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Da escola negada ao trabalho necessário: um olhar sobre a educação de jovens e adultos no bairro de bodocongó em Campina Grande-PBAlmeida, Juliana Nobrega de 28 October 2010 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2010-10-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper presents a theoretical challenge to understand how to establish the current relationship between school and work in the neighborhood of Bodocongó in Campina Grande-PB, through the daily life of students workers to from the State School Professor EJA Itan Pereira. This research develops a neighborhood that was considered for decades as an industrial district, bound by old factories and tanneries which appeared in this space mainly in the 1940s to exist until the 1990s. We seek to know the historical formation of Bodocongó because this neighborhood is presented as space: home, school, work for many students the workers of the EJA searched the school. We resume some of the main characteristics of the type of education that meets students those workers who return to the school: the EJA. We believe that students the workers of the EJA are mostly sons of former factory workers and are inserted in the world of informal work, causing the sale of its workforce to ensure their reproduction and their families. Thus the struggles for education is denied to be the main action that motivates students the workers of the EJA to return to school, searching through the school, not only have access to knowledge, but also the city. Today the students the workers of the EJA in Bodocongó relate differently with the world of work by comparing the current working class in which their parents and grandparents were a part, because the productive restructuring of the industrial sector caused an impact on inclusion of formal work for the current generation of young and adult workers with the bankruptcy of its factories and tanneries. For that education should serve as foundation to provide students the workers conditions to overcome the barriers of social exclusion, informality, underemployment and unemployment, because that way we can understand social work as a whole, considering the dialectical process that unifies the environmental and socio-spatial dimensions. / Este trabalho traz o desafio teórico de compreender como se estabelece a atual relação entre a escola e o trabalho no bairro de Bodocongó em Campina Grande-PB, por meio do cotidiano dos alunos/as trabalhadores/as da EJA da Escola Estadual Professor Itan Pereira. A pesquisa se desenvolve num bairro que foi considerado por várias décadas como um bairro fabril, consolidado pelas antigas fábricas e curtumes que surgiram neste espaço, principalmente na década de 1940, existindo até a década de 1990. Buscamos conhecer a formação histórica de Bodocongó, pois este bairro se apresenta como espaço de morada, estudo, trabalho para muitos alunos/as trabalhadores/as da EJA da escola pesquisada. Retomamos também algumas das principais características da modalidade de ensino que atende aos alunos/as trabalhadores/as que retornam à escola: a EJA. Consideramos que os/as alunos/as trabalhadores/as da EJA são na maioria filhos de antigos trabalhadores/as fabris e estão inseridos no mundo do trabalho informal, ocasionando a venda da sua força de trabalho para garantir sua sobrevivência e de suas famílias. Dessa forma, a luta pela educação negada passa a ser a principal ação que motiva os/as alunos/as trabalhadores/as da EJA a retornarem a escola, buscando por meio da escola, ter acesso não só ao conhecimento, mas também à cidade. Hoje os/as alunos/as trabalhadores/as da EJA, em Bodocongó, se relacionam de forma diferente com o mundo do trabalho se comparamos com a classe trabalhadora na qual seus pais e avós estavam inseridos, pois a reestruturação produtiva do setor industrial provocou um impacto na inserção do trabalho formal para a atual geração de jovens e adultos/as trabalhadores/as, com a falência de suas fábricas e curtumes. A educação deve servir de subsídio para propiciar aos/às alunos/as trabalhadores/as condições para vencer as barreiras da exclusão social, da informalidade, do subemprego e do desemprego, pois dessa forma poderemos compreender o trabalho na sua totalidade social, ou seja, considerando o processo dialético que unifica as dimensões ambientais e socioespaciais.
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Um modo de ler e escrever na EJA : oficinas biografemáticasBandeira, Larisa da Veiga Vieira January 2014 (has links)
Um modo de ler e escrever na Educação de Jovens e Adultos – Oficinas Biografemáticas transita conceitualmente na e com a Filosofia da Diferença e foi articulada ao Projeto Escrileituras: um modo de ler-escrever em meio à vida, do Observatório da Educação (OBEDUC- Edital 038 – 2010 – Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP). Propõe a utilização do método biografemático como metodologia de trabalho e enfatiza a modalidade de oficinas como estratégia de experimentações textuais. Toma a Biografemática como uma postura de escritura e de leitura, de seleção e de valorização dos signos da vida; a qual, ao invés de percorrer as grandes linhas da historiografia, submete o leitor aos detalhes e aos devires. Reivindicando uma postura multivalente do leitor estabelecida na coautoria entre quem lê e quem escreve simultaneamente, as Oficinas operaram com a noção de Biografema, proposta por Roland Barthes para pensar a escritura de vida aberta à criação de novas possibilidades de dizer e, principalmente, de viver uma vida. Localiza a tradução como desdobramento tomando-a como um dispositivo que aciona e requer diálogos, aproximações e modificação dos textos em processo singular. Utilizou os textos de AnaïsNin, Marina Tsvetáieva, Lou Andreas-Salomé, como propostas de leitura e de escritura para a produção de novos sentidos. Para realizar essas experimentações investiu-se em processos que problematizavam, indagavam e transformavam os escritos em diversas formas, colocando a experimentação como condição própria da aprendizagem. Vislumbra em sua prática resultados a partir de diferentes relações entre os elementos literários, os alunos de EJA e a aposta feita em uma didática oficineira, na tradução da vida em textos com os quais experimentou variações, transgressões e aberturas para outras possibilidades de leitura e escrita. / A way to read and write in adult and youth education – Workshops Biografemáticas!transits in and conceptually philosophy of Difference and was articulated to the Project Escrileituras: a read-write in the midst of life, of the Centre for Education (OBEDUC-038 Notice – 2010-Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP). Proposes the use of the biografemático method as a working methodology and emphasizes the modality of workshops as textual trials strategy. Take the Biografemática as a posture of writing and reading, and check of recovery of signs of life; which, instead of traversing the broad outlines of historiography, submits the reader to the details and the affects. Claiming a reader multivalent established in co-authoring between those who read and who writes the Workshops operate with the notion of Biografema, proposed by Roland Barthes to think the deed of life open to the creation of new possibilities to say and, above all, to live a life. Locates translation as unfolding taking it as a device that fires and requires dialogue, approaches and modification of texts in natural process. Used the texts of AnaïsNin, Marina Tsvetáieva, Lou Andreas-Salomé, as reading and writing proposals for the production of new directions. To perform these trials has been invested in processes that problematizavam, indagavam and transformed the writings in various forms, putting the trial as a condition of learning itself. Glimpsed in their practice results from different relationships between the literary elements, students of EJA and the bet is made on a oficineira didactic, in the translation of life in texts with which experienced variations, transgressions and openings for other possibilities of reading and writing.!
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Formação inicial de professores de Ciências (Química e Física) para a Educação de Jovens e Adultos e o silenciamento dos cursos formadoresMontenegro, Dhiego Souto 24 April 2016 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2016-04-24 / The objective of this research was to verify how the reality of the EJA is expressed within the initial training courses in chemistry and Bachelor's degree in physics at the State University of Paraíba. Various research has shown the silencing of the IES with respect to that reality, and the relevance to this study. To check this objective it was necessary, in the first moment, observe the official documents (opinions and resolutions) and technical (Pedagogic Political Projects) governing the course of degree in chemistry and physics, in order to try to observe what the Chemical e Physical Educator profile expected to "form" of such a course. In the background, once understood the intentions of the documents that guide the course, so us of semi-structured interview as the main instrument of data collection and content analysis of interviews, in order to verify on the spot what the trainers have to say about training geared to this reality of adult and youth education. The documents reviewed and the lines of the teachers were analyzed through the technique of content Analysis (BARDIN, 1977). Before that, it was verified the lack of orientation toward the EJA in official documents (Opinios and Guidelines) which, in turn, the technical documents (PPP) making this dialogue still far. About the lines of teachers was noticeable that for most respondents there is a specific initial training to the EJA mode in these courses and such factor has offered obstacle to teachers about tackling the everyday challenges of their teaching practice. / Este estudo tem como objetivo principal verificar como as discussões da realidade da EJA se expressam dentro dos cursos de formação inicial de Licenciatura em Química e Licenciatura em Física da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba. Várias pesquisas tem demonstrado o silenciamento das IES em relação a essa realidade, constituindo assim a relevância para esse estudo. Para verificar tal objetivo foi necessário, no primeiro momento, observar os documentos oficiais (Pareceres e Resoluções) e técnicos (Projetos Político Pedagógico) que regem o curso de Licenciatura em Química e Física, a fim de tentar observar qual o perfil do educador químico e físico que se espera “formar” de tal curso. Num segundo momento, depois de compreendidas as intencionalidades dos documentos que orientam o curso, utilizamo-nos de entrevista semi-estruturada como instrumento principal de coleta de dados e da análise de conteúdo das entrevistas, a fim de verificar in loco o que os professores formadores têm a dizer sobre a formação voltada para essa realidade da educação de jovens e adultos. Os documentos analisados e as falas dos professores foram analisadas através da técnica de Análise de Conteúdo (BARDIN, 1977). Diante disso, foi verificada a falta de orientação voltada para a EJA nos documentos oficiais (Pareces e Diretrizes) que orientam, por sua vez, os documentos técnicos (PPP) tornando esse diálogo ainda distante. Em relação as falas dos professores formadores ficou perceptível que para maioria dos entrevistados não há discussão que seja voltada para uma formação inicial específica para a modalidade EJA nos referidos cursos e tal fator tem oferecido obstáculo ao professor formador e aos professores em formação quanto ao enfrentamento dos desafios cotidianos de sua prática docente.
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EDUCAÃÃO DE JOVENS E ADULTOS E EDUCAÃÃO POPULAR: pressupostos identificados na prÃtica de educadores em sala de aula em Fortaleza. / Adults and Youth Education and Popular Education: assumptions of the practice from educators in a municipal school in FortalezaClaudete da Silva Morais Frencken 18 November 2013 (has links)
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Neste trabalho buscamos identificar e analisar pressupostos da educaÃÃo popular, presentes na prÃtica de educadores de jovens e adultos, em uma escola municipal de Fortaleza, identificando a proximidade dessas prÃticas Ãs demandas dos educandos. Propomos: a) identificar e analisar o modo como os princÃpios, que fundamentam a educaÃÃo popular, estÃo inseridos na prÃtica de educadores da EJA em sala de aula; b) os motivos que levam educadores de EJA a adotar em sua prÃtica esses princÃpios; e c) as implicaÃÃes decorrentes da inserÃÃo desses pressupostos na prÃtica de educadores, junto a educandos dessa modalidade. à uma pesquisa do tipo qualitativo-explicativo, descritivo, que se caracteriza como um estudo de caso, junto a um educador e 11 educandos da EJA. O trabalho, ora apresentado, foi precedido por uma pesquisa exploratÃria, aqui apresentada. A pesquisa à realizada em trÃs etapas: bibliogrÃfica, documental e de campo. Na pesquisa de campo utilizamos trÃs estratÃgias: observaÃÃo participante, questionÃrio de caracterizaÃÃo dos sujeitos, e entrevista semiestruturada. Relacionamos como categorias de anÃlise: palavra, diÃlogo, contextualizaÃÃo, conscientizaÃÃo e politizaÃÃo. Os pressupostos da educaÃÃo popular, trabalhados neste estudo, apoiam-se na concepÃÃo de EducaÃÃo Libertadora de Paulo Freire (1969, 1977, 1980, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2007a, 2009, 2011, 2011a), e ainda em obras em que Freire dialoga com outros autores: Faundez (1985); Nogueira (2002); e Shor (2011). Trabalhamos tambÃm com Paiva (2000, 1987, 2003); Beisiegel (2004); Paludo (2001); FÃvero (2006); BrandÃo (2002, 2005); GÃes (1991, 2002); Torres, OâCadiz e Wong (2002) e Rosas (1986, 2002, 2004), Haddad e de Pierro (1994, 2000). Utilizamos o mÃtodo de anÃlise de conteÃdo, que nos possibilitou constatar, no recorte das falas do educador e dos educandos, a presenÃa das categorias: palavra, diÃlogo e contextualizaÃÃo nas prÃticas realizadas em sala de aula, distando as demais categorias analisadas. A presenÃa das categorias citadas evidenciou, na leitura das informaÃÃes obtidas durante a pesquisa exploratÃria, na caracterizaÃÃo dos sujeitos, na observaÃÃo de sala e nas entrevistas semiestruturadas, uma identificaÃÃo dos educandos com as prÃticas nas quais era observado o emprego destas categorias.
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Um modo de ler e escrever na EJA : oficinas biografemáticasBandeira, Larisa da Veiga Vieira January 2014 (has links)
Um modo de ler e escrever na Educação de Jovens e Adultos – Oficinas Biografemáticas transita conceitualmente na e com a Filosofia da Diferença e foi articulada ao Projeto Escrileituras: um modo de ler-escrever em meio à vida, do Observatório da Educação (OBEDUC- Edital 038 – 2010 – Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP). Propõe a utilização do método biografemático como metodologia de trabalho e enfatiza a modalidade de oficinas como estratégia de experimentações textuais. Toma a Biografemática como uma postura de escritura e de leitura, de seleção e de valorização dos signos da vida; a qual, ao invés de percorrer as grandes linhas da historiografia, submete o leitor aos detalhes e aos devires. Reivindicando uma postura multivalente do leitor estabelecida na coautoria entre quem lê e quem escreve simultaneamente, as Oficinas operaram com a noção de Biografema, proposta por Roland Barthes para pensar a escritura de vida aberta à criação de novas possibilidades de dizer e, principalmente, de viver uma vida. Localiza a tradução como desdobramento tomando-a como um dispositivo que aciona e requer diálogos, aproximações e modificação dos textos em processo singular. Utilizou os textos de AnaïsNin, Marina Tsvetáieva, Lou Andreas-Salomé, como propostas de leitura e de escritura para a produção de novos sentidos. Para realizar essas experimentações investiu-se em processos que problematizavam, indagavam e transformavam os escritos em diversas formas, colocando a experimentação como condição própria da aprendizagem. Vislumbra em sua prática resultados a partir de diferentes relações entre os elementos literários, os alunos de EJA e a aposta feita em uma didática oficineira, na tradução da vida em textos com os quais experimentou variações, transgressões e aberturas para outras possibilidades de leitura e escrita. / A way to read and write in adult and youth education – Workshops Biografemáticas!transits in and conceptually philosophy of Difference and was articulated to the Project Escrileituras: a read-write in the midst of life, of the Centre for Education (OBEDUC-038 Notice – 2010-Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP). Proposes the use of the biografemático method as a working methodology and emphasizes the modality of workshops as textual trials strategy. Take the Biografemática as a posture of writing and reading, and check of recovery of signs of life; which, instead of traversing the broad outlines of historiography, submits the reader to the details and the affects. Claiming a reader multivalent established in co-authoring between those who read and who writes the Workshops operate with the notion of Biografema, proposed by Roland Barthes to think the deed of life open to the creation of new possibilities to say and, above all, to live a life. Locates translation as unfolding taking it as a device that fires and requires dialogue, approaches and modification of texts in natural process. Used the texts of AnaïsNin, Marina Tsvetáieva, Lou Andreas-Salomé, as reading and writing proposals for the production of new directions. To perform these trials has been invested in processes that problematizavam, indagavam and transformed the writings in various forms, putting the trial as a condition of learning itself. Glimpsed in their practice results from different relationships between the literary elements, students of EJA and the bet is made on a oficineira didactic, in the translation of life in texts with which experienced variations, transgressions and openings for other possibilities of reading and writing.!
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Teaching Simple Auditory Discriminations to Students with AutismMarino, Kristine L. 12 1900 (has links)
This study aimed to test the effectiveness of classroom translations of some laboratory procedures for teaching simple auditory discriminations to learners with developmental disabilities. Three participants with autism and mental retardation were trained to make topographically distinct responses in the presence of two different stimuli, either a pure tone and silence, or two tones. A portable electronic piano keyboard was used to produce tones. Delayed prompt and differential reinforcement procedures were used to teach the responses. None of the participants performed the discriminations accurately without prompting despite numerous revisions to the procedures.
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Reconceptualizing What it Looks Like to Enact Project-Based Science in Urban and Multicultural Settings: A Case StudyDash II, Tyrone DeLong January 2021 (has links)
Traditional views on science education focus solely on content learning in the classroom, however more contemporary perspectives harness science content to help students become active citizens and lifelong learners outside of the classroom (Daher & Saifi, 2018; Vedder-Weiss & Fortus, 2011; Yacoubian, 2018). Project-based science is a reform pedagogy that emphasizes real-world utilization of science to solve problems that are personally relevant to students’ everyday lives (Kanter & Konstantopoulos, 2010). Unfortunately, there is no uniform theory or approach to project-based science. The diversity that exists in the interpretation and implementation of the project-based learning theory and model has resulted in a variety of research and developmental issues across disciplines, often resulting in confusion about what counts as being project-based and what does not (Kokotsaki et al., 2016; McNeill & Krajcik, 2007; Yu et al., 2018). While the goal of project-based science is to positively impact all students’ motivation for and achievement in science learning, there has been little research on its use as an instructional strategy with diverse students in urban schools (Kanter et al., 2001; Krajcik et al., 2006; Panasan & Nuangchalerm, 2010; Scheneider et al., 2002; Shwartz et al., 2008). Even as newer studies are published (Fitzgerald, 2020; Nainggolan et al., 2020; Wang, 2020), the field is stagnant, and research is still needed that looks into the ways in which culture influences the way American secondary students learn science (Brown, 2020).
One of the characteristics of project-based science that makes it appealing, is its ability to drawing on the lived experiences of students, but most of the work done to date has not included or reflected the lived experiences of urban students of color. The goal of this mixed methods instrumental case study was to provide a glimpse into what it would look like to use a reconceptualized approach to project-based science that was more inclusive of urban students’ identities and lived experiences, while also being intentional about the nature of science and science epistemology. This involved the creation and use of a project-based science unit that included both implicit and explicit design features of the nature of science and science epistemology, along with pedagogical practices that were aligned with the theoretical underpinnings of project-based science (active learning, sociocultural theory, constructionist theory, constructivist theory, and situated cognition); along with the frameworks of Black feminist thought and reality pedagogy, which have not yet been considered in project-based science settings.
Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected and analyzed for trends and emergent themes. Quantitative data were collected from a diverse sample of fifty urban 9th grade New York City Living Environment students ranging in age from 13 to 15 years old. Ninety eight percent of participants had ethnic backgrounds other than White. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) repeated measures statistical tests and mixed between-within ANOVA statistical tests were used to examine quantitative data. The findings revealed that 96% of participants developed understandings of the local, state, and national level science standards and learning outcomes, aligned to the unit used in this study; and made significant gains on pre, midterm, and post multiple-choice and free response exams. While both genders made significant improvements, the male participants in this study outperformed the female participants. Qualitative data were collected from a total of 13 students, ranging in age from 13 to 15 years old, who participated in two gender-specific cogenerative dialogues. One hundred percent of cogenerative dialogue participants had ethnic backgrounds other than White. Thick descriptions and analysis were used to make sense of students’ experience with the project-based science unit. All cogenerative dialogue participants seemed to developed understandings of the nature of science and science epistemology. Implications for practice and future research are considered.
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Education in a Hip-Hop Nation: Our Identity, Politics & PedagogyHall, Marcella Runell 13 May 2011 (has links)
Contemporary Hip-Hop scholarship has revealed that Hip-Hop is a racially diverse, youth-driven culture, and is intimately connected to prior and on-going social justice movements (Chang, 2004; Kitwana, 2002). This study explores its Afro-Diasporic and activist origins, as well as the theoretical impact of Hip-Hop culture on the identity and pedagogy of educators belonging to the Hip-Hop generation(s). This qualitative study also examines how Hip-Hop culture impacts educators’ identity, politics and personal pedagogy, while seeking to create a new model of Social Justice Hip-Hop Pedagogy. This study was produced through twenty-three in-depth interviews with influential Hip-Hop educators (Aberbach & Rockman, 2002) from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations.
There are currently limited theoretical and conceptual frameworks in the literature supporting the use of Hip-Hop as Social Justice Pedagogy, yet is currently being used in K- 16 educational contexts throughout the United States and abroad (Akom, 2009; Duncan- Andrade & Morrell, 2008). The results of this study reveal the foundational basis consisting of four primary core functions and seven practical tenets, necessary to negotiate and implement a new and innovative model for Social Justice Hip-Hop Pedagogy.
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Identification of Learning Outcomes and Development of Assessment Methods for Agricultural Safety and Health Content in Secondary Agricultural Education ClassroomsMann, Andrew J. 21 September 2017 (has links)
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Positive Influences and Educational Practices in the STEM Learning Ecosystem: An Asset-Based, Multi-Case Exploration of Non-Formal Youth Education in SenegalKebe, Fatima Zahra 23 January 2023 (has links)
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education for youth can lead to the development of skills to design technologies, innovate tools, optimize work processes, and solve problems to improve society. The public high schools in Senegal are reported to have a low enrollment of students in STEM-related subjects. Youth are taught to memorize theories, with limited opportunities for hands-on STEM activities. However, there are other opportunities for Senegalese youth to engage in STEM education outside the formal school system. This research used case studies to explore the experiences of Senegalese youth learners and educators engaged in hands-on STEM education within non-formal learning settings in Dakar, Senegal. The first case involved six youth and six educators from wood carpentry and metal joinery apprenticeships. The second case involved seven youth and five educators from Go4STEAM, an all-girls out-of-school STEM program. The Ecological Systems Theory was used as a theoretical framework to situate the youth and educators in their learning context and consider ways in which their self and environment influences their STEM learning and teaching experience. An asset-based analytical approach was used in both cases to identify and describe positive influences and educational practices related to learning STEM. Results of the study indicated that educators in the apprenticeship setting display elements of cultural-based education as they not only teach the youth learners engineering through guided instructions, but also help raise them into adulthood. The youth learners in this setting have dropped out of school, thus recommendations for this learning setting include leveraging apps, mobile training, and competitions to promote engineering education as well as ensuring a strong foundation in reading, writing, and math. The Go4STEAM learning setting was found to offer activities that were interesting and responsive for their youth learners, and their learning environment emphasized peer collaboration. Recommendations for this learning setting include encouraging youth to take leadership of their learning whilst positioning the educators as co-learners, and offering the youth opportunities to engage in STEM with various partners and settings around the community. By recognizing and valuing the strengths of non-formal learning settings, this study identifies opportunities to strengthen the Senegalese STEM Learning Ecosystem. The additional support can lead to opportunities for Senegalese youth to become innovators and problem solvers that use their skills for educational and career advancement, upward economic mobility, and improved community development. / Doctor of Philosophy / STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education can be beneficial for the youth because it gives them useful skills for their jobs and their community. There are many factors that influence how youth learn STEM, and youth are able to learn in school and out of school. In Senegal, there are a low number of students enrolled in STEM-related subjects in high school, and the schools do not offer hands-on STEM activities. This research uses case studies to investigate STEM education for youth in non-formal, out-of-school settings, in Dakar, Senegal. Six youth and six educators from the wood carpentry and metal joinery apprenticeships, and seven youth and five educators from the Go4STEAM all-girls program, participated in this study. For each case, the Ecological Systems Theory was used to help consider the various influences that may directly or indirectly impact the youth's STEM education. An asset-based approach was used to identify positive influences and educational practices from the two cases. The study determined that the educators in apprenticeships use cultural norms and values to teach the youth learners engineering and raise them to become adults. The learners do not go to school so they can potentially benefit from apps, mobile training, and competitions that facilitate learning engineering, and the basics of reading, writing and math. At Go4STEM, the study determined that the learning environment was fun for the youth and encourages teamwork. The learners at Go4STEAM may benefit from deciding what STEM topics they want explore and the educators support as co-learners. Also, the educators can help facilitate STEM activities that engage community resources. This study identifies the strengths of non-formal, out-of-school-learning, and identifies opportunities to improve the Senegalese STEM Learning Ecosystem. With the additional support, Senegalese youth can become innovators and problem solvers that use their skills to benefit themselves, their families, and their communities.
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