Disertacijoje analizuojamos suaugusiųjų mokytojų profesionalizacijos procesas tobulinant pastarųjų andragoginę veiklą. Profesionaliai dirbančių suaugusiųjų mokytojų poreikis pastaraisiais metais auga nepaprastai sparčiai ir tai susiję ne tik su Europos Sąjungos politiniais sprendimais suaugusiųjų švietimo klausimais, bet ir su ūkio bei socialine plėtra šalyje, o taip pat ateinančiomis gausiomis investicijomis į suaugusiųjų žmonių mokymą ir lavinimą Europos struktūrinių fondų dėka. Disertacijoje ieškoma atsakymo į tokius klausimus: kokie suaugusiųjų mokytojų gebėjimai yra svarbiausi apibrėžiant jų profesionalią veiklą; koks būdas yra efektyviausias lavinant šiuos gebėjimus Disertacijoje, remiantis išsamia tiek andragoginių teorijų, tiek profesinių reikalavimų suaugusiųjų mokytojams analize, išskiriami andragogo praktiko gebėjimai. Pastarieji skirstomi į dvi grupes: bendrieji ir specialieji gebėjimai. Disertacijoje nagrinėjamos įvairios profesinio tobulinimosi formos, aptariamos optimalios tobulinimo programų struktūros. Remiantis išskirtais gebėjimais yra formuojamas neformaliojo suaugusiųjų mokytojų mokymosi modelis, apimantis gebėjimų įsivertinimą, neformaliojo mokymosi modulį, praktinę veiklą ir vertinimą. Atliktas empirinis tyrimas parodo kaip kito suaugusiųjų mokytojų įsivertinti gebėjimai dėl jų dalyvavimo modelio veiklose. Aptariamas sukurtojo neformaliojo suaugusiųjų mokytojų mokymosi modelio poveikis suaugusiųjų mokytojų profesionalizacijai, pateikiamos išvados bei... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The process of adult teachers’ professionalization through the development of andragogical practice is analyzed in the dissertation. The need for professionally working adult teachers in current years is growing very rapidly not only due to European Union policy in adult education and economical and social development of the country, but also due to coming huge investments into human resources through European structural funds in the country. The dissertation is seeking for such answers: what kind of adult teachers’ abilities are essential for their profession; what is the most effective way in development of those abilities. In the development of the set of abilities for andragog practitioner there was made both profound analysis of andragogical theories and professional requirements for adult teachers. The set of abilities was divided into general and special abilities groups. The dissertation examines various professional development forms. The structures for optimal developmental programs are discussed also. The model, based upon the pre-set abilities of andragog practitioner, for non-formal adult teachers learning, which covers self-assessment of abilities, non-formal learning module, practice and assessment is developed. Empirical research shows how were developed adult teachers abilities due to their participation in the model’s activities. There is discussed influence of non-formal adult teacher model for professionalization of adult teachers’; conclusions and... [to full text]

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This study explores the views of managers of Police Stations and trainees in one of forty-two (42) Policing Areas in the South African Police Service. It probes the feelings of the managers (herein referred to as Station Commissioners) and trainees regarding training methods used during In-service training. The study starts by analysing the environment in which the SAPS operates. The Management Problem identified is the lack of transfer of training at station level. This problem exists in the SAPS at the time when it grapples with transforming from a militaristic form to a service organisation. It is the time when the organization's training interventions are very critical for their members to providing better service. In finding out the views of Station Commissioners and trainees, a communication survey was conducted in all police stations found in the Pretoria Area. A questionnaire was administered to two groups from this Area. One was a group of Station Commissioners and the other made of trainees that attended training programmes at least twelve months before the survey. The questionnaire consisted of instruments probing views on off-the-job training and on-the-job-training methods as well as organisational climate instrument. The organizational climate instrument was a modified version of Likert & Likert (1976) scale. The trainees and Station Commissioners positively viewed goal setting and decision-making at these police stations. Leadership, motivation and communication were the dimensions of organisational climate that need improvement or reinforcement. Both methods of training, that is off- and on-the-job, were deemed necessary in the SAPS. The act of travelling long distances before the training was identified as a problem for off-the-job training. It was also highlighted that both methods are necessary for all members regardless of their level of skills or position. / Thesis (MBA)-University of Natal, Durban, 2002.

This dissertation examines the historical relationship between eugenics, the United Farm Women of Alberta (UFWA), and the gendered professions of teaching, public health nursing, and social work in Alberta. In the wake of the Leilani Muir trial, scholarship on Alberta’s Sexual Sterilization Act (1928-1972) has tended to centre on male medical professionals, and the largely male run provincial psychiatric institutions. When a female is mentioned she tends to be someone in a position of power, including members of the Famous Five whose feminism and support for eugenic thought have often been viewed as incompatible. The historiography has consequently constructed an image in which male medical professionals, and a few exceptional women controlled the reproductive rights of largely female patients, overlooking the women that served on the program’s frontlines. By recasting the province’s eugenic sterilization program within a broader public health framework, and focusing on the UFWA, teachers, public health nurses and social workers, this dissertation not only provides a more comprehensive understanding of how the legislation functioned at the ground level, but also challenges prevailing ideas about maternalism, feminism, women’s professional work, and eugenics in Canada. It offers an alternative reading of eugenics in Canada by moving beyond formal institutions to the significant role played by gendered political organizations and health, welfare, and education professionals in the community. The Canadian mental hygiene and eugenics movements, which were fundamentally connected, provided them with an opportunity to maintain and extend their authority, and to meet their political and professional goals. The gendered, classed, and ethnic stereotypes that defined public nursing, teaching, and social work allowed them to define a niche for themselves within the eugenics program, but also limited the extent to which they operated as authorities of mental hygiene and eugenic science.

The decades following the Civil War saw a tremendous growth in the number of colleges and universities, both public and private, due in large part to funds provided by federal legislation under the Morrill Act of 1862 and a surge in philanthropy on the part of wealthy industrialists. In the early colleges and universities, administrations were typically run by the president alone. With increased enrollment and the demand for expanded services, one man could no longer handle all the administrative functions, and thus was born the administrative professional in higher education. Due to the increased demand for record-keeping, one of the earliest of these positions was the registrar. The object of this dissertation is to study the early evolution of administrators in higher education, with emphasis on the role of registrar, and then focus on how that position evolved at the University of Kentucky. Did the role progress at the University of Kentucky in the same manner as other colleges and universities? Did it develop into an actual profession? The primary focus of the study in relation to the University of Kentucky is on the historical period beginning with the time leading up to the first official registrar (1910) through the end of his tenure as registrar (1937). Data for the study came from books about organization theory and higher education administration, institutional histories, and biographies; proceedings of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars; materials from the University Archives’ Special Collections, such as catalogues, annual reports, Board of Trustee minutes, Report of the Investigating Committee of 1917, and personal recollections of Ezra Gillis, the first officially recognized registrar. The dissertation consists of an overview of organization theory in relation to higher education, a historical perspective of early administrators, the rise of the registrar and the attempts toward professionalization of the role, and the origin and evolution of the earliest registrars at the University of Kentucky.

Theatre has been a school subject in the Swedish upper secondary school's national arts program since 1992 and has its own syllabus and grading criteria. The National Curriculum in theatre emphasises the development of performative capability, which is the focus of this dissertation. This study aims to contribute to the improvement of teachers’ subject-specific language, and concerns certain aspects of student ways of knowing. Theatre encompasses tacit knowledge (Lagerström 2003) and as an art form belongs to a tradition of practical knowledge. Knowledge in theatre has traditionally been acquired within a master-apprentice tradition (Johansson 2012, Järleby 2003). When theatre as an art form becomes a school subject the conditions of the art form change through a didactic transposition (Chevallard 2005). The previous two curriculum reforms in Sweden have developed competency-based syllabuses. To meet the school's requirements for planning teaching activities with colleagues as well as assessing and giving feedback to students, theatre knowledge needs to be articulated. Research is therefore needed to develop a professional language among teachers within the subject of theatre. I have chosen to work with Learning study, which is a collaborative and iterative research approach which enables the articulation of teachers and students knowing. Data is analysed using foremost phenomenographic analyses. The results generated in this study could be useful for teachers in the process of planning lessons, giving feedback to students, for assessments and grades, for discussing the content of lessons with other teachers, and ultimately for us to begin to recognize different levels of knowing.

Lehre im Format der Forschung hat nicht nur das Potential zur Anknüpfung an das traditionelle Humboldt‘sche Ideal der Verschränkung von Forschung und Lernen und bietet damit eine Alternative zur vielfach beklagten „Verschulung“ der Bologna-Ära. Darüber hinaus unterstützt Lehre im Format der Forschung die Professionalisierung und fachspezifische Identitätsbildung der Studierenden. Der Beitrag ist in drei Abschnitte mit eigenen Fragestellungen unterteilt: Der erste Teil fragt nach einem grundlegenden Ziel der Hochschullehre und beschreibt dieses Ziel als wissenschaftsbasierte Professionalität, die zwingend Forschungskompetenz benötigt. Lehre im Format der Forschung wird als ein geeigneter Weg zu diesem Ziel beschrieben. Im zweiten Teil werden die Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede von Forschungs- und Lernprozessen herausgearbeitet, die als lerntheoretische Begründung für Lehre im Format der Forschung angesehen werden können. Abschließend werden unterschiedliche Typen einer Lehre im Format der Forschung vorgestellt – Typen, die sich hinsichtlich des intendierten Forschungsumfangs und des erforderlichen Aufwands unterscheiden. / Teaching in the format of research is founded in two ways. First it is an approriate way to achieve the aim of every academic study: professional competence. Professional competence needs research skills because the province of professionals is a form of applied research when they are using theories to interpret problematic cases of praxis (as a doctor, a lawyer, a pedagogue etc.). In a second way teaching in the format of research supports learning, because the structure of research and the structure of learning are quite similar. Therefore teaching in the format of research is reaching the logic of learning students. The third chapter describes three formats or types of teaching in the format of research.

This paper discusses the means by which some British women created professional roles for themselves out of their philanthropic work in India between 1880 and 1900. I examine the development of these roles in the missionary and secular philanthropic communities and how these women used periodicals as a space to implicitly demonstrate their competence and explicitly argue for their status as educators and medical workers. Colonial India provided a particular context of imperial ideals and gendered realities: Indian women were believed to be particularly deprived of learning, medical care and ―civilisation‖ by custom and culture, and Englishwomen could call on the rhetoric of imperial duty to legitimise their care of these disadvantaged women. I argue that India provided the means for British women to demonstrate their capabilities and to involve themselves in the ongoing nineteenth-century project to incorporate women into previously masculine professional societies. / Graduate

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-01-24T13:32:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Keiti de B Munari 2.pdf: 956289 bytes, checksum: 15da0eddb8168ceaf31034ae9118eaac (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-24T13:32:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Keiti de B Munari 2.pdf: 956289 bytes, checksum: 15da0eddb8168ceaf31034ae9118eaac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-12 / The teaching profession has been gradually marked by political reforms in an attempt to meet the emergency needs that the socioeconomic and cultural system requires. So in every attempt to adapt teaching to meet the demands of the new capitalism, new means are created to achieve standard or hegemonic models in teacher training. This trend, in a way, as observed by Sousa and Villas Boas (2011), has created a moment of discomfort in the area; a time of uncertainty that generates "generic political responses" without contextualization of the teaching profession in their practices. In this research, we try to deepen themes that articulate factors of academic disciplinary training with teacher professionalization. We focus on the specific characteristics of the profession through aspects of social subjectivity that are transmitted to teaching. We believe we can well understand why, although inserted in an environment of bad feelings towards the career of teaching, we still have teachers who remain in the profession showing satisfaction with their activities - although this might seem to be a paradox. We study whether aspects of social subjectivity promote an intersection of theory with practice and, above all, the academic training that perpetuates the theoretical and disciplinary knowledge with the knowledge built from the context of belonging, held by subjects in a profession which we believe to be relational. In order to do so, we attempt to trace the profile of the participant subjects in this study from the specific characteristics of the behavior of these professionals in the relationship which is maintained with others in the classroom, of what characterizes this group, their expectations regarding teaching and some of the main reasons that lead them to remain in their profession. Based on these observations, we address our theoretical framework based on the concept of Teaching Subjectivity, a topic that has brought some modest contributions to education studies. Our field research was supported by the methodological approach through the measuring instrument known as Q-sort technique - a tool used for qualitative analyzes that focuses issues of subjectivity. The study subjects were teachers of the first grades of public elementary schools, who work in Nazaré, a city in São Paulo state. For the study of the results of the research, we took contributions from participant observation into account. / A profissão docente vem sendo gradativamente marcada por reformas políticas que visam o atendimento das necessidades emergenciais que o sistema socioeconômico e cultural exige. Assim, a cada tentativa de adequação do ensino para atendimento das demandas do novo capitalismo, criam-se meios para alcançar modelos padronizados ou hegemônicos na formação docente. Essa tendência, de certo modo, como observam Sousa e Villas Bôas (2011), tem criado um momento de mal estar na área; um momento de incertezas que geram “respostas políticas genéricas”, sem contextualização da profissão do professor, em sua práxis. Procuramos aprofundar temas que articulam fatores da formação disciplinar acadêmica com a profissionalização docente. Focamos as especificidades da profissão a partir de aspectos da subjetividade social que perpassam à docência. Acreditamos poder assim compreender que, mesmo inseridos num ambiente de mal estar na carreira docente, ainda temos professores que se mantêm em seu ofício e, mesmo que paradoxalmente, se mostram satisfeitos em suas atividades. Questionamos se aspectos da subjetividade social permitem um entrecruzamento da teoria com a prática e, sobretudo, da formação acadêmica que perpetua os saberes teóricos e disciplinares com os saberes construídos a partir do contexto de pertença de sujeitos de uma profissão que entendemos ser relacional. Para tanto, seguimos na tentativa de traçar o perfil dos sujeitos participantes desta pesquisa (professores dos primeiros anos do Ensino Fundamental, da rede municipal de ensino de Nazaré Paulista/SP), a partir das particularidades de atuação desses profissionais na relação que é mantida com o outro em sala de aula, do que caracteriza esse grupo, suas expectativas em relação à docência e alguns dos motivos que os levam a permanecer no ofício. Abordamos nosso referencial teórico a partir da Subjetividade Docente e para tanto nos apoiamos no instrumento de medida intitulado técnica Q-sort – uma ferramenta direcionada para estudos do campo de investigações de aspectos da subjetividade. Além da técnica, nos apoiamos na aplicação de questionário de perfil e em relatos extraídos a partir da observação participante. Os resultados obtidos nos direcionaram para a questão principal do aspecto da afetividade na docência, no que tange justificativas para a permanência no magistério e competências comportamentais para a constituição da profissionalização docente em paralelo à formação disciplinar e teórica das licenciaturas

Sports are changing along with the development of society; commercialization and professionalization of the sports movement is today demanding more of the athletes than before. These demands have created a trend of early specialization, not only amongst the biggest global sports, but also the less practiced ones. This study investigated the sport of wrestling, in Sweden, focusing on socioeconomic factors in the families of the wrestlers, when they were growing up. Furthermore, how family members influenced the athletes, as well as their thoughts of early specialization in order to reach the national team, was included in the research. The conclusion of this study was that the majority of the wrestlers who reached the national team, grew up in families where both parents where present, and their parents had a great interest in sport. Moreover, the families had a medium to high socioeconomic status, indicating that this might have been a contributing factor to the success of the athletes. The wrestlers in the national team started training when they were between five and nine years old, whilst making a debut in competition one year later, and started training for an elite career around the ages of 15 to 16. Still, they had divided opinions whether an early specialization is necessary in order to reach a very high level of the sporting society.