Submitted to the Faculty of Education in Fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF EDUCATION in the Department of Philosophy of Education, University of Zululand, South Africa, 1990. / Education is one of the most important human activities of all nations all over the world. Adults, that is, parents, teachers and adult members of the society educate young children in order to assist and guide them to become proper adults. Pre-primary school education has become the necessity for pre-school children of every community. Good early education guarantees good and proper foundation for later life for a child. But poor early education, or lack of early education for the child, results in various educational problems, such as the inability to be a proper person. The pre-primary school educators have the important educational task to perform in this regard. The child must be assisted and guided by his educators to be able to form a proper balance between freedom and authority in education situations. This will enable him to be a free, responsible and self-determined person. The researcher of this study wanted to establish the educational proficiency of the pre-primary school educators. The essential concepts which are connected with this study were defined clearly. Method of research included the researcher's personal observations in pre-primary school education situations. It also comprised of the completion of questionnaires by the pre-primary school educators. There is debate about the views of freedom and authority in education situations. Some educationists favour freedom and dislike authority. Other educationists support the use of even strict authority. They favour the abolition of freedom in education situations. A real education situation is one where a proper balance between pedagogic freedom and pedagogic authority is maintained. Freedom in education should be understood as a pedagogic category. It must be viewed on the fact that the open child enters into the open world. The child must be assisted to be at liberty to exercise the freedom of choice within an education situation. Educators need to provide educational opportunities which are full of freedom of choice for children to actualize their responsible freedom and self-determination. Authority in education must be elevated to a level where it essentially becomes a pedagogic category. With an authority a child is guided by an educator to acquire norms and values of a society. The pedagogic authority guarantees security for the child and it also ensures him to be independent morally. Educators should be able to differentiate between the pedagogic authority on one hand, and force, punishment and suppression, on the other hand. Empirical investigation helped to establish the authenticity of the problem in education. The major hypothesis was: "THE CHILD'S ABILITY TO FORM A PROPER BALANCE BETWEEN A PEDAGOGIC FREEDOM AND PEDAGOGIC AUTHORITY CONSTITUTES AN AUTHENTIC PEDAGOGIC TASK FOR THE PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATOR." The child cannot actualise his responsible freedom and moral self-determination without the educator's educational support and assistance. Therefore, personal observations of the pre-primary school education situations were considered by the researcher to be essential components of research. Questionnaires had also been constructed and supplied to pre-primary school educators- Results were presented, analysed and evaluated by the researcher. Something emerged during the observations and completing of questionnaires. The educators emphasized the need for co-operation between them and parents in pre-primary school education. Educators indicated a strong desire to obtain professional training in their educational task so-as to execute it effectively and successfully. General review of the entire study, relevant conclusions, recommendations and educational implications were made. The need for more research was pinpointed. A general summary of the entire study was made.

With increasing inequality in the world, having knowledge about the apparatuses maintaining unequal social structures is important. Utopian and dystopian science fiction films are a good source for analysis of social structures, due to their inherent interest in social critique and the role of semiotics in the spreading of ideology. This essay examines how ideology is presented and represented in the science fiction films Metropolis and Snowpiercer. Within a Marxist theoretical framework, the essay analyses the presence and actions of ideological state apparatuses in the films, with a secondary focus on how the ideology on display is presented to the viewer. The analysis of the films shows that several different ideological state apparatuses, such as school and politics, are represented in the films. The apparatuses are also shown to use a variety of pedagogic actions for teaching the dominant ideology of the respective film’s ruling class to the citizens of the films, such as lecturing, singing and communicating through clothing and architecture. The analysis also shows that while two different political ideologies are represented in the films, corporatism in Metropolis and neoliberalism in Snowpiercer, both ideologies serve the same purpose of maintaining the capitalist order of the films’ societies: the division of labour. The essay argues that the findings of the analysis motivate a Marxist approach to teaching, in order to actively work against inequality and provide all students with a well-rounded education, no matter what social class they belong to.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:32:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 REGIME DE CICLOS COM PROGRESSAO CONTINUADA NAS ESCOLAS PUBLICAS PAULISTAS.pdf: 1455470 bytes, checksum: f6ec07da71e6ba4b4653cd0896f3a892 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-01-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this study is to contribute to the comprehension of how the changes entailed in the educational reform work and are expressed. It was accomplished based on a research about the new set, relative to the scholar organization, created by the changes introduced with the implantation of Cycle Regime with Ongoing Progression at elementary education in public schools from São Paulo. The initial hypothesis was that the this implantation would modify, meaningfully, the school time organization, what would generate a direct impact with the cultural capital and habitus of the teachers. The research took place in 2003 in two public schools from São Paulo state net subordinated to the same Teaching Board. It was made through interviews to two teachers in each school who worked at the second cycle of elementary school, 5th to 8th grades, at a total of four, and to the pedagogic coordinators that were working at this duty since the implantation of the reform. It was also performed the collection and analysis of school documents which expressed the school time organization. This job used the Pierre Bourdieu theoretical corpus as reference, mainly the cultural capital, arbitrary cultural dominant, strategies and habitus, to verify the resulting impact of the reform quoted at the consolidated docent practices. It was testified that the initial hypothesis, concerning the school time, was not proved. Nevertheless, the direct impact on the teacher s cultural capital and habitus regarding to meritocracy, which prizes and settles an ideal student pattern, the pedagogic authority reduction on behalf of ongoing progression that makes impossible the power of the decision about the retention or approval of the pupils, and the valorization and defense of the transmission of scholar contents without which school becomes devoid of its leading duty, was evidenced. Finally the adoption of strategies such as the defense of the Grade Board strengthening and the reduction of the cycles duration from four two years aiming at overcoming these impacts and its effects that are considered damaging, by the docents, to public schools and the pupils future. / Este estudo tem a finalidade de contribuir para a compreensão de como operam e se expressam as mudanças envolvidas em reformas educacionais. Realizou-se a partir de uma pesquisa sobre o novo cenário, relativo à organização escolar, criado pelas alterações introduzidas com a implantação do Regime de Ciclos com Progressão Continuada no Ensino Fundamental das escolas públicas paulistas. Partiu-se da hipótese inicial de que a implantação da referida reforma alteraria significativamente a organização do tempo escolar o que geraria um impacto direto no capital cultural e habitus dos professores. A pesquisa foi realizada em 2003 em duas escolas públicas, da rede estadual paulista subordinadas à mesma Diretoria de Ensino, por meio de entrevistas com dois professores de cada escola, de segundo ciclo do Ensino Fundamental, 5ª à 8ª séries, num total de quatro, com os professores coordenadores pedagógicos de cada unidade escolar, que estivessem no exercício dessa função desde a implantação da referida reforma. Foi também, realizada a coleta e análise dos documentos escolares que expressam a organização do tempo escolar. Este trabalho tem como referência o corpo teórico de Pierre Bourdieu privilegiadamente os conceitos de capital cultural, arbitrário cultural dominante, estratégias e habitus para se verificar o impacto resultante da implantação da reforma em tela nas práticas docentes consolidadas. Constatou-se que a hipótese inicial, no que se refere à organização do tempo escolar, não se comprovou. No entanto, emergiu, ao longo da pesquisa, o impacto direto sobre o capital cultural e habitus dos professores referentes a meritocracia, que valoriza e estabelece um padrão de aluno ideal, a redução da autoridade pedagógica em função da progressão continuada que impossibilita o exercício do poder de decisão sobre a retenção ou aprovação do alunado e, a valorização e defesa da transmissão dos conteúdos escolares sem o que a escola fica esvaziada de sua função precípua. Finalmente a adoção de estratégias, como, por exemplo, a defesa do fortalecimento do Conselho de Série e da redução do período de duração dos ciclos de quatro para dois anos visando a superação desses impactos e seus efeitos que são considerados danosos, pelos docentes, à escola pública e ao futuro dos alunos.