually accompanied of dichotomies that have led us to either centralize the curriculum on the subject - which tends to suppress the school\'s role of transmitting culture, or either on the knowledge as an end in itself, which, in its turn, tends to suppress the subject\'s voice. After identifying that the current solutions proposed by liberal philosophies make a false inclusion of the subject in the curriculum, we claim for proposals that in fact include him (ethical proposals). Our main hypothesis is that this educational problem is founded on philosophical ones, and therefore we propose to dissolve it through the denaturalization of what we are used to call \'knowledge\' followed by a redefinition of the role of school in dialogue with different philosophies of education. In order to denaturalize knowledge, we perform a Wittgensteinian therapy of language in the context of physics with the aim both of dissolving the philosophical dichotomies and of collecting arguments for the general debate about the role of school. The therapy is performed through a pragmatic analysis of the language used by Newton and marginal creations from his mechanics made by the physicists André Assis, Julio Garavito and Ernst Mach. This methodology reflects the very nature of the difficulty, which is that of connecting \'universal\' and \'particular\'. The dialogue led us to redefine the meaning of \'cultural transmission\' and \'the voice of the subject\' in accordance both to the needs of our time and to the epistemological limitations of the content we choose to compose the school curriculum - which allowed us to escape the initial difficulty and to construct ethical and epistemological criteria to redefine the role of school. Based on the new meanings, we were able to redefine the role of school in a way that fits better our current condition: the role of decolonizing knowledge. In other words, contrary to what one thinks, the school has responsibility in the solving of social problems when it is related to the freeing of colonized minds, and in this way, it is responsible for contributing to the removal of knowledge from the hands of groups in control by demystifying it through disclosing the world-picture that gives support to it. This task can only be performed by the public school, the only compulsory institution for all and known for its close connection to knowledge.

Europoje vykstantys negatyvūs procesai mus pasiekia labai greitai. Dėl patogios geografinės padėties Lietuva tampa alkoholio ir kitų narkotikų tranzito šalimi. Auga narkotinių medžiagų prieinamumas ir tiekimas, neteisėta jų pasiūla bei paklausa ir poreikis narkotikams. Kovai su tokio pobūdžio blogybėmis nebuvo pasirengta, laiku nepradėta prevencinė veikla. Iš kitos pusės – vykstančios greitos permainos šalies ekonomikoje, socialinėje sferoje ir žmonių gyvenime keičia visuomenės požiūrį į kai kuriuos reiškinius, tame tarpe ir požiūrį į narkotinių medžiagų vartojimą. Plinta alkoholizmas, narkomanija, daugėja problemų, susijusių su girtavimu. Jaunimas yra labiausiai pažeidžiama visuomenės dalis. Sklando įvairūs mitai apie narkotikus bei jų poveikį žmogaus psichikai. Formuojasi savas jaunimo požiūris į narkotikus ir jų vartojimą. Tam didelę įtaką daro žiniasklaida ir televizijoje rodomų kino filmų herojai. Kai kurie jaunuoliai/ės galvoja, kad techno ir repo muzika neįmanoma be narkotikų. Todėl ieško informacijos apie lengvus narkotikus, jų galimas ir dar nekenksmingas dozes. Ir tokios informacijos jie randa. Nesuprasdami pavojaus, jaunuoliai/ės ne tik linkę vartoti narkotikus, bet bando užsiimti su narkotikais susijusia rizikinga veikla – juos platinti. Pelno siekdami narkotikų prekeiviai vykdo nusikalstamą veiklą, įtraukdami į narkotikų platinimą susigundžiusius ir nedaug apie narkotikus išmanančius jaunuolius. ESPAD tyrimų duomenimis, „2003 metais 15-16 metų amžiaus Lietuvos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In the theoretical Master final work‘s part the problem of the usage of the narcotical materials is discussed, the general survey of the their prevention is given and the features of the preventional activities of the usage of the narcotical materials at school are handed. The results of the research: Public Enterprice Daugai Technology and Business school underwears the tobaco, alcohol and drugs preventive programme. The Content of the programme meets the nowadays situation. The methods of research: 1. The Analysis of literature sources. 2. The Questionnaire. The Questionnaire cosists of three parts. It is made to research the students view to the drug habit. This Questionnaire is made according to ESPAD Questionnaire. (The first part – knowledge about respondent; the second part-about cigarrettes, alcohol and other different drugs; the third part – about the social surrounding of respondents). 3. The Analysis of statistics data. The main reasons, why mistakes are made during the primary drugs using prevention, are: prevention is made by persons without any specific education and knowledge, which are necessary working in this sphere; prevention is understood very narrowly, parents are not brought enough in this working sphere. It was researched that for Public Enterprice Daugai Technology and Business school student‘s culpable behaviour the main influence has big parent‘s unemployment; low living standart; impunity; parents wish to use alcohol and other drugs... [to full text]

TITLE: Function of schools and education in current concept. AUTHOR: Bc.Zdeňka Krátká DEPARTME T: School Management Centre SUPERVISOR: Assoc. Prof. Jaroslav Kalous, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: Dynamic development of contemporary society significantly affects the education requirements. Therefore current educational program has to respond flexibly and implement new knowledge of technology, information and communication technology, economics, social disparities reflect accretion, changes in traditional family model, ecological threats. The role of school as a social institution must ensure the implementation of a range of functions and its operation is dependent on many involved factors associated not only with school itself but also with external environment. Thus in the first part, this thesis describes the function of schools and current school education. Further attention is also paid to the role and function of school leaders in education and school management. The second part is focused on the research performance of the functions of schools in primary education level. Although the results of the research are clear on the performance of most requested features, their direct impact on school and leisure-time activities of students and public must be improved.

This study was aimed at addressing the adolescent learners’ writing needs by assessing teachers’ needs on writing instruction across the disciplines in Grades 9 and 10 in one school in Southwestern Ontario. The research employed a mixed-methods approach using qualitative data from focus group and one-on-one interviews, and quantitative data collected through document analysis. The data revealed that there is a range of beliefs about writing instruction and that participating teachers offer many valuable writing opportunities to their students; however, there is a reluctance to provide more instructional time on writing according to the content area. The findings also pointed to the influence school administrators have in leading the instructional program. These findings concur with existing literature on writing instruction and the role principals play in literacy instruction.

This study was aimed at addressing the adolescent learners’ writing needs by assessing teachers’ needs on writing instruction across the disciplines in Grades 9 and 10 in one school in Southwestern Ontario. The research employed a mixed-methods approach using qualitative data from focus group and one-on-one interviews, and quantitative data collected through document analysis. The data revealed that there is a range of beliefs about writing instruction and that participating teachers offer many valuable writing opportunities to their students; however, there is a reluctance to provide more instructional time on writing according to the content area. The findings also pointed to the influence school administrators have in leading the instructional program. These findings concur with existing literature on writing instruction and the role principals play in literacy instruction.

The thesis deals with the profession of school psychologist. We are wondering if there are any reasons that prevent or encourage the introduction of psychologists into schools. The first part of the thesis deals with the concepts of school psychology and school psychologist from the present and historical point of view. We are dedicated to the legislative anchoring of this profession and its ethical standards. We uncover the complex network of the school psychologist, including aspects that can be partaking of teachers' expectations of school psychologists. The second part of the thesis deals with the questionnaire survey which was carried out at the school, where the institution of the school psychologist is already established and where it is not. The data analysis was conducted the analysis. Through her, we found five areas of interest which affect expectations. The first area concerns the role of the school psychologist. The second area concerns of his work. The third is the idea of teachers about the " ideal " school psychologist. The fourth deals with the concerns of teachers and the fifth area concerns the financing of school psychologists. The main findings introduce together with the direct quote. In another part of the main findings offer a comparison between schools, which complement the...

Doctor of Education / Department of Educational Leadership / Be Stoney / David C. Thompson / This qualitative case study explored the role of leadership in a mentoring program designed to work with students of color. Specifically, an instrumental case study was used to explore the leadership of the “Can We Talk” mentoring program. Utilizing the framework of Critical Race Theory and themes related to the current status of students of color along the with the concept of school culture, the purpose of this study was to explore the leadership of a program “Can We Talk” designed to work with students of color in a majority White high school located in the Midwest. This purpose was also driven by the rationale that districts and schools due to increased accountability measures have to incorporate different strategies to meet the academic and social needs of all students. Mentoring programs are one of the strategies gaining momentum in education, especially for students who come from marginalized socio-economic, ethnic, and racial groups. The findings indicated that the “Can We Talk” program was implemented into this school setting based on interest convergence. The principal needed the program in order to meet accountability measures such as adequate yearly progress. The founders of the “Can We Talk” mentoring program had an interest of increasing the academic and social opportunities for the students of color at this school setting. Furthermore, the findings indicate that the “Can We Talk” program was successful based on the mentors being able to share their experiences with the mentees, attract students from other gender, ethnic and racial groups, and increase the academic and social opportunities of the mentees by creating a shared voice. The implications of this study includes questions about the ways mentoring programs for students of color are implemented and maintained in majority White school settings. Therefore, this study raises the question about the role of school administrators, founders of mentoring programs, teachers, and the rest of the school community in terms of implementing, maintaining, and supporting programs designed to support the needs of children of color.

The diploma thesis "The possibilities of school social work in tertiary education in the Czech Republic" analyses the possibilities of introducing the profession of a social worker into the Czech university education system. The first part of the thesis is focused on presenting general issues of school social work. Moreover, the development of school social work in the Czech Republic is described and compared to the experience in other countries where school social work has a long tradition. The second part is dedicated to the specifics of university environment, its problems and its potential. The differences between the client target groups in secondary and tertiary education are explained. The last section of the thesis defines the roles and competences of school social workers at universities. The definition of a university social worker is created with regard to the worker's activities and specialization. Keywords: Social work; school social work; university education; role of school social worker; system of university support