Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-18T12:06:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Lucia Madsen Gomboeff.pdf: 1677919 bytes, checksum: 87d0fad782b6778ca69a25539f5cec71 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-18T12:06:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Lucia Madsen Gomboeff.pdf: 1677919 bytes, checksum: 87d0fad782b6778ca69a25539f5cec71 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-06 / This investigation adopted as general objective learn the role of a director over the manager's team as of to understand which elements influence positively or negatively a collaborative work between the members of this team. We adopted the statements from Socio-Historic Psychology methodologic-theoric, scaffolded under the Dialectic-Historic Materialism, in particular the ones stated by Vigotski and its followers with highlight to the categories: Historicity, Mediation, Senses and meanings, subjectivity and activity. For the production of the information we used and iteractive interview a direction assistant that worked for a year as the School director. The research occurred in a Sao Paulo`s municipal school, voluntarily becoming in 2005 the research site and as offspring of the study group named after "Grupo de Atividade Docente e Subjetividade (GADS), from the "Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo" (PUC-SP). In front of its compromise, the GADS made 4 meetings in this school, in 2016, comprehending the managing team. Those meetings were recorded and transcribed promoting dialogue theoricallys caffolded for which the ones taking part of the meeting could develop under the process of critically understanding their own way of thinking, feeling and doing. It was mainly the transcription of one of these meetings that worked as secondary data for this work, with the intention of guiding the elaboration of “guiding questions” used on the first interview. The information interpretation analysis happened by the means of a process called "Núcleos de Significado" as proposed by Aguiar and Ozella (2006; 2013; 2015). The analysis showed that the managing team intends to work collaboratively but that does not happen. One factor that could favor the collaborative work between the managing team and all of the school would be the fact of managers to gather weekly to discuss the promoting of the active managing in the school and also to plan and execute the teacher’s formation, under the light of their formative needs and the PPP. Unfortunately this does not occur given to the fact that the coordinators do not understand their main function. Which means to get together all of the segments for the construction and execution of a common ideal, expressed by the means of the PPP, focused on the development of the education quality and taking the responsibility for the teacher’s formation. As much as the municipal law and the formation offered, make it more difficult for the collaborative work to happen. The laws do not offer material condition so that the segments of the school can get together to discuss the PPP. The formation aimed at the direction exclusively reinforces the idea that it is yours the unique responsibility for the teachers and pedagogic therefore dividing the team. The fact that the direction and its assistants did not participate on the formation of the teachers is very worrying looking at the relevance of the reflection and the questioning over the school day-by-day looking after development and transformation. This way it is possible to question if São Paulo’s educational politic values the collaborative work and provides objective condition for it to happen / Esta investigação adotou como objetivo geral apreender as significações de uma diretora sobre a atividade da equipe gestora a fim de compreender que elementos favorecem ou dificultam um trabalho colaborativo entre os membros dessa equipe. Assumimos os pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da Psicologia Sócio-Histórica, fundamentados no Materialismo Histórico-Dialético, em particular os postulados por Vigotski e seus seguidores, com destaque às categorias: historicidade, mediação, sentidos e significados, subjetividade e atividade. Para a produção da informação, utilizamos entrevista recorrente realizada com uma assistente de direção que assumiu a direção da escola durante um ano. A pesquisa ocorreu em uma escola da rede municipal de ensino de São Paulo que, voluntariamente, tornou-se, em 2015, campo de pesquisa e formação do grupo de estudos denominado Grupo Atividade Docente e Subjetividade (GADS), da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). Perante seu compromisso, o GADS realizou quatro encontros nesta escola, em 2016, envolvendo a equipe gestora. Tais encontros, gravados e transcritos, promoveram diálogo, teoricamente fundamentado, para que os envolvidos avançassem no processo de entendimento crítico sobre seus modos de pensar, sentir e agir. Foi justamente a transcrição de um desses encontros que serviu de dado secundário para esta dissertação, prestando-se a guiar a elaboração das questões norteadoras utilizadas na primeira entrevista. A análise e interpretação das informações ocorreram por meio do procedimento denominado “Núcleos de Significação”, conforme proposto por Aguiar e Ozella (2006; 2013, 2015). As análises realizadas revelam que a equipe gestora tem a intenção de trabalhar de forma colaborativa, mas isso não se concretiza. Um fator que poderia favorecer o trabalho colaborativo entre a equipe gestora e entre toda a escola seria o fato das gestoras se reunirem semanalmente para discutir formas de promover a gestão participativa na escola e também para planejar e executar a formação dos docentes, baseando-se nas necessidades formativas deles e no PPP. No entanto, isso não ocorre devido ao fato delas não compreenderem sua função principal. Ou seja, envolver todos os segmentos para a construção e a execução de um ideário comum, expresso por meio do PPP, voltado para a melhoria da qualidade da educação e responsabilizar-se conjuntamente pela formação dos professores. Tanto a legislação municipal como a formação oferecida dificultam que o trabalho colaborativo aconteça. A legislação não oferece condições materiais para que os diferentes segmentos da escola possam se reunir para discutir o PPP. A formação voltada apenas à coordenação reforça a ideia de que é sua a responsabilidade única pela formação dos docentes e pelo pedagógico, fragmentando a equipe. O fato de a direção e suas assistentes não participarem de formações é muito preocupante frente a relevância da reflexão e do questionamento sobre o cotidiano escolar para que haja avanço e transformação. Dessa forma, cabe questionarmos se a política educacional do município de São Paulo valoriza o trabalho colaborativo e proporciona condições objetivas para que ele ocorra

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:23:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marta do Carmo Silva.pdf: 2168884 bytes, checksum: f443d52d9ccdc6c1c3c0324f646723b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-29 / In our nowadays society, technology had provoked changes in communication, work, consume, and learning process. The virtual world is an essential piece of nowadays society and the mobility due to technology; which permits communication and information anywhere and at any time; brings challenges to schools, structures in disciplines that not always communicate, during classes in which the teacher is the main content organizer. Our objectives, therefore, is to investigate if having teachers use technology guarantees a rich environment in collaboration, sharing and and active participation of the students in the construction of knowledge. In the search to comprehend the context of the situation that we aim to investigate, two instruments were used for collection, analysis and interpretation of data: a questionnaire that will inform us of teachers that use technology, and a semi structured interview, searching for the significance behind the investigative questions. The theoretical reference adopted in anchored with authors such as: Coll, Peña, Allegretti, Moran, Lévy, Santos, Gomez, Sacristán, Gabriel, Hernandez, Sancho, Santaella, Silva, among others specialists in technology and education. The interpretation of data concluded that being a technology user is not the conditions needed to use them in meaningful learning. Technology use done by teachers is directly related to their concept of learning, therefore, they use technology to reproduce knowledge, dialogue, share, and build knowledge. Furthermore, technology makes teachers develop new competences, continuous education, critical thinking and useful information to help students acquire essential abilities to comprehend information in front of them and generate knowledge. This wish essential for a school that expands as soon as the virtual world starts to integrate teaching and learning environment / Na sociedade contemporânea, as tecnologias têm provocado mudanças nas formas de comunicação, consumo, trabalho, ensino e aprendizagem. O mundo virtual é parte integrante da vida dos cidadãos e a mobilidade permitida pelo uso dos dispositivos móveis - que disponibilizam comunicação e informação em qualquer lugar e a qualquer hora - traz um desafio para os ambientes educacionais, estruturados em disciplinas que muitas vezes não se comunicam, em tempos de aula definidos e centradas na figura do professor como principal organizador dos conteúdos. Nosso objetivo, portanto, é investigar se o fato de o professor ser um usuário das tecnologias, garante em sua prática docente uma mediação desses recursos de forma a promover um ambiente rico em colaboração, compartilhamentos e participação ativa do aluno na construção de conhecimentos. Na busca por compreender o contexto da situação que pretendemos investigar, adotados dois instrumentos para coleta, análise e interpretação dos dados: um questionário que nos indicaria os professores usuários de diversos dispositivos e a entrevista semiestruturada com esses sujeitos, buscando em suas narrativas extrair unidades de significados que pudessem responder às questões de investigação. O referencial teórico adotado está ancorado em um campo de autores como: Coll, Peña, Alegretti, Moran, Lévy, Santos, Gómez, Sacristán, Gabriel, Hernández, Sancho, Santaella, Silva entre outros especialistas nas questões educacionais e tecnológicas. A interpretação dos dados revelou que ser um bom usuário das tecnologias não é condição para utilizá-las na promoção de aprendizagens significativas. Os usos que os professores fazem das tecnologias está diretamente ligado à concepção que eles têm de ensino. Dessa forma, eles utilizam as tecnologias para reproduzir conhecimentos ou para dialogar, compartilhar, construir conhecimento. Por sua vez, as tecnologias exigem que o professor desenvolva novas competências, que abarquem em formação contínua, leitura crítica e catalisação de informação útil para auxiliar o aluno a adquirir habilidades indispensáveis que lhe permitam compreender o que fazer com as informações que estão à sua disposição a qualquer tempo, lugar e de muitas formas diferentes, sendo capaz de gerar conhecimento. Isso é estar pronto para lidar com uma escola que se expande a partir do momento que o mundo virtual passa a integrar o ambiente de ensino e aprendizagem

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:30:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gislene Miotto Catolino Raymundo.pdf: 4475173 bytes, checksum: 0246fc6e0523d0554ed110630dea3a8a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-04-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This project aimed at analyzing how the Teaching practice and supervised training are understood and experienced in the courses of initial teacher education established from the new curriculum guidelines to be applied in the basic education teachers training, specifically because of the requirements proposed by the LDB N°. 9394/96 and also by the Resolutions and Opinions of the National Education Council. The study and reflection involving these curriculum components from the new curriculum guidelines are of fundamental importance since the initial teacher training should enable the education and educational research as a unit of teaching activities, aiming at a reflexive link between the theory and practice experienced in schools and training field. In this perspective, the contribution of this paper is to discuss a proposal considered to be innovative in the process of teacher training, because it shows the disciplines of Teaching Practice and Supervised training as coordinating axes, expressing the possibility of a training that exceeds the beacons placed by traditional teaching conceptions and techniques and that enables the teacher not only to(re) define his teaching knowledge but also to understand the meaning of being a teacher. Thus, in this study, it was verified how the Pedagogy course at the Centro Universitário de Maringá has adapted the Teaching Practice and the Supervised training from the new curriculum guidelines for the teacher education curriculum and how much these components contribute to the redefinition of knowledge which are necessary to the pedagogical practice qualification, specifically for those students who are working as basic education teachers. The choice for both this institution and this course was made taking into consideration the fact that, since I am responsible for teacher training in this institution, I experience the limits and possibilities of the Teaching Practice and Supervised training which are the articulating axis of the relationship between theory and practice in the training of the future basic education teachers. To develop this research, I chose a qualitative approach, where the collection of data has been conducted through document analysis and questionnaires administered to teachers and students of the institution examined. The analysis of those documents identified how the Teaching Practice and Supervised Training are designed in a space and time which allowed for changes, learning, redefined the teaching practice and allowed to rediscover the social dimensions of being a teacher, especially for those who are already working as basic education teachers / O presente trabalho objetivou analisar a partir das novas Diretrizes Curriculares para a formação de professores da educação básica, especificamente frente às exigências propostas pela LDB nº. 9394/96 e também pelas Resoluções e Pareceres do Conselho Nacional de Educação como a Prática de Ensino e Estágio Curricular Supervisionado são compreendidos e vivenciados nos cursos de formação inicial de docentes. O estudo e a reflexão envolvendo esses componentes curriculares a partir das novas diretrizes curriculares são de fundamental importância, pois é na formação inicial de professores que se deve possibilitar o ensino e a investigação pedagógica como unidade do trabalho docente, objetivando a articulação reflexiva entre os conhecimentos teóricos e a prática vivenciada nas escolas, campo de estágio. Nesta perspectiva, a contribuição deste trabalho está em discutir uma proposta que considero inovadora no processo de formação de professores, pois apresenta como eixos articuladores as disciplinas de Prática de Ensino e Estágio Supervisionado, expressando a possibilidade de uma formação docente que extrapole as balizas colocadas pelas concepções tradicional e técnica do fazer docente e que propicie ao futuro professor (re)significar os seus saberes docentes e compreender o significado de ser professor. Dessa forma, nesta pesquisa, verificouse como o curso de Pedagogia do Centro Universitário de Maringá adequou a Prática de Ensino e o Estágio Supervisionado a partir das novas Diretrizes Curriculares para a formação de professores e o quanto esses componentes curriculares contribuem para a ressignificação de saberes necessários à qualificação da prática pedagógica, especificamente dos acadêmicos que já atuam como professores da educação básica. A escolha por essa instituição de ensino e por esse curso se deve ao fato de que, enquanto professora responsável pela formação de professores nesta instituição, vivencio os limites e possibilidades da Prática de Ensino e do Estágio Supervisionado constituírem os eixos articuladores da relação teoria e prática na formação dos futuros professores da educação básica. Para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa, optei por uma abordagem de cunho qualitativa, sendo realizada a coleta dos dados por meio de análise documental e questionários aplicados aos docentes e acadêmicos da instituição analisada. A análise desses documentos permitiu identificar o quanto a Prática de Ensino e o Estágio são concebidos como um espaço e tempo que possibilitou mudanças, aprendizados, ressignificou a prática pedagógica e permitiu redescobrir a dimensão social de ser professor, principalmente daqueles que já atuam como docentes da educação básica

Submitted by Jorge Silva (jorgelmsilva@ufrrj.br) on 2017-11-01T18:34:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Rog?ria Lima de Ara?jo Frech Domingues.pdf: 931514 bytes, checksum: bcfe6154860c2d67a60457127d076f58 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-01T18:34:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015 - Rog?ria Lima de Ara?jo Frech Domingues.pdf: 931514 bytes, checksum: bcfe6154860c2d67a60457127d076f58 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-06 / CAPES / This study aims to present a methodology to develop the reading habit of the students of the 9th grade of elementary school in the state public school system, so that the mature as players. The objectives defined in this research were to establish a parallel between the teaching of reading and the reader in the construction of meaning; propose some actions of teaching practices conducive to teaching inferences as well as expanding slightly the reality of classes in public schools. The use of texts related to gender "chronic" permeated the activities proposed for analysis and data collection, as it served as the basis for the planning and execution of the reading classes of students during the pedagogical intervention period. The concern in setting a teaching practice that rescue the importance of reading for the student's social life is suggested in all the processes of research, since one of the functions of the teacher of Portuguese Language is to be a literacy agent. / O presente trabalho busca apresentar uma metodologia que desenvolva o h?bito de leitura dos alunos do 9? ano do ensino Fundamental da rede p?blica estadual de ensino, a fim de que os amadure?a enquanto leitores. Os objetivos definidos nesta pesquisa foram estabelecer um paralelo entre o ensino da leitura e o leitor na constru??o de sentidos; propor algumas a??es de pr?ticas docentes favor?veis ao ensino de infer?ncias, al?m de fomentar um pouco a realidade das classes da rede p?blica de ensino. O uso de textos relacionados ao g?nero ?cr?nica? permeou as atividades propostas para an?lise e coleta de dados, j? que serviram como base para o planejamento e execu??o das aulas de leitura dos alunos durante o per?odo de interven??o pedag?gica. A preocupa??o em ajustar uma pr?tica docente que resgate a import?ncia da leitura para a vida social do educando est? sugerida em todos os processos da pesquisa, uma vez que uma das fun??es do professor de L?ngua Portuguesa ? ser um agente de letramento.

A formação dos professores universitários e sua prática em sala de aula têm chamado a atenção de muitos pesquisadores nos últimos tempos. O que se sabe é que não existe um modelo que atenda a essa formação, visto que o professor é contratado em uma Universidade em virtude de suas qualidades como pesquisador e do seu domínio sobre uma área específica de conhecimento. Este saber é um dos únicos avaliados na entrada do docente na Universidade; logo, é importante se conhecer e entender a prática deste docente como professor e como este constrói a sua identidade profissional. Neste trabalho foi observada, durante três anos, a prática docente de 15 professores de três Universidades brasileiras e uma portuguesa. Além disso, os professores foram entrevistados após as observações. A entrevista abordou sobre o papel do docente, o ensino, a prática em sala de aula, o planejamento e o currículo na formação dos estudantes. O objetivo foi conhecer e descrever as concepções dos professores de botânica sobre o ensino e a formação de professores de biologia, além de traçar os fatores que constroem a identidade do profissional. Nesse trabalho, foi observado que os professores valorizam o conhecimento científico, e, toda a sua prática em sala de aula, gira em torno da transmissão de informação e da formação do profissional. Os professores planejam o ensino a partir do conhecimento científico e na sua importância para a formação do biólogo, não existindo uma preocupação declarada com a formação dos professores de biologia. Algumas características foram comuns nos docentes como: a aula prática demonstrativa confirmando o que foi dito na teórica, modelo aos quais foram submetidos quando estudantes; um ensino tradicional; e o pouco conhecimento pedagógico sobre a prática docente. Contudo, a maioria dos docentes apresentou alguma inovação na prática de ensino, seja pela contextualização do conhecimento, seja pela inserção de alguma atividade, seja pela prática dialogada, tentando superar esse modelo. Com base nos resultados, chega-se à conclusão de que os docentes universitários deveriam participar de uma formação continuada, principalmente sobre a prática docente. Para isso, é necessário que as Universidades e os docentes se conscientizem da importância de adquirir os conhecimentos pedagógicos que os auxiliem a ter uma prática mais reflexiva, tornando-os, assim, críticos da prática atual e para poderem, enfim, reconstruir a sua identidade profissional / The training of university professors and theirclassroom practice have drawn attention of many researchers, nowadays. What is known is that there is a model that meets such training, since professors are hired by a university because of theirs qualities as researchers and their mastery of a specific area of knowledge. This knowledge is one of few evaluated at the admittance to the University faculty; therefore, it is important to know and understand the professors\' teaching practice and how they build their professional identity. In this study, it was been observed for three years, the teaching practice of 15 teachers from three brazilian universities and Portuguese one. Moreover, the professors were interviewed after the observations. The interview addressed issues about the professor\'s role, teaching, classroom practice, planning and curriculum in the students training. The goal was to understand and to describe the conceptions of botany\'s professors about the teaching and biology\'s teacher training, and determine the factors that construct the professionals\' identity. In this study it was observed that professors value the scientific knowledge and all their practice in the classroom revolves around the transmission of information and training of professionals. The professors plan the teaching from scientific knowledge its importance for the development of biologists, not existing any declared concern with the education of biology teachers. Some characteristics were quite common to all professors such as: the demonstration\'s practical classes, confirming what was exposed in the theoretical classes, this being the same model to which were submitted when were students; a traditional teaching method; and the little pedagogical knowledge about teaching practice. However, most professors showed some innovation in teaching practice, either by contextualization of knowledge, or by inserting some activity, or by dialogical practice, trying surpass this model. Based on the results, It is conclusive that university professors should participate in a continued education program, primarily on teaching practices. For this, it is necessary that universities and professors become aware of the importance of acquiring pedagogical knowledge that helps them to have a more reflective practice, thus making them critics of current practice and to be able to reconstruct their professional identity

This study set out to determine the relationship between assessment practices and teaching methods. I wanted to investigate whether making mathematical investigation assessment tasks available to elementary-school mathematics teachers would have a positive effect on their teaching. Research tells us that standardized tests influence instruction. My research explored whether a national Assessment Task Bank of mathematical investigative tasks could influence teachers.With these aims in mind, the following research questions were formulated:1. Will the teachers' use of mathematical investigation tasks for assessment purposes influence their view of mathematics?2. Will the teachers' use of mathematical investigation tasks for assessment purposes influence the way they teach, and if so, in what ways?3. Will the teachers' use of mathematical investigation tasks for assessment purposes influence the way they assess their students, and if so, in what ways?My research was divided into two parts: 1) a national study involving teachers-leaders throughout the country; and 2) an intensive study in a small Israeli community, called Sharon. The first part examined how the national courses on assessment that I conducted affected the participating teacher-leaders in terms of their concept of mathematics, their teaching methods and their assessment practices. The second part examined the same issues with regard to the mathematics coordinators in the Sharon community. In each case, I have detailed my experiences so that the reader can gain a view of all facets of the study.The research methodology adopted was based on a constructivist paradigm, sometimes referred to as a "naturalistic inquiry", utilizing ethnographic principles wherein the data collection and analysis procedures were eclectic. In the course of the five years of my research, I used many strategies of data collection - ++ / for example, unstructured participant-observations, interviews, questionnaires and content analysis of artifacts (tests and tasks written by teachers).The ideas of reform mathematics (as defined in Ch 2 of this thesis) are based on a broadened vision of mathematics with emphasis on higher-order thinking. My research indicated that the use of mathematical investigation tasks helped the teachers in my study reach the awareness that mathematics, even on the elementary school level, involves generalizations, justifications and even creativity.Prior to my research, and because of my position, I was aware that Israeli teachers were concerned primarily with teaching routine procedures and that their work sheets for the most part involved single-answer exercises. My research indicated that the use of mathematical investigation tasks indeed influenced the way teachers teach. Verbalization-having the students explain "Why"-has become integral to the teaching practices of the participants in my study. Nowadays, the Israeli teachers I worked with use "authentic tasks" in their classrooms: real-life situations that involve some mathematics. Unfortunately, these tasks are not always planned properly.My research demonstrated that teachers attending my professional courses found the mathematical investigation tasks to be useful for assessment purposes, providing them with additional information about their pupils, not obtainable through conventional assessment methods. The additional criteria (I introduced) for evaluating the pupils' work aided in defining these additional areas. I found that while teachers were quite willing to use the mathematical investigation tasks to supplement the conventional tests, they were reluctant to use them as replacements.Exposure to the Assessment Task Bank influenced to a certain degree, the way the teachers in my study assessed their students. The ++ / tests of the teachers who were participants in my study now regularly include elements that were previously absent: questions requiring explanations and questions with more than one possible answer.Although the teachers of my study were increasingly using questions that required higher-order thinking, the tendency was to use the tests in a summative manner, rather than formatively. In other words, many teachers found it difficult to use test results for planning their subsequent lessons. While they were able to analyze their students' work and could report in some detail on each student's performance, they failed to understand how this should affect their teaching. Before they were exposed to the tasks they had administered tests merely in order to provide grades, whereas now the teachers were often trying to understand the students' thinking.While long-term change is still elusive, my research has demonstrated that exposure to reform mathematics through the mathematical investigative tasks of the Assessment Task Bank did have some influence on the teachers' view of mathematics, as well as their teaching and assessment practices.

The central question in this thesis is How do participants in the practicum interact in order to evaluate teaching practice? This question has been posed for several reasons: 1. The practicum is a crucial part of teacher education and teacher socialisation; 2. Little is known about the nature of student teacher learning during the practicum; 3. Much of what happens during practicum interactions is taken for granted, and needs to be made explicit in order to fully understand how student teachers learn and what it is important for them to know. In order to investigate this question this study examines the interactions between student teachers and their supervising teachers in post lesson conferences. These conferences are a site in which practicum participants evaluate teaching practice and in which values, beliefs and knowledge about teaching in the context of the classroom and the practicum are produced and reproduced. To obtain data on the ways in which participants interact in post lesson conferences tape recordings of conferences and interviews with participants have been collected and analysed. Three quite different cases are presented to show a spectrum of evaluative styles and interactions. In each case the language of the post lesson conferences is explored. A particular concern in the thesis has been to consider the ways in which the linguistic choices of the participants express their subjectivities as well as reflect the cultural and institutional context in which the post lesson conferences were located. In order to achieve this the study draws upon theoretical perspectives concerned with social practice, language and meaning. Fundamental to any evaluative interaction is its purpose, the relationship between the participants and the construction of the evaluative criteria. This study has sought to identify those routines that are a common part of and that underpin the purpose of evaluative interactions in post lesson conferences. By considering the differences between the interactions in each case, this research concludes that the degree of symmetry in the participants' evaluative relationship and the extent to which the evaluative criteria are made explicit are critical to the authority that student teachers have to negotiate their understandings, reflect on their practice and take responsibility for their own learning. The three cases provide a dynamic account of the evaluative process, and a more comprehensive account than has hitherto been provided in much of the literature. They also generate suggestions for future research in this important area of teacher education.

<p>Denna uppsats handlar om hur lärare kopplar teorier och praktik utifrån dagens läraruppdrag. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur lärare uppfattar teoriers betydelse i planering. Den empiriska undersökningen genomfördes som intervjustudie bland sju lärare. Intervjumaterialet analyserades utifrån en fenomenografisk ansats. Resultatet visade på tre skilda beskrivningskategorier, nämligen, A: Teorier är något närvarande som hjälper och stöder, B: Teorier är något omedvetet som påverkar och C: Teorier är något frånvarande vilket inte kopplas till praktiken. Slutsatser som drogs utifrån resultatet var att det bland lärare återfinns skilda synsätt på förhållandet och kopplingen mellan teori och praktik. Inom kategori B och C framkom en större tilltro till praktikgrundad kunskap och utifrån detta diskuterades behovet av att höja praktikgrundat kunnande till en generaliserbar nivå. Detta för att öka lärares möjligheter att tillgodose de förväntningar och krav som återfinns inom dagens läraruppdrag på att utifrån vetenskap motivera och förklara sitt handlande i den pedagogiska praktiken.</p> / <p>This essay concerns the connections teachers makes between theory and practice with regard to the requirements placed on teatchers today. The purpose of the study is to investigate how teachers percive the using of theories in their class preparation work. This empirical study has been conducted through interviews with seven teachers. The resulting material has been analyzed from a fenomenographical perspective and three different views have appeared. The views have been categorized as follow: A: Theories are considered and thought of as helpful, B: Theories are not considered but influence all the same, and C: Theories are thought of as removed and not connected to practice. The result show different views among teachers regarding the relation between theories and practice and the incorporating of theories in teaching practice. In categories B and C a picture appeared of views that greatly value knowledge gained by experienced based knowledge to a scientifically secure level. This would enabel teachers to meet the expectations and requirements placed on them today. That is, to be abel to explain and support their methods using results from scientific research.</p>

Denna uppsats handlar om hur lärare kopplar teorier och praktik utifrån dagens läraruppdrag. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur lärare uppfattar teoriers betydelse i planering. Den empiriska undersökningen genomfördes som intervjustudie bland sju lärare. Intervjumaterialet analyserades utifrån en fenomenografisk ansats. Resultatet visade på tre skilda beskrivningskategorier, nämligen, A: Teorier är något närvarande som hjälper och stöder, B: Teorier är något omedvetet som påverkar och C: Teorier är något frånvarande vilket inte kopplas till praktiken. Slutsatser som drogs utifrån resultatet var att det bland lärare återfinns skilda synsätt på förhållandet och kopplingen mellan teori och praktik. Inom kategori B och C framkom en större tilltro till praktikgrundad kunskap och utifrån detta diskuterades behovet av att höja praktikgrundat kunnande till en generaliserbar nivå. Detta för att öka lärares möjligheter att tillgodose de förväntningar och krav som återfinns inom dagens läraruppdrag på att utifrån vetenskap motivera och förklara sitt handlande i den pedagogiska praktiken. / This essay concerns the connections teachers makes between theory and practice with regard to the requirements placed on teatchers today. The purpose of the study is to investigate how teachers percive the using of theories in their class preparation work. This empirical study has been conducted through interviews with seven teachers. The resulting material has been analyzed from a fenomenographical perspective and three different views have appeared. The views have been categorized as follow: A: Theories are considered and thought of as helpful, B: Theories are not considered but influence all the same, and C: Theories are thought of as removed and not connected to practice. The result show different views among teachers regarding the relation between theories and practice and the incorporating of theories in teaching practice. In categories B and C a picture appeared of views that greatly value knowledge gained by experienced based knowledge to a scientifically secure level. This would enabel teachers to meet the expectations and requirements placed on them today. That is, to be abel to explain and support their methods using results from scientific research.

Abstract This study examines the holistic pedagogical practices of experienced teachers in alternative public schools. This study reviews holistic educational philosophy and ancient Eastern spirituality as they contribute to transformative learning. Feminist theory provides a framework for developing a holistic view of learning that embodies our full human potential. This research will share methods and strategies used to support developing a true awareness. It will provide functional and compassionate ways to implement holistic pedagogy. I will emphasize that teaching with acceptance and reverence for our human capacities will embed these values in students’ learning. The aim of this study is to contribute to contemporary visions of teaching by sharing experiences that are mindful of the mind-body connection. I wish to make the perceptions and approaches of teachers accessible and to inspire curiosity in others to extend their holistic beliefs into practice.