This inquiry is about the sense-making of students in a technology education class as they build a prototype electric car in a secondary school manufacturing shop. I make sense of their sense-making by examining their talk and interaction in the interplay of the social, material, institutional, and organizational resources constituting what I call "distributed practice." This involves a move away from defining understanding and learning as self-contained structures in the minds of people, but instead sees learning as spread out in the broad social context of activity and participation. Distributed practice theorized in this way is about the interplay among "complex social relations, technologically constituted." Technologies and their use in practice provide us with a realm through which we can discuss issues related to the understanding of learners. In many respects, this dissertation is an exploration of how "the way things are done" becomes understanding and alternately, how understanding becomes "the way things are done." The analysis moves towards a social and cultural practice view of learning I call "practical negotiation."

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T16:53:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-08-27Bitstream added on 2015-05-14T16:58:49Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000823627.pdf: 371589 bytes, checksum: 23a3dbd04e74fb78ba952937ca55984a (MD5) / O presente trabalho apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa descritiva baseada no método praxiológico de Pierre Bourdieu, cuja investigação analisou questões de gênero nas trajetórias de escolarização de quatro egressos (dois homens e duas mulheres) do Curso Técnico em Economia Doméstica, todos oriundos e habilitados no mesmo estabelecimento público de ensino. O objeto de estudo constituiu-se de relações das disposições primárias, no âmbito de gênero, assimiladas no interior de suas famílias progenitoras e a consolidação das mesmas enquanto formulação e reestruturação do habitus dos egressos nos respectivos itinerários escolares; nas estratégias matrimoniais; nas trajetórias profissionais; no capital cultural e social; e nas estratégias de educação sexual e sexualidade. A coleta de dados realizada entre o período de 2011 a 2012, foi conduzida por meio da aplicação de questionários e da realização de entrevistas com os egressos selecionados. A análise de dados utilizou das categorias de método e análise de Pierre Bourdieu para classificação e apreciação das disposições primárias que se manifestaram de forma distribuída em diferentes contextos das trajetórias dos agentes. Disposições gendradas que necessariamente passaram a integrar e relacionar-se com o habitus dos agentes. Após a análise da categorização dos relatos das histórias de vida, observou-se que o habitus de gênero reestruturado pelas trajetórias de escolarização continuou orientando e permeando o percurso social e as estratégias matrimoniais e profissionais dos agentes. Notou-se, ainda, que o habitus gendrado foi compartilhado pelo estatuto social das famílias constituídas pelos agentes e que passaram a reproduzir, na prole, o mesmo padrão de estratégia de educação sexual narrado no período da infância e juventude dos mesmos, ou seja, conservou-se a regularidade histórica do silêncio paterno e a divisão do trato ... / This paper presents the results of a research that examined gender issues in schooling trajectories of four graduates (two men and two women) Technical course in Home Economics, derived from the same public education establishment. The object of study analyzed consisted of the primary provisions of the relationships within gender, assimilated within their families and progenitor consolidating and restructuring the same formulation as the habitus of graduates in their school routes; in matrimonial strategies; in professional careers; cultural and social capital; and strategies for sex education and sexuality. Data collection took place between the period 2011 to 2012, was conducted through questionnaires and interviews with the selected graduates. The analysis used data from categories of method and analysis of Pierre Bourdieu to classification and assessment of the primary provisions that have manifested in a distributed manner in different contexts of the trajectories of the agents. Gendered provisions which necessarily became part and interact with the habitus of agents. After analyzing the categorization of accounts of life histories, it was observed that the habitus of gender restructured the trajectories of schooling continued directing and permeating the professional agents of social background and matrimonial strategies; it was noted also that the gendered habitus was shared by the social status of families constituted by agents and will now play in the offspring the same pattern of sex education strategy narrated in the period of childhood and youth of the same, ie, they stood historical regularities paternal silence and the division of the tract of sexuality as an educational action of the children between the mother figure and school agencies

Orientador: Luci Regina Muzzeti / Banca: Fábio Tadeu Reina / Banca: Flávia Baccin Fiorante Inforsato / Banca: Andreza M. de Castro Leão / Banca: Rosimeire Maria Orlando / Resumo: O presente trabalho apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa descritiva baseada no método praxiológico de Pierre Bourdieu, cuja investigação analisou questões de gênero nas trajetórias de escolarização de quatro egressos (dois homens e duas mulheres) do Curso Técnico em Economia Doméstica, todos oriundos e habilitados no mesmo estabelecimento público de ensino. O objeto de estudo constituiu-se de relações das disposições primárias, no âmbito de gênero, assimiladas no interior de suas famílias progenitoras e a consolidação das mesmas enquanto formulação e reestruturação do habitus dos egressos nos respectivos itinerários escolares; nas estratégias matrimoniais; nas trajetórias profissionais; no capital cultural e social; e nas estratégias de educação sexual e sexualidade. A coleta de dados realizada entre o período de 2011 a 2012, foi conduzida por meio da aplicação de questionários e da realização de entrevistas com os egressos selecionados. A análise de dados utilizou das categorias de método e análise de Pierre Bourdieu para classificação e apreciação das disposições primárias que se manifestaram de forma distribuída em diferentes contextos das trajetórias dos agentes. Disposições gendradas que necessariamente passaram a integrar e relacionar-se com o habitus dos agentes. Após a análise da categorização dos relatos das histórias de vida, observou-se que o habitus de gênero reestruturado pelas trajetórias de escolarização continuou orientando e permeando o percurso social e as estratégias matrimoniais e profissionais dos agentes. Notou-se, ainda, que o habitus gendrado foi compartilhado pelo estatuto social das famílias constituídas pelos agentes e que passaram a reproduzir, na prole, o mesmo padrão de estratégia de educação sexual narrado no período da infância e juventude dos mesmos, ou seja, conservou-se a regularidade histórica do silêncio paterno e a divisão do trato ... / Abstract: This paper presents the results of a research that examined gender issues in schooling trajectories of four graduates (two men and two women) Technical course in Home Economics, derived from the same public education establishment. The object of study analyzed consisted of the primary provisions of the relationships within gender, assimilated within their families and progenitor consolidating and restructuring the same formulation as the habitus of graduates in their school routes; in matrimonial strategies; in professional careers; cultural and social capital; and strategies for sex education and sexuality. Data collection took place between the period 2011 to 2012, was conducted through questionnaires and interviews with the selected graduates. The analysis used data from categories of method and analysis of Pierre Bourdieu to classification and assessment of the primary provisions that have manifested in a distributed manner in different contexts of the trajectories of the agents. Gendered provisions which necessarily became part and interact with the habitus of agents. After analyzing the categorization of accounts of life histories, it was observed that the habitus of gender restructured the trajectories of schooling continued directing and permeating the professional agents of social background and matrimonial strategies; it was noted also that the gendered habitus was shared by the social status of families constituted by agents and will now play in the offspring the same pattern of sex education strategy narrated in the period of childhood and youth of the same, ie, they stood historical regularities paternal silence and the division of the tract of sexuality as an educational action of the children between the mother figure and school agencies / Doutor

Thesis (M. Tech.) - Central University of Technology, Free State, 2006 / The demand for continuing reform to technical and vocational education system and its products and services had been inevitable. The challenge for both the Lesotho Ministry of Education and Training Department of Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the Lerotholi Polytechnic had been to develop strategies, which would enable both economic and social goals to be realized. However, it had been a major concern that the present training system had been having some limitations and the Government’s investments in technical and vocational education produced un-healthy results and returns. The private sector had a poor few of the quality and relevance of the training offered by the public technical institutions; more specifically the Lerotholi Polytechnic, and majority of the labour market had been reluctant to employ the graduates from the institution. If quality assurance and relevance prevailed the private sector would send their employees, supervisors and managers for skills upgrading to the Lerotholi Polytechnic. The Government of Lesotho could promote its economic growth and poverty alleviation objectives if the existing tailored training substantiated to impact on the socio-economic development. The study was intended to investigate the impact of the Lerotholi Polytechnic programmes on the socio-economic development on Lesotho with special reference to Maseru district. The premises lied upon access to the Lerotholi Polytechnic technical and vocational education programmes, relevance of these programmes towards socioeconomic development, their quality assurance for the contribution towards the socioeconomic development and the training and learning strategies employed in the Lerotholi Polytechnic. Management issues such as planning, control and coordination also had to be envisaged with respect to the legal framework of technical and vocational education. Both the Lesotho Ministry of Education and Training Department of Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the Lerotholi Polytechnic formed the sample population whose responses had been triangulated in the quest for the imperative epistemic of the impact of technical and vocational education on the socio-economic development of Lesotho with special reference to Maseru district. Results had been presented and findings acknowledged. Recommendations had been advocated for the better functioning of the Lerotholi Polytechnic programmes in the contribution towards socio-economic development of Lesotho with special reference to Maseru district.