Thesis (MEd (Educational Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aims to establish whether the support of the Teacher Support Team (TST) might have an impact on High School learners to stay in school. My specific focus was on how the TST members experienced the support that was given to learners and how learners experienced the support given to them. I used a basic interpretive design. I used focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews. My study shows that the TST of a High School needs to have a proper structure to function in building resilience in learners. A proper structure will enable them to develop a healthy support system that could address the various barriers in learning that learners may encounter. All the role players, who were involved in the research, knew their rights and responsibilities towards this process. I conclude by acknowledging the limitations of this study and recommending further research. / AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Hierdie ondersoek is daarop gemik om vas te stel in watter mate die ondersteuning van die Onderwys Ondersteunings Span (OOS) ‘n invloed het op Hoërskool leerders om op skool te bly. My spesifieke fokus was op hoe die lede van die OOS die ondersteuning, wat hulle vir die leerders gebied het, ondervind het en hoe die leerders die ondersteuning, wat hulle by die OOS ontvang het, ondervind het. Ek het van fokusgroepe en semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude gebruik gemaak. My ondersoek toon dat die OOS van Hoërskole ‘n meer gestruktureerde stelsel nodig het waarbinne hulle kan funksioneer. ‘n Gestruktureerde stelsel sal verseker dat daar ‘n gesonde ondersteunings sisteem gebou word. Dit sal ook verseker dat leerders met leerstoornisse se behoeftes aangespreek kan word. Alle rolspelers was ten volle bewus van hul verantwoordelikheid in die navoringsproses. Ten slotte wil ek, in die lig van sekere tekortkominge wat by hierdie studie ervaar is, verdere navorsing op hierdie terrein aanbeveel.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:24:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Valdite Pereira Fuga.pdf: 6007658 bytes, checksum: 19b24db4733338f801c2c159c3f0740c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research is inserted in Applied Linguistic field and aims at investigating The movement of the meaning of Teacher Support Team in the Creative Chain of Activities in the Acting as Citizen Program, specifically, in the project entitled Reading in Different Areas (LDA), developed by the Language in Activities at School Contexts (LACE) Research Group, on Education and Language Area from Catholic University of São Paulo, SP. The theoretical framework of this study comprehends the Marxist-dialectical (Marx, 1883/1890/2007) and Spinozinan monist philosophical perspective (Spinoza, 1667/2003) to discuss the concept of totality, which is underlying the Creative Chain of Activities concept (Liberali, 2006). This framework also converges on Socio-Historical-Cultural Activity Theory (TASHC) (Vygotsky and partners, 1934), which, in this study, enhances the importance of apprenticeship through activities and interactions in the researched context. Language is seen under the Bakhtinian Circle s perspective (1975/1995) which, in here, emphasizes the events of human existence through interactions in the several LDA contexts; this was supported by Teacher Support Team (TST) (Daniels and partners, 2004) as a teacher organization in order to develop the work that was carried out in the schools belonging to Carapicuíba Regional Division. This study is guided by the Critical Collaborative Intervention Research aspects (Magalhães, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009), understood as a process of participation in the construction of knowledge, which emphasizes the role of collaboration as an essential issue for the development of all of those involved in the process. To discuss the outcomes, it brings out Bronckart s linguistic-discoursive categories (1997/1999) (implication/autonomy aspects, modalization, prototypic sequences), as well as the interpretation grounded on this theoretical framework. The results indicate that TST praxis is based on collaborative aspects. TST acted as a protagonist in their contexts; was creative and brought their jargons to the LDA s context.. TST s development of meaning followed the dialectic movement, according to Marx s theory (1883/1890/2007); it presents a new way of organization and work in LDA s, which is different from the British proposal / Esta pesquisa está inserida na área de Lingüística Aplicada e tem como objetivo investigar O Movimento do Significado de Grupo de Apoio na Cadeia Criativa de Atividades no Programa Ação Cidadã , em específico, no Projeto Leitura em Diferentes Áreas (LDA), desenvolvido pelo Grupo de Pesquisa Linguagem em Atividades no Contexto Escolar (GP LACE), na linha Educação e Linguagem da Pontifícia Universidade Católica São Paulo. Apresenta como aporte teórico as referências filosóficas dialético-marxista (Marx, 1883/90/2007) e o enfoque monista espinosano (Spinoza, 1677/2003) para discutir a visão de totalidade, subjacente ao conceito Cadeia Criativa de Atividades (Liberali, 2006). Esse referencial também converge para a Teoria da Atividade Sócio Histórico Cultural (Vygotsky e colaboradores, 1934) que, nesta pesquisa, sublinha a importância da aprendizagem por meio da atividade e das interações no contexto pesquisado. A linguagem é vista sob a perspectiva do Círculo de Bakhtin (1975/1995) que, aqui, traduz os eventos do existir humano por meio das interações nos vários contextos do LDA; este teve os Grupos de Apoio (GA) (Daniels e colaboradores, 2004) como uma organização docente para desenvolver o trabalho que ocorreu nas escolas pertencentes à DE Carapicuíba. O estudo é norteado pelos princípios da Pesquisa Crítica de Colaboração (Magalhães, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009), entendida como um processo de participação de produção de conhecimento, que enfatiza o papel da colaboração como essencial para o desenvolvimento de todos os envolvidos no processo. Para a discussão dos resultados, apresenta categorias lingüístico-discursivas proposta por Bronckart (1997/1999) (grau de implicação/autonomia, modalização e organização seqüencial), bem como de interpretação embasada por este referencial teórico. Os resultados indicam que a práxis dos GA esteve fundamentada nos princípios colaborativos. Os GA foram protagonistas, criativos e autoram seus falares, trazendo jargões de seu contexto de atuação para a esfera do LDA. A produção do significado do conceito GA, seguiu o movimento dialético teorizado por Marx (1883/1890/2007); apresenta uma nova forma de organização e trabalho no contexto LDA, diferente da proposta desenvolvida no contexto britânico