The purpose of this study was to investigate the funds of knowledge of Latino and Latina high school adolescents, and how they used their funds of knowledge to solve engineering design problems in their communities. This study was based on the assumption that creating a bridge between different formal resources (e.g., engineering design processes) and informal resources (e.g., funds of knowledge) is an important step toward encouraging Latino and Latina high school adolescents to enter and remain in the field of engineering. The intent of this study was to generate a framework of funds of knowledge that teachers can draw from in order to create culturally responsive high school engineering instruction that connects adolescents’ out-of-school practices to the formal practices of engineering. An ethnographic approach was used to investigate the funds of knowledge of fourteen Latino and Latina high school adolescents. The participants were selected from a rural community located in the Western United States. They were divided into four different groups and each group selected a problem in their community that was of interest to them. Each group met twice per month and every student was interviewed every month individually. For this study, data sources included participant responses to individual interviews, observations of group discussions, retrospective and concurrent protocols, and participant-generated products. A constant comparative analysis showed that the participants possessed an understanding of societal, environmental, technical, and other engineering-related practices, dispositions, and habits of mind, which helped them to engage in engineering design in a holistic way. The study suggested that Latino and Latina adolescents, although profoundly underrepresented in engineering, bring a wealth of knowledge and experiences that are relevant to engineering design thinking and practice.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-02-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:13:44Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 guesse_eb_me_arafcl.pdf: 471308 bytes, checksum: b402e5c3d415016b023c29747a10fc6e (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo apresentar uma proposta de análise de um grupo de onze contos populares brasileiros de origem indígena, coletados por Silvio Romero e publicados no volume Contos populares do Brasil (1883), que reúne contos populares brasileiros de origem européia, indígena e africana. A dissertação aborda basicamente quatro tópicos. O primeiro deles trata das características fundamentais da literatura oral brasileira, com enfoque especial para as tradições orais indígenas, além de apresentar um levantamento de informações biobibliográficas sobre Silvio Romero. O segundo tópico consiste em um estudo da teoria proposta por Alan Dundes, em Morfologia e estrutura no conto folclórico, que serve de ferramental teórico para a leitura estrutural dos contos (uma vez que Dundes parte das funções de Propp e dos estudos do antropólogo/lingüista Kenneth L. Pike para chegar a um modelo de análise específico para narrativas de origem indígena). No terceiro tópico, são realizadas as análises das narrativas que compõem o corpus. As análises mostram que a maioria dos contos indígenas coletados por Romero pode ser analisada a partir dos esquemas estruturais de Dundes, embora algumas adaptações sejam necessárias devido às especificidades das narrativas brasileiras. Por fim, no quarto tópico, desenvolvemos um quadro comparativo que concentra os principais resultados das análises. A partir desse quadro, apresentamos algumas possíveis interpretações dos dados coletados, vistas como perspectivas que complementam as análises estruturais realizadas. / This research aims at presenting a proposition for analysis of a set of eleven Brazilian folktales with indigenous origins, gathered by Silvio Romero and published in the Contos populares do Brasil (1883) volume, which collects Brazilian folktales with European, indigenous and African origins. This work approaches basically four topics: the first is about fundamental characteristics of oral Brazilian literature having a special focus on oral indigenous traditions, besides presenting a collection of bibliographical information about Silvio Romero; the second topic is a study on the theory proposed by Alan Dundes, in Morphology and structure in the folktale, which serves as theoretical tool for the structural reading of the short stories (once Dundes starts with Propp’s functions and anthropologist/linguist Kenneth L. Pike’s studies to come to a specific analysis model for narratives with indigenous origins); in the third topic, the narrative analyses which compose the corpus are performed. Through these analyses, we show that most indigenous short stories collected by Romero can be analyzed from Dunde’s structural schemes, with some adaptations due to specificities of Brazilian narratives. Finally, in the fourth topic, we develop a comparative chart that shows the main results from the analyses. From this chart, we show some possible interpretations of the data collected, seen as perspectives that complement the structural analyses performed.

Orientador: Karin Volobuef / Banca: Maria de Lourdes Ortiz Gandini Baldan / Banca: Sergio Luiz Rodrigues Medeiros / Resumo: A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo apresentar uma proposta de análise de um grupo de onze contos populares brasileiros de origem indígena, coletados por Silvio Romero e publicados no volume Contos populares do Brasil (1883), que reúne contos populares brasileiros de origem européia, indígena e africana. A dissertação aborda basicamente quatro tópicos. O primeiro deles trata das características fundamentais da literatura oral brasileira, com enfoque especial para as tradições orais indígenas, além de apresentar um levantamento de informações biobibliográficas sobre Silvio Romero. O segundo tópico consiste em um estudo da teoria proposta por Alan Dundes, em Morfologia e estrutura no conto folclórico, que serve de ferramental teórico para a leitura estrutural dos contos (uma vez que Dundes parte das funções de Propp e dos estudos do antropólogo/lingüista Kenneth L. Pike para chegar a um modelo de análise específico para narrativas de origem indígena). No terceiro tópico, são realizadas as análises das narrativas que compõem o corpus. As análises mostram que a maioria dos contos indígenas coletados por Romero pode ser analisada a partir dos esquemas estruturais de Dundes, embora algumas adaptações sejam necessárias devido às especificidades das narrativas brasileiras. Por fim, no quarto tópico, desenvolvemos um quadro comparativo que concentra os principais resultados das análises. A partir desse quadro, apresentamos algumas possíveis interpretações dos dados coletados, vistas como perspectivas que complementam as análises estruturais realizadas. / Abstract: This research aims at presenting a proposition for analysis of a set of eleven Brazilian folktales with indigenous origins, gathered by Silvio Romero and published in the Contos populares do Brasil (1883) volume, which collects Brazilian folktales with European, indigenous and African origins. This work approaches basically four topics: the first is about fundamental characteristics of oral Brazilian literature having a special focus on oral indigenous traditions, besides presenting a collection of bibliographical information about Silvio Romero; the second topic is a study on the theory proposed by Alan Dundes, in Morphology and structure in the folktale, which serves as theoretical tool for the structural reading of the short stories (once Dundes starts with Propp's functions and anthropologist/linguist Kenneth L. Pike's studies to come to a specific analysis model for narratives with indigenous origins); in the third topic, the narrative analyses which compose the corpus are performed. Through these analyses, we show that most indigenous short stories collected by Romero can be analyzed from Dunde's structural schemes, with some adaptations due to specificities of Brazilian narratives. Finally, in the fourth topic, we develop a comparative chart that shows the main results from the analyses. From this chart, we show some possible interpretations of the data collected, seen as perspectives that complement the structural analyses performed. / Mestre