Thesis (Ed. D.)--Boise State University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-119). Also available online via the ProQuest Digital Dissertations database.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1992. / Title from title page screen, viewed February 2, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Dent M. Rhodes (chair), Gayle Flickinger, Karl Taylor, Deborah B. Gentry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-220) and abstract. Also available in print.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:53:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosariane Glaucia Mendonca Campos.pdf: 631931 bytes, checksum: b2bdef5874b8d255ab979da8b9581afb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-25 / This work is based on an investigation about a formation program for teachers of literacy (PROFA), in accordance with Ministry Education s ongoing formation of the elementary teaching secretariat policy, because of the teaching reform introduced in Fernando Henrique Cardoso s term of office. The program consist of a course for the development of teachers competence as well as goals, contents and literacy methodologies of the teachers program based on Emília Ferreiro s construtivism conception under the coordination of Telma Weisz. It aims particularly at the enhancement of the teaching learning process of the students. The goal of this research is to observe the effects on these literacy practice together with the results on the students learning by comparing the data and also, PROFA s theorectical guidelines and methodologies, the work developed by teachers of literacy in the classroom in order to investigate whether or not the program reached its goals. As a procedure a qualitative research is used in the investigation of the pedagogical practice of four PROFA s teachers, the observation of their practice, as well as some interviews with teachers, coordinators involved in this process, and also a documental analysis of different registers which qualify the study case. It is intended to observe some social, cultural and contextual elements that may or may not influence the teachers practice and the students learning. / Este trabalho consiste em uma investigação sobre o Programa de Formação de Professores Alfabetizadores (PROFA), dentro da política de formação continuada da Secretaria de Ensino Fundamental do MEC, em decorrência da reforma do ensino implantada no Governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso. O Programa consta de um curso voltado para o desenvolvimento de competências dos professores alfabetizadores na formulação de objetivos, conteúdos e metodologias de alfabetização, de acordo com a concepção construtivista de Emília Ferreiro, sob a coordenação de Telma Weisz. Visa, particularmente, ao aprimoramento dos processos de ensino/aprendizagem da leitura e escrita dos alunos. O objetivo desta pesquisa é o de captar os efeitos nas práticas de alfabetização e, por conseqüência, nas aprendizagens dos alunos por meio do cotejamento de dados entre as indicações teóricas e metodológicas do PROFA e o trabalho desenvolvido pelos professores alfabetizadores na sala de aula, com o intuito de investigar se o Programa conseguiu os efeitos esperados. Como procedimento é usada a pesquisa qualitativa que se dá na investigação das práticas pedagógicas de quatro professoras, partícipes do PROFA, também pela observação de quatro turmas das respectivas educadoras, além de entrevistas com os professores e coordenadores envolvidos no processo e da análise documental dos diferentes registros que qualificam o estudo de caso. Pretende-se captar elementos contextuais e socioculturais que influenciam, ou não, as práticas dos professores e as aprendizagens dos alunos.

The master‘s final paper analyzes the concept of computer literacy and it‘s change. The paper characterizes the obligatory content of computer literacy for teachers described in the standart of teacher computer literacy. The thorough analysis of teachers’ computer literacy strategy is made while analyzing the documents of Lithuanian Republic. The paper presents the analyzed strategy based on the K. Andrews conceptual strategy model. The teachers’ opinion about the integration of IT in educational process, computer literacy and its perception, development strategy is discussed on the grounds of the results of the carried out research. The master‘s final paper proves the hypothesis that computer literacy strategy is optimally carried out in Lithuania, therefore every teacher has an opportunity to achieve computer literacy and to master the knowledge gained.

This qualitative multiple case study explored the identity development of three preservice teachers of literacy. The study focused on the prior knowledge of the preservice teachers of literacy and how their knowledge related to their identity development while in field experiences. The primary question that guided this study was: What is the nature of the construction of identity during field experiences for preservice teachers of literacy? Sub questions explored identity in field experiences and the role of prior pedagogical content knowledge to identity development. Findings indicated that an evolving habitus central to their identity as literacy teachers could be deduced that guided the preservice teachers as they interacted in the figured worlds of their field experiences related to literacy teaching. Also, prior knowledge as a component of identity served to help the preservice teachers author themselves in regard to their interactions with their cooperating teachers, students, and with the classroom and school environment. Findings further indicated that the preservice teachers of literacy relied on their prior knowledge to notice, critique, and anticipate. Noticing, critiquing, and anticipating led to further development of their identity as teachers of literacy in a circular manner. A recommendation for practice includes the use of the NCA/WR Identity Guide to help preservice teachers of literacy become aware of their identity during field experiences. Further, providing an opportunity for reflection when standardized tests are administered could lead to metacognition, which is helpful for the identity development of preservice teachers. Recommendations for future research include examining different populations of preservice teachers and further exploring standardized testing related to identity. This study showed that preservice teachers of literacy navigate a path of diverse experiences as they learn to author themselves in the figured worlds of the field experiences. These experiences serve to shape them as future teachers and continued exploration of the specifics of their identity development will assist in creating strong teachers who are equipped to face the challenges of providing quality literacy instruction.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-158).

Literacy expectations on elementary classrooms are intensifying with each outcry for accountability by the public and by educational policy makers (Hoffman & Pearson, 2001). Many states, including Georgia, have developed new performance-based curricula in response to expectations for academic performance (Georgia Performance Standards, 2005). However, few researchers have focused on how teachers interpret these performance standards in their local classroom settings. This collective case study research, established within a social constructivist theoretical frame (Vygotsky, 1978), provided an in-depth examination of how the mandated language arts policy of the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) influenced teachers’ thoughts and decisions about daily literacy instruction. Specific guiding questions for the study were: (1) What literacy expectations do three second-grade teachers have for their students’ literacy development? (2) Where do these expectations originate? (3) How do these three teachers craft and implement instruction in light of their expectations? (4) How do the state mandates constrain or provide opportunities for these three teachers to develop their expectations and implement instruction for their students’ literacy development? Multiple data sources included interviews, classroom observations and field notes, verbal protocols, classroom artifacts and documents, and the researcher’s journal. Data analysis utilized constant comparison and grounded theory analysis within and across cases (Strauss & Corbin, 1990). Trustworthiness and rigor were established through credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability (Guba & Lincoln, 1985). This study was designed to give voice to the teachers at the forefront of increasing accountability measures in Georgia’s public elementary school classrooms. Findings revealed that study participants used different funds of knowledge in complex ways to establish literacy expectations and implement instruction and that a fund of knowledge related to mandated accountability measures was influential in the participants’ instructional decision-making processes. When the delivery model of training for the GPS included opportunities to discuss student learning outcomes and reflect on instructional practices, the GPS directly influenced writing instruction. Implications for action from this study are grounded in the study’s key findings and conclusions and hold relevance for the fields of preservice teacher education, professional learning for teachers, school and county administration, and state and federal educational policy making.

Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2016-09-19T19:21:41Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação Priscila Lima.pdf: 4417746 bytes, checksum: 83b0ecf6ed6d9f3ab9800feb7f2911c8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-19T19:21:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação Priscila Lima.pdf: 4417746 bytes, checksum: 83b0ecf6ed6d9f3ab9800feb7f2911c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-29 / Esta pesquisa tem o objetivo de analisar práticas de ensino de Matemática de três professores que atuam noCiclo de Alfabetização. Os professores sujeitos desta investigação participaramem 2014, do programa de formação continuada no âmbito do Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa (PNAIC) e atuamna rede pública do município deRecife/PE. Para isso, fizemos a identificação dos conhecimentos pedagógicos geral, pedagógico do conteúdo e do currículo mobilizados por estes professores caracterizando as formas de organização de ensino presentes nas aulas de Matemática. O pressuposto teórico sobre o qual nos reclinamos são as teoriasda base do conhecimento do professor sobrevindas das pesquisas de Lee S. Shulman. Esta pesquisa nos levou também a identificar como a Matemática é abordada em sala de aula, a escolha e uso dos recursos didáticos (com destaque:livro didático, o quadroe o caderno) e o conhecimento presente no raciocínio pedagógico doprofessor.A coleta de dados ocorreu por meio de observações de aulas, registros no Caderno de Observação e entrevistas semiestruturadas.A partir dos dados coletados, sinalizamos que a prática do professor é singulare tem sido pouco guiada pelos elementos que deveriam ser norteadores da atividade docente:planejamento e currículo. Percebemos que o professor precisa desenvolver em base do conhecimento denovas estratégias que ultrapassem a priorização do ensino de outras áreas de conhecimento em detrimento da Matemática, a maior ênfase em um bloco de conteúdos e o trabalho que perceba e envolva a Matemática além da que é trabalhada formalmente e explicitamente. / This research's objective is to analyze mathematics teaching techniques of three Literacy Cycle teachers. These teachers, the research subjects, participated during 2014 of a continued education program under the Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização da Idade Certa (PNAIC) andare acting in public schools in the city of Recife/Pe. To accomplish it, we identified the general pedagogical knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and curriculum knowledge mobilized by polyvalent teachers that act in the Literacy Cycle characterizing the way teaching is organized in mathematic classes. The theoretical assumption in which we are inclined is that the teacher's knowledge base is that of Lee S. Shulman’s research. The field work was done through class observations, records in the observation notepad, and semi-structured interviews. This research also leadedus to identify how mathematics is explored inside the classroom, the didactic resources use and choice (with feature: the book, board and notebook) and pedagogical reasoning behind teacher knowledge. Based on the data collected, we noticed teacher’spractice is unique and has not been as guided as it should be by the teacher’sactivity elements: planning and curriculum. We realized teacher needs to developthroughknowledge base new strategies to surpass: other knowledge areas teaching prioritization but math, focus better in one specific content block and the mathematics perception and involvement worked mostly formally and in an explicit way.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:32:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Oliveira Costa Gomes.pdf: 739973 bytes, checksum: d621c2379f9de4891d828b38feeae6e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-19 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research aims to analyze the relation between initiation into career and didactic difficulties faced. To understand this question some aims were established: identifying difficulties encountered by teachers to teach in the initial phase of their career and also identifying the reactions and exceedances of these teachers face of these difficulties. Therefore, the subjects of this research are teachers that is working in the early years of elementary school; they are two beginning teachers; one of them starting her first year in the teaching profession working in state schools, in the arrangements of contracting temporary in the East Zone São Paulo. The second one acts in municipal, in the East Zone of the city of São Paulo, by two and a half years. Besides these two beginning teachers participated in the study two experienced teachers, who reported on the difficulties of the profession in their initial career. The procedures used for the research are composed of four instruments developed for this study: a questionnaire scale, an interview, observation in the classroom and an online questionnaire. This research was performed in 2013, and had as its theoretical basis the authors Michael Huberman, with the concepts relating to the beginning of the profession, Pierre Bourdieu; with the concepts of habitus and school cultural capital and Alda Marin with the concepts related to the area of didactics. Such concepts allow us to understand this stage of professional life and issues related to the formation and performance of teachers. The hypothesis established to guide the study is that the current situation may be repeated the previously existing difficulties that might lead to problems in basic education and add others on features of the current training that teachers fail to realize themselves in the teaching situation, therefore there is relationship between training and professional difficulties / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a relação entre iniciação à carreira e dificuldades didáticas enfrentadas. Para atender a esse questionamento foram estabelecidos como objetivos: identificar dificuldades para ensinar encontradas pelos professores, na fase inicial da carreira e ainda, identificar as reações e superações desses professores diante dessas dificuldades. Portanto, os sujeitos desta pesquisa são professores atuantes nos anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental; são dois professores iniciantes, sendo uma professora iniciando em seu primeiro ano na profissão docente, atuando na rede Estadual de Ensino, no regime de contratação temporária, na Zona Leste da cidade de São Paulo, o segundo professor iniciante, atua na rede municipal, na Zona Leste na cidade de São Paulo, há dois anos e meio. Além destes dois professores iniciantes participaram da pesquisa duas professoras experientes, que relataram sobre as dificuldades da profissão no seu início de carreira. Os procedimentos utilizados para a realização da pesquisa são compostos por quatro instrumentos construídos para este estudo: um questionário com escala, entrevista, observação em sala de aula e um questionário online. Esta pesquisa foi realizada em 2013, tendo como base teórica os autores, Michael Huberman com os conceitos relativos ao início da profissão, Pierre Bourdieu com os conceitos de habitus e capital cultural escolar e Alda Marin com os conceitos relativos à área da Didática. Tais conceitos permitem a compreensão dessa etapa da vida profissional e as questões relativas à formação e o desempenho dos professores. A hipótese estabelecida para orientar o estudo é a de que na situação atual reiteram-se as dificuldades anteriormente existentes que ocasionam problemas na educação fundamental e acrescentam outras diante das características da formação atual em que os professores não conseguem se perceber na situação de ensino, havendo, portanto relação entre formação e dificuldades profissionais

Informed by institutional ethnography, and taking the problematic from disjunctures in teacher/participants’ experience between actual practice and official policy, this study is an intertextual analysis of print/electronic documents pertaining to students ‘at risk.’ It unpacks the Student Success Strategy in Ontario secondary schools as organized around discourses on risk and safety. Discriminatory classing and racializing processes construct students ‘at risk’ in ways that reproduce socio-economic inequities through premature streaming into pathways geared to post-secondary destinations: university, college, apprenticeship and work. This study questions the accounting logic that reduces education to skills training in workplace literacy/numeracy, and contradicts the official ‘success’ story that promotes Ontario as a model of large-scale educational change. The follow-up intertextual analyses reveal ideological circles that promote ‘evidence-based research’ and ‘evidence-informed practice,’ while actually gearing education to improving ‘results’ on large-scale standardized tests and manufacturing consent for government policies. Questions arise about the lack of transparency and selective use of educational research. A web of behind-the-scenes activities are made visible at public policy think-tanks (e.g. Canadian Council on Learning; Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network), and two little-researched bodies in educational governance — the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) and OECD. Although invisible to teachers, the infrastructure for the Student Success Strategy is the Ontario School Information System (OnSIS); this web-enabled data-management technology has built-in capacity to profile students ‘at risk’ and to instigate accountability and surveillance over teachers’ work, with implications for re-regulating teaching practice towards test scores and aggregate statistics. With the intention of transforming education towards genuine equity, and linking the re-organization of social relations in large-scale reform locally, nationally and globally, this study contributes to critical scholarship on the effects of reform policies on people’s lives and extends knowledge of how translocal text-mediated ruling relations operate in education.