Orientador: Luci Banks Leite / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T11:01:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Venancio_AdrianaGomes_M.pdf: 461275 bytes, checksum: 35f60f25ad3d05be978bdbd627b4fd9b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Nessa dissertação, vamos desenvolver um trabalho teórico a partir de algumas das expressões escritas e faladas dos nossos alunos de 5 e 6 anos. Nesse sentido, vamos destacar possíveis semelhanças que parecem aproximar a linguagem das crianças ao próprio genero poético. Diante dos conceitos apresentados, indicaremos como referência para os nossos estudos, a tríade "som-imagem-pensamento", presentes nos módulos da melopéia, fanopéia e logopéia. Dessa forma, vamos refletir sobre a importância dessa tríade para o trabalho com a poesia na infância, diante dos processos que envolvem o desenvolvimento da linguagem oral e escrita das crianças, na perspectiva histórico-cultural. Nesse sentido, vamos apresentar a poesia como uma possibilidade de ampliar ainda mais, o uso que as crianças já fazem dessa forma discursiva. Assim sendo entendemos também que essa experiência estética propiciada pela poesia, pode agregar subsídios importantes ao desenvolvimento da linguagem escrita das crianças / Resume: Dans cette dissertation, nous nous proposons de developper um travail théorique en ayant pour base des expressions écrites et parlées de quelques-uns de nos élèves âgés de 5 e 6 ans. Dans ce sens, nous y détachons de possibles ressemblances qui, à notre avis, rapprochent le langage des enfants à  celui du genre poétique lui-même. Devant des concepts présentés par ce genre-ci, nous indiquerons comme référence pour notre étude une triade formée par "son-image-pensée", qui peut être aussi représentée par le moyen des modules de la mélopée, la fanopée et la logopée. De cette façon, nous réfléchissons à  l'importance de cette triade pour le travail pédagogique avec la poésie à  la salle de classe, devant les processus qui couvrent le développement du langage oral et écrit des enfants sous la perspective historico-culturelle. Dans ce sens, nous présentons le travail avec la poésie dans la salle de classe d'alphabétisation enfantine comme une possibilité de rendre plus ample l'usage que les enfants ont l'habitude de faire de ce forme discoursive. Ainsi, nous entendons que cette experience esthétique rendue propice par la poésie peut donner d'importantes contributions au développement du langage écrit des enfants / Mestrado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Mestre em Educação

Orientador: Vicente Rodriguez / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T06:24:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_AlessandraMariaAquinoCanivezi_M.pdf: 1040129 bytes, checksum: aac0c4a910eccb617cae011f16110c48 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A pesquisa teve como eixo a identificação dos princípios neoliberais de descentralização, de focalização e de privatização na organização municipal para oferta de vagas à Educação Infantil, no cenário político da década de 1990. O objeto de nosso estudo foi a ação do Estado voltada à Educação Infantil, por isso buscamos primeiramente entender o papel desempenhado pelo Estado frente ao pensamento liberal e neoliberal para posteriormente descrevermos como esse atendimento se organizou no país. Nosso trabalho se desenvolveu no sentido de conhecer a organização pública e gratuita para acolhida à criança pequena e de compreender como as políticas educacionais foram formuladas em um município, do estado de São Paulo, durante o período em que o Brasil esteve inserido no reordenamento e nos ajustes neoliberais. O trabalho de campo envolveu o levantamento de dados quantitativos e qualitativos, por meio de planilhas para levantamento do número de matrículas na rede pública, de entrevistas e de questionários com os atores sociais envolvidos no processo. Os resultados expressaram as novas formas pelas quais, na década de 1990, a esfera pública respondeu às demandas sociais e explicitaram que as decisões tomadas sofreram influência do cenário político e das ordenações neoliberais. / Abstract: The research aimed at the identification of the neoliberal principles of decentralization, focalization and privatization in the municipal organization to the offer of places to the Primary Education in the political setting of 1990's. The object of our study was the action of the State in the face of the Primary Education, so we first tried to understand the part performed by the State with relation to the liberal and neoliberal thought, and then describe how this service was organized in the country. We developed our assignment in order to get to know the public and free organization to the welcome to little children and to understand how the educational policies were drawn up in a city, in the state of São Paulo, during the period which Brazil had been inside of the neoliberal reordering and adjustments. The fieldwork involved the survey of the quantitative and qualitative data through spreadsheets, in order to know the number of registrations in the public education, and the interviews and questionnaires with social factors involved in the process. The results showed the new ways which the public sphere dealt with the social demands in the 1990's and made explicit that the political setting and the neoliberal ordinances had influence on the decisions that were made. / Mestrado / Educação, Sociedade e Cultura / Mestre em Educação

Orientador: Maria Evelyna Pompeu do Nascimento / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T11:34:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pavioti_CristianeRegina_M.pdf: 23320057 bytes, checksum: af703e819a7740d8f5ac915b446c63a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: A pesquisa pretende um estudo, através da observação em campo, do modelo de atendimento em Educação Infantil implementado no município de Guarulhos - São Paulo intitulado de "Programa Educriança", através do qual mães recebem formações ligadas à Educação Infantil para que possam ter melhores condições de educarem seus filhos em suas próprias casas. Traz, num primeiro momento, por meio de pesquisas bibliográficas, um histórico das políticas públicas adotadas em Educação Infantil em diferentes tempos e lugares, além de um estudo a respeito de programas de atendimento nos quais a família é responsável diretamente pela educação de seus filhos. Num segundo momento do trabalho, traz-se à tona as características estruturais e pedagógicas do programa, demonstrando como o mesmo funciona e está sendo desenvolvido no município de Guarulhos. / Abstract: The research intends a study, through the comment in field, of the model of attendance implemented in Infantile Education in the city of Guarulhos - São Paulo intitled "Educriança Program", through which mothers receive formations about the Infantile Education to have better conditions to educate their children in its proper houses. At the first moment, by means of bibliographical research, the research brings a description of the public politics adopted in Infantile Education in different times and places, beyond a study about attendance programs in which the family is responsible directly for the education of children. In a second moment of the work, it is brought the structural and pedagogical characteristics of the program, demonstrating the developed of program in the city of Guarulhos. / Mestrado / Politicas, Administração e Sistemas Educacionais / Mestre em Educação

The purpose of the study was to examine changes in cardiovascular function and neuromuscular performance of primary grade girls after a six-week treatment program. The Kraus-Weber Tests and modified Harvard Step Test were administered to sixty-seven subjects before and after the treatment program, which consisted of exercises and running for the experimental group and sedentary games for the control group. None of the significant differences in recovery heart rate or the Kraus-Weber tests could be attributed to the treatment program. The length of training program was apparently not enough to detect change in fitness level of the subjects. A need exists for exercise tests that are more meaningful and more easily administered.

The main aim of this dissertation was to examine the status of Physical Education for senior primary girls in KwaZulu-Natal. Two sets of questionnaires were used to acquire information from Physical Education teachers and management staff involved in supervision of Physical Education at primary schools. The data obtained were then analysed. • To determine the degree of constructive guidance given in the teaching of senior primary Physical Education by school management • To determine whether physical educators are suitably qualified • To determine whether Physical Education forms part of the core curriculum at school • To make a historical comparative study of the development of Physical Education in primary schools and in KwaZulu-Natal in particular • To determine whether schools have the necessary resources needed in order to teach Physical Education • To make recommendations for the improvement of teaching Physical Education in the senior primary phase in the primary schools of KwaZulu-Natal The main findings of this study were as follows: • Presently there are only 28% of Physical Education specialists teaching Physical Education • The majority (60%) of the educators teaching Physical Education to senior primary learners is males • That about 36% of the educators do not actually teach Physical Education during the Physical Education lesson • An overwhelming majority (100%) of Physical Education educators indicated that they were not supervised in the last 36 months. Some go far back as seven to ten years • A little more than half (58%) of the schools had specialists in school- but they were classroom-based educators. Several recommendations are made out of these findings ranging from making Physical Education part of the core curriculum, ensuring Physical Education is taught by a specialist educator, providing facilities and equipment, supervising of Physical Education and the role of the Physical Education subject advisors. It is expected that such recommendations, if implemented, would contribute towards the elimination of problems that face Physical Education specialists and in improving the status quo of 'Physical Education. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Humanities Education / MEd / Unrestricted

The purpose of this interdisciplinary study was to examine children's and adolescents' (aged 6 to 16) thoughts of God that were hypothesized to reflect the child's religious context and to be related to a child's cognitive maturity and gender. The following four objectives guided the study: (1) to examine children's thoughts of God within a particular religious school environment, (2) to investigate age-related changes in children's representations of God as indicated by their narrative texts, (3) to explore children's (female and male) representations of God as described in their narrative texts, and (4) to suggest transitions in the developmental structure of children's narrative texts about God across levels of cognitive maturity. The children (N=114) selected for the study were chosen from a Christian school setting where religious instruction was part of the curriculum focus. Each child, upon parental consent, participated in a one-to-one interview and accomplished a series of developmental tasks including generating a story about God, responding to a story about Jesus, answering questions about God, and completing a short memory task. Parents were asked to complete a questionnaire about religious life inside and outside the family home. A review of the religious education curriculum was conducted. The collected data were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. The results were fourfold. First, the study found that the religious school environment (e.g., religious education program and religious activities both inside and outside the family home) had the potential to influence children's changing thoughts about God. Second, there were differences in female and male representations of God. Third, there were significant changes in children's representations of God as they matured. These changes were based not only on children's cognitive maturity but also as a result of the children's religious knowledge acquired within their religious environment. Also, these changes reflected unique subtle differences in children's conceptual understandings of God. Fourth, as children cognitively matured, there were changes in the structure of their narratives about God. These changes paralleled the narrative structure posited by McKeough (1992a) and the stages and substages posited by Case (1992a). / Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies / Graduate

Experts do not agree on the definition of spiritual development although positive spiritual development benefits society in many ways. Without agreement on the definition of spiritual development and a common understanding of spiritual development, parents, teachers, and pastors who are entrusted with the task of fostering positive spiritual development in Christian settings face the challenges of determining what spiritual development is (definition), the desired goals (culmination) of spiritual development, and the most effective ways to meet those goals (context and content). The purpose of this study was to use data, from the social sciences and Christian points of view, to inform Christian education programs and arrive at recommendations for fostering young children's spiritual development. Data sources include textual literature from the social science and Christian points of view. In addition, the researcher gathered interview data from twenty children's pastors. Research results included: 1. It is possible that spirituality is associated with sensory awareness. 2. Examining spirituality as sensory awareness may lead to focusing on innate qualities of spiritual capacity with a more focused inclusion of children with special needs in faith-based programs, a God-given conscience, and consideration that children may be born with spiritual gifts to express their spiritual nature. 3. Congregations/parishes under utilize intergenerational activities, time for quiet and reflection, and opportunities to talk to children about spiritual matters.

The purpose of this project was to identify and examine the elements and skills of cooperative learning for student learning in physical education. This project is intended for junior high and middle school physical education teachers who want to be informed on cooperative learning for student learning in physical education. Cooperative learning is the main topic of this study. This project searched for elements and skills in cooperative learning. The method for this project was a literature review from peer-reviewed articles.

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The benefits of physical activity (PA) for children are well-researched and extend into the realms of physical health, mental health and executive function (EF). Nonetheless, most U.S. children fail to meet the recommended target of daily PA. Although elementary schools can provide an ideal setting for PA, school-based PA time has been reduced in favor of increased sedentary instructional time. This contradicts research that supports the role of PA in enhancing students’ EF and academic achievement. Moreover, low-income and minority populations have inequitable access to school-based PA opportunities. For these reasons, researchers and public health officials have proposed integrating additional opportunities for PA during the school day, including classroom-based active breaks. This dissertation aims to study existing U.S. classroom-based active break programs, examine the feasibility of implementing a classroom-based active break program and analyze the impact of an integrated program on both PA and EF, all among underserved, minority populations. This dissertation includes four chapters in total. The second chapter is a systematic review that evaluated the impact of school-based PA interventions on children’s PA, with a focus on diverse populations. The third chapter describes a pilot study that assessed the feasibility of implementing a classroom PA program (HYPE) in a diverse urban setting. Teacher and student acceptability of HYPE were evaluated, as well as HYPE’s impact on student PA. HYPE was feasible and well-received, although time and space were challenges. Children’s median step count/day increased. The waitlist-control study presented in Chapter IV examined whether a multifaceted program (“POWER”) that incorporates both PA and EF would impact fifth graders positively. We also investigated whether POWER could assist teachers with classroom behavioral management. Overall, the positive changes in the intervention group and their favorable reception of POWER demonstrate the ability of POWER to improve children’s socioemotional, mental and physical health. Altogether, these studies highlight the potential for school-based PA interventions to improve the holistic wellbeing of children, particularly low-income, minority youth. Interventions that incorporate a teacher-led, multimodal approach to improving children’s PA and EF synergistically may be well-received by administrators, teachers and students and help children adopt healthy, lifelong habits.