Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:21:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jorge Wagner de Campos Freitas.pdf: 585705 bytes, checksum: 6d9c6a2d10ac20894647285e9e74651f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-23 / The objective at this study is to identify some factors that have contributed for the evasion of adolescents of the Sunday School. Is study limits its scope to the Methodist Church in cities of the interior of the State of São Paulo. To understand the current condition of adolescence is a requisite to develop actions in order to make it able to the practice of faith. The first chapter focuses the adolescence development. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, researchers, medical doctors, psychologists, educators among others have done research or this phase of life. Chapter two an analysis of the Sunday School. The goal of this chapter to understand its origins, its relationship with the adolescence its structure and functioning; since, it is one of the best spaces for adolescent formation. A the adolescent needs an educative model that helps his her development, and the Sunday School could be the educative agency to provide an appropriate education to the current time. The third chapter deepens the general concept of education and specifically the Christian education distinguishing them from education. The necessary model of education for the development of the adolescent must be that one the one that helps his her to elaborate its own development in a continuous practice of elaboration and rework of its education, allowing experiences of life in a Christian perspective. Finally, chapter four analyzes the result of the field research, the adolescent opinion on the Sunday School and from this understanding to identify the factors that contribute for the evasion. / Este estudo tem como objetivo identificar alguns fatores que têm contribuído para a evasão de adolescentes da Escola Dominical. O trabalho limita-se ao âmbito da Igreja Metodista, em cidades do interior do Estado de São Paulo. Entender a atual condição da adolescência é requisito para desenvolver ações capazes de prepará-la para o exercício da fé. O primeiro capítulo enfoca o desenvolvimento da adolescência.. Desde o início da Revolução Industrial pesquisadores, médicos, psicólogos, educadores entre outros têm se voltado à pesquisa desta fase de vida. O segundo capítulo propõe uma análise da Escola Dominical. O objetivo deste capítulo é compreender suas origens, seu relacionamento com a adolescência, sua estrutura e funcionamento, pois, ela é um dos melhores espaços para a formação do adolescente. Este precisa de um modelo educativo que ajude seu desenvolvimento e a Escola Dominical pode ser a agência educativa para garantir uma educação apropriada à época atual. O terceiro capítulo aprofunda o conceito de educação de modo geral e educação cristã de modo específico distinguindo-as de ensino. O modelo de educação necessário para o desenvolvimento do adolescente deve ser aquele que o ajude a elaborar seu próprio desenvolvimento numa prática contínua de elaboração e re-elaboração de sua educação, propiciando experiências de vida numa perspectiva cristã. Por fim, o quarto capítulo analisa o resultado da pesquisa de campo, a opinião do adolescente sobre a Escola Dominical e a partir desta compreensão identificar os fatores que contribuem para a evasão.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T16:15:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RUTEBERTOLDO.pdf: 633817 bytes, checksum: 56a017105d086044b69f1868cc85759a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-03 / Our research s goal was to investigate the contribution non-formal education has for formal education in the Methodist Church s Sunday School. Our theoretical framework is based in authors that study non-formal education: Afonso (2002), Simson (2001), Brandão (2002), Duran (2007), Delors (2002), Gadotti (2005), Libâneo (2005) and Gohn (2001). Non-formal education was problematized in the context of Sunday School, grounded on historical evidence from its beginnings in seventeenth century England, its foundation on the methodist movement and in its founder s biography. We considered the contributions provided by Buyers (1929/1945), Heitzenrater (2006), Reily (1991) and Lelièvre (1997). The empirical qualitative research consisted in intensive interviewing and the emplyment of questionnaires. We interviewed a honorary Methodist Bishop, whose life story is ties to the Sunday School environment and the formation it provided as well as its contribution for his choosing of a profession. The questionnaires we elaborated were sent to the communities that attend Sunday School, and were answered by twenty-two people. The analysis of the answers given took into account the contextual conditions in which the interviewees were involved. The results thus gathered raise some questions, because the environment in which Sunday School was first proposed whithin the Methodist Movement is vastly different from the context in which the same practice is carried out nowadays, thus showing the great difficulty Sunday School has in remaining attractive in the modern world that offers many options when it comes to leisure, culture and education. This is in stark contrast to the seventeenth century, when education was a privilege given to very few. Despite this challenge, Sunday School and the non-formal education it provides nowadays are seen by its participants as fundamental in character formation, both spiritually and morally, and relevant for society as a whole. / A proposta deste trabalho foi de investigar a contribuição da educação não-formal para a educação formal, no contexto da Escola Dominical da Igreja Metodista. O referencial teórico ancora-se em autores que se dedicam aos estudos relacionados à educação não-formal: Afonso (2002), Simson (2001), Brandão (2002), Duran (2007), Delors (2002), Gadotti (2005), Libâneo (2005) e Gohn (2001). A educação não-formal foi problematizada no contexto da Escola Dominical, tendo por base dados históricos que remontam ao seu início na Inglaterra do Sec. XVII, seu fundamento na história do movimento metodista e na biografia do seu fundador, considerando as contribuições de Buyers (1929/1945), Heitzenrater (2006), Reily (1991) e Levièvere (1997). A pesquisa empírica, de cunho qualitativo, teve por base a realização de entrevista intensiva e a aplicação de questionários. A entrevista foi realizada com um bispo honorário da Igreja Metodista, cuja história de vida está relacionada ao ambiente da Escola Dominical, à formação ali recebida e sua influência na escolha de sua profissão. Os questionários elaborados foram encaminhados à comunidade que frequenta a Escola Dominical, sendo respondidos por vinte e duas pessoas. A análise das respostas dos entrevistados considerou as condições contextuais nas quais os entrevistados estavam envolvidos. Os resultados obtidos suscitam alguns questionamentos, pois o ambiente em que se deu a proposta inicial da Escola Dominical, no Movimento Metodista, apresenta uma enorme distancia do lugar em que a mesma prática é realizada hoje, evidenciando-se a grande dificuldade para a Escola Dominical manter-se atrativa em um mundo moderno, que oferece muitas opções de lazer, cultura e educação, diferente do séc. XVII, em que a educação era privilégio de poucos. Apesar deste desafio, a Escola Dominical e a educação não-formal que ela oferece hoje, são vistas, por seus participantes, como fundamentais na formação do caráter tanto espiritual quanto moral, e relevante a sua contribuição para a sociedade como um todo.

The problem of this investigation was to make a rating of the following factors which pertain to boys in three distinct residential districts of the W. C. Stripling Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas: (1) intelligence quotient, (2) civic attitude, (3) academic achievements, (4) Sunday school attendance, (5) club membership, (6) after-school employment, and (7) the number of broken homes.

Sunday schools were an important part of the development of religious education in the United States and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (L.D.S. Church). It was the purpose of this study (1) to analyze the teaching methods of both the L.D.S. and non-L.D.S. Sunday school movements in the United States prior to 1900; and (2) to compare the teaching methods used by these Sunday school developments and determine similarities and differences.

Teaching is, and always has been, important in the work of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As one of the auxiliaries of the Church, the Sunday School has made an ongoing effort to provide effective teaching aids for its teachers in order to improve instruction in the Church. This work documents and examines change in principles of gospel teaching over the course of a century. By comparing teaching aids provided for Gospel Doctrine teachers in different time periods with guidelines found in the scriptures and words of modern prophets this work seeks to increase understanding of themes and fundamentals of inspired teaching in the Church.

Text in Afrikaans / Aanduidings bestaan dat jongmense na twaalf jaar van kategetiese onderrig steeds slegs 'n opperviakkige kennis, begrip van en insig in skrifwaarhede het. Hierdie probleem moet deur die praktiese teologie aangespreek word, want kategetiese onderrig is 'n kommunikatiewe handeling in diens van die evangelie. Die praktiese teologie kan 'n bydrae lewer deur die polivorme en polivalente leefwereld van die jeugdige (as praxis) te beskryf en te verklaar, sodat tot groter insig in die geloofswereld van die jeugdige gekom kan word, maar ook wee verken waardeur die jeugdige effektief met die Evangelie bereik kan word. Onderhawige studie poog om langs beskrywend-analitiese weg ervaringsleer as aanbiedingswyse te ondersoek met die doel om te bepaal of ervaringsleer moontlikhede bied wat kan verseker dat skrifwaarhede effektief ontsluit word. Die vertrekpunt in die studie is die leerparadigmatiese en 'n konstruktivistiese benadering tot leer word gevolg. Die meriete van die benutting van ervaringsleer moet gesien word vanuit 'n prakties-teologiese vertrekpunt waar die praxis krities ondersoek is met die doel om kommunikatiewe handelinge tussen jeugwerker en jeugdige in diens van die evangelie te optimaliseer. / Indications are that youth, after twelve years of catechetical instruction, still have superficial knowledge, understanding and insight into biblical truths. This problem must be addressed within practical theology, because catechetical instruction is a communicative action in evangelical service. The practical theology can make a contribution by describing and interpreting the multifarious and multifaceted world of the youth (as praxis). In this way, greater insight can be gained into the spiritual life of the youth and ways can be explored to reach youth more effectively with the Word. This study, by means of a descriptive and analytical review of experiential learning, attempts to determine whether experiential learning could be used to effectively disclose biblical truths. The approach was based on the learning paradigm and a constructivistic view of learning. The merit of using experiential learning in youth work must be seen from a practical theology perspective where the praxis was critically examined with a view of optimising the communicative interaction between youth and youth workers. / Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology / Thesis (M. Diac.)--Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, 2000.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FABIO FETZ ALMEIDA.pdf: 2370212 bytes, checksum: 7cd04b263e6fa6cc8bdce8f539bd2ede (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-08 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The research examined the influence of the religious practices of the Methodist Church and its Sunday School on the process of literacy, in the year 2008. Through a case study involving the techniques of observation, two families were selected for a detailed study. The instruments used to develop this research was semi-structured interviews, the observation of the religious cult and the Sunday School practices development in the weekends, and the analysis of the pedagogical material used in the Sunday School. The objective was to observe the practices of literacy to which children and adults were exposed. The following hypothesis guided the research: the learning practices of the Sunday School and the family relationship, although based on the religion dogmas, involves literacy exercises that encourage the development of skills of writing in children. The study group was composed by two children in school age (between ten and thirteen years old) and their families. The reading and writing practices of the select families was analyzed through the concepts of habitus and cultural capital (Bourdieu, 2007) and family configuration (Lahire, 2004). It was observed that the investigated religious field has solid social values that contribute positively to the learning process of the younglings through the social practices development in the Sunday School. Thus, the embodiment of cultural capital as habitus and the ways of production of symbolic goods in the religious field has contribute to the development of writing, reading and interpretation skills of the select group / A pesquisa examinou a influência das práticas religiosas da Igreja Metodista e de sua escola dominical sobre o processo de letramento, durante o ano de 2008. Por meio de um estudo de caso que envolve as técnicas de observação, duas famílias foram selecionadas para um estudo aprofundado. Os instrumentos utilizados para empreender a pesquisa foram entrevistas semi-estruturadas, a observação das práticas desenvolvidas nos finais de semana durante o culto religioso, na escola dominical e a análise do material pedagógico utilizado na escola dominical. O objetivo era o de observar as práticas de letramento aos quais crianças e adultos eram expostos. A seguinte hipótese norteou a pesquisa: as práticas de aprendizagem na escola dominical e as relações familiares, embora fundamentados no dogma religioso, envolvem exercícios de letramento que favorecem a habilidade da escrita pelas crianças. O público alvo foi formado por duas crianças em idade escolar (entre dez e treze anos de idade) assim como as suas famílias. As práticas de leitura e escrita das famílias selecionadas foram analisadas a partir dos conceitos de habitus e capital cultural (Bourdieu, 2007) e de configurações familiares (Lahire, 2004). Observou-se que o ambiente religioso investigado possui sólidos valores sociais, os quais influenciam positivamente no processo de aprendizado dos jovens através de práticas sociais desenvolvidas na escola dominical. Sendo assim, a incorporação do capital cultural na forma de habitus e dos esquemas de reprodução de bens simbólicos existentes no ambiente religioso contribui para o desenvolvimento das habilidades de escrita, leitura e interpretação do grupo selecionado

In 1908, two Canadian women published first novels that became instant best-sellers. Nellie McClung's Sowing Seeds in Danny initially outsold Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, but by 1965 McClung's book had largely disappeared from Canadian consciousness. The popularity of Anne, on the other hand, has continued to the present, and Anne has received far more academic and critical attention, especially since 1985. It is only recently that Anne of Green Gables has been criticized for its ideology in the same manner as Sowing Seeds in Danny. The initial question that inspired this dissertation was why Sowing Seeds in Danny disappeared from public and critical awareness while Anne of Green Gables continued to sell well to the present day and to garner critical and popular attention into the twenty-first century. In light of the fact that both books have in recent years come under condemnation and stand charged with maternal feminism, imperial motherhood, eugenics, and racism, one must ask further why this has now happened to both Danny and Anne. What has changed? The hypothesis of the dissertation is that Danny's relatively speedy disappearance was partly due to a shift in Canadians' religious worldview over the twentieth century as church attendance and biblical literacy gradually declined. McClung's rhetorical strategies look back to the dominant Protestantism of the nineteenth century, in contrast to Montgomery's, which look forward to the twentieth-century's waning of religious faith. Although there is enough Christianity in Montgomery's novel to have made it acceptable to her largely Christian reading public at the beginning of the century, its presentation is subtle enough that it does not disturb or baffle a twenty-first-century reader in the way McClung's does. McClung's novel is so forthright in its presentation of Christianity, with its use of nineteenth-century tropes and conventions and with its moralising didacticism, that the delightful aspects of the novel were soon lost to an increasingly secular reading public. Likewise, the recent critical challenges to both novels spring from a worldview at odds with the predominantly Christian worldview of 1908. The goal of the dissertation has been to read Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables within the religious contexts of a 1908 reader in order to avoid an unquestioning twenty-first-century censure of these novels, and to ascertain the reasons for their divergent popularity and recent critical condemnation.

In 1908, two Canadian women published first novels that became instant best-sellers. Nellie McClung's Sowing Seeds in Danny initially outsold Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, but by 1965 McClung's book had largely disappeared from Canadian consciousness. The popularity of Anne, on the other hand, has continued to the present, and Anne has received far more academic and critical attention, especially since 1985. It is only recently that Anne of Green Gables has been criticized for its ideology in the same manner as Sowing Seeds in Danny. The initial question that inspired this dissertation was why Sowing Seeds in Danny disappeared from public and critical awareness while Anne of Green Gables continued to sell well to the present day and to garner critical and popular attention into the twenty-first century. In light of the fact that both books have in recent years come under condemnation and stand charged with maternal feminism, imperial motherhood, eugenics, and racism, one must ask further why this has now happened to both Danny and Anne. What has changed? The hypothesis of the dissertation is that Danny's relatively speedy disappearance was partly due to a shift in Canadians' religious worldview over the twentieth century as church attendance and biblical literacy gradually declined. McClung's rhetorical strategies look back to the dominant Protestantism of the nineteenth century, in contrast to Montgomery's, which look forward to the twentieth-century's waning of religious faith. Although there is enough Christianity in Montgomery's novel to have made it acceptable to her largely Christian reading public at the beginning of the century, its presentation is subtle enough that it does not disturb or baffle a twenty-first-century reader in the way McClung's does. McClung's novel is so forthright in its presentation of Christianity, with its use of nineteenth-century tropes and conventions and with its moralising didacticism, that the delightful aspects of the novel were soon lost to an increasingly secular reading public. Likewise, the recent critical challenges to both novels spring from a worldview at odds with the predominantly Christian worldview of 1908. The goal of the dissertation has been to read Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables within the religious contexts of a 1908 reader in order to avoid an unquestioning twenty-first-century censure of these novels, and to ascertain the reasons for their divergent popularity and recent critical condemnation.

In 1908, two Canadian women published first novels that became instant best-sellers. Nellie McClung's Sowing Seeds in Danny initially outsold Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, but by 1965 McClung's book had largely disappeared from Canadian consciousness. The popularity of Anne, on the other hand, has continued to the present, and Anne has received far more academic and critical attention, especially since 1985. It is only recently that Anne of Green Gables has been criticized for its ideology in the same manner as Sowing Seeds in Danny. The initial question that inspired this dissertation was why Sowing Seeds in Danny disappeared from public and critical awareness while Anne of Green Gables continued to sell well to the present day and to garner critical and popular attention into the twenty-first century. In light of the fact that both books have in recent years come under condemnation and stand charged with maternal feminism, imperial motherhood, eugenics, and racism, one must ask further why this has now happened to both Danny and Anne. What has changed? The hypothesis of the dissertation is that Danny's relatively speedy disappearance was partly due to a shift in Canadians' religious worldview over the twentieth century as church attendance and biblical literacy gradually declined. McClung's rhetorical strategies look back to the dominant Protestantism of the nineteenth century, in contrast to Montgomery's, which look forward to the twentieth-century's waning of religious faith. Although there is enough Christianity in Montgomery's novel to have made it acceptable to her largely Christian reading public at the beginning of the century, its presentation is subtle enough that it does not disturb or baffle a twenty-first-century reader in the way McClung's does. McClung's novel is so forthright in its presentation of Christianity, with its use of nineteenth-century tropes and conventions and with its moralising didacticism, that the delightful aspects of the novel were soon lost to an increasingly secular reading public. Likewise, the recent critical challenges to both novels spring from a worldview at odds with the predominantly Christian worldview of 1908. The goal of the dissertation has been to read Sowing Seeds in Danny and Anne of Green Gables within the religious contexts of a 1908 reader in order to avoid an unquestioning twenty-first-century censure of these novels, and to ascertain the reasons for their divergent popularity and recent critical condemnation.