The study describes and evaluates how Grade 7 teachers in the Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe used the Step in New Primary Mathematics Grade 7 textbooks in their teaching, and the impact it had on mathematics teaching and learning. The purpose of the study was to investigate how the teachers used the mathematics textbooks and to suggest areas of improvement. These textbooks were distributed to all the primary schools in Zimbabwe in 2010, under the donor-driven Education Transition Fund. This curriculum initiative sought to address the severe textbook shortage and to improve the performance of the learners. The study examined the ways the teachers interacted with and mediated the textbooks in mathematics lessons, what material they used or did not use from the textbook, how they used it, and why they used it in the specific ways. In order to achieve this objective, an empirical study of a sample of grade 7 teachers in the province was undertaken. Social constructivism was the main theory that guided the study. Stratified purposeful sampling was employed to select three out of eight districts in the province, and to select eighteen schools from the three districts for participation in the study. Each district contributed the same number of questionnaire respondents (n=30) and interview respondents (n=2). A mixed methods design, which combined a questionnaire, a semi-structured interview and non-participant lesson observation, was adopted. The results indicated that the use of these textbooks raised the teachers’ and learners’ motivation, created some opportunities for teacher learning, and improved the learners’ performance in mathematics. However, the teachers’ low confidence levels in teaching some topics, the absence of regular staff development programmes, and also textual errors had a negative effect on how the textbooks were used. The teachers did not cover all the textbook content, neither did they demonstrate or encourage the learners to use alternative strategies to solve the problems in the textbooks. A number of teachers showed resistance to the use of these textbooks. This study provided evidence that points to an urgent need for the improved quality of mathematics textbooks, as well as an improvement in the teachers’ competencies, namely by placing greater emphasis on the use of textbooks in pre-service and in-service teacher training programmes. Based on the results of the study, a framework for teachers’ effective resource utilization is proposed. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)

Notre objectif dans cette thèse est de suivre l’évolution du paradigme éducatif et du modèle de citoyenneté véhiculé par l’école tunisienne entre 1958 et 2002 selon les différentes approches adoptées en matière d’éducation civique et islamique à travers les réformes qu’a connu le système éducatif. Des réformes qui ont pris une actualité aiguë premièrement avec la Réforme de 1958 puis après les inévitables examens de conscience provoqués d’abord par la montée de la mouvance islamiste et la crise politique de la fin des années quatre-vingt (Réforme de 1991) et ensuite par rapport aux nouveaux défis liés à la mondialisation et les exigences du vivre ensemble mondial (Réforme de 2002). Dans ce travail, nous analyserons un parcours de plus d’un demi-siècle concernant l’éducation civique et islamique à l’école publique tunisienne. Un parcours qui remet en situation les choix qui ont été faits et les manières dont les principes et les valeurs étaient traduits en contenu éducatif. Il s’agit d’une réflexion sur ce contenu, en adoptant une approche comparative entre continuité et opposition. Notre approche se base sur l’analyse d’un corpus constitué de manuels scolaires et de programmes officiels d’éducation civique et islamique destinés à l’école publique tunisienne. / In this thesis is to follow the evolution of the educational paradigm and model of citizenship conveyed by Tunisian schools between 1958 and 2002 for different approaches in the field of civic and islamic education and through the reforms experienced by the education system. Reforms that have taken a first acute events with the 1958 reform and after the inevitable self-examination caused primarily by the rise of the Islamist movement and the political crisis of the late eighties (Reform 1991) and then compared to the new challenges of globalization and the demands of living together world (Reform 2002). We analyze a course of more than half a century for civic and Islamic education in public school in Tunisia. A course that challenges the status choices was made and the ways in which principles and values were translated into educational content. This is a reflection on the content, adopting a comparative approach between continuity and opposition. Our approach is based on the analysis of a corpus consists of textbooks and official programs of civic and Islamic education in public tunisian school.

Η συγκεκριμένη μελέτη, διερευνά εκτενώς τις αξίες στα Νεοελληνικά αναγνώσματα εξαταξίου Γυμνασίου περιόδου 1940-1950, το θεματικό και ιδεολογικό περιεχόμενο τους, σε μια ιδιαίτερη ιστορικό-πολιτική φάση της πολεμικής και μεταπολεμικής Ελλάδας. Η έρευνα έδειξε ότι ανάλογα με τις πολιτικές και θρησκευτικές συνθήκες στα Νεοελληνικά αναγνώσματα έμπαιναν κείμενα που αποσκοπούσαν στην προαγωγή των σκοπών που επεδίωκε η πολιτική κατάσταση. Η εσωτερίκευση αξιών ήταν επιλεκτική για να υπηρετηθούν οι εκάστοτε σκοποί της εξουσίας. Αξίες που βοηθούν στη πολιτικοποίηση όχι στη κομματικοποίηση δεν προωθούνται σε αυτά τα κείμενα. Παρατηρούμε ότι το σύστημα αξιών της περιόδου αυτής είναι μια σύνθεση εθνικών, θρησκευτικών και ηθικών αξιών. Ο κεντρικός θεματικός πυρήνας των κειμένων παραμένει σχετικά σταθερός, με βασικό άξονα προσανατολισμού την πατρίδα, τους Ελληνικούς τόπους, τη φύση, τη θρησκεία και την οικογένεια. Το αξιολογικό περιεχόμενο στα αναγνωστικά της περιόδου αυτής επικεντρώνεται στην προβολή κυρίως εθνικών, θρησκευτικών και ηθικών αξιών. Εμφανίζει περισσότερο έναν εθνοκεντρικό, παραδοσιακό και συντηρητικό προσανατολισμό αξιών, που ανταποκρίνεται στη συντηρητική υφή της κυρίαρχης ιδεολογίας της εποχής εκείνης, και μεταβάλλεται σε μια συστηματική προσπάθεια κατήχησης και δογματικού διαποτισμού. Όλες οι αξίες συνεργάζονται και αλληλοσυμπληρώνονται, και τελικά αποτελούν ένα ενιαίο ιδεολογικό σύστημα αξιών, συμβατό με την ιδεολογία του εκπαιδευτικού συστήματος, που ηγεμονεύεται από την κυρίαρχη ιδεολογία του πολιτικοκοινωνικού συστήματος. / This study explores at length the values in Modern Greek Literature readings six-grade secondary Gymnasium period 1940-1950, the thematic and ideological content in a particular historical-political phase of the war and the post-war Greece. The investigations showed that depending on the political and religious conditions the texts had aimed at promoting the objectives pursued by the political situation. Thus was selective internalization of values to serve the respective objects of power. Values that help politicization rather than political parties are not promoted in these texts. Notice that the value system of this period is a synthesis of national, religious - moral values. Central core theme of the text remains relatively stable, with the main orientation axis of the homeland, the Greek places, nature, religion and family. The evaluative content to readers of this period show mainly focuses on national religious and moral values. It displays a more ethnocentric, traditional and conservative orientation of values, which correspond to conservative texture of the dominant ideology of the time, and changes in a systematic effort indoctrination and dogmatic indoctrination. Altogether the values complement each other, and ultimately form a single ideological value system, compatible with the ideology of the educational system, which overmaster by the dominant ideology of social and political system.

The study describes and evaluates how Grade 7 teachers in the Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe used the Step in New Primary Mathematics Grade 7 textbooks in their teaching, and the impact it had on mathematics teaching and learning. The purpose of the study was to investigate how the teachers used the mathematics textbooks and to suggest areas of improvement. These textbooks were distributed to all the primary schools in Zimbabwe in 2010, under the donor-driven Education Transition Fund. This curriculum initiative sought to address the severe textbook shortage and to improve the performance of the learners. The study examined the ways the teachers interacted with and mediated the textbooks in mathematics lessons, what material they used or did not use from the textbook, how they used it, and why they used it in the specific ways. In order to achieve this objective, an empirical study of a sample of grade 7 teachers in the province was undertaken. Social constructivism was the main theory that guided the study. Stratified purposeful sampling was employed to select three out of eight districts in the province, and to select eighteen schools from the three districts for participation in the study. Each district contributed the same number of questionnaire respondents (n=30) and interview respondents (n=2). A mixed methods design, which combined a questionnaire, a semi-structured interview and non-participant lesson observation, was adopted. The results indicated that the use of these textbooks raised the teachers’ and learners’ motivation, created some opportunities for teacher learning, and improved the learners’ performance in mathematics. However, the teachers’ low confidence levels in teaching some topics, the absence of regular staff development programmes, and also textual errors had a negative effect on how the textbooks were used. The teachers did not cover all the textbook content, neither did they demonstrate or encourage the learners to use alternative strategies to solve the problems in the textbooks. A number of teachers showed resistance to the use of these textbooks. This study provided evidence that points to an urgent need for the improved quality of mathematics textbooks, as well as an improvement in the teachers’ competencies, namely by placing greater emphasis on the use of textbooks in pre-service and in-service teacher training programmes. Based on the results of the study, a framework for teachers’ effective resource utilization is proposed. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)

he thesis proposes a teaching programme for general botany in the school garden. On the basis of a literary analysis of framework educational programmes, school educational plans, secondary-school textbooks of biology, assessment and evaluation of the school garden of The Secondary school of Agriculture and Food processing in Klatovy, a set of more than 85 questions and tasks has been made. The additional worksheets for pupils have been prepared just for the educational activity in the school garden. The method of direct study of nature is the most frequent one. The authentication of the teaching programme was carried out in the years 2010 to 2012 with the pupils of the aforementioned secondary school.

This master's thesis deals with the interpretations of influence and significance of the Tonghak Peasant Movement in Korean educative materials of 20th and 21st century. The first part of this thesis notes the social-political influence on the development of modern education from late 19th century until nowadays education in Republic of Korea and Democratic People's Republic of Korea, focusing on high school history education. The second part of the thesis quantitatively and qualitatively analyses the South and North Korean high school textbooks on the topic of the Tonghak Peasant Movement. In the last part the thesis attempts to define social and political influence on the education through the analyzed textbooks and attempts to define the cause of changes in the view on the topic - from the Tonghak rebellion, through Tonghak revolution, to Tonghak Peasant Movement.

Cette recherche trouve sa justification dans l’esprit d’ouverture vers les langues dans les pays de l’Union européenne. Comme, depuis janvier 2007, la Roumanie est entrée dans cette grande famille, l’enseignement des langues y est devenu, plus que jamais, une priorité. Notre questionnement porte sur : - la place des langues romanes et de l’anglais dans l’enseignement roumain actuel ; - la manière dont les documents officiels actuels (programmes scolaires, curriculum national, manuels scolaires) du ministère de l’Éducation et de la Recherche de Roumanie intègrent le nouveau dispositif du Conseil de l’Europe, le Cadre européen commun de référence pour les langues (CECR) ; - les manuels scolaires actuels pour les langues romanes (français, italien, espagnol) et l’anglais ; - les pratiques pédagogiques dans l’enseignement des différentes langues. Les façons d’apprendre et d’enseigner les langues à l’heure actuelle sont nombreuses, mais notre analyse reste dans le cadre théorique du CECR, dans l’objectif d’aider les enseignants, les élèves et les concepteurs de cours à coordonner leurs efforts pour augmenter la qualité de l’acte éducatif. Notre recherche ouvre la porte sur une réflexion plus approfondie concernant l’efficacité des méthodes utilisées aujourd’hui dans le domaine de l’enseignement des langues étrangères au lycée. La didactique moderne essaie de répondre aux demandes de la société, en proposant des stratégies multiples et adaptées pour former les élèves. L’expérience de la tradition associée à la capacité d’innovation sont les nouveaux repères de l’école pour une société multiculturelle. Si l’école roumaine veut s’inscrire dans la modernité, elle devra poursuivre le travail de fond engagé dans le respect et l’application du CECR, s’assurer que les professeurs y sont formés et leur donner les moyens d’intégrer cette modernité dans leurs pratiques scolaires / This research finds its justification in the spirit of the opening towards the modern foreign languages in the European Union. As, since January 2007, Romania has entered this big family, the teaching of modern foreign languages has become, more than ever, a priority. In this research we were interested in : - the place of the Romance languages and of the English language in the Romanian education system of today ; - the way in which the current official documents (school curricula, national curricula, school textbooks) of the Ministry of Education and Research of Romania integrates a new framework of the European Council, Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) ; - the current school textbooks of the Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish) and of English ; - the pedagogical activity in the teaching of various foreign languages. Nowadays, the ways of learning and teaching are numerous, but our analysis followsthe theoretical framework of CEFR, with the purpose of helping teachers, students and the authors of courses coordinate their efforts to enhance the quality of the teaching process. Our research opens the way for a deeper reflection as to the efficiency of the methods used today in the field of teaching foreign languages in high school. The modern Didactics tries to answer the requests of the society, proposing multiple strategies and adapted to form the students. The experience of the tradition associated with the capacity of innovation sets the new landmarks of school for a multicultural society. If the Romanian educational system wants to keep pace with the modernity, will have to continue the steps already made observing and applying the CEFR rules, to secure that the teachers are formed and are given the means to integrate this modernity in the actual teaching and practice in schools