本研究旨在探究國民中學教師所知覺的校長知識領導、學校組織學習與學校創新經營效能之關係，根據研究結果提出建議，以做為教育行政機關、國民中學校長，以及未來相關研究之參考。 本研究以桃竹苗四縣市國民中學之教師為對象，採問卷調查法，以「國民中學校長知識領導、組織學習與學校創新經營效能問卷」進行抽樣調查，抽取 450 位教師為樣本，回收 398 份，回收率為 88.4%，以描述統計、t 考驗、單因子變異數分析、積差相關分析、多元逐步迴歸等統計方法加以分析。獲得以下結論： ㄧ、桃竹苗四縣市國民中學整體校長知識領導現況屬良好程度，各層面以 「充實專業領導知能」最好，以「激勵學校成員學習」最差。 二、教師任教年資及教師最高學歷之變項之對於校長知識領導的知覺具有 顯著差異；教師性別、教師職別等變項無顯著差異。 三、不同學校地區、學校規模、學校歷史、校長年齡、校長在該校服務年 資、擔任校長總年資及校長學歷等學校背景變項之教師對於校長知識 領導的知覺具有顯著差異；不同校長性別變項無顯著差異。 四、桃竹苗四縣市國民中學整體組織學習現況屬良好程度，各層面以「資 訊運用」最好，以「團隊學習」最差。 五、不同教師最高學歷背景變項之教師對於學校組織學習的知覺具有顯著 差異；不同教師性別、教師職別變項無顯著差異。 六、不同學校規模、學校歷史、校長性別、校長年齡及校長學歷背景變項 對於組織學習的知覺無顯著差異；校長在該校服務年資、擔任校長總 年資等背景變項有顯著差異。 七、桃竹苗四縣市國民中學整體學校創新經營效能現況屬良好程度，各層 面以「學生表現創新效能」最好，以「行政服務創新效能」層面程度 最後。 八、不同教師任教年資、教師最高學歷變項之教師對於學校創新經營效能 的知覺具有顯著差異；不同教師性別、教師職別等變項無顯著差異。 九、不同學校地區、學校規模、校長性別、校長年齡、校長在該校服務年 資、擔任校長總年資，以及校長最高學歷等背景變項有顯著差異；不 同學校歷史背景變項之教師對於學校創新經營效能的知覺無顯著差異。 十、校長知識領導與學校創新經營效能之間具有正相關；組織學習與學校 創新經營效能之間具有正相關。 十ㄧ、校長知識領導各層面以「激勵學校成員學習」、「建立合作信任關 係」、「展現知識創新行動」對學校創新經營效能具有預測力，總解釋 變異量為 34.6%。 十二、組織學習「系統思考」、「團隊學習」、「資訊運用」及「溝通交流」 四層面對整體學校創新經營效能均具有預測力，總解釋變異量為 77.7%。 十三、校長知識領導與組織學習對學校創新經營效能之聯合預測， 共有「系統思考」、「團隊學習」、「資訊運用」、「溝通交流」、「激勵 學校成員學習」及「建立合作信任關係」六個層面對整體學校創新 經營效能具有預測力，總解釋變異量為79.5%。 最後，根據研究結果提出下列幾點建議： ㄧ、對教育行政機關的建議 (一)規劃知識領導相關課程及訓練，加強校長知識領導能力。 (二)領導知識領導特質之校長。 (三)實質鼓勵教師兼任行政工作。 (四)辦理降低班級學生人數政策，有效紓解都會區學校壓力。 (五)提供校長更多進修與研習機會，持續增進校長領導知能 二、對國中校長的建議 (ㄧ)建立組織學習的觀念及推動共識。 (二)營造良好的學習型學校環境。 (三)激勵新進、年輕、新血輪加入行政行列：培養學習型領導人才，建立新 的領導力。 (四)發展學校特色。 三、進一步研究建議 (ㄧ)研究對象可納入不同層級。 (二)納入其他研究變項。 (三)在研究內容方面。 / The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship among principals’ knowledge leadership, teachers’ organizational learning, and school innovative management effectiveness which teachers perceive, and to propose suggestions based on the results, for the reference of educational administration authorities, junior high school principals, and relevant future studies. In this study, faculty of junior high schools in Taoyuan,、Hsinchu and Miaoli Area is picked as subjects and questionnaire survey is adopted. The researcher formulates “junior high school principals’ knowledge leadership, teachers’ organizational learning, and school innovative management effectiveness questionnaire,” and randomly selects 450 teachers as samples. In a rate of 88.4%, 398 replies are returned and then analyzed in methods of descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, product-moment correlation analysis and stepwise multiple regression. The following conclusions are obtained: 1.The present situation of principals’ change leadership is up to fine level. Among all the aspects, “enriching the professional competency” ranks to top,while”encouraging school members for learning” ranks otherwise. 2.Teachers ‘ age and higher degree perceive principals’ knowledge leadership significantly differently; while teachers of other variables such as gender, age, and service seniority show no significant difference. 3.Different school district ,、school size 、school history 、principal’ age local seniority, total seniority and education background perceive principals’ knowledge leadership significantly differently; while teachers of other variables such as gender shows no significant difference. 4.The present situation of teachers’ organizational learning is up to fine level. Among all the aspects, “information usage” ranks to the top, while “team learning” ranks otherwise. 5.Teachers of different demographic variables such as education level perceive teachers’ organizational learning significantly differently; while the variable of gender and duties shows no significant difference. 6.Teachers of different demographic variables such as school size and principals’ education level perceive teachers’ organizational commitment significantly differently; while some other variables such as school history; principals’ gender, age, local seniority, and total seniority show no significant difference. 7.The present situation of school innovative management effectiveness is up to fine level. Among all the aspects, “innovative effectiveness of pupil performance” ranks to the top, while “innovative effectiveness of administrative service” ranks otherwise. 8.Teachers different seniority and the highest degree perceive school innovative management effectiveness significantly differently; while teachers of other variables such as gender, duties show no significant difference. 9.Teachers of some demographic variables such as school district 、school size 、 principals’ gender、 age、 local seniority, total seniority and the highest degree perceive school innovative management effectiveness significantly differently; while some other variables such as school size; principals’ gender, local seniority, total seniority, and education level show no significant difference. 10.Principals’ knowledge leadership is positively related to school innovative management effectiveness; teachers’ organizational learning is also positively related to school innovative management effectiveness. 11.Principals’ knowledge leadership is most predictable for “to encourage school members learning” and “to establish the relation of trust cooperation” among all the aspects of principals’ knowledge leadership, accounting for 34.6% of total variance. 12.Teachers’ organizational learning is predictable for each aspect, including “system thinking,” “team learning,” “information usage,”and ‘communtion” accounting for 77.7% of total variance. 13.When combining principals’ knowledge leadership and teachers’ organizational learning, school innovative management effectiveness is predictable for six aspects, including “system thinking,” “team learning,” ““information usage ‘communtion” “to encourage school members learning” and “to establish the relation of trust cooperation”” accounting for 79.5% of total variance. Finally, based on the results, the following suggestions are proposed: 1.Suggestions for educational administration authorities (1)Arrange related courses and trainings of knowledge leadership to improve principals’ ability of knowledge leadership (2)Lead the principals of knowledge leadership (3)Encourage teachers to serve as administratine duties (4)Reduce the number of classes students and solve the metropolitan area Academic pressure (5)Provide Principals more education and learning opportunities 2. Suggestions for principals in junior high schools （1）To establish the concept of organizational learning and the promotion of consensus （2）To create a good learning school environment （3）Stimulate new, young, new blood to join the executive ranks: the culture of learning leadership talent, and create a new Leadership （4）Development of school characteristics 3.Suggestions for further studies （1）Included different levels （2）Increase the other variables （3）To strengthen research content

企業的創新已經進入到應用專利權進行策略佈局的階段，因此綜合研發投入和專利產出的創新效率便成為關注企業競爭力的重要指標。而影響創新效率的關鍵在於企業決策者的策略意圖，但由於新興國家法規體制尚不完備，與決策者相關的公司治理因素成為創新效率的核心議題。為深入瞭解其中的連結，本研究以中國的上市公司為研究對象，並從外資投資者的角度探討股權結構與創新效率之間的關係。研究結果發現外資股對於創新效率有正向影響，若與國有股同時存在，原有的正向影響則會減弱；但當國有股私有化的程度愈高，外資股所受的干擾降低，對創新效率的正向影響便愈大；另外法人股的存在則更能增進外資股提升企業的創新效率。 / Nowadays, enterprises regard patents as a key strategy to enhance its innovation capability. Therefore, innovative efficiency (IE), measured as the relation between R&D expenditures and patents granted, becomes an important index to observe corporate competitiveness. Ownership structures could affect the outcome of IE as shareholders are ultimate decision makers. However, this may be a more serious issue in emerging countries, as they generally have weak legal environments and shareholders do not fully understand the details of firms’ innovation efforts. This study explores this issue based on a sample of Chinese listed companies and examines the extent to which ownership structures, especially foreign shareholders, are associated with the IE of publicly listed firms in China. The results indicate that IE is positively associated with the foreign shareholdings, while this relation turns negative when there are state shareholdings. As state shareholding have negative effects on IE and could interfere the role of foreign shareholdings in improving a company’s innovation activities, the results also suggest that the level of state shareholding privatization improves the association between IE and foreign shareholding. Moreover, the relation between IE and the foreign shareholding is more pronounced if institutional shareholdings exist.

Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / On title page: Master of Philosophy (Information and Knowledge Management). Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Η συζήτηση για το μουσείο ως εργαλείο εκπαίδευσης στην εικαστική διεργασία εγγράφεται τόσο στο πεδίο της Τέχνης όσο και της Μουσειακής Εκπαίδευσης. Τα ερωτήματα που τίθονται είναι: κατά πόσο μπορεί το μουσείο να αποτελέσει ένα αποτελεσματικό εργαλείο εικαστικής αγωγής υπερβαίνοντας ή επαναπροσδιορίζοντας τον ρόλο του στο πλαίσιο της αισθητικής αγωγής, στον σχολικό χώρο; Κατά πόσο είναι έτοιμοι ή διατεθειμένοι οι εκπαιδευτικοί προσχολικής αγωγής να υιοθετήσουν μια τέτοια πρακτική; Μπορούν οι καινοτόμες μουσειακές δράσεις να βρουν ευρύτερη εφαρμογή στη διδασκαλίας της εικαστικής αγωγής; Μπορεί η λαϊκή μορφή τέχνης του Θεάτρου Σκιών να αποτελέσει γέφυρα σύνδεσης του παρελθόντος με το παρόν, της παραδοσιακής με τη σύγχρονη εκπαίδευση, της μουσειακής αγωγής με την εικαστική εκπαίδευση; Υπό το πρίσμα αυτό θα εστιαστούμε στην εικαστική αγωγή, ως σχολικό μάθημα και στις εκπαιδευτικές δραστηριότητες που αναπτύσσουν τα μουσεία στα πλαίσια διαμόρφωσης της καλλιτεχνικής παιδείας, σε μαθητές προσχολικής αγωγής και πως αυτές οι πρακτικές συμβάλλουν στην καλλιέργεια της προσωπικής έκφρασης και ευαισθησίας των παιδιών. / Η ΒKΠ διαθέτει αντίτυπο της διατριβής σε έντυπη μορφή στο βιβλιοστάσιο διδακτορικών διατριβών που βρίσκεται στο ισόγειο του κτιρίου. / The discussion concerning the museum as an educational material in the pictorial process is stated in the field of Arts as well as the Museum Education. The questions posed are the following: to what extend can the museum constitute an effective means of art education outrunning or reassigning its role in the framework of Aesthetic Education(Arts) in the school environment? To what extend are the Pre-school Education Teachers willing to adopt such a technique? Can the innovative museum actions find a broader application on the teaching of pictorial education? Can the folk type of art of the Theatre of Shadows bridge the gap between the past and the present, the traditional and modern education, the museum and the pictorial education? Bearing the above into consideration, we will focus on the pictorial education as a school subject and the teaching activities applied by museums in order to form artistic education to pre-school learners and on how these techniques contribute to the development of children’s personal expression and sensitivity.

La reconnaissance au travail qui se base sur des jugements de gratitude afin de rétribuer le travail réellement effectué par le salarié, influence positivement les comportements discrétionnaires qui ne sont pas explicitement récompensés par les systèmes formels de rémunération. Dans cette recherche, nous nous sommes intéressés à la relation entre la reconnaissance au travail et les comportements discrétionnaires à savoir le comportement d’entraide et le comportement d’innovation tout en sachant que cette relation n’a pas été étudiée dans la littérature. Le but de notre recherche est de savoir dans quelle mesure la reconnaissance au travail impacte-t-elle le comportement d’entraide et le comportement d’innovation. Pour répondre à cette question, nous avons formulé l’hypothèse fondamentale que la reconnaissance au travail a un effet positif sur les deux comportements discrétionnaires à savoir le comportement d’entraide et le comportement d’innovation.Nous avons testé cette hypothèse en menant une étude qualitative auprès de 20 infirmiers que nous avons complétée par une étude quantitative réalisée auprès d’un échantillon de 215 infirmiers Tunisiens. Les résultats de notre étude nous ont permis d’identifier les formes de reconnaissance les plus explicatives du comportement d’entraide et du comportement d’innovation.Les résultats de notre recherche ont montré que les infirmiers sont en quête permanente de reconnaissance et qu’ils cherchent à rendre leur travail plus visible pour pouvoir garantir des différentes formes de reconnaissance parmi lesquelles certaines se sont révélées les plus explicatives des deux comportements discrétionnaires : le comportement d’entraide et le comportement d’innovation. Notre recherche présente un caractère novateur et apporte une contribution autour de l’étude de la reconnaissance au travail comme étant un facteur qui favorise l’adoption du comportement d’entraide et du comportement d’innovation. / Recognition at work is based on gratitude judgments in order to reward the good work performed by the employee and positively influences the discretionary behaviors that are not explicitly reward with formal compensation systems.This doctoral dissertation studies the relationship between recognition at work and discretionary behaviors, particularly the helping and innovative behavior.This research aims to find out by which means recognition at work affects helping behavior an innovative behavior. To do so, we suggested and exam this fundamental hypothesis that employee recognition at work has positive effect on both discretionary behaviors namely helping behavior and innovative behavior.We tested this hypothesis by conducting a qualitative study on a sample of 20 nurses that we have completed with a quantitative study conducted among a sample of 215 Tunisians nurses. The results of our study allowed us to identify the most explanatory forms of recognition of the helping behavior and innovation behavior.The results of our doctoral dissertation showed that nurses are constantly in search of recognition and they are looking to make their work more visible in order to ensure different forms of recognition, some of this forms have proved the most explanatory of both discretionary behaviors.Our research is innovative and contributes to study the employee recognition as a factor that promotes the adoption of helping behavior and innovative behavior.

Les futurs réacteurs à neutrons rapides refroidis au sodium (RNR-Na) doivent remplir les critères GEN-IV à savoir présenter des qualités d'économie, de sûreté améliorée, de résistance à la prolifération et de minimisation des déchets. Ce projet de thèse est dédié à l'étude de l'impact des combustibles innovants (spécialement le combustible oxyde sphere-pac chargé en actinides mineurs) sur les performances de sûreté des RNR-Na dédiés à la transmutation.Le code de calcul SIMMER-III, développé à l'origine pour les phases avancées d'un accident grave, est utilisé pour les simulations. Ce code a été étendu dans le cadre de cette thèse afin d'améliorer la simulation de la phase primaire de l'accident, en introduisant le traitement des effets en réactivité liés à la dilatation du cœur et les spécificités du combustible sphere-pac (conductivité thermique, gap). Les transitoires complets (de la phase d'initiation aux phases avancées) sont simulés avec cette version étendue du code. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, les propriétés thermiques du combustible sphere-pac ont été modélisées et adaptées à SIMMER. Une méthodologie innovante tenant compte des effets en réactivité liés à la dilation thermique du cœur dans un maillage Eulérien et dans le cadre de la cinétique spatiale a ensuite été développée. A chaque pas de temps, les dimensions et densités dilatées sont calculées pour chaque cellule suite aux variations de températures. Des facteurs correctifs sont appliqués aux densités dilatées pour obtenir une configuration équivalente (en réactivité) ayant les dimensions non-dilatées et des densités modifiées. De nouvelles sections efficaces sont calculées à partir de ces densités et l'effet en réactivité lié à la dilatation est calculé. Les résultats sont prometteurs pour des dilatations uniformes et non-uniformes. Des limitations dans le cas de dilatations non-uniformes ont été identifiées et des calculs neutroniques ont été effectués en vue de futurs développements SIMMER. Les résultats préliminaires sont encourageants. Enfin, deux cœurs RNR-Na, issus du précédent projet CP-ESFR, ont été modélisés avec des combustibles sphere-pac : le Working Horse et le CONF2 (présentant un plénum sodium élargi pour une diminution de l'effet de vide sodium). Des analyses de sûreté ont été effectuées afin de fournir une première évaluation du comportement du combustible sphere-pac comparé au combustible pastille. Les deux options sont analysées en situation nominale et accidentelle (accident de perte de débit primaire) en début de vie du cœur et après irradiation. Les analyses révèlent deux phases à considérer en début de vie pour le combustible sphere-pac. Au démarrage du réacteur, ce combustible n'est pas restructuré et sa conductivité thermique est très inférieure à celle du combustible pastille. Après quelques heures sous irradiation, il se restructure suite aux importants gradients de température, ce qui améliore sa conductivité. Il se comporte alors de façon similaire au combustible pastille. Ce travail a également permis d'évaluer le comportement accidentel du cœur CONF2 qui subit un transitoire doux, prouvant que le large plénum sodium prévient efficacement de larges insertions de réactivité positive. Cependant, avec l'ajout d'américium ou suite à l'irradiation, des excursions de puissance et de réactivité plus prononcées sont observées. Ce travail a permis de démontrer que le combustible sphere-pac ne semble pas causer de problèmes de sûreté spécifiques comparé au combustible pastille, dans les conditions de simulations actuelles. La prise en compte des effets en réactivité liés à la dilatation du cœur avec cette version étendue de SIMMER retarde et réduit le potentiel énergétique lors d'un accident. Les analyses confirment également l'action atténuante du plénum sodium sur les transitoires conduisant à la vidange du sodium du coeur. Le comportement du combustible sphere-pac dans ces conditions ouvre une perspective à son utilisation en RNR-Na. / Future sodium cooled fast reactors (SFRs) have to fulfill the GEN-IV requirements of enhanced safety, minimal waste production, increased proliferation resistance and high economical potential. This PhD project is dedicated to the evaluation of the impact of innovative fuels (especially minor actinides bearing oxide sphere-pac fuels) on the safety performance of advanced SFRs with transmutation option. The SIMMER-III code, originally tailored to mechanistically analyze later phases of core disruptive accidents, is employed for accident simulations. During the PhD project, the code has been extended for a better simulation of the early accident phase introducing the treatment of thermal expansion reactivity effects and for taking into account the specifics of sphere-pac fuels (thermal conductivity and gap conditions). The entire transients (from the initiating event to later accident phases) have been modeled with this extended SIMMER version. Within this PhD work, first the thermo-physical properties of sphere-pac fuel have been modeled and casted into SIMMER-III. Then, a new computational method to account for thermal expansion feedbacks has been developed to improve the initiation phase modeling of the code. The technique has the potential to evaluate these reactivity feedbacks for a fixed Eulerian mesh and in a spatial kinetics framework. At each time step, cell-wise expanded dimensions and densities are calculated based on temperature variations. Density factors are applied to the expanded densities to get an equivalent configuration (in reactivity) with original dimensions and modified densities. New cross sections are calculated with these densities and the reactivity of the equivalent configuration is computed. The developed methods show promising results for uniform and non-uniform expansions. For non-uniform expansions, model improvement needs have been identified and neutronics simulations have been carried out to support future SIMMER extensions. Preliminary results are encouraging. In the third part of the PhD, two core designs with conventional and sphere pac fuels are compared with respect to their transient behavior. These designs were established in the former CP-ESFR project: the working horse core and the optimized CONF2 core (with a large sodium plenum above the core for coolant void worth reduction). The two fuel design options are compared for steady state and transient conditions (Unprotected Loss of Flow accident, ULOF) either at beginning of life (BOL) or under irradiated conditions. Analyses for sphere-pac fuel reveal two main phases to consider at BOL. At start-up, the non-restructured sphere-pac fuel shows a low thermal conductivity compared to pellet fuel of same density. However, the fuel restructures quickly (in a few hours) due to the high thermal gradients and its thermal conductivity recovers. The fuel then shows a behavior close to the pellet one. The study also shows that the CONF2 core leads to a very mild transient for a ULOF accident at BOL. The large upper sodium plenum seems to effectively prevent large positive reactivity insertions. However, stronger reactivity and power peaks are observed under irradiated conditions or when americium is loaded in the core and lower axial blanket. This PhD work demonstrates, under current simulation conditions, that sphere-pac fuels do not seem to cause specific safety issues compared to standard pellet fuels, when loaded in SFRs. The accurate simulation of core thermal expansion reactivity feedbacks by means of the extended SIMMER version plays an important role in the accident timing (simulations confirm the expected delay in the first power peak) and on the energetic potential compared to the case where these feedbacks are omitted. The analyses also confirm the mitigating impact of a large sodium plenum on transients with voiding potential. The behavior of sphere-pac fuel in these conditions opens a perspective to its practical application in SFRs.

The aim of the diploma thesis Recommended reading at elementary school is to map the current state of suggested readings and work with it in elementary schools in the Czech Republic. The thesis is divided into theoretical part where are elaborated and characterized the basic concepts related to this issue. It is thus focused on the definition of reader, reading literacy, reading and further on is defined the recommended and primer reading. Furthermore, this section offers the methods used to develop literacy skills in Czech language lessons and literature. In the practical parts is intimated the basic research, which was carried out on this subject through a series of interviews with 26 teachers coming from different schools. The research aims to find out the current status of recommended reading at the middle school level, whether it is used by teachers, eventually how they continue to operate with it and use this knowledge for their own teaching practice.

A necessidade urgente de mudanças no Ensino Médio do Brasil motivou o pesquisador desta tese a propor mudanças na forma tradicional de se trabalhar a Química com os estudantes. Com a evolução das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, é necessário que o cidadão seja incluído na cultura digital para que possa fazer parte da sociedade globalizada dos dias atuais. Assim, também é tarefa da escola a busca da inclusão dos sujeitos nessa cultura digital. A utilização das novas tecnologias é importante e deve ser considerada quando se planejam atividades de aprendizagem com os alunos da Escola Básica. O principal objeto de pesquisa dessa tese foi o estudo dos processos cognitivos que envolvem aspectos da aprendizagem da Química com o uso dessas tecnologias. Procurou-se verificar como uma Arquitetura Pedagógica orientada para os alunos, contendo atividades experimentais, produção de vídeos e elaboração de modelos digitais no ambiente Squeak-Etoys, pode contribuir para a construção do conhecimento químico. Entende-se a Arquitetura Pedagógica como um conjunto de estratégias, dinâmicas de grupo, softwares educacionais e ferramentas de apoio à cooperação que possam favorecer a aprendizagem. A análise dos processos vivenciados pelos sujeitos da pesquisa foi fundamentada pela Epistemologia Genética de Jean Piaget. A partir das análises dos dados da pesquisa, pretende-se propor orientações para as ações pedagógicas com o uso de ambientes digitais, onde ocorram processos nos quais os sujeitos possam representar, ampliar e consolidar o seu conhecimento científico. / The urgent need for changes in high school in Brazil led the researcher of this thesis to propose changes in the traditional way of working with the chemistry students. With the development of information and communication technologies, it is necessary that the public is included in the digital culture that may be part of the global society of today. Thus, it is also the school's task to find the inclusion of subjects in digital culture and use of new technologies is important and should be considered when planning activities for learning with students from the Basic School. The main object of this thesis research was to study the cognitive processes that involve aspects of the learning of chemistry with the use of these technologies. It is found as a pedagogical architecture oriented students, containing experimental activities, production of videos and digital models in the development of digital environment-Squeak Etoys, can contribute to the construction of chemical knowledge. The Pedagogical Architecture means as a set of strategies, group dynamics, educational software and tools to support cooperation to promote learning. The analysis of the processes experienced by the subjects of the research was motivated by the Genetic Epistemology of Jean Piaget. From the analysis of data from the research aims to propose guidelines for the teaching activities with the use of digital environments, where processes occur in which the subject may pose, extend and consolidate their knowledge.

Submitted by Patricia Alencar Silva MELLO (patricia.mello@gvmail.br) on 2015-05-11T14:57:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação FINAL.pdf: 2803233 bytes, checksum: 0181e80c0079098d7afa58ac0a859c47 (MD5) / Rejected by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br), reason: Boa tarde Patrícia, Por favor, tirar o nome do curso na capa. Att. Suzi 3799-7876 on 2015-05-11T15:49:57Z (GMT) / Submitted by Patricia Alencar Silva MELLO (patricia.mello@gvmail.br) on 2015-05-12T00:06:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Final.pdf: 2803646 bytes, checksum: fffd16d5739f088ca56279b96d5651c3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br) on 2015-05-12T14:03:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Final.pdf: 2803646 bytes, checksum: fffd16d5739f088ca56279b96d5651c3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T15:50:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Final.pdf: 2803646 bytes, checksum: fffd16d5739f088ca56279b96d5651c3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-15 / O presente trabalho objetiva investigar a arquitetura jurídico-institucional de um ambiente inovativo denominado parque tecnológico. Este é um arranjo imobiliário que conta com os elementos da chamada tríplice hélice - academia, setor privado e Estado. Almeja a transformação do conhecimento em desenvolvimento, por meio de atividades fundadas em ciência, tecnologia e inovação (C&T&I). A pretensão é contribuir com a premissa de que esses arranjos são frutos da nova lógica econômica baseada no conhecimento e da atual concepção sistêmica de inovação que exige interdependência e interação dos seus agentes. Dentre esses destacamos, o Estado, por ser o ator mais paciente por resultados e o potencial idealizador, fomentador e articulador de processos inovativos sistemicamente pensados. A estratégia Estudo de Caso Único foi eleita para observar, em detalhes, a arquitetura jurídico-institucional do Parque Tecnológico de São José dos Campos, bem como para, a partir de um olhar jurídico-institucional, retirar aprendizados dessa experiência que possam ser aproveitados em novas modelagens de parques tecnológicos e de políticas públicas que focam a estruturação de ambientes inovativos sistêmicos. Foram priorizados exames qualitativos: (i) da sua fisiologia jurídico-institucional; (ii) dos agentes envolvidos e das respectivas amarrações jurídicas estabelecidas; (iii) da influência do Estado e das políticas públicas que o permeiam; (iv) do seu processo de implantação e desenvolvimento; e (v) dos desafios jurídico-formais e jurídico-institucionais que enfrenta. Compreendeu-se que parques tecnológicos são estruturados como arranjos híbridos, segundo a lógica da inovação em sistema, em que os elementos da tríplice hélice atuam em sinergia a partir da ativa atuação do Estado. Sua arquitetura jurídico-institucional decorre da aplicação de tecnologias de contratação e de regulação aplicadas em ambientes alicerçados em fatores institucionais específicos. / This study aims to investigate the legal and institutional architecture of an innovative environment called Technology Park. This is a real estate arrangement that involves the so- called triple helix elements - academia, private sector and government and intends to transform knowledge into development through activities based on science, technology and innovation. The intention is to contribute with the premise that these arrangements are the result of the new knowledge-based economy and the current system of innovation concept that requires interdependence and interaction between different actors. Among them we stressed the State that can be patient for results and that is the potentially creator, developer and coordinator of systemic innovative process in diverse places. The single case study strategy was chosen to observe in detail the juridical structure of the São José dos Campos Technology Park and to learn lessons that can help new models of technology parks and public policies that address the structuring of innovative environments. We prioritized the examination of: (i) its legal and institutional physiology; (ii) the players involved and their legal binds; (iii) the influence of the state and public policies that permeated it; (iv) its implementation and development; and (v) formal and institutional challenges that it faces. It was understood from the case studied, that technology parks are to be structured as hybrid arrangements, according to the innovation system theory, in which the elements of the triple helix act in synergy with an active state action. Its juridical and institutional architecture derives from contracting and regulation technologies applied in environments built upon specific institutional factors.

The purpose of this study was to explore the Zimbabwean physics teachers’ interpretation of the Advanced Level Physics curriculum. The study was motivated by the teachers’ lacklustre approach to adopting new practices and the poor alignment of their understanding with the practice envisaged by developers (Fullan, 2007:39; Ndawi&Maravanyika, 2011:68). Zimbabwean Advanced Level physics teachers are in this predicament, as evidenced by the low numbers of undergraduate students and the misconceptions displayed by physics learners enrolling for first year university work in physics-related disciplines (Kazembe and Musarandega, 2012:4). Having an idea of physics teachers’ perceptions, experiences and current practices with regard to the revised Advanced Level physics curriculum maybe fertile ground for intervention measures and policy decisions. To obtain a more holistic picture of the physics teachers’ practices, a mixed methods research approach using the convergent parallel research design was adopted for the study. A closed survey questionnaire was used to solicit for information from 56 physics teachers in four educational provinces. Random sampling was used to select the survey respondents. From these participants, 10 were purposively selected for face-to-face in-depth structured interviews basing on their availability and accessibility. Ten schemes of work,one from each interviewed teacher, for one school term and six past examination practical paper 4 question papers were collected and analysed using a document analysis guide. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistics and chi-square, whereas qualitative data was collated into themes for discussion purposes. The findings of the study reveal that the physics teachers have embraced the ideals of the physics curriculum and adapted it to their operating context through the reiterative interpretation process to construct personal meaning. The teachers are mainly utilising teacher-centred approaches to impart knowledge to the learners which is not consistent with the physics curriculum anticipations of using learner-centred approaches. The physics teachers are superficially interpreting the physics curriculum.The physics teachers need to embrace the learner centred teaching approach andbe empowered to enhance their curriculum interpretation and teaching practices through staff development. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)