顏明仁 = A study of teacher receptivity to change and school culture / Ngan Ming-yan. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2003. / 參考文獻 (p. 399-428). / 中英文摘要. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Yan Mingren = A study of teacher receptivity to change and school culture / Ngan Ming-yan. / Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2003. / Can kao wen xian (p. 399-428).

Submitted in fulfilment of requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Technology: Operations and Quality Management, Durban University of Technology, 2014. / The need for alternative teaching practices in the face of poor retention and student throughput rates has changed the context of higher education in South Africa. This study interrogates one alternative teaching practice: the use of a board game and a multimedia game. Arguments for the potential benefits of games in higher education have generated a growing body of literature, but the general focus of these studies has been empirical with little theorisation about the associated pedagogy. Using a mixed methods sequential explanatory research design, this thesis aimed to determine the quality of pedagogy through games in providing epistemological access to the subjects Tooth Morphology and Oral Anatomy in a Dental Technology Diploma at a selected University of Technology. The thesis also developed a framework for the design of games to enable quality teaching and learning of vocational subjects. Preliminary and pilot studies were conducted. The preliminary study was conducted over a five-year period from 2003 to 2006. The total sample size for the Tooth Morphology board game was n=128 and for Oral Anatomy multimedia game was n=30. Academic experts validated the study by reviewing the contents of the game. The findings suggested that games assisted students to actively learn. The pilot study was conducted in 2007 and 2008. The total sample size for the Tooth Morphology board game was n=62 and for the Oral Anatomy multimedia game was n=22. Dental technology experts validated the contents of the game. Cronbach’s alpha index was used to assess the reliability of the study and was α=0.45 and α=0.757 for the Tooth Morphology board game and the Oral Anatomy multimedia game, respectively. The low alpha score obtained for the Tooth Morphology board game prompted improvements to be made to the survey for the main study. The main study was conducted in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The total population size for the Tooth Morphology board game was n=83 and for the Oral Anatomy multimedia game was n=82. Surveys and pre- and post-tests were analysed using descriptive statistics, t-tests, factor analysis and cross tabulations. Content validity ensured that the survey focused on concepts and constructs that emerged from the review of literature on games. Cronbach’s alpha index was used to assess the reliability of the surveys and was α=0.794 and α=0.868 for the Tooth Morphology board game and Oral Anatomy multimedia game, respectively. Qualitative analyses entailed focus groups with students who used the games. The data generated was analysed using the conceptual frameworks of Bernstein’s knowledge codes and Maton’s Legitimation Code Theory of Specialisation. Trustworthiness of the data was achieved using methodological triangulation, data triangulation and peer debriefing. Quantitative results revealed that an integrated game design with an appropriate mix of instructional content and applicable game features and mechanisms facilitates the provision of epistemological access to Tooth Morphology and Oral Anatomy. By placing a sociological lens on knowledge in the games, a major finding in the qualitative analyses was that epistemological access using games provided access to particular knowledge-knower structures of the target subjects or disciplines. An LCT (Specialisation) analysis revealed that the games in this study represented a knowledge code as specialist knowledge and skills were valued over the possession of personal attributes and dispositions. This knowledge code was in turn aligned to the knowledge code of the target programme. In synthesising the results there were three recurring issues that emerged from the data as being key, namely: (1) access to knowledge; (2) instructional design of the games; and (3) technical design of the games. The thesis concluded by proposing the KITE framework, a guideline for lecturers to consider when designing games for higher education. / DAAD, NRF In-Country Scholarship

Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Masters of Technology: Information Technology, Durban University of Technology. Durban. South Africa, 2015. / Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are ubiquitous nowadays, and there are many situations where they are overall perceived either as advantageous or as disadvantageous; but there are other situations where it is unknown whether they are overall advantageous or disadvantageous. For example, ICTs are perceived as advantageous for communication, but texting during driving is perceived as worse than drinking while driving. Concerning for example eLearning which is the use of ICTs in education, the fact that it has not yet eliminated the problem of poor academic performance raises the question as to whether ICTs are advantageous or not in education especially when one considers their high cost. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of educators on the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning. This aim will be subdivided into three types of research objectives: (a) to select from existing literature suitable theories that can be applied to the examination of educators’ perceptions on the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning; (b) to design a model of the factors affecting educators’ perceptions on the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning; (c) to empirically test the above announced model; (d) to propose recommendations on how to optimize the impact of eLearning. Objectives a, b, and d were accomplished through the review of existing appropriate literature on teaching and learning, and on eLearning; but objective c was met through a survey of 65 educators of Camperdown town schools in the Pinetown district of KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The outcomes of these four objectives are as follows: (a) Constructivism, Progressivism, and Self-regulated learning can be used as suitable theories applicable to the examination of educators perceptions on the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning; (b) It makes sense to hypothesize that educators perceptions on the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning are affected by their demographics and by their adherence to learning theories; (c) Empirical test conducted by this study confirm that educators perceptions on the advantages and disadvantages of eLearning are affected by their adherence to constructivism and to progressivism; (d) It can be concluded that the impact of the use of ICTs on teaching and learning will be optimized through the deployment of constructivist and progressivist educators as champions of eLearning projects in schools.

Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Technology: Information Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015. / The use of mobile devices such as cell phones, smartphones, personal digital assistants and tablet computers is becoming prevalent in today’s world; and it is facilitating access to a vast amount of data, services and applications for the improvement of people’s lives. Advances in electronics and manufacturing technologies usually lead to the rapid release of newer and sleeker models with new features and capabilities. These newer models therefore render older models obsolete, and this pushes people to frequently replace their devices. The drawback of such frequent replacements is that a large number of devices are disposed and they end up as e-waste. The fact that e-waste constitutes a major hazard to human health and to the environment is the motivation behind this study whose aim is to examine the factors affecting the perceptions of teachers on the durability of cell phones in the e-learning context. This research aims was achieved through the content analysis of existing literature and through a survey of 67 secondary school teachers from the iLembe and UMgungundlovu district municipalities in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The attribution theory was selected as the theoretical framework for this study, and it led to the identification of four independent variables (Demographics, Intention, Knowledge, and Actual use) and of one dependent variable (Perceived Durability). The results of this study indicate that teaching experience and school location are the only two demographics that affect other variables from this research: School location affects cell phone durability, and teaching experience affects cell phone usage intentions. These results also indicate that all the variables of this research are linked except for the relationship between knowledge and perceived durability. One of the recommendations of this study is the proposal of a three year cycle for cell phone renewals in schools mobile learning projects in order to manage e-waste through e-recycling, and this recommendation is based on the finding of this research that teachers believe that cell phones generally lasts between two to three years. The main contribution of this study is to have examined the durability of mobile phones in the e-learning context and this is something new compared to all the studies reviewed by this research.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo_Braga.pdf: 872918 bytes, checksum: 495bdf0da0e75e7ed2c73dfd6323faca (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-08 / Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are increasingly present in professional activities including teaching. In view of this aspect of the present work was proposed in order to evaluate the relationship between the professional profile, including teachers` titration and age of the Accounting course in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) and yours practices of education, especially the use of information and communication technologies. The research was conducted with Accounting Course teachers, who teach in a state higher education institution located in Aparecida de Goi??nia - Goi??s. A questionnaire was applied, adapted and validated to teachers. The quantitative data analysis was performed using the R program; through the analysis of the results, it was observed that 50% of teachers (50%) are males and (50%) were female, over age 40 years (60%). The information on knowledge level reported by teachers was intermediate in 100% of respondents. Everyone has access to the internet and use it to access electronic mail and bibliographical research (100%), followed by the use of social networks (64,28%). There was no grating between the practices adopted and the titration and the age of the teacher, in general it was found that teachers embrace conservative and traditional educational procedures, but seek to use ICT in their practices. 50% of the teachers try to include in accounting software in their practices, citing the need for professional training of accounting able to work with ICT, considering the current changes which passes the profession. As regards, the reported difficulties include difficulty in using existing technologies (64.28% who had no academic training for teaching practice) and inadequate infrastructure for their use in academic activities. Teachers have positive attitudes towards ICT (want to use) and familiarity with using computers, but agree that more investment in the infrastructure of the institution and training would increase the adoption of technology appropriately in academic activities. / As Tecnologias da Informa????o e da Comunica????o (TIC) est??o cada vez mais presentes nas atividades profissionais, inclusive dos docentes. O presente trabalho foi proposto com o objetivo de analisar e identificar a utiliza????o das TIC pelos docentes de um curso de Ci??ncias Cont??beis de uma Institui????o de Ensino Superior, determinando uma poss??vel rela????o entre a utiliza????o destas pr??ticas ?? titula????o ou idade dos docentes. A pesquisa foi conduzida com professores do Curso de Ci??ncias Cont??beis que lecionam em uma Institui????o de Ensino Superior de cunho estadual, localizada em Aparecida de Goi??nia - Goi??s. Procedeu-se ?? aplica????o de um question??rio validado e adaptado aos docentes. A an??lise dos dados quantitativos foi realizada por meio do programa R. Por meio da an??lise dos resultados obtidos, observou-se que 50% dos docentes s??o do sexo masculino e (50%) do sexo feminino, com faixa et??ria superior a 40 anos (60%). O n??vel de conhecimento sobre inform??tica relatado pelos docentes foi intermedi??rio em 100% dos respondentes. Todos t??m acesso ?? internet e a utilizam para acesso ao e-mail e pesquisam informa????es na web (100%), seguido pela utiliza????o das redes sociais (64,28%). N??o houve rela????o entre as pr??ticas adotadas e o t??tulo do profissional e a idade do professor, de uma maneira geral constatou-se que os professores adotam procedimentos pedag??gicos tradicionais, por??m tentam utilizar/inserir as TIC em suas pr??ticas, 50% dos docentes tentam incluir software da ??rea cont??bil em suas pr??ticas e citam a necessidade da forma????o do profissional da contabilidade apto a trabalhar com as TIC, considerando as mudan??as atuais a qual passa a profiss??o. No que concerne ??s dificuldades relatadas incluem a dificuldade em utilizarem as tecnologias existentes e a infraestrutura inadequada para suas utiliza????es nas atividades acad??micas. Os docentes s??o proativos frente ??s TIC (querem utilizar) e possuem familiaridade com uso da inform??tica, mas concordam que com maior investimentos na infraestrutura da institui????o e forma????o profissional aumentariam a ado????o das tecnologias de forma adequada nas atividades acad??micas relacionadas ?? forma????o do contador.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-11-05T13:00:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliane Zanoni.pdf: 1257842 bytes, checksum: dd9efb81f4e45ab6a40e00dca128a8d1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-05T13:00:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliane Zanoni.pdf: 1257842 bytes, checksum: dd9efb81f4e45ab6a40e00dca128a8d1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study, developed in the context of the research line of the New Technologies in Education, by the Education Program: Curriculum, of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, aims to reflect on the directives of the General National Curricular Guidelines for the organization and operation of Superior Courses of Technology about the conscious consumption and socially responsible to subsidize the construction of the Pedagogical Projects of the Superior Courses of Technology in Marketing. The research had as general objective to analyze the existence of the formation of professional awareness of the social-environmental consequences of consumerism in the curriculum of the superior course of technology in marketing. For this analysis, topics related to curriculum, superior courses of technology, and superior course of technology in Marketing, as well as marketing and consumption were addressed. The methodology includes a bibliographical study of the topics addressed and a documentary research based on the analysis of the legislations and institutional documents of the course in focus. The results of the research allowed to know in a broader way the conceptions about what the General National Curricular Guidelines for the organization and the operation of the superior courses of technology alude about the consumption consciously and socially responsible to subsidize the construction of the Pedagogical Projects of the superior courses of technology in Marketing. In tune, it identified the elements of formation directed to the conscious consumption from the curriculum of the superior course of technology in Marketing researched, pointing out the main practices used and how they present themselves. Finally, the possibilities of improvement in the curriculum of the Marketing course, directed to the formation of a professional that, besides the function of studying and proposing indiscriminate ways of selling, is concerned with the formation of values of conscious and socially responsible consumption / Este estudo, desenvolvido no contexto da linha de pesquisa Novas Tecnologias em Educação, do Programa Educação: Currículo, da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, visa refletir sobre os direcionamentos das Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais Gerais para a organização e o funcionamento dos cursos superiores de tecnologia sobre o consumo consciente e socialmente responsável para subsidiar a construção dos Projetos Pedagógicos dos cursos superiores de tecnologia em Marketing. A pesquisa teve como objetivo geral analisar a existência da formação de consciência profissional das consequências socioambientais do consumismo no currículo do curso superior de tecnologia em marketing. Para esta análise, foram abordados temas relacionados ao currículo, aos cursos superiores de tecnologia e sobre o curso superior de tecnologia em marketing, bem como sobre marketing e consumo. A metodologia contempla um estudo bibliográfico dos temas abordados e uma pesquisa documental a partir de análise nas legislações e documentos institucionais do curso em foco. Os resultados da pesquisa permitiram conhecer de forma mais ampla as concepções acerca do que as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais Gerais para a organização e o funcionamento dos cursos superiores de tecnologia referenciam sobre o consumo consciente e socialmente responsável para subsidiar a construção dos Projetos Pedagógicos dos cursos superiores de tecnologia em Marketing. Em sintonia, identificou os elementos de formação direcionados ao consumo consciente a partir do currículo do curso superior de tecnologia em Marketing pesquisado, apontando as principais práticas utilizadas e como estas se apresentam. Por fim, as possibilidades de melhoria no currículo do curso de Marketing, direcionada à formação de um profissional que, além da função de estudar e propor formas indiscriminadas de vender, preocupa-se com a formação de valores de consumo consciente e responsável socialmente

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Gerson Senff.pdf: 927739 bytes, checksum: 646a3991fc054beea4a6ff4eba2ec3b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-24 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research aims at investigating the formation in technological higher education in relation to its coherence and consistence, having as its source of information the primary and secondary educational legislation related to technology; primary: official documents (guidelines, decrees and reports) edited by the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) and other governmental entities that rule the formation of technologists and set the regulations for establishing courses; secondary: technical briefs of the Ministry of Education and Culture, (MEC) The National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anisio Teixeira (INEP) about the registrations, new students and the ones who have completed this course modality, in order to characterize the demand for this type of teaching. The primary and secondary sources of information were obtained by the access of governmental institutions‟ portals. The theoretical presentation about formation and technology precedes the discussion of the research data. The research problem is related to the content of the official documents and the formation implemented in a technological higher education. The main hypothesis of this research departs from the assumption that the legislation and the official documents have an important role in the guidance to the courses preparation and students‟ training: the legislation for the technological higher education presents some contradictions which are inconsistent in relation to the general, vital and human formation. This research is grounded in education, formation, ideology, pseudo-formation, technological rationality, technology and technique. The results obtained from the documental analysis developed in this thesis indicate that the mentioned formation presents some problems related to the incoherence and inconsistency, with respect to the arguments used in the technological education, when the general, human and vital formation is overlooked as an indispensable element to the learners‟ development, regardless of their study level. In return, the justification in the official documents encloses recurrently and repeatedly some expressions related to technology, suggesting that education is summarized only to technology and technique / A presente pesquisa busca investigar a formação ensejada no âmbito do ensino superior tecnológico quanto à coerência e à consistência, tendo como fonte de informação a legislação educacional relativa à tecnologia. As fontes, a saber: a) primária – documentos oficiais (diretrizes, decretos e pareceres) editados pelo Ministério da Educação e Cultura (MEC) e outros órgãos públicos que orientam a formação de tecnólogos e estabelecem as normas para a criação dos cursos; b) secundária – resumos técnicos do Ministério da Educação e Cultura (MEC) / Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP), as matrículas, os ingressantes e os concluintes dessa modalidade de curso, com o objetivo de caracterizar a movimentação da procura por essa modalidade de ensino. As fontes primárias e secundárias de informação foram obtidas por intermédio do acesso aos portais das instituições governamentais. A discussão desses dados, por sua vez, é precedida da apresentação teórica sobre a formação e a tecnologia. O problema de pesquisa está relacionado com o conteúdo dos documentos oficiais e com a formação desenvolvida no ensino superior tecnológico. Partindo da premissa que a legislação e os documentos oficiais têm um papel importante na orientação para elaboração dos cursos e na formação dos discentes, formulou-se a hipótese principal desta pesquisa: a legislação sobre o ensino superior tecnológico apresenta contradições, sendo inconsistente em relação à formação geral, crítica e humana. Os conceitos que fundamentam esta pesquisa, elaborados pela teoria crítica, são: educação; formação; ideologia; pseudoformação; racionalidade tecnológica; tecnologia e técnica. A partir da análise documental desenvolvida nesta tese, os resultados apontam que a referida formação apresenta problemas relacionados a incoerência e inconsistência no que refere aos argumentos utilizados para a educação tecnológica, ao desconsiderar a formação geral, humana e crítica como um elemento indispensável para a formação de seus alunos, independentemente do nível de ensino. Em contrapartida, as justificativas presentes nos documentos oficiais circundam de maneira recorrente e repetitiva expressões relacionadas à tecnologia, dando ideia de que a educação resume-se apenas à tecnologia e à técnica

The purpose of this research was to learn more about the uses and benefits of educational robotics in an elementary school curriculum.

There has been an increase in the use of partnerships as a policy prescription for improving education since the mid 1980's. This trend builds on nearly a century of reform movements in education. In order to improve education policy, this study focuses on the question of whether math and science education partnerships as typically constituted provide the necessary conditions for the adaptive management (sustainable and adaptable action) of local education problems by the participants. This qualitative study uses data derived from the views of 32 experts on math and science partnerships collected during an internet-based application of the Delphi methodology designed to develop testable elements of a logic model of partnerships in math and science education. The results of this study suggest that the implementation and content requirements built into grant programs that include partners as a condition in aid most often result in a narrow programmatic focus among the participants. Organizations choose to participate in disjointed serial interventions that support organizational needs or goals based on the availability of funding and partners for particular programmatic activities. They choose partners from among those who are interested in similar or complementary activities. The primary focus of STEM education partnerships is therefore on implementing and sometimes evaluating the funded programmatic activities and not on building a broader learning community. Activities or education problems that are not funded tend to be excluded from the activities and dialog of the policy-induced partnership. By limiting the scope of the collaboration we are limiting the potential for adaptive management and the value of these partnerships.