<p> Because African American males are being educated in suburban environments where they are not performing as well as their White peers, this study sought to understand how these males make meaning of being educated with primarily White teachers in suburbia and to understand how they perceive their teachers' efficacy and expectations. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.)</p>

Industrial arts has been taught in varying degrees in the elementary schools of Texas for a number of years. In some cases, industrial arts activities have been integrated with other subject matter areas, and in some cases they have been taught as a separate subject. There have been several studies made concerning what the nature and extent of industrial arts activities should be at the elementary level. Research indicates, however, that there has been no study made to determine if industrial arts activities could be used to enrich the elementary curriculum in the Fort Worth Independent School District. The problem of this study is to determine if there is a need for industrial arts activities to enrich the elementary curriculum in the Fort Worth Independent School District, Fort Worth, Texas.

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As preocupações com o corpo e movimento não são recentes na Educação Infantil. Recomendações sobre a educação corporal são reconhecidas desde as primeiras sistematizações pedagógicas, especialmente a partir da Idade Moderna. No Brasil, tais preocupações aparecem especialmente a partir do século XIX. Nos últimos quinze anos, pesquisas sobre Educação Infantil no Brasil apresentaram avanços em relação à temática. Entretanto, no cotidiano das instituições é perceptível que professores possuem dificuldades consideráveis em pensar o movimento em sua totalidade. Nessa perspectiva, o objetivo dessa pesquisa foi investigar qual a concepção de corpo e movimento que norteia as práticas pedagógicas dos professores de Educação Infantil, bem como a relação estabelecida entre tais práticas e suas vivências/experiências corporais anteriores. A metodologia, de abordagem qualitativa, privilegiou o trabalho campo por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, realizadas com professores de Educação Infantil nas cidades de São Paulo/SP e Jundiaí/SP. A análise dos dados, referenciado na perspectiva teórico-metodológica da Rede de Significações, foi realizada a partir das categorias: concepção de corpo e movimento dos professores, concepção de práticas cotidianas de movimento na Educação Infantil, os espaços físicos e seus usos. Os dados analisados indicam que, os professores atuantes nas instituições de Educação Infantil investigadas, em sua maioria, reconhecem a importância do movimento e em certa medida, procuram desenvolver práticas pedagógicas que o contemplem, apesar de certas dificuldades, como: falta de um entendimento mais amplo sobre o movimento e a reprodução de práticas corporais relacionadas aos saberes oriundos da dimensão pessoal, a partir de suas próprias experiências corporais na infância. Essa constatação aponta para a necessidade de uma formação profissional que garanta subsídios para que os professores possam de fato refletir e construir suas práticas cotidianas fundamentadas em um olhar crítico sobre a criança e sua corporeidade, na perspectiva da totalidade. / Concerns about body awareness and movement are not new to Pre-school Education. Recommendations about body awareness education have been acknowledged since the first pedagogical systems were put into place, predominantly from the start of the Modern Age. In Brazil, such concerns started to become apparent particularly from the start of the XIX century, and in the past fifteen years research on Pre-school Education has presented advances in this area. However, in day-to-day school life, the considerable difficulties that teachers have in thinking about movement in its entirety can be recognized. From this perspective, the objective of this research was to investigate which idea of body awareness and movement guides the pedagogical practices of Pre-school Education teachers, as well as the relationship established between these practices and the previous body awareness experiences of such professors. The methodology, from a qualitative approach, used field work that was carried out through semi-structured interviews by Pre-school teachers in the cities of São Paulo/SP and Jundaí/SP. The data analysis, from a theoretical-methodological perspective, on the Net of Meanings, was carried out taking into consideration the following categories: teacher´s perceptions of body awareness, perceptions of everyday movement activities in Pre-school Education, physical spaces and their uses. The data analyzed indicates that the majority of teachers currently teaching pre-school education - that were investigated - recognize the importance of movement, and to a certain degree, attempt to consider this concept in the development of pedagogical practices despite coming up against certain difficulties, such as: the lack of a broader understanding of the movement and reproduction of body actions from a personal viewpoint related to their own childhood experiences of such actions. This discovery underlines the necessity of professional education that guarantees support for teachers, enabling them to reflect on and construct their daily activities based on one critical look at the child and his/her body as a whole.

<p> The advocacy of parent involvement, specifically by k-8 (elementary and middle school) administrators will be examined through the use of qualitative research method which will entail a thorough and immense review of the body of literature on this subject matter. The body of literature will cover the significance of parent involvement in various settings, such as in the home and in the classroom, and the significance to teachers, administrators, and students. The political components of parent involvement advocacy will be introduced and discussed in detail and additionally, the relationships between administrators, teachers, parents, and students will be examined and discussed. The data collection for this study will be conducted through the lens of a phenomenological approach. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect and impact that k-8 school administrators have on the implementation of parent engagement programs. Therefore, this will determine the success of parent involvement initiatives to promote parents as leaders in children&rsquo;s academic careers. explained. It will be explained through the examination of administrators who are or are not advocating for the implementation of parent engagement programs that will essentially allow parents to be involved in their children&rsquo;s academic careers in and outside of the classroom environment. The study will seek to discover the strategies used by administrators, challenges they face, and how success is measured. Administrators will also be asked for anecdotal recommendations for others in the field looking to implement similar programs.</p><p>

Empreende um esforço para organizar o pensamento sobre a relação entre educação escolar e democracia no Brasil. A hipótese principal do trabalho é que as exigências atuais da democracia impõem mudanças no modelo de educação escolar republicano, que prevaleceu ao longo deste século. Esboça os elementos de uma relação coerente entre educação escolar e democracia, explorando os limites das abordagens mais importantes do tema no Brasil. Adota como referência o conceito de democracia elaborado por Alain Touraine, concebida como sistema político que articula Estado e sociedade civil, universalismo da razão e particularismo das identidades culturais, oferecendo as condições públicas da liberdade expressada na afirmação do sujeito pessoal. O mesmo conceito compreende três dimensões constitutivas e interdependentes da democracia: o respeito aos direitos fundamentais (que limita o poder do Estado), a representatividade social dos atores políticos e a cidadania. Assim definida a democracia, examina-se como a educação escolar vem se relacionando com ela, tendo em vista o afastamento, a aproximação ou a eqüidistância (indiferença) entre ambas. Faz-se isso colocando em destaque os principais aspectos que têm sido abordados na perspetiva de adequar a educação escolar à democracia. Primeiro, a democratização do acesso à escola. A seguir, a democratização do ensino, tanto referente à representação das categorias sociais nos diferentes níveis e escolas quanto referente às relações de poder entre professor e alunos. Na seqüência, vem o tema da formação de personalidades democráticas, nas relações entre a educação escolar e a ética assim como na democratização da gestão escolar. Trata também do sistema escolar como uma organização burocrática, concluindo que uma democratização conseqüente desse sistema determinaria a alteração da própria natureza dessa organização. Com esse raciocínio, introduz a parte final que, discutindo o problema da qualidade da educação, questiona o modelo de educação escolar concebido como transmissão e sua incongruência com uma idéia de democracia assentada na liberdade do sujeito (educador e educando). Finalmente, é colocada a hipótese de que a máxima aproximação e, pois, a relação adequada e coerente entre democracia e educação escolar poderia estar na identificação entre esta última e a produção de conhecimento. / An effort is needed to undertake organizing the thought about the relation between school education and democracy in Brazil. The main hypothesis of this work is that democracys current demands call for changes in the republican school education model, which has prevailed throughout this century. It outlines the elements of a coherent relation between school education and democracy, exploring the limits of the most important approaches on this theme in Brazil. It adopts, as reference, the concept of democracy as defined by Alain Touraine, conceived as a political system that links the State with civil society, the universalizaty of reason and the particular traits of cultural identities, and offers public conditions of liberty which are expressed in the affirmation of a personal subject. The same concept comprehends three constitutive and interdependent dimensions of democracy: the respect of fundamental rights (that limit the power of the State), the social representation of political actors and citizenship. With democracy thus defined, school education is examined in its relationship to it, considering the distance, the proximity or the equidistance (indifference) between the two. This is done by highlighting the principal aspects that have been addressed in the perspective of adequating school education to democracy. First, the democratization of access to school. Then, the democratization of teaching, both with reference to the social categories that are represented on different levels and schools, as with power relations between teachers and students. Following this is the theme of forming democratic personalities, the relation between school education and ethics as well as the democratization of school management. It also addresses the school system as a bureaucratic organization and concludes that a consequent democratization of this system would determine a change in the very nature of this organization. With this reasoning, it introduces a final part that, while discussing the problem of quality in education, questions the model of school education conceived as transmission and its incongruence with the idea of democracy based on individual liberty (educator and student). Finally, a hypothesis is made affirming that a greater proximity and, therefore, an adequate and coherent relationship between democracy and school education could lie in identifying the latter with the production of knowledge.

In recent years there have been a number of pieces of research published which suggest that the phenomenon of self-harm in adolescence is increasing (Hall & Place, 2010, Beauchaine et al.,2014, Garcıa-Nieto et al., 2015). Heath et al., (2006) found that a majority of school teachers shared this view. In their study, 74% of teachers reported a first-hand encounter with self-injury. The subject of self-harm is also receiving more media coverage in mainstream newspapers and magazines (Dutta, 2015 & Money-Coutts, 2015), suggesting a rise in public consciousness about mental health issues such as self-harm. The extent of mental health problems amongst adolescents has also been publicly acknowledged by the Department of Health, who state that “Over half of mental health problems in adult life (excluding dementia) start by the age of 14 and seventy-five per cent by age 18” (2015:9). Research into adolescent self-harm has suggested that the most likely age for adolescents to commence self-harm is within the 10-15 years age bracket (Garcıa-Nieto et al., 2015 & Hanania et al., 2015) demonstrating that many adolescents are self-harming at an age where they are expected to be in school for the majority of their time. However, in studies of teachers, a ‘patchy' awareness of self-harm has been demonstrated (Best, 2005a; 2005b), and a lack of ability to know how best to deal with the situation, should it present itself, has been acknowledged by teachers in a number of research articles (Hall & Place 2010; Heath et al. 2006 and Kidger et al., 2010). This issue was discussed further in my Critical Analytical Study (Margrett, 2014). This study is guided by two main questions; firstly, “what are the experiences of independent school staff of pupil disclosures of self-harm?” and secondly, “how well equipped do independent school staff feel to deal with pupil disclosures of self-harm?” Interviews with four subject teachers, two housemistresses, and a school matron were conducted as a participant researcher within one girls' independent boarding school. The interviews were analysed through the use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, Flowers and Larkin, 2013) and findings were synthesised with some of the key concepts found in the work of Foucault (1982; 1977/1991) concerning discourses of power, knowledge and truth. Five main superordinate themes emerged from the analysis of the data: knowledge and awareness of self-harm; reasons why pupils have self-harmed; the hidden nature of self-harm; personal responses to self-harm disclosure by staff; lack of training and support; and reasons for participating. The study finds that within the small sample interviewed, the participants demonstrated a lack of confidence in their own understanding of the term ‘self-harm', but a wide experience of pupil self-harm disclosures. It suggests the need for the training of all staff, not just key pastoral staff, in dealing with pupil disclosures of self-harm; and the requirement for schools to develop a self-harm policy (Robinson et al., 2008) and clear guidelines for referral and follow-up of disclosures of self-harm. It also supports the concept of supervision style meetings for school staff to have the ability to discuss their own anxieties and concerns about pupil behaviour (Best, 2005a & 2005b). Finally, the study examines how staff and parental avoidance of self-harm can lead to the development of concentric circles of complicit secrecy surrounding the pupil who is self-harming. It considers how ‘over-parenting' and ‘spoon-feeding' of educational concepts may be damaging pupils' ability to manage their fear of failure and suggests that this may lead to a lack of resilience and a lack of an ability to deal with problems effectively (Lahey, 2015) particularly when pupils feel that they do not conform to the accepted norms of society (Foucault, 1977/ 1991).

Empreende um esforço para organizar o pensamento sobre a relação entre educação escolar e democracia no Brasil. A hipótese principal do trabalho é que as exigências atuais da democracia impõem mudanças no modelo de educação escolar republicano, que prevaleceu ao longo deste século. Esboça os elementos de uma relação coerente entre educação escolar e democracia, explorando os limites das abordagens mais importantes do tema no Brasil. Adota como referência o conceito de democracia elaborado por Alain Touraine, concebida como sistema político que articula Estado e sociedade civil, universalismo da razão e particularismo das identidades culturais, oferecendo as condições públicas da liberdade expressada na afirmação do sujeito pessoal. O mesmo conceito compreende três dimensões constitutivas e interdependentes da democracia: o respeito aos direitos fundamentais (que limita o poder do Estado), a representatividade social dos atores políticos e a cidadania. Assim definida a democracia, examina-se como a educação escolar vem se relacionando com ela, tendo em vista o afastamento, a aproximação ou a eqüidistância (indiferença) entre ambas. Faz-se isso colocando em destaque os principais aspectos que têm sido abordados na perspetiva de adequar a educação escolar à democracia. Primeiro, a democratização do acesso à escola. A seguir, a democratização do ensino, tanto referente à representação das categorias sociais nos diferentes níveis e escolas quanto referente às relações de poder entre professor e alunos. Na seqüência, vem o tema da formação de personalidades democráticas, nas relações entre a educação escolar e a ética assim como na democratização da gestão escolar. Trata também do sistema escolar como uma organização burocrática, concluindo que uma democratização conseqüente desse sistema determinaria a alteração da própria natureza dessa organização. Com esse raciocínio, introduz a parte final que, discutindo o problema da qualidade da educação, questiona o modelo de educação escolar concebido como transmissão e sua incongruência com uma idéia de democracia assentada na liberdade do sujeito (educador e educando). Finalmente, é colocada a hipótese de que a máxima aproximação e, pois, a relação adequada e coerente entre democracia e educação escolar poderia estar na identificação entre esta última e a produção de conhecimento. / An effort is needed to undertake organizing the thought about the relation between school education and democracy in Brazil. The main hypothesis of this work is that democracys current demands call for changes in the republican school education model, which has prevailed throughout this century. It outlines the elements of a coherent relation between school education and democracy, exploring the limits of the most important approaches on this theme in Brazil. It adopts, as reference, the concept of democracy as defined by Alain Touraine, conceived as a political system that links the State with civil society, the universalizaty of reason and the particular traits of cultural identities, and offers public conditions of liberty which are expressed in the affirmation of a personal subject. The same concept comprehends three constitutive and interdependent dimensions of democracy: the respect of fundamental rights (that limit the power of the State), the social representation of political actors and citizenship. With democracy thus defined, school education is examined in its relationship to it, considering the distance, the proximity or the equidistance (indifference) between the two. This is done by highlighting the principal aspects that have been addressed in the perspective of adequating school education to democracy. First, the democratization of access to school. Then, the democratization of teaching, both with reference to the social categories that are represented on different levels and schools, as with power relations between teachers and students. Following this is the theme of forming democratic personalities, the relation between school education and ethics as well as the democratization of school management. It also addresses the school system as a bureaucratic organization and concludes that a consequent democratization of this system would determine a change in the very nature of this organization. With this reasoning, it introduces a final part that, while discussing the problem of quality in education, questions the model of school education conceived as transmission and its incongruence with the idea of democracy based on individual liberty (educator and student). Finally, a hypothesis is made affirming that a greater proximity and, therefore, an adequate and coherent relationship between democracy and school education could lie in identifying the latter with the production of knowledge.

<p> The purpose of the study was to investigate middle school students' perceptions of teacher feedback, middle school teachers' perceptions of the same feedback, and the extent to which those perceptions matched. While research into feedback practices was rich, few studies investigated middle school students' perceptions and experience with feedback practices. The study aimed to address possible miscommunication between teachers and students which may negatively impact middle school students' learning trajectories. Middle school students and teachers from a Midwestern Independent school participated in the study. Student data was examined in aggregate and by race, gender, grade level, years of experience at the school, and student academic self-ratings. Data was acquired using surveys, focus groups, questionnaires and interviews comparing middle school student and teacher responses to 1) clarity of feedback messages, 2) effectiveness of feedback messages, 3) feedback delivery systems and 4) how feedback is used by middle school students. The study also compared trimester grade point averages of middle school students who participated in a 6-week feedback training session intended to improve feedback engagement. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of data revealed that while there were significant differences in how middle school students and teachers view and interpret teacher feedback, middle school students find teacher feedback to be highly valuable and crave instructive rather than evaluative feedback to help improve their work. The evidence also revealed the advantages and limitations of instructing middle school students on how to be better interpreters and users of teacher feedback. The researcher suggests educators need to incorporate explicit feedback protocols in their classrooms including providing reflection time and opportunities for middle school students to practice becoming better receivers of feedback. The researcher also recommends educators proactively seek middle school student input concerning the type of feedback desired and how to deliver that feedback. </p><p>

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