South African schools are learning environments that are defined by heterogenity, which means the relating and interaction of teachers and learners from different cultural, language and religious backgrounds. Viewed in terms of a social constructivist theoretical framework, teachers’ perceptions of their interaction with their learners are defined by their personal experiences, as well as their observations of concrete learner behaviour in class which are mostly shaped by the learners’ perceptions. ,. Broad cultural influences, including the unique school culture and climate where the teachers are operating, also contribute to teachers’ perception of the teacher-learnerinteraction. The nature and quality of teacher-learner interactions must be viewed as a contextual feature of school culture and climate as these relations shape the classroom experience. This study sought to generate broad themes on how teachers perceive teacher-learner interactions within diverse school cultures and climates. The research was conducted within a social constructivist, interpretive paradigm and it utilised Kenny’s PERSON Model of Interpersonal Perception. The PERSON Model of Interpersonal Perception is a model used to explore the formation of perceptions during interpersonal interaction and it is in line with the social constructivist position as it takes into account the dynamic and socially embedded nature of the interaction process. A research study of this nature was needed because teachers’ perceptions of their regular contact and connecting with learners influence teacher-learner relations. This in turn serves to shape learners’ perceptions of the learning environment as well as mediate the learners’ behaviour and relationship with scholastic learning (Luckner & Pianta, 2011:257). Qualitative research was used as this method lends itself to revealing the authenticity of human experience (Silverman, 2013:6) and it is particularly useful in the study of social relations (Flick, 2009:12). The participants consisted of twenty teachers from four high schools in Johannesburg, Gauteng. Three teachers from each of the four schools participated in semistructured interviews, while two other teachers from each of the four schools participated in a single focus group activity that included a collage-making exercise. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes that articulate the teachers’ perceptions of the teacher-learner interaction. Key themes that were identified through the research study included teaching to be a vocation; teachers’ interactions with their learners as character building that serve to shape the personalities of their learners; the influence of the length of time that teachers are active in the teaching profession and teacher-learner interactions; how classroom management strategies influences teachers perceptions of teacher-learner interactions. It was found that several factors influence the teachers’ perceptions of their interactions with their learners. Teachers who considered teaching to be a “vocation” tended to report that they experience enjoyable teacher-learner interactions. The teachers whose narratives did not include references to teaching as a vocation were inclined to report more conflictual and less enjoyable interaction experiences with their learners. The findings further reveal that the teachers perceive a decrease in negative teacher-learner interactions the longer they teach. Both groups of teachers viewed the interactions with their learners as character-building exercises that served to shape the personalities of their learners. Classroom climate factors and management strategies were found to influence teachers’ perceptions of their interactions with their learners. The teachers’ narratives did not emphasise race or culture as factors (qualitative research) that moderated their interactions with the learners in a significant manner. Overall, the findings indicated that the participants showed an awareness that firstly, personal factors, secondly, the external social factors or environmental events, and, lastly that individual behaviour contributed much to the quality of the interactions. An in-depth study investigating rural teachers’ perceptions of their interactions with their learners is recommended. A wider study that compares and contrasts the perceptions of teachers from the various provinces of South Africa would provide valuable insight into whether or not teachers’ perceptions of teacher-learner interaction vary from province to province. / MA (Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

South African schools are learning environments that are defined by heterogenity, which means the relating and interaction of teachers and learners from different cultural, language and religious backgrounds. Viewed in terms of a social constructivist theoretical framework, teachers’ perceptions of their interaction with their learners are defined by their personal experiences, as well as their observations of concrete learner behaviour in class which are mostly shaped by the learners’ perceptions. ,. Broad cultural influences, including the unique school culture and climate where the teachers are operating, also contribute to teachers’ perception of the teacher-learnerinteraction. The nature and quality of teacher-learner interactions must be viewed as a contextual feature of school culture and climate as these relations shape the classroom experience. This study sought to generate broad themes on how teachers perceive teacher-learner interactions within diverse school cultures and climates. The research was conducted within a social constructivist, interpretive paradigm and it utilised Kenny’s PERSON Model of Interpersonal Perception. The PERSON Model of Interpersonal Perception is a model used to explore the formation of perceptions during interpersonal interaction and it is in line with the social constructivist position as it takes into account the dynamic and socially embedded nature of the interaction process. A research study of this nature was needed because teachers’ perceptions of their regular contact and connecting with learners influence teacher-learner relations. This in turn serves to shape learners’ perceptions of the learning environment as well as mediate the learners’ behaviour and relationship with scholastic learning (Luckner & Pianta, 2011:257). Qualitative research was used as this method lends itself to revealing the authenticity of human experience (Silverman, 2013:6) and it is particularly useful in the study of social relations (Flick, 2009:12). The participants consisted of twenty teachers from four high schools in Johannesburg, Gauteng. Three teachers from each of the four schools participated in semistructured interviews, while two other teachers from each of the four schools participated in a single focus group activity that included a collage-making exercise. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes that articulate the teachers’ perceptions of the teacher-learner interaction. Key themes that were identified through the research study included teaching to be a vocation; teachers’ interactions with their learners as character building that serve to shape the personalities of their learners; the influence of the length of time that teachers are active in the teaching profession and teacher-learner interactions; how classroom management strategies influences teachers perceptions of teacher-learner interactions. It was found that several factors influence the teachers’ perceptions of their interactions with their learners. Teachers who considered teaching to be a “vocation” tended to report that they experience enjoyable teacher-learner interactions. The teachers whose narratives did not include references to teaching as a vocation were inclined to report more conflictual and less enjoyable interaction experiences with their learners. The findings further reveal that the teachers perceive a decrease in negative teacher-learner interactions the longer they teach. Both groups of teachers viewed the interactions with their learners as character-building exercises that served to shape the personalities of their learners. Classroom climate factors and management strategies were found to influence teachers’ perceptions of their interactions with their learners. The teachers’ narratives did not emphasise race or culture as factors (qualitative research) that moderated their interactions with the learners in a significant manner. Overall, the findings indicated that the participants showed an awareness that firstly, personal factors, secondly, the external social factors or environmental events, and, lastly that individual behaviour contributed much to the quality of the interactions. An in-depth study investigating rural teachers’ perceptions of their interactions with their learners is recommended. A wider study that compares and contrasts the perceptions of teachers from the various provinces of South Africa would provide valuable insight into whether or not teachers’ perceptions of teacher-learner interaction vary from province to province. / MA (Psychology), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015

The purpose of the study was to examine the role of leadership and school culture on the integration of technology to support instruction for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). A multiple embedded case study design was used to describe how a school leadership team supports a school culture for technology integration within classrooms where special education teachers integrate technology to engage students with EBD. The primary case of school culture includes a comprehensive description of how the school leadership team supports a culture for technology integration within classrooms. Embedded cases within the primary case describe how special education teachers integrate technology to engage students with EBD in classroom instruction. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) (Koehler & Mishra, 2005) is part of the conceptual framework to theoretically undergird the study. The findings of this study describe a school that serves students with EBD where there is a strong school culture and leaders support teachers who integrate technology to engage students. Patterns from the analysis indicate school leaders plan for staff development, participate in staff development sessions with teachers, observe teachers, provide feedback about teacher performance, and praise and encourage teachers to integrate technology. Teachers and leaders engage in formal and informal staff development opportunities to learn how to integrate technology into classroom lessons. As a result of these trainings and school leader support, teachers provide clear expectations for students while integrating technology to engage students, provide direct instruction, choices, and visual representation of content.

CO-TEACHING PARTNERSHIPS: HOW CULTURE OF SCHOOLS AND CLASSROOMS AFFECT PRACTICES IN CO-PLANNING AND CO-IMPLEMENTING INSTRUCTION By: Cecilia Gray Batalo, Ph.D. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014 Director: Paul J. Gerber, Ph.D., Professor Department of Special Education and Disability Policy School of Education The purpose of this study was to describe how the school and classroom cultures affected practices of inclusion for students with disabilities and how the inclusionary practice of co-teaching was influenced by the school culture. This study sought to investigate school and classroom cultures and their impact on practices of inclusion. It also addressed the perceptions of the impact that the school and classroom cultures had on co-teaching and why some practices are effective or not effective for co-planning or co-implementation. A multicase study design was used to gather and explore observations and interviews. Data were analyzed through qualitative methods with a focus on norms, values, and routines. This study provided an understanding of how school and classroom cultures affected inclusion within one school district in Virginia in order to inform elements needed for successful inclusion of students with disabilities through use of the co-teaching model.

Innovation and change are phenomenons any time. Within the scope of the Theory and Prac- tice of School Management module, the theses deals with management of a specific change, namely introduction of school uniforms into practice. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on relevant specialized literature on school management, marketing strategy, school culture and change management. It is completed with available foreign experience and con- clusions of surveys and research of media image, which is playing an important role in respect with the issue. The practical part, i.e. research, provides information and data obtained by the author from interviews with management of schools currently introducing school uniforms. The research results show that the original expectations have not been met in any of the pro- jects included. Understanding the cause of this failure, or else, partial success of the projects, constitutes an important part of the information summary designed for school headmasters considering introduction of school uniforms. The generalized research findings combined with theoretical knowledge imply a set of key recommendations introduced in the thesis con- clusion.

The role of school culture in facilitating underrepresented students' access to and success in college is examined in this ethnographic study. The purpose of this study is to examine an urban, public high school's culture in the southeast region of the United States with a high population of African Americans and students living in poverty. The college-­ going culture theory proposed by McClafferty, McDonough and Nunez (2002) and later refined by McDonough (2006) is used as a framework for this study and an ethnographic research design is employed using interviews, observations, open-­ended surveys, and document review as data collection methods. The objective of the study is to describe the culture of an urban high school by examining its artifacts, values and beliefs and underlying assumptions, specifically as it relates to preparation of students for postsecondary education. Findings from this study will help inform strategies on reforming school culture to support college access and success for urban high school students, and will support the use of the college-­going culture theory as a useful lens through which to understand college access issues. Additionally, this study helps to describe some of the common characteristics of urban education in the heart of education reform and describes the core challenges associated with developing college-­going culture in urban communities with high poverty and low college attendance rates.

O objetivo deste trabalho é caracterizar a apresentação dos conteúdos culturais nos livros didáticos destinados aos anos iniciais do ensino primário, além de investigar as orientações destinadas às professoras sobre como transmitir essa cultura. Para isso, foi feita a análise de 21 livros didáticos da área de língua portuguesa, de 1912 a 2012, organizados em 3 grupos de acordo com o critério de autoria dos textos literários nesses materiais: os livros cujos textos foram produzidos pelo próprio autor do livro didático, aqueles que foram produzidos por autores da literatura brasileira e aqueles livros que trazem tanto textos de outros autores quanto do autor do próprio livro. Por meio da perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais e da análise do discurso tal como proposta por Michel Foucault (2017), observou-se o que é legitimado enquanto cultura nesses materiais e quais são as orientações dadas ao docente para sua transmissão. Escolheu-se o livro didático como objeto da pesquisa devido à sua relevância no ensino brasileiro, ao seu alcance na educação formal e à sua característica de representante do currículo seriado. Investigando tal objeto, colabora-se com a caracterização da cultura escolar brasileira. A partir da análise do que está presente nos livros didáticos, também foi possível identificar quais referências culturais ficam de fora deles e, desse modo, colaborar para a compreensão dos efeitos normativos da cultura escolar, tema recorrente nos Estudos Culturais. Além disso, o trabalho refletiu sobre o governo da cultura por meio de um material escolar legitimado por regulamentações do Estado como o Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD). Descobriu-se que os livros didáticos participam do processo civilizador, selecionando e transmitindo valores culturais, civis, morais e nacionais, além de legitimarem a cultura neles transmitida, instituindo um governo a distância com relação ao ensino e à aprendizagem na escola. Essa cultura transmitida é a do cânone literário, representada e preservada pelos diversos gêneros literários, sobretudo a poesia, mas também a cultura infantil, pela apresentação de outros gêneros como as cantigas, palavras-cruzadas, histórias em quadrinhos, ilustrações, dentre outros, além da cultura da mídia que aparece nos livros mais recentes por meio de imagens e referências. O trabalho também mostra que a seleção dos conteúdos culturais feita nos livros didáticos é regulada por leis e parâmetros curriculares, assim como pelos valores desejados pela sociedade a que se destinam / The aim of this work is to characterize the presentation of cultural contents in the didactic books for primary education, besides investigating the guidelines for teachers on how to use this culture. For that, the analysis of 21 didactic books on the area of Portuguese language from 1912 to 2012 was organized in 3 groups according to the criteria of authorship of the literary texts considered as culture in these materials: the books whose texts were produced by the author of the didactic book, those produced by authors of Brazilian literature, and those books that combine different authorships for their texts. From the perspective of Cultural Studies and the analysis of discourses as proposed by Michel Foucault (2017), we observed what is legitimized as culture in these materials and what are the guidelines given to the teacher for its transmission. The textbook was chosen as the object of this research due to its relevance in Brazilian education, within its reach in formal education and its characteristic of representative of the curriculum. Investigating this object, it collaborates with the cultural mapping of the Brazilian school. Analysing what is presented in didactic books, it is also possible to identify which cultural references are left out of them, in order to collaborate to understand the normative effects of culture in school, a recurrent theme in Cultural Studies. In addition, the research investigates how the government of culture develops through a school material legitimized by State regulations such as the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD). It was found that textbooks assume the educational character of the civilizing process, selecting and transmitting cultural, civil, moral and national values, as well as legitimizing the culture transmitted in them, establishing a government from distance in relation to teaching and learning in school. This transmitted culture is that of the literary canon, represented and preserved by the different literary genres, especially poetry, but also the infantile one, by the presentation of other genres as songs, crosswords, comics, illustrations, among others, besides media culture that appears in the most recent books through images and references. It was also seen that the selection of cultural content in textbooks is based on the regulatory systems of the government, both the formal and curricular laws and parameters, as well as that referring to the desired values for a given society

A tese A escola primária no Estado do Pará (1920- 1940) analisa a cultura da escola primária no Brasil, e em particular no Estado do Pará, local de interesse central desse estudo. Para isso, foi necessário a identificação do quadro social, político, cultural e econômico da sociedade brasileira em geral e, de modo mais particular, da sociedade paraense no desenrolar dessas décadas. A partir do conceito de cultura escolar desenvolvido por Dominique Julia, descrito como um conjunto de normas que definem conhecimentos a ensinar, condutas a inculcar e práticas que permitem a transmissão desses conhecimentos e a incorporação desses comportamentos, a tese analisa as normas e legislações para a educação primária; os saberes, gerais e específicos, ministrados aos alunos nas diferentes escolas primárias em diferentes localizações espaciais das cidades e vilarejos paraenses; a formação do professor primário, agente responsável em utilizar dispositivos pedagógicos para facilitar a aquisição de conhecimentos e habilidades, entre eles os rituais e as comemorações cívicas na escola primária, elementos de apoio na formação dos conceitos de nacionalidade e de civilidade. As fontes utilizadas para o trabalho foram: relatórios e mensagens dos governadores, decretos, atestados, minutas de portaria da Instrução Pública, ofícios e petições da Secretaria de Educação e Saúde Pública, jornais de circulação diária e o periódico pedagógico Escola revista do professorado do Pará. / The primary school in Pará (1920-1940) wham is thesis locus the primary school culture in Brazil, especially in Pará. Since Pará is the main place for this study. For this study, the social, political, cultural and economical aspects were analyzed to help us identify what it was going on the paraense society. The thesis analyses the rules and laws in primary school, the general and specific knowledge, taught to student in different cities and small villages in Pará. It also talks about the primary teacher curriculum, since he/she is in charge of using, the pedagogical devices to facilitate the knowledge and abilities acquisition. As part of this acquisition civic celebrations and rituals are considered essential in the concepts of nationality and civil rights. There were several sources for this research such as newspapers, government decrees, a specific magazine named School, certificates, government messages, education secretary petitions and so on. All this was done through the concept de school culture by Dominique Julia that describes rules that define behaviors and practices to be incorporated by students.

A presente tese se insere na Área de História e Historiografia da Educação e objetiva analisar e compreender o processo de constituição das Escolas Isoladas enquanto modalidade escolar no contexto Mato-Grossense no período de 1890-1928. Trata-se de rehistoricizar o objeto escola de (des) naturalizá-la, retratá-la em seus aspectos internos, definindo sua cultura e os processos que configuram a sua modelização e organização. A busca pela compreensão dos aspectos internos da escola isolada, ou seja, como se dava a construção social e cultural das instituições escolares, exigiu o entendimento daquilo que chamamos de cultura escolar. Na medida em que a cultura escolar se constitui numa apropriada ferramenta teórica para explorar o passado e o presente da escola na sua relação com a sociedade e a cultura, e permite explorar o jogo tenso das lutas e tensões que perpassam a escola e expressam as contradições sociais. Como instrumentos de pesquisa, utilizei de documentos oriundos de atividades funcionais e pedagógicas, como: Mensagens governamentais, Relatórios dos inspetores (diretores, após 1880) da instrução; e de Diretores dos Grupos Escolares, alguns números de Jornais, Livros de Matrículas, Ofícios, Circulares, Livros de Notas, Atas de Exames, Mapas de freqüência de alunos e professores, Provas e Exercícios Escolares, Regulamentos, Regimentos e Fotografias. Essas fontes além de oferecerem preciosas informações sobre o funcionamento da escola ainda permitiu-me visualizar as representações dos profissionais envolvidos no processo, a forma pelas quais diretores, inspetores e autoridades do ensino interpretaram e cumpriram as determinações impostas pelas novas concepções pedagógicas. Nessa trilha a educação e a instrução da população estavam sendo amplamente discutidas e reafirmadas como essenciais, a fim de tornar o país, moderno e civilizado. Tais discursos tinham clara intenção em mostrar que, somente através da organização da instrução pública, seria possível elevar o país ao nível das nações civilizadas. Organizar a instrução era, segundo eles, romper com uma estrutura ineficaz, baseada em métodos ultrapassados e dispendiosos e, sobretudo, formar devidamente os professores. A partir de então, os Regulamentos e as Reformas da instrução pública teriam a finalidade de reordenar e restabelecer os critérios para a reorganização da instrução e também para o ingresso e a permanência dos professores no magistério primário. Propósito nosso foi demonstrar que se delineou nas escolas isoladas, a constituição e articulação de uma cultura e de uma forma escolar própria, caracterizada por dispositivos de normatização pedagógica e práticas dos agentes que se apropriaram deles, por meio de estratégias e táticas reveladoras de saberes socialmente acumulados permitindo reconstruir uma identidade escolar e difundir os seus valores e comportamentos específicos. / This thesis falls within the Area of History and Historiography of Education and aims to analyze and understand the constitution of Isolated Schools as a school sport in the context of Mato Grosso in the period 1890-1928. It is the object rehistoricizar school (un) naturalizing it, portray it in its internal aspects, defining its culture and processes that shape modeling and organization. The search for understanding of the internal aspects of the school alone, that is, how was the social and cultural construction of educational institutions, demanded an understanding of what we call school culture. To the extent that the school culture is an appropriate theoretical tool to explore the past and present school in its relationship with society and culture, and the game lets you explore the tense struggles and tensions that pervade the school and express the social contradictions. As research tools, used documents from the functional and educational activities, such as government posts, the inspectors\' reports (directors, after 1880) Education, and Directors of School Groups, some numbers of Journals, Books Enrollment, Crafts, Circulars, Books, Notes, Minutes of Examinations, frequency maps for students and teachers, tests and exercises School, Regulations, Regiments and Photographs. These sources also provide valuable information about the school run has allowed me to see the representations of the professionals involved in the process, the way in which directors, inspectors and education authorities have interpreted and complied with the determinations imposed by the new educational ideas. That track the education and instruction of the population were being widely discussed and reaffirmed as essential in order to make the country, modern and civilized. Such speeches were clearly intent on showing that only through the organization of public instruction; the country could raise the level of civilized nations. Arrange the statement was, according to them, breaking with an ineffective structure, based on outdated methods and expensive and, above all, to properly train teachers. Since then, Regulations and Reforms of public education would have the purpose of reorganizing and re-establish criteria for the reorganization of education and also for entry and retention of teachers in primary teaching. Our purpose was to demonstrate that takes place in isolated schools, the creation and articulation of a culture and a school form itself, characterized by devices pedagogical norms and practices of the agents who took them through strategies and tactics that reveal knowledge socially allowing accumulated rebuild a school identity and spread its values and behaviors.

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo pesquisar a instituição de bibliotecas nos Grupos Escolares do Estado de São Paulo no período de 1890 a 1920, considerando que esse espaço de leitura e conservação de livros estava previsto em plantas arquitetônicas, em decretos governamentais e nos debates para a reforma da instrução pública no início da República. Visto que esses regulamentos e projetos não permitiam aferir se, na prática, existiriam bibliotecas e quais as razões, finalidades e práticas permearam a instalação e uso desses espaços na Escola Primária, buscou-se entender a constituição de um espaço específico de suporte à formação de professores e alunos, a biblioteca escolar, nos Grupos Escolares para compreender essas práticas no contexto educacional das primeiras décadas da República. A investigação partiu da análise de fontes documentais impressas e manuscritas, encontradas no Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo, tais como leis, decretos, relatórios, ofícios, anuários, projetos e regulamentações, além das publicações educacionais A Eschola Publica (1893- 1897) e Revista de Ensino (1902-1918). Tendo como referencial teórico a abordagem historiográfica identificada como História Cultural, principalmente por meio dos trabalhos de Antonio Viñao Frago e Dominique Julia sobre cultura escolar e de Roger Chartier e Robert Darnton sobre a história da leitura. / The purpose of this dissertation is to research the creation of the libraries in São Paulos public schools from 1890 to 1920, considering that the reading space and book conservation was foreseen in floor plans, governmental enactments and debates for the public instruction reformation in Republics first years. Considering that these projects and regulations didnt permit to estimate if, in practice, libraries would exist and what reasons, purposes and practices permeated this spaces creation and use in Primary School, we tried to understand the constitution of a specific support space for teachers and students education in Public Schools, the school library, to understand these practices in the educational context of Republic first decades. The analysis of printed and handwriting sources laws, enactments, reports, official letters, yearbooks, projects and regulations, besides educational magazines such as A Eschola Publica (1893-1897) and Revista de Ensino (1902-1918) founded in Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo is the start point of this research. We have as reference the historiography approach identified as Cultural History, specially the works of Antonio Viñao Frago and Dominique Julia about school culture and Roger Chartier and Robert Darnton about the History of Reading.