One of the challenges facing the education system in South Africa is a lack of the culture of teaching and learning. It is this challenge that prompted this research. The research investigated how the principaL as an instructional leader, can restore the culture of teaching and learning in previously disadvantaged schools. A qualitative approach was used and three schools were selected in the Sambandou Circuit of the Northern Province. The research results showed that there are general and management factors that contribute to a lack of the culture of teaching and learning. Management factors include, amongst others, lack of staff development programmes and discipline. The general factors, on the other hand, include amongst others, poor physical conditions and infrastructure in schools. In conclusion, the research recommended, amongst others, that principals conduct staff development programmes and supervise the work of educators and learners / Educational Leadership and Management / M. Ed. (Education Management)

Submitted by TEREZINHA FERREIRA DA SILVA COLOMBO (tfcolombo@terra.com.br) on 2018-06-21T12:06:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 tese definitivaPARA BIBLIOTECA.pdf: 5019069 bytes, checksum: 9109a416a0d0ec52d5e5c85d6774d33a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Satie Tagara (satie@marilia.unesp.br) on 2018-06-21T13:31:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 colombo_tfs_dr_mar.pdf: 5019069 bytes, checksum: 9109a416a0d0ec52d5e5c85d6774d33a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-21T13:31:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 colombo_tfs_dr_mar.pdf: 5019069 bytes, checksum: 9109a416a0d0ec52d5e5c85d6774d33a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-28 / Não recebi financiamento / O convívio escolar é fonte de desenvolvimento da cidadania. E é no espaço escolar que as relações se estabelecem e a natureza dessas relações depende da formação autônoma de cada indivíduo. Isso nos remete à dinâmica peculiar e inerente ao ambiente educacional: o clima escolar. O clima escolar é caracterizado pela síntese das percepções dos integrantes da instituição com relação a várias dimensões que se inter-relacionam tais como aprendizagem, relacionamentos sociais, segurança, justiça, participação, infraestrutura e pertencimento. Portanto, para conhecer o clima de uma escola é preciso investigar o conjunto de percepções em relação à instituição pelos seus integrantes, o que poderá propiciar à escola a ampliação do conhecimento de sua realidade com vistas a futuras propostas de intervenção. E nesse contexto, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral compreender como alunos e professores percebem e avaliam o clima escolar de uma instituição educativa de Ensino Fundamental II e Ensino Médio, e se haveria uma relação entre a qualidade da avaliação apresentada pelos alunos com o desempenho escolar por eles alcançado. Por específicos: averiguar o clima escolar com professores e alunos de Ensinos Fundamental II e Médio; relacionar os dados do clima, a partir das percepções dos alunos, com os de desempenho desses mesmos sujeitos; comparar as percepções dos alunos conforme o nível de ensino e as dos professores com as dos alunos, dando-se especial atenção às dimensões “Ensino e Aprendizagem”, “Relações Sociais e conflitos na escola” e “As regras, as sanções e a segurança na escola”. A metodologia é do tipo descritivo e próxima do nível explicativo e quanto à natureza dos dados é quantitativa e correlacional. Os instrumentos para avaliação do clima escolar são questionários específicos, construídos para a realidade escolar brasileira, destinados a alunos, professores e gestores, os quais foram validados, e mensuram as seguintes dimensões: relações com o ensino e a aprendizagem; relações sociais e conflitos; regras, sanções e segurança; situações de intimidação entre os alunos, relações entre a família, comunidade e a escola; infraestrutura e a rede física da escola; relações com o trabalho; e gestão e participação. Os questionários de clima escolar foram aplicados para 214 estudantes do Ensino Fundamental II (do 7º ao 9º ano); 203 alunos do Ensino Médio (1ª a 3ª séries) e 35 professores dos dois níveis de ensino. Os resultados indicaram que as avaliações mais positivas foram apresentadas pelos professores, seguidas pelas dos alunos do Ensino Fundamental II e, por fim, pelos alunos do Ensino Médio. Podemos ainda atestar que as avaliações das dimensões que compõem o clima escolar, ficaram entre positivas e intermediárias respectivamente. Verificou-se também que uma avaliação mais positiva do clima favorece um melhor desempenho nas diferentes disciplinas por eles cursadas. Entretanto isto não se confirmou para todas as variáveis das dimensões avaliadas. Outro ponto a ressaltar refere-se à variável “Crença nos estudos”, que pode influenciar de forma positiva o desempenho em todas as disciplinas nos dois níveis de ensino. Esperamos que essa pesquisa possa fornecer subsídios para que a instituição escolar amplie seu conhecimento acerca da realidade de seu clima escolar, para que consiga, a partir desse diagnóstico, refletir sobre e sistematizar intervenções voltadas à melhoria da convivência na escola. / Coexisting in the school environment is a way to learn how to be an active citizen. Relationships are established in the school, and their nature depends on the development and upbringing of each person. There is a peculiar dynamic regarding the school environment: the school climate, characterized by the synthesis of the perceptions of all members of the institution. This climate has many interrelated dimensions, like learning, social relationships, safety, justice, participation, infrastructure and the sense of belonging. To know the climate in a school one needs to investigate how its members perceive the institution. This investigation can help the school enhance its knowledge of the situation, in order to provide means of further intervention. In this context, the general objective of this research was to understand how teachers and students of a middle and high school institution perceive and evaluate the climate of the school, in order to understand if there is a direct correlation between the qualitative evaluation expressed by the students and their academic performance. The specific purpose was to understand how these teachers and students assess the school climate; correlate all data, regarding the perception of the students, to their performance; compare the perceptions of students and teachers according to their level, giving special attention to the themes “Teaching and learning”, “Social relationships and conflicts in school” and “Rules, sanctions and safety in school”. The method was descritive, near explanative level, the nature of the data was quantitative and correlational. The tools used to evaluate the climate of the school environment were specifical questionnaires, built and adapted to the reality of the Brazilian educational system, destined to be answered by students, teachers and members of the school board. These questionnaires were validated and were to used to assess the following subjects: relationship between teaching and learning; social relationships and conflicts; rules, sanctions and safety; bullying among students; how family, community and school interact; infrastructure and school facilities; work relationships; management and participation. The questionnaires were given to 214 middle-school students (7th to 9th grades), 203 high-school students (10th to 12th grades) and 35 teachers of both school grades. The results indicated that the most positive evaluations came from the teachers, followed by the evaluations given by middle school students and last by the evaluations of the high school students. The school climate was rated, respectively, between positive and satisfactory. It was possible to conclude that a better academic performance was directly related to the satisfaction with the school climate expressed by the student. This, however, could not be applied to all variables. Another point worth of mention is the variable “Belief in study”, that can have positively affect performance in all disciplines of both school grades. We hope this research can provide subsidies for the educational institution to enhance its knowledge of the reality of the school climate, in order to consider interventions destined to improve the relationships among all that live together in the same educational space.

The aim of the thesis is to focus on issues of school and class climate in elementary school. The paper deals with comparing class climate in elementary schools based on the size of the city, where a given elementary school is located. The theoretical section defines the basic terms - the environment, atmosphere and climate. It also states climate typology and climate actors. It further focuses on accessing surveys and methods of measuring climate. At first, the practical part defines the used MCI method, then processes the research objectives and hypotheses. Subsequently it describes the results of the survey that took place in the sixth grade of elementary school. In the final part the set hypothesis are verified.

The Master thesis depicts a social climate in a classroom in Liberec region. The thesis is divided into two larger topic parts - theoretical part where basic terminology connected to the topic is explained and practical part. Theoretical findings introduce issues of classroom climate which partially originates from a larger superior topic of a school climate. The aim of the first part is to introduce each involved party that influences classroom climate daily and engages in measuring the climate. It answers why is important to watch and measure this phenomenon at school. The second part of the thesis describes practical usage of findings from the theoretical part. It deals with a quality research and comparison of results at selected primary schools in Liberec region. It examines differences which appear in a particular classroom in relation to school culture. Research results serve to realization of classroom climate at each school. The research was led in the sixth grades of each school and standardised questionnaire was used to measure the classroom climate MCI. KEYWORDSs: School Climate, Classroom Climate, Teacher, Pupil, Parent, Quality Research, Primary School, School Culture, Questionnaire MCI Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the frequency and type of bullying behaviours experienced in a Pretoria private high school in the past six months. The aim was to determine how factors such as gender, age and ethnicity influenced the frequency and type of bullying experienced. The different types of bullying behaviours were categorised into physical, indirect, verbal and cyber-bullying. A quantitative method was applied and a self-report questionnaire was administered to 367 learners ranging from ages 12 – 18 (Grade 8 to Grade 12). The results of the study indicated that indirect bullying (such as malicious gossip) was the highest form of bullying reported in the study and occurred equally throughout the grades. However a high amount of bullying in all categories was found in the grade 9 group. Females reported higher frequencies of indirect bullying than males but no differences were found with regards to gender and the other types of bullying. No differences were found between the ethnic groups and physical violence as well as cyber-bullying. Caucasians seem to experience higher frequencies in bullying behaviours when it came to indirect bullying compared to African and Asian learners. Indian learners were also more prone to experience indirect bullying than Asians. Caucasians were also more likely to experience verbal bullying than Asian learners. It was found that racial bullying might occur in the school but that it does so at a minimal level. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Psychology / unrestricted

This publication summarizes the main results of the INCAProject during 2011/2012 and the contributions to the according INCA-Summer-School, which took place from September 19th – September 27th 2012 at the Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, Professorship of Tropical Forestry in Tharandt, Germany.:AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON SMALL FARMERS IN THE TROPICAL ANDES – GLOBAL CONVENTIONS FROM A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE S. 1 1. Introduction S. 2 2. The concept of an International Network on Climate Change S. 5 3. The outlook on an endogenous approach S. 9 4. References S. 12 ADAPTATION MEASURES S. 17 Adaptation strategies of Andean campesinos to cope with the climatic variability – Examples from the Mantaro Valley, Peru S. 18 A socio-economic analysis of livelihood strategies in rural forest depending communities in lowland Bolivia under a changing climate S. 20 Who knows what and why? Intra-cultural knowledge variation of agroforestry plants S. 21 Traditional ecological knowledge, resilience and food security: local strategies in three communities in the Yungas ecosystem, La Paz, Bolivia S. 22 Influence of agroforestry systems in risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Peruvian Andes S. 24 Assessing adaptation to climate change: Environmental and socio-economic changes in the Andes of Bolivia S. 26 Adaptive capacity of rural communities to climate change in the bio-cultural system of the Andes, Bolivia S. 28 Socio-economic analysis of farm-forestry systems: Case studies from Achamayo and Palcazu watersheds, Peruvian Andes S. 29 MONITORING AND MODELING LAND USE CHANGE S.33 Modeling and forecast of changes in land-use and land-cover caused by climate change in the Peruvian Andes S. 34 Land-use and land-cover change in Cotapata National Park – Natural integrated management area, Bolivia S. 37 Monitoring and analyzing land-use / land-cover changes using remote sensing and GIS in the Achamayo and Shullcas region, Peruvian Andes S. 39 Climate change and land-use in the Bolivian Andes S. 41 Modeling the adaptation strategies of farmers of the Andes against climate change and the related development of land-use / land-cover S. 43 MANAGEMENT OF A CHANGING LANDSCAPE S. 45 Evaluating the strategies for the management of biophysical resources in farm communities of the Mantaro Valley, Central Andes of Peru S. 46 Participative planning, monitoring and evaluation system in bio-cultural local communities S. 50 The monitoring program in Apolobamba protected area S. 51 Progress in the diagnosis of biodiversity vulnerability to climate change in Bolivia S. 52 Sectoral program of adaptation to climate change of biodiversity and ecosystems S. 53 DEFORESTATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE S. 55 Possible interactions between climate projections and deforestation scenarios in Bolivia S. 56 Transport and possible climate impacts of aerosols from biomass burning from the Amazon to the Bolivian Andes S. 56 Transboundary air pollution in southern Amazon of Peru S. 57 SUMMARY S. 59 Challenges presented by climate change in the Andean region: Land-use cover change and adaptive response of small farmers S. 60 List of participants and additional information S. 62

The diploma work is focused on the development of prosocial behaviour in a kindergarten by means of reader's preliteracy. The theoretical part clarifies the terms related to the issues of the development of prosocial behaviour in a kindergarten, reader's literacy and preliterasy. It as well briefly describes the differences between heterogeneous and homogenous structure of the classroom in a kindergarten arranged according to the age and deals with the kindergarten as well as the classroom climate. The aim of the practical part was to describe in what matter the particular kindergarten develops pro-social behaviour of children with the support of reader's preliteracy. During the whole school year there were particular activities established and consequently implemented into an age-heterogeneous classroom located in a one-classroom kindergarten and upon consequent reflexion and feedback the activities were further provided with a possibility to work further with a given activity. To gain the reflexion and feedback the methods of interviews, monitoring and self-reflexion were used. Children participating in the activities kept developing their prosocial behaviour and attitude to reading. After studying specialised literature a questionnaire for the research within the practical part was designed for...

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Syftet med den här magisteruppsatsen är att få en bild av hur skolledare och lärare ser på kommunikationsformen medarbetarsamtalet, kopplat till skolutveckling, i den svenska gymnasieskolan. Uppsatsen följer en fenomenologisk forskningsansats, i vilken en etnografisk modell med åtta kvalitativa intervjuer av tre skolledare och fem lärare på två gymnasieskolor setts som en fallstudie. Materialet har analyserats med hjälp av en narrativ metod och kritisk diskursanalys (CDA) och resultatet visar att skolledare och lärare talar om skolutveckling på disparata sätt i medarbetarsamtalet men också att förberedelser och feedback på medarbetarsamtalet skiljer sig åt och upplevelsen av medarbetarsamtalet är därför att det inte påverkar skolutvecklingen på de två gymnasieskolorna. / The purpose of this essay is to get a picture of how school principals and teachers look upon the particular communication that is known as discussions about personal development and the connection with school development at upper secondary school in Sweden. The essay follows a phenomenological research concept, in which eight qualitative research interviews within an ethnographical model have been obtained with three school principals and five teachers, as a case study. The data has been analyzed by a narrative method and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and shows that school principals and teachers talk about school development in different ways in their discussions about personal development, but also that preparations and feedback on the discussions differ. Discussions about personal development therefore have no impact on school development, according to the participants in this study.

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