Orientador: Nelson Antonio Pirola / Banca: Regina Maria Simões Puccinelli Trancredi / Banca: Rosana Giaretta Sguerra Miskulin / Resumo: A presente pesquisa investigou a utilização da Espistemologia Genética piagetiana através da análise das ações didáticas adotadas por quatro professores (sendo cada um pertencente às quatro séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental) durante a abordagem dos conteúdos matemáticos. Além disso, observou-se como ocorreu a apropriação do construtivismo piagetiano à constituição da prática docente dos referidos professores. Configurando uma pesquisa qualitativa, do tipo estudo de caso, a coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio dos seguintes instrumentos/métodos: I - Entrevistas estruturadas, II - Questionários abertos, fechados e mistos, III - Observação de campo. Após dois meses de pesquisa de campo, em duas escolas pertencentes à Diretoria de Ensino da Região de Bauru, identificaram-se os seguints aspectos com relação às ações didáticas: as professoras da 1ª e 2ª séries utilizaram exclusivamente o método expositivo-transmissivo (caracteristicamente do Ensino Tradicional); a docente da 3ª série usou conjuntamente com a exposição-transmissão alguns elementos construtivistas (a operação sobre o material concreto, o questionamento visando à ocorrência do pensar sobre a ação, a interação entre alunos e professora); o professor da 4ª série foi o que mais apresentou estratégias didáticas construtivistas, tais como a dinâmica de grupo, a avaliação diagnóstica, a proposição de situações problema e questionamentos, permitindo aos estudantes tomarem consciência (em maior probabilidade) de suas ações. A respeito da apropriação da teoria de Piaget, observaram-se algumas compreensões "distorcidas", sendo possível afirmar que esta apropriação ocorreu de modo difuso/fragmentado e (em alguns casos) contraditório. Por fim, as 'idéias construtivistas' mais discursadas pelos quatro professores participantes foram: a construção contínua... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The present study investigated the utilization of the Piaget's Genetic Epistemology through the analysis of the didactic actions adopted by four professors (being each one from the first four grades of the Elementary Education) during the teaching of elementary mathematics. In addition, it was observed the manner in which the Piaget's constructivist approach was developed within the teaching practice of these professors. Throughout a qualitative research, such as case study, the data gathering was realized through the following methods: I - Structured interviews, II - Opened, closed and mixed questionnaires, III - Field observation. After two months of field research in two different schools that belong to the Department of Education of the County of Bauru, the following aspects were observed regarding the teaching actions: the teachers of the '1 POT. st' and '2 POT. nd' grades utilized only the exposing method (characteristically to the traditional teaching method); the teacher of the '3 POT. rd' grade in addition to the exposing method utilized also a few constructivist elements (the operation of the concrete material, the questioning utilizing the thought processing over the action, as well as the interrelationship between the teacher and students); the '4 POT. th' grade teacher was the professional who most presented constructivist didactic strategies, such as the group dynamic, diagnostic evaluation, the presentation of problem-situations with questions that promotes students' conscientization (in higher probability) of their actions. Regarding the Piaget's theory approach, some "distorted" comprehensions were observed, which leaded us to conclude that it occurred in a diffused/fragmented manner and in some cases contradictory. Finally, the "constructivist ideas" most adopted by the four teachers were: the continue construction of the logical-mathematical knowledge and the necessity of concrete manipulation. / Mestre

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Orientador: Hélia Sônia Raphael / Banca: Lourdes Marcelino Machado / Banca: Graziela Zambão Abdian Maia / Banca: Alcides Padilha / Banca: Nadia Aparecida de Souza / Resumo: Nesta pesquisa pretendeu-se, mediante coleta e análise da percepção dos docentes, discentes e egressos e análise de conteúdo do PPP, verificar algumas questões curriculares do curso de Engenharia Civil e estabelecer uma correlação entre o Projeto Político Pedagógico e as formas de avaliação utilizadas. Trabalhou-se na perspectiva da pesquisa qualitativa do tipo estudo de caso analisando fatores intrínsecos ao ensino de Engenharia Civil da UNESP de Bauru. Com os formandos e egressos, foram utilizados questionários fechados, e com os docentes, entrevistas semi-estruturadas. Os dados obtidos foram analisados sob o foco de três categorias de análise: Formação Docente e Universidade, Mercado de Trabalho e Práticas Pedagógicas. Na análise da categoria Formação Docente e Universidade, observou-se que a melhoria da qualidade do curso, no que se refere aos aspectos humanos e didáticos, está diretamente ligada à melhoria da formação direcionada à docência, e o incentivo da universidade parece ser fundamental para promover a formação permanente do docente e a sua participação no Projeto Político Pedagógico. A análise, com foco no Mercado de Trabalho demonstrou que o mercado está em constante mudança e, portanto, o perfil do egresso deve ser repensado constantemente. A análise da categoria Práticas Pedagógicas dos docentes evidenciou que estas precisam de inovações que atendam às necessidades atuais dos formandos. De forma geral, notou-se um Projeto Político Pedagógico com alguns pontos falhos, que deve ser revisto pela instituição, principalmente no que diz respeito ao processo avaliativo. Não se pretendeu, nesta pesquisa, propor uma solução para os problemas observados no ensino de engenharia, mas oferecer subsídios para reflexões críticas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The intention in this research was, through collection and analysis from the professor's perception, students and egress ones and the analysis of the Pedagogical Political Project's contents, verify some curricula questions in the Civil Engineering course and stablish a correlation between the Pedagogical Political Project and its forms of evaluation used. It was worked with the perspective of qualitative research such as case study because intrinsic factors to the Civil Engineering teaching process were analyzed at UNESP University in Bauru. With the graduate and egress ones the option was to work with closed-ended questionnaires and with professors the option was to work with semi-structured interviews. Me data obtained were analysed over three categories of analysis: University and Professor's Formation, Job Market and Pedagogical Practices. For the category of analysis in University and Professor's Formation, it was observed that the improvement of the course quality in what refers to human and didactics, is directly connected to the improvement of the specific graduation, to teaching and the university encouragement seems to be fundamental to promote the Professor's permanent formation and its participation within Pedagogical Political Project. The analysis focused on the Job Market demonstred that the market is in constant change and because of that the egress profile must be constantly revised. The Pedagogical Practices category of analysis bespoke that the professors' pedagogical practices seem to need innovation to accommodate the graduate's present needs. In general, it was noticed one Pedagogical Political Project with some weak points, what must be reviewed by the Institution attentively, mainly when regarding evaluation process. This research didn't have the intention to come up with a solution to problems observed in the engineering teaching process... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-03-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:32:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 caetano_rs_me_bauru.pdf: 3426394 bytes, checksum: 1e282fa710b2a0fc3cb679b2dc7d142d (MD5) / Secretaria da Educação de SP / A presente pesquisa investigou a utilização da Espistemologia Genética piagetiana através da análise das ações didáticas adotadas por quatro professores (sendo cada um pertencente às quatro séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental) durante a abordagem dos conteúdos matemáticos. Além disso, observou-se como ocorreu a apropriação do construtivismo piagetiano à constituição da prática docente dos referidos professores. Configurando uma pesquisa qualitativa, do tipo estudo de caso, a coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio dos seguintes instrumentos/métodos: I - Entrevistas estruturadas, II - Questionários abertos, fechados e mistos, III - Observação de campo. Após dois meses de pesquisa de campo, em duas escolas pertencentes à Diretoria de Ensino da Região de Bauru, identificaram-se os seguints aspectos com relação às ações didáticas: as professoras da 1ª e 2ª séries utilizaram exclusivamente o método expositivo-transmissivo (caracteristicamente do Ensino Tradicional); a docente da 3ª série usou conjuntamente com a exposição-transmissão alguns elementos construtivistas (a operação sobre o material concreto, o questionamento visando à ocorrência do pensar sobre a ação, a interação entre alunos e professora); o professor da 4ª série foi o que mais apresentou estratégias didáticas construtivistas, tais como a dinâmica de grupo, a avaliação diagnóstica, a proposição de situações problema e questionamentos, permitindo aos estudantes tomarem consciência (em maior probabilidade) de suas ações. A respeito da apropriação da teoria de Piaget, observaram-se algumas compreensões distorcidas, sendo possível afirmar que esta apropriação ocorreu de modo difuso/fragmentado e (em alguns casos) contraditório. Por fim, as 'idéias construtivistas' mais discursadas pelos quatro professores participantes foram: a construção contínua... / The present study investigated the utilization of the Piaget's Genetic Epistemology through the analysis of the didactic actions adopted by four professors (being each one from the first four grades of the Elementary Education) during the teaching of elementary mathematics. In addition, it was observed the manner in which the Piaget's constructivist approach was developed within the teaching practice of these professors. Throughout a qualitative research, such as case study, the data gathering was realized through the following methods: I - Structured interviews, II - Opened, closed and mixed questionnaires, III - Field observation. After two months of field research in two different schools that belong to the Department of Education of the County of Bauru, the following aspects were observed regarding the teaching actions: the teachers of the '1 POT. st' and '2 POT. nd' grades utilized only the exposing method (characteristically to the traditional teaching method); the teacher of the '3 POT. rd' grade in addition to the exposing method utilized also a few constructivist elements (the operation of the concrete material, the questioning utilizing the thought processing over the action, as well as the interrelationship between the teacher and students); the '4 POT. th' grade teacher was the professional who most presented constructivist didactic strategies, such as the group dynamic, diagnostic evaluation, the presentation of problem-situations with questions that promotes students' conscientization (in higher probability) of their actions. Regarding the Piaget's theory approach, some distorted comprehensions were observed, which leaded us to conclude that it occurred in a diffused/fragmented manner and in some cases contradictory. Finally, the constructivist ideas most adopted by the four teachers were: the continue construction of the logical-mathematical knowledge and the necessity of concrete manipulation.

Gender roles are a tool used by society to set acceptable boundaries and ideals upon the sexes, and during the early part of the twentieth century in America those gender boundaries began to blur. As a result of the 19th Amendment, men must have felt their decreasing importance because women were no longer solely dependent upon them, and gender roles shifted as woman began to occupy territory that was traditionally held by men. The “New Woman" entered the workforce, and refused to accept traditional female gender conventions. In response to the “New Woman," Theodore Roosevelt and other leading males sought to reinforce the ideal of the male as the protector and provider. As woman took on characteristics commonly associated with men, men now had to grapple with a changing gender identity that often left them confused and frustrated. Willa Sibert Cather's life reflects the fluctuating gender conventions of early twentieth century America as she struggled to define her gender identity. In her youth, Cather chopped her hair and dressed like a boy. She also spent time dissecting frogs and called herself “William Cather, M.D." Cather's cross-dressing reveals her unconventional core and her desire to define herself regardless of societal expectations. Cather also had many close relationships with woman, and these close relationships have led many scholars to label her a lesbian. Cather, however, left us a mystery surrounding her gender preference because she never openly called herself a lesbian. Cather's supposed lesbianism is useful because it reveals the ambiguity of her personality. Cather is paradox because she sought for self-definition, but she also suffered from an identity crisis. By using the shifting nature of gender roles in the America during the early decades of the twentieth century and Cather's confused and unconventional life as a backdrop, I would argue that My Ántonia (1918), The Professor's House (1925), and “Neighbor Rosicky (1932)" reveal the consequences of gender roles. Cather's novels and short story should be analyzed for her interest in exploring male reaction to prescribed gender roles which, ultimately, reveals Cather's attitude towards the existence of gender conventions. Cather advocated for a more fluid and balance way of defining male and female roles. Cather's novel My Ántonia and The Professor's House reveal the consequences of gender roles because both Jim and Professor St. Peter are frustrated, fearful, unsatisfied, ambiguous, and unhappy with the roles that they have been playing. In sharp contrast to these two novels is Cather's delightful short story entitled “Neighbor Rosicky." In this short story Cather presents a protagonist who is whole and balanced. “Neighbor Rosicky" is Cather's statement regarding the importance and beauty of self-definition. Ultimately, her literature can be viewed as a rejection of both male and female gender qualities which demonstrates that Cather and her fiction cannot be reduced to an identity agenda.

This dissertation explores the reoccurrence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein within twentieth-century American novels. While the inaccurate 1931 film version by James Whale remains the best known adaptation of Frankenstein, I argue that Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Chuck Palahniuk return to Shelley’s 1818 novel to critique racist and misogynistic responses to anxieties about gender and racial power in the age of industrial consumer culture. In doing so, I extend existing scholarship on the American Gothic to demonstrate that The Professor’s House, Invisible Man, Beloved, and Fight Club represent a specifically Shelleyan Gothic tradition in twentieth-century American literature. My project draws upon influential feminist and postcolonial readings of Frankenstein and on the theoretical work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and later critics who have developed her theory to show how the twentieth-century novels echo themes and motifs from Shelley’s novel to critique the destructive effects of male homosociality. Each novel contains a protagonist that resembles Victor Frankenstein and responds to historically specific anxieties about gender, race, and industrial technoscience by creating a doppelgänger who enables participation in a homosocial bond that is initially empowering but proves destructive to women, racial minorities, and eventually the creature and creator figures themselves. My reading reveals unexpected similarities between Cather’s The Professor’s House and Palahniuk’s Fight Club. Cather’s novel appears to glorify Tom Outland as the ideal masculine hero but ultimately reveals him to be a monstrous doppelgänger who acts out the Professor’s oppressive impulses; similarly, Fight Club seems to romanticize the male violence instigated by the doppelgänger figure Tyler Durden but actually echoes Shelley’s critique of male homosociality as monstrous. My reading also reveals previously overlooked similarities between Invisible Man and Beloved, both of which feature a black protagonist who surprisingly resembles Victor Frankenstein by creating a doppelgänger to challenge his or her disempowerment by the structures of white male homosociality but end up emulating the destructive homosocial structures they critique. My dissertation shows how all of these writers share Shelley’s critique yet move beyond it by offering alternatives to the destructive cycle of violence, embodied in each case by a female figure who resists or reclaims the position of the abject other in the homosocial triangle.

This dissertation explores the reoccurrence of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein within twentieth-century American novels. While the inaccurate 1931 film version by James Whale remains the best known adaptation of Frankenstein, I argue that Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Chuck Palahniuk return to Shelley’s 1818 novel to critique racist and misogynistic responses to anxieties about gender and racial power in the age of industrial consumer culture. In doing so, I extend existing scholarship on the American Gothic to demonstrate that The Professor’s House, Invisible Man, Beloved, and Fight Club represent a specifically Shelleyan Gothic tradition in twentieth-century American literature. My project draws upon influential feminist and postcolonial readings of Frankenstein and on the theoretical work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and later critics who have developed her theory to show how the twentieth-century novels echo themes and motifs from Shelley’s novel to critique the destructive effects of male homosociality. Each novel contains a protagonist that resembles Victor Frankenstein and responds to historically specific anxieties about gender, race, and industrial technoscience by creating a doppelgänger who enables participation in a homosocial bond that is initially empowering but proves destructive to women, racial minorities, and eventually the creature and creator figures themselves. My reading reveals unexpected similarities between Cather’s The Professor’s House and Palahniuk’s Fight Club. Cather’s novel appears to glorify Tom Outland as the ideal masculine hero but ultimately reveals him to be a monstrous doppelgänger who acts out the Professor’s oppressive impulses; similarly, Fight Club seems to romanticize the male violence instigated by the doppelgänger figure Tyler Durden but actually echoes Shelley’s critique of male homosociality as monstrous. My reading also reveals previously overlooked similarities between Invisible Man and Beloved, both of which feature a black protagonist who surprisingly resembles Victor Frankenstein by creating a doppelgänger to challenge his or her disempowerment by the structures of white male homosociality but end up emulating the destructive homosocial structures they critique. My dissertation shows how all of these writers share Shelley’s critique yet move beyond it by offering alternatives to the destructive cycle of violence, embodied in each case by a female figure who resists or reclaims the position of the abject other in the homosocial triangle.