Submitted by Cássia Santos (cassia.bcufg@gmail.com) on 2017-06-19T14:34:34Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Alysson Benite de Freitas - 2017.pdf: 3165247 bytes, checksum: 7e2186e1473c87c38a7379c9ee2e0fea (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-07-10T12:33:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Alysson Benite de Freitas - 2017.pdf: 3165247 bytes, checksum: 7e2186e1473c87c38a7379c9ee2e0fea (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T12:33:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Alysson Benite de Freitas - 2017.pdf: 3165247 bytes, checksum: 7e2186e1473c87c38a7379c9ee2e0fea (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-30 / This dissertation, linked to the research line “Cultura e Processos de Ensino e Aprendizagem” of the postgraduate in Education of the Universidade Federal de Goiás Regional Jataí, has the objective of researching a proposal of interdisciplinary teaching under Environmental Education (EA) aspects in the teaching of batteries and radioactivity. Then, the work was executed in the year of 2015 in two high schools, of a city located in the Center West Goiano. The classes of these colleges received interdisciplinary classes, mainly of the disciplines belonging to the area of Natural Sciences. Thus, the garbage collection of batteries and two technical visits to Centro Regional de Ciências Nucleares do Centro Oeste (CRCN-CO). The methodology used was structured in a qualitative analysis, through dialogic discussions, questionnaires, audio, and participatory observation that enabled the elaboration of reports for the analysis of the data obtained in this research. With this, the research was elaborated, due to the interdisciplinary teaching and the EA being cited in several official documents of the High School. However, without a defined pedagogical proposal strategy on its application in Basic Education to the teaching of Natural Sciences in order to form critical citizens. Then, to address these challenges, this research was conducted under the purpose of in interdisciplinary teaching of batteries and radioactivity. The Whole educational process was involved by this spirit of EA, enabling a better integration in the interdisciplinary teaching of Natural Sciences to unveil economic rationality in the teaching of Chemistry. This made it possible to propose a formation of critical subjects through the transformation of naive curiosity into a critical curiosity, through the right thinking of Paulo Freire. Thus, the results allowed to Wake inferences of critical thinking in the relationship between man and nature within a dialogical proposal, revealing the objectification of individuals. / Esta dissertação, vinculada com à linha de pesquisa “Cultura e Processos de Ensino e Aprendizagem” do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Goiás Regional Jataí, tem o objetivo de pesquisar uma proposta de ensino interdisciplinar sob os aspectos da Educação Ambiental (EA) no ensino de pilhas e radioatividade. Com isso, o trabalho foi executado no ano de 2015 em dois colégios de Ensino Médio, de uma cidade localizada no interior do Centro Oeste Goiano. As turmas desses colégios receberam aulas interdisciplinares, principalmente das disciplinas pertencentes à área de Ciências da Natureza. Assim, de modo concomitante foi realizada a coleta seletiva de pilhas e baterias e duas visitas técnicas ao Centro Regional de Ciências Nucleares do Centro Oeste (CRCN-CO). A metodologia utilizada foi estruturada em uma abordagem qualitativa, por meio de discussões dialógicas, questionários, áudio e observação participativa que possibilitaram a elaboração de relatórios para a análise dos dados obtidos nesta pesquisa. Com isso, a pesquisa foi elaborada, devido o ensino interdisciplinar e a EA serem citados em vários documentos oficiais do Ensino Médio. Porém, sem uma estratégia de proposta pedagógica bem definida sobre a sua aplicação na Educação Básica ao ensino de Ciências da Natureza de modo a formarem cidadãos críticos. Portanto, para lidar com esses desafios, esta pesquisa foi realizada sob o propósito da EA em um ensino interdisciplinar de pilhas e radioatividade. Todo o processo educativo, esteve envolvido por esse espírito da EA, possibilitando uma melhor integração no ensino interdisciplinar de Ciências da Natureza para desvelar a racionalidade econômica no ensino de Química. Isso possibilitou propor uma formação de sujeitos críticos, por meio da transformação da curiosidade ingênua em uma curiosidade crítica, através do pensar certo de Paulo Freire. Assim, os resultados permitiram realizar inferências do pensamento crítico na relação entre homem e natureza no âmbito de uma proposta dialógica, desvelando a objetivação dos indivíduos.

Na cena contemporânea, a questão ambiental tem sido foco de atenção da comunidade científica de diferentes países, subsidiando a formulação de políticas que permitam conciliar a produção com a satisfação de necessidades humanas e a conservação e uso racional dos recursos naturais. No âmbito rural, a agricultura é uma das atividades que mais deterioram o meio ambiente e cujas conseqüências sociais e ambientais adquirem proeminência no debate mundial. Desde a década de 60 do século passado, quando a crise ambiental ganhou espaço na agenda das discussões internacionais da ONU, surgem mundialmente diversas iniciativas que se colocam como alternativas ao padrão tecnológico da agricultura industrial, resultado da chamada revolução verde. Atualmente a visibilidade dessas iniciativas tem se ampliado e, junto com a sua projeção mundial, observa-se o uso indiscriminado de termos como “agricultura sustentável”, “agricultura orgânica”, “agricultura natural”, “agricultura ecológica” a “agroecologia”, seja por desconhecimento de suas distinções, seja motivado por interesses fundamentalmente econômicos na apropriação dessas iniciativas. A presente dissertação propõe-se a um esclarecimento conceitual sobre a Agroecologia considerando os problemas rurais como expressões da sociedade capitalista e do padrão de desenvolvimento hegemônico, cujas interpretações sofrem refrações da atual crise paradigmática da ciência. A pesquisa apresenta uma retrospectiva histórica dos marcos fundantes da Agroecologia no âmbito da Ecologia agrícola através da análise do seu processo de desenvolvimento e enriquecimento teórico, tomando como referenciais os trabalhos de Miguel A. Altieri e de Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán devido a sua projeção internacional e complementaridade das abordagens. A pesquisa identifica um processo de continuidades e rupturas no desenvolvimento histórico da Agroecologia, o que indica a riqueza e, ao mesmo tempo, a complexidade do processo de sua constituição e do tema que abrange, e para além de concepções puramente técnicas e ahistóricas. As continuidades se expressam na incorporação e desenvolvimento do acervo de fundamentos teóricos e conhecimentos técnicos especializados acumulados ao longo de seu processo de formação; e as rupturas encontram-se consubstanciadas na subordinação dessas conquistas ao direcionamento social das pesquisas e ações empreendidas no marco dessa orientação teórica, direcionadas ao desenvolvimento rural. A Agroecologia nessa abordagem, mais que como uma ferramenta para o estabelecimento de sistemas produtivos sustentáveis, afirma a possibilidade de potencializar os processos sociais, resgatando formas de conhecimento e de práticas dos próprios agricultores mediante estratégias metodológicas voltadas ao desenvolvimento rural sustentável. Ela implica a afirmação de um pensamento social crítico – junto a estudantes, profissionais e agricultores - para além da racionalidade instrumental vigente na comunidade científica ocidental. / In the contemporary context, the environmental issue has been the main focus for the scientific community of different countries. They provide background to new policies that join production and satisfaction of human needs together with preservation and rational management of natural resources. In the countryside, agriculture is responsible for most environmental damage, and its socioenvironmental consequences are drawing attention of global debates. Since the1960´s, when the environmental subject was brought up to international discussions at UN, worldwide initiatives have been set in motion to stand for alternatives to the technological pattern of industrial agriculture - result of the so-called Green Revolution. Nowadays, as the visibility of these enterprises increases, along with its worldwide projection, we notice an indiscriminate use of terms such as “sustainable agriculture”, “organic agriculture”, “natural agriculture”, “ecological agriculture” and “agroecology”, due to an unclear distinction of these terms or due to economical interests in appropriating them. The present dissertation proposes a conceptual elucidation about Agroecology, considering rural problems as expressions of the capitalist society and the hegemonic development model, whose interpretations suffer refractions from the present science paradigmatic crisis. This research presents a historical retrospective of the beginning of Agroecology, in the Agricultural Ecology field, through the analysis of its development process and theoretical enrichment, taking as backgrounds the works of Miguel A. Altieri and Eduardo Sevilla Guzmán, due to their international recognition and complementary approaches. This research identifies a process of “continuums” and “ruptures” in the historical development of Agroecology, which indicates the richness and complexity of its development and of the subject it embraces, beyond purely technological and ahistorical conceptions. The “continuums” are expressed by the incorporation and development of the theoretical basis and of specialized technical knowledge, gathered along its development; and the “ruptures” are found in the subordination of these conquers to the social aim of research and initiatives taken in the mark of this theoretical orientation, concerning rural development. In this approach, Agroecology means more than simply a tool to design sustainable productive systems, but it represents a possibility to empower social processes, rescuing peasants’ knowledge and practices through methodological strategies aimed at the sustainable rural development. It implies the affirmation of a critic social thought – by students, professionals and peasants – beyond the operational rationality reigning over occidental scientific community.

Um dos desafios das escolas de Administração tem sido preparar profissionais capazes de tomar decisões de forma crítica e criativa para atuar em um ambiente de negócios em rápida transformação. Com vistas a este propósito surgiu no grupo de pesquisas SIMULAB, da Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da Universidade de São Paulo - FEA/USP/SP, o Laboratório de Gestão, um ambiente de ensino, aprendizagem e pesquisa fundamentado em três pilares conceituais: simulador organizacional, jogo de empresas e pesquisa aplicada. O objetivo deste estudo foi averiguar como as atividades desenvolvidas no Laboratório de Gestão propiciaram uma formação crítica em Administração à luz das diretrizes curriculares brasileiras, do pensamento crítico, da formação docente e de estratégias de ensino e aprendizagem em Administração. Foi conduzido um estudo de caso único, qualitativo e interpretativo, apoiado por fontes primárias de evidências: uma entrevista em profundidade com o idealizador do Laboratório de Gestão, o professor Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia; um levantamento por meio de questionário aplicado aos professores do grupo SIMULAB; a observação direta das atividades em sala de aula; o exame dos artigos científicos produzidos pelos estudantes de graduação em Administração da FEA/USP/SP. A análise de conteúdo dos materiais produziu indícios e evidências de que as atividades vivenciais no jogo de empresas e a pesquisa aplicada desenvolveram o pensamento crítico dos estudantes. Destacaram-se como exemplos: a crítica ao modelo de Porter (inclusão do Governo como a sexta força no modelo das 5 forças); a aplicação ampliada da teoria das restrições de Goldratt, numa perspectiva multifuncional, para além da área de Produção. Foi possível concluir que se faz necessário o envolvimento de dirigentes e coordenadores das instituições de ensino superior para a construção de uma nova cultura de ensino-aprendizagem, além da adequada preparação dos professores para a condução do Laboratório de Gestão como estratégia promotora da formação crítica em Administração. / One of the challenges faced by Business Administration Schools has been to prepare professionals to become creative decision makers and critical thinkers in a rapidly changing business environment. Toward this purpose it was created in SIMULAB, a research group at the School of Economics, Administration and Accounting, University of São Paulo - FEA/USP/SP, the Management Laboratory: a teaching, learning and research environment based on three conceptual pillars: organizational simulator, business game and applied research. The aim of this study was to examine how the activities developed in the Management Laboratory provide a critical education for Business Administration according to the literature on management education, critical thinking, teacher training, and teaching and learning strategies. It was conducted a qualitative and interpretative single case study, based on the following primary sources of evidences: an in depth interview with Professor Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia, the Management Laboratory creator; a survey applied to SIMULAB professors; the direct classroom observation, and the examination of scientific papers produced by Business Administration undergraduate students in the Management Laboratory at FEA/USP/SP. The content analysis produced evidences that business game combined with applied research as experiential activities developed students critical thinking abilities. For example: a critique of Porter\'s model (addition of the Government as the sixth force in the five forces model); besides, the extended application of Goldratt\'s Constraint Theory, under a multifunctional perspective, beyond the functional area of Production. As a conclusion higher education institutions stakeholders as directors and coordinators, could be engaged in order to build a new teaching and learning culture, in addition to professors\' training programs for effective conduction of Management Laboratory.

D.Cur. (Professional Nursing Science ) / The nursing practice needs critical thinkers because of diverse and rapidly changing developments and desired outcomes in health care. These developments are based on health and informational changes, organisational and cultural change sin nursing education, changes in the scope o fpractice, and increasing patient acuity and the movement of patient care from acute care facility to community selling have increased demands for nurses to think critically, evaluate and quickly choose patient strategy. a need for effective clinical decision making and a need for clinical judgement (Sedlack, 1997:11). Old standards of simply being able to score well on standardized test of basic skills, though still appropriate. cannot be the sole means by which we judge the academic success or failure students. The implication of SAQA Act (/995) and the Education White Paper(1997) on transformation of higher education bring with them challenges for reaching and assessment of tertiary education graduates. The white paper stressed the importance of the development of the ability to think independently and with innovation. The South African Nursing Council (SANe, 1984:3) states explicitly in the philosophy about nursing education, that the development of critical analytically thinking is imperative. Therefore it is imperative for nurse educators to use specific assessment strategies that will assess if students have acquired critical thinking skills. The purpose of this study is to explore and describe strategies to assess critical thinking in a four year program leading to registration as a nurse (General, Psychiatry and Community) and Midwifery in South Africa)

Thesis (D.Tech.: Postgraduate Nursing Studies)-Dept. of Postgraduate Nursing Studies, Durban Institute of Technology, 2006. / An educational course for post-basic multi-cultural South African nurses, based on a model for critical reflective practice, forms the case study for a participatory action research paradigm that frames this qualitative study / D

This thesis is a qualitative text analysis of worksheets used in conjunction with watching films in English language studies in Swedish middle schools. The assignments used in the thesis were partly collected from partner schools in the teacher program and partly collected from a website which is a database of teacher submitted lesson plans. The results of the thesis include a presentation and discussion of different worksheets used by teachers, using a structure based on one used for critical discourse analysis instruction with students. The evidence suggests that two factors gave an increase in explicitly named aspects of critical literacy in film studies: firstly, that the assignment be situated in a program of study within the Swedish curriculum which shares many of the goals of critical literacy studies and secondly that the choice of film is one that challenges students to reconsider their experiences in light of the film. This study also raises the concern that the questioning methods used to implement critical literacy studies are being used to increase student talk for the purposes of grading oral proficiency without interactive discussions.

Abstract This research project explores how notions of Canadian exceptionalism are being challenged and/or reproduced in responses of students of seven Canadian universities to a survey related to internationalization of higher education. The study analyses data from surveys (n=1451) completed by undergraduate students in different disciplines collected between 2013 and 2015. This data is part of a larger database of surveys that was developed within the Ethical Internationalization in Higher Education (EIHE) research project (2012–2016). This research adopts a mixed-methods approach to the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. A post-representational approach to the methodology of social cartography is used to map two facets of the data. These facets are the general discursive field in which various exceptionalist tendencies are being contested and/or reproduced, and the multiple dimensions of articulations of exceptionalist tendencies. Canadian exceptionalism is in this research understood as a complex set of self-constitutive discursive practices, policies, self-perceptions and assumptions that simultaneously affirm and construct an imaginary of Canadian society and Canadian nationals as morally, ethically and culturally superior by exalting both the nationals’ and the nation-state’s inherent character as already good global citizens. Exceptionalism is used as an umbrella term that joins together several problematic aspects of unexamined ennobled narratives about the nation and national subjects. In this research the concept of exceptionalism is developed by drawing on multiple critiques of different aspects of liberal subjectivities. The findings suggest that exceptionalist tendencies and articulations can be observed in the responses of both international and Canadian students. They also suggest that while critical thinking and engagement with diversity are valued highly by almost all students, the responses in the survey exhibit a high level of ambivalence in terms of how (and to what extent) critical thinking is deployed, while diversity is often constructed in commodified ways that seem to indicate a desire for consumption of the Other’s difference for personal and/or national benefit. / Tiivistelmä Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan kanadalaista poikkeuksellisuutta koskevien käsitysten haastamista ja/tai toisintamista seitsemän kanadalaisen yliopiston opiskelijoiden vastauksissa kyselyyn, joka liittyi korkeakoulutuksen kansainvälistymiseen. Aineisto (n=1451) on kerätty eri alojen kandidaattivaiheen opiskelijoilta vuosina 2013–2015 ja se on osa laajempaa Ethical Internationalization in Higher Education (EIHE) -projektissa (2012–2016) syntynyttä kyselytietokantaa. Tutkimuksessa hyödynnetään monimenetelmällistä lähestymistapaa laadullisen ja määrällisen aineiston analyysiin. Aineistoa kartoitetaan kahdesta näkökulmasta jälkiedustuksellisen sosiaalisen kartografian avulla. Nämä näkökulmat ovat 1) yleinen diskursiivinen kenttä, jossa erilaisia poikkeuksellisuuden tendenssejä haastetaan ja/tai toisinnetaan ja 2) poikkeuksellisuuden tendenssien artikulaatiot ja niiden moninaiset ulottuvuudet. Kanadalainen poikkeuksellisuus ymmärretään tässä tutkimuksessa monimutkaiseksi rakennelmaksi itseään toteuttavia diskursiivisia käytäntöjä, toimintatapoja sekä ihmisten käsityksiä ja oletuksia itsestään, jotka samanaikaisesti vahvistavat ja rakentavat kuvitelmaa kanadalaisesta yhteiskunnasta ja Kanadan kansalaisista moraalisesti, eettisesti ja kulttuurisesti ylempiarvoisina ihmisinä ylistämällä kansalaisten ja kansallisvaltion luonnetta luonnostaan hyvinä maailmankansalaisina. Poikkeuksellisuutta käytetään ylemmän tason terminä, joka nostaa esiin useita ongelmallisia näkökulmia tutkimattomiin kansakuntaa ja kansalaisia koskeviin ylevyyden narratiiveihin. Poikkeuksellisuuden konseptia rakennetaan tässä tutkimuksessa viimeaikaisen liberaalin subjektiivisuuden eri näkökulmia koskevan kritiikin pohjalta. Tulokset viittaavat siihen, että poikkeuksellisuuden tendenssejä ja artikulaatioita esiintyy sekä ulkomaisten että kanadalaisten opiskelijoiden vastauksissa. Vaikka tulosten perusteella lähes kaikki opiskelijat arvostavat vastauksissaan kriittistä ajattelua ja moninaisuuden kohtaamista, vastauksista välittyy hyvin ristiriitainen näkemys siitä, miten (ja missä määrin) kriittistä ajattelua lopulta hyödynnetään. Tällöin diversiteetti jäsentyy usein kulutushyödykkeen tavoin osoittaen ilmeistä halua käyttää toisen erilaisuutta oman ja/tai kansallisen edun hyväksi.

The purpose of this literature review is to compare some critical reading comprehension classroom practices globally, with particular focus on the teaching of reading comprehension in Sweden, where student well being and equity are issues of importance. Critical literacy used is a term that encompasses many aspects of power related issues in language. The Swedish curriculum is explicit in naming these issues of student identity and democratic agency which it shares with critical pedagogical practices. The result of the review is a presentation and discussion of the different studies, using a structure based on one used for critical discourse analysis instruction with students. The evidence suggests that higher level comprehension is a skill that takes time to train and should be done explicitly by pointing out the aspects of language which convey meaning. Learning to search the text for evidence of the underlying meaning gave verystrong effect sizes on standardized tests for reading comprehension. The reading comprehension results of minority/ESL students on standardized tests improved when space was made to discuss very different experiences within the same culture in language classrooms.

Magister Curationis / Domestic violence is a pervasive problem in South Africa. The School of Nursing at the University of Western Cape has responded to the challenge of training sensitive, knowledgeable and skilled health personnel by developing a Management of Gender- Based Violence Module. The purpose of this study is to describe the professional and personal development of nursing students who were placed at the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Abused Women and Children for the service-learning trial run of this Gender- Based Violence module in 2003. A qualitative, contextual, and descriptive design was therefore used to provide rich information from in-depth descriptions of students’ perceptions and experiences with regard to the service-learning module. Purposive, convenient sampling was used because the key informants, 27 female students involved in the trial run of the module, were selected to “illuminate" the research question. Content analysis was done and to ensure credibility, data triangulation was done using focus group, project reports and the students’ journals. Informed consent to use data from the previously mentioned sources was obtained from students. The overall findings indicate that the service-learning programme allowed students to achieve the goals defined by the community, services and the university. Students came to understand the supportive roles that health professionals can play and recognised that the development of the attributes of caring, advocacy and civic ngagement is essential to their professional development. Comments in their reflective journals revealed that students valued their service-learning experience, and believed that this experience would expand into future collaborative relationships within civil society. The recommendation is that further in depth research be conducted given the promise shown by this educational approach. / South Africa

Magister Psychologiae - MPsych / The aim of this study was to investigate the use of the "Stories for thinking" learning materials in one intermediate phase classroom in the Western Cape. The "Stories for thinking" project resulted from the Western Cape Education Department project, Cognition in Curriculum 2005. This project explored the potential role the cognitive education movement could play in accomplishing the goals of the Curriculum, especially the critical outcomes. The aim of the project was to investigate a range of strategies primary school educators could use to develop cognitive abilities. / South Africa