This thesis explores the professional knowledge of three choral music educators from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. My primary research purpose was to explain what constitutes the professional knowledge of each of the research participants as revealed through their life stories; to illustrate how such professional knowledge has been shaped by experiences throughout each of the participants’ lives; and to understand how the participants’ experiences of developing as educators within the specific social, cultural, and political contexts of Newfoundland and Labrador have shaped their professional knowledge. Through this inquiry, three choral music educators engaged in a process of teacher development, as they discovered for themselves, through a narrative process of self-exploration, the meaning that could be made of the relationships between their life experiences and their knowledge of music teaching and learning. Data-gathering included a series of four in-depth interviews, which consisted of open-ended questions that engaged the participants in reconstructing their life experiences and articulating their professional knowledge within the context of developing as choral music educators. Choral rehearsal observations provided another source of data. These observations enhanced my understanding of the participants’ teaching practice, and assisted in my understanding of the relationships between the personal and the professional that they expressed in initial interviews. Analysis of the data is represented through narratives of the participants’ life stories and a thematic discussion of their professional knowledge as revealed through those stories. Each participant’s narrative and professional knowledge are presented in individual chapters, followed by a chapter that explores the resonances (Conle, 1996) amongst the participants’ narratives and my own personal-professional narrative. I propose that we begin to reconceptualize professional development in order to acknowledge the complexity and personal nature of professional knowledge, and I assert that the exploration of life stories is a meaningful form of professional development for music educators.

Uppsatsen handlar om vilket syfte APU har i frisörutbildningen och om skolan skall erbjuda APU varje vecka, eller i längre sammanhängande perioder? Syftet med studien har varit att bland annat undersöka vilket APU-upplägg som i utbildningssyfte är mest relevant och varför. För att få kunskap och information om vad branschen, rektor, frisörlärare samt handledare tyckte, har jag intervjuat ett antal personer. Intervjuerna var kvalitativa och strukturerade för att få deskriptiva svar. För att kunna få en så detaljerad analys som möjligt använde jag en digital bandspelare. Intervjuerna tog 20 till 30 minuter vardera. I studien har det visat sig att de flesta var lyhörda för båda uppläggen, de hade också erfarenhet av båda uppläggen men när jag frågade hur informanterna önskade att upplägget kunde vara, kom ett enhälligt svar från rektor, handledare samt frisörlärare. I utbildningsperspektiv, för att även bygga upp en kundkrets, menar majoriteten, att APU kontinuerligt varje vecka är att föredra. Branschen däremot hade en annan uppfattning, menade att varje skola/rektor själv beslutar om vilket upplägg som gynnar dem. Beslutet behöver inte vara för evigt utan måste utvärderas med jämna mellanrum. / This essay is about what purpose the APU has been in hairdressing education and if school should offer APU every week or in longer consecutive periods? The purpose of this study was to examine which of the APU arrangement of the educational purpose is most relevant and why. To gain knowledge and information about what the industry, principal, hairdressing teachers and mentor thought, I have interviewed a number of people. The interviews were qualitative and structured to descriptive answers. In order to get into as much detail as possible, I used a digital tape recorder. The interviews took 20 to 30minutes each. The study showed that most were susceptible to both arrangements. They also had experience of both arrangements,  but when I asked how informants wished how APU should be used, a unanimous response came from the  principal , mentors  and hairdressing teachers. The educational perspective, to build a customer base, says the majority, that the APU continuously every week is preferred. The industry, however, had a different opinion, said that each school / principal decides on the arrangement that benefits them. The decision need not be forever, but it must be evaluated periodically.

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Today, technologies are being introduced into historically established settings, which change the conditions for work as well as for work-integrated learning. In health care, electronic patient records (EPRs) has been implemented during the last decades to serve as a tool for planning, decision making and evaluation of care work. The overall aim of the research presented in this thesis is to analyse the complex actions and interactions that occur when EPRs are used in health care practice. Analytically, such an interest is pursued employing a socio-cultural perspective on workplace studies, where the use of technology is studied in action. Through three separate studies, practical actions and practical use of EPRs have been examined and the empirical data draws on observations, video-recordings, audio-recordings and documents from a hospital ward in Sweden. The result shows that technologies such as EPRs both offer and presuppose standardization of terminologies and information structures. This, however, does not mean that EPRs completely format and structure information, or that it is driven by its own logic. When staffs comply with a set of standards, transformations of those standards will gradually occur. Those transformations are collective achievements and since each professional involved act in a conscious and active manner, this affects the use of standards as well as the development of collective proficiency. The results also demonstrate that meaning making in(through) the use of EPRs presupposes extensive knowledge of the indexicality of categories, something that originates in the participants‘ shared institutional history. It is in the process of reliving, creating and exposing the meaning of information, that health care professionals actually bring information in EPRs to life. In further development of EPRs that exceeds institutional and even national boundaries it is important to see this development not as solely technical or organizational questions. To develop systems that enhance the possibilities for professionals in different institutions with different professional domains to make sense of standardized information may be a much more  demanding task than it seems to be. Such boundary-crossing systems are nevertheless of great importance for the further development of health care practice.

For effective teaching to take place in secondary schools, teachers need to be adjusted positively towards reality and need to possess a thorough knowledge of the learning material which they offer. Teachers can be helped to adjust positively towards reality and also possess a thorough knowledge of the learning material if their didactic professional needs are being satisfied through in-service education and training. ln-service education and training aims at improving teachers' competence and performance in the classroom situation. This study aims at identifying the didactic-professional in-service education and training needs of secondary school teachers in the Northern Province. The following didactic-professional needs are identified: • The need to improve secondary school teachers' academic competence. • The need to update teachers' knowledge and skills to be able to cope with professional technological changes in the classroom. • The need to appraise secondary school teachers' in the classroom situation. The study also aims at determining the shortcomings of the strategies currently being used in the in-service education and training of secondary school teachers and also at finding strategies in order to improve the present situation. The sample of this study comprises 244 randomly selected teachers, 1 05 randomly selected managers and all subject advisors (n=11) in the former Venda in the Northern Province. Data was collected from the above sample, through the use of a questionnaire. A Likert type scale was used in the questionnaire. In conclusion, some of the findings of this study are as follows: • Appraisal of teaching activities in the classroom is fair or poor. It is recommended that teachers be appraised to help them to identify their weak points and also to give them advice on their teaching. Principals, deputy principals and departmental heads need to be involved in this process. • Reflective practice of teachers is fair or poor. It is recommended that principals, deputy principals and departmental heads create conditions favourable to teachers to collaborate and cooperate in their schools. • Panel inspection sometimes occurs or rarely occurs. It could be of help to teachers if inspectors of schools conduct panel inspection to help teachers to identify the areas they need to improve their teaching. • Assistance to secondary school teachers by subject advisors sometimes occurs or rarely occurs. Again here it could be of help if subject advisors render their assistance to secondary school teachers to enable them to identify their weak points. • ln-service training centres only cater for teachers teaching. grade 12. It is recommended that in-service training centres cater for all teachers in secondary schools. • Class visits by circuit managers sometimes occur or rarely occur. It is recommended that circuit managers visit classrooms to acquaint themselves with what is happening there. • College programmes for improving professional competence are average or below average. It is recommended that college programmes for improving professional competence be improved in the Northern Province. • Short courses and seminars at the in-service training centres are fair or poor. It is recommended that they be improved to help secondary school teachers with their didactic-professional needs. / Thesis (MEd)--PU for CHE, 1999

For effective teaching to take place in secondary schools, teachers need to be adjusted positively towards reality and need to possess a thorough knowledge of the learning material which they offer. Teachers can be helped to adjust positively towards reality and also possess a thorough knowledge of the learning material if their didactic professional needs are being satisfied through in-service education and training. ln-service education and training aims at improving teachers' competence and performance in the classroom situation. This study aims at identifying the didactic-professional in-service education and training needs of secondary school teachers in the Northern Province. The following didactic-professional needs are identified: • The need to improve secondary school teachers' academic competence. • The need to update teachers' knowledge and skills to be able to cope with professional technological changes in the classroom. • The need to appraise secondary school teachers' in the classroom situation. The study also aims at determining the shortcomings of the strategies currently being used in the in-service education and training of secondary school teachers and also at finding strategies in order to improve the present situation. The sample of this study comprises 244 randomly selected teachers, 1 05 randomly selected managers and all subject advisors (n=11) in the former Venda in the Northern Province. Data was collected from the above sample, through the use of a questionnaire. A Likert type scale was used in the questionnaire. In conclusion, some of the findings of this study are as follows: • Appraisal of teaching activities in the classroom is fair or poor. It is recommended that teachers be appraised to help them to identify their weak points and also to give them advice on their teaching. Principals, deputy principals and departmental heads need to be involved in this process. • Reflective practice of teachers is fair or poor. It is recommended that principals, deputy principals and departmental heads create conditions favourable to teachers to collaborate and cooperate in their schools. • Panel inspection sometimes occurs or rarely occurs. It could be of help to teachers if inspectors of schools conduct panel inspection to help teachers to identify the areas they need to improve their teaching. • Assistance to secondary school teachers by subject advisors sometimes occurs or rarely occurs. Again here it could be of help if subject advisors render their assistance to secondary school teachers to enable them to identify their weak points. • ln-service training centres only cater for teachers teaching. grade 12. It is recommended that in-service training centres cater for all teachers in secondary schools. • Class visits by circuit managers sometimes occur or rarely occur. It is recommended that circuit managers visit classrooms to acquaint themselves with what is happening there. • College programmes for improving professional competence are average or below average. It is recommended that college programmes for improving professional competence be improved in the Northern Province. • Short courses and seminars at the in-service training centres are fair or poor. It is recommended that they be improved to help secondary school teachers with their didactic-professional needs. / Thesis (MEd)--PU for CHE, 1999

This thesis explores the professional knowledge of three choral music educators from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. My primary research purpose was to explain what constitutes the professional knowledge of each of the research participants as revealed through their life stories; to illustrate how such professional knowledge has been shaped by experiences throughout each of the participants’ lives; and to understand how the participants’ experiences of developing as educators within the specific social, cultural, and political contexts of Newfoundland and Labrador have shaped their professional knowledge. Through this inquiry, three choral music educators engaged in a process of teacher development, as they discovered for themselves, through a narrative process of self-exploration, the meaning that could be made of the relationships between their life experiences and their knowledge of music teaching and learning. Data-gathering included a series of four in-depth interviews, which consisted of open-ended questions that engaged the participants in reconstructing their life experiences and articulating their professional knowledge within the context of developing as choral music educators. Choral rehearsal observations provided another source of data. These observations enhanced my understanding of the participants’ teaching practice, and assisted in my understanding of the relationships between the personal and the professional that they expressed in initial interviews. Analysis of the data is represented through narratives of the participants’ life stories and a thematic discussion of their professional knowledge as revealed through those stories. Each participant’s narrative and professional knowledge are presented in individual chapters, followed by a chapter that explores the resonances (Conle, 1996) amongst the participants’ narratives and my own personal-professional narrative. I propose that we begin to reconceptualize professional development in order to acknowledge the complexity and personal nature of professional knowledge, and I assert that the exploration of life stories is a meaningful form of professional development for music educators.

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.

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Submitted by PPGE PPGE (pgedu@ufba.br) on 2013-11-27T15:54:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 sayonara nobre.pdf: 1438493 bytes, checksum: a99f8858e2fdf74ec374fe4c46db8b80 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora da Silva Lopes (silopes@ufba.br) on 2014-01-22T19:43:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 sayonara nobre.pdf: 1438493 bytes, checksum: a99f8858e2fdf74ec374fe4c46db8b80 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-01-22T19:43:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 sayonara nobre.pdf: 1438493 bytes, checksum: a99f8858e2fdf74ec374fe4c46db8b80 (MD5) / Esta tese buscou esclarecer a natureza da identidade profissional do tecnólogo. Os conceitos utilizados tratam da identidade profissional, educação superior tecnológica e saberes profissionais. Os objetivos traçados buscaram: analisar a configuração da identidade do tecnólogo e a percepção que a indústria local possui acerca desses profissionais; identificar o valor atribuído pelas empresas aos saberes do tecnólogo em situação de trabalho; analisar os aspectos legais e os elementos do processo de formação, identificar as diferenças existentes na atuação profissional do tecnólogo em relação aos engenheiros e técnicos de nível médio; Analisar o significado que os trabalhadores (tecnólogos) atribuem aos saberes e às competências construídas nos cursos de tecnologia e como os (re)contextualizam na prática profissional. O método desenvolvido caracteriza-se como sendo de cunho quali-qualtitativo, foi desenvolvido através de entrevistas, questionários e análise documental. Os resultados apontam uma tendência futura para absorção de tecnólogos, entretanto o presente revela que o tecnólogo ainda possui identidade difusa, sendo necessário o emprego de políticas de disseminação de informações sobre esse profissional no mundo do trabalho, além do desenvolvimento de propostas de formação com maior densidade tecnológica e zelo pedagógico, esclarecendo sobre o emprego dos saberes e construção da identidade profissional. / ABSTRACT This thesis has looked for show the nature profes sional identity of technologist. The concepts used in the text treat about professional identity, high education technologic and professional k nowledge. All the objectives exposed were looking for: analyze the technologist identify and the perception of lo cal industry about those professionals; identify the valor gave to the companies for technologist knowledge in work situation; analyze the legal points and the elements that exist in graduation process; identify differences in the technologist professional actuation when it can be compared with engineers and high school technics; analyze the tenor attributed by the technologist to the knowledge and competency that were building in technologist curse as well how it make to contextualize those information in the professional practice. The method developed, that belongs to a qualitative order, was advanced through interviews, questionnaires and documental analyze. Those results indicate to a future tendency for technologist absorption. However, the present reve al a different case: the technologist have a diffuse identity, making necessary employ all kinds of information politics about this professional in the work world. Also, is important the progress of graduation proposes with bigger technologic perspective a nd pedagogic caution, showing about how employ knowledge and professional identify construction.