<p>Domfors, Lars-Åke (2000): Döfstumlärare – specialpedagog – lärare för döva och hörselskadade. En lärarutbildnings innehåll och rationalitetsförskjutningar</p><p> (Teacher of the Deaf-Mute – Teacher of Special Education – Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The Content and Rationality Changes of a Teacher Education Program).</p><p>Örebro Studies in Education 1, 304 pp. Örebro ISBN 91-7668-252-8.</p><p>This dissertation is a study of some aspects of Teachers of the Deaf (ToD) education programs using the theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and concepts of rationalitites. Changes in Swedish ToD teacher education from 1873 to the 1990s are examined through the text analysis of documents such as government regulations and syllabi and other texts such as education journals. It is argued that, parallel with the dominant rationality of the period, strands of other rationalities are to be found. In an ongoing struggle for power, one dominant rationality is challenged and gradually replaced by another. The research indicates the dominance of a patriarchal values-rationality in the decades following 1873, an instrumentaltechnical rationality during the 1930s to the 1960s and a communicative rationality from the 1970s.</p><p>Research was carried out at the National Upper Secondary School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in order to understand what characterizes Deaf education and the ToDs’ work, and what kind of professional skills are therefore required. The research was based on teacher interviews, student questionnaires and teaching observations in classes. Learning processes within a ToD teacher education course, as perceived by ToD students, are analysed by a study of written reflections, seminar observations and transcipts from tape-recorded seminars. ToD teacher education programs at universities in Washington D.C. and Edinburgh are also analysed.</p><p>A model for ToD education is discussed. It is argued that even if the dimension of essentialism stressing ToD basic skills and knowledge is important, the main theories for understanding the ToD education process are communicative rationality and interactionism. </p><p>It is further argued that, at societal level, the dominance of different rationalities implies different meanings of the ToD socialisation process, mediated through different historical and cultural contexts.</p><p><i>Keywords:</i> Teacher of the Deaf, educational history, research on teacher education, rationalities, symbolic interactionism.</p><p><i>Lars-Åke Domfors, Department of Education, Örebro University,</i></p><p><i>SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden</i></p>

(Teacher of the Deaf-Mute – Teacher of Special Education – Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The Content and Rationality Changes of a Teacher Education Program). This dissertation is a study of some aspects of Teachers of the Deaf (ToD) education programs using the theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and concepts of rationalitites. Changes in Swedish ToD teacher education from 1873 to the 1990s are examined through the text analysis of documents such as government regulations and syllabi and other texts such as education journals. It is argued that, parallel with the dominant rationality of the period, strands of other rationalities are to be found. In an ongoing struggle for power, one dominant rationality is challenged and gradually replaced by another. The research indicates the dominance of a patriarchal values-rationality in the decades following 1873, an instrumentaltechnical rationality during the 1930s to the 1960s and a communicative rationality from the 1970s. Research was carried out at the National Upper Secondary School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in order to understand what characterizes Deaf education and the ToDs’ work, and what kind of professional skills are therefore required. The research was based on teacher interviews, student questionnaires and teaching observations in classes. Learning processes within a ToD teacher education course, as perceived by ToD students, are analysed by a study of written reflections, seminar observations and transcipts from tape-recorded seminars. ToD teacher education programs at universities in Washington D.C. and Edinburgh are also analysed. A model for ToD education is discussed. It is argued that even if the dimension of essentialism stressing ToD basic skills and knowledge is important, the main theories for understanding the ToD education process are communicative rationality and interactionism. It is further argued that, at societal level, the dominance of different rationalities implies different meanings of the ToD socialisation process, mediated through different historical and cultural contexts.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Tese Elsieni Coelho da Silva - 2013.pdf: 2019294 bytes, checksum: 53cb34553b26f8940acd12f26905386c (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-17 / This study deals with pedagogical practices carried out in academic licentiate degree course at Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU), Minas Gerais state. It follows the research line Teaching Education and Professionalization linked to the Faculdade de Educação at Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiás state. As a way of recognizing the current relevance of its theme, this thesis attempts at outlining new conceptions of research in teacher education as a possibility of changing the current conceptions of research as an educative practice. Its overall aim is to identify, to understand and to analyze conceptions of research put into evidence by motivations, meanings and goals that licentiate degree course’s professors ascribe to the research role in their educative practice to train teachers. Specifically, its aims include: identifying and analyzing research conceptions in these professors’ teaching background, their educative practices’ historicity, dynamics, contradictions, and contextualization in the light of the relationship among educator, student and their subject-matters; analyzing a dialectical move permeating those practices in relation to the research conceptions identified in these professors’ teaching background; and, finally, presenting new conceptions of the research role in teacher academic training. The starting point for doing so is the following question: what features characterize those professors’ teaching practices based on the research as an educative tool that they develop in licentiate degree courses considering the relationship among professor, student and subject-matter? Answering such question has required making an initial revision of teacher-as-researcher theoretical concept (STENHOUSE, 1987; ELLIOTT, 1998) and of ideas which relate research to teacher education (FREIRE, 1981a; 1981b; 1996; DEMO, 1998; 2000; SEVERINO, 2009), respectively. Fieldwork data came from semi-structured interviews (LÜDKE; ANDRÉ, 1986) with professors from each licentiate degree course at UFU carried out as a case study (ANDRÉ, 2008) and following the dialectical materialism approach (FRIGOTTO, 2006; GAMBOA, 2006). Results were grouped in three conceptions of research in teacher education: research as daily attitude; research as systematization of knowledge making; and research as making of didactic resources. / Desenvolvido na linha de pesquisa Formação e Profissionalização Docente da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Goiás (campus de Goiânia), esta tese enfoca práticas universitárias de formação docente por meio da pesquisa na Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Este estudo reconhece a necessidade de problematizar o tema para chegar a novas concepções de pesquisa na formação de professores como possibilidade de mudar a realidade atual da pesquisa como prática educativa. No plano geral, os objetivos da investigação incluem identificar, compreender e analisar concepções de pesquisa evidenciadas conforme as motivações, os sentidos e as finalidades atribuídas historicamente à pesquisa pelos docentes de licenciaturas da UFU ao explorarem-na como fazer educativo na formação de professores. No plano específico, objetiva identificar e analisar as concepções de pesquisa presente na formação de professores dos cursos de licenciatura da UFU/Uberlândia; identificar e analisar a historicidade, a dinâmica, as contradições e as contextualizações das práticas educativas quanto à relação entre formador, formando e seus objetos de estudo; analisar o movimento dialético dessas práticas relativamente às concepções de pesquisa identificadas na formação de professores; enfim, propor novas concepções sobre a pesquisa na formação de professores. Para tanto, partimos deste questionamento: quais são as características das práticas de docentes dos cursos de licenciatura da UFU quanto à relação entre “professor formador”, “professor formando” e objeto de estudo ao trabalharem a pesquisa como prática educacional na formação de professores? Construir respostas a tal indagação exigiu inicialmente rever a concepção teórica de “professor-pesquisador” (STENHOUSE, 1987; ELLIOTT, 1998) e as ideias que relacionam pesquisa e formação docente em Freire (1981a; 1981b; 1996), Demo (1998; 2000) e Severino (2009). Os dados de campo advêm dos relatos de um docente de cada licenciatura da UFU feitas como estudo de caso (ANDRÉ, 2008), ou melhor, de “casos múltiplos” (YIN, 2006). Os relatos foram obtidos mediante entrevista semiestruturada (LÜDKE; ANDRÉ, 1986) à luz da abordagem dialética materialista (FRIGOTTO, 2006; GAMBOA, 2006). Os resultados se apresentam em três concepções de pesquisa na formação de professores: pesquisa como atitude cotidiana; pesquisa como sistematização da construção do conhecimento; e pesquisa como produção de recurso didático.

Abstract The Finnish notion of academic, scientific, research-based teacher education has become a frequently referred to idea within the Finnish educational discourses of research, policy, curriculum and practice. This study examines the current discourse of research based teacher education since its emergence during the 1970s reform that ‘scientized’ teacher education. Drawing on Foucauldian approaches of genealogy and governmentality studies, the purpose of this study is to explore the current presence of ‘research’ in Finnish teacher education and consider the effects of the ways in which the notion of research is mobilised in the discourse. The research questions are: 1. How are teacher subjectivities and notions of research constructed, assembled and mobilised in the discourse of research-based teacher education in Finland? 2. What social ideals circumscribe the aspirations for teachers as researchers and research-based teacher education in Finland? The analysis is carried out on academic publications that have been published on Finnish research-based teacher education. The findings, first, point to the discursive insertion of research into Finnish teacher education as a strategy through which to fabricate the teacher as autonomous and as emancipated from tradition. Secondly, the analysis addresses how an array of different significations of research are mobilised in the governing of the teacher as researcher. Thirdly, the analysis draws attention to the Lutheran Protestant legacy of the tradition of Bildung that has influenced the weak incentive for social and political orientations in Finnish teacher education. The effects of a scientific approach to teacher education are visible in the ways research-based teacher education comes to evoke specific teacher inner qualities and dispositions that are aligned with humanist aspirations and ideals for education and social progress. The study provides an alternative way for perceiving of and problematizing research-based teacher education as well as of the often uneasy relationship between teacher training and the university. In this way, the study attempts to complicate conversations and open up alternative ways of engaging with academic knowledge and practices in teacher education curriculum and research. / Tiivistelmä Suomalaista kasvatusta koskevissa tutkimuksen, poliittisten linjausten, opetussuunnitelmien ja käytänteiden diskursseissa viitataan usein akateemiseen, tieteelliseen, tutkimusperustaiseen opettajankoulutukseen. Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan 1970-luvun tieteellistämisuudistuksen käynnistämää, nykymuotoisen tutkimusperustaisen opettajankoulutuksen diskurssia. Tutkimus ammentaa foucault’laisista genealogian ja hallinnan tutkimuksen lähestymistavoista. Tutkimustehtävänä on tarkastella “tutkimuksen” ilmenemismuotoja nykyisessä suomalaisessa opettajankoulutuksessa sekä näiden diskursiivisia vaikutuksia. Tutkimuskysymykset ovat: 1. Millä tavoin opettajasubjektiviteetit ja käsitykset “tutkimuksesta” rakentuvat, mobilisoituvat ja asettuvat toisiinsa nähden tutkimusperustaisen opettajankoulutuksen diskurssissa Suomessa? 2. Millaiset yhteiskunnalliset ihanteet määrittävät suomalaisen opettajankoulutuksen pyrkimyksiä kohti tutkivaa opettajuutta ja tutkimusperustaista opettajankoulutusta? Tutkimuksessa analysoidaan akateemisia julkaisuja suomalaisesta tutkimusperustaisesta opettajankoulutuksesta. Tutkimustulokset osoittavat “tutkimuksen” ilmentymisen suomalaisessa opettajankoulutuksessa strategiana, jonka kautta tuotetaan autonomisia opettajasubjekteja ja emansipoidaan opettaja tradition vallasta. Toiseksi analyysi tuo näkyviin, millä tavoin “tutkimuksen” eri merkitykset tulevat valjastetuiksi tutkivan opettajan hallinnassa. Kolmanneksi analyysi kiinnittää huomiota luterilaisen protestantismin vaikutuksiin sivistysajattelussa, mikä selittää suomalaisen opettajankoulutuksen heikkoa yhteiskunnallista ja poliittista orientaatiota. Tieteellisen lähestymistavan vaikutukset opettajankoulutukseen ilmenevät siinä, miten tutkimusperustainen opettajankoulutus tulee herättäneeksi opettajan sisäisiä ominaisuuksia ja mielenlaatuja, joita määrittävät humanistiset ideaalit kasvatuksesta ja yhteiskunnallisesta edistyksestä. Tutkimus tarjoaa vaihtoehtoisen tavan hahmottaa ja kyseenalaistaa tutkimusperustaista opettajankoulutusta sekä opettajankoulutuksen ja yliopiston usein ongelmallista suhdetta. Näinollen tutkimus pyrkii syventämään keskusteluja ja avaamaan vaihtoehtoisia tapoja tarkastella akateemista tietoa ja käytänteitä niin opettajankoulutuksen opetussuunnitelman kuin tutkimuksen osalta.

Teacher training institutions in Jamaica have been introducing, developing, and revamping undergraduate degree programs. There is, however, little evaluation of these efforts. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine The Mico University College's early childhood education undergraduate degree program by exploring the lived experiences of its graduates. The research questions elicited from the participants their views about how changes were being implemented in the program, and how they impacted the institution's development and improvement, how major policy shifts related to changes in national educational policies, and how together these shifts may impact future processes at The Mico and at similar institutions in Jamaica. The study used theoretical frameworks of organization development and performance improvement. In-depth semi-structured interviews were the main source of data collection and were supported by thick description, memoing, reflexive journaling, and document review. Data analysis methods consisted of coding interview transcripts and identifying common themes. The results of the study indicated that the participants commended many of the program's underlying policies and operational practices, but they identified some challenges and areas of weakness. This study may be used as a backdrop to program development and policy initiation at The Mico and at other institutions in Jamaica and the Caribbean as it encapsulates a wide breadth of the lived experiences of the participants and examines key components such as curricula, pedagogy, and assessment. By strengthening their program offerings, The Mico and other teacher training institutions have the potential to improve performance and to contribute to sustainable national development.