Thesis (Ph. D.)--Auburn University. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-202).

Thesis (D.P.E.)--Springfield College, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (D.P.E.)--Springfield College, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Idaho, March 8, 2006. / Major professor: James A. Gregson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-106). Also available online in PDF format.

A Educação Profissional é uma modalidade de ensino intimamente atrelada à inserção dos indivíduos no mundo trabalho, uma vez que tem como premissa a sua relação entre educação e trabalho. Este estudo teve como objetivo caracterizar a evasão escolar nos cursos subsequentes do Colégio Estadual de Pato Branco (CEPB) através da realização de um diagnóstico sobre o fluxo de matrículas nos cursos e a mensuração dos índices de evasão identificados neles no período compreendido entre os anos de 2007 a 2012, bem como buscar identificar quais os seus fatores causadores. Para tanto a pesquisa foi dividida em duas fases, a primeira de caráter quantitativo em que foram analisados relatórios escolares da instituição para coleta de dados e mensuração do fluxo de matrículas e cálculos dos índices de evasão e a segunda fase de caráter qualitativo através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas para a identificação dos possíveis fatores que contribuem para a ocorrência do abandono escolar. Identificou-se que os cursos técnicos subsequentes do CEPB registraram índices elevados de evasão no período de 2007 a 2012, sendo que os maiores valores estão relacionados com os cursos de Técnico em Administração e Técnico em Informática, sendo que o primeiro período do curso onde são registrados os maiores índices de abandono. Identificou-se também que a evasão nos cursos subsequentes se manifesta de forma complexa e resulta de uma correlação entre diversos elementos, sendo os sociais e econômicos os mais relevantes na decisão do aluno em abandonar o curso de formação profissional. / The Professional Education is an area of teaching deeply interrelated to the insertion of the individuals in the world of work once under the premise of their relationship between education and work. This study aimed to depict the school evasion in the subsequent courses of Colégio Estadual de Pato Branco ( CEPB) through the realization of a diagnosis about the flow of the enrolments in the courses and the measure of the identified indices of evasion in the period between 2007 to 2012, as well as to identify what are the factors that are causing that. For that, the research was divided in two different stages, the first as a quantitative one which comprehended to analyze the school institution reports in order to collect data and measure the enrolments flow and the calculation of the evasion indices, and the second one as a qualitative research through semi structures interviews in order to identify the possible factors that contribute to the school dropouts. It was identified that the CEPB technical subsequent courses registered high level of evasion during the period of 2007 and 2012, considering that the highest levels were on the Administration and Informatics Technic courses and, the first years of courses have the highest levels of evasions. It was also identified that the dropouts in the subsequent courses show complexity and results of a correlation of several elements being the social and economics the most relevant for the decision of abandoning the professional education course.

Introduction: Students with disabilities are underrepresented in post-secondary education, including health professional programs. They experience higher rates of attrition and lower rates of graduation compared to their non-disabled peers. Some research indicates that educators engage in ableist practices preventing students with disabilities from successfully completing these programs. Educators report difficulty meeting the myriad of professional and educational expectations in professional programs. Rehabilitation professions provide a unique opportunity for research given their emphasis on participation and inclusion. Purpose: The purpose of this program of research was to explore the educator perspective in the accommodation of students with disabilities in professional rehabilitation programs. Method: There are three studies that constitute this thesis. The first study is a critical discourse analysis in which the most relevant texts in the accommodation process were examined. The second study is an institutional ethnography informed study, whereby university-based educators were interviewed about their actions in the accommodation process of students with disabilities. The final study is an interpretive description that involved interviews with fieldwork educators who provide disability-related accommodations to students in their work settings. Findings: The texts involved in the accommodation process revealed varied and conflicting discourses and subject positions for educators in rehabilitation programs. University-based educators identified tensions reconciling the focus on students in the post-secondary education context with the focus on clients in the healthcare context, for which they were preparing students. However, fieldwork educators were generally at ease with the accommodation process as they integrated accommodations into the broader goal of learning. Implications: This body of work provides insight into the reasons why educators may struggle with the accommodation process in professional rehabilitation programs. It also identifies potential solutions for educational programs and future directions for research. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Students with disabilities experience difficulty entering and graduating from health professional programs, including rehabilitation. This group of students face challenges in meeting all the requirements for their programs. Through three discrete studies, this thesis explores educators’ perspectives on the accommodation process of students with disabilities. The first study demonstrated that the most relevant documents to the accommodation process require educators to take on conflicting roles. The second study showed that university-based educators struggle with the focus on students at the university, which seemed to be prioritized over the focus on clients in healthcare, the context for which educators prepare students. The final study illustrated that fieldwork educators did not experience these struggles. Rather, they accommodated students as part of the students’ learning journey. These studies help explain why educators may have difficulty with the accommodation process of students with disabilities and offer solutions for educational programs and future research.

<p dir="ltr">This study investigated the impact of simulation training on the development of intercultural competence (IC) through the VR and 360-video platforms. The comparisons were conducted between the two platforms in terms of their impact on training experience and effectiveness. Training experience included affective and cognitive experience. Training effectiveness included training reactions, training outcomes, and training impacts. Moreover, some influencing factors that affect the training experience and outcomes, such as individual and training platform characteristics, were examined.</p><p dir="ltr">The sample for this study consisted of 198 university students, with 99 in the VR and 99 in the 360-video group. Data were collected through self-reported questionnaires, self-reflective open-ended responses, biometric data collected during training intervention, and interviews. An integrated evaluation model incorporating quantitative, qualitative, and biometric methods was employed to assess training experiences and effectiveness. The influences of trainee and training platform characteristics were examined through path analyses.</p><p dir="ltr">Overall, the findings revealed several significant differences between the VR and 360-video platforms in IC development. The main significant differences exist in training outcomes and affective training experience. Participants in the 360-video group reported greater changes in IC components (e.g., cognition, attitude, behavior), while VR simulation training provides a more affective training experience, particularly in engagement and emotional arousal. Mediation analyses explored the influence of trainee and platform characteristics on training outcomes through affective and cognitive experiences. The thematic analysis of the interviews provided an in-depth understanding of trainees’ perceptions of simulation training.</p><p dir="ltr">The study contributes to the understanding of VR and 360-video as effective tools in IC development and provides a number of implications for the researchers and T&D practitioners.</p>

Esta pesquisa teve como finalidade conhecer o trabalho docente dos professores de formação técnica que atuam na educação profissional e tecnológica (EPT) oferecida nos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia sob a perspectiva do conceito de atividade oriundo da Psicologia Histórico-cultural, da Teoria da Atividade e da Clínica da Atividade. O objetivo geral é analisar a atividade do professor de formação técnica em Informática que atua na educação profissional e tecnológica. Os objetivos específicos são: conhecer as trajetórias profissionais e formativas dos docentes de formação técnica em Informática que atuam na educação profissional e tecnológica e que serão os interlocutores da pesquisa; compreender quais articulações estes professores fazem entre as experiências que vivenciaram como profissionais de suas áreas de formação inicial e as demandas da docência na educação profissional e tecnológica; identificar quais as prescrições e a presença delas na atividade destes professores; e explorar o significado e o sentido pessoal do trabalho docente para os interlocutores da pesquisa. A Clínica da Atividade foi utilizada como aporte teórico e como método e as informações foram produzidas através de instrução ao sósia, autoconfrontações simples e cruzadas, observação participante e entrevistas intensivas. Participaram da pesquisa dois docentes da área de Informática que atuam em câmpus de dois institutos federais do Rio Grande do Sul. Depois da realização de todas as etapas que constituíram a pesquisa, a tese construída é que os docentes pesquisados realizam uma atividade de ensino voltada para a orientação e preparação profissional que visa que os alunos se apropriem do acúmulo de cultura de área de Informática e possam exercer essa profissão. Os docentes agem através dos gêneros profissionais da docência e do campo de atuação em Informática e há indícios que demonstram que estes docentes produzem um novo gênero profissional ao qual imprimem os seus estilos. Esse novo gênero não é a negação de nenhum dos gêneros profissionais nos quais os docentes se movimentam, mas, sim, a confluência deles na criação de uma nova atividade real que assume as prescrições de ambas, encadeando-as, cruzando-as e equilibrando-as. Nessa atividade, os docentes esbarram em duas grandes questões que compõem o real da atividade: a dificuldade de adaptar o ensino de uma profissão aos tempos escolares e o desconhecimento de outras formas de ensinar pautadas mais na promoção de atividades de estudo aos alunos e menos em tarefas de reprodução do fazer do professor. Conhecer a atividade dos professores a partir da Clínica da Atividade pode colaborar com a construção de formações iniciais e continuadas que respeitem as especificidades da docência na educação profissional e promovam o aumento do poder de agir dos docentes diante de seu próprio trabalho. / This research aimed to know the work of the technical training of teachers who work in professional and technological educational (PTE) offered in the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology under the perspective of the concept of activity originating from the Cultural-historical Psychology of Activity Theory and Activity Clinic. The general objective is to analyze the activity of the teacher that has technical training engaged in professional and technological education. The specific objectives are: to know the professionals and formative trajectories of the technical teachers training in Information Technology that work in professional and technological education and who will be the interlocutors of the research; to understand what interligations these teachers make between the experiences that lived as professionals in their areas of initial training and the demands of teaching in professional and technological educational; to identify the prescriptions and their presence in the activity of these teachers; and explore the meaning and personal sense of the teaching work to the interlocutors of the research. The Activity Clinic was used as a theoretical and methodological contribution and the information was produced through instruction to the look-alike, simple and crossed self-confrontations, participant observation and intensive interviews. Participated in the research two teachers of Information Technology area that work on campus of two federal institutes of Rio Grande do Sul. After the completion of all the steps that constitute the research, the built thesis is that the researched teachers perform a focused education activity for orientation and professional training that aims to students to take as of the culture of Computer Science area and to exercise this profession.The teachers act through the professional genres of teaching and of the field of action in Informatics and there are indications that show that these teachers produce a new professional type to which they imprint their styles. This new genre is not the denial of any of the professional genres in which teachers move, but rather the confluence of them in the creation of a new real activity that assumes the prescriptions of both, chaining them, crossing them and balancing them. In this activity, the teachers have two issues constitute the real activity: the difficulty of adapting teaching a profession to school organization and the lack of knowledge of other forms of teaching focused on the promotion the studying activities and less on the reproductions of the teacher’s act. Know the teachers activity from the Activity Clinic can collaborates with building of the initial and continued education that respect the characteristics of teaching in professional and technological educational and increase the teachers’ power to act in their own work space.

Esta pesquisa teve como finalidade conhecer o trabalho docente dos professores de formação técnica que atuam na educação profissional e tecnológica (EPT) oferecida nos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia sob a perspectiva do conceito de atividade oriundo da Psicologia Histórico-cultural, da Teoria da Atividade e da Clínica da Atividade. O objetivo geral é analisar a atividade do professor de formação técnica em Informática que atua na educação profissional e tecnológica. Os objetivos específicos são: conhecer as trajetórias profissionais e formativas dos docentes de formação técnica em Informática que atuam na educação profissional e tecnológica e que serão os interlocutores da pesquisa; compreender quais articulações estes professores fazem entre as experiências que vivenciaram como profissionais de suas áreas de formação inicial e as demandas da docência na educação profissional e tecnológica; identificar quais as prescrições e a presença delas na atividade destes professores; e explorar o significado e o sentido pessoal do trabalho docente para os interlocutores da pesquisa. A Clínica da Atividade foi utilizada como aporte teórico e como método e as informações foram produzidas através de instrução ao sósia, autoconfrontações simples e cruzadas, observação participante e entrevistas intensivas. Participaram da pesquisa dois docentes da área de Informática que atuam em câmpus de dois institutos federais do Rio Grande do Sul. Depois da realização de todas as etapas que constituíram a pesquisa, a tese construída é que os docentes pesquisados realizam uma atividade de ensino voltada para a orientação e preparação profissional que visa que os alunos se apropriem do acúmulo de cultura de área de Informática e possam exercer essa profissão. Os docentes agem através dos gêneros profissionais da docência e do campo de atuação em Informática e há indícios que demonstram que estes docentes produzem um novo gênero profissional ao qual imprimem os seus estilos. Esse novo gênero não é a negação de nenhum dos gêneros profissionais nos quais os docentes se movimentam, mas, sim, a confluência deles na criação de uma nova atividade real que assume as prescrições de ambas, encadeando-as, cruzando-as e equilibrando-as. Nessa atividade, os docentes esbarram em duas grandes questões que compõem o real da atividade: a dificuldade de adaptar o ensino de uma profissão aos tempos escolares e o desconhecimento de outras formas de ensinar pautadas mais na promoção de atividades de estudo aos alunos e menos em tarefas de reprodução do fazer do professor. Conhecer a atividade dos professores a partir da Clínica da Atividade pode colaborar com a construção de formações iniciais e continuadas que respeitem as especificidades da docência na educação profissional e promovam o aumento do poder de agir dos docentes diante de seu próprio trabalho. / This research aimed to know the work of the technical training of teachers who work in professional and technological educational (PTE) offered in the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology under the perspective of the concept of activity originating from the Cultural-historical Psychology of Activity Theory and Activity Clinic. The general objective is to analyze the activity of the teacher that has technical training engaged in professional and technological education. The specific objectives are: to know the professionals and formative trajectories of the technical teachers training in Information Technology that work in professional and technological education and who will be the interlocutors of the research; to understand what interligations these teachers make between the experiences that lived as professionals in their areas of initial training and the demands of teaching in professional and technological educational; to identify the prescriptions and their presence in the activity of these teachers; and explore the meaning and personal sense of the teaching work to the interlocutors of the research. The Activity Clinic was used as a theoretical and methodological contribution and the information was produced through instruction to the look-alike, simple and crossed self-confrontations, participant observation and intensive interviews. Participated in the research two teachers of Information Technology area that work on campus of two federal institutes of Rio Grande do Sul. After the completion of all the steps that constitute the research, the built thesis is that the researched teachers perform a focused education activity for orientation and professional training that aims to students to take as of the culture of Computer Science area and to exercise this profession.The teachers act through the professional genres of teaching and of the field of action in Informatics and there are indications that show that these teachers produce a new professional type to which they imprint their styles. This new genre is not the denial of any of the professional genres in which teachers move, but rather the confluence of them in the creation of a new real activity that assumes the prescriptions of both, chaining them, crossing them and balancing them. In this activity, the teachers have two issues constitute the real activity: the difficulty of adapting teaching a profession to school organization and the lack of knowledge of other forms of teaching focused on the promotion the studying activities and less on the reproductions of the teacher’s act. Know the teachers activity from the Activity Clinic can collaborates with building of the initial and continued education that respect the characteristics of teaching in professional and technological educational and increase the teachers’ power to act in their own work space.

BRAUN, Maria do Socorro de Assis. Cursos e percursos da educação profissional na escola da rede federal do Ceará de (1960 - 1980). 2015. 312f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2015. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-17T11:56:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_tese_msabraun.pdf: 3914379 bytes, checksum: d3c4c97722eae2e6bb67fa58233f556b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-17T11:57:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_tese_msabraun.pdf: 3914379 bytes, checksum: d3c4c97722eae2e6bb67fa58233f556b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-17T11:57:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_tese_msabraun.pdf: 3914379 bytes, checksum: d3c4c97722eae2e6bb67fa58233f556b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Between the decades from 1960 to 1980, Brazil experienced political, economic and social change, with a project that was part of planned interventions by the state to promote growth and strengthen the country. In this context, the aim of this study was to describe the changes in the routes of the Federal Network of Ceará in Fortaleza, between 1960 and 1980 to understand the contexts that influenced the courses of vocational education at this school. In this sense, vocational education in Ceará had the Vocational Schools Federal Network, established by Decree 7,566 / 1910 by President Nilo Peçanha, as School for Craftsmen to "enable children from disadvantaged fortune." However, society has changed, no longer land to become urban, as a government project of Getúlio Vargas to stimulate domestic consumer market and promote the development of industrial production. In this context, to meet the start-ups with skilled labor, there was the need for worker training, so that it could take the jobs that arose. It was in this period that the government organized vocational education, migrating the main concern of care for abandoned children, to prepare workers for professional practice. Thus, to describe the routes of this educational institution the research work resulted in a detailed study of the documentary sources, as well as reports, books, essays, theses and texts of many authors from different theoretical contributions that made it possible to trace the professional education of this property. To this end, this work followed scientific principles and epistemological references, which allowed analyzing the information collected. Finally, by understanding the theoretical assumptions derived from social relations that underlie the transformation of the School Federal do Ceará Network, one realizes how courses and routes were changing, adapting to every political, economic and social situation of the country, out of concern for welfare services to individuals at social risk, to train professionals for professional practice. / O Brasil, entre as décadas de 1960 a 1980, passou por mudanças políticas, econômicas e sociais, com um projeto que fazia parte de intervenções planejadas pelo Estado para promover o crescimento e o fortalecimento do país. Nesse contexto, o objetivo deste trabalho foi descrever as mudanças nos percursos da Rede Federal do Ceará, em Fortaleza, entre 1960 e 1980, para compreender os contextos que influenciaram os percursos da educação profissional nessa escola. Nesse sentido, o ensino profissionalizante no Ceará contava com as Escolas Profissionalizantes da Rede Federal, criadas pelo Decreto 7.566/1910, pelo presidente Nilo Peçanha, como Escola de Aprendizes Artífices para “habilitar os filhos dos desfavorecidos da fortuna”. Contudo, a sociedade se transformou, deixando de ser agrária para se tornar urbana, com um projeto do governo de Getúlio Vargas para incentivar o mercado consumidor interno e promover o desenvolvimento da produção industrial. Nesse contexto, para suprir as empresas nascentes com mão de obra qualificada, havia a necessidade de formação do trabalhador, para que este pudesse ocupar os postos de trabalho que surgiam. Foi nesse período que o poder público organizou a educação profissional, migrando da preocupação principal de atendimento a menores abandonados para a de preparar operários para o exercício profissional. Assim, para descrever os percursos dessa instituição escolar, o trabalho de pesquisa implicou em um estudo detalhado em fontes documentais, além de relatórios, livros, ensaios, teses e textos dos mais variados autores, sob diferentes aportes teóricos, que possibilitaram traçar a educação profissional desse estabelecimento. Para tanto, seguiu princípios científicos, além de referências epistemológicas, que possibilitaram analisar as informações coletadas. Finalmente, através da compreensão dos pressupostos teóricos oriundos das relações sociais que fundamentaram as transformações da Escola da Rede Federal do Ceará, percebe-se como os cursos e percursos foram se transformando, adequando-se a cada momento político, econômico e social do país, saindo da preocupação assistencialista de atendimento a indivíduos em situação de risco social para a formação de profissionais para o exercício profissional.