In recent years, the service industry has been made aware of the advantages of risk sharing and inter-firm collaborations. In the current turbulent business environment, a large proportion of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME) firms rely on collaboration and partnering with other businesses. The value of such collaboration is highly enhanced by pooling resources to help exploit complementarities between the collaborating businesses and significantly increasing performance and management. Many studies have been conducted on the determinants of collaboration success or failures. However, authors have suggested further research to provide a framework to cover the factors responsible for enhanced value within collaborative working. In particular, the susceptibility of SMEs to successfully collaborate is significantly less than that of large organisations. Hence this was the focus of the current study. The research was focused on establishing the value enhancement of collaborative working within ServQ's, the sponsoring organisation's, collaborative environment. The main aim of this research project is 'To investigate the potential of Value-Enhanced Collaborative Working (VECW) in an SME management advisory firm'. The aim was achieved with the help of the development of a VECW framework based on the issues faced by ServQ's collaborative environment. To achieve this aim, an inductive research approach was adopted; this was facilitated by literature reviews and research methods such as semi-structured interviews, focus groups and scenario planning. This was to ensure that the project was an applied research based on the sound foundations of available theories on collaborative working. The research was initiated with a preliminary case study of the sponsoring organisation to better understand it. This period of initial investigation entailed learning more about the organisation's management and working culture. Parallel to the initial case study, a literature review helped establish a definition of Value Enhanced Collaborative Working (VECW) as well as a conceptual VECW framework. Three key factors were identified in the conceptual VECW framework; these were considered as three separate but equally important branches that together will create a sustainable longterm collaborative working environment. The first factor identified was the People factor; the main output from this was the development of a Collaboration Charter. The Process factor developed a business process model for ServQ while the Tools factor was established through scenario planning. The output of this research was a development of a VECW framework. The research work progressed chronologically by first developing a conceptual VECW framework followed by the development of each of the People, Process and Tool factors in further detail with the help of mechanisms such as Collaboration Charter and business process models. Eventually the framework recommended how all these three factors together enhance the value of collaboration in ServQ. These outputs established the mechanisms to balance all the three factors within ServQ resulting in development of a sustainable collaboration environment. The research has contributed to knowledge by providing a VECW framework in an industrial setting that can be replicated in similar organisations with required changes. In addition, it complements the wide array of literature pertaining to Collaborative Working, SMEs, services organisations and Value.

There has been a recent increase in the use of graphic symbols in school settings (Abbott and Lucey, 2003). However, the use of graphic symbols in schools remains, to date, an under-researched area. In order to address this and develop understanding of practitioners’ experiences of using graphic symbols in school settings, exploratory research was conducted investigating the experiences of a range of practitioners using symbols in Foundation Stage school settings. A qualitative research design was used drawing upon an interpretive phenomenological philosophical framework. The research sample consisted of three groups of practitioners; teachers, early years practitioners (teaching assistants, learning support assistants and nursery nurses) and speech and language therapists. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews which were conducted face-to-face by the researcher. In the interviews participants were encouraged to explore their experiences of using graphic symbols and their associated beliefs and attitudes about this topic. Interview data was analysed using thematic analysis which was facilitated by the use of qualitative data management software QSR NVivo2. Prolonged engagement with the data led to the development of a theoretical framework based on a set of themes and subthemes. Four major themes were identified: practitioners’ beliefs about which children to use symbols with; practitioners’ thoughts about children’s understanding of symbols; practitioners’ accounts of the ways symbols are used; and, practitioners’ experiences of the implementation of symbols. Interpretations of the data were extended further to develop two original theoretical constructs; ‘models of reasoning’ and ‘perceptions of professional roles’. These constructs were developed to provide an over-arching framework depicting the researcher’s interpretations of the data set as a whole. The findings suggest that practitioners go through a process of reasoning and decision making surrounding the use of symbols. Practitioners in this study also appeared to be influenced by their perceptions of their own professional role and those of others in their decisions surrounding the implementation of symbols. The theoretical model may provide some explanation for the ways in which individual practitioners interact and work alongside practitioners from the same and different professional groups. The findings of the research were related to existing literature in the fields of symbolic development, symbols and literacy, and, collaborative working. The findings led to the development of five suggestions for future research.

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Since the turn of the new millennium the UK construction industry has witnessed the naissance of a new paradigm known as ICT-enabled collaborative working. Advocates of this new approach believe that the adoption of ICTs will lead to better project information exchange, communications, integrated processes and therefore more efficient collaborative working. It is expected that ICT-enabled collaborative working will not only overcome the industry's many inherent problems, such as its adversarial and fragmented nature, but that it will also facilitate benefits for all involved. This supposition is based upon the recognition that its exploitation has proven successful at transforming other industries. The EngD thesis pertains to a four-year study on two methodologies currently applied under the concept of ICT-enabled collaborative working, 'Collaborative Prototyping' (CP) and the use of 'Construction Project Extranets' (CPE). The research project utilised literature reviews, case studies, project observations, active involvement, surveys, interviews and workshops to develop expertise and knowledge within the subject area. It shows that a large disparity exists between the use of a shared 3D model and the use of CPEs to promote collaborative working. Conversely, whilst CPEs have become the de facto ICT-enabled approach to seeking improvements in project efficiency (due to their potential to enhance communications, integration and collaboration) they are not being utilised effectively. This was attributed to the use of inadequate procedures that fail to provide proper consideration of all the necessary issues to ensure successful implementation, application and management of the CPE. As a result, project teams are failing to ascertain the full potential benefits offered by such collaboration tools. The research demonstrates that to overcome this, project teams require the development of an industry best-fit framework that defines proficient procedures. It highlights the main factors for inclusion within a protocol. Furthermore, it provides a simple form to promote greater awareness of the key factors that impinge on the successful application of CPE. The thesis concludes by outlining a number of recommendations for consideration by the industry, along with requirements for future work.

Paper 1: Evidence suggests that Nurture Groups (NGs) are effective in helping children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. NGs recognise the importance of parental involvement and research reveals positive social and emotional outcomes for children when NGs collaborate with parents as respected partners. An implicit power imbalance between NG staff and parents can challenge parental collaboration. This aim of this paper is to explore processes when consistent nurturing principles are being developed between a NG, schools and home. This qualitative study was conducted in a NG in the south west of England and included 3 NG staff, 4 parents, 4 children and a school teacher. An action-research model enabled consultation meetings and VIG to be introduced as an intervention to develop consistent practices. Semi-structured interviews, consultation meetings and a research diary collected data and an interpretative approach was adopted to explore processes, experiences and perceptions shared by participants. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse and interpret the data and produce a set of themes. The importance of effective communication, building of relationships and sharing of practice/ collaboration were identified as significant themes when developing partnership working between settings. VIG enhanced parents’ and the teacher’s communication skills and concurred with a partnership model based on empowerment, solutions and respect. Recommendations for practice include the development of personalised, informal and formal communication systems between settings. VIG can also be used effectively within NGs to develop consistent nurturing practices between settings. In addition, consideration is given to how VIG can be applied to practice more globally and how local authorities can support this process. Abstract: Paper 2 Evidence suggests that Nurture Groups (NGs) are effective in helping children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. The importance of parental involvement is recognised within NGs and research reveals positive social and emotional outcomes for children when NGs collaborate with parents as respected partners. An implicit power imbalance between NG staff and parents can challenge parental collaboration. This aim of this paper is to evaluate outcomes when nurturing principles are consistent between a NG, schools and home. A mixed methodology design with interpretative and scientific approaches was employed in an area NG in the south west of England. An action-research model enabled consultation meetings and Video Interactive Guidance (VIG) to be introduced as an intervention to develop consistent practices for the experimental group. Quantitative outcomes from Boxall Profiles and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires (SDQs) are compared pre- and post-intervention for an experimental group (4 children and 4 parents) and a control group (4 children). Three NG staff also volunteered as participants. Qualitative measures (observation records, semi-structured interviews (SSIs), consultation meetings and VIG clips) measured outcomes for the experimental group. Data from the Boxall Profiles, SDQs, VIG clips and observations was analysed descriptively. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse emergent themes from the SSIs and consultation meetings. The results revealed the experimental group made greater gains post-intervention as measured by the SDQ and the control group made greater gains post-intervention as measured by the Boxall Profile. The majority of results for individual experimental group children revealed positive social and emotional outcomes post-intervention. It is difficult to draw conclusions when outcomes between the experimental and control group were compared. The majority of measures identified positive social, emotional and behavioural outcomes for experimental group children when parents and schools work collaboratively with NGs. VIG and sharing of practices helped to modify how parents and teachers understood, managed, communicated and related to children. Recommendations for practice discuss the development of personalised, informal and formal communication systems between settings while ensuring minimal anxiety for children. VIG can be used effectively within NGs to develop consistent nurturing practices between settings. Consideration is given to how VIG can be applied more broadly and how local authorities can support this process.

INPRINT is a local fashion house , involved with the adaptive re-use of the Saxon Building in the Pretoria CBD. The design attempts to: -Celebrate the relationship between past and present, new and old within architecture and the fashion industry. -Showcase the relationship between fashion retail and the craft of garment production. -Redefine the relationship between interior architecture and fashion. -Provide a platform to encourage and exhibit local fashion design and production. The reinfusion of energy into the interior space of the Saxon Building along Church Street gives the interior and the building as a whole its significance as currently it is insufficiently used and has no reference to the sites historical significance. Reprogramming and designing of this space also contributes to the current Tshwane urban renewal project of the surrounding area. This project was initiated due to a fascination between the role that interior environments and clothing have on an individual, as well as the dramatic change in fashion retail since the 1800’s. Through the introduction of a multi use program, the original function of the building, a retail store, becomes more accessible to a variety of users and the general public within and around the CBD. The interior as a whole becomes a network of interactive spaces encouraging personal relationships and social interaction, thus engaging the public with the craft of fashion. The existing character has been reinterpreted allowing the Saxon Building to regain its former identity and significance. This investigation supports the idea that spaces, as with clothing, contributes to the identity of the users, the South African garment industry and the greater context. / Dissertation MInt(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2014 / Architecture / MInt(Prof) / Unrestricted

This thesis seeks to demonstrate that the new facilities of Web of Science (WoS) online can be used in new ways to enhance understanding of scholarly communication. It investigates four aspects of scholarly communication: characteristics of highly cited articles, citation levels of collaborative articles, citation levels of multi-disciplinary articles, and patterns of annual citation of highly cited articles. For the first two topics it investigates the WoS category of ‘Information Science & Library Science’ (IS&LS), whereas for the other topics it compares diverse WoS categories in science and social science. Although its main data source is WoS, its investigation of disciplinarity also uses Scopus. The thesis finds: (a) Highly cited IS&LS articles tend to be multidisciplinary and cited late, but are not necessarily first-authored by influential IS&LS researchers, (b) Amongst un-cite IS&LS articles the proportion of collaborative articles has remained almost constant over the past three decades whereas for higher cited articles it has grown steadily with time, (C) In social science subjects the level of citation of multi-disciplinary research are generally similar to that of mono-disciplinary research, whereas in science the citations levels for multi-disciplinary research are substantially lower than that of mono-disciplinary research, and (d) In both science and social science many very highly cited articles continue to be heavily cited more than twenty years after publication. This thesis also introduces and uses an indicator for measuring the extent of collaboration called ‘average partner scores’ and indicates a way in which the subject categories of WoS can be investigated without requiring a licence for the WoS database. Finally, it identifies and addresses some of the technical problems of using WoS online to investigate scholarly communication.

Neste trabalho apresento a tese de doutorado intitulada: “Pedagogia Universitária potencializada no diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática: quando três gerações de educadores se encontram”. A questão problema que norteou a investigação foi: Em que sentido o diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática entre três gerações de professores se constitui processo potencializador da Pedagogia Universitária? Para a realização da investigação, propus e desenvolvi um Grupo de Trabalho Colaborativo (GTC) que agregou, por meio da uma formação continuada, três gerações de professores de Matemática ligadas ao Curso de Licenciatura Plena em Matemática (CLPM) da UNEMAT/Cáceres. Essa formação deu-se em nove encontros mensais e teve como tema: “A Educação Matemática na Escola e na Universidade: aproximações possíveis?”. As três gerações de professores de Matemática reunidas no GTC foram: Professores Formadores (PF); Acadêmicos Estagiários (AE), Acadêmicas Bolsistas (AB) e Professores da Escola (PE). No GTC relacionou-se o espaço Universitário com o Escolar e as pautas dos debates nortearam as próprias realidades de cada instituição educacional que influenciavam o fazer Educação Matemática. Este GTC serviu como espaço investigativo e nele efetuei uma pesquisa qualitativa com os preceitos do Estudo de Caso (YIN; ANDRÉ) e da pesquisa participante (BRANDÃO; CHIZZOTTI; BRANDÃO & STRECK). Como sujeitos pesquisados tive 42 professores colaboradores, dentre eles: 17 PF, 12 AE, 02 AB e 11 PE. Antes de iniciar os encontros da formação continuada realizei 16 entrevistas individuais com PF e durante os mesmos coletei dados através de filmagem, anotações registradas em diário reflexivo digital e questionários. Os dados foram sistematizados em um banco de dados composto por três partes: Texto de Referência (TR) – Parte 1 – Entrevistas; TR – Parte 2 – Diário Reflexivo Digital e TR – Parte 3 – Transcrições do Áudio das Filmagens dos Encontros. Para analisar os dados utilizei-me das técnicas da Análise de Conteúdo (BARDIN; FRANCO). A tese está organizada em três grandes partes e na sua exposição estabeleci um diálogo permanente entre a empiria e a teoria (FRANCO & KRAHE; SOARES & CUNHA; TARDIF, LESSARD; ZABALZA; PIMENTA & ANASTASIOU; CUNHA, entre outros). A análise da experiência de ação e investigação realizada me permite afirmar que o diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática potencializa a Pedagogia Universitária quando é possibilitado aos professores o encontro para dialogarem e a eles é permitido falar e ouvir sobre as realidades do seu dia a dia de trabalho docente, de forma horizontal, sem hierarquias e receios. Como principais aprendizados, destaco a importância do diálogo reflexivo e do trabalho colaborativo para a formação de professores; o emergente rompimento entre as distâncias que separam a escola e a Universidade e que a Pedagogia Universitária e a Educação Matemática são debates ausentes, porém urgentes de serem postos em prática nos cursos de licenciaturas. Como caminhos possíveis, a partir dos diálogos estabelecidos, evidencio que a Pedagogia Universitária na UNEMAT deve ser o centro do debate institucional e que deve ser reinventada na relação entre Escola e Universidade para os cursos de Licenciatura. / In this work I present a doctoral thesis entitled: "Higher Education pedagogy potentiated in reflective dialogue on mathematics education: when three generations of educators meet”. The question that guided the research was: In what sense the reflective dialogue on mathematics education from three generations of professors constitutes a potentiating process for higher education pedagogy? To perform the research, a collaborative working group was proposed and developed, which put together through in service training, three generations of mathematics professors related to the Mathematics Licentiate Course of Mato Grosso State University- UNEMAT/Cáceres. This in service training took place in nine monthly meetings and had as its theme: "The mathematics education at School and at the university: possible approaches?". The three generations of mathematics teachers gathered in the collaborative working group were: teacher educators (TE); student teachers (TS); assistant researchers (AR) and school teachers (ST). The collaborative working group related the academic space and the school space, with the debates and agendas that guide the particular realities of each educational institution, which influence the making of mathematics education. This collaborative working group served as an investigative space, that was produced as a qualitative research with the precepts of the case of study (YIN; ANDRÉ) and participatory research (BRANDÃO; CHIZZOTTI; BRANDÃO & STRECK). 42 members, including 17 teacher educators (TE), 12 student teachers (TS), 02 assistant researchers (AR) and 11 school teachers were surveyed. Before starting the continuing education meetings, 16 individual interviews with professors lecturers were performed, over the same event; data was collected through filming, reflective digital diary notes and questioners. The data were organized in a database composed of three parts: Text Reference (TR) - Part 1 - Interviews; TR - Part 2 - Reflective digital diary and TR - Part 3 - Transcripts of audio footage of meetings. To analyze the data I have used content analysis techniques (BARDIN, FRANCO).The thesis is organized into three parts and in its development I established a permanent dialogue between empiricism and theory (FRANCO & KRAHE; SOARES & CUNHA; TARDIF, LESSARD; ZABALZA; PIMENTA & ANASTASIOU; CUNHA, among others). The analysis of the experience of action and investigation allows me to state that a reflective dialogue on mathematics education improves the higher education pedagogy when it provides dialogue opportunities among the professors and teachers and they are allowed to speak and hear about the realities of their day to day work of teaching, horizontally, without hierarchies and fears. As the main learning of this research, I highlight the importance of reflective dialogue and collaborative work for the in service training of teachers and faculty; the emerging rift of the distances between school and university, and the university’s pedagogy and mathematics education debates are missing, however urgent to be put into practice in licentiate courses. As possible paths from the dialogues set, I evince that higher education pedagogy at Mato Grosso State University – UNEMAT, should be the center of institutional debate and the relationship between school and university for teaching programs must be reinvented.

Neste trabalho apresento a tese de doutorado intitulada: “Pedagogia Universitária potencializada no diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática: quando três gerações de educadores se encontram”. A questão problema que norteou a investigação foi: Em que sentido o diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática entre três gerações de professores se constitui processo potencializador da Pedagogia Universitária? Para a realização da investigação, propus e desenvolvi um Grupo de Trabalho Colaborativo (GTC) que agregou, por meio da uma formação continuada, três gerações de professores de Matemática ligadas ao Curso de Licenciatura Plena em Matemática (CLPM) da UNEMAT/Cáceres. Essa formação deu-se em nove encontros mensais e teve como tema: “A Educação Matemática na Escola e na Universidade: aproximações possíveis?”. As três gerações de professores de Matemática reunidas no GTC foram: Professores Formadores (PF); Acadêmicos Estagiários (AE), Acadêmicas Bolsistas (AB) e Professores da Escola (PE). No GTC relacionou-se o espaço Universitário com o Escolar e as pautas dos debates nortearam as próprias realidades de cada instituição educacional que influenciavam o fazer Educação Matemática. Este GTC serviu como espaço investigativo e nele efetuei uma pesquisa qualitativa com os preceitos do Estudo de Caso (YIN; ANDRÉ) e da pesquisa participante (BRANDÃO; CHIZZOTTI; BRANDÃO & STRECK). Como sujeitos pesquisados tive 42 professores colaboradores, dentre eles: 17 PF, 12 AE, 02 AB e 11 PE. Antes de iniciar os encontros da formação continuada realizei 16 entrevistas individuais com PF e durante os mesmos coletei dados através de filmagem, anotações registradas em diário reflexivo digital e questionários. Os dados foram sistematizados em um banco de dados composto por três partes: Texto de Referência (TR) – Parte 1 – Entrevistas; TR – Parte 2 – Diário Reflexivo Digital e TR – Parte 3 – Transcrições do Áudio das Filmagens dos Encontros. Para analisar os dados utilizei-me das técnicas da Análise de Conteúdo (BARDIN; FRANCO). A tese está organizada em três grandes partes e na sua exposição estabeleci um diálogo permanente entre a empiria e a teoria (FRANCO & KRAHE; SOARES & CUNHA; TARDIF, LESSARD; ZABALZA; PIMENTA & ANASTASIOU; CUNHA, entre outros). A análise da experiência de ação e investigação realizada me permite afirmar que o diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática potencializa a Pedagogia Universitária quando é possibilitado aos professores o encontro para dialogarem e a eles é permitido falar e ouvir sobre as realidades do seu dia a dia de trabalho docente, de forma horizontal, sem hierarquias e receios. Como principais aprendizados, destaco a importância do diálogo reflexivo e do trabalho colaborativo para a formação de professores; o emergente rompimento entre as distâncias que separam a escola e a Universidade e que a Pedagogia Universitária e a Educação Matemática são debates ausentes, porém urgentes de serem postos em prática nos cursos de licenciaturas. Como caminhos possíveis, a partir dos diálogos estabelecidos, evidencio que a Pedagogia Universitária na UNEMAT deve ser o centro do debate institucional e que deve ser reinventada na relação entre Escola e Universidade para os cursos de Licenciatura. / In this work I present a doctoral thesis entitled: "Higher Education pedagogy potentiated in reflective dialogue on mathematics education: when three generations of educators meet”. The question that guided the research was: In what sense the reflective dialogue on mathematics education from three generations of professors constitutes a potentiating process for higher education pedagogy? To perform the research, a collaborative working group was proposed and developed, which put together through in service training, three generations of mathematics professors related to the Mathematics Licentiate Course of Mato Grosso State University- UNEMAT/Cáceres. This in service training took place in nine monthly meetings and had as its theme: "The mathematics education at School and at the university: possible approaches?". The three generations of mathematics teachers gathered in the collaborative working group were: teacher educators (TE); student teachers (TS); assistant researchers (AR) and school teachers (ST). The collaborative working group related the academic space and the school space, with the debates and agendas that guide the particular realities of each educational institution, which influence the making of mathematics education. This collaborative working group served as an investigative space, that was produced as a qualitative research with the precepts of the case of study (YIN; ANDRÉ) and participatory research (BRANDÃO; CHIZZOTTI; BRANDÃO & STRECK). 42 members, including 17 teacher educators (TE), 12 student teachers (TS), 02 assistant researchers (AR) and 11 school teachers were surveyed. Before starting the continuing education meetings, 16 individual interviews with professors lecturers were performed, over the same event; data was collected through filming, reflective digital diary notes and questioners. The data were organized in a database composed of three parts: Text Reference (TR) - Part 1 - Interviews; TR - Part 2 - Reflective digital diary and TR - Part 3 - Transcripts of audio footage of meetings. To analyze the data I have used content analysis techniques (BARDIN, FRANCO).The thesis is organized into three parts and in its development I established a permanent dialogue between empiricism and theory (FRANCO & KRAHE; SOARES & CUNHA; TARDIF, LESSARD; ZABALZA; PIMENTA & ANASTASIOU; CUNHA, among others). The analysis of the experience of action and investigation allows me to state that a reflective dialogue on mathematics education improves the higher education pedagogy when it provides dialogue opportunities among the professors and teachers and they are allowed to speak and hear about the realities of their day to day work of teaching, horizontally, without hierarchies and fears. As the main learning of this research, I highlight the importance of reflective dialogue and collaborative work for the in service training of teachers and faculty; the emerging rift of the distances between school and university, and the university’s pedagogy and mathematics education debates are missing, however urgent to be put into practice in licentiate courses. As possible paths from the dialogues set, I evince that higher education pedagogy at Mato Grosso State University – UNEMAT, should be the center of institutional debate and the relationship between school and university for teaching programs must be reinvented.

Neste trabalho apresento a tese de doutorado intitulada: “Pedagogia Universitária potencializada no diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática: quando três gerações de educadores se encontram”. A questão problema que norteou a investigação foi: Em que sentido o diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática entre três gerações de professores se constitui processo potencializador da Pedagogia Universitária? Para a realização da investigação, propus e desenvolvi um Grupo de Trabalho Colaborativo (GTC) que agregou, por meio da uma formação continuada, três gerações de professores de Matemática ligadas ao Curso de Licenciatura Plena em Matemática (CLPM) da UNEMAT/Cáceres. Essa formação deu-se em nove encontros mensais e teve como tema: “A Educação Matemática na Escola e na Universidade: aproximações possíveis?”. As três gerações de professores de Matemática reunidas no GTC foram: Professores Formadores (PF); Acadêmicos Estagiários (AE), Acadêmicas Bolsistas (AB) e Professores da Escola (PE). No GTC relacionou-se o espaço Universitário com o Escolar e as pautas dos debates nortearam as próprias realidades de cada instituição educacional que influenciavam o fazer Educação Matemática. Este GTC serviu como espaço investigativo e nele efetuei uma pesquisa qualitativa com os preceitos do Estudo de Caso (YIN; ANDRÉ) e da pesquisa participante (BRANDÃO; CHIZZOTTI; BRANDÃO & STRECK). Como sujeitos pesquisados tive 42 professores colaboradores, dentre eles: 17 PF, 12 AE, 02 AB e 11 PE. Antes de iniciar os encontros da formação continuada realizei 16 entrevistas individuais com PF e durante os mesmos coletei dados através de filmagem, anotações registradas em diário reflexivo digital e questionários. Os dados foram sistematizados em um banco de dados composto por três partes: Texto de Referência (TR) – Parte 1 – Entrevistas; TR – Parte 2 – Diário Reflexivo Digital e TR – Parte 3 – Transcrições do Áudio das Filmagens dos Encontros. Para analisar os dados utilizei-me das técnicas da Análise de Conteúdo (BARDIN; FRANCO). A tese está organizada em três grandes partes e na sua exposição estabeleci um diálogo permanente entre a empiria e a teoria (FRANCO & KRAHE; SOARES & CUNHA; TARDIF, LESSARD; ZABALZA; PIMENTA & ANASTASIOU; CUNHA, entre outros). A análise da experiência de ação e investigação realizada me permite afirmar que o diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática potencializa a Pedagogia Universitária quando é possibilitado aos professores o encontro para dialogarem e a eles é permitido falar e ouvir sobre as realidades do seu dia a dia de trabalho docente, de forma horizontal, sem hierarquias e receios. Como principais aprendizados, destaco a importância do diálogo reflexivo e do trabalho colaborativo para a formação de professores; o emergente rompimento entre as distâncias que separam a escola e a Universidade e que a Pedagogia Universitária e a Educação Matemática são debates ausentes, porém urgentes de serem postos em prática nos cursos de licenciaturas. Como caminhos possíveis, a partir dos diálogos estabelecidos, evidencio que a Pedagogia Universitária na UNEMAT deve ser o centro do debate institucional e que deve ser reinventada na relação entre Escola e Universidade para os cursos de Licenciatura. / In this work I present a doctoral thesis entitled: "Higher Education pedagogy potentiated in reflective dialogue on mathematics education: when three generations of educators meet”. The question that guided the research was: In what sense the reflective dialogue on mathematics education from three generations of professors constitutes a potentiating process for higher education pedagogy? To perform the research, a collaborative working group was proposed and developed, which put together through in service training, three generations of mathematics professors related to the Mathematics Licentiate Course of Mato Grosso State University- UNEMAT/Cáceres. This in service training took place in nine monthly meetings and had as its theme: "The mathematics education at School and at the university: possible approaches?". The three generations of mathematics teachers gathered in the collaborative working group were: teacher educators (TE); student teachers (TS); assistant researchers (AR) and school teachers (ST). The collaborative working group related the academic space and the school space, with the debates and agendas that guide the particular realities of each educational institution, which influence the making of mathematics education. This collaborative working group served as an investigative space, that was produced as a qualitative research with the precepts of the case of study (YIN; ANDRÉ) and participatory research (BRANDÃO; CHIZZOTTI; BRANDÃO & STRECK). 42 members, including 17 teacher educators (TE), 12 student teachers (TS), 02 assistant researchers (AR) and 11 school teachers were surveyed. Before starting the continuing education meetings, 16 individual interviews with professors lecturers were performed, over the same event; data was collected through filming, reflective digital diary notes and questioners. The data were organized in a database composed of three parts: Text Reference (TR) - Part 1 - Interviews; TR - Part 2 - Reflective digital diary and TR - Part 3 - Transcripts of audio footage of meetings. To analyze the data I have used content analysis techniques (BARDIN, FRANCO).The thesis is organized into three parts and in its development I established a permanent dialogue between empiricism and theory (FRANCO & KRAHE; SOARES & CUNHA; TARDIF, LESSARD; ZABALZA; PIMENTA & ANASTASIOU; CUNHA, among others). The analysis of the experience of action and investigation allows me to state that a reflective dialogue on mathematics education improves the higher education pedagogy when it provides dialogue opportunities among the professors and teachers and they are allowed to speak and hear about the realities of their day to day work of teaching, horizontally, without hierarchies and fears. As the main learning of this research, I highlight the importance of reflective dialogue and collaborative work for the in service training of teachers and faculty; the emerging rift of the distances between school and university, and the university’s pedagogy and mathematics education debates are missing, however urgent to be put into practice in licentiate courses. As possible paths from the dialogues set, I evince that higher education pedagogy at Mato Grosso State University – UNEMAT, should be the center of institutional debate and the relationship between school and university for teaching programs must be reinvented.