Tyrimo objektu pasirinkta mokinių požiūris į jų elgesį mokykloje reglamentuojančias taisykles bei tarpusavio santykius su mokytojais (pasitikėjimas mokytojais bei tarpusavio pagarba), problematiškas elgesys (muštynės su kitais mokiniais, bėgimas iš pamokų, svetimo turto laužymas), o taip pat dalyvavimas popamokinėje veikloje. Tyrimo tikslas – išsiaiškinti paauglių dalyvavimo papomokinėje veikloje ir požiūrio į mokyklą bei problematiško elgesio tarpusavio sąsajas. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Išsiaiškinti mokinių požiūrio į elgesio taisykles bei savo pareigas priklausomybę nuo dalyvavimo papomokinėje veikloje ir šios veiklos pobūdžio. 2. Išsiaiškinti mokini��� ir mokytojų tarpusavio santykių priklausomybę nuo dalyvavimo papomokinėje veikloje ir šios veiklos pobūdžio. 3. Išsiaiškinti mokinių problematiško elgesio priklausomybę nuo dalyvavimo papomokinėje veikloje ir šios veiklos pobūdžio. 4. Įvertinti požiūrio į mokyklą ir problematiško elgesio ypatumus priklausomai nuo lyties. Tyrime buvo apklausta 476 Kauno rajono aštuntos – devintos klasės mokiniai. Mokiniai parinkti iš šešių pagrindinių, šešių vidurinių mokyklų ir keturių gimnazijų. Tiriamųjų imtį pagal lytį sudarė 221 mergaitė ir 243 berniukai. 12 mokinių savo lyties nenurodė. Darbe taikytas apklausos raštu metodas. Anketos mokinių klausta ar jiems patinka mokykla, ar jie žino jų elgesį mokykloje reglamentuojančias taisykles. Kiek šios taisyklės yra teisingos, kaip jie vertina savo teises mokykloje. Siekiant išsiaiškinti... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The pupils attitude towards the regulating rules of their behavior in school and their inter relationship with teachers (trust in teachers and their mutual respect) also the components of problematic behavior such as brawls with other students, lesson skipping, property intrusion are chosen as The research object. Aim of the research – to find the connection of teenager after school activities participation and the attitude towards school and problematic behavior. The research goal: 1. To sort the pupils’ attitude towards behavior rules and their responsibilities, depending on their participation in after school activities and the nature of those activities. 2. To sort the interrelationship between pupils and teachers depending on participation in after school activities and the nature of those activities. 3. To sort the pupils’ problematic behavior dependency on participation in after school activities and the nature of those activities. 4. To evaluate the attitudes towards school and the peculiarities of problematic behavior, relating to gender. 476 eight – ninth grade pupils of Kaunas region schools were surveyed in this research. Pupils were selected from six base schools, six secondary schools, and four gymnasiums. The data corpus concerning gender was formed from 221 girls and 243 boys. 12 pupils did not indicate their gender. The written test method was used in the survey. The pupils were asked whether they like school, do they know the rules relating their... [to full text]

The aim of my diploma thesis is to summarize my knowledge of the guitar chord playing during working in the institution Dům dětí a mládeže in České Budějovice where I have been teaching for four years. It is focused on readers who teach guitar chord playing as an after-school activity or who learn how to play on their own. In the first part of the thesis there is a concept about the lector's theoretical knowledge. The second part (containing particular lessons) deals with the methodology of teaching the very beginners with no musical education.

This diploma thesis deals with chemistry and science after school clubs, which are held in schools or in official public organization called "leisure education centres". Chemistry after school clubs, play an important role in motivating pupils to further study chemistry, enabling them to carry out more experiments, acquiring practical skills, and applying theoretical knowledge. Last but not least, chemistry after school clubs help pupils to spend their leisure time meaningfully. This thesis is divided into the theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part describes the importance of leisure time, motivation for education legal basis for leisure education and other topics related to chemical interest groups. The practical part contains the results and analysis of the questionnaire survey, which was realized mainly among the chemistry teachers. The results of the survey show that the chemistry clubs are mostly focused on the realization of the experiments and the dissemination of the curriculum. And the pupils themselves are primarily interested in establishing of clubs. Most after school clubs aren't organized in leisure education centre. For this reason, they can't use state funding for the clubs, which are organized in leisure education centre.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:57:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Agnes Maria Gomes Murta.pdf: 834042 bytes, checksum: c43b0170e18701ff4a51971b189942e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present thesis consists in a qualitative research and its aim is to comprehend and reveal how is the activity of a teacher in a regular school that has students with disabilities in its classrooms. The verification and analysis of the senses and meanings attributed by the teacher to her school activity and to social inclusion as well as the verification of how the simple and cross self-confrontations can generate movements which produce new significations (senses and meanings) about the own school activity and about social inclusion were proposed. The categories of the Social-Historical Psychology and of the Clinic of Activity were the epistemological proposals that oriented the present study. The instruments utilized to collect the informations were: life stories, semi-directed and centralized interviews; videotapes; simple and cross self-confrontations. The place chosen was a public school of Diamantina city in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The subject was a teacher of the introductory phase that had received a student with Down syndrome for school inclusion. The analyses were realized using the strategies of Signification Nucleus Analysis and Self-confrontations Analysis. As a result it was observed that elements such as love, pleasure and dedication constitute the senses and meanings attributed to school activity. This possibly helps the teacher to support the adversities encountered in its execution. In respect to social inclusion the senses attributed have elements such as: anguish, fear, constraint, the not knowing and not doing. The teacher does not believe in social inclusion and has pre-conceived ideas about disabilities and her pedagogic practice contributes very little to the social inclusion of her pupil. The final reflections of this research point to the necessity of a better care in respect to teachers formation, so these professionals could recover their power of acting and increase their possibilities of using creative and feasible strategies to deal with the real school activity / A presente tese constitui-se em uma pesquisa qualitativa. Tem como objetivo compreender e desvelar o que se passa, como se passa e como é constituída a atividade docente de uma professora que atua numa escola regular e tem em sua sala alunos com deficiência. Buscou-se verificar e analisar os sentidos e significados atribuídos pela professora a sua atividade docente e à inclusão escolar. Procurou-se verificar se e como as autoconfrontações simples e cruzadas engendram movimentos produtores de novas significações (sentidos e significados) sobre a própria atividade docente e sobre a inclusão escolar. Teve como pressupostos epistemológicos orientadores, categorias da Psicologia Sócio-Histórica e da Clinica da Atividade. Para coleta das informações, utilizaram-se como documentos: entrevistas de narrativa de história de vida e entrevistas semi-dirigidas e centralizadas, ambas recorrentes. Foram utilizados também videogravaçoesobservação in lócus e autoconfrontações simples e cruzadas. O local escolhido foi uma escola pública municipal da cidade de Diamantina M.G. Teve como sujeito uma professora da fase introdutória que recebeu para inclusão escolar um aluno com Síndrome de Down. Para a análise, foram utilizadas as estratégias de Análise dos Núcleos de Significação e Análise das autoconfrontações. Como resultado, observou-se que elementos como amor, prazer e dedicação constituem os sentidos e significados atribuídos a atividade docente. Estes elementos, possivelmente, ajudam a professora a superar as adversidades encontradas na execução da atividade docente. Para a inclusão escolar, os sentidos atribuídos têm elementos tais como: angústia, medo, constrangimento o não saber e não fazer. A professora não acredita na inclusão escolar, tem idéias pré-concebidas acerca da deficiência e sua prática pedagógica pouco contribui para a efetivação da inclusão escolar de seu aluno deficiente. Observou-se que as autoconfrontações engendram movimentos produtores de novas significações (sentidos e significados) sobre a própria atividade docente e sobre a inclusão escolar. Entretanto, estes movimentos não ocorrem de forma linear. As reflexões finais dessa pesquisa apontam para a necessidade de maior cuidado com a formação de professores e com a carreira docente a fim de que estes profissionais recuperem seu poder de agir e aumentem as possibilidades de utilização de estratégias criativas e viáveis para lidar com o real da atividade docente

O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar o processo de atribuição de sentido pessoal à atividade de estudo de estudantes do Ensino Fundamental. Tem-se, como referência teórica, a Psicologia Histórico-Cultural, que compreende o desenvolvimento humano a partir da periodização de atividades principais realizadas ao longo da vida. O foco de pesquisa é a atividade de estudo, atividade principal das crianças em idade escolar. O trabalho é composto por uma investigação bibliográfica conceitual, cujo produto são sínteses teóricas acerca do objeto estudado, e uma investigação empírica, realizada em uma escola pública municipal da cidade de São Paulo, com estudantes de 4a série. A pesquisa empírica divide-se em quatro momentos: 1º) Acompanhamento e observação do cotidiano de uma turma; 2º) Situações orientadas de aprendizagem, que consistem em ajuda aos estudantes em suas tarefas; 3º) Grupos focais com os estudantes para compreender os motivos de sua atividade de estudo; 4º) Entrevistas individuais com a professora e com algumas crianças. Para a análise de dados, utilizaram-se os seguintes procedimentos: 1) Descrição empírica, construída a partir das temáticas mais frequentes nos registros dos dados; 2) Descrição teórica, elaborada a partir de eixos de análise que revelam o movimento da atividade de estudo; 3) Estabelecimento da unidade de análise do objeto desta pesquisa: a relação entre os motivos da atividade de estudo e os fins das ações de estudo; 4) Retorno ao concreto, mediado pela unidade de análise. Finalmente, busca-se reconstruir o real e explicar o processo de atribuição de sentido pessoal à atividade de estudo. Analisam-se, assim, os limites de formação dessa atividade na atual organização do ensino e as contradições escolares que indicam, por outro lado, possibilidades de formação da atividade de estudo e de constituição de um sentido pessoal que seja condizente com as máximas possibilidades de humanização presentes na atividade em foco. Nesta perspectiva, analisa-se como a relação entre os motivos da atividade de estudo e as ações de estudo pode engendrar ações esvaziadas de sentido, que não permitem a formação desta atividade. Podem, entretanto, produzir ações geradoras de motivos de aprendizagem, em que o conhecimento deixa de ser meramente conteúdo escolar e torna-se conteúdo vivido pelo estudante. No primeiro caso, que denominamos de sentidos existentes, vê-se a ruptura entre os motivos e as ações de estudo. No segundo caso, apontam-se as contradições na organização da atividade pedagógica que indicam possibilidades de superação dessa fragmentação entre motivos e ações e entre significados e sentidos da atividade de estudo. Essas contradições indicam, assim, o processo de atribuição de sentidos possíveis, na direção da apropriação dos conhecimentos humanos específicos da atividade pedagógica. Ressalta-se o papel do professor nesse processo. Como resultado, defende-se a tese de que, para que a aprendizagem escolar ocorra, as ações de estudo dos estudantes devem ter um sentido pessoal correspondente aos motivos e aos significados sociais da atividade de estudo, no sentido da promoção do desenvolvimento humano. Propõe-se, como síntese, um conjunto de elementos teóricos explicativo do processo de atribuição de sentido pessoal à atividade de estudo em geral, explicitando aquilo que é preciso compreender para situar a atividade do professor como atividade humanizadora, de modo que sua mediação conduza à atividade de estudo do estudante por meio da atribuição de sentido pessoal. / This research aims to investigate the process of personal sense attribution to the study activity of students in Elementary School. It has been considered as a theoretical reference the Historic-Cultural Psychology that comprises the human development as from the periodization of leading activities undertaken through life. The focus of the research is the study activity, leading activity of children at school age. The work is composed by a conceptual bibliographical research, which products are theoretical syntheses on the investigated object and an empirical research, made in a municipal public school from the city of Sao Paulo, with students from the 4th grade. The empirical research is divided in four steps: 1st) Accompanying and observation of a classroom day-by-day; 2nd) Learning oriented situations, that consist in help to the students in their tasks; 3rd) Focal groups with students to understand the motives of their study activity; 4th) Individual interviews with the teacher and some children. For data analysis it was used the following procedures: 1) Empirical description, built from the most frequent thematic in the data records, 2) Theoretical description, made from lines of analysis that disclose the movement of the study activity; 3) Establishment of the analysis unit of the object of this research: the relation between the study activity motives and the objectives of study actions; 4) Return to the concrete, mediated by the analysis unit. Finally, it is aimed to reconstruct the real and explain the process of personal sense attribution to the study activity. It is analyzed, therefore, the limits of the formation of this activity in the current organization of teaching and the scholar contradictions that show, on the other hand, possibilities of study activity formation and of constitution of a personal sense that is consistent with the maximum possibilities of humanization existent in the activity in focus. In this perspective, it is analyzed how the relation between the motives of the study activity and the actions of study may engender purposeless actions, which do not allow the formation of this activity. They may, on the other hand, produce actions that generate reasons of learning, in which the knowledge is no longer merely a school content and becomes content experiences by the student. In the first case, that we name of existing personal sense, it is noticed the rupture between the motives and actions of study. In the second case, it is pointed out the contradictions in the organization of the pedagogical activity that indicate possibilities of overcoming this fragmentation between motives and actions and between social meanings and personal sense of the study activity, and that indicate the process of the attribution of possible personal senses, in the direction of the appropriation of the specific human knowledge of the pedagogical activity. It is emphasized the role of the teacher in this process. As a result, it is defended the thesis that for the scholar learning to happen, the study actions of the students must have a personal sense correspondent to the motives and to the social meanings of the study activity, towards the human development promotion. It is proposed, as a synthesis, an explanatory set of theoretical elements of the process of attribution of personal sense to the study activity in general, explaining what is needed to comprehend to situate the activity of the teacher as a humanizing activity, in a way that his or her mediation leads to the study activity of the student by means of the personal sense attribution.

School garden programs have become increasingly popular for their diverse, positive benefits. School gardens are often promoted as a relatively low cost means to offer hands-on learning opportunities that may foster academic achievement, particularly in the sciences, however only six studies have been published on the impact of garden education programs on science achievement. Five out of six of these studies focused on elementary age students. One study has identified motivational engagement as the mechanism responsible for fostering academic success. School gardens are more common in elementary schools. However, they may be most beneficial in a secondary school setting, when students tend to lose interest in academics and often perform poorly on national assessments of science. Thus, in this study we evaluated adolescent students at three schools with well-established garden education programs. We used pre-test and post-test measures to see how students' levels of various predictors of engagement (e.g. autonomy, competence, relatedness, and intrinsic motivation), actual engagement (in the realms of academics, science, and the garden), garden learning, and academic achievement measures (e.g. overall grade point average and science grade point average) would change over the course of this study. We also assessed how the different realms of engagement correlated with predictors of engagement, with garden learning, and with academic achievement measures. In addition, we examined correlations among the different realms of engagement. At one of the schools, a non-gardening group participated in the study as a control group. Thus, we also compared the gain scores in predictors of engagement, engagement, and academic achievement between the control and garden group from that school. At all three schools, academic or garden engagement significantly increased for the garden groups. Garden engagement was significantly correlated with academic engagement, science engagement, or both, at each of the three schools for post-test measures. Predictors of garden-based engagement were significantly correlated with academic and/or science engagement at each school, at least for post-test measures. These results show that gardening may have the potential to be a contributor to positive motivational changes that in turn can be related across academic domains. The non-gardening group showed significant gains in predictors of- and engagement itself, while the gardening group either marginally declined or maintained its level. However, the non-gardening group had significantly lower pre-test scores in comparison to the gardening group, which in part accounts for their comparative significant gain. The garden group showed significant increases in predictors of garden engagement and garden engagement itself. These results show that the garden group, comprised of at-risk students, are experiencing positive motivational benefits, which can possibly prevent further decline in their general performance. The lack of improvement in academic achievement suggests that the full academic benefit of garden education programs has yet to be consistently reached. We recommend that researchers use a more refined evaluation test and survey, specific to the garden program at hand and include qualitative measures. / Graduation date: 2013

This essay is a study of the use of IT technology by teachers of English and History at a Swedish upper secondary school. It is based on four interviews and four observations. In my analysis of these I have made use of the theory of Social Shaping of technology, a theory which puts emphasis on a teacher´s purpose regarding the use of IT technology in order to empower the teaching process. As a researcher I aim to explore the reasoning on the part of the teacher and to that end I use the method of interviews and observations. This study shows different ways of using IT technology varying from one teacher to another. The use of laptops and Ipads by students is frequent, laptops being used for writing and information seeking and Ipads for taking pictures, the recording of students´ own performance before making presentations in class and for communication with teachers. In addition to the methods mentioned above, I have used - "Som-seende" and half-structured interviews.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar o processo de atribuição de sentido pessoal à atividade de estudo de estudantes do Ensino Fundamental. Tem-se, como referência teórica, a Psicologia Histórico-Cultural, que compreende o desenvolvimento humano a partir da periodização de atividades principais realizadas ao longo da vida. O foco de pesquisa é a atividade de estudo, atividade principal das crianças em idade escolar. O trabalho é composto por uma investigação bibliográfica conceitual, cujo produto são sínteses teóricas acerca do objeto estudado, e uma investigação empírica, realizada em uma escola pública municipal da cidade de São Paulo, com estudantes de 4a série. A pesquisa empírica divide-se em quatro momentos: 1º) Acompanhamento e observação do cotidiano de uma turma; 2º) Situações orientadas de aprendizagem, que consistem em ajuda aos estudantes em suas tarefas; 3º) Grupos focais com os estudantes para compreender os motivos de sua atividade de estudo; 4º) Entrevistas individuais com a professora e com algumas crianças. Para a análise de dados, utilizaram-se os seguintes procedimentos: 1) Descrição empírica, construída a partir das temáticas mais frequentes nos registros dos dados; 2) Descrição teórica, elaborada a partir de eixos de análise que revelam o movimento da atividade de estudo; 3) Estabelecimento da unidade de análise do objeto desta pesquisa: a relação entre os motivos da atividade de estudo e os fins das ações de estudo; 4) Retorno ao concreto, mediado pela unidade de análise. Finalmente, busca-se reconstruir o real e explicar o processo de atribuição de sentido pessoal à atividade de estudo. Analisam-se, assim, os limites de formação dessa atividade na atual organização do ensino e as contradições escolares que indicam, por outro lado, possibilidades de formação da atividade de estudo e de constituição de um sentido pessoal que seja condizente com as máximas possibilidades de humanização presentes na atividade em foco. Nesta perspectiva, analisa-se como a relação entre os motivos da atividade de estudo e as ações de estudo pode engendrar ações esvaziadas de sentido, que não permitem a formação desta atividade. Podem, entretanto, produzir ações geradoras de motivos de aprendizagem, em que o conhecimento deixa de ser meramente conteúdo escolar e torna-se conteúdo vivido pelo estudante. No primeiro caso, que denominamos de sentidos existentes, vê-se a ruptura entre os motivos e as ações de estudo. No segundo caso, apontam-se as contradições na organização da atividade pedagógica que indicam possibilidades de superação dessa fragmentação entre motivos e ações e entre significados e sentidos da atividade de estudo. Essas contradições indicam, assim, o processo de atribuição de sentidos possíveis, na direção da apropriação dos conhecimentos humanos específicos da atividade pedagógica. Ressalta-se o papel do professor nesse processo. Como resultado, defende-se a tese de que, para que a aprendizagem escolar ocorra, as ações de estudo dos estudantes devem ter um sentido pessoal correspondente aos motivos e aos significados sociais da atividade de estudo, no sentido da promoção do desenvolvimento humano. Propõe-se, como síntese, um conjunto de elementos teóricos explicativo do processo de atribuição de sentido pessoal à atividade de estudo em geral, explicitando aquilo que é preciso compreender para situar a atividade do professor como atividade humanizadora, de modo que sua mediação conduza à atividade de estudo do estudante por meio da atribuição de sentido pessoal. / This research aims to investigate the process of personal sense attribution to the study activity of students in Elementary School. It has been considered as a theoretical reference the Historic-Cultural Psychology that comprises the human development as from the periodization of leading activities undertaken through life. The focus of the research is the study activity, leading activity of children at school age. The work is composed by a conceptual bibliographical research, which products are theoretical syntheses on the investigated object and an empirical research, made in a municipal public school from the city of Sao Paulo, with students from the 4th grade. The empirical research is divided in four steps: 1st) Accompanying and observation of a classroom day-by-day; 2nd) Learning oriented situations, that consist in help to the students in their tasks; 3rd) Focal groups with students to understand the motives of their study activity; 4th) Individual interviews with the teacher and some children. For data analysis it was used the following procedures: 1) Empirical description, built from the most frequent thematic in the data records, 2) Theoretical description, made from lines of analysis that disclose the movement of the study activity; 3) Establishment of the analysis unit of the object of this research: the relation between the study activity motives and the objectives of study actions; 4) Return to the concrete, mediated by the analysis unit. Finally, it is aimed to reconstruct the real and explain the process of personal sense attribution to the study activity. It is analyzed, therefore, the limits of the formation of this activity in the current organization of teaching and the scholar contradictions that show, on the other hand, possibilities of study activity formation and of constitution of a personal sense that is consistent with the maximum possibilities of humanization existent in the activity in focus. In this perspective, it is analyzed how the relation between the motives of the study activity and the actions of study may engender purposeless actions, which do not allow the formation of this activity. They may, on the other hand, produce actions that generate reasons of learning, in which the knowledge is no longer merely a school content and becomes content experiences by the student. In the first case, that we name of existing personal sense, it is noticed the rupture between the motives and actions of study. In the second case, it is pointed out the contradictions in the organization of the pedagogical activity that indicate possibilities of overcoming this fragmentation between motives and actions and between social meanings and personal sense of the study activity, and that indicate the process of the attribution of possible personal senses, in the direction of the appropriation of the specific human knowledge of the pedagogical activity. It is emphasized the role of the teacher in this process. As a result, it is defended the thesis that for the scholar learning to happen, the study actions of the students must have a personal sense correspondent to the motives and to the social meanings of the study activity, towards the human development promotion. It is proposed, as a synthesis, an explanatory set of theoretical elements of the process of attribution of personal sense to the study activity in general, explaining what is needed to comprehend to situate the activity of the teacher as a humanizing activity, in a way that his or her mediation leads to the study activity of the student by means of the personal sense attribution.

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This diploma thesis deals with current conditions of individual types of the interest education organisations and differences between them within the selected topic. It determines strategies of these organisations and how these strategies will change in the future. The thesis is to find specifics within this type of education. The aim is the analysiss of the current state and development of the free time activities in particular types of organisations. In the theoretical part it is defined what the free time and out-of-school education are. The interest education is defined too, especially the terminology connected with that - types, functions, goals, conditions and methodology. The system of the out-of-school education is described in relation to the age of the child and its particular free time activities and the types of interest education organisations are compared with one another. The directors of free time activity centres, children and youth centres, afterschool clubs and managers of other non-profit organisations have been interviewed to make the list of possible types of institutions and to describe their future development and issues they are dealing with, ways of financing and the education of the children with special educational needs. To reach the goal in the practical part, the...