This study focused on the identification of career paths that led to the Texas public school superintendency, including an examination of career path differences associated with gender, ethnicity, and district type, and on the identification of the career path positions superintendents perceived as being the most beneficial in preparing them for the superintendency. Additionally, the study examined place-bound versus career-bound superintendents. The most common career path to the Texas public school superintendency was secondary teacher, secondary principal, and superintendent. Female administrators and administrators who worked in large districts were more likely to take the director route to the superintendency. Additionally, most major urban superintendents took the director route to the superintendency. Ethnicity was not a significant factor in determining the career path to the superintendency. A significant correlation did exist between educational attainment and the secondary teacher, secondary assistant principal, secondary principal, assistant superintendent, superintendent career path. A higher representation of superintendent respondents who held earned doctorates existed in that career path than in any of the other career path groups. While educational attainment was important in higher paying districts, most Texas superintendents did not hold doctorates. Few held doctorates from the most prestigious, nationally recognized universities.

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the factors affecting the sale of the plate lunch in six of the one hundred twenty-nine Dallas Public School lunchrooms, two each of predominantly Mexican, white and Negro enrollment, when the time is extended to include the entire school year of one hundred eighty school days.

The problem of this study is to determine what constitutes adequate and desirable physical facilities for industrial arts laboratories in public schools.

The purpose of this study was to determine the availability of qualified industrial arts teachers in the twenty-four North Texas area school districts surveyed; and to ascertain the effects of industrial arts teacher availability upon the status of the industrial arts programs in the school districts surveyed.

Orientador: Sérgio Antônio da Silva Leite / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T21:56:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_CinthiaVieiraBrum_M.pdf: 3165018 bytes, checksum: b2fae90581cef5aca5640a181a127ae9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este estudo investiga as representações sociais de escola em produções de alunos do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública municipal em Campinas, SP. Está ancorado na Teoria das Representações Sociais (TRS), do franco-romeno Serge Moscovici, que parte dos estudos sobre Representações Coletivas de Durkheim para elaborar o conceito de representações sociais. Moscovici elege a TRS como o cerne da Psicologia Social. Está relacionada ao conhecimento do/elaborado pelo senso comum, com a finalidade de comunicação e orientação de comportamentos. Sendo a escola uma das instituições marcantes na vida do sujeito social, investigar as representações ali formadas sobre a própria instituição torna-se relevante. Inúmeros são os trabalhos que abordam as representações sociais sobre a escola ou elementos do universo escolar, formadas por educadores, no exercício da profissão, ou por estudantes universitários. Porém, os trabalhos que versam sobre as ideias, concepções, discursos e representações das crianças, "usuárias" diretas desta instituição aqui problematizada, são em menor quantidade, conforme se constata na literatura; neste cenário, dar voz aos alunos torna-se relevante. Foram então analisadas produções "livres" e direcionadas de alunos do 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental. A análise foi baseada nos pressupostos da pesquisa de cunho qualitativo, nos quais a análise é o processo de busca e de organização sistemática dos dados coletados, com o objetivo de aumentar a compreensão desses materiais e permitir apresentar aos outros o que foi encontrado. Assim, a partir da leitura cuidadosa das produções das crianças, foi feita a seleção daquelas que possuem conteúdos que contribuem para este estudo. Em seguida, buscou-se identificar possíveis núcleos e subnúcleos de significação referentes às representações sociais que os alunos têm de escola, os quais foram posteriormente discutidos à luz da base teórica assumida. Esperou-se, com este estudo, identificar e analisar as representações que os alunos têm de escola e, a partir daí, inferir as possíveis relações que essas representações têm com o modo de participação dos sujeitos nesse ambiente. Os resultados sugerem que os alunos representam positivamente a escola, como lugar privilegiado para a aquisição do conhecimento, espaço das relações, das brincadeiras e também como preparatória para a inserção no mercado de trabalho. Através de suas expectativas e sugestões, foi possível acessar seus desejos sobre a escola: é um lugar que deve ser limpo e organizado, harmonioso e preocupado em oferecer educação integral através de uma reorganização das práticas e espaços/tempos escolares. Ressalta-se a importância de se legitimar a voz dos alunos e engajá-los junto aos outros atores da comunidade escolar para participar das decisões escolares, a fim de forjar um sujeito autônomo e participativo / Abstract: This study investigates the school¿s social representations among children of a municipal public school in Campinas, by focusing on their school activities. It is based on the Theory of Social Representations of the Franco-Romanian, Serge Moscovici, who was inspired by the notion of Collectives Representations of Émile Durkheim. The Theory of Social Representations was elected by Moscovici as the core of the Social Psychology and it gives us an insight into how knowledge is understood by the common sense with the purposes of stablishing communication and guiding behaviours. Schools are strong influences at the lives of social subjects; therefore it is relevant to investigate what are the created representations of these institutions by those who are inside them. Most of the papers about social representations of schools and their elements have as their subjects professionals in education and university students. Children, however, have not received the same attention, and only a lower number of papers about pupil¿s representations of their schools have been written. In order to gather information about the views of these children, who are the direct "users" of the Elementary School here in study, an analysis of their schoolworks was done. The students were all on 5th grade, and some of their works were produced with the guidance of the educator and others without it. A framework of qualitative research was used in the analyses, thus the process of searching data and its posterior systematic organization, aim to increase the comprehension of the gathered material and to enable the presentation of the findings. After a careful reading of the children¿s productions, a selection of what would contribute to this study was made. Next step was to identify possible significant nucleus and sub-nucleus related to the pupils¿ social representations about the school. These were discussed under the chosen theoretical framework. The study expects to identify and analyse the social representations that the children have about the school and infer the possible relations between these representations and the way the subjects participate in school environment. The outcome of it suggests a positive representation of the school by its pupils, who view the school as a privileged place where they can acquire knowledge, build relationships, have fun and also be prepared for the labour market. Through their expectations and suggestions it was possible to know that they idealize school as a place that should be organized, clean and harmonious. They also demonstrated a wish to have a more extensive type of education, in its scope and content, by reorganizing school practices, space and timetables. It is noteworthy the importance of legitimizing pupil¿s voice and engaging them with the others at the school community for the decision making, in order to create autonomous and participative beings / Mestrado / Psicologia Educacional / Mestra em Educação

The purpose of this study is to examine how the regular practice of Christmas music in the American public schools came to be. If we understand the historical evolution of this practice, we can better understand our conditions of possibility for the future. Christmas in America is both a religious and cultural holiday. The sacred/secular binary, often used as a lens for analysis, is problematic due to the multitude of religious and cultural meanings that constitute the American Christmas. I utilize genealogical methods to trace the relationships between elements that have conditioned and constrained the practice of Christmas music in the public schools. These elements include the lack of established Christmas traditions and music at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the development of a regular canon of Christmas music in the churches, Sabbath school Christmas exhibitions, and public examinations as a technology of eighteenth century education. I contextualize these elements amongst the cultural history of the American Christmas, which includes a focus on the family, children, gift giving, goodwill, and community. This cultural history is set against a backdrop of nostalgia and ritual that frames Christmas practices. From this perspective, I trace varied examples of Christmas music in the public schools, starting with the nineteenth century end-of-term exercises. Into the twentieth century, I describe different practices, including Christmas music as worship service, variations on the sacred/secular binary, and public school music in the community. Based on this inquiry, I suggest reflexive questions for music teachers when considering Christmas music in the public schools. I also recommend suggestions in place of the current NAfME position statement. I propose that Christmas music be considered a postsecular genre in America. Applying a postsecular lens allows for acknowledgement of the persistence of the sacred/secular divide, in relation to the wide array of other elements that results in a blurriness of the dichotomy. Through application of this lens, the practice of Christmas music in the American public schools becomes both more difficult and more thoughtful.

The purpose of this study is to show whether it will be more advantageous for the Geyserville Union High School District to join with the Healdsburg High School District sven miles to the south, or with the Cloverdale Union High School District nine miles to the north, distances being registered from the center of Geyserville.

The emphasis of this study will be centered in the search for answers to the following questions: (1) How accurately and extensively do adults of the community know their elementary schools?; (2) What are the various sources by which adults of the community receive school information?; (3) What types (categories) of school information for citizens desire most?; (4) What types of school news items appear most frequently in the local newspaper, and how accurate and effective in it? The objective in conducting this study is to gain an insight into the matter of communication between the elementary school and the community and to evaluate local school publicity.

The purpose of this study was to find for the fiscal year 1950-51 some characteristics of the variou sizes of California school districts as indicated by the average daily attendance for the fiscal year 1950-51 in relation to (1) the average current expenses per unit of average daily attendance, (2) the average state apportionment per unit of average daily attendance, (3) the average transportation costs per unit of average daily attendance, and (4) the average district tax rates.

This study examines the assumption that property is assessed uniformly from district to district in Arkansas.