Esta dissertação busca compreender a atuação curricular dos professores de uma escola da rede pública estadual do Rio Grande do Sul no contexto do Ensino Médio Politécnico, tendo como foco os Seminários Integrados e os princípios orientadores instituídos por essa política educacional. É importante destacar que esta política não é o objeto de análise do estudo, mas consiste no campo empírico a partir do qual são discutidas questões sobre o currículo escolar. Assim sendo, este estudo insere-se nas intersecções entre os campos do currículo e das políticas educacionais. Neste trabalho é apresentado um panorama do ensino médio no Brasil e do contexto de reestruturação curricular do ensino médio no Rio Grande do Sul. São apresentados com base documental os aspectos que caracterizam o Ensino Médio Politécnico, os Seminários Integrados e os princípios orientadores dessa política, quais sejam: relação partetotalidade; reconhecimento de saberes; relação teoria-prática; interdisciplinaridade; avaliação emancipatória; e pesquisa como princípio pedagógico. Os objetivos deste estudo consistem em compreender como o currículo escolar configurou-se a partir da política do Ensino Médio Politécnico, identificar os princípios orientadores da atuação curricular dos professores na escola estudada e examinar as articulações entre esses princípios nas práticas atuadas nos Seminários Integrados. Os referenciais teóricos que sustentam esta pesquisa interseccionam-se nos campos da Sociologia da Educação e das Teorias Educacionais Críticas. Os conceitos discutidos detalhadamente nesta dissertação referem-se a currículo, hegemonia, articulação e atuação. A metodologia de pesquisa adotada congrega as abordagens do Ciclo de Políticas e da Análise Relacional, tendo em vista as relações entre os fenômenos macro e micro educacionais da atuação curricular no contexto da prática em que a política do Ensino Médio Politécnico incide. As análises realizadas permitem identificar os princípios pedagógicos orientadores da atuação curricular como presenças ausentes nas práticas dos professores da escola analisada. Os dados de pesquisa indicam a disciplinarização dos Seminários Integrados nesta escola, o que ocasiona um reforço dos desafios de concretização dos princípios pedagógicos propostos para o Ensino Médio Politécnico. A partir desses elementos, são discutidas questões relacionadas à avaliação escolar, à integração curricular e à articulação dos princípios pedagógicos atuados nos Seminários Integrados. Os resultados das análises evidenciam que em decorrência de diversos fatores e desafios, sobressaem-se, nesse contexto, práticas curriculares naturalizadas pela tradição cultural e institucional vivenciadas nesta escola. Contudo, os dados de pesquisa também evidenciam que os Seminários Integrados e os princípios orientadores da atuação curricular foram elementos importantes de tensionamento sobre o currículo oficial da escola estudada e sobre a tradição cultural e institucional de práticas da mesma. A partir de tal estudo, pretende-se contribuir para pensar os desafios do ensino médio, sinalizando espaços que precisam ser (re)pensados e/ ou fortalecidos nos campos do currículo e das políticas educacionais. / This dissertation aims at understanding the curricular enactment of teachers in a public school in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil, in the context of the Polytechnic High School policy, focusing on the Integrated Seminars and the guiding principles instituted by this educational policy. It is important to emphasize that this policy is not the object of study analysis, but it is the empirical field from which questions about the school curriculum are discussed. Thus, this study examines he intersections between the fields of curriculum and educational policies. This dissertation presents a panorama of high school in Brazil and the context of curricular restructuring of high school in RSBrazil. It presents an analysis of the documents that characterize Polytechnic High School policy, the Integrated Seminars and the guiding principles of this policy, which are: the relationship between part and totality; recognition of previous knowledge; relationship theory-practice; interdisciplinarity; emancipatory evaluation; and research as a pedagogical principle. The objectives of this study are to understand how the school curriculum was set up through the Polytechnic High School policy, to identify the guiding principles of the curricular enactment of the teachers in this school, and to examine the articulations between these principles in the enactment of the Integrated Seminars. The theoretical framework that supports this research intersect in the fields of Sociology of Education and Critical Educational Theories. The concepts discussed in detail in this dissertation refer to curriculum, hegemony, articulation, and enactment. The research methodology adopted brings together the approaches of the Policy Cycle and Relational Analysis, considering the relations between the macro and micro educational phenomena of the curricular enactment in the context of the practice in which Polytechnic High School education policy occurs. The analyzes allow us to identify the pedagogical principles guiding the curricular activity as an absent-presence in the practices of the teachers. The research data indicate the disciplinarization of the Integrated Seminars in this school, which shows the challenges of achieving the pedagogical principles proposed for Polytechnic High School policy. From these elements, issues related to school evaluation, curriculum integration, and the articulation of the pedagogical principles enactment in the Integrated Seminars are discussed. The results of the analyzes show that due to several factors and challenges, in this context, curricular practices naturalized by the cultural and institutional tradition experienced in this school stand out. However, the research data also show that the Integrated Seminars and the guiding principles of curricular enactment were important elements of tension on the official curriculum of this school and on the cultural and institutional tradition of its practices. With this study, we intend to contribute to think about the challenges of high school, indicating spaces that need to be (re)thought and/ or strengthened in the fields of curriculum and educational policies.

No description available.

After nine years of working in the field of social work, this including counselling, training and supervision, the researcher became aware of the need to develop a tool by which social workers could identify how they work. This study is for the social workers. It will review theory and techniques and then will go one step further. It will offer a new product to the social worker, a product whereby he or she can internally reflect on, investigate, argue about, integrate and finally, within the relationship the social worker has with his or her own working self, developed a personal practice model. Developmental research was selected as the research design. The tool to achieve the goal of developing a personal practice model was a workshop. A pilot study was undertaken at Family Life Centre. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health))

The new world of academic discourse is complex and necessitates that L1 and L2 graduate students learn a multiplicity of texts, master intertextuality, and actively participate in emerging literacies or genres of their disciplines (Molle & Prior, 2008; Swales, 2004; Warren, 2013). Challenges arise about how doctoral students produce, interpret, and learn texts and genres, and how they act and react around text production in particular multicultural institutional contexts (Hyland, 2000; Prior, 2004). Little is known about how students, particularly those in higher education, establish intertextual connections among different modes of texts (e.g., written, oral, visual) for actively engaging in literacy (Belcher & Hirvela, 2008; Seloni, 2012). The purpose of this study is to examine how L1 and L2 doctoral students use intertextual practices to create meaning and develop their academic literacies during the literacy events of Global Conversations and Literacy Research (GCLR) web seminars. Drawing upon microethnographic discourse analysis, more particularly the constructs of intertextuality (Bloome, & Carter, 2013), I investigate the following questions a) How are the L1 and L2 students engaged in intertextual practices in the literacy events of GCLR web seminars? b) How does the use of intertextuality contribute to L1 and L2 students’ academic literacies? The participants are two L1 and two L2 doctoral students, who are also multilinguals, had different first languages (i.e., Korean, English, Chinese), and actively engaged in the GCLR web seminars. Data drew upon interviews, chat transcriptions, video recordings of the web seminars, and visuals. Data collection and analyses began in September 2014, and continued through November 2015. Microethnographic discourse analysis showed how participants constructed intertextual connections during the literacy events of the GCLR web seminars. The findings show how L1 and L2 doctoral students used intertextuality to socialize into academic discourse, mediate discoursal identities, and develop cultural models. The study has implications for L1 and L2 pedagogy, multilingual’s learning, and research: Future research should investigate academic literacies with intertextual connections to oral, written, and online discourses. Educators and graduate students are encouraged to exploit the full potential of intertextuality through metacognition in emerging academic literacies and mediated discoursal identities.

This study examined the relationships between metacognition, self-regulation and students' critical thinking skills and disposition in online Socratic Seminars for ninth grade World Geography and Culture students. Participants of this study came from six intact pre-AP (Pre-Advanced Placement) classes in a public high school in south central Texas in the United States. They were randomly assigned to two groups: a three class treatment group and a three class comparison group. Students in both groups received training on critical thinking skills, Internet security, "netiquette" and the technological tools involved in the online Socratic Seminars. The experimental group performed two metacognitive tasks. They assigned critical thinking tags in the discussion forum and wrote two structured reflection journals after they finished each of the two Socratic Seminar discussions, while the comparison group performed neither of the two metacognitive tasks. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected for the data analysis. A multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) showed statistically significant effects of the two metacognitive tasks on students' self-regulation, but not on their critical thinking skills and disposition. The structure equation modeling analysis showed that self-regulation had significant relationships with students' critical thinking disposition, but not with students' critical thinking skills for both the experimental and the comparison groups. The structural equation modeling analysis also revealed an insignificant moderating effect of performing the two metacognitive tasks on the relationship between self-regulation and students' critical thinking. Qualitative data analysis triangulated results from the quantitative analyses. / text

This study examined the effect of active learning seminars and a mentoring program on the use of active learning teaching techniques by college faculty. A quasi-experimental study was conducted using convenience samples of faculty from two private Christian supported institutions. Data for the study were collected from surveys and faculty course evaluations. The study lasted one semester. Faculty volunteers from one institution served as the experimental group and faculty volunteers from the second institution were the comparison group. The experimental group attended approximately eight hours of active learning seminars and also participated in a one-semester mentoring program designed to assist faculty in application of active learning techniques. Several individuals conducted the active learning seminars. Dr. Charles Bonwell, a noted authority on active learning, conducted the first three-hour seminar. Seven faculty who had successfully used active learning in their classrooms were selected to conduct the remaining seminars. The faculty-mentoring program was supervised by the researcher and conducted by department chairs. Data were collected from three surveys and faculty course evaluations. The three surveys were the Faculty Active Learning Survey created by the researcher, the Teaching Goals Inventory created by Angelo and Cross, and the college edition of Learner-Centered Practices by Barbara McCombs. The use of active learning techniques by the experimental group increased significantly more than the use by those in the convenience sample. No statistical difference was found in the change of professors' teaching beliefs or the course evaluation results.

Although there are numerous instruments available for assessing classroom learning environments at the tertiary level, no instrument has been specifically designed and validated for measuring the business management education learning environment (Brennan & Ahmad, 2005). My aims were (1) to design, develop and validate an instrument, the Business Management Education Learning Environment Inventory (BMELEI), for assessing business management students’ perceptions of the psychosocial learning environments of university seminars and tutorials and (2) to relate learning environment to attitudes towards the subject and attitudes towards the case study teaching strategy. This study is distinctive in that it involved both quantitative and qualitative methods. The BMELEI and two attitude scales were administered to 480 final-year undergraduate and postgraduate business studies students in 30 classes at both Curtin University of Technology and Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. The qualitative component of the study involved semi-structured interviews with 42 randomly-selected participants from the above universities. Factor analysis supported a six-factor structure (Student Cohesiveness, Teacher Support, Involvement, Task Orientation, Cooperation and Equity) with scale alpha reliabilities ranging from 0.78 to 0.90 for the actual form and from 0.80 to 0.92 for the preferred form using the individual as unit of analysis. Students’ attitudes were found to be positively associated with classroom learning environment. / Also differences were found between students’ perceptions of the actual and preferred classroom environment, and between male and female students’ perceptions of the actual and preferred classroom environment. Findings suggested that students preferred a more positive and favourable classroom learning environment than they perceived as being actually present.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Abilene Christian University, 2000. / Date on t.p. is 1999. Approved 5/12/00. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-170).

After nine years of working in the field of social work, this including counselling, training and supervision, the researcher became aware of the need to develop a tool by which social workers could identify how they work. This study is for the social workers. It will review theory and techniques and then will go one step further. It will offer a new product to the social worker, a product whereby he or she can internally reflect on, investigate, argue about, integrate and finally, within the relationship the social worker has with his or her own working self, developed a personal practice model. Developmental research was selected as the research design. The tool to achieve the goal of developing a personal practice model was a workshop. A pilot study was undertaken at Family Life Centre. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health))

This thesis examines Knowledge Exchange (KE) seminars and the wider social, political, and economic environment in which they are situated Two-way interactive exchanges between academics and Non-Academic Professionals (NAPs) have been identified as an important factor in explaining why some academic research is used by NAPs, or not (Meagher et al, 2008; Mitton et al, 2007; Lavis et al, 2003; Hanney et al, 2003). Despite this, very little research has examined the social occasions where such exchanges occur. This thesis aims to fill this lacuna by examining the process of knowledge exchange through one specific type of intervention (Walter et al, 2003) – that of KE seminars. KE seminars are a common, almost canonical, strategy for academics wishing to engage with non-academic audiences, yet are relatively unexplored within the KE literature. If ‘sharing research findings with a non-academic audience’ is the sole purpose of KE seminars, then the goal could have been achieved more cheaply through a mail-shot of a briefing paper to a targeted audience (Percy-Smith et al, 2002). By comparison, KE seminars require a considerable investment in resources in terms of time and money. These factors make them theoretically and substantively interesting. This thesis explores the rationale for hosting and attending KE seminars, what benefits participants feel that they gain from attending, and provides insights into how best to facilitate those benefits. Conceptually this thesis draws on Spaapen and van Drooge (2011) & Molas-Gallart and Tang’s (2011) concept of ‘productive interactions.’ The thesis research examines what makes interactions between academics and NAPs ‘productive’ in the context of KE seminars, and the wider social network, economic and political environment in which those interactions emerge and are shaped. This thesis is based on a case study of the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC). The empirical evidence comes from 27 semi-structured interviews conducted with CPC academics & administrators (13), and NAPs who attended at least 1 CPC-organised KE seminar (14); and an online questionnaire of 48 CPC staff members (representing 75% of the Centre). The interviews were analysed thematically and the online questionnaire was analysed using Social Network Analysis (SNA). The research design was devised to collect data on the motivations, experiences, and understandings of interactions between academics and NAP within the CPC’s KE seminars. The social network analysis was designed to reveal the CPC’s KE social networks which are pertinent to understanding how the CPC engages with NAPs. This thesis documents ways in which KE seminars are sites of ‘knowledge interaction’ (Davies et al, 2008) where multiple actors from multiple organisations with different knowledges come together to engage in a topic of mutual interest. It finds that KE seminars are worthwhile for participants despite being resource-intensive because they fulfil multiple functions which cannot easily be replicated through non-dialogical and non-corporeal interventions. The academic research being presented on these social occasions is just one source of knowledge among many others (ibid). KE seminars are also opportunities for participants to create new informal contacts and strengthen existing ones. In other words, they help develop informal professional networks which is an important component for successful KE (Olmos-Peñuela, 2014b; Grimshaw et al, 2012; Kramer and Wells, 2005; Greenhalgh et al, 2004; Philip et al, 2003; Molas-Gallart et al, 2000). This thesis makes three original contributions. It shows: how KE seminars fill a number of functions that cannot easily be replicated by indirect forms of nonacademic engagement, which makes the investment of resources for hosting and attending them not only desirable but often necessary; how corporeal co-presence is important for facilitating productive interactions (Goffman, 1966; Urry, 2002; 2003); and the major factors which help facilitate ‘productive interactions’ within KE seminars. It is a contribution to the KE field generally, and will also be helpful to KE practitioners and academics that are tasked with organising and hosting KE seminars.