Thesis (M.Mus.Ther.)--New Zealand School of Music, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-147).

Acute and chronic pain conditions have a significant impact on the individual who is experiencing pain and resolution of pain continues to present a challenge to nurses and other health care professionals. It is widely accepted that pain education for nurses is necessary if nurses are to deliver effective, evidenced based pain care. Although it has been shown that participation in pain education improves nurses’ pain knowledge, very little is known about the way in which nurses use their improved pain knowledge in their practice or about the conditions that promote application of that pain knowledge. The aims of this study are (a) to explore the transfer of pain knowledge from a continuing education nursing course into practice, and (b) to investigate the impact that the nurses’ participation in action research has on their ability to improve aspects of their pain practice. Participants are 14 registered nurses who successfully completed two accredited pain course units as part of their BSc / BN degree in Nursing. The nurses formed two groups of inquiry, who used both their participation in the pain course and in action research to investigate and change aspects of pain assessment and management practices within their clinical areas. The inquiry groups were located in two different Health Board locations in Scotland. Following involvement in a pain course, the strategies used by the participating nurses to enhance their pain assessment and management practices are examined. Qualitative data was obtained through individual and group interviews, and analysis of significant incidents. An action research approach contributes to an understanding of conditions that promote application of pain knowledge into practice following participation in the course, and focuses on the possibilities for action and improvement of pain care. The findings from this study demonstrate how nurses develop a more patient-centred approach to pain care and become more accountable for their pain practice. The research also identifies a range of strategies used by nurses to improve collaborative working practices with their colleagues that help to reduce some of the obstacles to delivery of effective pain care. From the outcomes of the inquiry, it is evident that these nurses’ participation in action research has increased the possibilities of their involvement in pain practice interventions. Conditions are created through pain course participation and involvement in action research, which supports nurses’ transfer of pain knowledge into practice Additionally, findings demonstrate the potential action research has for identifying problems with pain care and its potential for helping to develop relevant and workable solutions for improving aspects of care. The findings from this study are significant because they inform teaching and learning approaches which can be used with pain education that helps to prepare nurses to deliver more effective pain care within their health care settings.

Self-organised collaborative wiki work is reality in today’s businesses and students have to be prepared for the resulting requirements. Therefore, the aim of our paper is to demonstrate and to evaluate a way to practice self-organised and loosely coordinated wiki work in higher education. We simulate a common enterprise 2.0 collaboration situation to convey competences in a graduate-level classroom and identify challenges in this context following action research principles. We conclude with a series of insights that help higher education teachers to overcome organisational barriers and provide technical requirements for wiki software engineering.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T20:31:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Noemi Sutil.pdf: 3553361 bytes, checksum: 29b0f6e88a01a8a8cb42559a47429e82 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-02-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this work is to discuss some possibilities and challenges to Physics teachers' education with the developing of educational proposals. The educational proposal is presented as negotiated work, in a process of concepts and practices problem-posing with educational action research in an emancipatory way, in the basis of educational critical theory; the epistemological and socioIogiml aspects, which are negotiated in the educationa1 proposal developing, are specified and analyzed. The research was developed in the fourth and fifth degrees of Physics teachers' education, in Methodology and Practice of Physics I and li, 2004 and 2005, at Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa - PR. The conception of research utilized is the educational action research in an emancipatory way; the precepts of ethnography approach were fotlowed to collect and analyze data. Data were collected by direct observation: written data in a 'field diary", following a route, and audio records; the written works, made by graduation students, has been also utilized in data analysis. Data anaiysis has been realized according to a route and utilizing the analysis of the negotiations between epistemological and sociological aspects. The discussed possibilities are the utilization of the analysis of negotiations as a tool to propose interpretations and the developing of a conception of science in construction. The principals challenges presented are the efíecting of collective and collaborative work in the leaming and teaching process, the necessity of structures in medium and graduation leve1 to the developing of educationat proposals and the passage of an ingenuous perception to a critica[ perception as result of an adequate discussion of Physical knowledge. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir algumas possibilidades e desafios para a formação de professores de Física com a elaboração de propostas educacionais. A proposta educacional é apresentada como obra negociada, em um processo de problematização de conceitos e práticas com a vivência da investigação-ação educacional de perspectiva emancipatória, tendo como base a teoria crítica da educação; os aspectos epistemológicos e sociológicos negociados na elaboração de propostas educacionais são especificados e analisados. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida no quarto e quinto anos do curso de Licenciatura em Física, nas disciplinas Metodologia e Prática de Ensino de Física I e II, anos de 2004 e 2005, na Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa – PR. A concepção de pesquisa utilizada foi a investigação-ação educacional de perspectiva emancipatória, sendo que para a coleta e análise dos dados foram seguidos os preceitos de abordagem etnográfica. Os dados foram coletados por meio de observações diretas: registros escritos em “diário de campo”, seguindo um roteiro, e gravações em áudio; trabalhos escritos elaborados pelos alunos de graduação também foram utilizados na análise de dados. A análise de dados foi realizada conforme roteiro e utilizando a análise das negociações entre aspectos epistemológicos e sociológicos. As possibilidades discutidas são: a utilização da análise das negociações como ferramenta para proposição de interpretações e o desenvolvimento de concepção de ciência em construção. Os principais desafios apresentados são: a efetivação do trabalho coletivo e colaborativo no processo de ensino-aprendizagem, a necessidade de estruturas no ensino médio e superior para a elaboração de propostas educacionais e a passagem de uma percepção ingênua para uma percepção crítica a partir da discussão adequada dos conhecimentos de Física.

The focus of this thesis was to explore educational professionals' everyday experience of English educational policies; narrowing its focus to policy which promotes an inclusion agenda. The findings are presented in three sections with the first two papers prepared in accordance with the author guidelines of the journals proposed for submission. The first paper offers a review of literature which represents teacher relationship (see Braun, Maguire and Ball, 2010; Fullan, 2006; Luttenberg, Imants and van Veen, 2013; Luttenberg, van Veen and Imants, 2013; Wexler, 2002) with English educational policies. Teacher perspectives illustrate how the implementation and practice of policy heavily guides practice, both in terms of pedagogy and content, and detail the difficulties teachers have in establishing professional identity whilst trying to accommodate policy into practice. It is suggested that in order for teachers to adopt new educational policies they need to be able to take some ownership of both the policies themselves and of their own professional development; but most importantly, that they need the space to engage in dialogue around their practice to do this. The first paper provided a frame for the second by offering a description of the current climate teachers find themselves in and by discussing what might be needed to bring about the professional development necessary to embed policy into practice. The second paper then presents a description of a collaborative action research project within an English high school; a group of educational psychology, teaching, support and pastoral professionals worked collaboratively to develop person-centred practice through their engagement in an inquiry group. The inquiry group engaged in dialogue around practice; exploring their own personal and professional values as well as the values embedded within person-centred practice. This paper offers an account of the inquiry group's journey, highlighting key themes as identified by the group: ownership of, and confidence in, the learning process; developing reflective practice; and the challenge of engaging others in the learning process. The findings suggest that an action research approach can facilitate the learning and development necessary to embody collaborative person-centred practice. The third paper then offers a critical appraisal of the role that educational psychology can have in disseminating findings and promoting teacher development; in particular through the facilitation of collaborative action research within the school context.

Submitted by Rosina Valeria Lanzellotti Mattiussi Teixeira (rosina.teixeira@unisantos.br) on 2015-03-31T14:16:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio M. Galleao.pdf: 2800324 bytes, checksum: 2c116c6b576bf1b760a81ad0fb34a631 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-31T14:16:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Antonio M. Galleao.pdf: 2800324 bytes, checksum: 2c116c6b576bf1b760a81ad0fb34a631 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-12 / Universidade Católica de Santos - Católica de Santos / In face of a scenario characterized by privatization and mercantilization of education, this study has the purpose of understanding the meaning and pedagogical possibilities of a university class, considered, within this work, as the core element of the formal teaching and learning process. Based on the assumption that the class influences and is influenced by the environment, a bibliographic / documental research of exploratory character was initially developed, aiming at providing foundation to the theoretical assumptions of this subject of study: the university class. That phase was supported by Almeida; Bernheim; Buarque; Chauí; Cunha, L.; Demo; Freire; Imbernón; Masetto; Neves, C.; Nogaro; Rué; Santos; Silva; Snyders; Teixeira; Zabala and Zabalza. The field research, carried out on students of three Engineering night courses from a Higher Education institution in the Baixada Santista Region, highlighted the voice of students regarding university classes. The qualitative approach research was structured in three stages: first, gathering data on the perception of students regarding the classes already attended before this research was established; second, an action research with the purpose of experiencing classes that moved away from the reproductive class model; and a third stage, aimed at providing reflection on the experience lived by the participants of stage 2. The analysis of data collected in the study was based on the dialectical hermeneutics with operational support of Content Analysis. From the methodological standpoint, the work counted on the following authors: Bardin; Bodgan and Biklen; Ghedin and Franco; Lüdke and André; Franco, M. A; Franco, M. L.; Minayo; Thiollent and Tripp. Data analysis made possible to infer that students that took part in this research also bring with them a concept of class that is compatible with the one established from the theoretical studies: the class as spacetime of human formation, based on the active participation of students and professor; a spacetime in which all participants can learn, which provides incentive to the critic spirit, research, reflection, dialogue; a class that allows the attendee to go beyond the contents studied therein, and that seeks a deeper level of learning. At the end of the work, it was possible to reach the conclusion that the class can constitute a privileged spacetime of human formation, despite the complex and contradictory context of Graduate Higher Education currently made available in Brazil. / Diante de um cenário caracterizado pela privatização e mercantilização da educação, esta pesquisa teve por objetivo principal compreender o significado e as possibilidades pedagógicas da aula universitária, considerada, neste trabalho, como elemento central do processo formal de ensino e aprendizagem. Partindo do pressuposto de que a aula influencia e é influenciada pelo meio, desenvolveu-se inicialmente uma pesquisa bibliográfica/documental, de caráter exploratório, a fim de fundamentar os pressupostos teóricos deste objeto de estudo: a aula universitária. Essa fase contou com o apoio de autores como Almeida; Bernheim; Buarque; Chauí; Cunha, L.; Demo; Freire; Imbernón; Masetto; Neves, C.; Nogaro; Rué; Santos; Silva; Snyders; Teixeira; Zabala e Zabalza. A pesquisa de campo, realizada com alunos de três cursos noturnos de Engenharia de uma instituição de ensino superior da Baixada Santista, destacou a voz dos alunos a respeito de aulas universitárias. Sob uma abordagem qualitativa, foi estruturada em três etapas: a primeira para colher dados sobre a percepção dos alunos a respeito das aulas já vivenciadas antes da pesquisa; na segunda etapa, uma pesquisa-ação com o intuito de vivenciar aulas que se afastassem do modelo de aula reprodutiva; e uma terceira etapa com a finalidade de proporcionar reflexão sobre a experiência vivida pelos participantes na etapa 2. Para a análise dos dados colhidos, o estudo utilizou a Hermenêutica-dialética com o apoio operacional da Análise de Conteúdo. Sob o ponto de vista metodológico, contou com o apoio de Bardin; Bodgan e Biklen; Ghedin e Franco; Lüdke e André; Franco, M. A; Franco, M. L.; Minayo; Thiollent e Tripp. Por meio da análise dos dados, pode-se inferir que os alunos participantes desta pesquisa também trazem uma concepção de aula compatível com aquela estabelecida a partir dos estudos teóricos: a aula como espaçotempo de formação humana, baseada na participação ativa de alunos e professor; um espaçotempo em que todos os participantes podem aprender, que incentiva o espírito crítico, a pesquisa, a reflexão, o diálogo; uma aula que permite ir além do conteúdo nela estudado, que busca um nível mais profundo de aprendizagem. Ao final do trabalho, foi possível concluir que a aula pode constituir-se em um espaçotempo privilegiado de formação humana, apesar do contexto complexo e contraditório do ensino superior de graduação atualmente oferecido no Brasil.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 134-141).

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-141). Also available in print.