A sequential exploratory design (Creswell, 2003) was used to measure how a social-constructivist oriented educational psychology course could move beyond the inert knowledge Mandl, Gruber, and Renkl (1996) reported to be the outcome of student teacher engagement with formal university courses. Biggs' 3P model (Biggs, & Moore, 1993) provided the framework for qualitatively categorizing 26 student teachers' (16 female, 10 male) conceptions of meaningful learning, and allocations of responsibility for learning. Categories were tested for independence and subsequently predicted learning outcomes as identified by Bloom's revised taxonomy (Anderson, & Krathwohl, 2001). All students held qualitative conceptions of learning. Participants who attributed responsibility to both the professor and students understood and applied course content more than those who attributed responsibility to either solely the professor or student on measures of understanding and application. Results lend support for Biggs' 3P model of classroom systems.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the undergraduate music education methods class curriculum and the amount of time music concepts and activities were used each week in the classrooms of in-service elementary teachers. A secondary purpose was to determine the differences among in-service elementary teachers' use of music concepts and activities in their classrooms by selected background factors. Subjects (n=416) were randomly selected elementary classroom teachers from the states of Georgia (n=106), North Carolina (n=101), South Carolina (n=100), and West Virginia (n=109). A researcher-developed questionnaire was mailed to principals who distributed the questionnaire to the teachers and secured their return. The questionnaire explored background factors of the subjects, the degree to which they experienced 17 music activities and concepts in their undergraduate music methods class, and the frequency with which they used these activities and concepts in their own classrooms.A discriminant analysis procedure was utilized to determine whether the variable clusters considered simultaneously were significant predictors of the amount of time elementary classroom teachers' use music in their classroom (n = 297). Of the three variable cluster groupings, two were found to contribute uniquely to the definition of the discriminant function. Over 42% of the subjects were correctly classified into the amount of time they used music in their classrooms by simultaneously considering variable cluster I (participating in folk dances, singing games, or other motor movements; integrating music with other academic subjects; creating songs, rhythms, movements) and in variable cluster 3 (developing call charts for listening lessons; teaching lessons on a specific musical concept; practicing solfege for pitch discrimination; reading music notation and rhythms; playing musical recordings as background music; identifying names of instruments in the orchestra) (see Table 9). Also, significant differences (p <.05) were found between subjects by gender, participation in music ensembles in high school and college, participation in private music instruction in high school and college, and the inclusion of a music specialist; and among subjects by educational background, number of years taught, grade level taught, philosophical positions, and undergraduate music methods course requirements. / School of Music

This dissertation discusses the issues surrounding the teaching of values in teacher education programmes in a multi cultural context, specifically, in this case, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. It is part of a three-nation collaborative study that took place in the Faculties of Education at three universities: Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, Mexico; California State University, Long Beach and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Anecdotal evidence gathered from participants in an exchange program between the first two institutions indicated that significant cultural differences among both students and faculty impacted on the learning experience. Differences in values and teaching styles led to problems of communication, teaching and learning. This finding led to collaboration among the three faculties of education in order to conduct similar inquiries. My dissertation is based on the study that I carried out at McGill. My ultimate goal was to identify how values are perceived in teacher education and how they are actually taught. I interviewed selected groups of student teachers and teacher educators and asked them to respond to questionnaires. With this data, I was able to draw some conclusions about the teaching of values as seen by these particular groups of prospective teachers and teacher educators. I generated data in two phases. In Phase 1, I conducted interviews with Faculty and students in the pre-service teacher education programme in order to identify the values that these participants considered the most important in teacher education. These interviews allowed me to develop two instruments that were subsequently used in Phase 2. In Phase 2, I obtained additional information on the values that participants considered to be important for teacher education, the values that are taught in the programs, the strategies used to teach those values and the issues that cause value conflicts. My study indicates that respect is a value that dominates the / Ma recherche porte sur l'enseignement des valeurs dans les programmes de formation des enseignants en milieu multiculturel, plus particulierement a l'universite McGill, Montreal, Quebec. Elle s'inscrit dans le cadre d'une etude menee conjointement par la faculte des sciences de l'education de trois universites differentes : Universidad Pedagogica Nacional au Mexique; California State University a Long Beach, Californie et l'Universite McGill a Montreal, Canada. L'etude interfacultaire est nee des experiences vecues par des professeurs et des etudiants des deux premieres universites citees, dans le cadre d'un programme d'echange. Les temoignages recueillis aupres des participants au programme d'echange revelent que des differences culturelles importantes entre les etudiants et les professeurs ont des incidences pour l'apprentissage. En fait, il en est ressorti que des problemes importants de communication et d'enseignement apprentissage resultent des differences au niveau des valeurs et des styles d'enseignement. Ce constat m'a amene a entreprendre mon etude aupres d'un public cible a McGill. J'ai voulu verifier comment le concept de valeurs est percu par les formateurs et les formes ainsi que la maniere dont les valeurs sont enseignees dans la realite de la classe. A l'aide d'entrevues menees aupres de groupes d'enseignants en formation et de formateurs ainsi que d'un questionnaire, j'ai pu recueillir des donnees qui m'ont permis de tirer un certain nombre de conclusions quant it l'enseignement des valeurs. J'ai procede en deux etapes. Dans un premier temps (Phase I), j'ai mene des entrevues aupres d'enseignants en formation initiale et de formateurs, afin d'identifier les valeurs qu'ils jugeaient les plus importantes dans la formation. Ces entrevues m'ont permis d'elaborer deux instruments qui m'ont servi lors de la phase deux de ma recherche. Lors de la deuxieme phase (Phase II), j'ai recueilli des informations supplementaires concernant les valeurs jugees impo

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007. / Title from title screen (site viewed Mar. 27, 2008). PDF text: viii, 233 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 1 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3284718. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Orientador: Luiz Antonio Calmon Nabuco Lastória / Banca: José Luís Vieira de Almeida / Banca: Nilce Maria Altenfelder Silva de Arruda Campos / Resumo: Para Adorno a educação é emancipatória quando é capaz de proporcionar aos indivíduos uma reflexão crítica sobre a sociedade em que vivem. Nesse sentido, em "Teoria da Semicultura", de 1959, ao retomar alguns diagnósticos desenvolvidos juntamente com Horkheimer na "Dialética do Esclarecimento", de 1947, observa que a sociedade contemporânea orientada pelo espírito dominante burguês do século XVIII acabou por obscurecer o sentido crítico presente no próprio conceito de esclarecimento, a exemplo da autonomia e da liberdade. A vigência da dimensão objetiva, adaptativa, segundo Adorno, obscureceu a realização da dimensão subjetiva ou crítica, do conceito, cujo resultado foi a ascensão de um indivíduo submisso, semiculto e incapaz de conduzir o seu destino. Assim destaca Adorno na "Teoria da Semicultura" que diante desse cenário faz-se necessário retomar o conceito de formação a partir do seu duplo caráter, isto é, tanto em sua dimensão objetiva quanto na subjetiva. Para ele, apegar a este e negar àquele significaria obscurecer o conceito de formação. Entende, nesse sentido, que é na tensão dialética entre os dois polos que é possível falar em educação emancipatória. Com efeito, como veremos ao longo dessa dissertação, para que tal questão seja possível torna-se necessário pensar a educação enquanto reflexão crítica, isto é, na condição daquela que possibilita ao indivíduo conduzir-se no mundo de modo consciente. Portanto, a educação enquanto emancipação em Adorno tem um caráter r... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: For Adorno education is emancipatory when it is able to provide individuals with a critical reflection on the society in which they live. In this sense, in 1959, "Theory of Semiculture" when he resumed some diagnoses developed with Horkheimer in the 1947 ""Dialética do Esclarecimento", he observed that contemporary society guided by the dominant bourgeois spirit of the eighteenth century eventually obscured the critical sense present in the very concept of enlightenment, such as autonomy and freedom. The advent of the objective, adaptive dimension, according to Adorno, obscured the realization of the subjective or critical dimension of the concept, the result of which was the rise of a submissive individual, half-full and incapable of leading his destiny. Thus Adorno points out in the "Theory of Semiculture" that before this scenario it is necessary to retake the concept of formation from its double character, that is, both in its objective and subjective dimensions. For him, to attach to this and deny it would mean obscuring the concept of formation. In this sense, he understands that it is in the dialectical tension between the two poles that it is possible to say in emancipatory education. Indeed, as we shall see throughout this dissertation, for such a question to be possible it becomes necessary to think of education as a critical reflection, that is, in the condition of that which enables the individual to conduct himself in the world in a conscious way. Therefore, educ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

This dissertation identifies questions of difficulty in teaching and represents one story of an enduring poststructural reconstitution of the relational fields of self, theory, and practice. The first three sections are self-authored narratives (Coming to Teaching: Notes to the Reader; Coming to Difficulty: Returning of Life to Its Original Difficulty; Coming to Wisdom in Teaching through Narrative). Some narratives are memories of originary, often preconceptual, difficulty in which I retrace and reunderstand my own epistemologies. Some narratives are deliberate products of literary fictive craft, meant to create openings for more study, multiple tellings, and diverse interpretations, as with any piece of good literature. Other narratives, exploring complexities of the underside of teaching, are “counter-narratives” (Giroux, Lankshear, McLaren, & Peters, 1996) which the teaching community of readers may find difficult to accept or know and prefer to leave untold. Each narrative necessarily has its roots in some form of autobiography, although several blossom into fiction for reasons of ethics, poetics, and creative possibility. These narratives serve as force-field containers (in the Greek sense of temenos or crucible) which textually hold still the shards and images of difficulty long enough to apprehend, examine, comprehend, and further imagine the site of self, with the salutary effect of re-understanding and reconstituting that self in teaching. The final section (Teacher, Teach Thyself: Lessons from Difficulty) is a descriptive contemplation of the process and effect of researching the curriculum of the (teaching) self. Researching inductively through multiple writings, readings, and interpretations of narratives about (self) difficulty, seven significant relational, holographic orbitals of work emerge: naive storying, psychological construction, psychotherapeutic ethics, narrative craft, hermeneutic philosophy, curriculum pedagogy, and poetics of a teaching self. Entire education systems are in deep difficulty, but I believe I have the right and ability only to govern and alter myself, to ethinarratively reconstitute my own relational praxis, to be able to work with others at the center of difficulty with a durable, intelligent, wise, humble, generative, compassionate field of self capable of laughter, hope, goodness, truth, meaning and beauty in Being at the close of this darkening twentieth century. Such hermeneutic narrative research makes it possible to be ethically responsible for personal shadow, practices of unhealthy transference, and impulses to control or colonize other, in order to teach in meaningful, present, educative engagements with students learning and constructing their own life narratives. / Graduate