This diploma thesis focuses on the concepts of creativity and self-efficacy mainly in connection with self-directed education. In the theoretical part of the thesis, the phenomenon of free schools is introduced, their main principles and comparison with traditional schools are presented in more details. Attention is also paid to the definition of the concept of creativity, main perspectives and theoretical approaches and interdependence with the educational process. Furthermore, the concept of self-efficacy is described with an emphasis on its resources and its connection with the school environment. The main goal of the thesis is to compare selected psychological concepts (creativity and self-efficacy) in children undergoing self- directed education in democratic schools in the Czech Republic and those attending traditional primary school. The empirical part introduces the research, which was made with a sample of 198 sixth through ninth graders (60 from democratic schools and 138 from traditional school). The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking was used to measure creativity, for the measurement of academic self-efficacy was used ASE questionnaire consisting of three self-assessment scales - Myself as a learner scale (MALS), Child's self-efficacy scale (ChSE) and a homework questionnaire (HW)....

Submitted by Fernando Souza (fernandoafsou@gmail.com) on 2017-08-28T12:46:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2287442 bytes, checksum: fedb1c084b5a22059df817d5ab80e004 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Viviane Lima da Cunha (viviane@biblioteca.ufpb.br) on 2017-08-28T12:47:11Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2287442 bytes, checksum: fedb1c084b5a22059df817d5ab80e004 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-28T12:47:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2287442 bytes, checksum: fedb1c084b5a22059df817d5ab80e004 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-24 / The purpose of this dissertation is to study the National School of Basic Education Managers Program (PNEGEB). PNEGEB integrates the policy of training school managers and is based on the principles of democratic management, with the school as a space for social inclusion and human emancipation. The purpose of this research was to analyze the effectiveness of the program, considering their execution conditions, analyzing their applicability and evaluating their execution, from the point of view of the executing institution, Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). And the partner agencies, the National Union of Municipal Officials (UNDIME) and the Paraíba State Secretariat of Education (SEE / PB). For the study, the chosen methodological option was a descriptive and exploratory research. From the point of view of the instruments and procedures, a bibliographical study and the documentary research were made, having as sources the regulatory documents of the program, the Basic Project of the Specialization Course of the School of Managers Program, the Work Plan and the Execution Reports, among others. For the development of the discussion, the theoretical frameworks of Aguiar, Cury, Dourado, Ferreira, Freire, Paro and Lück were used. In evaluating the execution of the Program, the research concluded that, in the case of Paraíba, the implementation of the Program was successful, especially with regard to the aspect of federative cooperation and the possibilities of knowledge and deepening of learning that the training proposal brought to the School managers. These elements refer to the positive contributions of the Program and its unfolding in the management practice and favor the strengthening of the national policy of formation of education professionals. / A presente dissertação tem por objeto de estudo o Programa Nacional Escola de Gestores da Educação Básica (PNEGEB). O PNEGEB integra a política de formação de gestores escolares, e fundamenta-se nos princípios da gestão democrática, tendo como eixo a escola como espaço de inclusão social e da emancipação humana. A proposta deste trabalho de pesquisa foi analisar a efetividade do Programa Escola de Gestores da Educação Básica, considerando suas condições de realização, analisando sua aplicabilidade e avaliando sua execução, sob o ponto de vista da instituição executora, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), e dos órgãos parceiros, União Nacional de Dirigentes Municipais (UNDIME) e Secretaria de Estado da Educação da Paraíba (SEE/PB). Para o estudo, fez-se opção metodológica pela pesquisa descritiva e exploratória. Do ponto de vista dos instrumentos e procedimentos, utilizamos o estudo bibliográfico e a pesquisa documental, tendo como fontes os documentos reguladores do programa, o Projeto Básico do Curso de Especialização do Programa Escola de Gestores, o Plano de Trabalho e os Relatórios de execução, entre outros. Para o desenvolvimento da discussão foram utilizados os marcos teóricos de Aguiar, Cury, Dourado, Ferreira, Freire, Paro e Lück. Ao avaliar a execução do Programa, a pesquisa concluiu que, no caso da Paraíba, a implementação do Programa foi exitosa, sobretudo no que concerne ao aspecto da cooperação federativa e às possibilidades de conhecimento e aprofundamento de aprendizagens que a proposta da formação trouxe para os gestores escolares. Estes elementos referenciam as contribuições positivas do Programa e os seus desdobramentos na prática gestora e favorecem o fortalecimento da política nacional de formação dos profissionais da educação.

This research, inserted in the Line of Politics and Administration of the Education of the Program of Masters degree in Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia, has as object of investigation the School Collegiate of the Public Educational System of Minas Gerais, Brazil, based on the study of official proposals of the standardization and adjustment of the operational process in these administration instances, promulgated in period 1991-2006. The demand for it, is to identify and analyze the ruptures and continuities, the approaches and the political and ideological farness, expressed in the legislation, in a global context of reestablishing the world of work and the role of the State in the neoliberal perspective, as well as the present evidences of decentralizationdisarrangement, participation and democratization of the public school system. The methodology of the research of qualitative delineation was used critically to determine, organize and analyze the laws, rules, designations and other official documents announced in the period between 1991-2006, besides other publications originated from the mineiro public power (authority). These documents were dialectically composed by the study of social, economical, political and cultural set of the country and the state of Minas Gerais. It s very clear that the pronunciation of the local context with the world scenario, marked by the globalization of the economies and of a significant performance of the multilateral organisms in some sectors of countries in development, such as the educational sector. A bigger tendency of the public policies has been verified because of the hegemonic interests mainly economical, the generalization about the reformation done in the field of public education and on the mineira society, shows the necessity to recompose, through the spaces and constituted collegiate agencies, new strategies of inversions and social control of this reality with the objective of the repeated delimitations in the State orientations and its implications in the constitution of the School Collegiates in Minas Gerais. / A presente pesquisa, inserida na Linha de Políticas e Gestão da Educação do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, tem como objeto de investigação os Colegiados Escolares da rede pública estadual de ensino de Minas Gerais, a partir do estudo das propostas oficiais de normatização e regulação dos processos de funcionamento dessas instâncias de gestão, promulgadas no período 1991 2006. Procurase, com isso, identificar e analisar as rupturas e continuidades, aproximações e distanciamentos políticos e ideológicos expressos na legislação promulgada, num contexto global de reestruturação do mundo do trabalho e do papel do Estado na perspectiva neoliberal, assim como as lógicas presentes de descentralização-desconcentração, participação e democratização da gestão da escola pública. Para tanto, foi utilizada a metodologia de pesquisa de delineamento qualitativo para localizar, organizar e analisar criticamente as leis, normas, decretos e demais documentos oficiais promulgados no período supracitado, além de outras publicações emanadas do poder público mineiro. Tais documentos foram dialeticamente contextualizados a partir do estudo das conjunturas sociais, econômicas, políticas e culturais do país e do estado de Minas Gerais. Evidenciouse dessa forma a articulação do contexto local com o cenário mundial, marcado pela globalização das economias e uma atuação significativa dos organismos multilaterais em determinados setores dos países em desenvolvimento, entre os quais se inclui o setor educacional. Tendo sido verificado um maior direcionamento das políticas públicas em função dos interesses hegemônicos predominantemente econômicos, a síntese acerca das reformas realizadas no âmbito da educação pública e da sociedade mineira demonstra a necessidade de se recompor, a partir dos espaços e órgãos colegiados constituídos, novas estratégias de intervenção e controle social dessa realidade, tendo em vista as delimitações recorrentes nas orientações estatais e suas implicações na conformação dos Colegiados Escolares em Minas Gerais. / Mestre em Educação

The aim of the study was to investigate the training of school governing bodies in the Free State Province from an education management point of view. Since 1994 the South African government has adopted a number of policy documents aimed at democratizing education in the country. The transformation of education in the new South African context encompasses the idea of partnership in which participants - such as parents, educators, learners (in secondary schools) play an active role in taking decisions on behalf of the school. The State alone cannot control schools, but has to share its power with other stakeholders. However, this can only happen if participants in school governance are trained to have power and the capacity to decide on matters affecting their schools. Hence, training is the cornerstone of affirming governors in the execution of their roles and responsibilities. Since school governing bodies are composed of a cross section of people with different ideologies, expectations and levels of education - training is necessary to prepare then for co-operative governance. Without adequate and on-going in-service training, it is unlikely that school governing body members can make informed decisions. The empirical method, namely qualitative research, was successful in obtaining information from participants about the training offered to them. It also established how participants felt and thought about their experiences and perceptions about the training they received, whether it built capacity or not. A number of recommendations were made with regard to the research findings for stakeholders to note. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Comparative Education)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:57:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Luiza Franco Nery Machado.pdf: 571758 bytes, checksum: 7a8cd268bf5af27a419c42b2a73d8f85 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-27 / This research aimed at investigating, through the education professionals point of view, how parents/guardian are participating at school, what professionals expect from this participation and which factors could damage or help its promotion. Two auxiliary canals at Public State Schools: Parent and Teacher Associations (PTAs) and School Councils were approached as they are in force and guaranteed by law. Fourteen subjects (directors, teachers and employees), from seven Elementary Schools - Cicle I, in Franca-SP, took part in the research. A questionnaire and an interview were used to collect data. Results showed that school professionals recognize the importance of parents/guardian at school, but they also recognize the difficulty to promote it. The study revealed that Parent and Teacher Associations (PTAs) and School Councils could not be firmed yet as effective auxiliary canals for the Education Institutions. On the contrary, the participants consider these canals as formal, bureaucratic spaces: the first, giving priority to the finance dimension, without any connection with the pedagogic dimension; the latter, it is showed through reports, have little performance in the everyday school life. About both Parent and Teacher Association (PTAs) and School Councils it was detected a lack of clearness on the part of the school professionals as for the aims, rights and owes that these canals point, discrediting, thus, the power of decision and participation on them, in the sight of improving education. On the other hand, it was observed a change, at least in the discourse, going towards the recognition that the school is not self-sufficient to take decisions and it needs the parents/guardian to achieve the goal of a school with better quality / O trabalho que aqui se apresenta teve como objetivo investigar, na visão dos profissionais da educação, como está acontecendo a participação dos pais/responsáveis na escola, que expectativas têm os profissionais sobre tal participação e quais os fatores que prejudicariam ou auxiliariam sua promoção. Foram focalizados dois canais auxiliares existentes no Sistema de Ensino Público do Estado de São Paulo: as Associações de Pais e Mestres (APMs) e os Conselhos de Escola, ambos em vigor nos dias atuais e garantidos por lei. Participaram do presente trabalho 14 sujeitos (entre diretores, professores e funcionários) pertencentes a sete escolas de Ciclo I do Ensino Fundamental do município de Franca SP. Para a coleta dos dados foram utilizados o questionário e a entrevista. Os resultados indicaram que os profissionais da escola reconhecem a importância da participação dos pais/responsáveis na instituição escolar, mas reconhecem, também, a dificuldade em promovê-la. Revelou-se que a APM e o Conselho de Escola ainda não conseguiram se firmar como canais auxiliares efetivos para a instituição escolar. Pelo contrário, os participantes percebem tais canais como espaços formais, burocráticos: o primeiro priorizando a dimensão financeira, sem que esta apresente ligação com a dimensão pedagógica; quanto ao segundo, evidencia-se, a partir dos depoimentos, a pouca atuação do mesmo no cotidiano escolar. Em relação aos dois APM e Conselho de Escola detecta-se a falta de clareza por parte dos profissionais da escola quanto às finalidades, direitos e deveres que esses canais apontam, desprestigiando o poder de decisão e participação nos mesmos com vistas à melhoria educacional. Em contrapartida, observa-se uma mudança, pelo menos no discurso, em direção ao reconhecimento de que a escola não é auto-suficiente para tomar as decisões e necessita dos pais/responsáveis para concretizar a meta de uma escola com maior qualidade

The aim of the study was to investigate the training of school governing bodies in the Free State Province from an education management point of view. Since 1994 the South African government has adopted a number of policy documents aimed at democratizing education in the country. The transformation of education in the new South African context encompasses the idea of partnership in which participants - such as parents, educators, learners (in secondary schools) play an active role in taking decisions on behalf of the school. The State alone cannot control schools, but has to share its power with other stakeholders. However, this can only happen if participants in school governance are trained to have power and the capacity to decide on matters affecting their schools. Hence, training is the cornerstone of affirming governors in the execution of their roles and responsibilities. Since school governing bodies are composed of a cross section of people with different ideologies, expectations and levels of education - training is necessary to prepare then for co-operative governance. Without adequate and on-going in-service training, it is unlikely that school governing body members can make informed decisions. The empirical method, namely qualitative research, was successful in obtaining information from participants about the training offered to them. It also established how participants felt and thought about their experiences and perceptions about the training they received, whether it built capacity or not. A number of recommendations were made with regard to the research findings for stakeholders to note. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Comparative Education)