Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 330-344).

Although public school teaching by its inherent nature presents numerous classroom challenges, the public high school teacher today is faced in addition with multiple external mandates from several outside stakeholders. Given the established track record of professional learning communities (PLCs) to provide teacher support and development, I created a PLC that would serve as an intervention designed to support teachers in their classroom work and with their multiple mandates as well. This enhanced PLC was informed by interviews with administrators, researched best practices of traditional PLCs, and uniquely, by what teachers told me they needed in an optimal PLC experience. The PLC was facilitated and based on inclusive, holistic social justice principles that provided a framework for and experience of inclusive teaching practice, while specifically addressing ongoing teacher concerns and issues raised by the multiple mandates. The PLC intervention I designed was for participants only, and I studied them along a range of outcomes that were compared to a control group of teachers identified from the same general population, but who did not experience the intervention. I used a multiple methods, predominantly qualitative approach, that included closed and open field questions taken before and after the intervention. I concluded by conducting in-depth end of term interviews with the participants in the intervention, enriched by my own field notes and observations. Findings included participants unanimously reporting this PLC uniquely satisfying, both professionally and personally. Professionally, they reported a significant gain across a range of knowledge, skills, self efficacy, and classroom management; an enhanced understanding of student diversity, and of the complex interactions between their choices of pedagogy and curriculum within the learning experience between and among students and teacher--leading to more effective professional interactions. After closely examining a published holistic teaching and learning model, participants exercised their professional power by creating one organizing tool to help them personalize and connect the apparently disparate mandates, and another organizer that schematically designed their future professional development requirements. Post-PLC, participants felt affirmed, empowered, less stressed, more closely affiliated, and spiritually supported by the PLC. Many continue to meet since the study's conclusion.

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While there is growing research about the positive impact of teaching artists (TAs), these professional arts educators are an underused resource. As a TA, I have more than a decade of experience implementing spoken word and hip-hop as a pedagogical approach in urban public school classrooms. By conducting this autoethnographic study, I sought to explore insights from these 10 years of lived experience for understanding and documenting the critical principles of my practice as a TA. This autoethnography of my life as a TA tells stories from urban public school classrooms during my formative years as an educator. The research explored the impact my artistic practices have had on developing my pedagogical approach, including the emotional and financial challenges inherent to working on the margins. By interpreting and analyzing ethnographic material from five residencies, this research resulted in complex narrative accounts, which provide insights for the field of arts education, with a specific focus on TAs. Moreover, this study offers a visionary context for a liberatory educational praxis of spoken word and hip-hop in classrooms and communities.

The purpose of the investigation was two-fold: (1) to develop an educational design for consciousness-raising in social justice education using Paulo Freire's literacy method, and (2) to investigate its effect on the Incarnate Word sisters' attitude toward the economically poor, Workshop sessions examined social justice concepts of the economically poor as stated in the Acts of the Congregation's General Chapter and applied Freire's method of consciousness-raising outlined in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed and his Education for Critical Consciousness.

Esta tese visa contribuir com o debate sobre princípios e meios capazes de incidir sobre a desigualdade escolar nas redes de ensino da educação básica. Estuda as práticas escolares e a implementação de políticas educacionais no estado de São Paulo em redes públicas municipais mais justas de ensino fundamental. Redes de ensino mais justas foram definidas à luz de Dubet (2009) e de Crahay (2000): nessas redes mais alunos chegam a desempenhos adequados, inclusive aqueles com menor nível socioeconômico (NSE) e, portanto, a desigualdade escolar é mais baixa. Para o cálculo do NSE dos alunos, e para tratar dos seus desempenhos, utilizei microdados da Prova Brasil 2007. Análise fatorial com variáveis dos questionários da Prova Brasil 2007 permitiu investigar a hipótese 1, que afirma a presença da ideologia da igualdade de conhecimentos adquiridos nas redes mais justas. Segundo Crahay (2000), essa ideologia sustenta práticas escolares e políticas educacionais que respeitam o conhecimento sobre como as crianças aprendem e são referenciadas no princípio de justiça corretiva (voltado a corrigir distorções, independentemente do mérito). A pesquisa qualitativa investigou, por meio de estudo de caso, outras duas hipóteses: 2 - em redes mais justas há estratégias de regulação compatíveis com a noção de vigilância sobre a implementação de políticas; 3 há interlocução entre estratégias de regulação institucional de redes mais justas e condições de implementação de políticas. Dubet (2009) e Crahay (2000) consideram que a equidade na escola depende da vigilância. Para Santos (1979), a equidade é fruto da política e essa lida necessariamente com condicionalidades. Estudei os casos das redes municipais de Marília e Indaiatuba, por estarem entre as três grandes redes municipais mais justas do estado de São Paulo. Os resultados da pesquisa não confirmaram a existência da ideologia da igualdade de conhecimentos adquiridos nas redes mais justas. Trouxeram evidências de fragmentos dessa ideologia, como o uso da biblioteca pela maioria dos alunos e a correção do dever de casa, que apareceram mais fortemente nas redes mais justas. A pesquisa qualitativa corroborou as hipóteses 2 e 3. Em Marília e em Indaiatuba, há estratégias de regulação institucional que buscam zelar pela efetivação das políticas e seus resultados. As características dessas estratégias me levaram a propor, de forma exploratória, um modelo de referência para tratar da regulação institucional de redes de ensino, distinto dos modelos burocrático e pós-burocrático. O modelo cuja consolidação exige pesquisas que englobem a perspectiva da regulação horizontal foi nomeado processo-resultado e tem como características: acompanhamento permanente do órgão dirigente da implementação das políticas por meio de combinados e metas; currículo unificado na rede com objetivos de aprendizagem por série/ano elaborado com a participação dos professores; critérios de matrículas segundo o local de moradia; acompanhamento da aprendizagem e do desempenho de cada aluno; vínculo preponderante com o princípio de justiça corretiva. A proteção dos prefeitos às decisões das elites dirigentes permitindo que as intencionalidades dessas elites estejam fortemente expressas nas estratégias de regulação identificadas é um dos fatores encontrados que corroboram a hipótese 3. / This dissertation aims to contribute to the debate on principles and ways to make elementary schools fairer by reducing educational inequalities. It studies school practices and the implementation of educational policies in fairer municipal elementary school systems in São Paulo State. Fairer municipal elementary school systems are defined according to Dubet (2007) and Crahay (2000): more students reach adequate performance, including those with lower familiar socio-economic level (SEL). Microdata of Prova Brasil 2007 (Brasil National Test) were used to calculate students SEL. Factor analysis with variables from Prova Brasil 2007 has permitted to investigate hypothesis 1): the theoretical construct ideology of equality of acquired knowledge can be verified in fairer municipal school systems. According to Crahay (2000) such ideology sustains school practices and educational policies that respect the knowledge on how children learn, and are based on the principle of corrective justice such principle points out on distortions correction regardless of merit. Through qualitative research (case studies) two other hypotheses were investigated: 2) there are regulation strategies compatibles with the vigilance of policies implementation in the fairer municipal elementary school systems; 3) there is a dialogue between regulation strategies in fairer school systems and the conditions of policies implementation. Dubet (2009) and Crahay (2000) consider that equity in school depends on that vigilance. Santos (1979) states that equity is a result of policy, but policy deals with some conditionalties. I studied the cases of Marília and Indaiatuba school systems since quantitative analysis showed they were among the three fairer systems of the São Paulo State. The research did not corroborate the existence of the ideology of equality of acquired knowledge in the fairer school systems. But it highlighted evidences of fragments of such ideology in fairer school systems, such as the utilization of the library by most of students and homework correction. The qualitative research has corroborated hypothesis 2 and 3. In the processes of planning, evaluation and monitoring of learning, and regarding students and education workers, there are institutional regulation strategies searching for the effectiveness of policies and their results. The characteristics of these strategies led me to the proposition of a reference model to analyze learning regulation, surpassing bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic models. I named the model as process results. Its main elements are: the head institution (Department) permanently monitors the implementation of polices through the predefinition of objectives and processes; school programs defined centrally with the participation of teachers state learning objectives by each level; enrollments are defined according to house addresses; the monitoring of learning and performance of each individual student. The process results model has a preponderant liaison with the principle of corrective justice. Hypothesis 2 was corroborated by factors such as the relationship between the protection of the decisions of Departments elites by city mayors and the fact that these elites intentionality was strongly expressed in the regulation strategies.

Esta tese visa contribuir com o debate sobre princípios e meios capazes de incidir sobre a desigualdade escolar nas redes de ensino da educação básica. Estuda as práticas escolares e a implementação de políticas educacionais no estado de São Paulo em redes públicas municipais mais justas de ensino fundamental. Redes de ensino mais justas foram definidas à luz de Dubet (2009) e de Crahay (2000): nessas redes mais alunos chegam a desempenhos adequados, inclusive aqueles com menor nível socioeconômico (NSE) e, portanto, a desigualdade escolar é mais baixa. Para o cálculo do NSE dos alunos, e para tratar dos seus desempenhos, utilizei microdados da Prova Brasil 2007. Análise fatorial com variáveis dos questionários da Prova Brasil 2007 permitiu investigar a hipótese 1, que afirma a presença da ideologia da igualdade de conhecimentos adquiridos nas redes mais justas. Segundo Crahay (2000), essa ideologia sustenta práticas escolares e políticas educacionais que respeitam o conhecimento sobre como as crianças aprendem e são referenciadas no princípio de justiça corretiva (voltado a corrigir distorções, independentemente do mérito). A pesquisa qualitativa investigou, por meio de estudo de caso, outras duas hipóteses: 2 - em redes mais justas há estratégias de regulação compatíveis com a noção de vigilância sobre a implementação de políticas; 3 há interlocução entre estratégias de regulação institucional de redes mais justas e condições de implementação de políticas. Dubet (2009) e Crahay (2000) consideram que a equidade na escola depende da vigilância. Para Santos (1979), a equidade é fruto da política e essa lida necessariamente com condicionalidades. Estudei os casos das redes municipais de Marília e Indaiatuba, por estarem entre as três grandes redes municipais mais justas do estado de São Paulo. Os resultados da pesquisa não confirmaram a existência da ideologia da igualdade de conhecimentos adquiridos nas redes mais justas. Trouxeram evidências de fragmentos dessa ideologia, como o uso da biblioteca pela maioria dos alunos e a correção do dever de casa, que apareceram mais fortemente nas redes mais justas. A pesquisa qualitativa corroborou as hipóteses 2 e 3. Em Marília e em Indaiatuba, há estratégias de regulação institucional que buscam zelar pela efetivação das políticas e seus resultados. As características dessas estratégias me levaram a propor, de forma exploratória, um modelo de referência para tratar da regulação institucional de redes de ensino, distinto dos modelos burocrático e pós-burocrático. O modelo cuja consolidação exige pesquisas que englobem a perspectiva da regulação horizontal foi nomeado processo-resultado e tem como características: acompanhamento permanente do órgão dirigente da implementação das políticas por meio de combinados e metas; currículo unificado na rede com objetivos de aprendizagem por série/ano elaborado com a participação dos professores; critérios de matrículas segundo o local de moradia; acompanhamento da aprendizagem e do desempenho de cada aluno; vínculo preponderante com o princípio de justiça corretiva. A proteção dos prefeitos às decisões das elites dirigentes permitindo que as intencionalidades dessas elites estejam fortemente expressas nas estratégias de regulação identificadas é um dos fatores encontrados que corroboram a hipótese 3. / This dissertation aims to contribute to the debate on principles and ways to make elementary schools fairer by reducing educational inequalities. It studies school practices and the implementation of educational policies in fairer municipal elementary school systems in São Paulo State. Fairer municipal elementary school systems are defined according to Dubet (2007) and Crahay (2000): more students reach adequate performance, including those with lower familiar socio-economic level (SEL). Microdata of Prova Brasil 2007 (Brasil National Test) were used to calculate students SEL. Factor analysis with variables from Prova Brasil 2007 has permitted to investigate hypothesis 1): the theoretical construct ideology of equality of acquired knowledge can be verified in fairer municipal school systems. According to Crahay (2000) such ideology sustains school practices and educational policies that respect the knowledge on how children learn, and are based on the principle of corrective justice such principle points out on distortions correction regardless of merit. Through qualitative research (case studies) two other hypotheses were investigated: 2) there are regulation strategies compatibles with the vigilance of policies implementation in the fairer municipal elementary school systems; 3) there is a dialogue between regulation strategies in fairer school systems and the conditions of policies implementation. Dubet (2009) and Crahay (2000) consider that equity in school depends on that vigilance. Santos (1979) states that equity is a result of policy, but policy deals with some conditionalties. I studied the cases of Marília and Indaiatuba school systems since quantitative analysis showed they were among the three fairer systems of the São Paulo State. The research did not corroborate the existence of the ideology of equality of acquired knowledge in the fairer school systems. But it highlighted evidences of fragments of such ideology in fairer school systems, such as the utilization of the library by most of students and homework correction. The qualitative research has corroborated hypothesis 2 and 3. In the processes of planning, evaluation and monitoring of learning, and regarding students and education workers, there are institutional regulation strategies searching for the effectiveness of policies and their results. The characteristics of these strategies led me to the proposition of a reference model to analyze learning regulation, surpassing bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic models. I named the model as process results. Its main elements are: the head institution (Department) permanently monitors the implementation of polices through the predefinition of objectives and processes; school programs defined centrally with the participation of teachers state learning objectives by each level; enrollments are defined according to house addresses; the monitoring of learning and performance of each individual student. The process results model has a preponderant liaison with the principle of corrective justice. Hypothesis 2 was corroborated by factors such as the relationship between the protection of the decisions of Departments elites by city mayors and the fact that these elites intentionality was strongly expressed in the regulation strategies.

<p>The purpose of this project was to cultivate a series of professional development training sessions for secondary teachers to incorporate concepts of Critical Race Theory in their classrooms, through the use of social justice education, social emotional learning, and student-centered learning. The researcher examined material in favor and in opposition to the project topic to collect information on how to best serve educators and students. The researcher engaged with academic writing as well as with high school teachers and administrators about this project topic. This manuscript and attached training material is the result of the researcher’s findings and serves to answer the question of whether aspects of Critical Race Theory should be implemented in secondary classrooms as well as if so, how should teachers do so—all in hopes of better supporting more equitable and just education for high school educators and students. </p><br>

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