This study examined how teachers' perceptions and attitudes and students' perceptions impacted the learning outcomes students received from their participation in service-learning. Service-learning is a form of experiential learning that endeavors to enhance students' academic and civic education through participation in community service. Two learning outcomes of service-learning were investigated: student problem solving and leadership skills. The data consisted of survey responses from 443 middle and high school students and their respective teachers that participated in evaluation research conducted by the Texas Center for Service-Learning and Texas A&M University during the 2007-2008 academic year. The survey items used from the teacher surveys focused on whether teachers felt that administrators took their opinions and ideas into account when making decisions regarding the service-learning program, as well as items that focused on teachers' general attitude towards the program. Survey items used from the student surveys focused on whether students felt their teacher enjoyed service-learning projects, as well as survey items that focused on students' selfefficacy in terms of problem solving and leadership skills. The basic hypotheses were: (1) the more institutionalized the service-learning program is in the students' school, the more positive benefits they receive from their program involvement, (2) when students perceive that they have more ownership of the service-learning program, they receive more benefits from their participation, and (3) the more positively students perceive the teacher's perception of the service-learning program, the more positive benefits students receive for their program involvement. Path analysis and multiple regression are used to test the hypotheses. Contrary to what was expected, the data indicated that institutionalization was significantly, negatively related to student problem solving (-.3007, p less than or equal to .001) and leadership skills (-.4020, p less than or equal to .001). As expected, the data showed that student perception of student ownership of the service-learning program was significantly, positively related to student problem solving (1.0845, p less than or equal to .05) and leadership skills (2.4721, p less than or equal to .001). The data also showed that teacher attitude was very important in regard to student perception of the teacher's attitude and student perception of student ownership of the program, as well as student problem solving and leadership skills. The data suggested that the teacher's attitude was more important in terms of student learning outcomes than the student's perception of the teacher's attitude.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:00:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ronan dissertacao.pdf: 802822 bytes, checksum: 5b2a50af42e2ddbd9339e6c46a6979d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-04 / The aim of this search, whose central theme is training of teachers of mathematics, is to study the influences of trainers course in mathematics degree in exercise of the graduates of this course. In the case of a course of study in an institution of higher education, this research is characterized as a case study in a qualitative approach that seeks to establish relations between the uniqueness and complexity of teacher training. In the discussions were addressed various aspects of the issue: public policies for the Brazilian Education, curriculum guidelines for undergraduate courses, particularly for the degree in mathematics, knowledge and expertise relevant to teachers and dichotomies in teacher education in mathematics. The theoretical contributions substantiate that these discussions were made of contributions from various national and international researchers. Of national literature in Education: Ludke (1996), Rosa (2003), André (2007). The international literature: Shulman (1986), Zichner (1993), Marcelo García (1999) and Tardif (2004). Brazilian literature of specific IFIC s Mathematics Education: Fiorentini (2005), Lins (2005), Garnica (2006). International literature of Mathematics Education: Bridge (1992), Sztajn (2002), Skovsmse (2007). Data were obtained through semi-interviews held with the actors of this study: five teachers licensed in the same way, and five students of basic education, one student from each teacher egress. The categories used for data analysis were: Education, Vocational Education and Training Human. These categories were constructed through an intense and delicate work to analyze the interviews with the trainers, teachers and their students. The data emerged from the perspective of academic training: the field of mathematics content for teachers is a key factor for the training of teachers. Appearance also noticed in the speech of teachers and students in their practices, according to the speech of their students in basic education. With respect to pedagogical training: methodological aspects of teaching, the teacher-student, the classroom management was perceived in the speech of the majority of trainers and teachers and emphasized with much enthusiasm by all students, as the characteristics of good teacher practice. With regard to training human: aspects of the human relantionship between trainer and licensing, curriculum knowledge and personal stories to the teacher to student attributes were described by the subjects investigated. The study also shows how the models studied training (academic, educational and human) are taught by teachers, learned and put into practice by graduates. Thus, we believe that this research will contribute to deepen the discussions and reflections on curricular issues, the dichotomies between the degree and bachelor s degree, knowledge and training of trainers, the influences that they exert on the students, especially during graduation Mathematics in the IME-UFG / O objetivo deste trabalho, cujo tema central é a formação de professores de matemática, é o de estudar as influências que os formadores do curso de licenciatura em matemática da Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) exercem sobre os egressos deste curso. Por se tratar do estudo de um curso, em uma determinada instituição de ensino superior, esta pesquisa caracteriza-se como um estudo de caso em uma abordagem qualitativa, que busca estabelecer relações entre a singularidade e a complexidade da formação docente. Nas discussões foram abordados vários aspectos da temática: políticas públicas voltadas para o ensino brasileiro; orientações curriculares para os cursos de licenciatura, em especial para a licenciatura em matemática; saberes e conhecimentos pertinentes aos professores e dicotomias na formação de professores de matemática. Os aportes teóricos que fundamentaram estas discussões foram constituídos por contribuições de vários pesquisadores nacionais e internacionais. Da literatura nacional em Educação: Lüdke (1996); Rosa (2003); André (2007). Da literatura internacional: Shulman (1986); Zaichner (1993); Marcelo García (1999); Tardif (2004). Da literatura brasileira específica da Educação Matemática: Fiorentini (2005); Lins (2005); Garnica (2006). Da literatura internacional da Educação Matemática: Ponte (1992); Sztajn (2002); Skovsmose (2007). Os dados foram obtidos por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, realizadas com os seguintes atores desta pesquisa: cinco professores formadores do curso de licenciatura em matemática da UFG; cinco professores licenciados do mesmo curso e cinco alunos da educação básica, sendo um aluno de cada professor egresso. As categorias utilizadas para análise dos dados foram: Formação Acadêmica; Formação Pedagógica e Formação Humana. Estas categorias foram construídas por meio de um trabalho intenso e delicado ao analisarmos as entrevistas realizadas com os formadores, os professores e seus alunos. Da análise dos dados emergiram, na perspectiva da formação acadêmica: o domínio dos conteúdos de matemática para os formadores é um fator fundamental para a formação dos professores. Aspecto percebido também no discurso dos professores egressos e em suas práticas, de acordo com as falas de seus alunos da educação básica. Com relação à formação pedagógica: aspectos metodológicos de ensino, relação professor-aluno, gestão da sala de aula, foram percebidos no discurso da maioria dos formadores e professores, e enfatizados com muito entusiasmo por todos os alunos, como características inerentes à prática do bom professor. No que se refere à formação humana: aspectos da relação humana entre formador e licenciando, saberes curriculares, histórias pessoais e respeito do professor com aluno, foram atributos descritos pelos sujeitos investigados. O estudo nos mostra também como os modelos de formação estudados (acadêmico, pedagógico e humano) são ensinados pelos formadores, aprendidos e colocados em prática pelos egressos. Dessa forma, acreditamos que esta pesquisa venha a contribuir para aprofundar as discussões e reflexões sobre os aspectos curriculares, as dicotomias entre a licenciatura e o bacharelado, os saberes e a formação dos formadores, as influências que estes exercem sobre os egressos, sobretudo no curso de licenciatura em matemática do IME-UFG

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