Submitted by Alison Vanceto (alison-vanceto@hotmail.com) on 2016-10-04T14:19:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissTYH.pdf: 2341082 bytes, checksum: 36ce588431863059078c9c97b2ff1a9f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-04T18:17:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissTYH.pdf: 2341082 bytes, checksum: 36ce588431863059078c9c97b2ff1a9f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-04T18:17:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissTYH.pdf: 2341082 bytes, checksum: 36ce588431863059078c9c97b2ff1a9f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-04T18:25:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissTYH.pdf: 2341082 bytes, checksum: 36ce588431863059078c9c97b2ff1a9f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-27 / Não recebi financiamento / This work aims to study the profile of English teacher education in Taiwan through a more specific discussion of language teacher’s competence. For this, we chose to analyze an English undergraduate teacher education program at a public university in this country, and, considering time constraints, we limit the study, focusing on the perspective of the teacher educators. Therefore, the program curriculum and the transcriptions of interview with the teachers educators will comprise the data set for analysis. Once teacher education process is based on the social system of the country, we also include the contextual factors or socio-historical elements in the study, by considering them as constituents of social constructions factors. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo estudar o perfil de formação de professores de língua inglesa em Taiwan, por meio de uma discussão mais específica sobre as competências dos professores. Para isso, optamos por analisar um curso de licenciatura de língua inglesa de uma universidade pública desse país, e, por considerar as limitações de tempo, atemo-nos no estudo da perspectiva dos formadores. Compõem, desse modo, o conjunto de dados para a análise: a grade do curso, os planos de ensino das disciplinas obrigatórias e as transcrições das entrevistas realizadas com os professores formadores. Pensando que o processo formativo tem como base o próprio sistema social do país, incluímos também na análise os elementos contextuais ou sócio-históricos, sendo eles fatores constituintes das construções sociais.

Public education is in the ongoing process of developing student-focused and personalized learning approaches. This transformation effort requires school staffs to shift cultures toward collaboration and continuous professional development in pursuit of meaningful and equitable learning success for all students. In order to address this need, close examination of social interactions during recurring professional discussions is required. The purpose of this sociocultural study was to investigate how a group of educators collectively made sense of pedagogical practices and beliefs over time, and to identify practices conducive to their professional learning in a situated series focused on instructional leadership within a British Columbia school district. Participants were 10 newly appointed vice-principals and vice-principal candidates, one assistant superintendent, and myself as the researcher and series facilitator. Data collection included audiotaping of five 3-hour sessions across a three-month period, participant reflections written during sessions and in blog posts between sessions, and associated artefact and macro-Discourse data. Transcriptions provided the primary data source for the critical discourse analysis (Gee, 2011a) and sociocultural discourse analysis (Mercer, 2008, 2010) methods. Findings indicated shifts in the nature of participation for the group of educators across sessions, including the development of sense of community, collective familiarization with and application of productive discursive interactions, and the co-construction of common pedagogical knowledge. The findings extend the literature on educational leadership and professional development, as I elaborate how these shifts emerged as a collective endeavour over time and discuss noteworthy supportive conditions. / Graduate