This study investigated the conflict resolution abilities employed by 3-4 year old children within an Israeli kindergarten that was inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach in Italy. Conflict resolution is a significant phenomenon worldwide and the subject of considerable research, due to potential negative outcomes from involvement in conflict, and escalation of the conflict to a stage of violence. Nevertheless, a gap in knowledge was identified, regarding the Reggio Emilia educational approach, as an intervention to support the development of children‘s social-emotional competence to enable them to resolve interpersonal conflicts using pro-social strategies. An in-depth case study was conducted using grounded theory principles to develop a model to answer the question: To what extent might a Reggio Emilia inspired approach support resolution of interpersonal conflicts between 3-4 year old children in an Israeli kindergarten class? The rich qualitative data were gathered through video filmed observations, teacher's semi-structured interviews, children's interviews, documents, and field notes. A four-phase content analysis of the data enabled conceptualisation of the characteristics of the educational setting and the children's conflict resolution strategies. The findings allowed the emergence of a model evidencing that both direct and indirect intervention strategies were used to support the conflict resolution among the children. Teachers responded in a range of ways to children's request for direct intervention, and most especially used a clarification-mediation conversation. Indirectly, they promoted democratic pedagogy with children through participation, listening and dialogue. The findings reveal the children's development in their conflict resolution, which indicate a significant advancement in their pro-social negotiation abilities. Additionally, the findings show a significant increase in the children's spontaneous intervention as peer observers of the conflict and a decrease in their request of teacher intervention. The research suggests that over time, no extra-curricular intervention is needed within a supportive and democratic educational approach, such as the Reggio Emilia inspired approach provides. It illuminates strategies to support teachers, teacher trainers and policy makers for enabling children resolving conflicts independently using pro-social strategies. The research contributes to knowledge regarding selecting an intervention for improving kindergarten children's conflict resolution strategies.

Orientador: Renê José Trentin Silveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T22:48:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nogueira_CarmenAlineAlvares_M.pdf: 1360996 bytes, checksum: cce2cad7d14ebb009baebd580a1bdc55 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre a legislação que regulamentou o ensino médio no Brasil durante o governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002), a partir da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Brasileira (LDB), do Plano Nacional de Educação (PNE) e de outros documentos oficiais publicados durante esse período, tendo como referencial a teoria da escola como aparelho ideológico de Estado (AIE), de Louis Althusser. A pesquisa buscou identificar e analisar as principais transformações na legislação que regulamentou os ensinos médio e técnico de 1995 a 2002, bem como o contexto em que foram produzidas. Também foi realizado um estudo da referida teoria, a partir das obras do próprio autor e de alguns de seus comentadores, confrontando-a com a legislação que regulamentou o ensino médio e o ensino técnico durante o governo FHC, a fim de investigar se e em que medida a legislação educacional desse período pode ser considerada um instrumento de manutenção da escola como AIE, ressaltando os limites e possibilidades dessa instituição na perspectiva da luta de classes / Abstract: This paper presents a study on the legislation that regulates high school in Brazil during the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002), from the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Brazilian Education ("LDB"), the National Education Plan ("PNE") and other official documents published during that period, taking as reference the theory of school as an ideological state apparatus ( ISA), by Louis Althusser . The research had the goal to identify and analyze the main changes in the law which lead the secondary and technical teachings from 1995 to 2002, as well as the context in which they were produced. A study of this theory was also performed, from the works of the author himself and some of his commentators, comparing it with legislation that regulates high school and technical education during the FHC government, in order to investigate whether and how the educational legislation of this period can be considered as a mean of maintaining the school as IEA, highlighting the limits and possibilities of this institution from the perspective of class struggleAbstract: / Mestrado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Mestra em Educação