Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1992.

Thesis (Ph. D.)-University of Queensland, 1999. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 13, 2009). Includes bibliographical references and index.

In recent decades, reflective practice has taken a more central role in the construction of teachers’ knowledge and practice (Elliot, 1991; Roberts, 1998). Within reflective practice, action research has developed as an approach within which teachers can systematically question, challenge and improve their teaching and recently been introduced into teacher education programmes with the rationale of encouraging student teachers to critically engage with curriculum and practice (Mills, 2003). Recent years have additionally seen interest in how teachers’ knowledge is sociodiscursively constructed with a concomitant focus on the link between teacher identity and practice (e.g. Danielewicz, 2001; Miller Marsh, 2003; Norton 2000). However, few studies have attempted to explore the influence action research may have on the construction of student teacher practice and identity (Trent, 2010). This study explores the role of an undergraduate action research project in terms of the extent of its influence on the development of student practice in English Language classes and the trajectory of their emergent teacher identities. Informed by new theoretical directions in ethnography (Denzin, 1997), data was collected using naturally occurring texts integral to the student teachers’ studies, including weekly lesson observations, post-observation feedback discussions and three focus group discussions over the course of the research project. Analysis indicates that the undergraduate action research project differentially affects students’ practice and emergent identities, but that this relationship may be tangential and students’ agency may be overshadowed by methodological preoccupations and constraints of institutions. Both global and local discursive formations combine and interact to influence this process which occurs in a theoretical ‘interzone’ a third space, sociodiscursively constructed between institutions.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1983. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-269). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-142).

Research shows that the dominant pedagogical practices of physical education are irrelevant to young people in the 21st century, and that physical education currently exists in a time of innovation without change. Subsequently, physical education as a curriculum subject is at risk of becoming extinct unless the 'talked' about pedagogical innovations that provide authentic, relevant and transferable learning experiences can become sustainable 'actioned' futures. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to explore how a pedagogical innovation, the Cooperative Learning model, could be used over an enduring period of time. Participatory action research (PAR) was used as the methodology to scaffold the inquiry and to support eight secondary school physical education teachers' learning and use of Cooperative Learning during an academic year. This thesis considers how PAR enabled teachers to break the dominant practice architectures of physical education and how PAR supported teachers‘ use of an emergent pedagogical approach within and beyond the honeymoon period of implementation. In other words, how PAR facilitated teachers' ability to work beyond the dominant pedagogical practices of physical education and the practices endorsed by the school as an institution. Furthermore, how PAR sustained teachers' engagement with, and use of, the Cooperative Learning model. Indeed, Cooperative Learning was firstly immersed within the milieu of the practice architectures. Yet through the use of PAR the teachers were motivated to move beyond the honeymoon period and began to use the model within, with and then against the mess of the practice architectures. Subsequently, Cooperative Learning was emerging as the dominant pedagogical approach. However, this only occurred for some teachers where social connectivity and an emerging community of practice were significant variables in sustaining and adapting the use of Cooperative Learning. The contribution to knowledge is therefore the methodological processes of how to move beyond dominant pedagogical practices and facilitate innovation with change. In order for a pedagogical innovation to become a sustainable 'actioned' future its use is context dependent and PAR facilitates its sustainability. Furthermore, teacher learning should be advanced and teachers should be encouraged to create communicative spaces with colleagues and researcher facilitators.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-142). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 142 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thèse--Méd.--Paris 7--C.H.U. Bichat-Beaujon, 1973. N°: N° 163. / Bibliogr. ff. 147-148.

A pesquisa mostra o ensino da educação em saúde (ES) na formação do enfermeiro. Objetivos: identificar a concepção dos estudantes de Enfermagem sobre ES e Identificar e analisar as ações educativas realizadas pelos estudantes de Enfermagem no processo de cuidar. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa. Foram entrevistados, após aprovação do Comitê de Ética e Pesquisa e autorização da Instituição, 15 estudantes cursando o estágio curricular de Enfermagem. Feita a análise temática dos dados, que foram discutidos à luz do referencial da ES. Emergiram das entrevistas: o conceito de ES; as concepções a respeito de ser agente educador e desenvolver a prática da ação educativa; as disciplinas que abordam a ES e as situações vivenciadas em que ações educativas foram implementadas. A ES é concebida como transmissão de Conhecimento, desenvolvimento do autocuidado e ação transformadora. O conhecimento transmitido é técnico-científico, o foco das ações é curativo e voltado à ideia de prevenção de complicações de patologias. Há concepções que avançam no sentido de emergir no conceito de ES a dimensão de uma ação transformadora, voltada à resolução de problemas e modificações na realidade de saúde. Ser agente educador significa ser capaz de transmitir o conhecimento de forma clara e objetiva. Na prática da ação educativa, a aprendizagem de conhecimentos técnico-científicos e do raciocínio clínico e o desenvolvimento de habilidades e atitudes são expressos por características de ordem pessoal, relacional e instrumental. A pesquisa abre perspectivas para modificar o ensino da ES voltado não somente à prevenção de doenças e manutenção da saúde, mas para ações de promoção da saúde. / The research shows the teaching education\'s health (HE)in the nursing development. Objective: identify the nursing student\'s conceptions in the HE and identify and analyze the educative actions performed by the nursing students in the process of taking people\'s care. This is about a qualitative research.They were interviewed After the approval of the ethics committee and researches,and the institution\'s authorization,15 curricular s nursing students\' trainee. When was done the thematics analyze of the data that was discussed in the reference subject of HE, it was shown from the interviews: The HE concept; the conceptions of being educating agent and develop the practice of educative action, the disciplines that are connected with HE and the situation that were experienced that educative actions were implemented. The HE is known as a knowledge transmission, development of self care and the transformative actions. The knowledge is being passed by technical-scientific, the actions focus is on cure and everything turns to the preventions idea of not having pathologys complications. There are conceptions that goes focused in the conceit of HE, the dimension of the transformations actions, getting into the conceit of solving the problems and the modification of healths reality. Being an educating agent means being able to transmit the knowledge in a clear and objective way. In the educations practice, the knowledge of technical-scientific, the clinical reasoning , the developments abilities and the attitudes are express for the characteristics of personal order relational and instrumental. The research opens the perspectives to modify the learning of HE focused not only to the prevention of diseases and keeping the health in order, but to actions on healths promotion development.