Teachers’ personal practical knowledge is the knowledge of teachers which is principally known and produced by teachers themselves. Greatly inspired by Meijer, Verloop and Beijaard (1999), this study uses a questionnaire and an interview to continue the line of their investigation. The study aims to describe and illustrate the content of 13 teachers’ personal practical knowledge about teaching reading comprehension to non-English majors at a university in China. The study is also to examine similarities (shared knowledge) and differences in teacher knowledge, and potentially relevant background variables in it. As a result, detailed information about these teachers’ personal practical knowledge about teaching reading comprehension has been found. Meijer et al. (1999) could not find shared knowledge by investigating teachers from different schools. In this study, by investigating teachers from the same school, shared knowledge could not be found either. Thus, by comparing these teachers’ personal practical knowledge, they can be classified into three groups: subject-matter-oriented, student-oriented and student-learning-oriented teachers. Each group is illustrated by describing one teacher’s knowledge as a typical example. Moreover, six potentially relevant background variables are discussed in this study. By matching the six background variables to the responses of these teachers, three patterns in potentially relevant background variables have been developed: professional-growth teachers, student-centered teachers, and authority-maintaining teachers.

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The recent rapid increase in the number of Korean children who return to Korea after time spent abroad studying English raises concerns about their follow-up education and their readjustment into the Korean education system. The number of returnee children also raises concerns about how Korean teachers teach these children. This study was grounded in my realization that my experiential knowledge of learning English influenced my teaching of returnee children. Through this study, I came to understand the ways teachers’ personal practical knowledge of English is shaped through many different experiences in many different contexts in which they are, and were, situated. Teachers’ personal practical knowledge is expressed in their classroom practices. Knowledge and context are linked by the narrative concept of stories to live by (Connelly & Clandinin, 1999). The research was a narrative inquiry into three Korean teachers’ personal practical knowledge as it was expressed in their teaching practices, as it shaped their stories to live by and as it was shifted on their professional knowledge landscapes when they taught returnee children. As a result of the study, four key considerations emerged. One, each teacher’s personal practical knowledge as expressed in teaching returnee children was shaped by his experiences of learning English. Two, shifting teachers’ ‘stories to live by’ depended on their professional knowledge landscapes. Three, teachers held different understandings about curriculum making. Four, teachers held different views about returnees’ readjustment into the Korean schools. Drawing upon a concept of ‘curriculum of lives’ (Clandinin & Connelly, 1992), the key considerations from the study give important implications about in-service teacher education in terms of curriculum making for returnee children. The study suggests the importance of providing in-service teachers with an opportunity to think about a narrative perspective about curriculum making in order to suggest new possibilities for teachers, returnee children, and their parents.

Orientador: João Antonio Telles / Banca: Stela Miller / Banca: Juvenal Zancheta Júnior / Banca: Solange Aranha / Banca: Maria Cecília Camargo Magalhães / Resumo: O trabalho em questão objetiva compreender de que maneira professores de língua portuguesa constroem seus conceitos de gêneros orais, quais conceitos possuem e como implementam práticas didáticas de produção de textos orais em suas aulas. Ao observar a configuração dos conceitos que permeiam a prática desses docentes, busco salientar as paisagens pelas quais transitam esses profissionais e como essas interferem na construção de seu conhecimento pessoal prático. As preocupações expostas foram originadas pela crescente discussão acerca da importância do ensino de gêneros orais na escola - sobretudo após a publicação dos PCN para o Ensino de Língua Portuguesa (3º e 4º Ciclos) ocorrida em 1998. Outro fator foram as inquietações remanescentes de um trabalho anterior, A oralidade nas aulas de língua portuguesa: análise de um caso (MESSIAS, 2002), cujo foco incidia na observação do tratamento dado à produção de textos orais por um professor de língua portuguesa, de uma escola pública do interior do estado de São Paulo. Sendo assim, retornei à mesma escola e, dessa vez, tive como parceiros outros professores, além de uma coordenadora pedagógica, uma vice-diretora e alguns alunos. Como forma de materializar a pesquisa, promovi reuniões de estudo, com os professores; elaborei um questionário que foi respondido pelos docentes e por alguns alunos; realizei entrevistas. Um dos professores, ainda, filmou algumas atividades de produção de textos orais ocorridas em suas aulas. A forma como a investigação foi conduzida a caracteriza como pesquisa qualitativa, tal como explicitado por Lüdke e André (1986), mais especificamente uma pesquisa ação nos moldes especificados por Thiollent (2002). O estudo desenvolveu-se em tom narrativo, pois, durante o percurso, a ênfase nos textos produzidos pelos professores tornou-se fundamental para a construção dos sentidos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study has as objective to understand how teachers of Portuguese construct their knowledge of oral genres, what knowledge they have and how they implement pedagogical practices of production of oral texts in their classrooms. Observing the knowledge which supports those teachers' practices, I intend to point out the landscapes in which these professionals live and work and how these landscapes interfere in the construction of their personal practical knowledge. The concerns exposed arose from the growing discussion about the importance of oral genres teaching in schools, mainly, after the publication of the PCN directed to the Teaching of Portuguese (3th and 4th cycles) in 1998. Another point that must be mentioned refers to a previous work, The orality in classes of Portuguese: the analysis of a case (MESSIAS, 2002), whose focus is on the procedures for the production of oral texts followed by a teacher of Portuguese in a public school in the State of Sao Paulo. Thus, I returned to the same school and, this time, I had as partners other teachers, the pedagogical coordinator, the vice-principal and some students. As far as my methodological framework is concerned, I organized interviews, study groups with the teachers and a questionnaire which was answered by them and some students. One of the teachers also videotaped some activities of production of oral texts developed in his classroom. The way the research was conducted characterizes it as a qualitative, as suggested by Ludke and André (1986), more specifically an action research, as proposed by Thiollent (2002). This study was developed in a narrative tone because the emphasis on the texts produced by the teachers became fundamental in the construction of the meanings. Through the accounts, the interviews (audio-recorded and transcribed), the research diaries and questionnaires I try to get meanings from the linguistic... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-03-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:21:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 messias_ral_dr_mar.pdf: 877866 bytes, checksum: 35bfdbedce4a169f1178df8ad6a7be57 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O trabalho em questão objetiva compreender de que maneira professores de língua portuguesa constroem seus conceitos de gêneros orais, quais conceitos possuem e como implementam práticas didáticas de produção de textos orais em suas aulas. Ao observar a configuração dos conceitos que permeiam a prática desses docentes, busco salientar as paisagens pelas quais transitam esses profissionais e como essas interferem na construção de seu conhecimento pessoal prático. As preocupações expostas foram originadas pela crescente discussão acerca da importância do ensino de gêneros orais na escola - sobretudo após a publicação dos PCN para o Ensino de Língua Portuguesa (3º e 4º Ciclos) ocorrida em 1998. Outro fator foram as inquietações remanescentes de um trabalho anterior, A oralidade nas aulas de língua portuguesa: análise de um caso (MESSIAS, 2002), cujo foco incidia na observação do tratamento dado à produção de textos orais por um professor de língua portuguesa, de uma escola pública do interior do estado de São Paulo. Sendo assim, retornei à mesma escola e, dessa vez, tive como parceiros outros professores, além de uma coordenadora pedagógica, uma vice-diretora e alguns alunos. Como forma de materializar a pesquisa, promovi reuniões de estudo, com os professores; elaborei um questionário que foi respondido pelos docentes e por alguns alunos; realizei entrevistas. Um dos professores, ainda, filmou algumas atividades de produção de textos orais ocorridas em suas aulas. A forma como a investigação foi conduzida a caracteriza como pesquisa qualitativa, tal como explicitado por Lüdke e André (1986), mais especificamente uma pesquisa ação nos moldes especificados por Thiollent (2002). O estudo desenvolveu-se em tom narrativo, pois, durante o percurso, a ênfase nos textos produzidos pelos professores tornou-se fundamental para a construção dos sentidos... / This study has as objective to understand how teachers of Portuguese construct their knowledge of oral genres, what knowledge they have and how they implement pedagogical practices of production of oral texts in their classrooms. Observing the knowledge which supports those teachers' practices, I intend to point out the landscapes in which these professionals live and work and how these landscapes interfere in the construction of their personal practical knowledge. The concerns exposed arose from the growing discussion about the importance of oral genres teaching in schools, mainly, after the publication of the PCN directed to the Teaching of Portuguese (3th and 4th cycles) in 1998. Another point that must be mentioned refers to a previous work, The orality in classes of Portuguese: the analysis of a case (MESSIAS, 2002), whose focus is on the procedures for the production of oral texts followed by a teacher of Portuguese in a public school in the State of Sao Paulo. Thus, I returned to the same school and, this time, I had as partners other teachers, the pedagogical coordinator, the vice-principal and some students. As far as my methodological framework is concerned, I organized interviews, study groups with the teachers and a questionnaire which was answered by them and some students. One of the teachers also videotaped some activities of production of oral texts developed in his classroom. The way the research was conducted characterizes it as a qualitative, as suggested by Ludke and André (1986), more specifically an action research, as proposed by Thiollent (2002). This study was developed in a narrative tone because the emphasis on the texts produced by the teachers became fundamental in the construction of the meanings. Through the accounts, the interviews (audio-recorded and transcribed), the research diaries and questionnaires I try to get meanings from the linguistic... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

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This study is an interpretive form of qualitative research that is founded in educational connoisseurship and criticism, which uses the author’s personal experiences as a holistic educator in a public school to connect theory and practice. Key research questions include: How do I, as a teacher, work with the Ontario curriculum to make it more holistic? What strategies have I developed in order to teach a more holistic curriculum? What kinds of difficulties interfere with my practice as I attempt to implement my holistic philosophy of education? This dissertation seeks to articulate a methodology for developing holistic curriculum that is in conformity with Ontario Ministry guidelines and is also responsive to the multifaceted needs of the whole student. The research findings will serve to inform teachers who wish to engage in holistic education in public schools and adopt a curriculum that is transformative while still being adaptable within mainstream education.

This study is an interpretive form of qualitative research that is founded in educational connoisseurship and criticism, which uses the author’s personal experiences as a holistic educator in a public school to connect theory and practice. Key research questions include: How do I, as a teacher, work with the Ontario curriculum to make it more holistic? What strategies have I developed in order to teach a more holistic curriculum? What kinds of difficulties interfere with my practice as I attempt to implement my holistic philosophy of education? This dissertation seeks to articulate a methodology for developing holistic curriculum that is in conformity with Ontario Ministry guidelines and is also responsive to the multifaceted needs of the whole student. The research findings will serve to inform teachers who wish to engage in holistic education in public schools and adopt a curriculum that is transformative while still being adaptable within mainstream education.