This research explores how the social backgrounds of a group of students contributed to their intuitive knowledge in probabilistic reasoning, and influenced their processing of the associated mathematics. A group of Year 11 students who came from families for whom the phenomenon of track gambling formed an important part of their cultural background was identified. Another group consisting of students in the same mathematics course (Year 11 Maths in Society) but from families for whom the phenomenon of gambling in any form was totally absent from their social backgrounds was identified. Twenty students were selected from each group. The research employed a qualitative methodology in which a phenomenographic approach was used to investigate the qualitatively different ways in which individuals within the two groups thought about concepts involving probabilistic reasoning, and processed the related mathematical skills and concepts. The cognitive processes involved in the applications of probabilistic and related mathematical concepts in a variety of both gambling and non-gambling situations were studied in order to determine whether this culturally based knowledge could be viewed as a type of ‘ethnomathematics.’ Data were obtained through individual structured interviews which enabled patterns of reasoning to be compared and contrasted. Analyses of these data enabled intuitive mathematical understandings possessed by the gamblers not only to be identified, but also to be linked with their social backgrounds. Also differences between how individuals in the two groups processed probabilistic and associated mathematical knowledge were determined. This research complements and extends existing knowledge and theories related to culturally-based mathematical knowledge. Implications for further research, for classroom teaching, and for curriculum development in the study of probability in senior secondary mathematics classes are discussed.

While there have been enormous changes in the South African system of education since 1994, the legacy of apartheid and the different education of Black teachers is still evident in township schools. This study examined the practices of mathematics teaching in three township secondary schools by conducting a detailed investigation of eight teachers in three schools. Classroom observations and video recordings of teachers of Grades 10 to 12 served as the main data collection method. A sample of 12 lessons was analysed using the Secondary Teaching Analysis Matrix-Mathematics (STAM-Mathematics) (Gallagher & Parker, 1995) instrument. The researcher used STAM to categorise teachers' classroom practices along a three pronged continuum, namely didactic, transitional and conceptual teaching for the purpose of answering research questions about the content, the teaching, the assessment practices, the interactions between the teacher and the student, and the resource availability. Analysis of the data collected using the 22 STAM descriptors showed that the practices of teaching mathematics in township secondary schools was primarily didactic, with only minimal characteristics of transitional teaching and fewer attributes of conceptual teaching. Identifying the gaps between the teachers' practice and the descriptors for transitional and conceptual teaching with respect to the content, the teaching, the approaches to assessment, interactions between teacher and students, and resources availability has provided insight and a baseline for teacher inservice. Consequently, this study has provided research-based evidence for appropriate intervention to improve mathematics teaching and learning as prioritised by the Department of Education since the creation of the democratic government in 1994. / It is recommended that mathematics teachers in township schools use the STAM instrument in pairs or groups to observe and analyse each other's lessons with particular focus on the 22 descriptors and to use this framework as a guideline for daily lesson preparations and to help guide the teachers from teacher-centred instruction to conceptual instruction. Further, the STAM could be incorporated into teacher education and professional development programs and thereby lead to more conceptual forms of teaching that could contribute towards a greater understanding of mathematics and ultimately raise the pass rate of learners in external examinations at Grade 12.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998. / Title from title page screen, viewed July 7, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Larry McNeal (chair), Kenneth Strand, Rodney Riegle, Joe Parks, Walter H. Warfield. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-103) and abstract. Also available in print.

This work pursues the history of the creation and consolidation of the Gym of Application of Catholic University of Philosophy of Sergipe, in the period understood among 1959 to 1968. Your main objective was to analyze the performance of the Gym in relation to your apprenticeship function and of experimentation, through the analysis of the legislation that regulated your creation, as well as of the school culture and of the pedagogic innovations in him implemented along the studied period. To reach such objectives, a research of historical character was undertaken, that was used of sources diversified as minute books, newspapers, registration of notes, notebooks, laws, interviews and pictures that subsidized the withdrawal of important information for the understanding of the aspects that they involved the history of the Gym of Application. / Este trabalho persegue a história da criação e consolidação do Ginásio de Aplicação da Faculdade Católica de Filosofia de Sergipe no período compreendido entre 1959 a 1968. Seu objetivo principal foi analisar a atuação do Ginásio em relação à sua função de estágio e de experimentação, através da análise da legislação que regulou a sua criação, bem como da cultura escolar e das inovações pedagógicas nele implementadas ao longo do período estudado. Para alcançar tais objetivos, empreendeu-se uma pesquisa de caráter histórico, que se utilizou de fontes diversificadas como livros de atas, jornais, registro de notas, cadernetas, leis, entrevistas e fotografias que subsidiaram o recolhimento de informações importantes para a compreensão dos aspectos que envolveram a história do Ginásio de Aplicação.

Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-27T19:13:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Renata da Silva Dessbesel.pdf: 3315238 bytes, checksum: 45826d0791e7acb2a3d8efbcfda22777 (MD5) Renata da Silva Dessbesel.pdf.jpg: 3479 bytes, checksum: 55f6150ecd6e73fb9eca554e303e8ec2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-08 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study aimed to analyze the statistics teaching by elementary and secondary teachers in public schools in Cruz Alta and evaluate workshops for continuing education to mathematics teachers, approaching statistics contents and using support material. Characterized as a research field, the investigation has qualitative and quantitative nature, the participants are teachers from 16 public schools in the city of Cruz Alta. From a review of official documents related to Statistics Education and dissertations that have worked with this theme, a questionnaire was applied to 58 teachers, whose responses are presented and discussed. In order to supplement the survey responses, interviews were conducted with five teachers and also continuing education workshops were realized with teachers who work in public schools in the elementary and high school in Cruz Alta. From the data collected, it was found that among the contents of statistics in the elementary school, organizing data in a table and the construction of line graphs and bar are addressed more frequently. In high school, graphical representation of data and measures of central tendency (arithmetic mean, median and mode) are the contents more elaborated. In analyzing the responses to the questionnaires and interviews, it was realized that the use of computers as teaching resource was cited, in particular the use of the Excel spreadsheet. It was also noted that teachers want to participate in continuing education courses, since these contemplate their needs and are practical ones. As a product of this dissertation work, we designed a study guide, available on CD-ROM and on the website of the Professional Master Course in Physics and Mathematics Teaching, from UNIFRA. / A presente pesquisa teve como objetivos analisar o Ensino de Estatística ministrado por professores de Matemática do Ensino Fundamental e Médio em escolas públicas de Cruz Alta e avaliar a realização de oficinas de formação continuada para professores de Matemática, abordando conteúdos de Estatística, com uso de material de apoio. Caracterizada como pesquisa de campo, a investigação tem caráter qualitativo e quantitativo, os participantes são professores de 16 escolas públicas da cidade de Cruz Alta. A partir de uma revisão dos documentos legais pertinentes ao Ensino de Estatística e de dissertações que trabalharam com esse tema, planejou-se um questionário, aplicado a 58 professores, cujas respostas são apresentadas e discutidas. Com o propósito de complementar as respostas do questionário, realizaram-se entrevistas com cinco professoras e, ainda, oficinas de formação continuada com docentes que atuam nas escolas públicas do Ensino Fundamental e Médio de Cruz Alta. Pelos dados coletados, percebeu-se que, entre os conteúdos de Estatística do Ensino Fundamental, são abordadas com maior frequência a organização de dados em uma tabela e a construção de gráficos de linhas e barras. No Ensino Médio, os conteúdos mais trabalhados são representação gráfica de dados e medidas de tendência central (média aritmética, mediana e moda). Na análise das respostas aos questionários e entrevistas, percebeu-se que o uso do computador como recurso pedagógico foi citado, em especial o uso da planilha Excel. Também se notou que os professores estão dispostos a participar de cursos de formação continuada, desde que esses contemplem suas necessidades e que sejam práticos. Como produto desta dissertação de mestrado profissional, foi elaborado um Guia de Estudos, disponibilizado em CD-ROM e no site do curso do Mestrado Profissional em Ensino de Física e Matemática da UNIFRA.

The diploma thesis is focused on mapping and analysis of the possibilities of using cloud computing from the point of view of a pedagogical worker at a level of higher secondary education by using a suitable method of evaluation and comparison of cloud technologies. A part of the work is devoted to ICT competences of teachers and possibilities of their further development in the field of cloud computing, withal focusing on models and programs of ICT competencies development, more precisely digital competences of national and international significance. In the practical part of the thesis, a research is carried out among pedagogical staff at secondary schools in the Czech Republic which is focused on the use of cloud computing with emphasis on competence, activities and work of pedagogical worker. The results of the research are summarized as recommendations for further practice.

Esta tese apresenta dois focos principais de interesse: o ensino de Geografia no Ensino Fundamental e Médio (EFM) e a formação de professores de Geografia. Nos interessamos, particularmente, em saber como o movimento de renovação da Geografia, genericamente denominado Geografia Grítica (GC), chegou no EFM. Os objetivos principais desta tese foram averiguar como a efervescência e renovação da Geografia Acadêmica pós-1978 chegaram ao ensino de Geografia do EFM, qual a contribuição do movimento denominado GC na renovação do ensino desta disciplina e quais as concepções de Educação e de Geografia que os licenciados estão construindo com e para seus alunos do EFM. Para alcançar estes objetivos observamos dez licenciados em Geografia, nos anos de 2002 e 2003, que lecinavam no EFM, em treze escolas distinas nos turnos da manhã, tarde e noite, na cidade de Porto Alegre, estado do Rio Grande do Sul, perazendo um total de 154 (cento e cinqüenta e quatro) observações que totalizaram 212 (duzentas e doze) horas/aula. Constatamos a dificuldade de se renovar as práticas pedagógicas, bem como de se construir um bom embasamento teórico que promova um ensino de Geografia atual, dinâmico, plural, instigante, reflexivo e radicalmente democrático. Este trabalho nao teve a pretensão de ser prescritivo do "bem ensinar Geografia", mas desejou servir de pretexto para que a comunidade de professores discuta e questione os seus referenciais de ciência, de Educação e de Geografia para fomentar a busca de um ensino que auxilie o fortalecimento da autonomia intelectual do educando e a construção de uma noção de cidadania que priorize a luta coletiva pela democracia, pela liberadade e pela justiça social através da apropriação e da reflexão sobre o espaço geográfico e suas categorias de análise. Enfim, uma Geografia que pense a ontologia do ser humano a partir do espaço vivido. / This thesis has two mains focuses: Geography teaching at primary and secondary schools and training of Geography teacher. Particularly, we are interested in how the movement of renewal of Geography - generally called Critica Geography - has arrived to primary and secondary teaching. The main targets of the tehesis were to verify how the effervescence and renewal of post-1978 Academica Geography arrived to geography teaching at primary and secondary schools; the contribution of the so-called critical Geography movement to the renewal of that teaching, and the Education anda Geography conceptions that geographyu teaching graduates are building with and for their students at the primary anda secondary teaching. In order to reach those goals, we have observed ten such Geography graduates in 2002 and 2003. They taught at 13 distinct primary anda secondary schools at morning, afternoon and evening classes in the city of Porto Alegre, in the southern Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul, totaling 154 observation session anda 212 class-hours. We identified the difficulty to renew pedagogical practices as well as to build a good theoretical basis able to promote Geography teaching that is updates, dynamic, plural, encouraging, reflexive , anda radically democratic. This work did not intend to prescribe "good Geography teaching". It rather wanted to serva as a pretext for the teacher community to discuss and question its references about science, Education, and Geography, in order to foster the search for teaching that helps to strengthen the intellectual autonomy of the student and the construction of a notion of citizenship that focuses on collettive struggle for democracy, freedom and social justice through appropriation and reflection over the geographic space and its analytical categories. That is, geography that thinks human being´s ontology based on the lived space.

En France et au Québec, la littérature pour la jeunesse fut longtemps négligée par les enseignants du secondaire ou exclue des cours de français. Or, en 1996, elle apparaît dans des listes ministérielles qui lui sont exclusivement consacrées et qui sont destinées aux professeurs du collège. Un an auparavant, les enseignants québécois sont invités à l’inclure dans des pratiques de lecture. Elle était jusqu’alors considérée comme relevant de la lecture personnelle des élèves. L’objectif de cette recherche est d’identifier les œuvres de littérature pour la jeunesse qui ont été sélectionnées pour l’enseignement secondaire français et québécois, puis de connaître les finalités que les prescripteurs leur confèrent et les pratiques pédagogiques que les enseignants mettent en œuvre lorsqu’ils l’introduisent dans leurs classes. La première partie retrace l’histoire de la littérature pour la jeunesse à travers celle des premiers supports, créés pour instruire, éduquer ou divertir les enfants dans les lieux divers qui leur sont ouverts (périodiques et livres variés). La deuxième partie évoque la place que l’enseignement secondaire a accordée à la littérature pour la jeunesse, dans ses différents programmes. Enfin, la troisième partie aborde les textes pour la jeunesse et les pratiques que les enseignants proposent à leurs élèves actuellement. Notre recherche appartient au champ de la didactique du français et touche aux domaines spécifiques des didactiques de la littérature et de la lecture. À visée descriptive, elle consiste à interroger des corpus figés, destinés aux enseignants (instructions officielles, notes de lecture et documents issus de revues pédagogiques), dans une perspective diachronique et synchronique. / In France and in Quebec, youth literature has been neglected for a long time by the secondary teachers or discorded from french lessons. Nevertheless, in 1996, it appeared in ministerial lists exclusively dedicated to it and intended to the high school teachers. One year before, the Quebec teachers were invited to include it in reading practices. It has been considered as a matter for pupils’ personal reading. The aim of this research is to identify youth literature works that have been selected for French and Quebec secondary teaching, then to know the purposes given by the teachers and their pedagogical practices when they introduce it in their classes. The first part relates the history of youth literature through the first teaching aids’ one, created to teach, to educate or to entertain children in the different places that are opened to them (periodicals and various books). The second part is about the place that the secondary teaching gave to youth literature, in its different programs. At last, the third part moves on the texts for the youth and the practices that nowadays teachers propose to their pupils. Our research belongs to the sphere of French language didactics and affects the specific fields of literature and reading didactics. It has a descriptive purpose and it asks questions to fixed corpus, intended to teachers (official instructions, reading notes and documents extracted from pedagogical reviews), in a diachronic and synchronic view.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarlosAJ_TESE.pdf: 3981703 bytes, checksum: 370d016ff58ae2f50f3cef8286e6472c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-13 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / Successive curricular changes that occurred in professional education altered pedagogical practices, and these practices being developed by means of integrating projects, at Centro Federal de Educa??o Tecnol?gica de Sergipe (CEFET-SE), between 2001 and 2003, originated some questions which became the study object of this thesis. We search for theoretical support mainly in GEPEM research (GEPEM/UFRN) works and practices in order to analyze elements that emerged from this pedagogical practice. To do so, we take as main reference the research of qualitative approach. We developed documents analysis, interviews, considering three aspects: the scenery where these changes took place, the conception and implementation of the Integrating Projects for what, we ask support in pedagogy of projects studies and principles of interdisciplinary, and contextualization as curriculum structuring elements. This research brought out some difficulties, conflicts and possible consensus in developing the methodological strategies for the Projects. In this process of coexistence of the traditional and the new, of an unavoidable distance between what was thought and what was effectively done, elements for a new pedagogical practice emerged. This could be noticed in terms of participative work, formative moments, teacher s autonomy related to the pedagogical work. A new door could be open to the possibilities of taking conscience of accepting the differences and oneself autoexperimentation. These are the possibilities that make men, not being mere information deposit, can dialog and transform, producing his existence by this means. In the present case, the existence of being teacher, the build himself in the time of possibilities / As sucessivas mudan?as curriculares que ocorreram no ?mbito da Educa??o Profissional alteraram as pr?ticas pedag?gicas e estas, ao serem desenvolvidas por meio dos Projetos Integradores, no Centro Federal de Educa??o Tecnol?gica de Sergipe (CEFET-SE), no per?odo de 2001 a 2003, deram origem a v?rios questionamentos que se transformaram em objeto de estudo desta tese. Buscamos no Grupo de Estudos de Pr?ticas Educativas em Movimento (GEPEM/UFRN) aproxima??es te?ricas que pudessem contribuir para analisarmos elementos que emergiram dessa pr?tica pedag?gica. Para isso, tomamos como refer?ncia a pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, desenvolvendo estudos de documentos e entrevistas, considerando tr?s aspectos: o cen?rio das reformas; os momentos iniciais de constru??o dos Projetos Integradores, em que buscamos os fundamentos da Pedagogia de projetos e, os princ?pios interdisciplinaridade e contextualiza??o como estruturadores do curr?culo. Na pesquisa identificamos que no desenvolvimento da estrat?gia metodol?gica dos Projetos Integradores, houve dificuldades, conflitos e consensos poss?veis. Nesse movimento de coexist?ncia entre o tradicional e o novo , de dist?ncia entre o pensado e o realizado, emergiram elementos para uma nova pr?tica pedag?gica : trabalho participativo; momentos formativos; autonomia relativa dos docentes quanto ao trabalho pedag?gico e, a abertura de possibilidades para tomada de consci?ncia pelos docentes de aceitar o diferente, de experimentar-se. S?o estas possibilidades que fazem com que os homens, n?o sendo deposit?rios de conte?dos, com estes dialoguem, transformem e possam, dessa forma, produzir a sua exist?ncia. Neste caso, a exist?ncia do ser professor, que se constr?i no tempo de possibilidades

Esta tese apresenta dois focos principais de interesse: o ensino de Geografia no Ensino Fundamental e Médio (EFM) e a formação de professores de Geografia. Nos interessamos, particularmente, em saber como o movimento de renovação da Geografia, genericamente denominado Geografia Grítica (GC), chegou no EFM. Os objetivos principais desta tese foram averiguar como a efervescência e renovação da Geografia Acadêmica pós-1978 chegaram ao ensino de Geografia do EFM, qual a contribuição do movimento denominado GC na renovação do ensino desta disciplina e quais as concepções de Educação e de Geografia que os licenciados estão construindo com e para seus alunos do EFM. Para alcançar estes objetivos observamos dez licenciados em Geografia, nos anos de 2002 e 2003, que lecinavam no EFM, em treze escolas distinas nos turnos da manhã, tarde e noite, na cidade de Porto Alegre, estado do Rio Grande do Sul, perazendo um total de 154 (cento e cinqüenta e quatro) observações que totalizaram 212 (duzentas e doze) horas/aula. Constatamos a dificuldade de se renovar as práticas pedagógicas, bem como de se construir um bom embasamento teórico que promova um ensino de Geografia atual, dinâmico, plural, instigante, reflexivo e radicalmente democrático. Este trabalho nao teve a pretensão de ser prescritivo do "bem ensinar Geografia", mas desejou servir de pretexto para que a comunidade de professores discuta e questione os seus referenciais de ciência, de Educação e de Geografia para fomentar a busca de um ensino que auxilie o fortalecimento da autonomia intelectual do educando e a construção de uma noção de cidadania que priorize a luta coletiva pela democracia, pela liberadade e pela justiça social através da apropriação e da reflexão sobre o espaço geográfico e suas categorias de análise. Enfim, uma Geografia que pense a ontologia do ser humano a partir do espaço vivido. / This thesis has two mains focuses: Geography teaching at primary and secondary schools and training of Geography teacher. Particularly, we are interested in how the movement of renewal of Geography - generally called Critica Geography - has arrived to primary and secondary teaching. The main targets of the tehesis were to verify how the effervescence and renewal of post-1978 Academica Geography arrived to geography teaching at primary and secondary schools; the contribution of the so-called critical Geography movement to the renewal of that teaching, and the Education anda Geography conceptions that geographyu teaching graduates are building with and for their students at the primary anda secondary teaching. In order to reach those goals, we have observed ten such Geography graduates in 2002 and 2003. They taught at 13 distinct primary anda secondary schools at morning, afternoon and evening classes in the city of Porto Alegre, in the southern Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul, totaling 154 observation session anda 212 class-hours. We identified the difficulty to renew pedagogical practices as well as to build a good theoretical basis able to promote Geography teaching that is updates, dynamic, plural, encouraging, reflexive , anda radically democratic. This work did not intend to prescribe "good Geography teaching". It rather wanted to serva as a pretext for the teacher community to discuss and question its references about science, Education, and Geography, in order to foster the search for teaching that helps to strengthen the intellectual autonomy of the student and the construction of a notion of citizenship that focuses on collettive struggle for democracy, freedom and social justice through appropriation and reflection over the geographic space and its analytical categories. That is, geography that thinks human being´s ontology based on the lived space.