The quality of early childhood education and care programs greatly impacts children’s development and well being. The classroom environment, program content and approach and early childhood educators’ characteristics are some of the elements that influence quality and thus have effects on young children’s development. Past research has indicated that early childhood education and care programs in Quebec have received on average low/minimal or mediocre ratings of quality and were also found to lack developmentally appropriate play materials (Drouin, Bigras, Fournier, Desrosiers, & Bernard, 2004; Goelman et al., 2006; Japel, Tremblay, & Cote, 2005). The present study set out to explore elements that may influence the quality of child care classrooms in the province of Quebec. Early childhood educators’ knowledge and developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) were examined to determine the relationship between these elements. Early childhood educators’ knowledge of developmental milestones (KDM) and knowledge of appropriate play materials (KPM) were found to be weak but educators reported strong developmentally appropriate beliefs (BDAP) and practices (PDAP). Results demonstrated positive correlations between early childhood educators’ declarative knowledge of developmental milestones (KDM), knowledge of appropriate play materials (KPM) and their beliefs and practices of developmentally appropriate practice (BDAP and PDAP). Educators’ levels of declarative KDM were positively correlated with their level of declarative KPM. In addition, educators’ BDAP was positively correlated with their level of declarative KPM, but their reported DAP was not linked to their level of KDM. Implications for the field of ECEC as well as early childhood education programs in CEGEPs and Universities in Quebec and across Canada are discussed in light of the study’s findings and limitations.

This qualitative study is aimed to find out how teachers at one preschool relate to influence and boundaries. This has been carried out through qualitative interviews whose contents have been analyzed and processed. The theoretical framework of the study is the philosophy of John Dewey derived from Pragmatism, where thought and action is seen as one where the child needs to try and experiment to learn. We are two authors who stand for this study in which we both were present at all times for the interviews. The interviews revealed that teachers believe that influence is important for children's self-esteem, to become a good citizen of the community and to learn that certain things are expected. It also emerged that influence combined with boundaries is seen as very important. It appeared that the teachers look at influence in preschool in three different ways - influence here and now, influence in the future and influence for the children self-esteem. Overall, it appeared that the influence is seen as important in combination with boundaries.

The purpose of this study is to examine how four educators in two different departments at two different preschools in Stockholm, selects children's literature in preschool and how literature is used in the activities and how much influence children have in the choice of literature. Based on qualitative interviews as a method we have interviewed pedagogues to get answers to our questions. We will also interview some children to find out how involved they are in the purchase of literature on the departments we examined. We consider the social cultural perspective to be a well rounded starting point for our survey, because the theory gives us the opportunity to study how the interaction and meetings between educators and children develop for each reading encounter. And through the analysis a thorough display between educators and children towards literature will be shown. The study show that the educators are aware of the importance that literature entails for children´s language development. Therefore, it is a thoughful approach to how educators preselect the usage of literature in its operation. All educators have the purpose to increase the childrens influence in purchasing litterature in the teaching activities, in hopes of increasing the children’s interest in books and therefore increase children's language development.

This study investigated intrapersonal self-reported, perceived teaching competence. Each of ten adult educators� teaching competence was analysed in a qualitative/quantitative study within ten interactive teaching sessions. Self-reported influences of performance variables pertaining to perceived arousal discrepancy, effort, performance state self-esteem, and telic/paratelic metamotivational states were related to self-perceptions of teaching competence. Seven of ten adult educators demonstrated a relationship between their current state and perceived teaching competence. A higher perceived teaching competence was experienced when rating themselves nearer to their ideal teaching state. From a reversal theory perspective, the investigator determined telic/paratelic situational state balance by primarily utilising the Telic State Measure (Svebak and Murgatroyd, 1985), and conducting the Metamotivational State Interview Coding Schedule (O�Connell, Potocky, Cook, & Gerkovich, 1991) to code psychological lability (i.e., how easily and readily one shifts between states) and subjective experiences of the educator�s perceived competent and �less� competent teaching sessions.

The author's inaugural dissertation, Heidelberg, 1936. / Lebenslauf. "Besprechung der wichtigsten literatur über die Pädagogische provinz": p. 80-84.

The aim of this thesis is to examine some of the educational and sociological conditions underlying the production of teaching in friluftsliv within the Physical Education (PE) subject in Swedish compulsory school. Despite the value awarded to the Scandinavian outdoor practice friluftsliv, in both the national PE curriculum document and in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) in Sweden, it does not seem to be thoroughly implemented in compulsory school teaching. Through analyses of interviews with PE teachers and PE teacher educators, as well as of curriculum documents, using the perspectives of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu, I explore conditions underlying the expressions of friluftsliv teaching in Swedish PE. The pedagogic discourse for friluftsliv in Swedish PE is described as a teaching that should take place in a natural setting remote from civilisation, involve risks, and require time, technical equipment, financial resources, and cooperation. This discourse for friluftsliv is shown to be similar to the values emphasised in friluftsliv education in PETE. Although proven to be difficult to implement in school, this discourse appear to form the conception of friluftsliv teaching for PE teachers in Sweden. Under the influence of the performance code, friluftsliv is transformed into outdoor activities with which the PE teachers are familiar, or is totally left out of PE teaching. A turn towards options that are seen as unthinkable in relation to the current pedagogic discourse may benefit the achievement of the aims set out in the national PE curriculum. Values such as environmental awareness, sustainable development and cultural perspectives on the landscape could strengthen the classification of friluftsliv and PE in compulsory school. Further, an increase of socially critical and constructivist perspectives during PETE could make unthinkable options in friluftsliv thinkable and contribute to a break with the reproduction of teaching practices in PE. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: In press. Paper 2: Submitted.</p>

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2016-08-22T17:34:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JonasGonzaga.pdf: 1196267 bytes, checksum: 5067448f6ef90c3169ec8f4b685e0cc6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-22T17:34:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JonasGonzaga.pdf: 1196267 bytes, checksum: 5067448f6ef90c3169ec8f4b685e0cc6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research aims to a bibliographic review of the formative process and, at the same time, the investigation and questioning of contemporary performance of the ironist educator in Education. The author Imanol Aguirre, conceives this title to the educator who is provocative, acquainted and proposer of aesthetic experiences front to contemporary complexities, amalgamated in a historical and social fabric characterized by transit of plurality, the imaginary, the construction of identity and social mobility. The ironist acts dialogically "in loco" creating answers to the varied demands with their students. The fostering of criticism, the mobilization of doubt and irony, the connection of territories between competences and abilities, are the goals by which the ironist educator intends a more effective educational scenario and emancipator in the face of real contemporary needs. / A presente pesquisa visa a revisão bibliográfica do processo formativo e, ao mesmo tempo, a investigação e problematização da atuação contemporânea do educador ironista na Educação. O autor Imanol Aguirre, concebe este título ao educador que seja provocativo, inteirado e propositor de experiências estéticas frente às complexidades contemporâneas, amalgamadas num tecido histórico-social caracterizado pelo trânsito da pluralidade, dos imaginários, da construção de identidade e da mobilidade social. O ironista atua dialogicamente “in loco” criando respostas às variadas demandas com os seus educandos. A fomentação da crítica, a mobilização da dúvida e da ironia, a conexão dos territórios das competências e habilidades, são os objetivos pelos quais o educador ironista intenciona um cenário educacional mais efetivo e emancipador ante as reais necessidades contemporâneas

Submitted by Francisco Guedes Paes null (franciscofgp@gmail.com) on 2018-03-27T16:58:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertação francisco paes.pdf: 3832262 bytes, checksum: 2605b95923a2221e61679409557bdd0c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Santulo Custódio de Medeiros null (asantulo@rc.unesp.br) on 2018-03-27T19:41:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 paes_fg_me_rcla.pdf: 3807328 bytes, checksum: 37bf2653ed49fe464279b6a77309185e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-27T19:41:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 paes_fg_me_rcla.pdf: 3807328 bytes, checksum: 37bf2653ed49fe464279b6a77309185e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-01 / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo discutir a educação musical no Brasil a partir da análise dos documentos do Sumário do Comunismo Internacional, produzidos durante o regime militar brasileiro, a fim de revisar o impacto do percurso histórico-político da educação musical no Brasil a partir da década de 1960 e suas consequências para a educação musical. Por meio da análise, é possível levantar um panorama mais aprofundado sobre as condições em que se deram as perseguições, bem como as condições do ensino musical, da música erudita e das políticas que intervinham diretamente nessa área da educação. Em 1971, o ensino de música sofreu um golpe muito forte quando foi deixado de lado na educação formal, ou seja, quando saiu do currículo escolar. Mas as condições que levaram a essa precarização do ensino de artes não foram repentinas, esse blecaute de aproximadamente 30 anos apenas volta a ver a luz das políticas públicas com a LDB 9394 de 1996. Com a reestruturação da comissão da verdade no Brasil, se inicia um novo percurso de pesquisa, no qual os próprios órgãos de justiça do país garantem o acesso a novos documentos, possibilitando o aprofundamento da pesquisa deste gênero, que passa a ter um aspecto muito importante como ponto de abertura para novas discussões acerca da história da educação musical dentro do regime militar brasileiro. / This work aims to discuss the need to better understand the image of the musician, music and music educator from the analysis of the documents of the Summary of International Communism, produced during the Brazilian military regime, in order to review the impact of the historical-political music education in Brazil from the 1960s, and its consequences to musical education. Through the analysis it is possible to get a more detailed picture of the conditions under which the persecutions took place, as well as the conditions of music education, classical music and policies that intervened directly in this genre of education. In 1971 the teaching of music takes a very strong blow when it is put aside in formal education, but the conditions that led to this precariousness of the teaching of arts did not arise overnight, this blackout of about 30 years just to see again the light of the public policies with the LDB of 1996. With the restructuring of the truth commission in Brazil, a new research course begins where the country's own judicial organs guarantee the access to new documents, enabling the deepening of the research of this genre, which has a very important aspect as an opening point for new discussions about the history of musical education within the Brazilian military regime.

The thesis of a theoretical character deals with the cultivation of humanity as a task of education. The work summarizes the areas affecting the topic of humanity and education. Firstly, the work describes the meaning of humanity which is present in one of modern philosophical disciplines called philosophy of education. It also introduces the educational process forming an integrated system of precise rules. Within the process, factors forming the process are described. These are: educator who is a guide in the educational process; the educated person who is not only the object but also the subject of the process; environment which plays a significant role in education and involves a variety of participants. The last part of the thesis deals with education as a process of humanization and describes various aspects affecting the process of humanization.

Muitos são os dilemas no mundo da educação. Conflitos são próprios do trabalho docente, desestabilizando o ‘Ser’, comprometendo não só a prática do educador, como também a qualidade de vida do sujeito. A Tese objetiva analisar e compreender as relações que, ao movimentar o todo social, agregam a escola como espaço de embate de forças conflitivas, com implicações no 'Ser' professor-educador e nas práticas (de)formadoras dos sujeitos no processo do “educar/educar-se”. Para entender o atual contexto social, político e econômico em que os educadores estão inseridos, a fim de identificar os limites e as possibilidades ineditamente-viáveis deste 'Ser' no caminho da educação libertadora–transformadora, apresentam-se os argumentos e conclusões, frutos da coleta e análise de dados, apreendidos no processo do desenvolvimento de pesquisa qualitativa, centrado na Associação de Educação Católica/RS (AEC-RS) e nos espaços educativos onde o ‘Ser’ professor-educador faz sentido – as escolas. Com o cimento teórico Gramsci e Freire analisa-se, a relação ou correlação de forças que permeiam os agrupamentos sociais, manifestando os interesses de classe. Cada uma delas, representando uma posição determinada, confrontam-se na defesa de interesses específicos dos grupos. A consciência destes agrupamentos e os objetivos dos seus membros estão permeados por fatores políticos, culturais e econômicos que influenciam as visões de mundo defendidas por aqueles que o integram. No espaço da escola, as relações possuem o componente político-pedagógico na medida em que propicia condições de enfrentamento de ideologias. Assim, as brechas possibilitam o embate de contrários e se configuram nichos de resistências para confrontação de ideias que permeiam leituras de mundo. / Many are the dilemmas in the world of education. Conflicts are proper from the teaching work, disestablishing the “Being”, compromising not only the educator practice, but also the individual’s quality of life. The thesis aims to analyze and understand the relations which, by moving the whole social, insert school as a space of shock of conflicting forces, with implications in the educator-professor Being and in the (de) formed practices of individuals in the process of educating/educating yourself. To understand the current social, political and economical context in which the educators are inserted to identify the limits and the possibilities which are unheard and feasible from this “Being”, in the patch of the liberatingtransforming education, we present the arguments and conclusions, fruit of data collecting and analyzing, learned from the developing process of qualitative research, based on “Associação de Educação Católica/RS” (AEC-RS) and in the educational spaces where the professoreducator “Being” makes sense - the school. With the theoretical cement Gramsci and Freire, we analyze the relation or correlation of forces which permeate the social gatherings, expressing the interests of the class. Each one of them representing a determined position confronts in the defense of specific interests from the groups. The consciousness from these gatherings and the objectives of their members are permeated by political, cultural and economical factors which influence the world views defended by those who make part of it. In the school space the relations have the political-pedagogical component, as it propitiates conditions of facing the ideologies. So, the gaps make possible the shock of contraries and configure niches which permeate understanding the world.