This research aimed to investigate Alberta science teachers beliefs about what counts most as science education. By implicating teachers beliefs in discussions about the science curriculum-as-planned by program developers and the science curriculum-as- lived in the classroom, factors influencing how Albertas science programs are interpreted and enacted in classrooms were revealed and explored. The results of this study suggest teachers beliefs are influenced by contextual factors such as school setting, teaching experience, the nature of the courses taught, and departmental examinations. Functioning as key referents, these factors were found to influence not only what science teachers believe is most important, but also what teachers reported they emphasize most in their classrooms. When examined more closely, the key referents also offered an explanation as to why teachers beliefs are often not enacted in their classrooms, thus clarifying tensionalities they experience between the curriculum as they perceive it and the curriculum as they live it.

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This study examines a primary school teacher’s ambitions within science education and how those ambitions manifest in the classroom. This is being examined by interview with the mentioned teacher and by observations as a participant within four of the teacher’s science classes. The results of this study is categorized and analyzed with assistance of scientific literacy, vision I and vision II, fundamental scientific literacy and Roberts’ curriculum emphases. The results of the study points at both similarities and indifferences between what the teacher expresses as ambitions, and how science classes are being constituted and organized. In the light of this result, a discussion takes place around what these similarities and indifferences can be products of.

The 2016 presidential election in USA was extraordinary from several point of views and the election was majorly covered by swedish media. The aim of this research was to examine how Swedish newspapers portrayed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from a gender perspective during the 2016 presidential election. We also wanted to analyse how other common political news frames were used to portray Clinton and Trump.   This is a qualitative framing analysis of 14 strategically selected articles, seven that were published by Aftonbladet and seven by Dagens Nyheter. The results showed tendencies of several gendered stereotypes that are being retained by the frames the newspapers use. Frames such as gendered traits and gendered issue emphases, but also game frames were offered to the reader.   We discovered that Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter offered a more positive opinion of Clinton than of Trump. While Clinton was framed as an experienced, emotional and compassionate candidate, Trump was framed as an inexperienced, insensitive and aggressive candidate. Clinton was framed with gendered issue emphases in both the public and private sphere, while Trump was framed with gendered issue emphases in only the public sphere. Furthermore, game frames showed that the newspapers had a tendency of polarizing and personifying the candidates.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:30:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Raquel Pondian Tizzei.pdf: 1254296 bytes, checksum: 821b78893d656def50b7f139df412f8f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-10 / Universidade Estadual Paulista J?lio de Mesquita Filho / This study attempted to reflect on the training of psychologists based on the Brazilian reality and, more specifically, on the Curriculum Emphases and profile of psychology courses in the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. Starting from an inquiry into the quality of training of the psychologist in a capitalist context, as such, has transformed education into a commodity to be consumed by many people. Initially, an explanation was made on educational policies governing higher education in a capitalist context that transforms education into a commodity to be consumed. Later on, we point out significant landmarks on the training of psychologists and school psychology focusing primarily on transformations involving policies related to curriculum structuring, as the Curriculum Minimum of the National Curriculum Guidelines. This work also is based on assumptions of Critical Psychology and Marxism as a way to analyze the social reality and therefore also training. We consider this important study because it has been increasing the number of private higher education institutions to the detriment of the public forming psychologists in Brazil. In the Metropolitan Region of Campinas, there are 7 of them, all being private, and this fact has considerably impacting the demand of incoming students as well as graduates. Thus, this study aimed to understand and analyze the training of school psychologists from the curricular changes presented in Pedagogical Projects Course. Used as the basis for the research method the Historical and Dialectical Materialism to realize that the quest for understanding the essence of this phenomenon is determined by historical issues of Brazilian reality. Dialectics is the movement that allows the researcher a view from the contradictions of this reality and, therefore, is another look at the research in Psychology. Also we base this work on Qualitative Research presented by Critical Psychology that does not disregard the quantitative analysis of the formation, but this involves a process of knowledge. To this, 4 were considered institutions of Campinas Metropolitan Region which allowed access to the reading of the Pedagogical Projects Course and the interview with the coordinators responsible for them. Our analysis showed the predominance of at least one of the emphases of the course in health institutions in all and only one of them in education. We also identified that the choice of emphasis is given by the greatest possibility of student employability of newly formed psychology and at the same time, greater integration in this field or area of expertise demands higher inflow of students in psychology course these institutions. / Este trabalho procurou fazer uma reflex?o sobre a forma??o do psic?logo partindo da realidade brasileira e, mais especificamente, sobre as ?nfases Curriculares e o perfil dos cursos de Psicologia na Regi?o Metropolitana de Campinas. Partiu-se de um questionamento acerca da qualidade da forma??o do psic?logo num contexto capitalista que, como tal, tem transformado a educa??o numa mercadoria a ser consumida por muitas pessoas. Inicialmente, foi feita uma explana??o sobre as pol?ticas educacionais que regem a educa??o superior num contexto capitalista, que transforma a educa??o num bem a ser consumido. Posteriormente, apontamos marcos significativos sobre a forma??o do psic?logo e a Psicologia Escolar enfocando, principalmente, nas transforma??es que envolveram as pol?ticas referentes ?s estrutura??es curriculares, como o Curr?culo M?nimo de as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais. Este trabalho se fundamenta ainda em pressupostos da Psicologia Cr?tica e do Marxismo como forma de an?lise da realidade social e, portanto, tamb?m da forma??o. Consideramos este estudo importante, pois vem sendo crescente o n?mero de Institui??es de Ensino Superior privadas em detrimento das p?blicas que formam psic?logos no Brasil. Na Regi?o Metropolitana de Campinas, existem 7 delas, sendo todas privadas, e esse fato vem impactando consideravelmente a demanda de estudantes ingressantes bem como de profissionais formados. Dessa forma, este trabalho teve por objetivo compreender e analisar a forma??o de psic?logos escolares a partir das mudan?as curriculares apresentadas nos Projetos Pedag?gicos de Curso. Utilizamos como fundamento para o m?todo de pesquisa o Materialismo Hist?rico e Dial?tico por compreender que a bu ca pela compreens?o da ess?ncia deste fen?meno ? determinada por quest?es hist?ricas da realidade brasileira. A dial?tica ? o movimento que permite ao pesquisador um olhar a partir das contradi??es dessa realidade e que, portanto, ? um outro olhar para a pesquisa em Psicologia. Fundamentamos tamb?m este trabalho na Pesquisa Qualitativa apresentada pela Psicologia Cr?tica que n?o desconsidera a an?lise quantitativa da forma??o, mas a envolve nesse processo de conhecimento. Para isso, foram consideradas 4 institui??es da Regi?o Metropolitana de Campinas que permitiram o acesso ? leitura dos Projetos Pedag?gicos de Curso e a entrevista com os coordenadores respons?veis por eles. Nossa an?lise apontou a predomin?ncia de pelo menos uma das ?nfases do curso na ?rea da sa?de em todas as institui??es e apenas uma delas na educa??o. Identificamos tamb?m que a escolha das ?nfases se d? pela maior possibilidade de inser??o profissional do estudante de psicologia rec?m formado e que, ao mesmo tempo, a maior inser??o neste campo ou ?rea de atua??o demanda maior ingresso dos estudantes no curso de Psicologia dessas institui??es.