M.Ed. (Didactics Mathematics) / Mathematical literacy is essential for functioning effectively in a technological society. Many occupations which may appeal to young people require mathematical ability as a prerequisite. By establishing factors which contribute to a pupil's difficulties within a subject, teachers are better able to assist these pupils ...

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Nowadays, the world faces with lack of electricity access, water scarcity, climate change and global warming. The hydropower industry has a crucial role to deal with these problems as well as to develop projects for sustainable development. However, if social, environmental and economical impacts of a hydroelectric power plant (HEPP) project are not considered, it might lead to irreparable destructions. Nowadays, in Turkey, due to social and environmental problems resulting from hydropower projects, the opponents of HEPP projects are increasing. Whether there are any deficiencies in hydropower project&rsquo / s development procedure causing environmental and social problems is researched in this thesis. The laws and legislations in Turkey related to hydropower project are investigated. The International Hydropower Association (IHA) has developed Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol for hydroelectric power projects. It assesses the projects according to economic, social and environmental measurements. Thus a case study, namely Kayraktepe Dam and HEPP Projects is evaluated to identify social, environmental and economical effects of the project at an early stage by using this Sustainability Assessment Protocol. The effects of large scale dam are compared with the effects of medium dam and five diversion weirs on social, environmental and economical issues.

What might becoming a poet have to do with becoming a teacher? What might becoming a teacher have to do with becoming a poet? Is it possible to invite someone to become a teacher or a poet? What might such an invitation look like? What kinds of conditions are involved in "making poetry"? What might these conditions have to do with "making pedagogy"? Further, what might these conditions — of making poetry or pedagogy — have to do with "making research"? Based on a study of a six-week intensive language across the curriculum course involving a group of prospective Secondary School teachers, this dissertation explores the kinds of conditions that might create an interpretive location in which to entertain and address the above kinds of questions — of the making of poetry and pedagogy and research — i n all their relations. Moving backward and forward — between the lived particulars of a group of preservice teachers' writing practices in a workshop-styled setting, and the writing practice of a researcher/teacher educator/poet curious about the acts of learning and teaching, writing and researching — this work attempts to live well with the necessarily tangled relationships among literacy, aesthetic practice, and the ongoing production of subjectivity in teacher education and our educational researchings of teacher education. The value of writing practice, as this dissertation attempts to enact it, is not only in its offer of further practice — of writing to learn (about writing and teaching and researching) — but also in its offer of a location where we might become curious about the performative nature of learning itself. The dissertation seeks to show the ways that my own writing life, shaped as it is by the work of those who have brought hermeneutics, postmodernism, psychoanalytic theory, and the literary imagination to bear on teacher education, is deeply implicated with other writing lives, others who are always and already writing lives. The invitation to imagine the curious time of researching pedagogy, then, is part of an invitation to think differently about preservice teachers thinking differently about their time together in classrooms, engaged in acts of learning and teaching, writing and researching.

The Advanced Certificate in Education Programme was launched in 2002 at the School of Education, Training and Development, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, in an attempt to upgrade and retrain science educators, given the drastic shortage of qualified science educators in South Africa. This research study investigated the development of scientific literacy within a group of fifteen educators during the first semester of their two-year Advanced Certificate in Education Programme. The study focused on scientific literacy and the relationship between language comprehension skills, readability and scientific literacy. This study aimed to examine whether the Natural Sciences and Biological Sciences module of the Advanced Certificate in Education Programme was effective in raising the level of scientific literacy of educators. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed in the collection of data. Students wrote a pre-test at the beginning of the first semester and the same test was written as the post-test at the end of the first semester. Semi-structured interviews with tutors were also conducted. Responses of students in the Student Evaluation Questionnaire, given at the end of their first year of study, were analysed to ascertain their perceptions about the tutors, their knowledge and understanding of the content and skills of the modules and the learning material. The questions used in the achievement test were adapted from the question bank of the Science Achievement Test used for Grade 8 learners in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study-Repeat in 1998/1999. The same achievement test was used in the pre-test and post-test, using questions from the Life Science and Scientific Inquiry and the Nature of Science content areas. The results from this research study indicated that although the level of scientific literacy of educators improved, it was not statistically significant. The study also highlights that language and comprehension skills and inability of students to express their answers in writing hampered their performance in the scientific literacy test. This was demonstrated by the significant positive correlation between language comprehension and readability with scientific literacy. Specific areas of conceptual difficulty were also highlighted in this study. Implications of these findings for further research and delivery of mixed-mode programmes are discussed. / Thesis (M.Ed.) - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003

Diploma thesis with the title "Waldorf school and motivation in teaching" focuses on differences in pupil´s motivation to learn English language at standard schools and Waldorf schools. Theoretical part includes fundamental information about pedagogy of Waldorf, methods of English language teaching at Waldorf schools, motivation and its role in class. The work implies findings of research made on achievement motivation and preferential motivation at standards schools and Waldorf schools. The data have been collected using questionnaires in June 2014.

Orientador: Luiz Carlos de Freitas / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T01:08:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cardoso_JudithGuimaraes_D.pdf: 57745297 bytes, checksum: f06b5aff8ca48c619d97cbc37c481422 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Situado na porção mais central e interior do Brasil, Mato Grosso apresenta algumas singularidades, entre elas a ocupação muito recente do Norte do Estado nas duas últimas décadas apenas, o que explica o grande contingente de professores sem qualificação adequada, dada a não-existência de cursos de graduação e a grande distância dos centros que os oferecem. O ensino a distancia e o parcelado têm sido a resposta à demanda de profissionais capacitados para a região. A UFMT - através do NEAD - e a SEDUC, em parceria com os governos municipais, têm se responsabilizado pela oferta de Licenciatura em Pedagogia na modalidade a distância para o Norte e Médio-Norte de Mato Grosso, voltado para a formação de docentes das séries iniciais do ensino fundamental. Esta investigação centra foco na percepção de alunos-professores e orientadores acadêmicos a respeito desse curso e da contribuição que oferece para sua formação profissional e para sua atuação em sala de aula. As impressões dos informantes foram colhidas por meio de entrevistas, questionários e pela observação participante em reuniões de colegiado, das quais participaram também os organizadores e proponentes do curso. Para a análise, privilegiam-se as contribuições de Marx e pensadores marxistas, como Enguita, que desnudam a relação trabalho x alienação, par de grande produtividade para a leitura das falas recolhidas, compreendendo-se estudar como uma forma de trabalho, e Vazquez para compreender a relação teoria/prática. O registro dessas impressões, tanto do que foi explicitado quanto do que se insinua em seus intervalos, possibilita salientar a incorporação dos discursos institucionais e certo alheamento diante da organização da grade curricular, conteúdos, estratégias de aprendizagem, entre outros. A proposta do curso salienta o tripé interdisciplinaridade - pesquisa - interação teoria/prática, e os seminários de pesquisa seriam seu grande diferencial, processo e momento de culminância dessa tríade. Essa concepção é salientada pela grande maioria, contudo, ao revelarem como efetivamente ocorrem. Percebe-se que os objetivos dos seminários acabam servindo para cumprir programas mais extensos, compensar carga horária restrita, ou ensejar oportunidade de avaliação. Os informantes conseguem interpor uma fala mais pessoal ao tratarem da avaliação e das parcerias responsáveis pela oferta do curso. No percurso desta pesquisa, foram revelados e percebidos alguns problemas no curso observado, tais como o descumprimento de acordo por algumas prefeituras, a necessidade de reavaliar os seminários de pesquisa e instrumentos de avaliação. Numa perspectiva mais ampla, contribui para desfazer mitos relativos ao ensino a distância - por muitos visto como menos produtivo que o presencial -, à medida que busca engajar o aluno em seu aprender, contribuindo para a democratização do ensino. / Abstract: Mato Grosso, situated in the central region of Brazil, has a few singularities. Being among them the very recent occupation of the north of the state only in the last two decades what explains the large number of ill prepared teachers given the lack of graduation courses and the great distance from education centers elsewhere. E-learning and modular teaching have been the answer to the demand for qualified professionals in the region. UFMT - by NEAD - and SEDUC in partnership with local cities authorities have cared of the graduation courses in education degree using e-learning in the north of Mato Grosso directed to the teacher training in the first classes of elementary school this research is focused in the feeling of student-teachers and academic advisors towards this course and its contribution to their professional qualification and classroom performance. The data was collected though interviews, questionnaires and by participating observation in council meetings where the course organizers also participated. For the analysis, preference has been given to Marx and Marxist thinkers like Enguita that explain the work x withdrawn relationship, contributions of great value for the reading of the obtained speeches, being studying understood as way of work. The data registered, such those made clear as well as those insinuated in the breaks, allows to emphasize the entry of the institution speeches and a certain ignorance of school syllabres organization, subjects, learning strategies, among others. The course proposal emphasize the tripod intersubject - research - theory practical interaction, where the research seminars word be the great difference, process and the highest point of this tripod. This thinking is emphasized by most people but when revealing how they actually occur. Seminar objectives are used to fulfill more extense programs, make up for restrained workload or create assessment opportunities. The informers have more personal talks when addressing assessment and partnerships responsible for the course offering. In the making of this research some problems with this course were revealed as some municipality agreements were not kept, the necessity of reassessing the research seminars and the assessment instruments. In a more ample view, it contributes to undo myths related to e-learning - many times regarded as being less effective than that by presence, in the way that in motivates the student into learning, contributing for the education democracy. / Doutorado / Ensino, Avaliação e Formação de Professores / Doutor em Educação

M.Ed. / Prejudice reduction is regarded as a deliberate and systematic process which aims at reorienting the values, attitudes, actions and behaviour of individuals or groups in such a way that prejudice and discrimination are reduced or totally combatted. Prejudice and its correlates (sexism, racism, credism and classism), as well as stereotypes, have tremendously affected the effectiveness of multicultural education, including mathematics. Unless society realises and accepts prejudice as a major explicator of the problems of the majority of South Africa, and also understandsthe pre-history of systematic oppression and discrimination, progress in adopting a coherent and effective approach to prejudice reduction in multicultural mathematics education and the broader society, would likely prove to be illusive. This implies that the racial and cultural discourse of a number of multicultural schools are not simply a reflection of personal prejudice though it may indeed be that. More importantly, prejudice may be understood as an expression of certain discursive patterns which significance goes beyond individuals into a broader set of practice. Prejudice as an inherent phenomenon, greatly affected pupils' achievement in mathematics, and has caused great concern consequently, it prompted and generated the eargeness to investigate prejudice reduction in multicultural mathematics education. Prejudice reduction in multicultural mathematics education is worth exploring, because South Africa is presently experiencing an educational crisis. During this critical period of transformation, educationists should pay special attention to ways in which the racial and cultural inequities, generated through apartheid policies, can be redressed. Attempts are presently been made by various organisations, the government curriculum designers and academics to establish an educational system that would satisfy the multicultural societies of South Africa. Mathematics as part of the broadereurriculumhas a pivotal role to play in this educational dispensation. It is therefore unequivocal that the teaching and learning of multicultural mathematics education, as one of the compulsory subjects in primary school education, should be investigated thoroughly because it serves as a key source of scientific and technological development. Mathematics is also frequently regarded as an important indicator of pupils' scholastic or academic ability. Therefore a growing number of South African schools is faced with the challenge of implementing curriculum changes in mathematics. In accomplishing the objectives of this study, semi-structured interviews with a number of key people were conducted. School observation as well as opinion from other relevant resources formed part of the research process. The research began with qualitative procedures assuming that interviewees could contribute to the creative shaping of multicultural mathematics education. It is important to mention that the qualitative method in this turned out to be empiricist in its explanation in some cases. Interviews covered issues of social relations, racial, ethnic and cultural mixing, parental background and involvement in education and multicultural mathematics methodology.

D.Cur. / Nurse educators have a multifaceted and ambiguous professional as well as personal role. They teach nursing theory, accompany student nurses in the clinical area and are expected to carry out research. Very few — in the nursing colleges — are actually involved in scientific study and relate this to unavailability of resources like sponsorship and time, to support such efforts. Added to this is their personal role as spouse or partner, as parent, as significant other and as friend. Faced with the challenges of the change from curative to the primary health care approach to health services delivery, and according to provincial legislation, the restructuring and rationalisation of health services, induding rationalisation of nursing colleges, the nurse educator is negatively affected by these changes and gets stressed. As a result of the complex and changing social, economic and political dimate, these challenges pose a threat to the nurse educator, who perceived herself as being unable to cope. Change occurs continuously in nursing, and therefore in nursing education, because of the dynamic health care system. Change, for better or for worse, can be stressful. It puts big demands on a person's ability to cope. The nurse educator in this changed climate, being unable to cope, gets stressed, and if any stressful situation is allowed to progress to distress, the health — mental, physical and spiritual — of the nurse educator might be adversely affected. Supporting the nurse educator to cope with this change may help her to accept the dynamic changes taking place around her. Learning to cope will not only give nurse educators control over their lives and well-being, but would leave them free to concentrate on helping themselves and others and teaching student nurses. The purpose of this research was to generate and describe a support approach and to describe guidelines to operationalise the support approach, for the psychiatric nursing clinical specialist to utilise for the nurse educator who is working in a nursing college that is earmarked for rationalisation, in order to promote, maintain and restore mental health as an integral part of health. Based on the above discussion, the following questions were addressed in this research: How do nurse educators experience life in all its dimensions? What support do they think they should receive? What approach can be described to support the nurse educator? What guidelines can be described to operationalise the support approach? A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual research design was followed. The research was conducted in four phases with a pilot study preceding the first phase of the research. In phase one, phenomenological interviews were conducted with seven nurse educators to explore their experience of life in all its dimensions. Data was analysed according to Tesch's method. Based on the results of analysed data, fear and uncertainty, anger and hope/hopefulness were the identified themes. In phase two, focus group discussions were held with the same group of nurse educators to explore their views on what could be done to support them. Selfmanagement, justice and fairness and enrichment were the identified themes. In phase three themes from phase one and phase two were utilised to form a bridge, leading to the description of an approach to support nurse educators. Phase four dealt with the description of guidelines to operationalise the support approach. Recommendations and limitations of the research were also discussed.

M.Cur. / The emotional state of health of pre-operative patients about to have coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) is a decisive factor in the outcome of the procedure. Nel (1989) carried out quantitative research to determine the effect of a pre-operative education programme on CABG patients. This education programme is based on the fact that a person's emotional disposition is a critical variable in his successful recovery from coronary disease. However, the researcher is of the opinion that although Nel's study made a positive contribution regarding this phenomenon, a quantitative research design does not reflect the real experience of the patients that follow a pre-operative education programme. In the researcher's view, a qualitative research design is more appropriate. The aim of the present qualitative, exploring, descriptive, contextual research is to explore and describe the experience of CABG patients exposed to a pre-operative education programme and to lay down guidelines for nursing staff in practice The research was conducted in three phases. One private hospital in Pretoria was use for the research.