Esta dissertação teve como objetivo compreender de que modo os/as professores/as especialistas de Educação Física constituem seu trabalho docente no I ciclo em duas Escolas da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Porto Alegre. Nessa investigação, de corte qualitativo com desenho teórico-metodológico etnográfico, constituíram-se como fontes de pesquisa documentos oficiais das escolas, anotações no diário de campo das recordações da observação participante e transcrição das entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com os/as docentes de Educação Física. As discussões estão ancoradas na perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais, sob uma abordagem pós-estruturalista, em especial naquelas que se inspiram nas ideias de Michel Foucault. A partir disso, no primeiro capítulo analítico, abordou-se a cultura docente, tratando das rotinas, das crenças, das práticas, e das relações entre os/as docentes que compõem o I ciclo. As discussões desse capítulo partiram de retóricas enunciadas nos contextos estudados, em especial, foi problematizado o termo “os pequenos”, que circula em ambas as escolas para referir-se às/aos estudantes do I ciclo. A incidência dessa expressão parece estar atrelada às idealizações sobre a infância, as quais, por sua vez, constituem também crenças e práticas em relação à docência com “os pequenos”, tais como: educar com amor, ser firme, elaborar diferentes atividades festivas. Nesse contexto, trabalhar com “os pequenos” implica “se virar nos 30’’” No segundo capítulo analítico, foram discutidas questões relacionadas às finalidades propostas no I ciclo. Problematizei a forte cobrança externa às escolas para desenvolvimento da alfabetização no I ciclo e o quanto isso se atravessa na legitimidade dos demais componentes curriculares, postos em menor relevância perante a necessidade de promover a alfabetização em um espaço-tempo determinado. Nesse ciclo alfabetizador, o entendimento da Educação Física que parece ser mais legitimado, nas escolas pesquisadas, pauta-se nas vertentes psicomotoras e desenvolvimentistas. Com esse percurso de discussões, essas questões podem dar pistas para compreensão de como se constitui a docência do/a professor/a especialista de Educação Física, que parece estar atravessada por um entrecruzamento de discursos que circulam na cultura escolar, sobretudo nas discursividades relacionadas à infância. Ao sinalizar certas verdades que foram sendo produzidas em relação à docência no I ciclo e seus efeitos de verdade, é possível pensar em linhas de fuga; novos modos de ver, pensar e se posicionar como docente no I ciclo com os/as “pequenos”. / This study aims to understand how the specialized Physical Education (PE) teachers form their teaching work in the 1st cycle in two schools of the municipal education system of Porto Alegre. In this investigation, a qualitative research with an ethnographic theoretical and methodological approach, the research sources were the official documents of the schools; notes taken in the field diary about the remembrances of the participant observation; transcription of the semi-structured interviews held with the PE teachers. The discussions are rooted in the cultural studies perspective, under a post-structuralist approach, mainly under the approaches inspired by the ideas of Michel Foucault. Based on that, in the first analytic chapter, the teaching culture about the routines, the beliefs, the practices, and the relations between the teachers that form the 1st cycle. The discussions on this chapter were based on stated rhetorical, especially questioning the term “the kids”, used on both schools to refer to the students of the 1st cycle. The occurrence of this expression seems to be linked to the idealization of the childhood, what also constitutes beliefs and practices related to the “kids” education, such as: educate with love, be strict, elaborate different festive activities. In this context, working with the “kid” implicate to “find a way to make it” In the second analytic chapter, questions related to the purposes of the 1st cycle were discussed. I questioned the strong external demand on schools to the development of the literacy in the 1st cycle and how this crosses the legitimacy on the other curricular components, that are set in lower relevance over the necessity to promote literacy in a determined area-period. In this literacy cycle, the understand of the PE that seems most legitimate, in the researched schools, is based on the psychomotor and developmental slopes. With this path of discussions, this question may give hints to understand how the teaching work of the PE teacher, that seems to be crossed by an intersection of speeches that are stated in the scholar culture, especially on the discourses related to the childhood. When indicated that certain truths were being produced about the teaching work on the 1st cycle and their truly effects, it is possible to think in escape routes; innovative ways to look at, to think and to place oneself as a teacher in the 1st cycle with the “kids”.

Computadores impactam em quase todos os aspectos de nossas vidas, porém as escolas não conseguem acompanhar esse caminho sem volta. A simples utilização massiva de aparatos tecnológicos na sala de aula não garante a melhoria do ensino, porém pode ser o meio pelo qual os estudantes encontram alternativas para a solução de problemas complexos. O Pensamento Computacional é uma abordagem de ensino que usa diversas técnicas oriundas da Ciência da Computação e vem gerando um novo foco educacional no quesito inovação nas escolas mundiais como um conjunto de competências de solução de problemas que devem ser compreendidos por uma nova geração de estudantes em conjunto com as novas competências do século 21 (i.e., pensamento crítico, colaboração, etc.). Até o momento, não há um consenso de metodologia de ensino e disponibilidade de material para atender as expectativas dos professores. Para auxiliar sanar essa incerteza, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo a verificação da possibilidade de desenvolver o Pensamento Computacional na Educação Básica utilizando exclusivamente atividades desplugadas (sem o uso de computadores) em estudantes da educação primária para que crianças em regiões/escolas onde não há computadores/dispositivos eletrônicos, Internet e até mesmo energia elétrica também possam se beneficiar desse método. Os resultados obtidos através de uma abordagem Quase-Experimental em escolas Espanholas e Brasileiras, apresentam dados estatísticos que apontam uma melhoria significativa no desempenho dos estudantes que tiveram atividades de Pensamento Computacional Desplugado em ambos os países. / Computational thinking is nowadays being widely adopted and investigated. Educators and researchers are using two main approaches to teach these skills in schools: with computer programming exercises, and with unplugged activities that do not require the use of digital devices or any kind of specific hardware. While the former is the mainstream approach, the latter is especially important for schools that do not count with proper technology resources, Internet connections or even electrical power. However, there is a lack of investigations that prove the effectiveness of the unplugged activities in the development of computational thinking skills, particularly in primary schools. This paper, which summarizes a quasi-experiment carried out in two primary schools in Spain and Brazil, tries to shed some light on this regard. The results show that students in the experimental groups, who took part in the unplugged activities, enhanced their computational thinking skills significantly more than their peers in the control groups who did not participate during the classes, proving that the unplugged approach is effective for the development of this ability.

Syftet med denna intervjustudie är att analysera och problematisera lärares uppfattningar om det didaktiskt orienterade arbetet och övriga inverkansfaktorer som enligt tidigare forskning kan ha betydelse för livsfrågeundervisningen. Insamlingen av det vetenskapliga materialet har utförts genom intervjuer med utbildade, verksamma lärare i årskurs f-3. Materialet har analyserats och senare problematiserats utifrån innehållsanalys och ämnesdidaktisk teori. De centrala fynd som framkommit är att livsfrågor uppkommer spontant i samtliga ämnen i skolan vilket leder till att spontanitet har framträtt som ett viktigt förhållande som ifrågasätter livsfrågors placering inom religionsämnet i den svenska läroplanen. Ytterligare ett fynd är att vissa inverkansfaktorer har stor betydelse för livsfrågeundervisningen medan andra faktorer har mindre betydelse än vad äldre forskningsresultat tidigare har visat. De faktorer som fokuseras i studiens slutdiskussion är världshändelser, exempelvis krig, lärarnas utbildningsbakgrund och lärares osäkerhet i förhållande till livsfrågor. Avslutningsvis belyser vi vad ett optimalt arbetssätt kan vara utifrån slutsatser av studiens resultat vilket även synliggör ett behov av vidare forskning.

This thesis explores children's and teachers' perspectives on creativity, and its implementation, within one primary school classroom in Scotland. The data collection phase of the research employed an ethnographic approach, involving four and a half months of fieldwork in the primary school classroom. Data were generated from participant observation/informal conversations with children and teachers and one round of semi-structured interviews with twenty-five children (aged eleven to twelve) and two teachers. Creativity within primary education has been mainly studied through psychological research, which is mainly based on theories of developmental psychology. Such theories view creativity solely as an individual trait. Despite recognition of the importance of sociocultural issues to the flourishing of children's creativity, the study of their collaborative creativity has been neglected - particularly in relation to socio-cultural power dynamics. This thesis specifically analyses the balance between individual and collective creativity in the primary classroom, examines how collaborative creativity can acknowledge childhood diversity, and poses questions about how we include children with differing and complex identities in creative processes. Furthermore, this research has been carried out in Scotland, within the context of a fairly new curriculum, the Curriculum for Excellence. This curriculum has been viewed by some as a progressive, modern and motivating curriculum that enables children's autonomy, and by others as one that has been highly influenced by accountability and performativity regimes, which leave limited space for children's and teachers' autonomy. This thesis examines how the Curriculum for Excellence is interpreted in everyday practice and the extent to which it enables the cultivation of children's creativity. The thesis does so by shedding light on the practical interconnections between children's and teachers' agency, structural enablers/barriers, and cultural processes. The findings of this study show that children perceive, perform and embody creativity not only as an individual trait, but also as a collaborative process. However, the findings also show that collaborative creativity entails many complexities and that cultural barriers to creativity may emerge when power among people (children and teachers) operates in ways that create cultures of exclusion. The thesis concludes that the multiple identities of the Curriculum for Excellence, its multiple interpretations, and lack of coherence regarding what is expected of teachers, leads to a blurred landscape of implementation. The thesis argues that lack of a clear plan, strategy and framework for enabling creativity inhibits the founding principles of the Curriculum for Excellence from being achieved. The thesis also argues that environmental and structural barriers within the research setting inhibit the flourishing of children's creativity, but that the structural barriers can sometimes be overcome through the construction of enabling cultures. The thesis is able to define enabling cultures as cultures that value diversity, promote inclusion, and view space not as static, but as a dynamic process. In so doing, the findings of this study emphasise the interconnected importance of: viewing creativity as an individual trait; perceiving creativity as a collaborative process; and thinking in spatial terms, for example, in ways that create the space for children to perceive, perform and embody creativity in their diverse, but equally valuable ways. This finding enables this study to argue that there is a need for future policies and curricula which promote and encourage greater flexibility in teaching and learning practices, in order to enhance children's and teachers' agency and thus allow them to collaboratively create the types of enabling environments, originally envisaged by the Curriculum for Excellence, that will allow children's creativity to flourish.

Notre thèse étudie les actions didactiques menées dans des classes de fin d'école élémentaire dans le cadre de l'apprentissage de l'anglais, avec pour focale particulière la manière dont s'articulent les dimensions linguistique et culturelle. Nos outils théoriques s'appuient largement sur la Théorie de l’Action conjointe en Didactique. Nous convoquons également des notions développées en didactique des langues-cultures. Pour nos analyses, nous étudions des extraits de transcriptions de séances d'anglais filmées, ayant eu lieu dans des classes « ordinaires » et dans une classe travaillant en visioconférence. Dans nos analyses, nous observons particulièrement la façon dont les jeux d’apprentissage et l’équilibration contrat-milieu sont mis en oeuvre afin de permettre la construction du savoir en jeu par les élèves, ainsi que la contribution que peut apporter à ces analyses la notion de jeu épistémique source. Nous analysons également un questionnaire renseigné par 108 Professeurs des Écoles. Ce travail porte particulièrement sur l'analyse de questions-scénarios, qui constituent des exemples de déroulement de séances de langue auxquels les professeurs devaient indiquer leur degré de proximité. Nous croisons les constats obtenus entre nos analyses de séances et celle duquestionnaire, et nous les prolongeons par un travail d'ingénierie didactique coopérative, au cours duquel nous cherchons à faire se confronter des élèves à une oeuvre culturelle, le roman « Fantastique Maître Renard » de Roald Dahl (1974). Pour terminer, nous présentons nos perspectives d'approfondissement de ce travail d'ingénierie, en particulier dans le cadre de la formation des Professeurs des Écoles / The aim of our research is to describe and characterize didactic situations implemented to teach and learn English as a second language in primary French classes. We particularly focus on how linguistic and cultural dimensions are connected. Our theoretical framework mainly refers to the Joint Action Theory in Didactics. We also use theoretical tools that have been developed in the didactics of foreign languages and cultures. To do so, we conduct an analysis of English lessons that have been transcripted from videi recordings. These lessons take place in « ordinary » classes and in a class using a videoconferencing system. In our empirical studies, we particularly study how the learning games and the equilibration between the contract and the milieu are implemented in order to make students build knowledge, and we examine how the notion of epistemic game can contribute to our analyses. We also analyse a questionnaire that 108 primary school teachers have filled in. We particularly focus on the analysis of scenarios of teachers’ practice, in reference to which they had to situate their own practices. We bring together the observation emerging from our analyses of the lessons and of the questionnaire, and make use of these results to design of a teaching unit in collaboration with teachers,whose aim is to make students encounter a cultural piece, Roald Dahl's novel « Fantastic Mr Fox » (1974). As a conclusion, we expose our perspectives in order to re-design more thoroughly our teaching unit, in relation with the primary school teachers' training curriculum

Sport activites and their impact on the psychological resilience of a primary school age child The work is focused on the study of the relationship between the psychological resistance and the top dance sport. The aim of this paper is to verify whether is the psychological resilience in children of a primarys school age positively influenced by the top dance sport. In the theoretical part are described possible approaches to psychological resistance. Chapters ares dedicated to its definition and a list of potential diagnostic measuring methods. The study describes the relationship of sport and psychological resilience, which is based on those studies illustrated the positive impact of sport. Attention is also paid to the theoretical interpretation of the relationship of sport and children. For research are used: Mirror drawing test and questionnaires. The research confirmed the assumption that a higher resistance rate is witnessed in case of top athletes children than in the control group children. In the characteristics as adaptability - maladaptability. Higher level of resistance was confirmed when comparing the questionnaire "Self-efficacy to regulate exercise" and "Children's self-efficacy scale". Key words: psychological resiliency, primary school age child, self-efficacy, sport

A tese A escola primária no Estado do Pará (1920- 1940) analisa a cultura da escola primária no Brasil, e em particular no Estado do Pará, local de interesse central desse estudo. Para isso, foi necessário a identificação do quadro social, político, cultural e econômico da sociedade brasileira em geral e, de modo mais particular, da sociedade paraense no desenrolar dessas décadas. A partir do conceito de cultura escolar desenvolvido por Dominique Julia, descrito como um conjunto de normas que definem conhecimentos a ensinar, condutas a inculcar e práticas que permitem a transmissão desses conhecimentos e a incorporação desses comportamentos, a tese analisa as normas e legislações para a educação primária; os saberes, gerais e específicos, ministrados aos alunos nas diferentes escolas primárias em diferentes localizações espaciais das cidades e vilarejos paraenses; a formação do professor primário, agente responsável em utilizar dispositivos pedagógicos para facilitar a aquisição de conhecimentos e habilidades, entre eles os rituais e as comemorações cívicas na escola primária, elementos de apoio na formação dos conceitos de nacionalidade e de civilidade. As fontes utilizadas para o trabalho foram: relatórios e mensagens dos governadores, decretos, atestados, minutas de portaria da Instrução Pública, ofícios e petições da Secretaria de Educação e Saúde Pública, jornais de circulação diária e o periódico pedagógico Escola revista do professorado do Pará. / The primary school in Pará (1920-1940) wham is thesis locus the primary school culture in Brazil, especially in Pará. Since Pará is the main place for this study. For this study, the social, political, cultural and economical aspects were analyzed to help us identify what it was going on the paraense society. The thesis analyses the rules and laws in primary school, the general and specific knowledge, taught to student in different cities and small villages in Pará. It also talks about the primary teacher curriculum, since he/she is in charge of using, the pedagogical devices to facilitate the knowledge and abilities acquisition. As part of this acquisition civic celebrations and rituals are considered essential in the concepts of nationality and civil rights. There were several sources for this research such as newspapers, government decrees, a specific magazine named School, certificates, government messages, education secretary petitions and so on. All this was done through the concept de school culture by Dominique Julia that describes rules that define behaviors and practices to be incorporated by students.

In recent years substantial investment has been made to replace or refurbish state schools in England and Wales and, although research has unsuccessfully sought to prove its contribution, the discipline of Design continues to be identified as a facilitator of educational transformation. Results to date, however, are mixed and there is an evident failing at the design briefing stage to understand how children interact with their educational settings and, notably, an avoidance of direct challenge to the primary school classroom and its practice. In response, this thesis asks how the social and cultural study of children’s relationships with their physical school can suggest a meaningful approach to primary school architecture and furniture design. A model of well-being is developed to clarify misused terminology and to present a realistic expectation of design in which the contradictory goals of inclusion and the development of the individual are appraised. Sitting within a diverse grounded methodology, the concept of belonging is then explored as a basis for evaluating the contribution of different aspects of the physical school to children’s well-being. The primary school environments studied were found to limit the possibilities of a child’s well-being. School architecture through to classroom wall displays were complicit in restricting physical and social expression in favour of school organisation and, furthermore, the central child-teacher relationship was found to be unnecessarily devalued by behavioural concerns derived from the setting. By ethically interpreting the rich variety of children’s voices, priorities for what is coined here as child-teacher centred design are established and a clear relationship between architecture and furniture is offered. The thesis recommends that architecture continues to perform a protective classroom role to support objectives of inclusion whilst school furniture supports more affective, individualistic goals through less prescriptive and more varied settings for learning.

Thesis (M.A. (Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2004. / The purpose of this study was to investigate whether poor motor skills are associated with ADHD. Afrikaans speaking primary school children were screened for ADHD with the Disruptive Behaviour Disorder scale (DBD). They were matched for gender and age with a normal group without ADHD symptoms. The children (31 ADHD and 31 Controls) were assessed for fine motor skills on three instruments: the Grooved pegboard, Maze co­ ordination and Finger tapping tests. To some degree all three tests of fine motor skills revealed poorer performances in the ADHD group than in the normal group. The finger­ tapping test showed the least discrimination between the groups. The girls performed significantly poorer on all tests. There were statistically significant effects of hand dominance. Results show that tests for fine motor skills discriminate between children with ADHD and normal comparisons. These results appear to support the hypothesis that poor motor skills are associated with ADHD.

This study examines what motivates language teachers in primary school to use ICT and what attitudes they have towards ICT. Six teachers working in four different Swedish primary schools between the first and third grade were interviewed. The teachers actively used some kind of ICT resource during their English lessons. The study showed that external factors such as requirements from the school and local school authorities motivate teachers to work more actively with ICT. These external motivators can influence the teacher’s perception and use of ICT in both positive and negative ways. When it comes to internal factors that affect the teachers’ motivation to use ICT in English, the most important factor is whether they consider ICT tools to be a positive addition to their teaching and whether a good balance between digital and traditional tools can be achieved to accommodate every student’s need.