In 2003 school geography was in a state of crisis: enrolment in GCSE geography courses had fallen by a third over the previous eight years. In response, a radical new ‘pilot’ geography GCSE course was designed and implemented in England. The GCSE was an attempt to rejuvenate a school subject that had become out of date, with little change to its content since the inauguration of the National Curriculum in 1988. With student-centred learning at its heart the GCSE aimed to make the subject much more exciting and relevant to young people. The following thesis examines alternative pedagogical approaches to teaching school geography that draw on young people’s experiences as citizens and consumers to make geography more relevant and interesting to them. Written as an unfolding story this multi-sited ethnography began by exploring the networks behind the pilot. This involved not only several different actors/groups of actors (including geography educators, academic geographers, geography teachers and school pupils) but also several different spaces (including schools, classrooms, organisation headquarters, working group meetings and publications). It moves on to examine how the GCSE’s approaches to teaching, learning and assessing were being played out in practice and to what extent its aims, claims and intentions were being realised in the classroom. Through exploring the pilot’s approach to the pedagogy of school geography my research became action-oriented in approach, and I became involved in co-creating critical, connective curriculum materials for the GCSE. The development of these new materials and teaching and learning strategies are situated within debates in human geography about critical pedagogy, young people’s geographies and public geographies and the thesis forges links between these different theoretical strands. I conclude by asking what lessons can be learnt from the pilot GCSE and its implications for the role of geography within a wider educational context. Written autoethnographically to reflect the collaborative and iterative nature of my research my intention has been to critically engage with multiple publics who are involved in this area.

Thesis advisor: Dennis Shirley / The ability to express meaning in prose is a foundational skill in our society. Given the importance of being a competent writer, concern with the quality of writing instruction is a recurring theme among American educators (Cutler & Graham, 2008; Gilbert & Graham, 2010; National Commission on Writing, 2003, 2004, 2006). Research shows that teachers are unprepared to teach writing (Gilbert & Graham, 2010) and devote limited amounts of time to it (Cutler & Graham, 2008; Gilbert & Graham, 2010). In addition, national assessment data indicates that most students are not proficient writers (Salahu-Din, Persky & Miller, 2008). An embedded case study design (Yin, 2009), using mixed methodology (Greene & Caracelli, 2003a, 2003b; Hesse-Biber, 2010), was employed to determine whether a school-university partnership enacted systemic functional linguistics theory guided writing intervention changed fourth and fifth grade teachers' writing instruction over the course of three years in an urban elementary school. The study further investigated changes to 41 fourth and 27 fifth graders' writing performance during the third year of the invention. Examination of the relationship between students' performance in writing and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test in English language arts was conducted. The study also explored how teachers articulated their experiences with the partnership. Findings showed the content of teachers' instruction changed involving the use of metalanguage and the teaching of genre, language, and tenor. Similarly, instructional strategies evolved regarding negotiating field and deconstruction of text. Findings also indicated a significant improvement in writing performance for all students, and bilingual students had more growth over time than monolingual peers. Also, a moderate positive relationship existed between writing performance and MCAS performance, which suggests understanding of genre may support reading comprehension. Overall, teachers positively experienced the partnership and found value in the professional development. Implications of these study findings will benefit teacher education, administrators and policymakers, and allow for improved school-university partnerships. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

The purpose of the study is to identify the perceived successful practices that led to improved teacher recruitment, preparation and retention efforts within the nine universities of The Texas A&M University System brought about by the Regents' Initiative for Excellence in Education. The data for this study, gathered through interviews, document reviews and observation, revealed that the Regents' Initiative was considered by project directors to be a challenging but rewarding educational reform initiative. The lessons learned through the experience reflect the general findings common to the research literature on school-university partnerships. Research findings of this study revealed that the successful implementation of the Regents' Initiative involved strategies to overcome challenges and develop processes for recruiting, improving teacher preparation and teacher retention. Selecting the right person as the teacher recruiter was paramount to the successful attainment of A&M System university teacher recruitment goals. Operationalizing teacher recruiting included developing recruiting targets, organizing data management, tracking student recruits in the teacher preparation pipeline and periodically reporting progress to stakeholders. Quality improvement of teacher preparation involved recruiting higher achieving high school and community college students, setting higher standards for teacher candidate performance and aligning course curriculum within the college of education and with community college partners to the state standards. Institutional leadership was required to promote and build meaningful partnerships combining efforts to recruit, prepare and retain quality teachers in the profession. A&M System institutions developed a communications campaign to build legislative, institutional and public awareness and support of the Initiative. Institutional involvement was broadened by providing opportunities for interaction between arts and sciences faculty and college of education faculty through collaborative research grants, presentation conferences and symposia. Finally, the successes were celebrated with all stakeholders, and rewards were provided to those who made significant contributions to the effort.

The purpose of the study is to identify the perceived successful practices that led to improved teacher recruitment, preparation and retention efforts within the nine universities of The Texas A&M University System brought about by the Regents' Initiative for Excellence in Education. The data for this study, gathered through interviews, document reviews and observation, revealed that the Regents' Initiative was considered by project directors to be a challenging but rewarding educational reform initiative. The lessons learned through the experience reflect the general findings common to the research literature on school-university partnerships. Research findings of this study revealed that the successful implementation of the Regents' Initiative involved strategies to overcome challenges and develop processes for recruiting, improving teacher preparation and teacher retention. Selecting the right person as the teacher recruiter was paramount to the successful attainment of A&M System university teacher recruitment goals. Operationalizing teacher recruiting included developing recruiting targets, organizing data management, tracking student recruits in the teacher preparation pipeline and periodically reporting progress to stakeholders. Quality improvement of teacher preparation involved recruiting higher achieving high school and community college students, setting higher standards for teacher candidate performance and aligning course curriculum within the college of education and with community college partners to the state standards. Institutional leadership was required to promote and build meaningful partnerships combining efforts to recruit, prepare and retain quality teachers in the profession. A&M System institutions developed a communications campaign to build legislative, institutional and public awareness and support of the Initiative. Institutional involvement was broadened by providing opportunities for interaction between arts and sciences faculty and college of education faculty through collaborative research grants, presentation conferences and symposia. Finally, the successes were celebrated with all stakeholders, and rewards were provided to those who made significant contributions to the effort.

Jolanta – Gertruda Knyvienė, a postgraduate of Vilnius Pedagogical University, Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy, Department of Educology has presented a thesis under the title ‘The Possibilities of School – University Partnership in the Course of Change of Education System’, that was written under the supervision of associated professor Loreta Žadeikaitė. The changing society has set and is still in progress with new requirements to an individual and at the same time to the education system, in which an individual is nurtured. In Lithuania’s and the European Union’s documents extensive attention is paid to the isolation of educational institutions and, thus, the objective is set to establish collaborative relationships among educational institutions, companies and institutions of scientific research. The changing concept of teachers’ and principals’ activity and teacher preparation program itself, has set the goal to redefine and establish partnership ventures between schools and universities which prepare teachers. The objective of this thesis is to research and analyze the possible modes and conditions for school-university partnerships as well as to evaluate their importance in the course of change of education system. Having followed the scientific-theoretical approach and examined the possibilities of school-university partnerships, it can be claimed that cooperation is important for both the institutions as it could help to ensure their further development based on... [to full text]

The purpose of this qualitative transcendental phenomenological study is to describe a particular phenomenon: the lived experiences of high school teachers who were responsible for creating and teaching a senior-year English Transition Course. Moustakas’ methods, framework and data analysis guidelines, coupled with interviews using Seidman’s three-interview process, is the best procedure for achieving the research aim. Thus, the study is based upon the results of interviews of 10 high school teachers from schools within a specific geographic region who collaborated with four English faculty members from a comprehensive four-year institution within the same region, over a period of three years. It is important to capture this phenomenon, as it occurred within a time of broad educational reform and uncertainty and will allow others to understand how teachers respond to interventions designed to reduce the need for remediation in reading and writing. This research examines the following questions: (a) What is the essence of high school teachers’ experiences planning a senior-year English Transition course designed to achieve college readiness in reading and writing? Specifically, how do teachers experience planning as a result of collaborative sessions with University English faculty? Additionally, how do teachers experience planning (e.g., course goals, units of study, individual lessons) as result of their individual efforts? (b) What is the essence of the experience of teaching a senior-year English Transition course designed to achieve college readiness in reading and writing? The fundamental textural-structural synthesis revealed four common themes as well as a variety of sub-themes across all participants. Scientific terms were used as metaphors. The juxtaposition of this scientific metaphorical depiction, ostensibly at odds in a study of literacy instruction, intends to reveal the complexity of teacher experiences and the totality of external circumstances as well as internal conditions they encountered. The insights from this study may inform curriculum specialists, policy-makers, school administrators, and English teachers.

The notion of "partnership" dominates contemporary school improvement and educational reform agendas. Most discourse about partnerships between schools and universities historically relates to the apparent divide between practice and theory, between practitioner and academy. This study departs from these traditional perspectives to move beyond the divide between teachers and academics. Designing strategies for re-visioning this historical divide within the education community, between teachers and academics, engages the profession at all levels. Instead of simply re-visioning this divide, however, we can envision a professional place where the divide does not exist. Addressing this divide requires teachers and academics, when they do come together for the purpose of collaborative work of any kind, to actively seek to understand each other's work. This study examines one school and university partnership that was modelled on the principles of a Professional Development School. It investigates the meeting talk between groups of teachers and academics as they plan and report on a collaborative project aimed at improving Mathematics teaching practices in the school. Whereas most research investigating school and university partnerships addresses the outcomes of such partnerships, or attempts to describe and advocate for ideal partnerships, this study considers the actual interactional work of the participants as they engage in the everyday and ongoing activities of partnership. It shows how partnerships are constructed through talk and activity. Instead of considering the partnership as a predetermined and pre-existing phenomenon, this study adopts the view that the work of partnership is an ongoing accomplishment through the activity of the participants. In this way, this study shows the local social order of a partnership as it was built, maintained and transformed through the interactional work of the participants. Both the institutional setting and the participants' enactment of partnership work contribute to the establishment of the social and moral order of the partnership. The principal question addressed in the study asks how participants accomplish the partnership work through their social interactions with one another. It considers the interactional resources that the partners (teachers, interns and academics) use to construct their talk and interactions with one another in the project; and how the partners construct themselves and the other members as members of the partnership, as academics/researchers and as teachers. This study drew on ethnomethodological resources to develop understandings about how the participants accomplish the partnership work through their talk-in-interaction. The specific focus is the talk of partnership that occurred in meetings between members of the school and of the university. These meetings were audio-recorded, transcribed, and finely analysed using the techniques and procedures of conversation analysis and membership category analysis. These methodological resources revealed the social and moral orders at work. Analysis of the meeting talk shows the specific activities and relationships developed by the principal of the school in the accomplishment of the partnership; the ways in which the various participants develop and use their claims to expertise (or lack of it) in doing partnership work; and how participants use the institutional resource of meeting talk to accomplish the partnership work. The study is of significance to educators, teachers and academics. It provides new and rich understandings about how school and university partnerships are accomplished through the participants' meetings. It shows the resources that the participants use to construct and accomplish their different kinds of expertise, to enact the leadership activities required, and to co-construct the various features of partnership. The study offers analytic tools for uncovering the interactional resource of the participants. The ethnomethodological resources, particularly conversation analysis and membership category analysis, can be used to analyse in close detail the social interactions of participants in the institutional talk of meetings. In showing how the social and moral orders of partnerships are revealed and by offering understandings of the pragmatics of school and university partnership, the social structure of school and university partnerships is explicated. The study offers one example of what a school and university partnership can be like. Epistemologically, it explores and exposes the kinds of knowledge produced from this kind of accounting for school and university partnerships. It shows how the work of partnership can be accomplished by participants, rather than attempt to claim how it should be done.

学位プログラム名: 京都大学大学院思修館 / 京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(総合学術) / 甲第21229号 / 総総博第1号 / 新制||総総||1(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院総合生存学館総合生存学専攻 / (主査)准教授 磯部 洋明, 教授 松下 佳代, 特定教授 泉 拓良, 惣脇 宏 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy / Kyoto University / DFAM

Notre travail constitue une analyse objective de l'évolution des connaissances relatives aux acides et aux bases construites par les élèves et les étudiants suite aux enseignements reçus et en particulier lors de la transition lycée-université. Les travaux antérieurs avaient pour objectif de faire ressortir les conceptions alternatives et les difficultés dans la compréhension de ces concepts que sont susceptible de rencontrer les élèves et étudiants concernés par notre étude. Notre cadre théorique s’articule autour de la transposition didactique, de rapport au savoir et des relations entre les phénomènes et leur modélisation dans l'enseignement de la chimie. D’où l’apparition des questions et hypothèses de recherche. Suite aux analyses effectuées, il en résulte un manque de rigueur dans l’utilisation du vocabulaire et/ou du formalisme conduisant parfois à la présentation de modèles hybrides susceptibles d’induire chez les élèves ou les étudiants des conceptions alternatives ou de conduire à des difficultés de compréhension. Plusieurs conceptions alternatives et difficultés résultent aussi de la non mise en relation claire et explicite par les enseignants des trois registres de la chimie, macroscopique, microscopique et symbolique. Enfin, la transition lycée-université ne remplit pas les conditions favorables à un approfondissement conceptuel des savoirs vus en terminale, elle permet tout au plus leur réappropriation par certains. / This work consisted of a complete longitudinal study of the didactic transposition relative to the acids and base conceptual field from the upper-secondary school to the first university year in Tunisia. A literature review led to the formulation of the research questions and hypotheses and to the choice of a analysis theoretical framework, the anthropological theory of didactics of Chevallard and the link between phenomena and their modelling in the chemistry education. Having made a historical analysis of the reference knowledge construction we realized a study of the institutional relationship of the pupils/students with the objects of knowledge for the various levels of education. We found a lack of strictness in the use of the vocabulary and\or formalism sometimes leading to the presentation of hybrid models susceptible to induce pupils/ student’s alternative conceptions or to lead to difficulties of understanding. We put in evidence that the tasks and techniques which repeat during the various levels of education concern the pH calculations and titrations. In the taught knowledge we have identify some inaccuracies and some inadequacy which can be at the origin of certain difficulties or alternative conceptions. Concerning the evolution of the knowledge learnt further to the successive educations, we put in evidence that the education concerning the acid and base concepts from the second year of upper-secondary school (grade 10) to the first university year leads gradually to the passage of a "phenomenological model" to a "symbolic model", then to a " pithy formula model", but little to the integration of the Bronsted scientific model. We also showed that it is in the difficulty to linking the three registers of chemistry, macroscopic, microscopic and symbolic, that lives the main difficulties encountered by pupils/students and their tendency to have recourse to use alternative reasoning’s. Besides, the conceptions and the identified alternative reasoning’s seem due to a lack of strictness in the presentation of the taught knowledge contents. Finally, if we consider the conceptual evolution during the secondary school-university transition, we put in evidence that this transition does not perform the favourable conditions to a conceptual analysis of the knowledge’s seen in grade 12, it allows, at the most, to their another appropriation by some. Propositions for improve this evolution were formulated.

Neste trabalho apresento a tese de doutorado intitulada: “Pedagogia Universitária potencializada no diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática: quando três gerações de educadores se encontram”. A questão problema que norteou a investigação foi: Em que sentido o diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática entre três gerações de professores se constitui processo potencializador da Pedagogia Universitária? Para a realização da investigação, propus e desenvolvi um Grupo de Trabalho Colaborativo (GTC) que agregou, por meio da uma formação continuada, três gerações de professores de Matemática ligadas ao Curso de Licenciatura Plena em Matemática (CLPM) da UNEMAT/Cáceres. Essa formação deu-se em nove encontros mensais e teve como tema: “A Educação Matemática na Escola e na Universidade: aproximações possíveis?”. As três gerações de professores de Matemática reunidas no GTC foram: Professores Formadores (PF); Acadêmicos Estagiários (AE), Acadêmicas Bolsistas (AB) e Professores da Escola (PE). No GTC relacionou-se o espaço Universitário com o Escolar e as pautas dos debates nortearam as próprias realidades de cada instituição educacional que influenciavam o fazer Educação Matemática. Este GTC serviu como espaço investigativo e nele efetuei uma pesquisa qualitativa com os preceitos do Estudo de Caso (YIN; ANDRÉ) e da pesquisa participante (BRANDÃO; CHIZZOTTI; BRANDÃO & STRECK). Como sujeitos pesquisados tive 42 professores colaboradores, dentre eles: 17 PF, 12 AE, 02 AB e 11 PE. Antes de iniciar os encontros da formação continuada realizei 16 entrevistas individuais com PF e durante os mesmos coletei dados através de filmagem, anotações registradas em diário reflexivo digital e questionários. Os dados foram sistematizados em um banco de dados composto por três partes: Texto de Referência (TR) – Parte 1 – Entrevistas; TR – Parte 2 – Diário Reflexivo Digital e TR – Parte 3 – Transcrições do Áudio das Filmagens dos Encontros. Para analisar os dados utilizei-me das técnicas da Análise de Conteúdo (BARDIN; FRANCO). A tese está organizada em três grandes partes e na sua exposição estabeleci um diálogo permanente entre a empiria e a teoria (FRANCO & KRAHE; SOARES & CUNHA; TARDIF, LESSARD; ZABALZA; PIMENTA & ANASTASIOU; CUNHA, entre outros). A análise da experiência de ação e investigação realizada me permite afirmar que o diálogo reflexivo sobre Educação Matemática potencializa a Pedagogia Universitária quando é possibilitado aos professores o encontro para dialogarem e a eles é permitido falar e ouvir sobre as realidades do seu dia a dia de trabalho docente, de forma horizontal, sem hierarquias e receios. Como principais aprendizados, destaco a importância do diálogo reflexivo e do trabalho colaborativo para a formação de professores; o emergente rompimento entre as distâncias que separam a escola e a Universidade e que a Pedagogia Universitária e a Educação Matemática são debates ausentes, porém urgentes de serem postos em prática nos cursos de licenciaturas. Como caminhos possíveis, a partir dos diálogos estabelecidos, evidencio que a Pedagogia Universitária na UNEMAT deve ser o centro do debate institucional e que deve ser reinventada na relação entre Escola e Universidade para os cursos de Licenciatura. / In this work I present a doctoral thesis entitled: "Higher Education pedagogy potentiated in reflective dialogue on mathematics education: when three generations of educators meet”. The question that guided the research was: In what sense the reflective dialogue on mathematics education from three generations of professors constitutes a potentiating process for higher education pedagogy? To perform the research, a collaborative working group was proposed and developed, which put together through in service training, three generations of mathematics professors related to the Mathematics Licentiate Course of Mato Grosso State University- UNEMAT/Cáceres. This in service training took place in nine monthly meetings and had as its theme: "The mathematics education at School and at the university: possible approaches?". The three generations of mathematics teachers gathered in the collaborative working group were: teacher educators (TE); student teachers (TS); assistant researchers (AR) and school teachers (ST). The collaborative working group related the academic space and the school space, with the debates and agendas that guide the particular realities of each educational institution, which influence the making of mathematics education. This collaborative working group served as an investigative space, that was produced as a qualitative research with the precepts of the case of study (YIN; ANDRÉ) and participatory research (BRANDÃO; CHIZZOTTI; BRANDÃO & STRECK). 42 members, including 17 teacher educators (TE), 12 student teachers (TS), 02 assistant researchers (AR) and 11 school teachers were surveyed. Before starting the continuing education meetings, 16 individual interviews with professors lecturers were performed, over the same event; data was collected through filming, reflective digital diary notes and questioners. The data were organized in a database composed of three parts: Text Reference (TR) - Part 1 - Interviews; TR - Part 2 - Reflective digital diary and TR - Part 3 - Transcripts of audio footage of meetings. To analyze the data I have used content analysis techniques (BARDIN, FRANCO).The thesis is organized into three parts and in its development I established a permanent dialogue between empiricism and theory (FRANCO & KRAHE; SOARES & CUNHA; TARDIF, LESSARD; ZABALZA; PIMENTA & ANASTASIOU; CUNHA, among others). The analysis of the experience of action and investigation allows me to state that a reflective dialogue on mathematics education improves the higher education pedagogy when it provides dialogue opportunities among the professors and teachers and they are allowed to speak and hear about the realities of their day to day work of teaching, horizontally, without hierarchies and fears. As the main learning of this research, I highlight the importance of reflective dialogue and collaborative work for the in service training of teachers and faculty; the emerging rift of the distances between school and university, and the university’s pedagogy and mathematics education debates are missing, however urgent to be put into practice in licentiate courses. As possible paths from the dialogues set, I evince that higher education pedagogy at Mato Grosso State University – UNEMAT, should be the center of institutional debate and the relationship between school and university for teaching programs must be reinvented.