Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-04-03T14:00:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ritadecassiabarrosdefreitasaraujo.pdf: 2865828 bytes, checksum: 5628b949b42fead27cd59f835ced0daa (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-04-03T19:44:55Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ritadecassiabarrosdefreitasaraujo.pdf: 2865828 bytes, checksum: 5628b949b42fead27cd59f835ced0daa (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-03T19:44:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ritadecassiabarrosdefreitasaraujo.pdf: 2865828 bytes, checksum: 5628b949b42fead27cd59f835ced0daa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-26 / PROQUALI (UFJF) / O presente trabalho de pesquisa tem como temática central a formação de alfabetizadores (profissionais responsáveis pelo trabalho com a aprendizagem inicial do sistema de escrita alfabético ortográfico-SEAO). Embora seja notório que, para se garantir a cidadania, não basta ser alfabetizado, aprender e praticar socialmente a leitura e a escrita é uma condição essencial para o acesso pleno à cidadania. Denota-se, desta configuração, a complexidade e importância da formação para alfabetizar, bem como a relevância e justificativa para a realização de pesquisas sobre a temática. O objetivo geral da pesquisa foi compreender como alfabetizadores que apresentam um trabalho considerado bem-sucedido aprenderam a fazer o que fazem tão bem. Para tanto, foi lapidada a seguinte questão: ―De que forma(s) alfabetizadores com atuações reconhecidas como bem-sucedidas aprenderam a alfabetizar de modo efetivo, garantindo que, se não todos, a maioria de seus alunos tivessem êxito no processo de aprendizagem inicial do Sistema de Escrita Alfabético Ortográfico (SEAO)? A Escolha dos colaboradores da pesquisa se deu a partir da indicação de diferentes fontes, tais como profissionais de renome da área, pesquisadores do processo de alfabetização, nomes que emergem na literatura e em eventos de formação e divulgação de pesquisas, entre outras. O trabalho de campo pautou-se nos constructos da ―Entrevista Compreensiva‖ de Kaufmann (2013), a partir de abordagem qualitativa de cunho histórico-cultural. Dialogamos com 18 alfabetizadoras efetivas e cinco pesquisadoras experientes na área da alfabetização e formação docente, norteadas por uma grade de entrevistas flexíveis semiestruturadas. Contamos também, ao longo do processo, com apoios dialógicos bastante significativos. Visitamos dois Programas de Rede que envolvem trabalhos relacionados à formação de professores para alfabetizar. Para análise dos achados, foram construídos, com base nos estudos de Aguiar (2005) e Aguiar e Ozella (2006), cinco núcleos de significação: Disparadores do processo evolutivo de constituição da identidade docente; Processos de formação docente formal (Acadêmica) e desenvolvimento profissional; A atuação docente e a construção de saberes; A despeito das dificuldades, a paixão: motivação para continuar e buscar o desenvolvimento profissional permanente e, por fim, Caminhos possíveis. Para a compreensão e análise dos núcleos em direção à questão proposta, fundamentamo-nos nos constructos teóricos de autores como: C. Dubar, Bondía, Menga Lüdke, C. Marcelo, Clermont Gauthier, Antônio Nóvoa, Maurice Tardif, Paulo Freire, Bernardete Gatti, Magda Soares, Isabel Frade, Luiz Carlos Cagliari, entre outros. Os achados, analisados em profundidade, confirmam a dinamicidade e complexidade do processo de formação do alfabetizador e da aquisição dos saberes para alfabetizar de forma eficiente, bem como sinalizam caminhos, mesmo que modestos, possíveis para que esta venha a ser mais efetiva. Apontam para a formação multifacetada destes profissionais que, motivados por diferentes atividades e relações sociais, alcançam maior autonomia em seu processo de formação, empenhando-se ativamente em seu desenvolvimento profissional permanente. As considerações possibilitam pensar a importância de uma formação inicial sólida, com conhecimentos específicos relativos ao processo inicial de aprendizagem do SEAO escrita. / This research work has the education of literacy teachers (professionals who are responsible for the initial teaching of the Orthographic Alphabet Writing System, or SEAO) as a central theme. Although it is notorious that guaranteeing citizenship is not enough to be literate, learning and socially practicing the ability to read and write is an essential condition for full access to citizenship. The complexity and importance of literacy training, as well as the relevance and justification for carrying out research on this theme, are thus emphasized. The general objective of such research is to understand how literacy teachers, who demonstrate successful work, have learned to do what they do so well. In order to do so, the following question was asked: "In what way (s) did successful literacy teachers learn how to effectively teach literacy, ensuring that, if not all, most of their students succeeded in the initial learning process of the Orthographic Alphabet Writing System (SEAO)? The selection of the research collaborators was based on referral from different sources, such as renowned professionals in the field, researchers of the literacy process, names in the literature and education and research dissemination events, among others. The field work was based on the constructs of Kaufmann's "Comprehensive Interview" (2013), based on a qualitative approach of a historical and cultural nature. We spoke with 18 effective literacy teachers and five experienced researchers in the literacy and teacher education field, guided by a series of flexible semi-structured interviews. We also relied on significant dialogic support throughout the process. We visited two Network Programs that involved work related to literacy teacher education. In order to analyze these findings, five significance cores were created based on the studies by Aguiar (2005) and Aguiar and Ozella (2006) as follows: Triggers of the evolutionary process for the creation of the teaching identity; Processes of formal (academic) teacher education and professional development; Teaching and the construction of knowledge; In spite of the difficulties, passion: motivation to continue and pursue permanent professional development and, finally, Possible paths. In order to understand and analyze the cores towards the proposed question, we based ourselves on the theoretical constructs of authors such as: C. Dubar, j. Larossa, M. Lüdke, C. Marcelo, C. Gauthier, A. Nóvoa, M. Tardif, P. Freire, B. Gatti, M. Soares, I. Frade, L. C. Cagliari, among others. The findings, which were analyzed in depth, confirm the dynamics and complexity of the process of (trans)formation of the literacy teacher and the acquisition of knowledge for efficient literacy, and also indicate possible ways, however modest, to make it more effective. They point to the multifaceted education of these professionals who, motivated by different activities and social relations, earn greater autonomy in their education process by actively engaging in their permanent professional development. These considerations allow us to think about the importance of a solid initial education, with specific knowledge regarding the initial learning process of the written SEAO.

Thesis (M. Dev.) -- University of Limpopo, 2016 / This study aims to give insights into the nature and extent of professional teacher development by the department of education through class visits, and subsequently its impact on professional teacher development in the white hazy circuit in Mpumalanga province. This study further examines measures and recommendations to be put in place which can help to improve the programme (class visits), also the effectiveness of this programme in professional teacher development. The study further highlights key issues regarding class visits with regard to professional teacher development. The study further highlights strategies that can be put in place to enhancing class visits as a programme for professional teacher development. The study further highlights key recommendations to be put in place to enhance class visits as professional teacher development programme. KEY WORDS Professional Teacher Development; Development Appraisal System; Integrated Quality Management Systems; development support group; Continuing Professional Teacher Development.

Within the framework of research about professional teacher’s knowledge, our business is to identify and to characterize with case study method, a kind of specific professional teacher´s knowledge of Chemistry professorate, associated to the chemical nomenclature notion. This kind of research guides the sight to the teaching contents, but it postulates the teacher as an essential actor of that knowledge, rather than ignore of the other actors (didactic community, researchers, specialists, students, etc.) our research realizes the specific construction that the teacher makes, beyond the «spontaneous epistemologies» category, between others, which seems to deny an academic and discipline character of the built knowledge by the teachers. First, we show a brief reference to the research program on professional teacher´s knowledge which frames in the development of research line about Specific Professional Teacher´s Knowledge associated with Particular Categories, which belongs to the research group «Por las Aulas Colombianas- INVAUCOL». After that, we show a short justification about the choice of the particular category: chemical nomenclature, as a studied object, besides the historical importance that it has to the professional teaching consolidation, recognizing the teacher´s specific contributions to discipline body construction of school knowledge. Finally, weset in consideration some general methodological criteria defined in this research, and we show too, some preliminary reflections derived from field work in thepresent state of the project. / En el marco de la investigación sobre el conocimiento profesional del profesor, nos ocupamos de identificar y caracterizar, con estudios de caso, un tipo de conocimiento profesional específico del profesorado de química asociado a la noción de nomenclatura química. Este tipo de investigaciones orienta nuevamente la mirada hacia los contenidos de enseñanza, pero postula al profesor como un actor fundamental en la construcción de dicho conocimiento. Antes que desconocer a los otros actores (comunidad de didactas, investigadores, especialistas, estudiantes,etc.) nuestra investigación da cuenta de la construcción específica que realiza elprofesor, más allá de la categoría «epistemologías espontáneas», entre otras, que parecen negar el carácter académico y disciplinar de los saberes construidos por el profesor.Presentamos una breve aproximación al programa de investigación sobre el conocimiento profesional del profesor, en el cual se encuadra el desarrollo de la línea de investigación acerca del conocimiento profesional específico del profesor, asociado a categorías particulares, que forma parte de la agenda académica del Grupo Investigación por las Aulas Colombianas (INVAUCOL). Posteriormente, presentamos una corta justificación de la elección de las categorías particulares: nomenclatura química, por ejemplo, como objeto de este estudio; así mismo, de la importancia histórica que tiene para la consolidación de la profesión docente reconocer los aportes concretos del profesorado a la construcción del cuerpo disciplinar del saber escolar. Finalmente, ponemos a consideración algunos criterios metodológicos generales definidos en la investigación y presentamos unas reflexiones preliminares que se derivan del trabajo de campo en el estado actual del proyecto.

Magister Educationis (Adult Learning and Global Change) - MEd(AL) / Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD) of teachers at working class schools in South Africa has come under scrutiny over the past few years. Despite new education policies which incorporated the dire need for CPTD, the achievement of learners at working class schools remains poor. This investigation was prompted by the cause of this discrepancy. This study investigates the participation of teachers in Continuous Professional Development initiatives at working class schools in the Western Cape. The primary research question for this research paper is: “Why are teachers at working class schools not participating in CPTD initiatives as expected?” A qualitative approach within the interpretive paradigm was adopted throughout this study. The interpretive approach allowed the researcher to gain a more social world interpretation of the respondents as it provided insight in CPTD practices at working class schools. The process of data gathering was inductive as information emerges from interviews and questionnaires. Open-ended questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used to gather data. The study comprised 15 respondents and included teachers at two schools and three officials from the Department of Education. The demographics of the two schools were similar which made it possible to ask the same questions for all respondents. The study highlighted the lack of participation of teachers in CPTD due to human, material and financial constraints. Urgent consideration needs to be given to eradicating these barriers for continuous professional development of teachers. Providers of CPTD should ensure that the needs of teachers are met and training should be embarked upon on a continuous basis. In addition, priority should be given to teachers employed at schools in working class areas.

The purpose of this study was to determine fourth-year pre-service teachers’ perceptions of the influence of mentor lecturers on their Professional Teacher Identity (PTI) while on teaching practice. The problem underpinning this study was that the students may not be able to mediate the merging of the academic world with the world of work if the influence of the mentor lecturer is lacking. The significance of this study lies in the student perceptions of the mentor lecturers’ role. The data were collected through the Fourth Years Initiative for Research in Education (FIRE) project. Students reflected in groups on the development of their PTI and the role their mentor lecturers played in this development. In this qualitative, descriptive case study, a document analysis was conducted on transcriptions of the posters that the students created in workshops. The conceptual framework combined a mentorship and a PTI model. The results showed that in PTI development, the mentor lecturers’ influence ranked sixth out of nine. The students felt misunderstood and unsupported. The findings indicate either that the role of the mentor lecturer is a redundant feature of the BEd programme, the mentor lecturer is not meeting the students’ needs, requiring revisitation of the programme, or this millennial generation sample is not open to critical self-reflection and critique. Similar studies may access the mentor lecturers’ perceptions of their own PTI and their influence on their mentees’ PTI development, and why passion for a subject is not a statistically significant influencer of PTI. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2020. / Humanities Education / MEd / Unrestricted

Problems with discipline and student engagement in Swedish classrooms is a burning issue. According to the data provided in the article, "Improving schools in Sweden, an OECD perspective", a significant number of students find it difficult to concentrate during a lesson as there is "noise and disorder during lessons" (Schleicher, 2015, s. 35). This negatively affects the quality of the lesson taking place and poses a challenge to classroom teaching. How can a teacher make sure that the students participate in a lesson in a productive way? Can the teacher find ways to engage the students so that they are active participants in the lesson? In other words, can the students be educationally seduced to love the lessons? This thesis attempts to explore the concept of educational seduction, with the teacher as the seducer and the students as the ones seduced in an educational setting. What makes a teacher special? How is a student (or a group of students) charmed by his/their teacher? Is it the outlook or style of the teacher that makes her different from others? Or is it the knowledge or content that she delivers makes her special? Or is it the love and kindness that the teacher exhibits makes her so appealing? What makes this teacher so different from all the other teachers that the students find it mesmerising? Or, in other words, what constitutes an educationally seductive teacher? The argument I propose is that teachers need to be wholesome, and since it is nearly impossible to be a wholesome personality, I argue that one can strive towards the 'ideal of wholesomeness' in order to be an educationally seductive teacher.

The process of ‘learning to teach’ is still not well understood. In particular, existing research does not fully reflect the complexities of the process; how student teachers’ level of subject matter knowledge influences their teaching, or how their placement affects the process. This study provides an alternative nonlinear, relational model for understanding the process of ‘learning to teach’. I study the ways in which 66 BEd students teach during eight school-based Teaching Experience sessions, conducted over the four year duration of their preservice teaching degree. I primarily draw on evidence obtained from lesson observation reports written by university tutors as they respond to lessons taught by this cohort of student teachers. I cluster their comments into five facets necessary for enabling learning, namely, student teachers’ knowledge and understanding of content; their preparation; their teaching strategies; their classroom management; and the ways in which they monitor learning. These five facets have links to the process of teaching described by Shulman’s (1987b) Model of Pedagogical Reasoning and Action. Within each of these five facets, varying levels of competence were demonstrated by the student teachers in this study. I develop an analytical tool that describes four developmental levels of student teaching over each of the five facets of the teaching process. An in-depth study of the developmental teaching portraits of five student teachers illustrates that they are often more advanced in some facets of their teaching, and less so in others. The portraits highlight the ways in which certain facets affect teaching in other facets. The interactions between these differing levels and facets give rise to particular challenges that student teachers experience as they ‘learn to teach’. Some of these challenges are more significant than others, as certain inter-facet relationships are essential to the development of pedagogically reasoned action, and other relationships are less crucial. My findings suggest that although ‘learning to teach’ is a non-linear process, there nevertheless exists a logical hierarchy within the facets, whereby some facets create conditions of possibility for others. In particular, I find that the way in which student teachers use their knowledge and understanding of the content to inform other facets, establishes the 2 logical conditions necessary for the development of teaching as pedagogically reasoned action.

The purpose of this research activity was to determine the nature of in-service training as a mode of capacitating and developing teachers in public secondary schools serviced by the Matlosana Area Office (AO). The process of teacher in-service training is constantly faced by challenges, which derail and stall progress and sometimes negatively affect learners’ performance. Amongst others, these challenges include: changes in the curriculum, inconsistent monitoring and follow-up on in-service training programmes, the impact of teacher performance on learners’ attainment, the HIV/AIDS scourge, poor learner discipline, incorrect placement of teachers with regard to school and subjects taught, and the low participation of key role-players. The Department of Education (DoE) is divided into the Department of Basic Education and the Department of Higher Education. A literature study to look into the Department of Basic Education’s Acts, policies, strategies and other relevant documents aimed at skilling and developing teachers, was carried out. This assisted the researcher in understanding the legal parameters that guide teacher in-service training. Upon completion of the literature study, a brief explanation of the empirical research design, the administration and the use of the questionnaire as a research tool, are given. Data were collected from the respondents in the randomly selected secondary schools in the focus area – by means of a questionnaire. These data gave the researcher an idea of the situation with regard to teacher in-service training in the Matlosana Area Office’s responsibility area. To respond to the statements, respondents were required to indicate their views by ticking on a 5-step Likert scale. Respondents were given the opportunity of writing down their opinions; and these were summed up and indicated. Data collected were analysed and presented in the form of tables and histograms. This was followed by the interpretation of these data. Chapter 5 of the mini-dissertation presents a summary of the research activities. The findings, in accordance with the literature review, and the results of the empirical research with regard to the stated research objectives, are also presented. Finally, based on the findings, conclusions are drawn and recommendations subsequently formulated. Major findings include the need for more time to be dedicated to in-service training, thorough monitoring and prompt follow-up thereof. Data collected also indicated that the DoBE has a number of programmes in place to develop teachers and to put them on a par with curriculum requirements. Despite these efforts, some schools are still performing below the required standard. / Thesis (M Development and Management)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012

The purpose of this research activity was to determine the nature of in-service training as a mode of capacitating and developing teachers in public secondary schools serviced by the Matlosana Area Office (AO). The process of teacher in-service training is constantly faced by challenges, which derail and stall progress and sometimes negatively affect learners’ performance. Amongst others, these challenges include: changes in the curriculum, inconsistent monitoring and follow-up on in-service training programmes, the impact of teacher performance on learners’ attainment, the HIV/AIDS scourge, poor learner discipline, incorrect placement of teachers with regard to school and subjects taught, and the low participation of key role-players. The Department of Education (DoE) is divided into the Department of Basic Education and the Department of Higher Education. A literature study to look into the Department of Basic Education’s Acts, policies, strategies and other relevant documents aimed at skilling and developing teachers, was carried out. This assisted the researcher in understanding the legal parameters that guide teacher in-service training. Upon completion of the literature study, a brief explanation of the empirical research design, the administration and the use of the questionnaire as a research tool, are given. Data were collected from the respondents in the randomly selected secondary schools in the focus area – by means of a questionnaire. These data gave the researcher an idea of the situation with regard to teacher in-service training in the Matlosana Area Office’s responsibility area. To respond to the statements, respondents were required to indicate their views by ticking on a 5-step Likert scale. Respondents were given the opportunity of writing down their opinions; and these were summed up and indicated. Data collected were analysed and presented in the form of tables and histograms. This was followed by the interpretation of these data. Chapter 5 of the mini-dissertation presents a summary of the research activities. The findings, in accordance with the literature review, and the results of the empirical research with regard to the stated research objectives, are also presented. Finally, based on the findings, conclusions are drawn and recommendations subsequently formulated. Major findings include the need for more time to be dedicated to in-service training, thorough monitoring and prompt follow-up thereof. Data collected also indicated that the DoBE has a number of programmes in place to develop teachers and to put them on a par with curriculum requirements. Despite these efforts, some schools are still performing below the required standard. / Thesis (M Development and Management)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012

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