<p>Many of the schools premises are neglected and the physical environment has not been prioritised. Instead the focus is set on scientific learning methods and pedagogic. The need for an environmental shift has not got an essential place in the governing documents for schools, although the focus on school premises should be suited to the purpose of the activity and for the pupils needs. Today the interest and the need of research within the physical environment is evermore increasing. The Swedish Work Environment Authority, present in their activityplan for 2006, that the schools premises and equipment is not adjusting to today’s activity and it is in bad condition that can lead to work-related injuries.</p><p>The purpose of this essay is to bring to light a different pedagogic train of thought around the surrounding environments importance, for students learning and to compare these with our study of a selection of classrooms and what the teachers to these classrooms consider about the environments importance. We therefore aim to focus our research on the physical environment and how that can influence the learning process. Can one overcome certain boundaries and create new possibilities in a different environment of learning?</p><p>The research declared a great number of theories that show the environment influenced students in many different ways. According to the educationalist in the study, it is important to have a miscellaneous environment so all students can learn in their ultimate way. The strict budget, schools are often left with, is preventing any positive improvements that could be made to create a more positive school environment, physically and mentally. There are many ways to get around this problem. Most important is to include everyone in the school so that they feel they are a part of that environment and that they have the power to change things.</p>

Young people’s recreational activities are based on, contain or are framed by music, where by choosing music and applying knowledge about styles they construct their identities and lifestyle projects. This study explores the relationship between music activities at school and in leisure time, how young people use and perceive music in these two environments and in what way they interact. Theories and research on late and post modernity, social construction, media, youth culture and music education are utilized in this study. Concepts such as authenticity, individualization, reflexives, aestheticization and makeability are concerns in the processing of the empirical data. The study is based on a survey, observations and interviews where three musical environments in two different upper secondary schools were investigated. 83 third-year pupils completed the survey, out of whom I interviewed 29 pupils. Music is pictured as an activity and a positioning of the individual in a social context, or as a construction of identity, as I prefer to put it. Emotions are essential in music, and according to the pupils emotions are created by the musician, mediated in music and interpreted by the listener. It is important to be authentic and to have a unique identity, which is possible to achieve in music. In the study pupils equal music to emotions and emotions to the self, which I define as Music = feelings = I. Music symbolizes cultural affiliation, lifestyle choices and ethical standpoints described in stereotypes which young people gather from various attributes and combine personally depending on the time and cause. It seems important to be open-minded and creative, which can be promoted by music activities according to the pupils. Music as a characteriser of identity seems to be at stake both in leisure time and at school. Based on the notion that young people’s behaviours are seismic readings of tendencies in society, this study implies that upper secondary school music activities are cultural investments in identity and in the students’ life projects.

Many of the schools premises are neglected and the physical environment has not been prioritised. Instead the focus is set on scientific learning methods and pedagogic. The need for an environmental shift has not got an essential place in the governing documents for schools, although the focus on school premises should be suited to the purpose of the activity and for the pupils needs. Today the interest and the need of research within the physical environment is evermore increasing. The Swedish Work Environment Authority, present in their activityplan for 2006, that the schools premises and equipment is not adjusting to today’s activity and it is in bad condition that can lead to work-related injuries. The purpose of this essay is to bring to light a different pedagogic train of thought around the surrounding environments importance, for students learning and to compare these with our study of a selection of classrooms and what the teachers to these classrooms consider about the environments importance. We therefore aim to focus our research on the physical environment and how that can influence the learning process. Can one overcome certain boundaries and create new possibilities in a different environment of learning? The research declared a great number of theories that show the environment influenced students in many different ways. According to the educationalist in the study, it is important to have a miscellaneous environment so all students can learn in their ultimate way. The strict budget, schools are often left with, is preventing any positive improvements that could be made to create a more positive school environment, physically and mentally. There are many ways to get around this problem. Most important is to include everyone in the school so that they feel they are a part of that environment and that they have the power to change things.

My thesis is based on a qualitative study. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the educationalist at an especially chosen school in Stockholm promotes the students multicultural background in the education or not. This is due to the fact that the Swedish school to a considerable degree reflects the multicultural Swedish society. The socio-cultural starting point is when people come together and meet. The language is the tool of the socio-culture and it is the dialogue, discussion and sympathetic understanding that makes people meet. The cultural concept is diffuse and very wide. Everyone has their own definition of it. The cultural concept in this thesis involves identity, ethnicity, background, conception of life and nationality. I have interviewed two pedagogues and a school manager. The content of the interviews was recorded and transcribed. In addition to theses interviews, the steering documents of the chosen school have been analyzed. The parental collaboration and influence is an important issue and it is up to the school manager to make an effort increasing parental interest and collaboration. When I made the interviews it became clear that the student’s different cultural background and knowledge was not something the school took benefit of to any larger extent. The pedagogues had thoughts and points of views about how to stimulate and use the students varied multicultural background in the education, for example by being more perceptive and use dialogue as a tool and learn from the students. The most important issue for the school concerning multiculturality is how to behave and live in the multicultural society. The school is the platform where different cultures meet every day and therefore it is natural that the school finds a balance between cultural pluralism and mutual understanding for different cultures.

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Today’s research on workplace learning stresses the importance of the environment in which learning takes place. On the basis of an empirical study of a Vocational Education and Training (VET) program this thesis aims to create knowledge about how a learning environment is constructed. Theoretically, the study is based within action theory and takes an organizational pedagogical point of departure. It is rooted both in constructivist theory, as well as draws on the theory of learning as culturally and socially situated. The study is designed as a single case study. Data was primarily collected during periods of field studies through the observation of teachers’ work inside and outside classroom settings; recurring in-depth interviews with six teachers and eight participants, and reflection group interviews with the teachers. The study reveals a difference between participants’ and teachers’ educational goals and ambitions. This is important to acknowledge due to the necessity for the teachers to handle the difference. It gives information on daily work in the VET-program and the important work tasks that emerge. The program is influenced by the ideological foundations developed by its principal organizer, which comes to play as a special way of reasoning, the Yes-thought. Much of the daily work consists of an adjustable way of working and an approach that supports it. However, two tension fields can be identified in which discretion in work tasks is created. The first concerns the approach to work tasks, and is a tension between dynamic and instrumental approaches. The second concerns the organizing of work tasks and is a tension between adjustable and regulating ways of working. Micro context is introduced as a concept, referring to the context of meaning which is created around work tasks. Depending on the micro context’s position in the two tension fields, different conditions of learning can be identified. The micro contexts can then be understood as the learning environments in the work place.

Syftet med studien är att belysa lärares och rektorers tankar kring diagnostisering av elever i de tidiga skolåren vid användande av Skolverkets diagnosmaterial Diamant, som riktar in sig på den förberedande aritmetiken. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats med semistrukturerad intevju som metod. Deltagarna i undersökningen är fyra lärare samt två rektorer med erfarenhet och utbildningen inom området. Resultatet visar att informanterna anser att de får betydelsefull information om var barnen befinner sig i den grundläggande taluppfattningen via diagnosen och därmed kan barn med behov av hjälp och stöd uppmärksammas. Informanterna har en formativ syn på diagnostisering. De fokuserar på hur resultatet följs upp, hur de finner pedagogiska och organisatoriska lösningar. Rutiner för detta är olika på de enheter där informanterna är verksamma. Stor vikt vid individuell uppföljning är ett gemensamt förhållningssätt hos samtliga informanter och det är i denna uppföljning som den specialpedagogiska kompetensen efterfrågas enligt resultatet av undersökningen. / The purpose of the study is to highlight teachers and senior staff members thoughts of diagnosing pupils in the early school years using Skolverkets diagnosis material Diamant, which focuses on early arithmetics. The study use qualitative research methods with semistructured interviews. The participants are up by four teachers and two headmasters who have both experience and training in the subject area. The results show that the participants belive they, through the diagnosing process, are able to reach an understanding of a childs comprehension of number sence.It is due to this diagnosis process that the need of support can be discovered. The results further suggest that the participants have a formative view on diagnosis.Their focus is on how the results are acted upon and how they reach their pedagogical and organisational solutions. The routines for reaching their solutions differ between organisations. However, focus on the individual monitoring is an approach that the participants all have in common and it is due to individual monitoring that the specielpedagogical needs are essenstial.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:35:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6114.pdf: 42250343 bytes, checksum: 4e3a862d6b674efaa1898779ec3bf675 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-03 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / This thesis was inspired in the professors Paolo Nosella and Ester Buffa s research, A Educação Negada , a paper about the great debates which permeated Brazilian education throughout the 20th century. However, unlike the masters, she did not lean on the opinion of any great exponent, limiting to observe if teachers, principals and pedagogic coordinators currently participates, resist or only accompany the various everyday debates that permeate not only the most theoretical issues of education, but also characteristics and particularities of the educational system and the operation and management of the school systems structures. To achieve this aim, the research focused on two municipal schools from Cristais Paulista, in São Paulo. During almost 2 years, 62 educators were approached through semi-structured interviews, informal conversations and questionnaires. The study also used on-site observation, with the participation of this researcher in the HTPC meetings (pedagogic meetings where the teachers work as a group on the discussion and analysis of educational issues). Based on the assumptions of Oral History, and believing that doxa is the fertile ground for the emergence of episteme, the research stressed the opinion of the interviewed educators, adding them to the observations and collected data. Facing the inability to discern which would be the most true, it was listened as much as possible and considered the most probable not as ways to possible solutions, but simply to understand the context in which these teachers navigate. As stages of this investigation, it was sought, in first place, to understand how was the formation of the Brazilian State and the influence of this process in the formation and development of our society, which allowed us to see its authoritarian and little opened to debate feature. In a second moment, the paper endeavored to trace some of the main theoretical debates that have developed in our educational history, trying to show the main currents that disputed the primacy in our educational system. In this way, it was found that nowadays teachers are very distant from an effective participation in the main debates that permeate current Brazilian education. In general, they seem not to worry with the theories that, despite their understanding, end up guiding their way of teaching. Beyond that, they seem unwilling to the theories that discuss the role of schools and the currents that debate the best way to manage them. In the end, and with no concern to conclude, this study leaves as a proposal to improve Brazilian education the idea to heavily invest in a more beautiful and pleasant school, with teachers working full time and with more administrative, financial and pedagogic autonomy. / Esta tese inspirou-se na pesquisa dos professores Paolo Nosella e Ester Buffa, A Educação Negada , um trabalho acerca dos grandes debates que permearam a educação brasileira ao longo do século XX. Porém, ao contrário dos mestres, ela não se debruçou sobre opinião de nenhum grande expoente, limitando-se a observar se os professores, diretores e coordenadores pedagógicos atualmente participam, resistem ou somente acompanham os vários debates cotidianos que permeiam não apenas as questões mais teóricas da educação, mas também as características e particularidades do sistema de ensino e o funcionamento e a gestão das estruturas escolares. Para alcançar esse intento, a pesquisa concentrou-se em duas escolas municipais da cidade de Cristais Paulista, interior de São Paulo. Durante quase dois anos, 62 educadores foram abordados por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas, conversas informais e aplicação de questionários. O estudo utilizou-se também da observação in loco, com a participação deste pesquisador nas reuniões de HTPC. Baseandose nos pressupostos da História Oral, e acreditando que a doxa é o terreno fértil para o surgimento da episteme, a pesquisa ressaltou a opinião dos educadores entrevistados, somando-as à observação e aos dados coletados. Diante da impossibilidade de se discernir quais seriam as mais verdadeiras, procurou-se ouvir o máximo possível e considerar as mais prováveis não como caminhos para possíveis soluções, mas simplesmente para entender o contexto em que navegam esses professores. Como etapas dessa investigação, buscou-se, em primeiro lugar, compreender como se deu a formação do Estado brasileiro e a influência desse processo na formatação e no desenvolvimento de nossa sociedade, o que nos permitiu perceber seu caráter autoritário e pouco aberto ao debate. Em um segundo momento, o trabalho esforçou-se por traçar alguns dos principais embates teóricos que se desenvolveram em nossa história educacional, procurando mostrar as principais correntes que disputavam a primazia em nosso sistema de ensino. Nesse percurso, constatou-se que os professores atualmente estão muito distantes de uma participação mais efetiva nos principais debates que permeiam a educação brasileira atual. De forma geral, parecem não se preocupar com as teorias que, a despeito de sua compreensão, acabam orientando sua forma de ensinar. Além disso, parecem pouco dispostos às teorias que discutem a função das escolas e às correntes que debatem a melhor forma de administrá-las. No final, e sem nenhuma preocupação de concluir, esse estudo deixa como proposta para melhorar a educação brasileira a ideia de se investir maciçamente em uma escola mais bonita e agradável, com professores em tempo integral e com mais autonomia nas esferas administrativa, financeira e pedagógica.

Orientador: Helena da Silva Christov / Resumo: Este trabalho propõe estudar "Experiências de vida e Formação Continuada de Arte-Educadores". O contexto da pesquisa é a Rede Particular de Ensino - SESI - Serviço Social da Indústria - SP, que conta com 210 escolas distribuídas entre Centros Educacionais de Ensino Fundamental e Médio e Centros de Educação Infantil, onde trabalham 250 professores de Arte. A pesquisa contou com a análise e interpretação de 10 narrativas dos arte-educadores sobre suas histórias de vida em arte-educação. A abordagem qualitativa da pesquisa passou por 3 vertentes : o movimento das narrativas de vida em arte-educação e sua relação com a Arte: por meio duas questões, em relação à formação continuada na rede escolar SESI-SP o que provoca? O que me faz pensar? e imagens associadas à essa formação. A partir das histórias de arte-educadores e seus processos de formação, buscou-se compreender as relações desse professor com a Arte e suas experiências formadoras. Percebe-se nessas narrativas, a aproximação das histórias de vida em arte-educação e sua relação com a Arte, suas experiências formadoras e o que os encontros de formação continuada na rede particular SESI-SP provoca e faz pensar...(Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The central point of this work is to study " Continual Formation and life Experiences and Art Educators". The context of the rearch ins the Private Educational Web SESI - Serviço Social da Indústria - SP, which 210 units among Educationals Centers of High Schools and Basic Formations whith 250 art teachers working. The resarch counts the analysis and interpretation of 10 art teachers narratives about their life histories in education. The research qualitative interpretation had over 3 different ways of analysis: the narrative movement of life in education and its relationship with art by 2 mainly questions with continual formation at rede escolar SESI-SP: What may it comes up? What makes me think? And images associated to his formation. From life educators and his formation process on, tried to undertand the relationships of these professors with Art and his teaching experiences. It his narratives could be notice the life histories approach art education and its relations with Art; his teach experiences and the seminaries of continual formation at the rede escolar SESI-SP cames up and makes wonder. The final considerations points to a formation career, beyond the universities and to esthetic living experiences process; since childhood with the family, this reveal the research intensity as a knowledge safety place. Was beholden many professors with contemporary behavior, however they... (complete abstract, access undermentioned eletrocnic address) / Mestre