Thesis (Magister Technologiae (Education))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010 / This study traces the effects of a children’s literature intervention on first year B Ed students’ reading habits and attitudes. A review of relevant literature includes concepts of literacy, with specific reference to family literacy, adolescent literacy and critical literacy; effective literacy practices; reading, reader response and theoretical perspectives of literature, including children’s literature, and its application in the classroom; motivation and reader-identity. A variety of quantitative and qualitative methods were used to gather data over a period of eighteen months. The data captured attitudes to reading and traced changes in attitudes, habits and motivation resulting from an intervention that required students to engage in reading a range of children’s literature texts. Findings showed movement from apathy to engagement at the lowest levels of change and from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation at successive levels of change. Most significantly, the intervention caused discontinuous (permanent) change in students’ constructions of themselves as readers. Key words: critical literacy; adolescent literacy; reader response; children’s literature; extrinsic / intrinsic motivation; discontinuous change; reader identity.

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The thesis is concerned with activating methods in multicultural education. The focus is mainly on incorporating text. The theoretical part, therefore, deals with multicultural education, reading, text and basic concepts that relate to these. Furthermore, the crucial part is enumeration and description of methods that can be implemented to activate students. The aim of the practical part is to investigate what methods are used in multicultural education by teachers at primary and secondary schools in the Czech Republic. Another objective is to map whether and how they work with texts. For the purposes of the work, quantitative research and a questionnaire as methods of data collection were selected. The practical output is a series of worksheets based on incorporating text that can serve as inspiration for other teachers. KEY WORDS: multicultural education, competence, method, reading, text

Bartholomae contends that "a reading course is necessarily a writing course and a writing course must be a course in reading." At most community colleges, however, reading and writing are still taught as if they were independent of each other. The course on which this curriculum study is based, English 07, Writing and Reading Improvement, represents a revision of that traditional approach, for it combines instruction in reading and writing to create a comprehensive class in developmental English. This dissertation describes the salient pedagogical features of English 07, from its rejection of the skills approach to language instruction to its treatment of reading and writing as complementary activities. The results of this study indicate that teaching reading with writing in the same course can be a viable alternative to teaching these skills separately. Success rates of students in English 07 consistently exceeded those of students enrolled in more traditional classes in which reading and writing remained isolated from one another. English 07 students also enjoyed a relatively high rate of success in subsequent first year English classes, approaching a level of achievement equal to that of students in the general population of the college. In addition, the study revealed several curricular elements that seem to have been unusually important in helping students develop their literate abilities. The course's emphasis upon reading and writing as complementary processes of composition, its thematic focus upon the self, the structure and sequence of reading and writing assignments, and the social relations in the classroom all emerged as significant influences in students' attempts to transform themselves into literate members of the academy. Clowes notes that successful integration "little evidence exists of developmental theory for the into the practice of remediation," and Berthoff asserts that "we need more research in teaching reading and writing together." This study answers those calls by demonstrating how reading and writing can be melded together to create an effective developmental English course. This dissertation should thus provide other community-college practitioners with an immediate theoretical framework and a model curriculum for helping students become more proficient readers and more accomplished writers. / Ed. D.

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This diploma thesis focuses on the support of reading and development of reading competences of pupils with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The theoretical part first discusses individuals with autism spectrum disorder, characteristics of diagnosis and their education. The next section generally summarizies the concepts related to reading. It also looks at the role of the school, teacher and literary eduacation in the development and support of reading. It further discusses teaching methods, which develop reading comprehension. The last part focuces specifically on the reading skills of children with ASD. The part concludes with deficits in reading for meaning and reading comprehension interventions. The aim of this thesis was to find out how teachers develop reading skills for pupils with ASD in primary school. The data was obtained from structured interviews with teachers working with pupils with ASD. The research questions were focused on the level of support for reading by teachers, the specifics of working with pupils with ASD and the use of texts related to student's interests and experiences. Research suggests that teachers don't have much information about the reading comprehension of children with ASD. They are based on their own experience. The experiences of teachers show that children...

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-11-09T10:23:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Milena Marques Micossi.pdf: 1485954 bytes, checksum: 300656afa62b8131ba4363f41545c2a3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-09T10:23:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Milena Marques Micossi.pdf: 1485954 bytes, checksum: 300656afa62b8131ba4363f41545c2a3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-13 / The present research aims at investigating how teachers’ continuing professional development is able to bring about reflection and contribute to the change of literacy teachers’ practices in municipal schools in the city of São Paulo. The development policy within this context is guided by the training suppositions of the Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa – PNAIC (National Pact for Literacy at the Right Age). To look into how continuing professional development can contribute to the change of teachers’ activity, the study proposes the analysis of aspects of the training route which may promote reflection and eventual change. It also investigates the action of the former as a mediator in the process of reconstructing and resignifying literacy teachers’ methods, as well as identifies whether there were changes in practice through continuing professional development offered and measured by the suppositions of PNAIC. The theoretical background deployed is composed by Freitas (2007), Placco and Souza (2015), Larrosa (2002), Almeida (2002) and Tardif (2014). The study was conducted at a municipal school of basic education in the region of São Mateus, East Zone of São Paulo. The subjects of the research are five literacy teachers who took part in the 2016’s continuing professional development program. The methodology is qualitative, with the objective of studying the contingencies of the subjects under actual working conditions. Data was collected through a questionnaire and individual and collective interviews, always semi-structured. The analysis of the data has revealed that continuing professional development will likely promote change of practices as long as the professional and formative trajectory of the teachers is taken as a starting point for the reflections, being teaching activity itself the object of study and investigation in the face of the proposition of a formative itinerary which favors meaningful experiences that affect the former and leads to looking for new pedagogical practices. For this purpose, the study has also confirmed that the development must establish dialogical processes which emphasize an active listening and an attentive look from the former towards the groups of teachers, breaking with the conceptual and pragmatic deconstruction discourse to promote the pragmatic resignification mediated by teachers’ trajectory discourse. The research has also testified that the practice as the object of study has fostered its approximation to the theoretical basis, which aroused, besides legitimating literacy teachers’ work, changes of teaching activity in the literacy period / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar como a formação continuada docente pode contribuir para a reflexão e mudanças das práticas dos professores alfabetizadores da Rede Municipal de São Paulo. A política de formação desse contexto pauta-se nos pressupostos formativos do Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa – PNAIC. Para investigar como a formação continuada pode contribuir para a mudança das práticas docentes, o estudo propõe a análise dos elementos do itinerário formativo que podem promover a reflexão e a possível mudança. Analisa também a ação do formador como mediador no processo de reconstrução e ressignificação das práticas, além de verificar se houve indicadores de mudança das práticas a partir da formação continuada oferecida e mediada pelos pressupostos do Pnaic. As referências teóricas adotadas neste estudo são Freitas (2007), Placco e Souza (2015), Larrosa (2002), Almeida (2002) e Tardif (2014). O estudo foi realizado em uma unidade educacional municipal de ensino fundamental da região de São Mateus, zona leste da cidade de São Paulo no ciclo de alfabetização. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são cinco professoras alfabetizadoras que realizaram a formação continuada em contexto no ano de 2016. A metodologia de pesquisa é qualitativa com o objetivo de estudar as contingências dos sujeitos em condições reais de trabalho. Como instrumentos de coleta de dados foram utilizados o questionário, a entrevista individual e a entrevista coletiva, sempre semiestruturadas. A análise dos dados revelou que a formação continuada poderá promover a mudança das práticas quando o formador considerar a trajetória formativa e profissional dos professores como o ponto de partida das reflexões, sendo a própria prática docente o objeto de estudo e investigação diante da proposição de um itinerário formativo que privilegie as vivências de experiências significativas que afetem o docente e o levem a buscar novas práticas pedagógicas. Para tanto o estudo também comprovou que a formação deverá estabelecer processos dialógicos que privilegiem a escuta ativa e o olhar atento por parte do formador com o grupo de professores, rompendo com o discurso da desconstrução conceitual e pragmática para o discurso da ressignificação pragmática mediada pela própria trajetória docente. A pesquisa também comprovou que a prática como objeto de estudo promoveu sua aproximação com a fundamentação teórica o que permitiu, além da legitimação do trabalho dos professores alfabetizadores, a mudança das práticas docentes no ciclo de alfabetização

Submitted by Rosina Valeria Lanzellotti Mattiussi Teixeira (rosina.teixeira@unisantos.br) on 2015-03-30T17:17:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Arminda Tereza dos Santos Costa.pdf: 8270732 bytes, checksum: 73d8e68d4a8fc9a0ba0f3a3ea2fafd47 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-30T17:17:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arminda Tereza dos Santos Costa.pdf: 8270732 bytes, checksum: 73d8e68d4a8fc9a0ba0f3a3ea2fafd47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-25 / Universidade Católica de Santos - Católica de Santos / This work was mainly seeks to describe the trajectory of an educator: Silvia Costa, managing a program on education newspaper. And present as significant was his contribution to education not only of the Santos region, but in Brazil as a whole. There is a flyover on the company's history: The Tribuna de Santos, who implemented the program in their relationship with the local community, we emphasize the importance of reading, the instrument newspaper in education. These tools as a means of non-formal and informal education. And the purpose of the newspaper in education programs, to get to analyze their management educator at the School Journal Community Program and the Journal Tribuna de Santos. The methodology was based on historical documentary sources through the newspapers, the personal collection of Silvia Costa and use of interviews, bringing the speeches of partners that were important parts of this administration and that could to seal the whole of this work manager. It is concluded that the Program: Community College Journal and assists the coordination of Silvia Costa greatly the work of teachers acceded to it and also the journalists involved . / Esta dissertação teve como principal busca descrever a trajetória de uma educadora: Silvia Costa, na gestão de um programa de jornal na educação. E apresentar o quanto significativa foi sua contribuição para a educação não só da baixada santista, mas do Brasil como um todo. Há um sobrevoo sobre a história da empresa: A Tribuna de Santos que implantou o programa em sua relação com a comunidade local, ressalta-se a importância da leitura, do instrumento jornal na educação. Destas ferramentas como forma de educação não escolar e não formal. E os propósitos dos programas de jornal na educação, para chegar à analise da gestão desta educadora, no Programa Jornal Escola e Comunidade do Jornal A Tribuna de Santos. A metodologia utilizada foi a histórica através de fontes documentais dos jornais, do acervo pessoal de Silvia Costa e da utilização de entrevistas, trazendo as falas dos parceiros que foram peças importantes desta gestão e que puderam chancelar o trabalho conjunto desta gestora. Conclui-se que o Programa: Jornal Escola e Comunidade auxilia pela coordenação de Silvia Costa sobremaneira o trabalho de professores que a ele aderiram e também os jornalistas envolvidos.