Employment is an important goal for many individuals with disabilities. Research indicates that behavioral techniques are effective in increasing task completion of individuals with disabilities in vocational training settings. Yet, limited research has examined the use of self-monitoring for increasing task completion of adults with disabilities receiving vocational training for future employment. Furthermore, few studies have focused on promoting the maintenance of improved vocational task completion among this population. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study was to extend the literature by examining the impact of self-monitoring on independent correct vocational task completion of four adults with disabilities within a vocational training setting. The results indicated that across participants the levels of their target vocational task completion performance remained low during baseline, even with repeated exposure. During the intervention there was immediate level changes for all participants, three out of four reaching 3 or more consecutive sessions with 100%. During the maintenance follow-up their performance levels still remained higher than baseline with minor decline trends compared to intervention. Implications, limitations, and recommendations for future research are discussed.

This research explores the implications of the practice of collaborative professional enquiry on professional re-formation and development. A series of case studies focuses on four aspiring Chartered Teachers as they lead collaborative enquiries in two schools. The case studies take account of the experiences of the teachers in the collaborative groups, as well as the managers in both schools. Using a Foucauldian theoretical framework, relations of power between all participants are explored. This reveals that active positioning is in operation. The Chartered Teachers are positioned in an ‘in-between’ space: neither teacher nor manager, and this appears to have allowed them to construct and negotiate new possibilities, contributing to their developing professional identities. While this challenged the established hierarchies in schools, the teachers reported that undertaking collaborative professional enquiry under the leadership of the Chartered Teachers, benefitted themselves and their pupils, appearing to offer opportunities to demonstrate an active professionalism which was in contrast to the expectations of their managers. The findings raise several issues for consideration by the profession. These include a recommendation that collaborative professional enquiry is encouraged as a core pedagogical resource. The research also highlights the need for policy makers to take account of the way power is exercised in and on schools when developing new policies and evaluating the success of current ones. It is argued that genuine and open dialogue is necessary and it is recommended that the national CPD framework should reconsider the current practice of supporting distinctive pathways within the profession.

La disparité est forte entre les secteurs d’activité des ingénieurs autant qu’entre leurs formations, ces dernières étant caractérisées par un ancrage sociohistorique ayant minoré dans les curricula certains savoirs développés par les SHS. Or, les enjeux de l’intégration des SHS dans la formation des ingénieurs sont avérés. C’est pourquoi, la recherche présentée vise à identifier les disciplines de SHS introduites dans ces formations et les buts qu’elles poursuivent. Il s’agit de comprendre en quoi et comment les SHS participent d’une réflexivité sur les enjeux démocratiques des conditions d’exercice des fonctions d’ingénierie ou au contraire de la légitimation d’une pensée technocratique. Dans une première étape, l’enquête a porté sur la manière dont les sites internet des Écoles présentent les enseignements de SHS, les départements les regroupant et les recherches associées, ainsi que sur les textes de présentation des formations. Les résultats permettent de rendre compte d’une interdépendance entre ces affichages de SHS et des orientations culturelles technoscientifiques des Écoles, déterminées en partie par leur tutelle, date de création, domaine de spécialité et niveau de recrutement. Cette analyse permet également de montrer en quoi ces orientations sont en lien avec le processus ’institutionnalisation des SHS en France. En synthèse, une catégorisation des Écoles est proposée ; elle met en valeur le fait que si la référence à l’entreprise est permanente, les SHS quant à elles ne sont mobilisées que dans deux catégories sur six et ne sont articulées aux sciences et techniques de spécialité des ingénieurs (STSI) que dans une seule catégorie. Des études de cas contrastées illustrent et approfondissent ces premiers résultats à partir de données empiriques. Si la coexistence des SHS et des STSI semble difficile, elle est néanmoins possible en des termes qui répondent aux enjeux contemporains des métiers de l’ingénierie, comme le montre l’analyse d’une École dont les pionniers, portés par une ambition philosophique et politique, par des valeurs personnelles et des convictions partagées ont été soutenus par les politiques nationales de recherche en SHS. / The disparity between activity sectors for engineers is as great as that between their vocational training programs. But the latter are characterized by their sociohistorical basis that typically minimizes some consideration of khowledge acquired by HSS from their curriculum. Whereas the importance of the integration HSS in engineering education has been confirmed. That is why this present research aims at identifying the disciplines of HSS introduced into these trainings and the purposes which they pursue. It is a question of understanding in what and how the HSS participate in a reflexivity on the democratic stakes in the conditions of exercise of engineering practice or unlike the legitimization of a technocratic direction. The investigation first examined the display on the websites of the schools of HSS disciplines, their departments listed that include this subject in their teaching and research programs, and the texts describing their content. This investigation reveal an interdependence between these displays of HSS and cultural technoscientifics orientations of the engineering schools, partially determined by their supervision, date of creation, domain of speciality and level of recruitment. It shows howtheses orientations are linked with the institutionalization of the HSS in France. A categorization of schools was also elaborated, on the basis of the place and of the function which is occupied by the SHS in their curriculum. The dominant reference to the company in the program contrasts with HSS which are explicitly mobilized only in two categories of six, and are connected to the sciences and the techniques of engineering speciality only in one category. Studies of contrasted cases illustrate and go deeper into these first results. How difficult seams this coexistence, it is possible as shown by the analysis of a school among which the pioneering fouders boosted by their philosophic and political ambition, their personal values and shared convictions were also supprted by the national policies of research in HSS.

The purpose of the study is to analyze the results of a survey of the graduates of Technical High School in Dallas since 1938 to determine the effectiveness of the training given by the school in helping the graduate choose an occupation and giving him skills and attitudes that will help him get a job and make a good worker.

The purpose of this study is to make an investigation relating to certain factors and influences that have some bearing upon decisions made by graduating seniors in high schools to attend college or vocational school before entering a vocation or professional career.

The problem of this study is to make a comparative analysis of the success, based on wages and increases in wages, of 209 students. There were 103 students who had completed Type "B" vocational training and 106 high school graduates who had not completed or taken Type "B" vocational training in the Houston Public Schools.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-07-31T13:18:07Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) A IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DOS CURSOS TÉCNICOS DO PRONATEC NO CAMPUS VITÓRIA DE SANTO ANTÃO DO IFPE ok.pdf: 2644607 bytes, checksum: 78c5c35727b5b68f3569994fb3238602 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-31T13:18:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) A IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DOS CURSOS TÉCNICOS DO PRONATEC NO CAMPUS VITÓRIA DE SANTO ANTÃO DO IFPE ok.pdf: 2644607 bytes, checksum: 78c5c35727b5b68f3569994fb3238602 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-31 / FACEPE / Esta pesquisa, caracterizada como estudo de caso, tem como objetivo principal analisar a implementação dos cursos técnicos (Técnico em Segurança de Trabalho e Técnico em Alimentos) da Bolsa-Formação do Pronatec no Campus Vitória de Santo Antão do IFPE. O Campus do IFPE que serviu como local de nossa pesquisa localiza-se na Zona da Mata de Pernambuco, uma região caracterizada por forte dependência da economia agrícola, notadamente o cultivo da cana-de-açúcar, por empreendimentos agroindustriais e da indústria de alimentos, e que apresenta indicadores sociais preocupantes. Nossa investigação teve como referencial teórico o materialismo dialético e utilizamos como instrumentos de pesquisa a análise documental, entrevistas estruturadas e entrevistas semiestruturadas. As entrevistas foram realizadas com docentes, egressos e gestores dos cursos pesquisados, servindo as estruturadas para uma caracterização do público pesquisado e as semiestruturadas para uma efetiva investigação sobre a implantação dos cursos. Verificamos que as iniciativas do Estado brasileiro referentes à qualificação profissional nos últimos vinte anos guardam importantes semelhanças com o Pronatec e se revelam como diferentes programas que favorecem o capital, inspirados pela Teoria do Capital Humano e consequentemente dissociados de uma efetiva preocupação com a elevação da escolarização dos trabalhadores e contrárias a uma formação integral dos mesmos. Identificamos na implementação dos cursos técnicos do Pronatec investigados problemáticas que se repetem também em outras iniciativas de formação profissional realizadas pelo Estado brasileiro como: problemas na seleção de cursistas, evasão escolar, precarização presente nos cursos, dificuldade para a realização de estágios obrigatórios e dicotomia entre a realidade e as expectativas dos egressos. Ao lado desta série de problemas, identificamos docentes satisfeitos com seu trabalho, egressos esperançosos com seu futuro profissional e uma expressiva parcela de jovens técnicos que ingressaram em cursos de nível superior. / This research, characterized as a case study, has its major goal to analyze the implementation of technical courses (occupational safety and health technical course and food technical course) of the scholarship called Bolsa-formação of the Pronatec at Campus Vitoria de Santo Antão, IFPE. The Campus of IFPE, which served as the site of our research, is located in the forest zone of Pernambuco, an area characterized by a strong dependence of the agricultural economy, especially the cultivation of sugarcane, agro-industrial enterprises and the food industry that presents alarming social indicators. Our investigation had the dialectical materialism as the theoretical framework and we used document analysis, structured and semistructured interviews as research tools. The interviews were conducted with teachers, graduated students and managers of the courses under study, serving the structured interviews for a characterization of the participants and the semi-structured one, for the effective study on the implementation of the courses. We found that the initiatives of the Brazilian State relating to professional qualifications in the last twenty years keep important similarities with Pronatec, revealing how different programs that favor capital, inspired by the Theory of Human Capital, are thus dissociated from an effective concern with the increasing of workers‟ schooling and contrary to their integral formation. In the implementation of the Pronatec technical courses, we identified problems that are also repeated in other vocational training initiatives undertaken by the Brazilian government as: student selection problems, school dropout, precariousness in the courses, difficulty performing compulsory internship, and dichotomy between the reality and expectations of graduated students. Alongside this series of problems, we identified teachers satisfied with their work, hopeful graduated students with their professional future and a significant portion of young technicians who started undergraduate courses.

Orientador: Maria do Carmo Martins / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T21:53:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_Carlade_M.pdf: 4802493 bytes, checksum: 84135fd62facc3254f6c0cd11fee7db9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A Educação Infantil vem consolidando-se como campo de pesquisa tanto no que se refere às práticas pedagógicas, quanto no processo de formação profissional para atuação nesta área, que, a partir de 1996, com a promulgação da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases (9.394/96), passa a constituir a primeira etapa da Educação básica nacional. Sobre este segundo tópico (formação profissional) foi que a presente dissertação de mestrado pretendeu abordar e contribuir para o campo de pesquisa a partir da discussão da temática. O texto em questão fundamentou-se no trabalho com as histórias de vida, e valeu-se do conceito de memória como categoria de análise, relacionando assim, história e memória na construção de uma "pequena" história da Educação Infantil. Tomou para isso, como pano de fundo, uma creche fundada em 1990, dentro da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, cujas protagonistas do trabalho foram mulheres que ingressaram na instituição desde o início de seu funcionamento, e que continuam no mesmo local, exercendo hoje, a profissão regulamentada de professoras, com formação em nível superior, realidade muito diferente da que conheceram há 24 anos, quando eram ainda denominadas "recreacionistas". A pesquisa, além de possibilitar um resgate histórico sobre a criação da instituição creche no país, apontou em grande medida, para a problematização no que tange à formação profissional. Afinal de contas, o curso de Pedagogia, hoje indicado como curso superior para atuar nesta etapa de ensino, prepara para atuação com crianças de 0 a 3 anos? Longe de buscar uma resposta única para a questão, as memórias aqui narradas apontaram para a formação em contexto como possibilidade de repensar antigas práticas e reinventar a atuação do profissional que lida com uma faixa etária repleta de especificidades / Abstract: Early Childhood Education has been consolidated as a field of research both in regard to teaching practices, and in the process of vocational training for work in this area, which, from 1996, with the promulgation of the Lei de Diretrizes e Bases (9394 / 96), becomes the first stage of the national Basic Education. On this second topic (vocational training) was that this dissertation master's degree intended to contribute to the search field from the discussion of the theme. The text in question was based on the work with the stories of life, and he took advantage of the concept of memory as a category of analysis, thus linking history and memory in the construction of a "small" history of early childhood education. For this, as a backdrop, a creche founded in 1990, inside the Universidade Estadual of Campinas, whose protagonists were working women who entered the institution since the beginning of its operation, and keep on in the same place, acting today, regulated profession of teachers, graduated in higher education, very different from that experience they had 24 years ago, when they were still called "recreationists". The research, in addition to enabling a historical review of daycare institution in the country, noted largely for questioning in relation to vocational training. After all, the pedagogy course, nowadays considered higher education to work in this stage of education, prepares for action with children 0-3 years? Far from seeking a single answer to the question, memories recounted here pointed to the vocational training in context to rethink old practices and reinvent the acting of the professional who handles with a so specific age group / Mestrado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Mestra em Educação

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:08:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_ rafael_nobrega.pdf: 954555 bytes, checksum: db6d7b7e32b00198c9fd3ae8e1c20521 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-01-01 / This Work intends to interrogate how Psychology achievements contemplate places for the student to perceive his own appropriation in his métier knowledge as well as his legitimacy. Departing from some considerations about the history of Psychology and its academic path, we approach themes as significative learning and tacit knowledge. Through the existential phenomenological perspective, we develop a research with Psychology undergraduate students, coming from two of the most important Universities of Pernambuco State in Brazil. Such investigation permitted, through a narrative mode, to comprehend the students experiences concerned to their modes of incorporating, appropriating and legitimating the métier knowledge of such profession. Finally, those comprehensions directed some reflexions about how Psychology achievements occur and what are the places for such legitimacy, besides to offer new proposes that may contribute for professional developments, either within or out the academic endeavors / Este Trabalho se propôs problematizar como a formação em Psicologia contempla espaços para o aluno de Psicologia perceber sua apropriação do saber de ofício, bem como sua legitimação. Partindo de considerações sobre a História da Psicologia e da formação de Psicólogos, chegamos a abordar temas como Aprendizagem Significativa e Conhecimento Tácito. Através da perspectiva Fenomenológica Existencial, desenvolvemos uma pesquisa com alunos de Graduação em Psicologia, oriundos de duas das mais bem conceituadas Instituições de Ensino Superior do Estado de Pernambuco. Tal pesquisa proporcionou, através de suas narrativas, compreender suas experiências acerca de seus modos de incorporação, apropriação e legitimação do saber de ofício desta profissão. Por fim, estas compreensões nortearam reflexões sobre a formação em Psicologia e seus espaços de legitimação, além de sugerir novas propostas que possam contribuir para a formação profissional, dentro e fora do circuito acadêmico

A formação profissional muitas vezes inicia-se na universidade, fonte de competências para inserir-se no mercado de trabalho, no qual não somente os aspectos técnicos, mas também embasamentos humanitários e sociais são fundamentais para a formação do profissional do futuro. No entanto, alguns ambientes, ainda não tão explorados pela ciência e pesquisas no Brasil, limitam o papel das Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) a uma formação tecnicista. Isso acontece com a área de Marketing que, devido à falta de conhecimento e disseminação adequada de seus conceitos, traz obstáculos à formação do estudante universitário. Para agravar a situação, a área não é regulamentada como profissão, sofrendo interpretações e inferências de outras áreas do saber, tais como Administração de Empresas e Comunicação Social. Por isso, o objetivo desse trabalho foi de compreender os processos formativos dos cursos superiores de Marketing em face das demandas profissionais requeridas pelo mercado, e, após essa análise, sugerir perfis de competências (conhecimentos, habilidade e atitudes) que auxiliem na formação profissional. Essa pesquisa teve abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa e, inicialmente, buscou-se a análise bibliográfica para fundamentar as reflexões necessárias sobre o tema. Posteriormente, a pesquisa passou para análise documental em Instituições de Ensino Superior que oferecem o curso de Marketing. Por fim, um estudo de campo foi realizado por meio de entrevistas, o qual levantou informações com profissionais da área para que se pudesse ter uma visão das necessidades do mercado. Como resultado desse estudo, obteve-se uma perspectiva clara das lacunas na formação do egresso, e o conjunto de competências profissionais requeridas pelo mercado. Esse resultado possibilita ainda a aplicabilidade em novos projetos pedagógicos. / Vocational training often begins at university and is the source of the competence needed in order to get prepared for the work place, in which not only the technical aspects, but also the humanitarian and social basis are crucial to the formation of the future professional. Some environments, however, have not been explored by science and research in Brazil yet, limiting the role of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) to a technical one. This happens in the Marketing area due to a lack of knowledge and the incorrect dissemination of its concepts, and so brings obstacles to the university student formation. The fact that this area is not regulated and so suffers from misinterpretation and interferences of other areas, such as Business and Social Communication, just makes the situation worse. Because of that, the objective of this work was to understand the formative process of university marketing courses, facing the professional demands required from the market, and, after this analysis, suggest competence roles, skills and attitudes to help the profession formation. This research project had a qualitative and quantitative approach, and first, it went through bibliographical analysis in order to justify the reflections necessary on the subject. Secondly, the research went through document analysis in higher education institutions that offer Marketing courses. Finally, a field study, through interviews which obtained information from professionals in the area, was carried out, so that we could have a vision of the market necessities. As a result of this study, a clear perspective of gaps in the students professional formation and the competences required by the market were obtained. It is also possible to use the results from this work in other pedagogical projects.