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International Masters students face daunting challenges in adjusting to a startlingly different UK academic discourse within a short time. Little research has been conducted into these challenges and successful transition strategies. A review of learning development literature identified a set of three models, which has not been related theoretically to international Masters students. The latest, critical model, Academic Literacies, especially offers important insights into these students’ difficulties and potential for integration. This research design explored these learning journeys in depth through interviews in a longitudinal study of MBA and MSc students during the 2009-10 academic year. The rich data were investigated through the qualitative methodology of narrative analysis, with twin aims of recognising similarities but also important differences across the students’ learning experiences. A majority experienced strongly emotional learning journeys. These followed an affective pattern with a downturn early in the academic year influenced by the degree of unfamiliarity in the new culture and academic discourse, mirrored by a corresponding improvement in emotional state during Semester 2 or 3 as these external issues became more familiar and comfortable. Self-efficacy emerged as an especially important factor in achieving academic success, and students’ progression was mapped against this variable using an established, U-shaped transition curve model. The study identifies practical learning development interventions, but also highlights the importance of educational practitioners becoming pedagogically self-reflective to empathise more genuinely with international students’ struggles, and to learn from their diverse experiences in ways that can enrich the process of internationalising western education.

This thesis examines the cultural models and discourses that a group of aspiring, primary school teachers in South-East Queensland employed to explain their current world and describe the likely development of their own careers and lives. Thirteen males and fifty-seven females, aged between 15 and 25, were involved in the study. All participants had expressed an interest in preservice teacher training with 77 percent of the cohort currently enrolled in a teacher-training program in the South-East region of Queensland, Australia. This study adopted a multi-method approach to data collection and included informal interviews, scenario planning workshops, focus groups, and a telephone survey. Initial pilot studies, incorporating informal interviews, preceded scenario planning workshops. Four males and eleven females were involved in six scenario planning groups. The scenario planning format, based upon Schwartz (1991), followed a seven-step approach whereby participants formulated and evaluated four possible future scenarios for Australia. These formed the stimulus material for the second stage of the study where thirteen focus groups critically analysed the scenario planning data. Interpretation of the data was underpinned by a framework based on an amalgamation of Gee's (1999) theoretical concepts of acts of meaning, cultural models, and Discourses and Bernstein's (1996) theoretical concepts of classification, framing, and realisation and recognition rules. The respondents exhibited five pre-eminent Discourses. These were a Technologies Discourse, Educational Discourse, Success Discourse, Voyeuristic Discourse, and an Oppositional Discourse. The group's Technologies Discourse was pervasive and influenced their future predictions for Australian society, themselves, and education and was expressed in both positive and negative terms. The respondents spoke of their current and future relationship to technologies in positive terms while they spoke of society's future relationship to technologies in negative terms. Their reactions to technologies were appropriated from two specific cultural resources. In the first instance this appears to be from their personal positive interactions with technologies. In the second instance the group have drawn from Science Fiction Discourses to predict malevolent and controlling technologies of the future. The respondents' Technologies Discourse is also evident in their Educational Discourse. They predict that their future classrooms will be more technological and that they, as teaching professionals, will be technologically literate and proficient. Their past experiences with education and schooling systems has also influenced their Educational Discourse and led them to assume, paradoxically, that while the process of education is and will continue to be a force for change, schools will not evidence a great deal of change in the coming years. The respondents were optimistic and confident about themselves, their current interactions with technologies, their future lives, and their future careers. These dispositions formed part of their Success Discourse and manifested as heroism, idealism, and a belief in utopian personal futures. The respondents' Voyeuristic Discourse assumed limited social engagement and a limited ability to accept responsibility for the past, present, and future. The respondents had adopted an 'onlooker' approach to society. This aspect of their Discourse appeared to be mutable and showed signs of tempering as the respondents matured and became more involved in their teaching careers. Finally, the respondents' Oppositional Discourse clearly delineated between themselves and 'others'. They were users of technologies, teachers, good people, young, privileged, white, Australian, and urban dwelling while 'others' were controllers of technologies, learners, bad people, older or younger, non-privileged, non-Australian, and country dwelling. Current reforms introduced by Education Queensland have stressed the need for a new approach to new times, new economies, and new workplaces. This involves having a capacity to envisage new forms, new structures, and new relationships. 'New times' teaching professionals are change agents who are socially critical, socially responsible, risk takers, able to negotiate a constantly changing knowledge-rich society, flexible, creative, innovative, reflexive, and collaborative (Sachs, 2003). The respondents in this study did not appear to be change agents or future activist teaching professionals (Sachs, 2003). Rather, they were inclined towards reproducing historical, traditional, and conservative social and professional roles as well as practices, and maintaining a safe distance from social and environmental responsibility. Essentially, the group had responded to a period of rapid social and cultural change by placing themselves outside of change forces. Successful educational reform and implementation, such as that being proposed by Education Queensland (2000), demands that all interested stakeholders share a common vision (Fullan, 1993). The respondents' Discourses indicated that they did not exhibit a futures vision beyond their immediate selves. This limited vision was at odds with that being espoused by Education Queensland (2000). This body recognises the importance of being able to envisage, develop, and sustain preferable futures visions and have developed futures oriented curricula with this in mind. Such curricula are said to respond to the changing needs of today's and tomorrow's society by having problem solving and the concept of lifelong learning at the core. The future towards which the respondents aspire is one where lifelong learning and problem solving have little significance beyond their need to stay current with evolving technologies. In reflecting on the respondents' viewpoints and the range of Discourses that they draw upon to accommodate their changing world, I propose a number of recommendations for policy makers and educators. It is recommended that preservice teacher training institutions take up the challenge of equipping future teachers with the skills, knowledges, and dispositions needed to be responsible, reflective, and proactive educators who are able to envisage and work towards preferable visions of schooling and society. Ideally, this could occur through mandatory Futures Studies courses. Currently, Futures Studies courses are not seen as an essential area of study within education degrees and as such preservice teachers are given little opportunity to engage with futures concepts, knowledges, or skills. The success of the scenario planning approach in this thesis and the richness of the issues raised through interactive engagement in imagining possible futures, suggests that all citizens, but particularly teachers, need to enlighten their imaginations more often through such processes.

Nowadays when Lithuania is a member of the European Union the English language penetrates into all spheres of our life and serves as a precondition for the upsurge of translation from/into English and Lithuanian. Translation in the realm of different professional discourses causes a number of problems. The aim of the research is to specify the peculiarities of translating educational discourses from English into Lithuanian. The paper presents a brief theoretical overview on the issues of the translation. It analyses not only the definitions and the main characteristics of the educational discourse but also reveals the particularities of the professionalisms as a linguistic phenomenon. Besides, it presents the selected examples of educational professional language from English educational discourses and their equivalents in the Lithuanian language. The following sources have been used for the empirical investigation: Paul Ramsden (1992) "Learning to Teach in Higher Education"; Paul Ramsden (2001) "Kaip mokyti aukštojoje mokykloje"; Terence H. McLaughlin (1995) "Public Values, Private Values and Educational Responsibility"; Terence H. McLaughlin (1997) "Šiuolaikinė ugdymo filosofija: demokratiškumas, vertybės, įvairovė". / Lietuvai tapus Europos Sąjungos nare, anglų kalba pradėjo skverbtis į visas mūsų gyvenimo sferas. Dėl šios priežasties padaugėjo ir vertimų iš/į anglų kalbos į lietuvių kalbą. Skirtingų profesinių diskursų vertimas sukelia daugybę problemų. Šio tyrimo tikslas yra apibrėžti edukacinių diskursų vertimo iš anglų kalbos į lietuvių kalbą ypatumus. Apžvelgiama teorinė medžiaga apie vertimą, nagrinėjami edukacinio diskurso apibrėžimai ir ypatybės, parodomi profesionalizmų ypatumai. Darbe pateikiami edukacinės profesinės kalbos pavyzdžiai iš anglų kalbos edukacinių diskursų ir jų lietuviški vertimo ekvivalentai, kurie išrinkti naudojant žemiau išvardintus šaltinius: Paul Ramsden (1992) "Learning to Teach in Higher Education"; Paul Ramsden (2001) "Kaip mokyti aukštojoje mokykloje"; Terence H. McLaughlin (1995)"Public Values, Private Values and Educational Responsibility"; Terence H. McLaughlin (1997)"Šiuolaikinė ugdymo filosofija: demokratiškumas, vertybės, įvairovė".

International Masters students face daunting challenges in adjusting to a startlingly different UK academic discourse within a short time. Little research has been conducted into these challenges and successful transition strategies. A review of learning development literature identified a set of three models, which has not been related theoretically to international Masters students. The latest, critical model, Academic Literacies, especially offers important insights into these students’ difficulties and potential for integration. This research design explored these learning journeys in depth through interviews in a longitudinal study of MBA and MSc students during the 2009-10 academic year. The rich data were investigated through the qualitative methodology of narrative analysis, with twin aims of recognising similarities but also important differences across the students’ learning experiences. A majority experienced strongly emotional learning journeys. These followed an affective pattern with a downturn early in the academic year influenced by the degree of unfamiliarity in the new culture and academic discourse, mirrored by a corresponding improvement in emotional state during Semester 2 or 3 as these external issues became more familiar and comfortable. Self-efficacy emerged as an especially important factor in achieving academic success, and students’ progression was mapped against this variable using an established, U-shaped transition curve model. The study identifies practical learning development interventions, but also highlights the importance of educational practitioners becoming pedagogically self-reflective to empathise more genuinely with international students’ struggles, and to learn from their diverse experiences in ways that can enrich the process of internationalising western education.

(in English): This Diploma work is examining the relation between contemporary social conceptions and aims of education how these are expressed by curriculum documents mainly in Czech Republic. But this relation is not the case of easy and unidirectional impact of social knowledge to educational science. That is why the first part of this thesis is focused on four important postmodern philosophical and sociological concepts differently delimiting as distinct from modern society. General overview of contemporary society change characteristics proceeding from these analyses is the basis of rather different ways of pedagogical thinking followings. With three pedagogical conceptions simultaneously present in nowadays pedagogical discourse, but originally emerged in different eras and different social backgrounds I am trying to point to considerable antinomy demands on present aims of education. I am delineating which phrasings of social reality the contemporary Czech educational policy is rising from. I am stating that the reduction of social reality as background of education in general can lead to formation of ambivalences in suggested educational policy solutions. Finally this diploma work is trying to put forward brief proposals for solution of these new problems of education.

Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo o discurso político-educacional sobre o ensino de língua estrangeira (LE) no Brasil. Primeiramente examinamos o espaço de memória de ensino de LE no processo educacional brasileiro. Ao constatarmos que a lei que oficializou o ensino das línguas inglesa e francesa no Brasil (Decisão nº 29) havia se dado no início do século XIX (1809), decidimos investigar que discursos suscitaram a criação de políticas linguísticas para o ensino de LE no Brasil no século XIX. Sob a ótica da Análise do Discurso, de linha Pêcheutiana, investigamos os efeitos de sentido construídos a partir do discurso político-educacional sobre o ensino da língua inglesa no Brasil do século XIX, buscando compreender a formulação das políticas linguísticas da época em relação às LE e o estatuto destas naquelas políticas. O corpus foi composto por leis, debates parlamentares e relatórios ministeriais relacionados ao ensino da língua inglesa. A análise da materialidade linguística dos enunciados produzidos pelos sujeitos legisladores mostrou que a Decisão nº 29 instaurou um acontecimento discursivo, rompendo com a memória de não-regulamentação do ensino de LE no Brasil e fundou o sentido de utilidade das LE para a instrução pública no Brasil. Constatamos que a política de ensino de LE ancorava-se em um saber importado. Concluímos que o acontecimento discursivo instaurado pela Decisão nº 29 criou um lugar para as LE e estas também fizeram parte de uma política de produção e circulação de conhecimento. / The aim of this study is the political educational discourse (PED) about foreign language (FL) teaching in Brazil. First we examined the space of memory of FL teaching in the Brazilian educational system. Having noticed that the law which officialized English and French language teaching in Brazil (Decreet n.29) was promulgated in 1809, we decided to investigate the discourses which generated the establishment of language policies for FL teaching in Brazil in the 19th century. Under the light of the Pecheutian Discourse, we investigated the effects of the meanings produced by the PED about FL teaching in Brazil in the 19th century in order to understand the formulation of the FL teaching policies at that time and the status of FL in those policies. The corpus was built from laws, debates in Parliament and ministerial reports related to FL teaching. The analysis of the linguistic materiality of the discourse produced by legislators showed that the Decreet n. 29 established a discourse event, which breaks up with the previous discourse of non-official FL teaching in Brazil and founded the meaning of utility for FL in the public teaching system. We concluded that the FL teaching policy was anchored to an imported knowledge. Also, we concluded that the discourse event caused by the Decreet n. 29 created a place for FL and these were part of a policy for knowledge production and circulation.

Este trabalho teve como objetivo analisar o discurso educacional dos especialistas em educação e as coesões e ramificações ocorridas no campo educacional entre os anos de 1990 e 2007, período em que se constatou novas estratégias de liderança, motivadas pela presença de agentes singulares e institucionais que atuavam ou passaram a se movimentar nos programas de pósgraduação no qual estavam vinculados, em entidades particulares que adquiriram o caráter de agências think tanks em razão de sua influência direta ou indireta nas políticas educacionais, especialmente para a educação básica, ou em e em assessorias em órgãos públicos como o INEP ou o IBGE. Ao mesmo tempo em que especialistas em educação com reconhecido prestígio na universidade procuravam exercer a censura acadêmica pautando-se pelo discurso de oposição às políticas advindas do Estado sobre educação. Foram utilizados como fontes de investigação, as revistas Educação & Sociedade e a revista Ensaio, bem como o exame dos currículos lattes dos colaboradores de ambos os períodos. O objeto em apreço foi construído mediante o esquadrinhamento das fontes citadas, depois sistematizadas em banco de dados e posterior análise por meio de tabelas e quadros, método esse que permitiu verificar as ramificações e coesões existentes. Foi constatado que o discurso sobre as políticas educacionais, sobretudo a educação básica está calcada em indicativos produzidos pelas avaliações em larga escala sob a égide do MEC/INEP, mas conta com o acréscimo de outras formas de auferição desenvolvidas por entidades como a Ação Educativa com o ENAF, projetos postos em prática de laboratórios ou grupos de pesquisas de algumas universidades que procuram produzir indicativos com medidas longitudinais dos alunos do ensino fundamental. A centralidade dos argumentos desses agentes subsidiar os sistemas de ensino na oferta de uma educação de qualidade para todos os alunos. Essas iniciativas, no entanto resultou num mercado de serviços demandado ou induzido pelo Estado, bem como as instituições think tanks que adquiriram a prerrogativa de certificar os serviços oferecidos, tais como alfabetização, EJA ou políticas afirmativas de outras entidades. / This work aims to analyze the educational discourse of the education specialists, the cohesion and the stretching that occurred in the educational field between 1990 and 2007, a period in which was perceived leadership strategies, motivated by the presence of single and institutional agents that acted in the post-graduation programmes they were linked to, in private institutions that acquired the character of think tanks agencies due to their direct or indirect influence on the educational policies, specially on basic education and in the advisory of public organs as INEP or IBGE, whereas specialists in education with recognized prestige within the university sought to exercise censorship relying on the opposition discourse the State policies on education. The magazines Education and Society and Rehearsal, as well as the exam of Curriculum Lattes of the collaborators both periodicals were used. The object of study was built through the analysis of the quoted sources, then patterned in the data bank and later analysis by means of tables and charts. Such a method has allowed to verify the existing stretching and cohesion. It has been noticed that the discourse on educational policies, specially basic education is rooted in produced indications of large scale evaluations under the shelter of MEC/INEP, but counts on the addition of other forms of checking developed by institutions as educational Action with ENAF, or projects which were put into practice in laboratories or research groups in some universities that search to produce indicatives (with longitudinal measurement) of the Fundamental School Students. The core of the arguments of these agents is to offer subsidies so that the teaching systems may offer quality education to all the students. These initiatives however resulted in services market demanded by or induced by the State, as well as the think tanks institutions acquired the prerogatives to certify the offered services like literacy courses, EJA, or affirmative policies of other institutions.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:52:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARTA HELENA MENDES DE QUEIROZ.pdf: 408359 bytes, checksum: 53c0d7298ed53ccf01dc13737d6121f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-31 / Este estudo tem como objetivo geral mostrar, através do resultado do questionário aplicado a alunos do Curso de Direito, a relação discurso/poder no espaço jurídico, associado com a educação e as implicações do Exame da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB) e exame (FOUCAULT, 2002) como modo de saber na formação acadêmica e profissional do Advogado. Inicialmente, foi realizada uma abordagem crítica de Michel Foucault, fazendo um entrecruzamento com a abordagem da educação filosófica no Curso de Direito. Também, observou-se o discurso dos alunos na constituição dos saberes implicados na formação do sujeito, com vistas à preparação do processo de formação desse curso para a profissão de Advogado, no contexto de projeto pedagógico (na carga horária e nas disciplinas, na bibliografia, na constituição das suas bibliotecas, no conteúdo, nas avaliações, nos estágios, no trabalho monográfico, no quadro de professores, mais específico do Exame de Ordem). Avaliou-se, portanto, o sistema de formação, interpretação e análise dos processos educacionais, ao final da graduação (2010), revelando as dificuldades no ensino-aprendizagem pelos discentes nos aspectos envolvidos no seu próprio discurso sobre o Exame da OAB. Para tanto, realizou-se um estudo de caso em um Curso de Direito em Goiás, por meio de questões fechadas e abertas, numa pesquisa de campo, com alunos do quinto ano, sob o enfoque da Arqueologia do Discurso, associando-a ao discurso educacional/jurídico, com o intuito de possibilitar uma visão do problema em questão. A partir das concepções foucaultianas, analisou-se, neste trabalho, a ideia de arquivo como condição de possibilidade de discurso arqueológico; a teoria do discurso e/ou método de análise do arquivo (categorias e conceitos); reflexões sobre o Exame de Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil e a formação do advogado. Almeja-se que esta pesquisa possa contribuir para a compreensão de temas que despertem interesse no campo da Arqueologia do Discurso, vinculado à prática educacional e jurídica.

Este trabalho teve como objetivo analisar o discurso educacional dos especialistas em educação e as coesões e ramificações ocorridas no campo educacional entre os anos de 1990 e 2007, período em que se constatou novas estratégias de liderança, motivadas pela presença de agentes singulares e institucionais que atuavam ou passaram a se movimentar nos programas de pósgraduação no qual estavam vinculados, em entidades particulares que adquiriram o caráter de agências think tanks em razão de sua influência direta ou indireta nas políticas educacionais, especialmente para a educação básica, ou em e em assessorias em órgãos públicos como o INEP ou o IBGE. Ao mesmo tempo em que especialistas em educação com reconhecido prestígio na universidade procuravam exercer a censura acadêmica pautando-se pelo discurso de oposição às políticas advindas do Estado sobre educação. Foram utilizados como fontes de investigação, as revistas Educação & Sociedade e a revista Ensaio, bem como o exame dos currículos lattes dos colaboradores de ambos os períodos. O objeto em apreço foi construído mediante o esquadrinhamento das fontes citadas, depois sistematizadas em banco de dados e posterior análise por meio de tabelas e quadros, método esse que permitiu verificar as ramificações e coesões existentes. Foi constatado que o discurso sobre as políticas educacionais, sobretudo a educação básica está calcada em indicativos produzidos pelas avaliações em larga escala sob a égide do MEC/INEP, mas conta com o acréscimo de outras formas de auferição desenvolvidas por entidades como a Ação Educativa com o ENAF, projetos postos em prática de laboratórios ou grupos de pesquisas de algumas universidades que procuram produzir indicativos com medidas longitudinais dos alunos do ensino fundamental. A centralidade dos argumentos desses agentes subsidiar os sistemas de ensino na oferta de uma educação de qualidade para todos os alunos. Essas iniciativas, no entanto resultou num mercado de serviços demandado ou induzido pelo Estado, bem como as instituições think tanks que adquiriram a prerrogativa de certificar os serviços oferecidos, tais como alfabetização, EJA ou políticas afirmativas de outras entidades. / This work aims to analyze the educational discourse of the education specialists, the cohesion and the stretching that occurred in the educational field between 1990 and 2007, a period in which was perceived leadership strategies, motivated by the presence of single and institutional agents that acted in the post-graduation programmes they were linked to, in private institutions that acquired the character of think tanks agencies due to their direct or indirect influence on the educational policies, specially on basic education and in the advisory of public organs as INEP or IBGE, whereas specialists in education with recognized prestige within the university sought to exercise censorship relying on the opposition discourse the State policies on education. The magazines Education and Society and Rehearsal, as well as the exam of Curriculum Lattes of the collaborators both periodicals were used. The object of study was built through the analysis of the quoted sources, then patterned in the data bank and later analysis by means of tables and charts. Such a method has allowed to verify the existing stretching and cohesion. It has been noticed that the discourse on educational policies, specially basic education is rooted in produced indications of large scale evaluations under the shelter of MEC/INEP, but counts on the addition of other forms of checking developed by institutions as educational Action with ENAF, or projects which were put into practice in laboratories or research groups in some universities that search to produce indicatives (with longitudinal measurement) of the Fundamental School Students. The core of the arguments of these agents is to offer subsidies so that the teaching systems may offer quality education to all the students. These initiatives however resulted in services market demanded by or induced by the State, as well as the think tanks institutions acquired the prerogatives to certify the offered services like literacy courses, EJA, or affirmative policies of other institutions.