Thesis (Ph.D. (Education))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

There currently exists a challenge in higher education to improve undergraduate education. The development and more adequate preparation of future faculty, who are current graduate students, is one of several options identified as a viable strategy to address this challenge. This dissertation explored the quality of motivation as a factor affecting the preparation or socialization of future faculty at two top-tier universities. The quality of motivation is believed salient to preparation and socialization. This study focused on the motivation types of teaching-focused future faculty preparation program (FFPP) completers, their programmatic experiences, and various personal and social factors, such as gender, program, and academic discipline, as reason for motivation type. This mixed methods research study was based on the tenets of self-determination theory and revealed quantitatively, through inferential statistics, that a significant difference exists in the motivation type of participants based on gender, program, and academic discipline. Qualitative findings, from focus group interviews, were that FFPP design characteristics included elements to satisfy the innate psychological need for competence but fell short in meeting the need for relatedness. The findings offer insights into aspects that affect the quality of motivation in program participants. They also suggest that in order to more adequately prepare and socialize future faculty, consideration must be given to the importance of satisfying innate psychological needs in an effort to enhance the quality of participant motivation. Both findings support the importance of relatedness in affecting the quality of motivation. The findings of this study support the notion that certain demographic or contextual factors, as well as the satisfaction of innate psychological needs are critical to motivation quality, internalization, behavior, and socialization. The results of this study will contribute to program developers' awareness of motivation quality and its effect on behavior to enhance the design of teaching-focused future faculty preparation programs and socialization. Through the use of motivation quality, this study serves as a catalyst for the more adequate preparation of future faculty to improve undergraduate education.

Der Arbeitsalltag von Sportlehrkräften ist durch ein hohes Belastungspotenzial gekennzeichnet. Neben einem hohen Lärmpegel, Mehrfachanforderungen in einem häufig wechselnden Ordnungs-rahmen, körperlichen Belastungen, der stetigen Verletzungsgefahr und fehlenden Pausen- und Erholungszeiten wird in Befragungen vor allem das hohe Konfliktpotenzial durch Fehlverhalten und Motivationsprobleme von Schülerinnen und Schülern als besonders belastende Faktoren genannt. Eine angemessene Bewältigung von Konflikten und weiteren beruflichen Belastungen stellt eine wichtige Grundlage für die Wahrung der Gesundheit der Lehrkräfte dar. Ein konstruktiver Umgang mit Konflikten ist zudem ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Förderung des sozial-kooperativen Verhal-tens der Schülerinnen und Schüler. Aufgrund der besonderen Belastungssituation, die zusätzlich durch fehlende Anerkennung der Arbeitsleistung der Sportlehrkräfte verschärft wird, entsteht ein Bedürfnis nach Handlungssicherheit und Routine. Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit wird das Phänomen des evasiven Bewältigungsverhaltens analysiert. Evasives Verhalten zeigt eine Person, wenn sie auf Konflikte nicht reagiert, diese ignoriert, Aus-flüchte sucht oder Schwierigkeiten bereits im Vorfeld präventiv vermeidet. Grundsätzlich stellt evasives Verhalten eine wertneutrale Bewältigungsstrategie dar, deren Einsatz auch im Lehrerbe-ruf in manchen Situationen sinnvoll ist. So ist sogar davon abzuraten jeden kleinen Konflikt, jede Kleinigkeit aufzugreifen um den Ablauf des Unterrichts nicht durch Kleinlichkeiten zu behindern oder herauszustellen, dass man trotz Hindernissen in der Lage ist, am eigenen Konzept festzuhal-ten. Während in diesem Fall eine pädagogische Legitimation vorliegt, kann evasives Verhalten jedoch auch Element einer „Überlebensstrategie“ sein, bei dem Konflikte vermieden und ignoriert werden, um kurzfristig eine Entlastung zu erzielen. Meist erreicht man durch diese Verhaltenswei-se jedoch nur den Aufschub eines Konflikts, der später, teils in verschärfter Form, wieder auftreten wird. Auch motivationale Aspekte, d.h. dass eine Sportlehrkraft darum bemüht ist die eigenen Ressourcen zu schonen, kann eine Begründung für evasives Verhalten sein. Problematisch für die Erfüllung des Arbeitsauftrages der Lehrkraft als auch deren Gesundheit wird es, wenn das auswei-chende Verhalten in ausgeprägter Form vorliegt und handlungsleitende Funktion übernimmt. Um das individuelle evasive Verhaltenspotenzial zu messen, wurde ein Erhebungsinstrument kon-struiert, das sich in seiner Grundstruktur an dem didaktischen Modell von Scherler (2004) orien-tiert und neben der Lehrkraft mit den Schülerinnen und Schülern, den Inhalten und den äußeren Rahmenbedingungen drei weitere Einflussfaktoren auf das Unterrichten berücksichtigt. Im Rahmen einer Fragebogenstudie (N=705) wurden ausgewählte persönliche und berufsbiogra-phische Daten erhoben sowie eine Reihe weiterer Erhebungsinstrumente (AVEM, WIRKLEHR, FKK, BEL, SVF120, OLBI, AMS-kurz, UGTS) eingesetzt und in drei Untersuchungskomplexen in Beziehung zur Ausprägung des evasiven Verhaltenspotenzials gesetzt. Im ersten Untersuchungsschwerpunkt wurden persönliche und berufsbiographische Merkmale durch die Fragestellung „Wer nutzt evasive Strategien im Unterricht?“ einbezogen, während im zweiten Schwerpunkt die unterrichtliche Charakteristik bzw. die Unterschiede in der Realisation des Unterrichts in Abhängigkeit vom evasiven Verhaltenspotenzial dargestellt wird. Letztlich wurde im abschließenden Untersuchungsschwerpunkt das Verhalten und Erleben im Sportunterricht fokussiert und Bezüge zu Aspekten wie berufliche Zufriedenheit, Belastungserleben und Gesund-heit hergestellt. Im Rahmen der Auswertung stellte sich heraus, dass evasives Bewältigungsverhalten eine kontra-produktive Möglichkeit des Umgangs mit Konflikten und Belastungen darstellt. Mit zunehmender evasiver Verhaltenstendenz wird das Erreichen der im Rahmen des Doppelauftrags des Sportun-terrichts formulierten Erziehungs- und Bildungsziele gefährdet. Zudem konnte ein verstärktes Be-lastungsempfinden, sowie deutlich geringere Werte im Bereich der beruflichen Zufriedenheit fest-gestellt werden, was letztendlich als Gefahr für die seelische und körperliche Gesundheit zusam-menzufassen ist.

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to determine if questioning can be used as an effective teaching and learning skill to develop learners' higher level thinking in the natural sciences learning area. The types of questions asked by the teachers as well as the different questioning techniques that can be used to provoke the learners' higher level thinking during a learning experience was discussed. The way in which learner questions can be used to encourage student engagement and learning was determine. Questioning as it is used in secondary school was investigated to determine the ways in which it is applied during teaching and learning. The present situation regarding the development and stimulation of learners' questions was determine. The degree to which training and experience determine the teachers application of questioning as an effective teaching and learning skill is investigated by means of a survey. Guidelines to enhance questioning as a skill to develop the learners' higher level thinking was formulated. Method: A literature study was done to investigate the ways in which questioning can be used to enhance the teaching and learning of higher level thinking. Learning strategies, teaching and learning methods and skills to enhance effective higher level thinking was discussed in terms of teaching and learning in the natural sciences. The success rate of teaching and learning can be measure in terms of good questioning and the level of thinking. 'The teaching and learning experience in natural sciences is influenced by the nature of science. The objectives of teaching and learning in the natural sciences is discussed. The empirical data about the grade 8 and grade 11 natural sciences classroom situations was obtained by means of video recordings. These recordings was analysed and coded with a situation analysis instrument developed against the background of the literature study. Empirical research was also undertaken in terms of a survey procedure to obtain the biographical data about the teachers. The empirical data are analysed and discussed in terms of the present situation in use in the natural sciences classrooms. Based on this discussions, guidelines were developed in terms of the proposal of the findings with which to ensure the application of questioning as a teaching and learning skill to enhance the development of learners' higher level thinking in the natural sciences learning area. Core findings: The core findings are, that not enough effort is put to the didactic task of enhancing questioning as an effective teaching and learning skill of learners in the natural sciences. The teachers are confronted with the challenge to make use of spiral questioning to provoke the learners thinking in the classroom situation. Questioning can be used to serve and support the teaching and learning experience. From the empirical data it can be deducted that the teachers in this research group are not trying to enhance, stimulate of provoke learners' questioning. Questioning as practice by the teachers are mostly classified as communication and lower level questions. Furthermore no deduction can be made about the degree to which training and experience determine the teachers application of questioning as an effective teaching and learning skill to enhance the higher level of thinking in the natural sciences learning area. Based on these core findings recommendations are made about the development of higher level thinking to promote deeper understanding of the natural sciences with the aid of questioning as an instructional skill during learning. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Education))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:35:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4798.pdf: 2422263 bytes, checksum: 82536db8cae0f223bf6247c55001a288 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-21 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / This research aimed to investigate the mathematics formative processes of Early Years students-teachers in an online Pedagogy course taking the following question into consideration: What formative processes are evidenced by students-teachers when inserted in specific mathematical disciplines in an online Pedagogy course? Our theoretical framework discusses the concepts of: professional development, knowledge base for teaching, reflection, autonomy, interaction, collaboration, dialogue, among others. To begin the development of the qualitative study, we contacted, via email, the first group of students who had attended the disciplines Languages of Mathematics 1 and 2 and Supervised Practice 1 and 2 and asked them to answer a characterization questionnaire. Nine students, who were already teachers in kindergarten and/or in Early Years, were the subjects of the research due to our assumption that the formative processes they experienced could have contributed to their professional development, promoting the learning of mathematical content, as well as the learning of teaching skills. Because of them being students of the course who already worked as teachers, we described them in the text as students-teachers. For data collection, we used the activities developed during the mentioned subjects and semi-structured interviews which were conducted via Skype or Messenger. Data analysis was conducted based on the theory of content analysis and two themes emerged with subcategories: Relationship with mathematics and its teaching and learning composed of The narratives of the students-teachers and Indications of changes and; Mathematics formative processes included the subcategories Different writing in the disciplines, Interactions and mediations in the virtual environment, Readings and reflective process on practice and Teaching in supervised practices. The results showed that the students-teachers had some small changes in their beliefs about mathematics, its teaching and learning, the classroom practices, their feelings regarding mathematics and the teacher-student relationship. Moreover, the formative processes they experienced promoted the (re)construction and (re)signification of the mathematical content studied and provided the learning of teaching practices. The printed material used in the disciplines, the activities, the interactions that occurred between the students-teachers and their classmates when participants proposed questions, discussed the mathematical concepts and peer feedback and shared classroom practices, as well as the mediations conducted by tutors were fundamental for this to happen. The analysis also indicated that they increased their knowledge base for teaching and mobilized the process of pedagogical reasoning to develop activities concerning mathematical content for the supervised teaching practice, the ways of working it with students and aspects of lesson planning such as unexpected situations that may occur and the timing for completion of activities. / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar os processos formativos em matemática de alunas-professoras dos Anos Iniciais em um curso a distância de Pedagogia a partir do seguinte questionamento: Quais processos formativos são evidenciados por alunasprofessoras quando inseridas nas disciplinas específicas de matemática em um curso a distância de Pedagogia? No referencial teórico, discutimos os conceitos de: desenvolvimento profissional, base de conhecimento para o ensino, reflexão, autonomia, interação, colaboração, diálogo, entre outros. Para iniciarmos o desenvolvimento do estudo, de natureza qualitativa, entramos em contato, via e-mail, com os estudantes da primeira turma que já haviam cursado as disciplinas de Linguagens Matemática 1 e 2 e Estágio Supervisionado 1 e 2 e solicitamos que respondessem a um questionário de caracterização. Nove alunas já eram professoras na Educação Infantil e/ou nos Anos Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental e foram os sujeitos da pesquisa devido a nossa hipótese de que os processos formativos vivenciados poderiam ter contribuído com o desenvolvimento profissional delas, promovendo aprendizagens dos conteúdos matemáticos e também aprendizagens da docência. Pelo fato delas serem alunas do curso e já atuarem como professoras as identificamos, no texto, como alunas-professoras. Utilizamos para a produção de dados as atividades desenvolvidas nas disciplinas mencionadas e entrevistas semiestruturadas que foram realizadas via Skype ou Messenger. A análise dos dados foi realizada a partir da teoria de análise do conteúdo e emergiram dois eixos temáticos com subcategorias: Relação com a matemática e seu ensino e aprendizagem composto por As narrativas das alunas-professoras e Indícios de mudanças e; Processos formativos em matemática se constituíram das subcategorias Diferentes escritas nas disciplinas, Interações e mediações no ambiente virtual, Leituras e o processo reflexivo sobre a prática e As regências nos estágios. Os resultados evidenciaram que as alunasprofessoras tiveram algumas pequenas mudanças em suas crenças sobre a matemática, seu ensino e aprendizagem, sobre as práticas de sala de aula, sobre os sentimentos com relação à matemática e sobre a relação professor-aluno. Além disso, os processos formativos vivenciados promoveram a (re)construção e a (re)significação dos conteúdos matemáticos estudados e proporcionaram aprendizagens da docência. Para tanto, foram fundamentais o material impresso utilizado nas disciplinas, as atividades propostas, as interações que ocorreram entre as alunas-professoras e os colegas em que as participantes propuseram questionamentos, discutiram os conceitos matemáticos e os comentários dos colegas, argumentaram e trouxeram práticas de sala de aula, além das mediações realizadas pelos tutores. As análises também apontaram que elas ampliaram sua base de conhecimento para o ensino e que mobilizaram o processo de raciocínio pedagógico ao elaborarem as atividades com relação aos conteúdos matemáticos para as regências do estágio, as formas de trabalhálos com os alunos e aspectos do planejamento da aula como os imprevistos que ocorrem e o tempo para realização das atividades.

Bakgrund och problem:  Med åren har många statliga utredningar understrukit vikten av att högskolans undervisning skall ha en så god utformning som möjligt och att den skall ledas av väl kvalificerade lärare. För högskolor gäller det att finna rätt lärare som har förmågan att undervisa på ett sätt som passar dagens mer heterogena grupper med tanke på att studenterna fördubblats de senaste åren. Det är välkänt att hänsyn till de vetenskapliga meriterna är betydande och oftast avgörande vid anställning. Tidigare studier menar att bedömningskriterierna för pedagogisk skicklighet måste ges skarpare och mer entydiga formuleringar, likt den vetenskapliga skickligheten. Först då kan lika stor omsorg ägnas den pedagogiska skickligheten vid rekrytering. Syfte och metod: Syftet med föreliggande studie var att undersöka den pedagogiska skicklighetens betydelse i sin sociala kontext för att på så sätt ge en ökad kunskap kring fenomenet. Dessutom undersöktes hur fenomenet bedöms i praktiken och vilka underlag som används i förfarandet för att därmed kunna dra slutsatser kring varför betydelsen kan te sig på skilda sätt i olika sammanhang. Fem stycken semistrukturerade djupintervjuer genomfördes. Intervjupersonerna, som är väletablerade inom akademin, har på ett eller annat sätt en inblick i hur bedömningen av den pedagogiska skickligheten går till och har kännedom om vilka uppfattningar som råder kring dess betydelse. Utöver intervjuerna har även flertalet olika dokument granskats som supplement till empirin. Intervjuerna och de granskade dokumenten utgör studiens triangulering vilket gör att ett bredare perspektiv erhålls och därmed en mer fullständig bild av den pedagogisk skicklighets betydelse och hur bedömningen av den går till. Dessutom används trianguleringen för att öka studiens trovärdighet och träffsäkerhet. Resultat och slutsatser: Under intervjuerna framkom att det föreligger en statusskillnad mellan forskning och undervisning, där forskningens status upplevs som högre. Detta resultat tyder på att betydelsen av den pedagogiska skickligheten är lägre och att resultatet bekräftar tidigare studier. Bedömningsunderlag för den pedagogiska skickligheten måste utvecklas på ett sätt som gör att bedömningen blir kvalitetsmässig. / Background and problem: Over the years many government investigations have underlined the importance of higher education being as excellent as possible, and that the education should be managed by qualified teachers. Universities have to recruit the right teachers who have the ability to teach in a way that fits the more heterogeneous groups of today, since the amount of students have doubled in the recent years. It is well known that consideration of scientific qualifications is significant and usually crucial in employment. Former studies mean that the assessment criteria for teaching skills must be given sharper and more unambiguous formulations, similar to the scientific skills. Only then equal attention can be paid to the teaching skills within recruitment. Aim and method: The purpose of this study was to examine the importance of teaching skills in order to increase knowledge about the phenomenon. In addition, the study examined how teaching skills are assessed in practice, and which basis that are being used in the procedure, in order to draw conclusions about why the significance can be different in various contexts. Five semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted. The interviewees, who are well established within the academy, have in different ways insight into the assessment of teaching skills, and they have knowledge about the perceptions of its significance. In addition to the interviews, several different documents have been examined as supplement to the empirical results. The interviews and reviewed documents constitute the method triangulation of the study, which empirically empowers and thus provides a more complete view of the teaching skills significance and how it is assessed. Furthermore, triangulation is used to increase the credibility and accuracy of the study. Results and conclusions: This study revealed a status difference between researching and teaching, where the status of researching is considered higher. This result indicates that the importance of teaching skills is lower, a fact that also is confirmed in previous studies. The assessment basis of teaching skills must be developed in a way that makes the assessment qualitatively.

Children with disabilities need physical activity in order to promote development and health, and this can be fulfilled in their physical education lessons. However, adapting lessons for children with disabilities can be a very complicated task as there are many factors that affect, both positively and negatively, the child´s general self-efficacy, their self-efficacy in their physical education lesson and their aptitude to participate. In a previous descriptive quantitative study teachers self-rated teacher skill were positively correlated to self-efficacy for students with high grades but negatively correlated to self-efficacy for students with disabilities. Therefore, the aim of the study is to test two hypothesis concerning the relations between teacher´s teaching skills, environmental prerequisites and climate and the student´s general self-efficacy, self-efficacy in physical education and aptitude to participate for with high grades and with disabilities respectively. With the help of a quantitative study with questionnaire data the hypotheses were tested for children with disabilities and children with high grades within PE lessons in regular Swedish mainstream schools. The results show that teaching skills are negatively correlated to general self-efficacy, self-efficacy in physical education and aptitude to participate for children with disabilities. For children with high grades the same relations were positive. Regarding prerequisites for physical education and climate in class both were positively related to general selfefficacy, self-efficacy in physical education and aptitude to participate for both children with high grades and children with disabilities. The importance of having an individually adapted lesson planning and grading criteria are discussed.

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This paper presents the contributions of the first stage of the investigation«Theories and challenges in teacher education in Mexico,» which analyzes aspart of the transition from the current educational reform mastery of teachingskills of teachers. The aim of this study was to identify the education and trainingof teachers of primary and secondary higher state of Tlaxcala to develop theirteaching skills and education. The research was conducted with a cross-cuttingdescriptive quantitative methodology, were surveyed 346 teachers from the threeeducational levels. In the results it is emphasized that a considerable number ofteachers lack pedagogical training and acquire specific skills for the exercise of theteaching function. / El presente artículo expone las contribuciones de la primera etapa de lainvestigación «Teorías y retos en la formación del profesorado en México», la cualanaliza en el marco de la transición de la Reforma Educativa actual el dominio delas competencias docentes de los profesores. El objetivo de este estudio consistióen identificar la formación y práctica de los maestros de educación básica y mediasuperior del estado de Tlaxcala para el desarrollo de sus competencias docentes.La investigación se realizó con una metodología descriptiva transversal de cortecuantitativo, se encuestaron a 346 docentes de los tres niveles educativos. Enlos resultados se resalta que un número considerable de docentes carece de la formación pedagógica y adquieren las competencias específicas durante el ejercicio de la función docente. / O presente artigo expõe as contribuições da primeira etapa da investigação «Teorias e desafios na formação dos professores no Mexico», o qual analisa no marco da transição da Reforma Educativa atual, o domínio das competências docentes dos professores. O objetivo deste estudo consistiu em identificar a formação e pratica dos professores do ensino básico e fundamental do estado de Tlaxcala para o desenvolvimento de suas competências docentes. A investigação realizou-se com uma metodologia descritiva transversal de corte quantitativo, 346 docentes dos três níveis educativos, responderão a um questionário. Nos resultados ressalta-se que um número considerável de docentes carece de formação pedagógica e adquirem as competências especificas durante o exercício da função docente.

Este estudo apresentou como meta contribuir para o ensino da disciplina de administração de enfermagem hospitalar, através de uma experiência de desenvolvimento profissional de professores-pesquisadores, em um processo crítico-reflexivo sobre a sua prática docente. A trajetória metodológica da pesquisa-ação, foi operacionalizada em duas etapas: na primeira, foram identificadas as situações dilemáticas acontecidas no estágio disciplinar, por intermédio da reflexão sobre a reflexão-na-ação feita por uma professora após a supervisão diária dos alunos; na segunda, foram efetuados os círculos de reflexão por todos os professores que ministraram a disciplina no período da coleta de dados, utilizando como ponto de partida as situações dilemáticas identificadas anteriormente. A análise temática dos dados coletados nos círculos de reflexão revelou que a reflexão realizada entre os pares possibilitou a objetivação dos saberes experienciais dos professores, assim como a construção de novos saberes pedagógicos. Os saberes docentes elaborados durante os círculos de reflexão foram utilizados para propor mudanças na referida disciplina. / This study aims to contribute to the teaching of the subject Hospital Management Nursing, through an experience of professional empowerment of teachers-researchers, using a critical-reflexive approach to their teaching practices. The study followed the action-research methods, in two stages: first, the “dilemma” situations teachers faced in the disciplinary training of students, were identified through the reflection about the “reflection-on-action” process, used by a teacher after daily supervision of students; second, all the teachers responsible for the classes during the data collection period, participated of “reflection circles”, using as starting point, the “dilemma” situations previously identified. Thematic content analysis of data obtained on these “reflection circles” revealed that reflection done among pairs turned objective the experiential knowledge of the teachers, and also made possible the construction of new pedagogic knowledge. This teaching knowledge was used to propose a change on the subject of Hospital Management Nursing for a graduation course.