Dissertation (MA (Human Movement Science))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Biokinetics, Sport and Leisure Sciences / unrestricted

The goal of this project is to suggest a way to combine a functional curricula (domains) with literacy experiences.

Summary in English. / When considering their dropout, many described experiences of being a misfit, or feeling uncomfortable with discourse practices in which they were expected to engage. Some had logistical difficulties in attending, such as transport or small children, but even greater than these was the fact that they had been disappointed. These learners believe the "literacy myth" that literacy, as a set of skills one can acquire, will result in significant improvements in one's life. They also equate literacy with education, and although they experience none of the benefits that are supposed to accrue to the literate, they continue to say that they believe in its power. However, in practice, attendance at adult centres is relatively poor in comparison with numbers of potential students, those termed "illiterate." It may be deduced that adult "illiterates" regard literacy as some kind of "saviour", a panacea for all ills. Even if it is not directly accessed, the fact of its existence and the notion of its power is enough to provide hope for a better future and comfort in hard times.

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[pt] Esta dissertação foca no tipo de linguagem usada em anúncios e propagandas de celular e no seu impacto como fonte de informações para o comportamento do consumidor. Esses instrumentos de publicidade podem chegar a não ser compreendidos não só por cerca de 1/3 da população, que é considerada analfabeta funcional geral, mas também por outros que não entendem linguagem técnica e termos estrangeiros. Esse fato pode acarretar grandes perdas financeiras e mau uso da ferramenta de comunicação de marketing. Esta pesquisa foi inspirada no S-TOFHLA, que é um teste internacional de letramento usado na área de saúde. Ela mediu a capacidade dos respondentes de entender aspectos e atributos usados nos anúncios de mídia impressa sobre celulares. Para isso, foi desenvolvido um questionário inspirado na técnica de cloze, que consiste no preenchimento de lacunas com a palavra mais adequada, contendo quatro opções de múltipla escolha para cada questão. Esse teste foi aplicado em 202 respondentes e as respostas contribuíram para avaliar a sua compreensão sobre o tema. Os resultados evidenciam que os respondentes, segundo seus níveis de renda, escolaridade, idade e sexo têm níveis de entendimento diferentes sobre o tema. Quanto maior, por exemplo, o nível de escolaridade do respondente maior a sua pontuação no teste. Isso reforça a idéia de se reavaliar a clareza, a inteligibilidade e a especificidade desses materiais promocionais. Finalmente o estudo salienta a importância de as mensagens e os elementos usados nesses anúncios se tornem instrumentos mais sensíveis ao letramento dos diferentes públicos e consequentemente mais eficazes na comunicação publicitária. O estudo deixa clara a necessidade latente de mudanças para a comunicação de marketing. / [en] This thesis focuses on the type of language used in advertisements and publications for cell phones and its impact as a source of information for the consumer behavior. These publication instruments can actually be not understood by about 1/3 of the population, which is considered functional illiterate, but by others that don’t understand technical languages, jargons, and foreign terms. This fact can result in large financial losses and misapplication of the marketing communication tools. The research at issue was inspired by S-TOHFLA, which is an international test of functional health literacy of patients used in the health care setting. It measured the ability of the respondents to understand aspects and attributes used in press media advertisements about cell phones. Thereto, a test was inspired by the Cloze procedure which consists in fulfilling gaps with the most appropriate word, containing four multiple choice options for each question. That test was administrated to 202 respondents, and the answers contributed to assess their comprehension about the theme. The results point out that the respondents, according to their level of income, literacy, age and gender, have different levels of understanding the subject - for example, the higher the level of literacy of the respondent, the higher his or her score in the test. That reinforces the idea of reassess the clarity, intelligibility and the specificity of these promotional materials. Finally, this study stresses out the importance of messages and elements, used in advertisements, to become more sensitive to the literacy of different audiences and consequently, to be more effective in the advertising community. This study clarifies the latent need of changes for the marketing communication.

This study investigated the physical affective, cognitive and volitional problems of the learner in adult basic education (ABE) with reference to the learner's relationship towards the tutor, the learning content, the self, and family and friends. The research design provided for a literature study of ABE in South Africa, as well as the personhood and relationships of the ABE learner. This was done to arrive at a research hypothesis concerning the relative impact of various categories of problems on the ABE learner. The empirical summary had both quantitative and qualitative components. It was found that ABE learners are influenced by the following factors, listed in order of impact: affective problems; cognitive problems; problems related to the learning content, physical problems and problems related to family and friends. Positive fmdings were that volitional problems and problems related to tutors were relatively less significant. In its recommendations the study emphasises the crucial role of, and need for professionally trained adult basic educators who can deal effectively with the personal and contextual problems of ABE learners. Moreover, the typical perseverance of ABE learners demands the establishment of excellent and responsive infrastructure for ABE provision, inter alia in provincial education departments. / Psychology of Education / M. Ed. (Psychology of Education)

Technikons were established in order to meet the need for skilled labour in the field of Engineering and Technology. Yet, within the Transkei it is found that there is a greater need for literacy training as a means of contributing to social and economic upliftment as technological advancement cannot take place within an illiterate society. As the Eastern Cape Technikon is based within the Transkei, a challenge is put to this institution to meet the needs of its surrounding community. Thus besides providing technologically -orientated education, the question is put as to how the Technikon could address illiteracy in the area. A study of countries which have addressed these issues is made and an investigation into the problem within the area is carried out. Based on conclusions drawn from these, recommendations are made. These do not necessarily pertain to all technikons but can be considered when approaching the issue of literacy/illiteracy . / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Comparative Education)

Title: Working with text and development of reading knowledge in minorit groups Michal Vejlupek My diploma theme with title, Working with text and development of reading knowledge in minorit groups is about reading and reading literacy. It was concerned with the definition of these conceptions with an outline of its development. Described the historical evolution of the education methods of the first reading focused on understanding. From minority groups concentrates on Vietnamese ethnic group and on their day-to-day problems in Czech Republic emphasized on their different communication. Approaching issues of the children with different mother tongues and the education methods in Czech Republic related to this dissimilarity (OBL) which is at the beginning. In practice part of my diploma there is a research of differences between Vietnamese and Czech students. My results confirm no differences between them. Vietnamese children are worse than Czech in understanding but deficiency is low. Results of reading questionnaire show no big differences also.

This paper treats changes of the literacy concept. It presents five most important conceptual frameworks, such as literacy rate, functional literacy, Freirean framework, New literacy studies and literacies of information. Literacy can be defined as the ability to read and write, as a set of basic skills or as competencies. Because of OECD's influence, the functional literacy concept is the most powerful one. Literacy involves a continuum and is oriented mostly towards economical outputs. Influence of OECD is supported by the international surveys IALS, ALL, PIAAC, PISA and LAMP. The surveys TIMSS and PIRLS organized by IEA are influential as well. This paper summarizes the most important critical reviews to the OECD's methodology and to the interpretation of the results. It also comments current activities of OECD, UNESCO and European union. Based on the socio- cultural framework, it brings in several recommendations how states and organizations could approach literacy and its assessment. The paper relies on the documents of UNESCO, OECD, IEA, the World Bank, the European union and on the published works of foreign and local experts.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria de Nazaré Corrêa da Silva.pdf: 4743441 bytes, checksum: f6684d2567b96992043854c475f8bc05 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-25 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research analyzes a group of literacy strategies offered to the subjects of Youth and Adult Education (EJA) in the Amazon, through the training and teaching practice developed by the University of the State of Amazonas (UEA) in the sixty two municipalities of the state of Amazonas, with a focus on teaching practice with letter orphans in the Peru-Brazil-Colombia Triple Amazon Basin, from the perspective of curricular subjects and public managers from 2003 to 2010. Show the UEA formation EJA training course and the agreements signed between the federal and state governments. This is a qualitative approach research. The first chapter deals with the EJA in the global agenda, interests of neoliberal politics, reflections and propositions. The second presents the UEA, its proposal of literacy and training for subjects of the EJA, agreements and pacts for the development of these actions. The third chapter talking about the teacher training course at EJA, which is to be a teacher today in dealing with building a curriculum that respects the diversity of EJA. The fourth and last chapter brings the subjects' speech and the hope of an emancipatory curriculum. The focus of the research crosses the geographical frontier stripping the cultural frontier, with a cut in the possible curriculum built together with the orphans of the Letters of Rewriting the Future Program (PLRF). The theoretical basis is based on the contributions of Karel Kosik, Paulo Freire, Samuel Benchimol, Triviños, Lowy, Gimeno Sacristán, Arroyo, Feldmann and Antônio Chizzotti, as well as official documents, "Letters of the Amazon" reports of activities of the curricular subjects and indicators of use of the teaching practice. I considered that the proposal of extension in literacy of the University of the State of Amazonas / UEA, for the education of educators and orphans of the letters, in spite of the positive results for the education in Amazonas and insertion of young people and adults in the official education and, educators continuing in the construction of new knowledge with specializations, masters and even doctor degree, the policy for the EJA needs to advance in the perspective of liberating popular education, needs to be fertilized through problem situations and analysis of possibilities and limits, characteristics of a border region and Amazonian . The result of this work will be in the public domain and made available to the research subjects / Esta pesquisa analisa um conjunto de estratégias de alfabetização oferecido aos sujeitos da Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) na Amazônia, através das formação e prática docente desenvolvida pela Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA) nos sessenta e dois municípios do estado do Amazonas, com foco na prática docente com os órfãos das letras na Tríplice Fronteira Amazônica Peru-Brasil-Colômbia, sob a ótica dos sujeitos curriculares e gestores públicos no período de 2003 a 2010. O curso de formação em EJA da UEA, os acordos firmados entre os governos federal e estadual. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa. O primeiro capítulo versa sobre a EJA na agenda global, interesses da política neoliberal, reflexões e proposituras. O segundo apresenta a UEA, sua proposta de alfabetização e formação para sujeitos da EJA, acordos e pactos para o desenvolvimento dessas ações. O terceiro capítulo aborda o curso de formação docente em EJA, o que é ser professor hoje no trato com a construção de um currículo que respeite a diversidade da EJA. O quarto e último capítulo traz a fala dos sujeitos e a esperança de um currículo emancipatório. O foco da pesquisa atravessa a fronteira geográfica desnudando a fronteira cultural, com recorte no currículo possível construído junto aos órfãos das letras do Programa de Letramento Reescrevendo o Futuro (PLRF). A base teórica apoia-se nas contribuições de Karel Kosik, Paulo Freire, Samuel Benchimol, Triviños, Lowy, Gimeno Sacristán, Gonzáles Arroyo, Feldmann e Antônio Chizzotti, bem como documentos oficiais, “Cartas do Amazonas” relatórios de atividades dos sujeitos curriculares e indicadores de aproveitamento da prática docente. Considerei que a proposta de extensão em letramento da Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA), para formação de educadores e órfãos das letras, em que pese os resultados positivos para a educação no Amazonas e inserção de jovens e adultos no ensino oficial e, educadores prosseguindo na construção de novos conhecimentos com especializações, mestrados e até doutorado, a política para a EJA precisa avançar na perspectiva da educação popular libertadora, precisa ser fecundada por meio de situações problema e análise de possibilidades e limites, características de uma região de fronteira e amazônica. O resultado deste trabalho será de domínio público e disponibilizado aos sujeitos da investigação