Thesis deals with different difficulties of education of children with different language in kindergarten. The aim is to find out and describe opinions and attitudes of teachers in kindergartens, which influences the education of this particular group of children. Theoretical part is the basis for established targets. It describes the principles and policies of preschool education, heterogeneity in inclusive education. Attention is paid to legislative support for the education of foreigners in Czech Republic and changes in the legislation education of children with special educational needs.The practical part analyzes informations obtained from the questionnaires conducted among kindergarten teachers with the experience of teaching children with different mother tongues. Questionnaire survey is focused on the education part for supporting measures, cooperation with other entities, cooperation with family and methodological support of the teachers. Keywords: preschool education, children with different language, inclusive education, legislation education of foreigners

TITLE: Conditions for the development of digital literacy of preschool children AUTHOR: Karolína Fenclová DEPARTMENT: Department of information technology and education SUPERVISOR: Ing. Irena Fialová, CSc. ABSTRACT This thesis analysis possibilities and directions of the development of digital literacy by preschool children. It describes the ways of creation and the construction of children's information-technology competencies in preparation for the first grade of elementary school. The theoretical part defines some basic terms such as digital literacy, ICT literacy and others, it describes specifics of development of the child's preschool and shows the possibilities of using of digital technology in nursery school. The practical part of the thesis investigates how information technologies are incorporated into the education of children in nursery school; it investigates development of information-technology competencies of children of preschool age by work on computer and by interview of children and of their parents. On the basis of the discovered facts are showed ways for the development of the information-technological competencies of preschool children. KEYWORDS digital literacy, ICT literacy, information-technological competencies, information and communication technologies, preschool age, preschool...

This diploma work Use of educational stimulation groups program is focused on prevention of children failure in the beginning of school attendance by their participation in stimulation program together with their parents. Aim of the diploma work was to find out whether and how the selected program influenced development of weakend partial areas of children who attended this program and opinions of parents on this program. The diploma work is divided into theoretical and practical part. Theoretical part contains three chapters. First chapter characterizes preschool age and all fields of child 's development. Second chapter focuses on particularity of preschool education, legislation, binding documents, educational influence of the family, clarifies terms of school maturity and readiness and introduces some of the stimulation programs. Third chapter is theoretical solution of the stimulation program examined in the practical part, introduces individual areas important for successful start at school and practical activities developing weakend partial areas of the children. There are aims and survey used methods described in practical part ie. input and output diagnostics, attended observations, questionnaires for the parents and analysis of the survey results. In this chapter there are analyses and...

L’objet de cette recherche c’est de comprendre les traits essentiels de la représentation de l’enfant au sein des deux systèmes préscolaires particuliers, le chilien et le français. Pour bien saisir ces traits, nous avons a réalisé une démarche de type comparative qui essaie de percevoir l’évolution sociohistorique de la politique publique concernant le niveau préscolaire, et également les raisons d’être du préscolaire et les logiques culturelles, sous-jacentes, propres à chacun des pays. A ce propos, la parole des enseignants de chaque système devient révélatrice de l’intentionnalité de chacune des modèles ainsi que de la figure de l’enfant à éduquer. Le modèle chilien mis sur la continuité, à l’intérieur d’un système guidé par une logique de privatisation : continuité du statut d’enfant et continuité des modes de socialisation familiales. Bien que le système chilien s’intéresse aux apprentissages, la première mission de l’éducation parvularia est de former des individus de façon globale (holistique), c'est-à-dire, en prenant en considération tous les domaines du développement de l’enfant. L’enfant est toujours considéré comme un sujet « enfant » avec d’importantes potentialités à développer, tant qu’il reste dans des ambiances éducatives de qualité. Le modèle français, fondamentalement public, est guidé par une logique de type républicaine, ou les domaines du social et du privé restent écartés, représente plutôt une rupture. La transformation de l’enfant en élève devient l’acquisition des modes scolaires de socialisation au détriment d’autres modes de socialisation, surtout familiales. La maternelle devient la première étape de la préparation pour arriver au niveau élémentaire. Pour cela l’enfant doit devenir écolier pour assurer un départ scolaire le plus réussi possible. Ce que nous a révélé cette thèse comparative est que, malgré la « mondialisation », de plusieurs domaines de la vie humaine, les valeurs et les principes qu’on veut garder et transmettre aux générations futures, ne sont pas toujours les mêmes. De ce fait, chaque système éducatif construit une représentation de la figure de l’enfant qui est issue d’une accumulation des divers facteurs qui s’ajoutent ou s’empilent : l’évolution historique des pays, les modèles socio-économiques, les courants pédagogiques en vogue, les intentions idéologiques associées à l’objectivation de la fonction du scolaire, la vision de la famille, l’importance de l’école, entre autres. La combinaison de ces variables, permet d’élaborer collectivement une mission éducative qui s’accorde avec une représentation de l’enfant particulier. / The goal of this research is to comprehend essential attributes of children’s representation in two specific preschool systems, that of Chile and France. To properly understand these attributes, we attempted a comparative approach to unearth the socio-historic evolution of preschool public policy, preschooler’s rationale and latent cultural traits, specific to each country. In this respect, educator’s discourse in each system accordingly reveals model purposes and intended child figure. Within a system lead by a privatization rationale, the Chilean model is based on continuity, that is, continuity of children status and family socialization trends. Although Chile’s system pursues learning outcomes, the primary mission of its preschool education is to develop individuals in a holistic fashion, that is, to take under consideration all child development domains. The child is at all times regarded as a subject with great potential to be developed, as long as he stays at a quality learning environment. The French model, essentially public, rather represents a rupture lead by a republican logic where the public and private domains remain a part. The child transformation into student comes from the acquisition of school socialization fashion to the disadvantage of other socializations alternatives, particularly familial. Preschool stands as the first stage of preparation to reach primary school. For that purpose the child must become a schoolchild to ensure a successful school life beginning. What this comparative thesis reveals is that, despite globalization of various domains of human life, the values and principles that we want to preserve and transmit to future generations are not always the same. Hence, each educational system elaborates a representation of the child from the accumulation of a diversity of factors: historic evolution of the country, the socioeconomic model, the pedagogic trends, ideological intentions associated with objectivation of educator’s function, beliefs about family, the importance of schooling, among others. The combination of these variables enables a collective elaboration of an educational mission in agreement with a particular representation of the child.

Thesis deals with the use of mediated learning experience in the focus on the communication skills of preschool children. Thesis follows up the theoretical knowledges of preschool education especially content of it and related to main documentes. Thesis describes the development of child in preschool age and describes the speech development and speech impairments. Thesis is focused on the mediated learning experience, its principles, goals and also on the theory of structural cognitive modifiability. In the last part of thesis is describede the program of Feuerstein instrumental enrichment, which is the main part of the research. The goal of thesis is to analysed the use of the Feuerstein instrumental enrichment program in the focus on development of preschool children's communication skills.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2018-06-04T12:29:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSSILENE MILHOMEM JARDIM COSTA.pdf: 1949139 bytes, checksum: 009b6742959cc303cdcc117998f11d29 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-04T12:29:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSSILENE MILHOMEM JARDIM COSTA.pdf: 1949139 bytes, checksum: 009b6742959cc303cdcc117998f11d29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-23 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas - PUC - Campinas / This research aims to reflect on development of pre-school children?s imagination and creativity using stop motion technique, with the historical-cultural approach as a theoretical reference. Based on this theoretical framework, the following specific objectives were outlined: (i) to reflect on the limits and potentialities of using the stop motion technique as a pedagogical practice in Preschool education; and (ii) to understand the relevance of such pedagogical practice which stimulates imagination and creativity in education. Aged five or six years old, thirty-two students at a pre-primary school in Indaitatuba took part in this research. The qualitative method was applied and, as outputs, stop motion animations were produced and organized in axes and sub-axes. The first axis refers to what and how did the children create with three sub-axes: quantitative analysis, predominance of reproduction/recombination, technique mastery. The second axis refers to role of the mediator with the sub-axes: models, reception and challenges of mediation. The results produced and analyzed showed that: 116 characters, both diverse and repeated among pairs, were created by the children; different scenarios were built and transformed by them with drawings, readymade images and modeling dough; stories were imagined and created, individually and in groups, and all students created stop motion animations by manipulating the technological tools available. Furthermore, from the analysis of the axes, propositions of models, the reception of the students? ideas, children?s autonomy and technique, as well as mediation dilemmas could be observed. Such aspects evidenced that the use of stop motion was relevant for the children as they loosened up, created, understood the proposal and displayed autonomy and creativity. Using such a technique also proved pertinent, as it is a practice that requires a creative process to imagine characters, stories and scenarios. The creative models provided by the adult ? in this case the researcher ? and the reception of the children?s ideas encouraged this creative dynamic and strongly contributed to the development of the imagination. Thus, this research brings its contribution to the understanding of children?s imaginative capacity and the many ways to develop them through innovative educational practices using technology. In addition, it supports teacher training programs regarding the poss ibility of works using the stop motion technique as a teaching- learning resource for students in preschool. / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo refletir sobre o desenvolvimento imaginativo e criativo de crian?as na Educa??o Infantil por meio do uso da t?cnica de stop motion, tendo como referencial te?rico a abordagem hist?rico-cultural. Com base nesse arcabou?o te?rico, foram delineados os seguintes objetivos espec?ficos: (i) refletir sobre os limites e as potencialidades do uso da t?cnica de stop motion como pr?tica pedag?gica na Educa??o Infantil; e (ii) entender a relev?ncia da pr?tica pedag?gica que estimule a imagina??o e a criatividade na Educa??o. Participaram da pesquisa 32 alunos, entre cinco e seis anos, de uma escola de Educa??o Infantil de Indaiatuba. O m?todo utilizado foi qualitativo e, como procedimentos, foram produzidas anima??es em stop motion. A pesquisa foi organizada em eixos e subeixos. O primeiro eixo se relacionou ao o que e como as crian?as criaram, tendo tr?s subeixos: an?lise quantitativa; predom?nio da reprodu??o/recombina??o; dom?nio da t?cnica. O segundo eixo tratou do papel do mediador, com os subeixos: modelos; acolhimento; e desafios da media??o. Os resultados produzidos e analisados indicaram que: as crian?as criaram 116 personagens diversificados e, tamb?m, repetidos entre os pares; foram constru?dos diversos cen?rios, transformados pelos estudantes com desenhos, imagens prontas e massa de modelar; as crian?as imaginaram e criaram hist?rias individuais e em conjunto e todos criaram anima??o em stop motion. A partir das an?lises dos eixos, foi poss?vel constatar: proposi??es de modelos; acolhimento das ideias dos alunos; t?cnica e autonomia das crian?as; dilemas da media??o. Tais aspectos evidenciaram que o uso do stop motion foi relevante para as crian?as, pois elas se soltaram, criaram, entenderam a proposta e tiveram autonomia e criatividade. Utilizar tal t?cnica tamb?m se mostrou pertinente por ser uma pr?tica que exige um processo criativo para imaginar personagens, hist?rias e cen?rios. Os modelos criativos proporcionados pelo adulto ? no caso, a pesquisadora ? e acolhimento das ideias das crian?as auxiliaram nessa din?mica criativa e contribu?ram fortemente para o desenvolvimento da imagina??o. Esta pesquisa traz, assim, contribui??es para a compreens?o sobre a capacidade imaginativa de crian?as e as m?ltiplas formas de desenvolv?- las por meio de pr?ticas educacionais inovadoras com o uso da tecnologia. Al?m disso, auxilia a forma??o de professores no que diz respeito ?s possibilidades de trabalhos com a t?cnica de stop motion como recurso de ensino-aprendizagem dos alunos na Educa??o Infantil.

The main topic of the Master's thesis are the possibilities of development of communication abilities during the preschool age through extracurricular activities. The research study is qualitative and its goal is to determine the effect of group speech therapy sessions on the communication abilities of children attending a mainstream preschool. The Master's thesis is divided into two parts - a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part provides basic information about the overall development of children from the time of birth until reaching school age. It describes the development of children's motor skills, the development of sensory perception (visual and auditory perception) and the development of communication abilities. Each part also contains information about the possibilities of stimulating the individual areas of development. The theoretical part also defines and describes impaired communication ability. The thesis deals in more detail with the types of impaired communication ability which occur frequently in population. Based on the research study, a description of impaired communication ability in hearing-impaired people is provided. The practical part consists of a qualitative research study. The goal of the study is to determine whether group speech therapy sessions affect...

Why does the implementation of policies for educational improvement often disappoint? The literature suggests that pitfalls in the formulation stage can hamper successful implementation. This research aims to develop insights into the process of policy formulation in order to establish how this may affect subsequent policy implementation using a case study of Pre-Primary Education in Bangladesh. Uniquely, I have been able to study the development of PPE policy when it was taking place since I was directly involved in the process as a professional advisor working for a donor. The first research question investigated how the pre-primary policy was formed. This had two parts in terms of i) developing understanding of the phases of policy formulation and the stakeholders involved, and ii) analysing the discourses that informed the policy. The second research question enquired into the development of the implementation strategy and its feasibility, and compared expectations with the data available on the characteristics and impact of the initial implementation. This enabled the identification of aspects of policy formulation that shape current and future implementation. Special attention was given to the development of policy that prioritised underprivileged children throughout the process, because of the extent of unequal provision and because this was a high profile goal for educational development. The analysis of policy development derived from relevant policy documents and keyinformant interviews highlighted charismatic and politicised approaches to educational reform, which lacked the involvement of beneficiaries and those tasked with implementation. This has consequences for subsequent impact and the sustainability of the new policy. The initial implementation was generally considered inadequate and uneven by the respondents. It reflected aspirational planning linked to the EFA goals, with ambitious aims to provide a "quantitative breakthrough" in access and attainment without a realistic assessment of the resources available and the capacity to mobilise them. When the implementation strategy was updated and included in the third national programme of primary education (PEDP III), a more phased and comprehensive approach to planning was introduced. However, reports on programme implementation have identified delays and difficulties in starting PEDP III, albeit improvements between year 1 and 2 have been noted. In particular, the implementation strategies identified were insufficiently detailed and different stakeholders' needs were not properly assessed. More equitable delivery to underprivileged children remains poorly articulated. Part of the reason appears to be diminished political will and inconsistent leadership. Finally, opportunities to collaborate with the NGO service providers have not been fully exploited and the implementation planning for PEDP III appeared to have relied excessively on external expertise, with implications for the ownership and continuity of the policy on pre-school. Based on these findings, suggestions are offered to the development partners, the Government and the NGOs to improve the integration of policy and implementation strategies to increase the probability of sustained improvements in Pre Primary provision.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:42:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Helena Pelizon.pdf: 1678746 bytes, checksum: 088b76a6282e0b0ce67b1fb655fd2db8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-13 / The teaching of science found in most Brazilian Primary and Preschools is characterized by low level science education. Teachers lack of deep knowledge of scientific concepts and the mechanical use of didactic guides, without deeper understanding of the field, result in unmeaning teaching for the children who loose the opportunity to acquire a good start in science education. This research analyses the contribution of science education workshops, The teaching of Science in an interdisciplinary approach developed in January and July of 2004 at the School of Education of the University of São Paulo, as part of a Teacher s Education Program (PEC- Formação Universitária) with the goal to help Primary and Preschool teachers to reflect upon and transform their ways of teaching Science. We want to found out the contributions of the workshops for their scientific education and for their work with the children in classroom. The research is a descriptive and analytical study developed in two phases: first, the development and analyses of the workshops and second, two case studies, one preschool teacher and one primary school teacher in their classrooms. The data collected and analyzed give evidence that there were important gains in teachers science education, related both to the acquisition of specific science knowledge, as also pedagogical teaching methods and approaches. On the other hand it also points out the need for public educational policies that include continuing education for teachers, pedagogical supervision and support for the development of collective team work in the schools, which are essential for each teacher to develop better ways of teaching. / O ensino de Ciências praticado pela maioria dos professores das séries iniciais do ensino fundamental e educação infantil de escolas públicas brasileiras tem-se caracterizado por uma prática escolar na qual a educação científica deixa muito a desejar. Muitas vezes, por insegurança ou por medo de não dominarem assuntos específicos das Ciências Naturais, os professores acabam lidando com informações e/ou conceitos que não entendem, presentes nos livros didáticos. Assim, passam a desenvolver um ensino de Ciências empobrecido e carente de atividades interessantes, prazerosas e significativas que contribua para a formação de um pensamento científico nas crianças. O que se observa é uma repetição de temas e atividades ao longo dos primeiros anos de escolaridade das crianças. Frente a este contexto, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo analisar as contribuições que a proposta desenvolvida na Oficina O ensino de Ciências numa abordagem interdisciplinar , ministradas durante as semanas presenciais de janeiro e julho de 2004, na Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo, como parte do Programa de Educação Continuada- Formação Universitária, trouxe para a formação científica e para a prática pedagógica de professores de educação infantil e das séries iniciais do ensino fundamental. A pesquisa caracteriza-se por ser um estudo descritivo analítico, de natureza qualitativa, realizada em duas etapas: a primeira o desenvolvimento e análise das Oficinas e a segunda, dois estudos de caso, um envolvendo uma professora de Educação Infantil e outro uma professora das séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Os dados da pesquisa mostram que houve aprendizagens dos professores tanto na aquisição de conhecimentos específicos da área, como em relação a conhecimentos pedagógicos necessários ao ensino. No entanto, a falta de políticas públicas de acompanhamento e continuidade da formação e a ausência de um trabalho coletivo nas unidades escolares desestimulam as professoras a se aventurarem numa proposta diferenciada, que acreditam, mas que, representa ousadia no contexto escolar.

The problem of this study was to identify teacher training principles which would aid day care teachers in integrating handicapped children into their classrooms. This was a descriptive study which utilized a questionnaire methodology. The questionnaire was administered to teachers of randomly selected day care centers in Tennessee. The sample size was 347. The questionnaire identified from the literature review was the Stages of Concern Questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed to identify concerns of individuals toward an innovation. The instrument was modified to be used in identifying the concerns of day care teachers toward mainstreaming young handicapped children into day care centers. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data obtained from 105 respondents to the 35-item questionnaire. Analysis of the data collected to answer the research questions revealed the following: The educational and training background of teachers involved in mainstreaming should be developmentally oriented. From a developmental base day care teachers can make the transition from teaching normally developing children to teaching an integrated classroom by mastering five additional topics: assessment techniques, systematic planning techniques, knowledge about developmental exceptionalities, knowledge and teaching skills related to the promotion of positive social interaction of children, and an understanding of the additional job demands of an integrated classroom. The concerns of individuals tend to be developmental and tend to move from self concerns (Stages 0, 1, 2) to task concerns (Stage 3) to impact concerns (Stages 4, 5, 6). The movement through the stages of concern can be facilitated but not forced. The person(s) planning the interventions or training must plan training that helps resolve existing concerns while facilitating the individual(s)' move to the next stage of concern (Hord, Rutherford, Huling-Austin, & Hall, 1987). Teacher training principles were designed using the findings obtained from the questionnaire. The mainstream topics suggested by the review of literature necessary for teachers of integrated classrooms were cross-tabulated with the intervention strategies suggested by the stages of most intense concerns. The suggestions obtained from the review of literature related to the format of adult inservice training were considered as factors in the presentation of the intervention strategies. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)