Η διδακτορική αυτή διατριβή πραγματεύεται έναν επικοινωνιακό-κειμενοκεντρικό τρόπο διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής στο Δημοτικό Σχολείο της Κύπρου και, κατ’ επέκταση, της Ελλάδας. Περιλαμβάνει λεπτομερή περιγραφή μίας πρότασης πειραματικής εφαρμογής της επικοινωνιακής-κειμενοκεντρικής προσέγγισης στην Γ΄ Δημοτικού, στην Κύπρο, βασισμένης στο παιδαγωγικό μοντέλο συστημικής-λειτουργικής γραμματικής της Αυστραλιανής Σχολής (του Halliday και των συνεργατών του), το οποίο εστιάζει στο κείμενο, ως προϊόν και κοινωνική διαδικασία, στο συγκείμενο, στη γραμματική των κειμενικών ειδών, στη γλωσσική επάρκεια και, ευρύτερα, στο γραμματισμό. Στο πλαίσιο της συγκεκριμένης πειραματικής εφαρμογής διεξήχθη ημιπειραματική έρευνα με προπειραματικό και μεταπειραματικό έλεγχο, με δύο φυσικώς ισοδύναμες ομάδες. Σκοπός της έρευνας ήταν να εξετάσει την αποτελεσματικότητα ερευνητικού προγράμματος επικοινωνιακής-κειμενοκεντρικής προσέγγισης της διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής ως προς τη γλωσσική επάρκεια (και τις δύο συνιστώσες της, τη γλωσσική ικανότητα και την επικοινωνιακή ικανότητα) των παιδιών που συμμετείχαν σε αυτή και ως προς το επίπεδο γραμματισμού τους, εν γένει. Η έρευνα ήταν ποσοτική. Μέσω ενός ειδικά καταρτισμένου δοκιμίου, που περιλάμβανε ποικιλία έργων και σχετικών ασκήσεων, μετρήθηκαν τόσο οι γλωσσικές όσο και οι επικοινωνιακές επιδόσεις των παιδιών των δύο ομάδων. Οι υποθέσεις της έρευνας εστίασαν σε ορισμένα γλωσσικής και επικοινωνιακής φύσεως εννοιακά υποεπίπεδα, συναρτήσει του ευρύτερου εννοιακού επιπέδου «γλωσσική επάρκεια», και σχετίζονται με τα ακόλουθα ερωτήματα: 1. Ποια είναι η επίδραση της επικοινωνιακής-κειμενοκεντρικής διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής στη γλωσσική ικανότητα που αντιστοιχεί στην ορθογραφική γνώση του διδασκομένου; 2. Ποια είναι η επίδραση της επικοινωνιακής-κειμενοκεντρικής διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής στη γλωσσική ικανότητα που αντιστοιχεί στην «αμιγώς γραμματική» (μορφοσυντακτική) γνώση (ή γνώση γραμματικών κανόνων παραδοσιακού τύπου) του διδασκομένου; 3. Ποια είναι η επίδραση της επικοινωνιακής-κειμενοκεντρικής διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής στη γλωσσική ικανότητα που αντιστοιχεί στη γνώση του διδασκομένου σε σχέση με τη μεταγλώσσα (βασική γραμματική ορολογία); 4. Ποια είναι η επίδραση της επικοινωνιακής-κειμενοκεντρικής διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής στο γενικό επίπεδο της γλωσσικής ικανότητας (γλωσσικές επιδόσεις) του διδασκομένου; 5. Ποια είναι η επίδραση της επικοινωνιακής-κειμενοκεντρικής διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής στην επικοινωνιακή ικανότητα του διδασκόμενου που αντιστοιχεί στη γνώση δόμησης γραπτού λόγου (άρα και παραγωγής γραπτών κειμένων) εντός επικοινωνιακού πλαισίου (και αναλύεται βάσει επιμέρους σχετικών δεικτών]; 6. Ποια είναι η επίδραση της επικοινωνιακής-κειμενοκεντρικής διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής στο γενικό επίπεδο της επικοινωνιακής ικανότητας (επικοινωνιακές επιδόσεις) του διδασκομένου; 7. Ποια είναι, εν τέλει, η επίδραση της επικοινωνιακής-κειμενοκεντρικής διδασκαλίας της γραμματικής στην καλλιέργεια της γλωσσικής επάρκειας του διδασκομένου; Τα ευρήματα της έρευνας, αναφορικά με τα παραπάνω ερωτήματα και στη βάση των υποθέσεών της, ειδικότερα, κατέδειξαν ότι υπήρξε στατιστικά σημαντική διαφορά ως προς: α. τις «γλωσσικές» και τις «επικοινωνιακές επιδόσεις» των παιδιών της Πειραματικής Ομάδας έναντι των αντίστοιχων επιδόσεων της Ομάδας Ελέγχου, κατά την τελική αξιολόγηση της γλωσσικής επάρκειάς τους (της γλωσσικής ικανότητας και της επικοινωνιακής ικανότητάς τους, αντίστοιχα) β. τις «γλωσσικές επιδόσεις» και τις «επικοινωνιακές» επιδόσεις των παιδιών της Πειραματικής Ομάδας, ανάμεσα στην αρχική και την τελική αξιολόγηση της γλωσσικής επάρκειάς τους (της γλωσσικής ικανότητας και της επικοινωνιακής ικανότητά τους, αντίστοιχα) γ. το τελικό γενικό επίπεδο γλωσσικής επάρκειας των παιδιών της Πειραματικής Ομάδας έναντι του αντίστοιχου επιπέδου της Ομάδας Ελέγχου δ. το αρχικό και το τελικό γενικό επίπεδο της γλωσσικής επάρκειας των παιδιών της Πειραματικής Ομάδας. Τα παραπάνω ευρήματα, όπως φαίνεται και από τη θεματική ανάλυση περιεχομένου των ποιοτικών δεδομένων που συλλέχθηκαν μέσω, κυρίως, της συμμετοχικής παρατήρησης και της συνέντευξης, η οποία ενισχύει σε μεγάλο βαθμό την εσωτερική εγκυρότητα της έρευνας, σχετίζονται, δυνητικά, με το όλο ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα και την πειραματική παρέμβαση καθαυτή. Γενικά, τα ποσοτικά και ποιοτικά ευρήματα της έρευνας επικυρώνουν την ανάγκη για στροφή από την επικοινωνιακή προσέγγιση στην κειμενοκεντρική προσέγγιση, με έμφαση στη ρητή διδασκαλία των κειμενικών ειδών και της γραμματικής τους, γεγονός το οποίο μπορεί να συμβάλει θετικά στην καλλιέργεια της γλωσσικής επάρκειας, και εν γένει του γραμματισμού. Μία τέτοια αλλαγή αναμένεται ότι θα επιτρέψει τον απεγκλωβισμό από το "πώς" της γραμματικής διδασκαλίας και θα δώσει απαντήσεις σε ερωτήματα όπως: "ποια είδη κειμένου πρέπει να διδάσκονται, σε ποια τάξη και με ποια σειρά". Η διατριβή εστιάζει συστηματικά στον προβληματισμό αυτό και καταθέτει τη δική της ολοκληρωμένη πρόταση για κειμενοκεντρική προσέγγιση της γραμματικής στην Γ΄ Δημοτικού, τάξη η οποία συνιστά ένα κομβικό σημείο στη γλωσσική αγωγή, αναγνωρίζοντας το ρόλο της γραμματικής διδασκαλίας στο γραμματισμό των παιδιών του δημοτικού σχολείου.Στην τελική αυτή πρόταση κυρίαρχη θέση έχει όχι απλώς η "παιδαγωγική του γραμματισμού" αλλά η "παιδαγωγική της γραμματικής του γραμματισμού", η οποία και θεμελιώνεται σε συγκεκριμένα κειμενολογικά κριτήρια. / This PhD thesis deals with a communicative-genre based way of grammar teaching in the Primary School of Cyprus and, additionally, of Greece. It describes in detail an experimental programme, which is based on the Hallidayian systemic-functional model of grammar and the relative Sydney School Theory, from a pedagogic perspective. For the application of the particular programme, which took place in Grade 3, a quasi experimental research was carried out. The design for this research was a pre test - post test, control group-experimental group design. The aim of the research was to examine the effectiveness of the particular experimental programme, regarding the student’s linguistic adequacy (and its two components, the linguistic competence and the communicative competence) and their literacy, in general. The research was quantitative. Via an appropriate test, that included various linguistic and communicative exercises, the linguistic competence and the communicative competence of all the students, who participated in the programme, were tested at the outset of the research. After the Experimental Group received an instruction which placed a strong emphasis on text, as a product and as a social process, context and grammar, for a three month period, both experimental and control group students were re-tested, in order to examine their literacy outcomes in various linguistic and communicative areas and subjects of linguistic adequacy, such as the orthographic knowledge, the grammatical knowledge, the metalinguistic knowledge and the knowledge for effective written text production. The main null hypothesis for the research stated that no change would take place, between the Experimental Group and the Control Group, in the competencies related to “knowledge about language” and “knowledge of the language use”, as a result of the Experimental Group's exposure to explicit grammar teaching and, specifically, to communicative and genre based strategies and activities. After the data were analysed, the main null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis, positing that a significant positive change would take place in the Experimental Group’s literacy outcomes was affirmed. The results of the quantitative research were accompanied by the results of a parallel qualitative research. The thematic content analysis of the qualitative data, which were collected via a series of participative observations and interviews, increased the internal validity of the research and strengthened the possible relationship between the instruction, being described above, and the quantitative research results. Generally speaking, the quantitative and qualitative results of the research underline the possible effectiveness of the communicative and, especially, of the genre based grammar approach, regarding the linguistic adequacy of primary school students and their literacy. So, the most important conclusion of this PhD thesis is that, within the frame of a genre based grammar education, students can acquire the knowledge and skills to both write effectively and to deal knowingly with grammatical as well as textual forms. As genre based grammar education is related to a new way of grammar teaching, which aims to the social construction of language, it becomes equal to literacy based education. This new way allows the movement from the “how” of grammar teaching to the “how” of genres' teaching, during the primary years of schooling. The final proposal of the thesis refers to the “how” of genres' teaching in Grade 3, which is supposed to be a crucial point regarding language education and, obviously, regarding literacy itself.

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Nutzung von E-Learning-Plattformen an Pädagogischen Hochschulen und mit der Bedeutung der Einstellung von Lehrenden gegenüber neuen Medien und möglichen Anreizen zur Intensivierung der Nutzung. Auf Grundlage von wissenschaftlichen Modellen zum Nutzungsverhalten und zur Akzeptanzsteigerung wird ein Modell entwickelt, welches die Einflussfaktoren auf die tatsächliche Nutzung darstellen soll. Neben personenbezogenen und kontextbezogenen Faktoren bilden Anreize und Motivationen einen dritten Einflussfaktor zur Nutzung. Zur Erhebung wurde eine empirische quantitative Untersuchung bei Lehrenden an allen 14 Pädagogischen Hochschulen in Österreich durchgeführt. Folgende Thesen können angenommen werden: • Eine positive Einstellung gegenüber internetbasierten Anwendungen führt zur Nutzung von E-Learning in der Lehre. • Gute Erfahrungen und Vorkenntnisse mit digitalen Medien führen zur Nutzung von E-Learning in der Lehre. • Vertrauen wirkt sich positiv auf die Nutzung von E-Learning in der Lehre aus. • Support und Bildung wirken sich positiv auf die Handlungsbereitschaft und somit auf die Nutzung von E-Learning in der Lehre aus. • Anreize und Motivationsfaktoren wirken sich auf die Nutzung von E-Learning in der Lehre aus: Je größer die Nutzung durch die Lehrenden, desto weniger Anreize und Motivationsfaktoren werden benötigt. Das für die vorliegende Arbeit entwickelte Modell zu „Einstellung und Motivation zur Nutzung von E-Learning in der Lehre“ wird schließlich auf Basis der empirisch quanti-tativen Untersuchung adaptiert. / The present scientific paper intents the usage of e-learning platforms at university colleges of education in Austria and the relevance of attitude from teacher trainers against new technologies and their inducements to promote the usage. Based on scientific models of the behaviour of usage and the increase of acceptance a model will be developed to show the components of effective use. There are components that based on the persons, context and on the incentive or motivation to work with an e-learning platform. This model is examined by an empirical study on teachers of all 14 university colleges of education in Austria. The following theses can be accepted: • Users with a positive attitude against new media technologies contribute to usage. • Good experiences with new media technologies lead to more usage. • A high rate of confidence gives rise to usage. • Support and education had an influence on the attendance to use the e-learning-platform. • Stimuli and factors of motivation have an impact on using the e-learning-platform. The bigger the usage of the e-learning-platform, the lower the need of stimuli a factor of motivation. The model developed for this investigation to "attitude and motivation for the use of e-learning in teaching" is finally adapted on basis of the empirical investigation.

This research thesis set out to better understand the professional knowledge bases of Western teachers working in offshore education in Indonesia. This research explored what two groups of Western teachers said about the students they taught, their own role, professional and social identity, the knowledge transmitted, and their pedagogical strategies whilst teaching offshore. Such an investigation is significant on a number of levels. Firstly, these teachers were working within a period of rapid economic, political, cultural and educational change described as 'New Times' (Hall, 1996a). Secondly, the experiences of teachers working in offshore education have rarely been reported in the literature (see Johnston, 1999). A review of the literature on teachers' professional knowledge bases (Shulman, 1986a, 1986b, 1987; Turner-Bisset, 1997, 1999) concluded that, in general terms, teachers draw on three main interrelated and changing knowledge bases: knowledge of content, knowledge of teaching processes and knowledge of their students. This review also explored the notion that teachers had an additional knowledge base that was in a continual state of negotiation and closely related to the aforementioned knowledge bases: teachers' knowledge of their own and students' pedagogic identities (Bernstein, 2000). A theoretical framework appropriate to exploring the overarching research problem was developed. This framework drew on models of teachers' knowledge bases (Elbaz, 1983; Shulman, 1986a, 1986b, 1987; Nias, 1989; Turner-Bisset, 1997, 1999), the sociology of knowledge (Bernstein, 1975, 1990, 1996, 1999, 2000), and notions of pedagogic identity (Bernstein, 2000). This framework theorised the types of knowledges taught, categories of teaching process knowledge, and the range of pedagogic identities made available to teachers and students in new times. More specifically, this research examined two case studies (see Stake, 1988, 2000; Yin, 1994) of Western teachers employed by Australian educational institutions who worked in Central Java, Indonesia, in the mid-to-late 1990s. The teacher participants from both case studies taught a range of subjects and used English as the medium of instruction. Data for both case studies were generated via semistructured interviews (see Kvale, 1996; Silverman, 1985, 1997). The interviews focused on the teachers' descriptions of the learner characteristics of Indonesian students, their professional roles whilst teaching offshore, and curriculum and pedagogic design. The analyses produced four major findings. The first major finding of the analyses confirmed that the teacher participants in this study drew on all proposed professional knowledge bases and that these knowledge bases were interrelated. This suggests that teachers must have all knowledge bases present for them to do their work successfully. The second major finding was that teachers' professional knowledge bases were constantly being negotiated in response to their beliefs about their work and the past, present and future demands of the local context. For example, the content and teaching processes of English lessons may have varied as their own and their students' pedagogic identities were re-negotiated in different contexts of teaching and learning. Another major finding was that it was only when the teachers entered into dialogue with the Indonesian students and community members and/or reflective dialogue amongst themselves, that they started to question the stereotypical views of Indonesian learners as passive, shy and quiet. The final major finding was that the teachers were positioned in multiple ways by contradictory and conflicting discourses. The analyses suggested that teachers' pedagogic identities were a site of struggle between dominant market orientations and the criteria that the teachers thought should determine who was a legitimate teacher of offshore Indonesian students. The accounts from one of the case studies suggested that dominant market orientations centred on experience and qualifications in unison with prescribed and proscribed cultural, gender and age relations. Competent teachers who were perceived to be white, Western, male and senior in terms of age relations seemed to be the most easily accepted as offshore teachers of foundation programs for Indonesian students. The analyses suggested that the teachers thought that their legitimacy to be an offshore teacher of Indonesian students should be based on their teaching expertise alone. However, managers of Australian offshore educational institutions conceded that it was very difficult to bring about change in terms of teacher legitimisation. These findings have three implications for the work of offshore teachers and program administrators. Firstly, offshore programs that favour the pre-packaging of curricula content with little emphasis on the professional development and support needs of teachers do not foster work conditions which encourage teachers to re-design or modify curricula in response to the specific needs of learners. Secondly, pre-packaged programs do not support teachers to enter into negotiations concerning students' or their own pedagogic identities or the past, present and future demands of local contexts. These are important implications because they affect the way that teachers work, and hence how responsive teachers can be to learners' needs and how active they can be in the negotiation process as it relates to pedagogic identities. Finally, the findings point to the importance of establishing a learning community or learning network to assist Western teachers engaged in offshore educational work in Asian countries such as Indonesia. Such a community or network would enable teachers to engage and modify the complexity of knowledge bases required for effective localised offshore teaching. Given the burgeoning increase in the availability and use of electronic technology in new times, such as internet, emails and web cameras, these learning networks could be set up to have maximum benefit with minimal on-going costs.

Philosophical inquiry as a pedagogical approach develops higher order thinking and problem solving skills. Inquiry-based learning is an important approach for sustainable development, considering the fact that today’s societies has to deal with everyday challenges. Philosophical inquiry is a powerful educational approach that has cognitive, social and practical benefits. This study examined the challenges faced by the Nyadire Teachers’ College (NTC) student teachers in Mashonaland East Province in Zimbabwe in engaging pupils in philosophical inquiry and ways of overcoming them. The study employed the qualitative design because of its focus on participants’ perceptions and actions. The researcher viewed participants as reflective beings whose actions were influenced by their thoughts. The study sample comprised forty student teachers on campus who had just completed their Teaching Practice (TP), eight student teachers on TP and ten lecturers from various departments. The data were collected through individual interviews, focus group discussions, non-participant observation of lessons and document analysis. The evidence from literature indicates that philosophical discourse and pedagogy develop learners’ ability to be responsible and accountable for their actions. It has also indicated teachers’ inability to introduce children to thoughtful discussion as one of the barriers to the use of philosophical inquiry as a pedagogy. The findings of the study indicated that NTC student teachers lacked skills and dispositions to engage pupils in philosophical inquiry. This was attributed to lack of critical pedagogy in teacher education at NTC. The findings also indicated that there were challenges in practicing schools. The study established knowledge and competence gaps amongst NTC student teachers as one of the challenges. The study suggested that NTC teacher education should expose student teachers to theory and practice of critical pedagogy. It also suggested in-service education on mentoring for teachers in schools, as mentoring demands more skills and knowledge than mere teaching. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Philosophy of Education)

Idag byggs fler bostäder än vad som gjorts under de senaste 60 åren. Det finns många utmaningar med den volym bostäder som behöver byggas. Många bostäder kommer byggas i exploateringsområden, detta ställer krav på infrastrukturinvesteringar exempelvis i form av nya skolor. Enligt prognoser kommer antalet grundskoleelever öka med 250 000 till år 2025. Detta innebär ett behov av 1000 nya skolor på tio år. Behovet av skolor är långsiktigt och lärmiljöer behöver planeras för att vara långsiktiga. Dagsljus och utblick har en stor inverkan på vår arbetsmiljö, prestation och är nödvändig för vår hälsa. Studier har visat att dagsljusbelysta skolmiljöer får elever att prestera bättre. Trots detta har vi sedan 50-talet halverat kravet på dagsljusnivåer i skolor från 2 % till 1,0 % dagsljusfaktor. Idag har vi samma dagsljuskrav för klassrum som för ett sovrum i en bostad. Syftet med examenarbetet är att problematisera moderna skolmiljöer sett ur dagsljusets betydelse för hälsa och prestation i relation till dagens myndighetskrav för tillgång av dagsljus. Vidare syftar arbetet till att ta fram goda exempel på dagsljuslösningar som kan nyttjas vid utformning av moderna skolmiljöer. För att bedöma moderna skolors dagsljustillgång har ett urval av fem skolor i Stockholmsområdet utgjort studieobjekt där tillgången på dagsljus undersökts mot myndighetskraven. Undersökning av studieobjekten har utförts genom 3D modellering i Rhinoceros 3D samt dagsljusfaktorsimuleringar i programmet Grasshopper och Honeybee. Studieobjekten har modellerats upp efter inhämtade bygglovsritningar och dagsljussimuleringarna har utförts med simuleringsmotorn Radiance. Resultatet från dagsljusfaktorsimuleringen visar att ingen av de undersökta skolornas fullt ut uppfyller myndighetskraven. Anledningen till varför skolornas undersökta rum inte uppfyller kraven varierar mellan eller utgör en kombination av; rumsdjup, fönsterstorlek, fönstersättning i fasad, avskärmningsvinklar, avskärmande byggnadsdelar och fast solavskärmning. Undersökningen visar att rum som hemvistytor och uppehållsrum ofta saknar fönster mot det fria och följaktligen underkänns. Dessa rum är vanligt förekommande vid nyttjande av progressiva pedagogiska inriktningar. Beroende på rummens tilltänkta användning kan de komma att klassas som vistelserum och behöver därför tillgång till dagsljus. Ur litteraturgenomgången förstås att en tidig integrering av dagsljusdesign i gestaltningsprocessen är nödvändigt för att säkerställa en god tillgång till dagsljus i lärmiljöer. Som del av examensarbetet har därför ett gestaltningsförslag tagits fram där en dagsljusdesign nyttjas. Iterativt under gestaltningsprocessen har dagsljustillgång simulerats för att motivera gjorda designval och säkerställa en god dagsljusnivå. För jämförande och platsspecifika resultat har klimatbaserade simuleringsmetoder använts. Det nyttjade mätvärdet Optimal Day-lit Area (ODA) simulerar användbarheten i det tillgängliga dagsljusets belysningsstyrka över ett år. Samtidigt tar ODA hänsyn till överbelyst golvyta som kan vara problematisk då obehagsbländning och överhettning kan uppstå. Det presenterade gestaltningsförslaget utgör ett konceptförslag i syfte att gestalta användningen av en integrerad dagsljusdesignprocess och dess resultat. / Currently more housing is being built than in the past 60 years. There are many challenges accompanied with the volume of housing that needs to be built. Many of the dwellings that are going to be built are placed in new densely planned urban areas, which imposes requirements for infrastructure investments, for example in the form of new schools. According to forecasts, the number of students in primary school will increase by 250,000 by the year 2025. This implies a need for approximately 1000 new schools in ten years. The need for new schools are long term and therefore the learning environments need to be designed to be long term. Daylight and view have a major impact on our work environment, performance and are necessary for our health. Studies have shown that daylight-lit school environments enhance the performance of the students. The building legislation regulates the required levels using the daylight factor metric. Since the 50’s the requirements of daylight levels in schools have been approximately halved from 2 % to 1,0 %. Today the daylight requirements are the same for classrooms as for bedrooms in dwellings. The purpose of this thesis is to examine modern school environments in relation to today's regulatory requirements for access to daylight. Furthermore, the work aims to produce good examples of daylight solutions that can be used when designing modern school environments against the regulatory requirements. To assess the daylight access in modern schools, a selection of three nursery schools and two primary schools in the vicinity of Stockholm were chosen. Case studies were conducted using the 3D modelling software, Rhinoceros 3D and the daylight factor was then simulated using the Grasshopper and Honeybee plug-ins. The schools were modelled according to the acquired drawings and daylight were performed using the simulation engine Radiance. The result from the daylight factor simulation show that none of the schools examined fully meet the requirements. The reasons why the examined schools do not meet the requirements vary between or constitute a combination of; room depth, window size, window façade, obstruction angles, obstructing components and shading devices. The study shows that rooms such as: common areas and study hall often lack windows towards the outside and therefore only gets borrowed light from other areas. These kinds of rooms are common when using progressive pedagogical approaches. Depending on the intended future use of the rooms, they may be classified in such a way that they need to fulfil the regulations regarding daylight. From the literature review it is understood that early integration of daylight design in the design process is necessary to ensure good accesses to daylight in learnings environments. As a part of the thesis project, a design proposal has been developed using a daylight design process. During the design process, the access to daylight has been iteratively simulated to motivate selected design choices and ensure a good daylight level.  For comparison and site-specific results, climate-based simulation methods have been used. The use of the Optimal Day-lit Area (ODA) metric measures the usefulness of the available daylight illumination intensity over a year. At the same time, ODA takes the eventual over lit areas that may cause overheating and glare into account. The presented design proposal demonstrates the use of an integrated daylight design process and its results.

The challenge facing principals currently is to revisit their role to improve external examination results in the Republic of South Africa. Almost all schools in the Free State, in particular those in rural areas such as the Thabo Mofutsanyana Education District; the Xhariep Education District; part of the Motheo Education District (e.g. Botshabelo and Thaba-Nchu) and most urban areas, such as the Lejweleputswa Education District and the Fezile Dabi Education District, have schools which have had poor examination results for the past 20 years. To answer the challenges currently facing principals in the Free State, this research used a qualitative research framework and methodology to articulate research questions and arrive at constructive and instructive models to reveal and close the gaps between performing and underperforming secondary schools in the province. A particular group of principals was chosen, influenced by the performance and underperformance of their schools in the various education districts in the province. Research findings from unstructured interviews with doctoral candidates, and research on China, Finland and Singapore’s education systems with special reference to instructional leadership were conducted. The doctoral candidates’ ideas were confirmed by practical unstructured interviews with Sekgutlong and Beacon high school principals who visited Singapore with the MEC of the Free State Department of Education. In plenary and parallel encounters with principals of secondary schools in the Free State, it emerged that rote learning is prevalent in the Free State secondary schools. Therefore, was resolved by the majority of the principals that critical postmodern instructional leadership should be recommended as an instructional methodology to usher in critical thinking, innovation, creativity and self-reliance in Free State education. In addition, this will close the gap between performing and underperforming secondary schools. Finally, grounded postmodern instructional leadership as a leadership strategy will assist a contemporary secondary school learner’s generation to cope with the academic requirements of tertiary education. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Didactics)

MESQUITA, Regina Elizabeth Mattos Dourado de. Achados na caixa de pandora: opções de superação do analfabetismo moral na escola. 2010. 239f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by Maria Josineide Góis (josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-13T13:53:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Tese_REMDMESQUITA.pdf: 1104905 bytes, checksum: 5e0502e33880efb762245ae84d8f22c7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-17T14:14:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Tese_REMDMESQUITA.pdf: 1104905 bytes, checksum: 5e0502e33880efb762245ae84d8f22c7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-17T14:14:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Tese_REMDMESQUITA.pdf: 1104905 bytes, checksum: 5e0502e33880efb762245ae84d8f22c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / The present study investigates how school is a contribution to the setting of childhood morality, as a potentially suitable space, and how school agents (managers, teachers, technicians) undertake such elaboration. It also presents the strategies applied by schools in order to favour the prevailing of a positive moral atmosphere, enhancer of moral activities which lead to respect, acceptance and solidarity. The research was developed at a municipal public school in Fortaleza, in one of the most violent neighborhoods in town, and the main subjects were two first grade elementary school female teachers, the school manager and fifty-two of their students. It followed the ethrographic investigation approach, and adopted the instruments of observation, debriefing interviews, life story, questionnaire and analysis of the institution’s official files. The main theory basing authors are Piaget (1998), Kohlberg (1975, 1978), Yves de la Taille (2000, 2002, 2006, 2009) and Araújo (2002, 2003, 2004). It identified a positive moral atmosphere at the school, unfolded along five years by strategies such as welcome, conflict mediation and artistic activities, all promoted by the institution, referring the VIVE (living values in education) Program associated to the school’s political pedagogic project, through transverse curriculum behavior. Some analysis outcomes are highlighted: 1 – non-involvement of great part of the teachers in the political pedagogic project with moral focus; 2 – the morality focused work being centralized in the school manager and three teachers who attended courses at the VIVE Program; 3 – absence of a result control to the morality focused social activities, which would guarantee an intentional and systematic approach form teachers’ didactic pedagogic point of view; 4 – children’s passive attitude on their own expansion, in spite of the curricular systematization of morality focused activities; 5 – active caution and watch attitudes, although sparse, as conduct line of school adults upon children. The study offers elements for the reflection on the importance of school as a favorable space to child morality. Moreover, it presents means of working the moral issue integrated to the school conventional curriculum, by its transverse behavior – not artificial, moralizing or orthodox. / Investiga a forma como a escola contribui como espaço potencialmaente favoravél, na construção da moralidade infantil e como os agentes escolares (gestores, professores, corpo técnico) compreendem esse processo de construção. Apresentamos também as estratégias de que a escola se utiliza para favorecer a prevalência de uma atmosfera moral positiva, propulsora de atividades morais que levem ao respeito, acato e solidariedade ao outro. A pesquisa se desenvolveu numa escola pública municipal da Prefeitura de Fortaleza, num dos bairros mais violentos da Cidade onde os sujeito principais foram duas professoras das primeira série do ensino fundamental, a gestora escolar, e 52 crianças das turmas das professoras. Ultilizou-se o tratamento etnográfico de investigação e foram aplicados os seguintes instrumentos: observação, entrevista de explicitação, história de vida, questionário e análise dos documentos oficiais da instituição. Os principais autores que respaldaram a base teórica foram: Piaget (1998), Kohlberg (1975, 1978), Yves de la Taille (2000, 2002, 2006, 2009), Araújo (2002, 2003, 2004). O estudo identificou a existência de uma atmosfera moral positiva na escola, desenvolvida ao longo de cinco anos, mediante estratégias como a acolhida, mediação de conflitos e de atividades artísticas promovidas pela instituição, tendo como referência o Programa Vive (vivendo valores na educação) agregado ao projeto político-pedagógico da escola, via transversalidade curricular. Entre os resultados da análise, destacam-se os seguintes: (1) o não-envolvimento de grande parte do corpo docente com o projeto p.-pedagógico voltado aos temas morais; (2) a centralização do trabalho de construção da moralidade na figura da gestora e de três professores formados no Programa Vive; (3) a ausência de um controle dos resultados obtidos por meio das atividades voltadas à moralidade que garantam uma abordagem intencional e sistemática do ponto de vista didático-pedagógico do grupo de professores; (4) uma atitude expectante das crianças em relação á expansão de si próprias, apesar da sistematização no plano curricular das atividades voltadas ao tema da moralidade; (5) atitudes de “cuidado” e escutas ativas, embora esparsas, como linha de conduta dos adultos da escola em relação às crianças. A pesquisa oferece elementos para o desenvolvimento de reflexões acerca da importância da escola como espaço favorável a construção da moralidade infantil e de como podem ser trabalhadas de forma integrada as matérias escolares convencionais, via transversalidade, não como algo artificial, moralizador, ortodoxo, as temáticas que envolvam a problemática moral.

My diploma thesis deals issue of activities with children and youth in operation of Sdružení hasičů Čech, Moravy a Slezska.Introduction of this thesis describes past of operation of SH ČMS, especially its education activities in past. There is analysis of organizational structure of SH ČMS as well. Thesis describes all vertical levels of organization (headquarters, region, district, precinct and local level) and all parts of horizontal division of organization (mayor, executive committee, audit committee, other teams etc.). Conclusion of the first part of diploma thesis deals funding organization and educational activities. The second part of this work is focused on educational system in SH ČMS. It meets us with year-round activities of young firefighters, methods of working during whole year and describes ?PLAMEN? game as main point in year-round activities of young firefighters. Very important is think about children team leader as well. In the conclusion of diploma thesis I mention little information about documentation necessary for working with young firefighters and cooperation with other organizations.

This thesis describes a level of communication among a class teacher, her pupils and the pupils themselves in a master class at a first stage, where the author works. The aim of the class teacher is to develop communicative competences that will lead to more effective communication in the class among the class teacher, her pupils and pupils themselves. The theoretical part gives a support to the practical part based on theoretical knowledge. It formulates specifics of pedagogical communication, features verbal communication, observes effective ways and barriers in communication. It submits tools by Personal and social education defining. The tools can reach expected outputs in communication defined in the National Curriculum and the Minimum Preventive Programme. The author introduces the teacher's personality and his skills as possible factors that affect the pupil's development. The practical part monitors the initial situation in the classroom. On the basis of a teacher action research the teacher wants to enhance communication efficiency. She uses the particular method of observation, reflection, Personal and social education techniques, audio and video recordings analysis and additionally verbal evaluation. She also relies on the application of the preventive programme. Data collection and the...

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation takes as a starting point the fact that the process of constructing meanings in multimodal texts involves the contribution of verbal and non-verbal codes, which integrate themselves in a collaborative action in order to establish communication. Therefore, explicit/implicit elements add up to the textual composition in meaningful arrangements materializedinto texts (re)createdby the reading subject. It is important to highlight that this process depends on the reader’s repertoire which involves linguistics, discourse and image knowledge. For this reason, we have chosen to develop a group of 9th grade students with whom I work at a public school in Aracaju verbal and visual language literacy aiming to improve their reading competence and reflexive thinking. For the purpose of achieving such scope, we have developed the digital game Na Trilha dos sentidos, directed into building meanings from strips and publicity ads, both multimodal kinds of texts. We have been supported by the social interactionist linguistic theories related to the conception of genre by Marcuschi (2008); we have resorted to Koch (2006, 2015) to debate the concept of resumption by the pronominal anaphora; we have sought the basis for a concept of reading in Kleiman (2000); we have read Cavalcante e Custódio (2010) for the concept of text and Bakhtin/Volochinov (1998 [1929]) for information about the discursive context and dialogism; Kress e Van Leeuwen (1996) have made it possible for us to organize the visual resources studies, among which we stress salience and framing; besides using Fialho’s ideas (2005) for the pedagogic game as an auxiliary resource functionality, a motivation in the learning process. The study followed the principles of the educational actionresearch, defined by Tripp (2005) as a strategy for developing teachers who aim at enhancing their teaching practices and, consequently, their students’ learning. This theoretical input has contributed for the elaboration of the tasks in the game created by researcher. We have observed, from the application and outcomes analysis, that using this pedagogic resource has leaded to students’ involvement with contents, resulting in a broader comprehension of materials in which linguistic, discursive and imagetic aspects have collaborated in the constitution of a single verbal and visual text. We have also noticed the enhancement of the interpretation of meanings from inferences built by means of diverse language resources combined analysis. In spite of its limited reach, as it was restricted to only one group of students, this research suggests that the use of pedagogic practices with multimodal materials based in games should be increased, as it collaborates with the enlargement of the elementary school students’ comprehension ability. / Esta dissertação toma como ponto de partida o fato de o processo de construção de sentido nos textos multimodais envolver a contribuição de códigos verbais e não verbais, que se integram em ação colaborativa para estabelecer comunicação. Assim, elementos explícitos/implícitos integram a composição textual em arranjos significativos materializados em textos que são (re)criados pelo sujeito leitor. É importante destacar que esse processo depende do repertório de conhecimentos que envolve saberes linguísticos, discursivos e imagéticos. Por essa razão, optamos por desenvolver o letramento dos estudantes na linguagem verbo-visual visando ao aprimoramento da competência leitora e do pensamento reflexivo de estudantes do 9º ano do ensino fundamental com os quais trabalho em uma escola pública de Aracaju. Para atingir tal escopo, desenvolvemos o jogo digital Na Trilha dos sentidos, direcionado à construção de sentido a partir dos gêneros tira e anúncio publicitário, ambos de natureza multimodal. Apoiamo-nos nas teorias linguísticas sociointeracionistas associadas à concepção de gênero de Marcuschi (2008); recorremos a Koch (2006, 2015) para discutir a concepção de retomada pela anáfora pronominal; buscamos em Kleiman (2000) as bases para uma concepção de leitura; partimos de Cavalcante e Custódio (2010) para definirmos o conceito de texto e em Bakhtin/Volochinov (1998 [1929]) para o de contexto discursivo e dialogismo; Kress e Leeuwen (2006) possibilitaram-nos organizar os estudos dos recursos visuais, entre os quais destacamos a saliência e o enquadre; além de utilizarmos as ideias de Fialho (2005) para funcionalidade do jogo didático como recurso auxiliar, motivacional no processo da aprendizagem. O trabalho realizado seguiu os princípios da pesquisa-ação educacional, conforme Tripp (2005), que a define como uma estratégia de desenvolvimento de professores que visam a aprimorar as estratégias de ensino que utilizam e, consequentemente, as aprendizagens dos estudantes. Esse aporte teórico contribuiu para a elaboração das atividades do jogo criado pela pesquisadora. Constatamos a partir da aplicação do jogo e análise dos resultados que a utilização desse tipo de recurso didático promoveu o envolvimento dos estudantes com os conteúdos estudados, resultando em uma maior compreensão de materiais nos quais aspectos linguísticos, discursivos e imagéticos colaboram para a constituição de um único texto verbo-visual. Também notamos o aprimoramento da interpretação de sentidos a partir de inferências construídas por meio de análise combinada de diferentes recursos de linguagem. Embora com alcance limitado, por estar restrito a uma única turma, esta pesquisa possibilita sugerir que haja o incremento de práticas pedagógicas com materiais multimodais apoiadas em jogos, pois colaboram com a ampliação das capacidades de compreensão dos estudantes da educação básica.