Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College Graduate School, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-68).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2009. / Vita: p. 255. Thesis director: Elizabeth Sturtevant. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 12, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-254). Also issued in print.

Com o intuito de investigar os documentos curriculares que materializam a Política Pública educacional do Estado de São Paulo, na área de Geografia, buscamos analisar as Situações de Aprendizagem presentes em seu material de apoio, das séries finais do Ensino Fundamental, e refletir acerca de sua abordagem sobre a localidade, bem como sobre a categoria Lugar. Entendemos que práticas de ensino que envolvam os alunos e os reconheçam como produto e produtor do seu espaço, a partir de sua localidade, promovem uma formação crítica e cidadã. Para isso, nos pautamos em referenciais teóricos que discutem sobre tais conceitos, a partir de três perspectivas, a Humanística, a Histórico-dialética e a Pós-moderna. À luz de autores, que fundamentam teoricamente cada perspectiva, realizamos as análises das Situações de Aprendizagem dos materiais de apoio, Caderno do Aluno e Caderno do Professor, e do Currículo de Geografia, desenvolvidos pelo programa São Paulo Faz Escola. O percurso metodológico pauta-se em autores que defendem da pesquisa qualitativa em Educação e nos procedimentos de análise documental e análise de conteúdo. Nas considerações finais, apontamos que, apesar de o Currículo de Geografia explicitar sua concepção de ensino de Lugar sob a ótica Histórico-dialética, as Situações de Aprendizagem apresentam outras concepções na descrição de suas atividades, evidenciando contradições entre o Currículo de Geografia e o seu material de apoio, o que efetiva a Política Pública educacional do Estado de São Paulo. / In order to investigate the curricular documents that materialize the educational Public Policy of São Paulo State, in the Geography area, we analysed the Learning Situations presented in the supporting material, of Junior High grades and reflected on their approach relating to locality, as well as the category Place. We understand that teaching practices that involve students and recognize them as a product and a producer of their own space promote a critical citizen formation. For this, we set ourselves in theoretical references that discuss such concepts based on three perspectives: the Humanistic, the Dialectic-Historical and Post-modern. According to the authors, who theoretically ground each perspective, we analysed the Learning Situations presented in our supporting material, Students\' Book, Teachers\' Book and the Geography Curriculum developed by São Paulo Faz Escola. The methodological route takes as reference authors who fight for qualitative research in Education and documental analysis procedures and content analysis. In the final considerations, we pointed out that, although the Geography Curriculum makes its learning conceptions about Place from the Dialectic-Historical point of view evident, the Learning Situations show different conceptions in their activities description, highlighting contradictions between the Geography Curriculum and the supporting material, which validates the Educational Public Policy of São Paulo State.

Com o intuito de investigar os documentos curriculares que materializam a Política Pública educacional do Estado de São Paulo, na área de Geografia, buscamos analisar as Situações de Aprendizagem presentes em seu material de apoio, das séries finais do Ensino Fundamental, e refletir acerca de sua abordagem sobre a localidade, bem como sobre a categoria Lugar. Entendemos que práticas de ensino que envolvam os alunos e os reconheçam como produto e produtor do seu espaço, a partir de sua localidade, promovem uma formação crítica e cidadã. Para isso, nos pautamos em referenciais teóricos que discutem sobre tais conceitos, a partir de três perspectivas, a Humanística, a Histórico-dialética e a Pós-moderna. À luz de autores, que fundamentam teoricamente cada perspectiva, realizamos as análises das Situações de Aprendizagem dos materiais de apoio, Caderno do Aluno e Caderno do Professor, e do Currículo de Geografia, desenvolvidos pelo programa São Paulo Faz Escola. O percurso metodológico pauta-se em autores que defendem da pesquisa qualitativa em Educação e nos procedimentos de análise documental e análise de conteúdo. Nas considerações finais, apontamos que, apesar de o Currículo de Geografia explicitar sua concepção de ensino de Lugar sob a ótica Histórico-dialética, as Situações de Aprendizagem apresentam outras concepções na descrição de suas atividades, evidenciando contradições entre o Currículo de Geografia e o seu material de apoio, o que efetiva a Política Pública educacional do Estado de São Paulo. / In order to investigate the curricular documents that materialize the educational Public Policy of São Paulo State, in the Geography area, we analysed the Learning Situations presented in the supporting material, of Junior High grades and reflected on their approach relating to locality, as well as the category Place. We understand that teaching practices that involve students and recognize them as a product and a producer of their own space promote a critical citizen formation. For this, we set ourselves in theoretical references that discuss such concepts based on three perspectives: the Humanistic, the Dialectic-Historical and Post-modern. According to the authors, who theoretically ground each perspective, we analysed the Learning Situations presented in our supporting material, Students\' Book, Teachers\' Book and the Geography Curriculum developed by São Paulo Faz Escola. The methodological route takes as reference authors who fight for qualitative research in Education and documental analysis procedures and content analysis. In the final considerations, we pointed out that, although the Geography Curriculum makes its learning conceptions about Place from the Dialectic-Historical point of view evident, the Learning Situations show different conceptions in their activities description, highlighting contradictions between the Geography Curriculum and the supporting material, which validates the Educational Public Policy of São Paulo State.

This study attempted to determine what specific course criteria pubic relations educators believed to be most important in an international public relations course. The researcher provided fifty-seven public relations educators with fifty statements covering potential areas an international public relations course could include. The statements covered the areas of business, media, culture, government and miscellaneous. Each public relations educators was asked to sort the statements according to how much he or she agreed or disagreed with them.The QMETHOD program was used to determine two factor groups from the nineteen responses received. The factor groups, Type I and Type II. Type I consisted of twelve public relations educators and Type II consisted of seven public relations educators.Public relations educators in both groups agreed that an international public relations course should teach students to follow global current events and public relations issues, should cover various countries and their cultural taboos, and teach students to identify social trends abroad.The researcher expected public relations educators to support an international public relations course structure which favored the study of a broad range of international public relations at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and to achieve a consensus on statements relating to cultural sensitivity training. For the most part, the researcher's expectations were met. However, more technical skills issues (i.e., fundamental, pragmatic public relations knowledge needed to execute public relations plans) were raised than expected, and educators' views on the level at which international public relations should be taught differed from what the researcher had anticipated. / Department of Journalism

The aim of this study was to scrutinize perceptions, expectations and concerns of pre-service early childhood education (ECE) teachers before they start their careers and their challenges in their first year as they became beginning teachers. This study also focused on documenting public school contexts where beginning teachers have been either supported and given the opportunity to develop as successful teachers or discouraged and left alone with the challenges in their first year of teaching. In order to investigate this phenomenon, 16 pre-service early childhood education teachers studying at the same teacher education program were interviewed about their perceptions, expectations and concerns on their future profession immediately before their graduation. Participating teachers started to teach in public schools at different cities after their graduation. They were interviewed at the end of the first and the second semester they taught about their experiences and difficulties, and positive aspects of working in public schools. Moustakas&rsquo / s phenomenological analysis was utilized to analyze data from interviews in which beginning teachers reflected on their experiences in teacher education program and of being new teachers in public school context in Turkey. Findings have revealed that pre-service teachers were aware of many difficulties in public schools and ready to contend with those difficulties, yet some of the challenges they faced were beyond their initial anticipation. All those challenges were originated from teacher education program, Ministry of National Education&rsquo / s system itself, and local condition where beginning teachers were appointed. Suggestions for teacher education programs, Ministry of National Education, and administrators were proposed.

The purpose of this study is to examine the ethics chapters in five introduction-topublic relations textbooks and the codes of ethics of four major public relations associations contained within those chapters to determine the prevalence of language that either uses the same terms Daniel Goleman employs for his 25 competencies of emotional intelligence or uses words that strongly suggest the terms Goleman employs. The methods used to establish a correlation between Goleman's emotional intelligence competencies and the ethical practice of public relations are twofold: (1) a content analysis of the ethics chapters of the five textbooks in which are contained the four codes of ethics and (2) interviews with five educators of intro-to-public relations courses and with four of the authors of the textbooks used in the content analysis. Results indicate that there is a correlation between Goleman's competencies, the language employed in introductory textbooks, and the teaching philosophy of educators of introductory public relations courses and of the textbook authors.

The purpose of this study is to determine the public image of industrial arts education in Dallas, Texas. Information sought is obtained from interview schedules using random sampling techniques. The results of the study indicate that the public is not generally informed about industrial arts education. It is recommended that the public be informed as to the difference between industrial arts and vocational education. It is also recommended that more girls be introduced to industrial arts. It is further recommended that the world of construction and world of manufacturing be expanded.

余惠冰 = The Hong Kong General Teaching Council : a policy discourse / Yu Wai Bing. / 呈交日期: 2000年8月. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2001. / 參考文獻 (p. 257-271) / 中英文摘要. / Cheng jiao ri qi: 2000 nian 8 yue. / Available also through the Internet via Dissertations & theses @ Chinese University of Hong Kong. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Yu Huibing = The Hong Kong General Teaching Council : a policy discourse / Yu Wai Bing. / Lun wen (Zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2001. / Can kao wen xian (p. 257-271) / Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MONICA CRISTINA CHISTE.pdf: 7205537 bytes, checksum: f47c7e080657a3435ca12731f82e3d1d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-24 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The application of evaluations of the public teaching grew in Brazil starting from the last decades of the century XX, in face of the need of changes in the Education. In order to obtain resources rulers resorted to the World Bank proposed that the presentation of projects aimed at improving the quality of education. Thus arose the need to check the efficiency of the restructuring of teacher education through the application of evaluations of school performance. Initially the focus was the assessment of learning and now come the performance evaluations of teachers, courses, institutions and the educational system. Endeavoring to build a political assessment of the educational system in the State of Sao Paulo, the government established the Program for Educational Evaluation of the State Network and from 1996 there is the System Evaluation Educational Achievement of Sao Paulo - SARESP, which summarizes the evaluation of performance of students of elementary and high schools. In this context, this study aims to identify factors and educational activities carried out in two schools that received top scores in mathematics in the Report of SARESP/2007. Data collection was based on reflective interviews with the managers, directors and coordinators of two schools in the southern city of Sao Paulo, as well as observations made in these two schools and reported in research journals, in documents made available by schools and school performance reports for the SARESP/2007 provided by the state government on the Internet. This research revealed that some factors and actions that contribute to the good performance of these schools: effective group of teachers working in schools for many years and so cohesive; search for results that reflect the efforts of teachers and students, meetings with teachers and administrators to re - and discuss teaching strategies, directors and coordinators active, serving as a liaison between students and desires of the community and the school / A aplicação de avaliações no ensino público se desenvolveu no Brasil a partir das últimas décadas do século XX, em face da necessidade de mudanças na Educação. Visando obter recursos os governantes recorreram ao Banco Mundial que propôs a apresentação de projetos com o objetivo de melhorar a qualidade do ensino. Surge, assim, a necessidade de verificar a eficiência pedagógica da reestruturação do ensino por meio da aplicação de avaliações de rendimento escolar. Inicialmente o foco era a avaliação de aprendizagem e hoje surgem às avaliações de desempenho do docente, de cursos, institucional e do sistema educacional. Almejando construir uma política de avaliação da rede de ensino no Estado de São Paulo, o governo instituiu o Programa de Avaliação Educacional da Rede Estadual e a partir de 1996 surge o Sistema de Avaliação de Rendimento Escolar de São Paulo SARESP, que sistematiza a avaliação de desempenho dos alunos dos ensinos Fundamental e Médio. Neste contexto, este estudo tem o objetivo de identificar fatores e ações educacionais realizadas em duas escolas que receberam melhores pontuações em Matemática no Relatório do SARESP/2007. A coleta de informações baseou-se em entrevistas reflexivas junto a gestores, diretores e coordenadores pedagógicos, de duas escolas da região sul da cidade de São Paulo, bem como em observações realizadas nessas duas escolas e relatadas em diários de pesquisa, em documentos disponibilizados pelas escolas e relatórios de rendimento escolar referentes ao SARESP/2007 disponibilizados pelo governo estadual na internet. Esta pesquisa apontou alguns fatores e ações que contribuem para o bom rendimento destas escolas: grupo de professores efetivos trabalhando na escola há muitos anos e de maneira coesa; busca por resultados que traduzem os esforços dos docentes e alunos; reuniões com professores e gestores para reavaliar e discutir estratégias pedagógicas; diretores e coordenadores atuantes, servindo de ligação entre anseios dos alunos, da comunidade e os da escola