For low-income minority and marginalized communities, American democracy’s educational mission remains unfulfilled. Student voices have provided insight into ways that schools disserve and serve students and how schools can improve in promoting academic achievement; however, academically successful low-income students’ voices—particularly those at the elementary school level—are largely excluded from the literature. Providing a platform for student voices, this qualitative, intrinsic critical case study explored six high achieving low-income students’ views of their academic success and how that success was achieved. Participants were six fifthgrade students, their parents, and teacher, in a school-wide Title I urban public school. Data were collected over a 12-week period through individual interviews, observation, participation, and semiformal conversations. Using an immersive pattern analysis, four main categories emerged from the student interview data: student beliefs about their role; classroom structures; teacher practices; and family support. The study found four principal success factors: a dynamic effort-driven view of success and intelligence; a rigorous dialogic classroom that prioritized student voice, critical thinking, collaboration, and social imagination; an accountable classroom culture of high expectations and mastery learning; and the richly diverse experiences and teachings of parents and families as valuable funds of knowledge. Implications and recommendations are included for policy, practice, and future research.

This study investigates the extent to which the Florida B.E.S.T (Benchmark for Excellent Student Thinking) English Language Arts (ELA) standards demand that students participate in dialogic interactions within the 10th grade ELA classroom. Dialogic demands, characterized by active discourse and collaborative sense-making, are the opportunities students interact with one another or with a text. The dialogic elements of classroom pedagogy are an increasingly recognized critical component of effective literacy instruction in contrast with the monologic classroom where teachers are the primary source of information. A Critical Discourse Analysis through the lens of Fairclough is used as this research aims to identify specific instances where students are required to engage in meaningful dialogue with one another or with a text. The analysis examines the standards' language, the distribution of the standards, and the underlying ideological stance of the standards that students interact with. By assessing the presence or absence of dialogic demands within the standards, this study seeks to provide insights into the alignment between the Florida B.E.S.T ELA standards and the principles of dialogic pedagogy. Findings from this research can inform curriculum development, instructional practices, and educational policies aimed at promoting more robust and participatory approaches to literacy education in Florida schools.

Vår intention med arbetet är att upptäcka olika metoder för att främja arbetet med högläsning. Syftet med litteraturöversikten är därför att granska tidigare forskning som redogör för olika metoder om högläsning för att gynna elevernas läsförmåga. Detta syftet leder till forskningsfrågan som litteraturöversikten utgår ifrån: Vilka metoder för högläsning gynnar utvecklingen av elevers läsförmåga? Datainsamlingen består av systematiska sökningar genom söksträngar i olika databaser som bland annat ERIC (EBSCO), Swepub, Scopus och DiVA. Forskningen är både internationell och nationell. Tematisk analys används för att analysera datainsamlingen. Utifrån analysen identifieras teman som utgör våra rubriker i resultatdelen. Studiens resultat visar att interaktiv högläsning är en metod som gynnar elevers literacyutveckling. Även andra faktorer såsom valet av bok och vid vilken tidpunkt på dagen påverkar främjandet av läsutvecklingen. Slutsatsen av litteraturstudien är att interaktiv högläsning, val av bok och tidpunkt med flera, främjar läskunnigheten och förståelsen. Ett aktivt lärande bidrar till en ökad motivation hos eleverna. / Our intention with this study is to discover different methods to promote the work with reading aloud. The purpose of this study is therefore to review previous research that outlines different approaches to reading aloud to benefit students' reading skills. This purpose leads to the research question on which this study is based: What methods of reading aloud benefit the development of students' reading skills? Data collection consists of systematic searches through search strings in various databases such as ERIC (EBSCO), Swepub, Scopus and Diva. The research is both international and national. Thematic analysis is used to analyze the data collection. Based on the analysis, themes are identified and form our headings in the results section. The results of the study shows that interactive reading aloud is a method that benefits students' literacy development. Other factors such as the choice of book and the time of day also influence the promotion of reading development. The conclusion of this study is that interactive reading aloud, choice of book and time of day, among others, promotes literacy and comprehension. Active learning contributes to increased motivation among students.

In the past 30 years there has been a rapid and exponential growth in the numbers of people electing to complete all or part of their studies outside of their country of origin. This phenomenon has attracted considerable research attention, not least from those who are interested to describe the benefits seen to accrue from the opportunity this provides for an extended encounter with linguistic and cultural diversity. Notably, the widespread assumption that this can generate a new form of learning, commonly referred to as intercultural learning, which is understood to comprise increased tolerance, empathy and openness to the linguistic and cultural other. Despite the limited research data to substantiate these claims, among those interested to develop educational responses to globalization, the potential of intercultural contact to generate intercultural learning has considerable appeal and has been co-opted in the development of policy and practice to promote global citizenship at all levels of education. This has contributed to the emergence of a particular discourse about intercultural learning and is further fuelling the development of both short and long-stay study abroad programmes. This discourse is, however, increasingly called into question on account of the perceived overly-simplistic constructions of interculturality and learning on which it is premised. In particular, there is a growing recognition of the need to develop situated accounts of people’s everyday encounters with linguistic and cultural others which acknowledge the exigencies of the setting, as well as the impact of wider political economic and historical discourses on their positioning in intercultural encounters. The generation of ‘thick’ descriptions of people’s lived experiences of interculturality in global educational contact zones, it is argued, can lead to a more nuanced account of the intercultural learning these can afford. This was the aim of the study reported in this thesis. The study undertaken explores the relationship between an experience of interculturality and learning among 14 international students during their year-long sojourn at a university in the UK. Drawing upon a socially constructed relational understanding of learning informed by the transactional and dialogic conceptualization of learning developed by Dewey and Bakhtin among others, the study sought to generate a narrative account of participants’ experiences and learning generated from periodic individual and group interviews over the year as well as reflective accounts in participants portfolios and other opportunistic conversations recorded in the researcher log. Primary analysis of the data revealed that participants’ experiences generated a number of forms of learning. One of these, ‘learning about self in relation to linguistic and cultural other’ was identified as a form of intercultural learning, comprising learning to be more open to the other and learning about linguistic and cultural positioning. This was subsequently explored in more depth, revealing a complex interplay between these two elements and the strategic actions taken by participants to manage their encounters with linguistic and cultural others. These results revealed considerable differences in the learning trajectories and outcomes resulting from their intercultural encounter. The findings also point to the importance of sustained commitment to intercultural dialogue on the part of individuals and the perception of their ethical treatment by others as important to the direction their learning trajectories take. On the basis of these findings, it is argued that while an encounter with linguistic and cultural other may lead to increased tolerance, empathy and openness to other associated with the way intercultural learning is employed in much of the research literature, the strategic actions learners take to negotiate their linguistic and cultural positioning will critically inform the extent to which they develop these qualities. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the ways in which a situated and relational conceptualization of interculturality and learning is seen to contribute to a more informed and deeper understanding of the sorts of intercultural learning that are made possible by an intercultural encounter. I also identify a number of research agendas which can build upon the insights provided by the study.

This work examines and presents evidence for the existence of a gap in epistemological views between academic and practice marketers. Few if any academics would seem to challenge the ‘gap’ premise but the importance of any gap and its nature are issues about which little agreement exists. The intractable nature of the academic practitioner gap has a long history of interesting and diverse debate ranging from Dewey’s argument about the true nature of knowing to contributions based on epistemic adolescence, ontological differences and more pragmatic suggestions about different tribes. Others include the rigour versus relevance issue, failures in curriculum or pedagogy and a clash between modernist and postmodernist epistemologies. Polanyi’s description of tacit versus explicit knowledge further extends the debate as do issues of knowledge creation and dissemination in particular through Nonaka. Irrespective of approach actual evidence for a gap was largely based on argument rather than empirical proof. This work address that lack. The intractability of the gap suggests that it is at root, epistemic. To identity the existence of a gap in such terms a domain specific epistemic questionnaire developed by Hofer was used. A factor analytic process extracted a common set of factors for the domain of marketers. Five epistemic factors were identified. Three of these showed significant difference in orientation between practitioners and academics confirming that the theory practice gap is tangible and revealing an indication of its nature Broadly results from factor analysis with interpretation informed by factor item structure and prior theoretical debate suggests that academics and practitioners views on knowledge and how they come to know share similarities and differences. Academics are more likely to see knowledge as stable, based on established academic premise legitimized from academy. Practitioners are more likely to see knowledge as emerging from action, as dynamic and legitimised by results. Other significant findings included the emergence of dialogue as a means of closing the gap, and the emergence of a group of academics with significant practice experience termed here as, hybrids, who are located in the Academy but mostly share their epistemic views with practitioners. Correlation analysis showed that academic propensity to engage in dialogue with practice moved academic factor scores towards practitioners. This shows that dialogue has a clear role in both perpetuating the gap in its absence or reducing it. Fundamentally dialogue plays a clear role in bridging the two epistemologies and in providing for additional epistemic work. Finally a solution to bridging the gap has been proposed. The model called dialogic introspection melds dialogue and introspection to create epistemic doubt, the volition to change and a means of resolution. The model avoids prescription of what form knowledge should take but instead adopts a stance similar to more mature disciplines like medicine in which the status of academic work is enhanced in line with its relevance to practice which itself is embodied in dialogue. This approach recognizes the centrality of epistemology as shaping the conditions necessary for recognizing epistemologies as hierarchies in which the epistemology most capable of additional epistemic work is the most desirable. Such an epistemology would have the capacity to add epistemic work and reinforces Nonaka’s call for epistemology to be recognized as central to knowledge creation.

« Ici, c’est l’école de la chefferie. Les enseignants sont nommés avec le consentement de la tribu et de la chefferie. Ici, il y a le grand chef, le petit-chef et le pasteur et après l’administration […]. L’école, elle appartient au gavaman (gouverneur). C’est comme ça depuis. Tout ça c’est du domaine du Ledran (espace public). Cependant tout cela est posé sur nos terres ». L’intervention du dignitaire de la tribu de Padawa sur l’île de Maré en Nouvelle-Calédonie, le lundi 3 mars 1983 posait les éléments déclencheurs de réflexion sur l’agencement spatial de l’école en tribu kanak. L’expression utilisée par ce dignitaire clanique, « cela est posé sur nos terres », même si elle nous rend perplexe quant à la situation spatiale de l’école, elle nous offre cependant l’opportunité d’une approche socio anthropologique et un angle d’étude des rapports politiques progressifs liés à l’histoire d’insertion et d’intégration des groupes et des objets dans l’espace autochtone. La préposition « sur » implique la position de ce qui est en surface, de ce qui relève des autorités passagères, opposé à l’interne, « sous », qu’est l’espace foncier coutumier, espace d’enracinement. La dichotomie « sur » et « sous » comme concepts spatiaux renvoie aux formules d’accueilli et d’accueillant, entendues comme représentation d’ordre d’arrivée dans l’espace socialisé, la tribu. Cet ordre d’occupation devient un argument fort de la revendication de légitimité entre autochtones eux-mêmes puis entre autochtones et les autres groupes de population. Les microespaces vitaux sont gérés en fonction de l’ordre d’intégration et de localisation des groupes ou des objets du collectif. Cette distinction d’occupation spatiale peut alors élucider la localisation paradoxale de l’école à l’exemple de celle de la tribu de Padawa, qui seule, ressemblant à un poste de garde-frontières aux confins de la tribu. Rien n’est moins simple dans le milieu kanak où l’espace et sa gestion ne sont nullement des objets éphémères voire même évanescents. Orientée selon la méthode dite qualitative à travers la discursivité sociale, notre réflexion sur la place de l’école en milieu kanak, non seulement scruterait la raison intentionnelle autochtone à vouloir positionner paradoxalement l’infrastructure mais aussi selon la confrontation de deux espaces, -Esotérique et Exotérique-, comment Savoir autochtone, Savoir de l’école, Prestige et Pouvoir insulaire seraient mis en compétition selon des pratiques claires-obscures de stratégies d’anthropologisation politique des espaces, relevant d’aspects combinatoires. Le souci de recherche d’équilibre dynamique, suite à l’intégration de l’espace scolaire, conduirait par reformulation et réarrangement permanent à l’émergence au sens barycentrique d’un espace construit et attendu implicitement par les Accords, espace moderne que nous aimerions nommer, Espace Public Pays, nouvel espace dialogique où viennent se confronter divers discours et textes culturels complexes. En outre, notre analyse permettrait de reconsidérer ces espaces complexes identitaires indigènes au moment où, dans le contexte expéditif « déséquilibrant », l’autochtone risquerait son extradition dans un monde de formatage asphyxiant, dans lequel tout serait prétexte à ravaler ce reste identitaire, comme forme de déshumanisation en le dépossédant de la faculté à… et de … penser le monde, comme activité humaine noble. Ne serait-ce pas là notre défi ? / "Here is the school of leadership. Teachers are appointed with the consent of the tribe and chiefdom. Here, there is a great leader, the small head and the pastor and after administration [...]. The school, it belongs to gavaman (Governor). This has been going. It's all in the domain of Ledran (public space). But all this rests on our land. " The response of the dignitary of the tribe of Padawa on Maré Island in New Caledonia, Monday, March 3, 1983 raised the triggers for reflection on the spatial arrangement of the school Kanak tribe. The expression used by the dignitary clannish, "it sits on our land," even if it makes us confused about the spatial location of the school, however it gives us the opportunity of a social anthropological approach and an angle review reports progressive policy related to the history of inclusion and integration of groups and Aboriginal objects in space. The preposition "on" position involves what is on the surface of what is under the authority transient, as opposed to internally; "under" customary land is space, space for rooting. The dichotomy between "on" and "below" refers to spatial concepts such as greeting and welcoming, understood as a representation of order of arrival in the socialized space, the tribe. This order of occupation becomes a strong argument for the claim to legitimacy among Aboriginal people themselves and between indigenous and others. The vital microespaces are managed according to the order of integration and localization of objects or groups of the collective. This distinction occupying space can then elucidate the paradoxical location of the school to the example of one of the tribe of Padawa, which alone, like a border guard post on the borders of the tribe. Nothing is less straightforward in the Kanak community where space and its management are not ephemera even evanescent. Based on the qualitative method through social discursively, our thoughts on the place of the school in kanak tribes not only probes into the indigenous intention to paradoxically posit the infrastructure but also, because it opposes two different kinds of space - esoteric and exoteric, into the way indigenous knowledge, scholar knowledge and island knowledge may come into competition in not so clear strategies of the political anthropologization of space, generated by a combination of perspectives. The sake of research of dynamic equilibrium, following the integration of school space by rewording and rearrangement lead to the emergence Standing under barycentric space built and implicitly expected by the Agreements, modern space that we would like appoint, Public Space of the country, where new space is dialogic discourse to confront various cultural texts and complex. In addition, our analysis would reconsider these complex spaces indigenous identity when, in the context of parole "unbalancing" the native risk his extradition in a suffocating world of formatting, in which everything is a pretext to swallow what is identity, as form of dehumanization by dispossessing the ability to think ... ... and the world as noble human activity. Would not that our challenge?

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A presente tese de doutorado tem como objetivo investigar as dimensões de uma Arte/Educação Humanista, dentro do universo da Creche/Pré-Escola Oeste da Universidade de São Paulo, trazendo como problemática o que em vista da diversidade e visibilidade na Creche/Pré-Escola Oeste que pode conferir-lhe o status de um patrimônio cultural e imaterial da USP e referência de Educação Infantil. Partindo da hipótese que o processo educativo, e os desdobramentos a partir dos projetos de trabalho, como ambientes de aprendizagem pela Arte, contribuíram para a formação das crianças, famílias e educadores, com um perfil de protagonistas culturais dentro de um processo de reprodução interpretativa e criativa, por meio da Cultura de Pares. A tese relata algumas propostas pedagógicas educativas em comunhão com a Arte, tomando também a investidura política em luta pela reabertura de seu espaço, após o fechamento arbitrário pela reitoria da USP em janeiro de 2017. Optou-se pela metodologia de pesquisa qualitativa a partir de um estudo de caso de caráter exploratório e analítico, mediante o contexto em que a Creche Oeste, como objeto de pesquisa, se encontra imerso. Foi escolhido o sistema Imagem Watching de Robert Ott para a condução da narrativa do pensamento, para externar o conhecimento organizado sobre a Creche Oeste, analogamente ao processo de apreciação de uma obra de arte, apontando pressupostos e sugestões para um arcabouço teórico de referenciais da Criança e da Infância. / The present thesis aims to investigate the dimensions of an Art / Education Humanist, within the Nursery/Pre-School Creche Oeste of the Universidade de São Paulo, bringing as problematic considering the diversity and visibility in the Nursery/Pre-School Creche Oeste, that confers the status of a cultural and immaterial heritage of USP and reference of Early Childhood Education. Given the hypothesis that the educational process, and the unfolding of work projects, as learning environment by the Art, contributed to the children, families and educators formation, with a profile of cultural protagonists within a process of interpretive reproduction and creative, through the culture of peers. The thesis reports some educational pedagogical proposals along with the Art, also taking into account the political investiture in a fight for the reopening of its space, after the arbitrary closure by the rectory of the USP in January of 2017. The methodology of qualitative research was chosen from a study-case of exploratory and analytical characteristics, in which the Creche Oeste, was chosen as the research object. The Robert Ott\'s Image Watching system was chosen to conduct a narrative construction, to extern the organized knowledge about the Creche Oeste, similarly to the appreciation process of artwork, pointing out assumptions and suggestions for a theoretical framework references of Children and Childhood.

O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi lançar luz à questão da experiência estética da leitura literária dialógica e seus efeitos para os sujeitos, no âmbito da prática social de clubes de leitura. Para tal, buscou-se compreender como se dá essa experiência, descrever suas características e compreender a influência de seus efeitos na subjetividade e sociabilidade dos leitores e leitoras, procurando revelar como sujeitos comuns a vivenciam no cotidiano. Foi utilizado o método fenomenológico em pesquisa qualitativa aplicado a três grupos de pessoas de ambos os sexos e com idades entre 23 e 52 anos (considerando apenas os participantes fixos), integrantes de três clubes de leitura com perfis e preferências literárias variadas, em funcionamento na capital e região metropolitana de São Paulo. A discussão de resultados foi realizada por meio de um diálogo interdisciplinar entre teóricos da fenomenologia, da antropologia, da estética e da teoria literária. Os achados da pesquisa envolvem questões relativas à peculiar relação das mulheres com a leitura e com a literatura; a possibilidade de ampliação das formas de subjetivação a partir do encontro com o livro e do diálogo com outros leitores e leitoras e a criação de novos espaços de pertencimento propiciados por esses encontros / The aim of this research was to shed light on the question of the aesthetic experience of literary reading and its effects on subjects within the social practice of reading clubs. To do this, we sought to understand how this experience is given, to describe its characteristics and to understand the influence of its effects on the subjectivity and sociability of readers, trying to reveal how common subjects experience it in everyday life. The phenomenological method in qualitative research was applied to three groups of people of both genders and aged between 23 and 52 years (considering only the fixed participants), members of three reading clubs with varied literary profiles and preferences, operating in the capital and metropolitan region of São Paulo. The discussion of results was carried out through an interdisciplinary dialogue between autors of phenomenology, anthropology, aesthetics and literary theory. The findings of the research involve questions related to women\'s peculiar relationship with reading and literature; the possibility of expanding the forms of subjectivation from the encounter with the book and the dialogue with other readers and the creation of new spaces of belonging provided by these meetings

O presente estudo tem como objeto a linguagem de canções do compositor popular brasileiro Zeca Baleiro. Consideramos sua forma híbrida por apropriar-se de materiais simbólicos de diversas procedências e temporalidades: matrizes culturais, elementos tradicionais, referenciais locais, nacionais e signos de um universo simbólico compartilhado mundialmente no espaço de fluxos globais. Por seu caráter dialógico e intertextual considerou-se nessas análises as relações entre texto (na materialidade verbal e musical) e contexto (seus significados). Nesse intuito, propusemos a experiência de articulação metodológico-analítica entre Análise dialógica do discurso baseada em Mikhail Bakhtin e Semiologia para análise da música popular de Philip Tagg. Trata-se de observar a construção de sentidos de sua linguagem poético-musical em relação a temas relevantes da cultura na contemporaneidade / The present study has as an object the language of Brazilian popular composer Zeca Baleiros songs. We consider its hybrid form of ownership of symbolic materials from different origins and time frames: cultural sources, traditional elements, local and national references and signs of a symbolic universe globally shared in the space of global flows. Because of its dialogic and intertextual aspect, it was considered, in our analysis, the relations between text (in their verbal and musical materiality) and context (their meanings). To that end, we have suggested the experience of methodological and analytical articulation between dialogic discourse analysis based on Mikhail Bakhtin and semiology to analyze the popular music by Philip Tagg. It is to observe the construction of the signification of his poetic and musical language in relation to relevant issues in contemporary culture