This study is an historical study of parent participation in school level decision making, particularly in curriculum issues, in relation to the Victorian Government policies of Devolution through the 1980s. It was conducted as a case study of one rural secondary school, examining how the role of parents in the school�s curriculum development and associated decision making structures may have changed during the decade from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. Three conceptual models were established, which served as analytical frameworks for the field data: a Theory model of how school level participation could operate, a Policies model deriving from the expectations of the major Government policies of the time, and an Historical model based on research and analyses of practice in Australia and overseas. The findings indicate that little effective parent participation developed or took place in the school over the period under study. Major contributing factors identified are the lack of policy direction and official mechanisms, especially in implementation of change, the definition of appropriate participant roles, the culture of traditional authorities in education (teacher in the classroom, principal in school processes and bureaucracy in administration), and the local factors of community attitudes and demographic profile. While the local factors are significant, it is concluded that the policies did not provide sufficient direction or mechanism to overcome the entrenched culture of traditional authorities in schooling. Changes in practice were directed more by the influence of specific personalities in single situations than any development of general attitude or institutional structure.

Integracijos tema aktuali, nes šiandien norima, kad specialiųjų poreikių turintys vaikai gyventų pilnavertį gyvenimą savo bendruomenėje, kad nesusidurtų su segregacija (atskyrimu), kad būtų lygiaverčiai su kitais bendrojo lavinimo mokyklos mokiniais. Darbe nagrinėjamas mokyklos bendruomenės požiūris į specialiųjų poreikių vaikų integraciją į bendrojo lavinimo mokyklą. / In my magistrate work I would like to analyse the problem and peculiarity of disabled children in the process of integration in general educational schools. The aim of the research: To research specific problems appearing while integrating children with special needs into general educational school in Shalchininkay town.

This study is an historical study of parent participation in school level decision making, particularly in curriculum issues, in relation to the Victorian Government policies of Devolution through the 1980s. It was conducted as a case study of one rural secondary school, examining how the role of parents in the school�s curriculum development and associated decision making structures may have changed during the decade from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. Three conceptual models were established, which served as analytical frameworks for the field data: a Theory model of how school level participation could operate, a Policies model deriving from the expectations of the major Government policies of the time, and an Historical model based on research and analyses of practice in Australia and overseas. The findings indicate that little effective parent participation developed or took place in the school over the period under study. Major contributing factors identified are the lack of policy direction and official mechanisms, especially in implementation of change, the definition of appropriate participant roles, the culture of traditional authorities in education (teacher in the classroom, principal in school processes and bureaucracy in administration), and the local factors of community attitudes and demographic profile. While the local factors are significant, it is concluded that the policies did not provide sufficient direction or mechanism to overcome the entrenched culture of traditional authorities in schooling. Changes in practice were directed more by the influence of specific personalities in single situations than any development of general attitude or institutional structure.

Linha de pesquisa: Educa??o, sujeitos, sociedade, hist?ria da educa??o e pol?ticas p?blicas educacionais. / Submitted by Jos? Henrique Henrique (jose.neves@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2017-06-23T22:42:36Z No. of bitstreams: 2 dirce_efigenia_brito_lopes.pdf: 1198123 bytes, checksum: 6870d772b04f70ed0dfb2c8f6774c59a (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2017-06-26T17:32:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 dirce_efigenia_brito_lopes.pdf: 1198123 bytes, checksum: 6870d772b04f70ed0dfb2c8f6774c59a (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-26T17:32:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 dirce_efigenia_brito_lopes.pdf: 1198123 bytes, checksum: 6870d772b04f70ed0dfb2c8f6774c59a (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / Este trabalho resulta de uma pesquisa sobre ?O funcionamento da Educa??o de Tempo Integral numa unidade de ensino Municipal de Montes Claros-MG: desafios e possibilidades?, ela insere-se na linha de pesquisa Educa??o, Sujeitos, Sociedade, Hist?ria da Educa??o e Pol?ticas P?blicas Educacionais do Mestrado em Educa??o da Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM). A quest?o norteadora desta pesquisa foi: quais os impactos e desafios da implanta??o e do funcionamento da Educa??o de Tempo Integral em uma unidade de ensino municipal? O objetivo principal foi compreender os impactos da implanta??o e o funcionamento da Educa??o de Tempo Integral (ETI) numa unidade de ensino, na zona urbana, do Sistema Educacional Municipal de Montes Claros-MG. Como objetivos espec?ficos, tem-se verificar as condi??es de infraestrutura administrativa e pedag?gica para o funcionamento da ETI numa unidade de ensino municipal de Montes Claros, no per?odo de 2013 a 2015; investigar os desafios encontrados pelos agentes educativos na execu??o das a??es da ETI; investigar as pr?ticas pedag?gicas dos profissionais envolvidos na ETI; identificar os impactos das pol?ticas p?blicas, em especial o Programa Mais Educa??o/Educa??o de Tempo Integral junto aos agentes educativos no per?odo de 2013-2015; analisarcomo ocorreu a interlocu??o escola /comunidade. O interesse pelo presente estudo surgiu quando estava na gest?o de uma unidade de ensino municipal e foi implantado o Programa Mais Educa??o/Educa??o de Tempo Integral no ano de 2010, instigando-me a estudar um pouco mais sobre a ETI. Utilizou-se a pesquisa de natureza qualitativa e quantitativa, estudo de campo e, como t?cnica, a an?lise de conte?do para os dados coletados a partir dos question?rios e das entrevistas semiestruturadas aplicadas aos treze envolvidos, sendo: dez oficineiros, um gestor e dois coordenadores da ETI. Os dados coletados foram analisados e alocados em seis categorias: funcionamento e infraestrutura; interlocu??o escola X comunidade; conhecimento de ETI e EI e suas bases legais; desafios; impactos e pr?ticas pedag?gicas. Ap?s serem analisados, percebeu-se que a Escola Municipal Pequeno Cientista (EMPC) precisa aperfei?oar seu funcionamento e, para tanto, ter? os seguintes desafios: melhorar a infraestrutura; capacitar os envolvidos na ETI; propor pr?ticas inovadoras e como possibilidades implantar um curr?culo diferenciado e firmar parcerias com a comunidade, ONGs, clubes e outros. Isso posto poder? gerar impactos tanto na vida dos alunos quanto na pr?pria comunidade. A pesquisa tem relev?ncia por apresentar indicadores sobre a ETI que a SME poder? utilizar no munic?pio de Montes Claros-MG e principalmente na EMPC em busca da melhoria da qualidade da educa??o. / Disserta??o (Mestrado Profissional) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Educa??o, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2016. / This work results from a survey on "The functioning of the Full-Time Education in Municipal teaching unit Claros-MG Montes: challenges and possibilities", it is part of the line education research subjects, Society, History of Education Policies public Education of Master of Education of the federal University of the Jequitinhonha and Mucuri- UFVJM. The main question of this research is: what are the impacts of the implementation and operation of Full-Time Education in a unit of municipal education. The main objective is to understand the impacts and challenges of the implementation and operation of Full-Time Education (FTE) in a teaching unit in the urban area, the municipal system Claros-MG Montes. The specific objectives, has to check and assess the conditions of administrative and educational infrastructure for the operation of the ETI in a municipal school unit of Montes Claros, in the period 2013 to 2015; investigate the challenges faced by educators in the implementation of ETI shares; investigate the pedagogical practices of the professionals involved in the ETI; identify the impact of public policies, especially the More Education Program / Full-Time Education with the teachers in the 2013-2015 period; analyze how occurred the dialogue school / community. The interest for this study came about when he was in the management of a municipal school unit and was deployed More Education Program / Full-Time Education in 2010 urging me to study a little more about the TSI. We used the research of qualitative and quantitative nature, field study and how technical, content analysis to the data collected from questionnaires and semi-structured interviews applied to thirteen involved being: Ten oficineiros, a manager and two coordinators of the ETI. The collected data were analyzed and allocated into six categories: operations and infrastructure; X interlocution school community; knowledge ETI and EI and its legal basis; challenges; impacts and pedagogical practices. After being analyzed, it was noticed that the Municipal School Little Scientist - EMPC needs to improve its functioning and to both have the following challenges: improving the infrastructure; train involved in the ETI; propose innovative practices and possibilities to implement differentiated curriculum and establish partnerships with the community, NGOs, clubs and others. This post may have an impact both in the lives of students and in the community. The research has relevance for providing the improvement of the ETI in the city of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais and especially in EMPC.

Trata-se de pesquisa exploratória realizada em escolas municipais de ensino fundamental da Coordenadoria de Educação de Itaquera, zona leste do Município de São Paulo. O trabalho procura levantar e analisar as relações existentes entre o capital social e dois indicadores específicos de desempenho de tais instituições educacionais: evasão escolar e reprovação. O material foi coletado em questionários respondidos por diretoras (es) e coordenadoras pedagógicas de 19 unidades escolares. As análises permitiram o levantamento da dimensão de capital social percebida pelas (os) participantes e o cruzamento desses dados com índices de evasão escolar e reprovação nas unidades escolares. Com base nas referências teóricas fornecidas por Bourdieu, Loury, Coleman, Putnam, Evans, entre outros, o trabalho aponta para indícios de que maiores dimensões de capital social, nos tópicos de informação e comunicação, confiança e solidariedade e coesão e inclusão social, podem estar relacionados, de forma não determinante, a melhores desempenhos nas unidades escolares. / The is an exploratory research report about basic education in mayor schools at Itaquera Educational Coordination, East zone of São Paulo City, in Brazil. This stuff analyzes the relations between the social capital, school drop out and reproval. Directors and pedagogical coordinators\' from 19 schools have answered the questionnaires. Then, we noticed that the social capital dimension was related to evasion schools and reprovals throughout evaluations. On the basis of the theoretical references supplied by Bourdieu, Loury, Coleman, Putnam, Evans, among others, the stuff indicates that bigger dimensions of social capital in topics like information and communication, confidence and solidarity, cohesion and social inclusion can be related (non determinative way) improving betters performances at school units.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T13:54:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MAIRA TERESA GONCALVES ROCHA.pdf: 13885732 bytes, checksum: e150fcb54c08f140320f1cccc126f747 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Study about art and imagination in a school community called Nossa Senhora da Conceição School. It is located in Cidade Olímpica district in São Luís - Maranhão. The research subjects are seven members from the school art group called Pintando o sete ("Painting the Seven") which is composed by 10 teenagers from 10 to 15 years old. The group has as general goal to map the images (symbols) that permeate the artistic imagination of the school art group and to establish correlations between theoretical concepts, and its objectifications and functional features. The specific objectives are: the characterization of iconoclasmo process and the imaginary resistance in Western society and their implications to school education, the theoretical analysis of schools community and art in this kind of schools in some of its aspects; mapping images (symbols) in the school community and grasping the artistic imagination of the members from Pintando o sete group. This is a comparative study between artistic compositions made by research subjects in 2006, when they participated in an art workshop, in 2008 when they answered a questionnaire to carry out survey images. The approach is in symbolic perspective in order to reveal latent issues. We adopted as the main theoretical basis Gilbert Durand s studies with its isotopic classification and images Schemes and authors like Martine Joly (2005), Gilberto Dimenstein (2004), Ernst Gombrich (1995), Herder Lexikon (1990), Viktor Lowenfeld (1970) and Gastón Bachelard (1998) that supply basic orientations related to images. Through the survey and analysis of the graphics compositions mapped in research, we can notice that there is the dominance and relevance of daytime images, marked by the presence of a constellation of ascended images associated to art idea as a means to rise and having public visibility. / Estudo sobre arte e imaginário no espaço escolar comunitário. Tem como campo de trabalho o Colégio Nossa Senhora da Conceição, localizado no bairro Cidade Olímpica do município de São Luís do Maranhão. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são sete integrantes do grupo de arte Pintando o sete organizado por essa escola o qual é composto por 10 jovens com idade entre 10 a 15 anos. Tem como objetivo geral mapear as imagens (símbolos) que permeiam o imaginário artístico do referido grupo de arte da escola e estabelecer correlações entre concepções teóricas, suas objetivações e funcionalidades. Seus objetivos específicos são: a caracterização do processo de iconoclasmo e resistência do imaginário na sociedade ocidental e suas implicações para a educação escolar; a análise teórica das escolas comunitárias e da arte nesse tipo de escolas em alguns de seus aspectos; mapear imagens (símbolos) no espaço escolar comunitário e a apreender o imaginário artístico dos integrantes do grupo de arte Pintando o sete. Trata-se de um estudo comparativo entre composições artísticas apresentadas pelos sujeitos da pesquisa nos anos 2006, quando participaram de uma oficina de artes plásticas e, 2008 quando lhes foi aplicado um questionário para o levantamento de imagens. A abordagem da pesquisa é na perspectiva simbólica onde se busca revelar questões latentes. Adota-se como base teórica principal a fundamentação fornecida por Gilbert Durand com a sua classificação isotópica e Regimes de Imagens e autores como Martine Joly (2005), Gilberto Dimenstein (2004), Ernst Gombrich (1995), Herder Lexikon (1990), Viktor Lowenfeld (1970) e Gastón Bachelard (1998) que fornecem orientações básicas relativas a imagens. Através do levantamento e análise das composições gráficas mapeadas na pesquisa constata-se a predominância e pertinência de imagens diurnas, pela presença marcante de uma constelação de imagens ascensionais associada à idéia da arte como um meio de ascensão e visibilidade pública.

Students in resource-scarce environments navigate through a multitude of barriers (Richter, 2007). The pathways that individuals travel through towards positive adaptation are far from fixed (Ungar, 2005a), but rather a continuous intersection of navigating through adversity and negotiating supports (Ungar, Brown, Liebenberg, et. al, 2008). Hence, resilience (adapting positively in the face of significant adversity) can be buoyed in a space where support is provided (Ebersöhn & Ferreira, 2011). Scant research warrants whether partnerships with rural schools contribute to fostering positive adaptation of students in relation to their pathways to resilience (measured by educational outcome variables). This study forms part of a larger running longitudinal project, namely: Flourishing Learning Youth (FLY; Ebersöhn & Maree, 2006); a rural school-Educational Psychology partnership which had its inception in 2006. The partnership involves numerous services, specifically career related support to grade nine students and guidance to educators. This retrospective case study (Yin, 2009; Zainal, 2007) utilised a concurrent mixed methods research design (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2007) within a pragmatic lens to study educational pathways to resilience. This was explored by means of qualitatively investigating partnerships, as well as quantitatively examining student access and academic performance (as indicators of educational resilience). The theoretical underpinnings rested on concepts from the Resiliency Wheel (Henderson & Milstein, 1996) through a transactionalecological understanding of resilience in learning. Data collection strategies consisted of: semi-structured interviews with two teacher-participants and retrospective document analysis of school records (performance schedules) for two grade nine cohorts. The cohorts were followed from grade 9 to grade 11. Data analysis techniques consisted of T-Tests and descriptive statistics on sampled documents for the quantitative strand. Through these statistical methods, it was anticipated that patterns in access and performance, could speak to partnerships influence as one factor in students pathways to resilience, or not. Concurrently, thematic analysis of interview transcripts was done for the qualitative strand. The triangulation of these methods assisted in creating a more comprehensive picture of the relationship between partnerships and the outcome variables used to gauge educational pathways to resilience. Results which emerged qualitatively allowed for answering questions surrounding the nature, processes and benefits of partnerships in a rural school, as well as risks and protective resources within and around the school. Quantitative results regarding outcome variables of access and performance highlighted the risks found qualitatively, to indicate that despite observable enabling partnership processes and benefits, students appear to find high academic challenging (in three measured school subjects). A better understanding on the various pathways to resilience of students in resourcescarce environments could assist with appropriate services and interventions that partners may wish to exchange. / Mini-dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / tm2015 / Educational Psychology / MEd / Unrestricted

My study is informed by a partnership initiated between Gun Free South Africa and the Department of Education (District Tshwane South) with the concern of addressing violence in schools. Schools are often seen as professionalised and distant from their local communities. Learners belong to the very communities that are distanced from the school. They bring to school the unresolved issues from their families and interpersonal relations within the community. The study aimed to explore and describe the experiences of violence by a school community and how they cope with it. The study was informed by a qualitative and instrumental case study design within an interpretivist paradigm. Furthermore, the study was guided by an integrated conceptual framework derived from an asset-based and ecosystemic model, coping theories and the management system adapted from Babbie (2001). To address this I incorporated a variety of strategies such as interviews, collages, timeline and concept mapping through which a crystallisation of data could be obtained. I also used informal observations and visual data as additional data generating methods. Through a thematic analysis approach the study reveal the existence of violence as a challenge to the school community, and impacts directly or indirectly to their well-being. The study has further indicated that the perpetrators are known to the victims. The findings of the study suggest that on the basis of the integrated conceptual framework support structures could be mobilized, building partnerships between local schools and the community to provide a firm foundation for educational renewal and community regeneration and to contribute directly to the strengthening and development of the school community. The information gathered might also assist policy developers in developing support and intervention programmes for the restoration of school safety. Copyright / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Educational Psychology / MEd / unrestricted

The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if a relationship existed between the quality of school-community partnerships and the average score of each ACT subtest for rural Tennessee high school students. Specifically, the researcher examined the following school-community partnerships: business partnerships, university partnerships, service learning partnerships, school-linked service integration, and faith-based partnerships (Sanders, 2006). Administrators from 62 rural Tennessee high schools rated the partnerships present in their schools using the Improving Community Partnership Quality rating scale developed by Sanders (2006). Each of these ratings was compared to the participating school’s mean score for each ACT benchmark to determine whether these partnerships could be linked to success on the ACT. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated for each partnership type and each ACT subtest. The results revealed that a statistically significant relationship did not exist between school-community partnerships and ACT subtest scores.

This dissertation investigated the role of school food and food policy in three low-income, urban, predominantly African-American schools. Using critical policy analysis, this study examined two different school food programs, both of which complied with the National School Lunch Program nutritional guidelines. It employed ethnographic case study methods, including observations and interviews with a total of 59 participants over the course of two years. Findings indicated that feeling hungry interfered with students’ ability to pay attention during class, and students still felt hungry after eating prepackaged school breakfasts and lunches. On the other hand, students reported feeling more full, satisfied, and ready to learn after eating freshly-prepared foods. Additionally, participants described improved engagement within classrooms, as well as a more positive climate in the lunchroom with the fresh meals. While the tone was usually punitive and disciplinary during the prepackaged mealtimes, during the fresh meals served family-style, with students and faculty eating together, the tone was celebratory and communal. These findings indicate school food is an important, yet under-researched, aspect of schooling, with many fruitful avenues for future research and practice. / Urban Education