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This paper seeks to insert the voices of students into the historical discussion of public school integration in New Orleans. While history tends to ignore the memories of children that experienced integration firsthand, this paper argues that those memories can alter our understanding of that history. In 1963, Benjamin Franklin High School was the first public high school in New Orleans to integrate. Black students knowingly made sacrifices to transfer to Ben Franklin, as they were socially and politically conscious teenagers. Black students formed alliances with some white teachers and students to help combat the racist environment that still dominated their school and city. Ben Franklin students were maturing adolescents worked to establish their identities in this newly integrated, intellectually advanced space. This paper explores the way in which students – of differing racial, socio-economic, religious, educational, and political upbringings – all struggled to navigate self and space in this discordant society.

This study explored the impact of democracy on the leadership and management styles in two previously coloured primary schools in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province of South Africa. The report uses a case study as well as an interactive qualitative analysis research methodology. It explores how principals and educators use post-apartheid legislation policies and practices to address complex challenges in order to effect change. I argue that despite tensions between coloured and black educators, change is evident. The people learn to work together, respect each other and forge ahead. These challenges brought about by desegregation contribute to shaping a future non-racial, non-sexist South Africa. We see how mentalities of superiority and inferiority play itself out and how one group exercises its hegemony over another sometimes reflecting the social constructs of society during apartheid. The findings reveal that the Constitution of South Africa (1996) and the South African Schools Act (SASA) (1996) are not used sufficiently and substantively to influence change. Discretion and common sense are often used to resolve problems and to find each other. Desegregation and integration create a space where tolerance, acceptance and forgiveness have been able to be practiced in different ways. The leaders have worked with their staff, students and communities to make headway on the path from the received apartheid past to a brighter more integrated future.” While schools discuss embracing the ten fundamental values of the Constitution of South Africa, living up to them continues to remain a challenge in practice.

Partant du constat du faible nombre de travaux portant sur la question ethnique à l’école, nous nous attachons à analyser le phénomène d’ethnicisation des rapports sociaux au collège. Le défi réside dans l’analyse et la compréhension de cette ethnicisation à partir d’une méthodologie quantitative. Nous interrogeons les conséquences de la ségrégation sur la subjectivité des élèves. Il s’agit de se placer du point de vue des collégiens, pour comprendre de quelle façon ils voient le monde qui les entoure, rendre compte des phénomènes de saillance et de catégorisation ethnique. Nous étudions la façon dont se construisent et se meuvent les frontières ethniques et comment elles se superposent ou pas aux frontières sociales. Notre approche consiste à appréhender les mécanismes de production des identités ethniques. Nous faisons l’hypothèse qu’ils s’expliquent en partie au moins par le contexte scolaire ségrégué. Pour ce faire, nous avons élaboré un questionnaire qui a été administré à plus de 1300 élèves scolarisés dans six collèges parmi les plus ségrégués de Bordeaux et de Créteil. Ce matériau se complète de 200 questionnaires passés auprès de familles. Nous cherchons donc à étudier les conséquences de la ségrégation ethnique au collège sur la construction de soi et le rapport à soi et à l’institution scolaire des collégiens. Nous faisons aussi l’hypothèse que la construction de soi en fonction de catégories ethniques n’est pas un processus uniquement lié à la ségrégation. Elle dépend de l’ensemble des acteurs de l’école. Ceci amène donc à se questionner sur ses modalités de variation en fonction des contextes diversifiés liés au degré de ségrégation (ethnique, sociale et scolaire notamment), des politiques d’établissements mises en œuvre et de l’action des élèves eux-mêmes. Nous montrons que ceux-ci ne sont pas totalement dominés par leurs appartenances sociales et ethniques, ils opèrent un travail de redéfinition identitaire qui leur permet de « retourner le stigmate ». / Based on the observation that only few studies question the issue of ethnicity in the school context, the present work aims at addressing the phenomenon of ethnicization of social relations in high schools. More specifically, we address the consequences of segregation on students’ subjectivity. By adopting their perspective, we intend to understand how the students perceive the world that surrounds them and to document ethnic salience and categorization. We question the way ethnic boundaries emerge and move, and how they overlap with social boundaries. Hence, our approach intends to grasp the mechanisms of production of ethic identities, and we predict that these mechanisms are, at least in part, accounted for by the segregated school context. Methodologically, the main challenge of the present study lies in the use of a quantitative methodology to analyze and grasp the ethnicization process. In this line, we used a questionnaire administered to over 1’300 students, in six high schools amongst the most segregated in Bordeaux and Créteil. We additionally used 200 questionnaires administered to students’ families. By means of this survey, we investigated the consequences of ethnic segregation at school on the construction of the self. We also questioned the relation of the students to their own selves and to the institution. In our approach of the construction of the self as a function of ethnic categories, we have considered the additional contributions of all actors in school. Our work leads us to point out different modalities of variations, including contexts with different degrees of segregation (mainly ethnic, social, and educational), differences in institutional policies, and differences in the actions of the students themselves. Ultimately, we demonstrated that the students are not entirely dominated by their social and ethnic memberships. Rather, they operate an identity redefinition which allows them to « turn the stigmata over ».

Submitted by Maicon Juliano Schmidt (maicons) on 2015-04-15T18:19:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Liana Pasinato.pdf: 907872 bytes, checksum: 1447050fc96055b4b8ee3443c770f9a8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-15T18:19:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Liana Pasinato.pdf: 907872 bytes, checksum: 1447050fc96055b4b8ee3443c770f9a8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-21 / Nenhuma / Na atualidade, a entrada dos filhos à escola de educação infantil implica em inúmeros desafios. Devido às características de duplo-trabalho de um número cada vez maior de genitores, e a escassez de rede social de apoio, esse período tem sido adiantado cronologicamente, uma vez que as crianças estão ingressando logo após o término da licença maternidade às escolas. Os genitores precisam então, fazer frente a uma sobreposição de duas etapas do ciclo evolutivo familiar, que são a transição da conjugalidade à parentalidade e a coparentalidade e o ingresso dos filhos à escola de educação infantil. Portanto, a articulação entre estas relações pode se expressar em dificuldades dos filhos neste momento. Neste sentido, o objetivo desta dissertação foi o de compreender como se dá a coparentalidade em casais que os filhos ingressaram à escola de educação infantil, logo após o término da licença maternidade. Essa dissertação é composta por dois artigos empíricos, o primeiro intitulado ?A transição para a coparentalidade: casais que os filhos ingressaram à escola ao término da licença-maternidade? e o segundo ?A coparentalidade em famílias com bebês com indicativos de dificuldades de inserção escolar precoce?. Foi realizado um estudo exploratório descritivo, com quatro famílias nucleares, residentes em Erechim/RS, com idades entre 26 e 40 anos, e que os filhos haviam ingressado na escola de educação infantil, logo após o término da licença maternidade. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: questionário de dados sociodemográficos, roteiro e entrevista semiestruturada sobre coparentalidade. Os resultados deste estudo mostraram importantes aspectos da dinâmica familiar destes casais durante o período de inserção escolar precoce dos filhos. Algumas mudanças da atualidade têm reflexos neste momento, como o fato da família ter dificuldades para encontrar uma rede de apoio, e a valorização dos ingressos financeiros das mulheres, por isso inserem precocemente os filhos à escola. Estas características se expressam no fato da coparentalidade estar sendo desempenhada de forma mais igualitária pelos casais deste estudo, uma vez que o duplo-trabalho e a inserção escolar precoce dos filhos impõem essa dinâmica. Entretanto, no processo de inserção escolar, ainda são as mães as principais participantes, apontando uma heterogeneidade nestas dinâmicas. Assim como as tarefas domésticas ainda não são divididas igualitariamente, estando estas associadas aos papéis de gênero. / Nowadays, the entry of children in preschool involves numerous challenges. Due to the characteristics of double-work of a growing number of genitors, and the shortage of social support network, this period has was reduced, since children are going to schools right after the end of maternity leave. The parents need to tackle this overlapping of two stages of family life cycle, which are the transition from conjugality to parenting, and coparenting and children entering the kindergarten. Given that the articulation of these relationships might be expressed in difficulties for the children at this time. In this regard, the aim of this dissertation was to comprehend how the coparenting sets up in couples where the children were enrolled to the childhood education, right after the end of maternity leave. This dissertation is composed of 6 two empirical articles, the first titled "The transition to coparenting: couples where their children were enrolled to the school at the end of maternity leave " and the second "The coparenting in families with babies who have indicatives of early school insertion difficulties". An exploratory and descriptive study was made, with four nuclear families, living in Erechim / RS, aged between 26 and 40 years, and where the children had entered the kindergarten soon after the end of maternity leave. The instruments used were: sociodemographic questionnaire, semistructured script and interview about coparenting. The results of this study show important aspects in the family dynamics of these couples during the early school insertion of its children. The findings show changes of the present time that have an impact in this moment, such as the difficulty for the family to find a support network, the valuation of financial income of women, and for this reason enroll children to school earlier. These characteristics are expressed in the fact of the coparenting is performed more equally by the couples of this study, since double-work and the inclusion of children prematurely in school impose that dynamic. However, in the process of school integration, mothers are still the main participants, pointing a heterogeneity in these dynamics. Just as household tasks are not equally divided, and are associated with gender roles.

Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / Bibliography: leaves 91-95. / M.C.P.

While South Africa's new democracy has meant that schools are now open to all, there is still racism in our schools. The changes in schools have in some cases exacerbated racial tensions and mistrust. Teachers everywhere are struggling with the changing dynamics of their classrooms and schools. There is much talk about how to work against racism. Various programmes and schools have developed different ways of dealing with it. All have particular ideas about how best to counter it. Resisting Racism aims to discuss and understand the beliefs and assumptions underlying many of these approaches. We look at the theories behind the different practices, present a range of ideas to illustrate them and consider their limits and possibilities. The book is a starting point for teachers and schools to reflect on their practices and help them to work out new strategies in the classroom and school. The approaches described will probably work best if they are used together, specially adapted to the specific context in which they are to be used. In the first part of the book we look at psychological and sociological explanations of why people are racist. Four different ways of looking at the issues are described. Each suggests practical ways of dealing with racism in the classroom and in the school. Chapter Three, on multi-cultural and anti-racist education, covers similar ground but from a slightly different angle, looking at curriculum debates about race, culture and equality. The final section looks at the concerns that many teachers have every day, such as "How can I deal with the language problem?" and "How can I involve parents in these issues?" In discussing these questions we have tried to use current theory to inform the practical ideas suggested. You will discover that this book is not neutral. It does have a point of view. It seeks to explain the limitations of assimilating students into a status quo and asks that schools take a critical look at their policies and practices. There are no easy answers or quick solutions. However thinking about and understanding the issues of racism and the ways in which it may be resisted can only bring us closer to positive change.

This study examined factors related to the teaching effectiveness of adjunct faculty in higher education. Specifically, it explored the relationship between personality, as defined by the Five-Factor Model, occupation, and student ratings of teaching effectiveness. Results indicate that personality is correlated to an instructor's classroom behavior and education goals, which in turn are related to teaching effectiveness. In addition, instructors with occupations in social services and education had significantly higher mean teaching effectiveness scores than those from other occupations. Finally, there was an inverse relationship between age and teaching effectiveness in this study, and a positive relationship between teaching experience and teaching effectiveness. Although instructors may not be able to change their personality, they can modify their behavior and teaching practices to increase their effectiveness as educators.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Faculty of Education, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 314-372).