Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:32:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eliana Maria Oligurski.pdf: 2357030 bytes, checksum: a13b8382f2a4427b09c4e98d6b086557 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-09 / This research aims to verify the possible link between teaching and research in teacher s work in basic education. The research was conducted in a Municipal Elementary School in the city of Campinas, with teachers and students of the first years of Elementary School. We analyzed documents, as the Pedagogical Project of the school and texts presented by students, and also interviewed students and teachers in order to clarify their conceptions of research. The results of this research point out that it is possible to develop a pedagogical practice in Elementary School articulating teaching and research, and taking research as a way to promote intellectual and integral development of students, as well as integration between school and its community. Nevertheless, to achieve this objective, it is necessary that the school, and the educational system as a whole, offer conditions for projects like the one exposed in this study to achieve success. / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo verificar a poss?vel articula??o entre ensino e pesquisa na pr?tica pedag?gica do professor da educa??o b?sica. O estudo foi realizado em uma escola da Rede Municipal de Campinas-SP, com alunos e professores das s?ries iniciais do ensino fundamental, a partir da an?lise de documentos, como o Projeto Pol?tico Pedag?gico da Escola, e de trabalhos produzidos pelos estudantes. Foram tamb?m realizadas entrevistas e question?rios para an?lise das concep??es de pesquisa destes professores e alunos. Os resultados apontam que ? poss?vel desenvolver na escola b?sica uma pr?tica pedag?gica que articule ensino e pesquisa, tornando esta ?ltima uma fonte catalizadora de desenvolvimento integral e intelectual dos alunos, bem como de integra??o entre escola e comunidade. Para tal, no entanto, ? de fundamental import?ncia que a escola, e o sistema educativo como um todo, ofere?am condi??es para que propostas como as analisadas no presente estudo possam ser efetivadas.

The diploma thesis deals with the learning styles in a connection with the teaching strategies, especially their use by the gifted pupils from the fifth year of the primary school. The theoretical part describes the concepts of learning style and learning strategies from the several authors' point of view of, but it also deals with the characteristic features of a talented pupil in the younger school age. The theoretical part prepares the reader to understand the empirical part, which is crucial for the diploma thesis. The subject of the study is a group of eight gifted pupils from the fifth grade of the primary school who are attending an educational program for the exceptionally gifted pupils. The aim of the empirical part is to analyze pupils' own preference of the learning strategies and to map their situation. Thanks to the methods of the research such as the interviews, an observation, methods for developing the learning strategies and a questionnaire research, the goal of the qualitative empirical work has been fully achieved. After a month of work with the gifted pupils and their classmates, I have found that their own choice of the learning strategies is greatly influenced by the inner motivation, an in-depth learning style, a strategic learning style, and overall approach to the learning...

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T20:31:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 HelaineMorales.pdf: 2034496 bytes, checksum: f7c39c1aee3c4899efbddb28cd901576 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-25 / This research had as main focus knowing and understanding implications of the principles of Meaningful Learning of David P. Ausubel in the Mathematics teaching process in the second step of elementary school. The main question was: What is evident in the mathematics teaching and learning for elementary school students, if this teaching process is conducted according to the Meaningful Learning Theory? The survey was conducted in a school in the city of Araucaria, located in the metropolitan region of Curitiba and engaged with students of the last grades of elementary school. The approach took place with epistemological object, objectives, and the question asked, so, this is a qualitative research. The data were collected from students' productions in the development of proposed activities, spontaneous reports of its manifestations and informal conversations, audio-recorded for later transcription, analysis and interpretation. The data were analyzed according to Bogdan and Biklen propositions relating to content analysis. Research results showed gains in student learning with methods based on the principles of the Meaningful Learning Theory. / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo principal conhecer e compreender as implicações dos princípios da Aprendizagem Significativa de David P. Ausubel no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem de Matemática, no contexto da segunda fase do ensino fundamental. A questão que foi posta para a investigação é: O que se evidencia no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem da Matemática para estudantes do ensino fundamental, se este ensino for conduzido à luz da Teoria da Aprendizagem Significativa? A pesquisa foi realizada em uma escola do Município de Araucária, localizada na região metropolitana de Curitiba e envolveu estudantes das últimas séries do ensino fundamental. A abordagem da investigação deu-se em função do objeto epistemológico, dos objetivos e da questão levantada, portanto trata-se de uma pesquisa de natureza qualitativa. Os dados coletados para análise foram constituídos a partir de produções dos alunos no desenvolvimento das atividades propostas, relatos espontâneos de suas manifestações e de conversas informais, gravadas em áudio para posterior transcrição, análise e interpretação. Os dados foram analisados de acordo com as proposições de Bogdan e Biklen relativas à análise de conteúdo. Os resultados da investigação indicaram ganhos na aprendizagem dos alunos com a utilização de metodologias de ensino, baseadas nos princípios da Teoria da Aprendizagem Significativa.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Language Education)) --University of Limpopo, 2018. / Refer to document

This research study investigated the professional development of teachers as they integrate learning technologies into classroom practice. In particular, the study was concerned with the specific role of the learning technology coordinator in this professional development process. The views of classroom teachers were sought concerning factors in their professional development which they found useful together with the relevance of the role of the learning technology coordinator. So too, the views of the learning technology coordinators and principals were sought regarding effective professional development as teachers integrate learning technologies into classroom practice. Two processes were used to ascertain these views. Focus groups and interviews were conducted at the LaTTiCE (Learning and Teaching Technologies in Catholic Education) and Navigator schools. The Navigator and LaTTiCE school were specially funded pilot schools for the integration of learning technologies into classrooms. These technology rich schools provided detailed data from a specific group of people. A survey was also sent to randomly selected primary schools in Melbourne to see if similar responses would be gained from the general population of schools less privileged in terms of learning technologies and the associated professional development. Analysis of this data led to some important insights related to the professional development of teachers as they integrate learning technologies into classroom practice and to the specific role of the learning technology coordinator in this process. This study found that the main reason why teachers integrated learning technologies into classroom practice was to benefit their students and to improve their own skill levels. The important factors in the professional development of teachers integrating technology were that it was collaborative, embedded in practice, ongoing over time, had the support of the principal and was supported by a learning technology coordinator. This study focused on the role of the learning technology coordinator and found that the most important aspect of this role was related to the professional development of teachers and the coordination of the school’s technology program. These findings led to recommendations that priority be given to funding at a system level for a school based learning technology coordinator to be appointed in each primary school and that principals provide for this coordinator to focus on the professional development of teachers integrating technology into classroom practice.

This thesis aims to contribute to the improvement and advancement of university learning, teaching, and staff development; to integrate educational theory and the practice of university teaching; and to contribute to the establishment of a new, emerging paradigm in higher education. The strategy towards achieving these aims comprises (1) an alternative research methodology in the interpretive, non-positivist paradigm; (2) an integrated framework drawing on a variety of previously unrelated theories to form an alternative model of university education; and (3) reference to the dialectical relationship between educational theory and teaching practice and their integration through action research in higher education. The thesis is not so much a critique of the traditional paradigm and of existing functionalist-structuralist approaches to higher education, but more a development and clarification of an alternative, dialectical, human action approach to higher education. The original contribution of this thesis to the theory and practice of higher education lies in the development (1) of an alternative model of university education based on an integration of previously unrelated domains of theory; (2) of a theoretical model of professional development as action research (the CRASP Model: Critical attitude, Research into teaching, Accountability, Self-evaluation, Professionalism); and (3) of action research projects in higher education. Action research is research by the university teachers themselves into their teaching practice, i.e. into problems of the curriculum and student learning. The case studies included in and appended to this thesis show that in one educational setting at least it was possible to improve and advance university learning and teaching through action research. The evidence for this advancement is provided in a number of previously published case studies compiled in the Appendix.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Education))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2004.

During recent years there have been noticeable shortcomings in the human encounter of people seeking some form of health care in Sweden. This is something that affects professional education within ‘the welfare state’ and implies that human expectations, societal demands and questions about knowledge, basic values and competence have become pedagogically interesting. The basic aim of the dissertation is - to contribute to a practically, relevant and theoretical in-depth understanding of the learning and teaching of ethics in professional education. By taking nursing education as an example and focussing on the human encounter of the person seeking care, the dissertation aims - by analysis of the pedagogic practice and from a critical-theoretical perspective – to provide a foundation for such an understanding. The research perspective includes a social-philosophical point of departure with a focus on Mead’s interactional view of learning and Habermas’s critical theory of social communication. Methodologically an emphasis is placed on discourse analysis. The results demonstrate how the learning and teaching of ethics in human encounters can be understood as a question of communication of both knowledge and values. In the theoretical reconstruction that follows it is shown how pedagogic actions, learning and competence can be understood as communication of and in particular contextual discourses. The six discourses are: ‘the efficiency-related discourse’, ‘the expert-related discourse’, the ‘care-related discourse’, ‘the communicative-related discourse’, ‘the egocentric discourse’ and ‘the ethnocentric discourse’, all of which are mutually related to each other. The contextual discourses focus on different values. Those that are most conducive to creating pleasant human encounters are the communicative- and the care-related discourses, which also form the foundation for the pedagogic recommendation that makes up the concluding discussion of the dissertation. The recommendation concerns a pedagogical practice that affirms, pays attention to, safeguards and challenges and thus generates creativity, as well as the legitimacy of pluralism. To engage in stimulating pedagogical discussion means being committed, taking responsibility and practicing solidarity in the profession of education. Such a ‘deliberative pedagogy’ creates possibilities for people to develop solidarity of judgement in a society that increasingly demanding that. In conclusion, the recommendation for a new and challenging human encounter-ethical-pedagogy is intended to show that ‘ideals can be realistic’. Normative recommendations do not have to be abstract visions of the future, but can be looked upon as means of focussing on alternative actions, that despite the difficulties are possible to realise – here and now.

This research is an empirical multiple-case study that is designed to explore adult individual learners’ vocabulary learning processes, and to examine their use of vocabulary learning strategies. It investigates the following key questions: (1) What vocabulary learning strategies do the individual learners usually use to find the meaning of unknown words? (2) What vocabulary learning strategies do the individual learners usually use to consolidate the words? (3) How do the individual learners apply the vocabulary learning strategies for the purposes mentioned above? (4) What are the differences between the learners’ use of vocabulary learning strategies? By using multiple data collection methods – questionnaires, interviews, and think-aloud protocols – I not only investigate what strategies the individual research participants use to study vocabulary, but also look at how they actually employ the strategies while completing a series of vocabulary activities. Finally, I also compare the patterns in the use of strategies between the participants. After the introduction, Chapter Two begins with the clarification of basic terms: “word,” “word knowledge,” and “strategy.” In Chapter Three, studies in the fields of vocabulary learning strategies are reviewed. Chapter Four deals with mental processes involved in vocabulary learning. Chapter Five focuses on the empirical study. I describe briefly the German language course (GER 101) and the language textbook, Vorsprung (2nd edition, 2002), and illustrate in depth the methodology used for data collection and data analysis. The results of the study are presented in Chapter Six. Chapter Seven summarizes the study results, followed by suggestions for foreign vocabulary instruction and for future research. The study illustrates that participants used a variety of vocabulary learning strategies to learn vocabulary. In total, 49 individual vocabulary learning strategies are identified and classified. Further, the differences between the learners are shown to be not only in what strategies they use but also in how they employ them. Finally, the study shows that well-organized and planned learning strategy training should be provided to language learners in order to make sure that they can use the strategies effectively, and that language instructors and the language textbook should play an active role in strategy training.

This research is an empirical multiple-case study that is designed to explore adult individual learners’ vocabulary learning processes, and to examine their use of vocabulary learning strategies. It investigates the following key questions: (1) What vocabulary learning strategies do the individual learners usually use to find the meaning of unknown words? (2) What vocabulary learning strategies do the individual learners usually use to consolidate the words? (3) How do the individual learners apply the vocabulary learning strategies for the purposes mentioned above? (4) What are the differences between the learners’ use of vocabulary learning strategies? By using multiple data collection methods – questionnaires, interviews, and think-aloud protocols – I not only investigate what strategies the individual research participants use to study vocabulary, but also look at how they actually employ the strategies while completing a series of vocabulary activities. Finally, I also compare the patterns in the use of strategies between the participants. After the introduction, Chapter Two begins with the clarification of basic terms: “word,” “word knowledge,” and “strategy.” In Chapter Three, studies in the fields of vocabulary learning strategies are reviewed. Chapter Four deals with mental processes involved in vocabulary learning. Chapter Five focuses on the empirical study. I describe briefly the German language course (GER 101) and the language textbook, Vorsprung (2nd edition, 2002), and illustrate in depth the methodology used for data collection and data analysis. The results of the study are presented in Chapter Six. Chapter Seven summarizes the study results, followed by suggestions for foreign vocabulary instruction and for future research. The study illustrates that participants used a variety of vocabulary learning strategies to learn vocabulary. In total, 49 individual vocabulary learning strategies are identified and classified. Further, the differences between the learners are shown to be not only in what strategies they use but also in how they employ them. Finally, the study shows that well-organized and planned learning strategy training should be provided to language learners in order to make sure that they can use the strategies effectively, and that language instructors and the language textbook should play an active role in strategy training.