L'objet de ma recherche porte sur le désir d'enseigner qui interroge le choix d'un métier et la rencontre actuelle entre l'adulte et l'enfant, soit dans l'enseignement ordinaire soit pour les enseignants spécialisés qui choisissent de se confronter aux troubles graves des apprentissages et au handicap. Il s'agit d'explorer les origines du désir pris dans le discours spontané des enseignants appuyé sur des entretiens cliniques de recherche et dans un autre registre saisir la dynamique pulsionnelle, les choix identificatoires, les processus d'idéalisation et les mouvements fantasmatiques qui peuvent se déployer à travers l'utilisation des méthodes projectives. Pris dans la « métaphore vive » du mythe de Pygmalion déconstruit par Kaës (1973) à partir du fantasme de fustigation décrit par Freud en 1919, enseigner appelle un scénario fantasmatique mobile où les emplacements et les identifications entre l'enfant et l'adulte sont permutables, réversibles dans un retournement des positions actives et passives du sujet. Le désir d'enseigner s'inscrit dans une dimension narcissique patente actualisant le sentiment de continuité d'existence et la quête d'une image de soi idéale mais dans le même temps, se joue aussi la quête de la différence, ancrée dans l'infantile et le sexuel (Chabert, 2011) convoquant inévitablement la différence des sexes et la bisexualité psychique. Enfin, dans la réciprocité du désir d'apprendre et de savoir, enseigner à l'enfant, c'est aller à la rencontre de l'Inconnu posé par Rosolato (1978) comme une relation fondamentale entre le désir et l'idéal qui interroge l'inconnu en soi, le mystère de nos origines convoquant les fantasmes originaires rattachés aux questions de la naissance, de la mort et de la scène primitive. Le Rorschach et le TAT, ces autres objets énigmatiques qui font émerger des « arrêts » sur image et l'insistance de la répétition à certaines planches, mobilisent, dévoilent des enjeux fantasmatiques dans un écho singulier avec ce qui se joue dans la rencontre entre l'adulte et l'enfant à l'âge œdipien, celui de la latence et de l'adolescence. / This research focuses on the desire to teach that motivates the choices of a career and of the mutual encounter between the adult and the child, either in an ordinary school or a special educational setting for learning difficulty or severe disability needs. It aims at exploring the origins of the desire of teachers, on the one hand, through clinical research interviews, and on the other hand, by focusing on the underlying dynamics of drives, identifications and fantasies through projective testing. Caught up in the "rule of metaphor" of the Pygmalion myth, which was revisited by Kaës (1973) based on Freud's child beating fantasy concept (1919), teaching addresses mobile fantasized scenarios where identifications between the adult and the child are intertwined and reversible, turning around active and passive positions of the subject. The desire to teach is part of an evident narcissistic domain, restoring the sense of continuity of being and of an ideal self-image. However, the quest for differentiation, rooted in infantile psychosexuality (Chabert, 2011), is also played out, inevitably summoning gender differences and psychic bisexuality. Lastly, given the reciprocity between the desire to impart and to learn, teaching a child means encountering the Unknown which Rosolato (1978) defined as the fundamental relationship between the desire and the ideal; a relationship that questions the unknown in oneself, the mystery of one's origins and evoke primal fantasies which relate to questions of birth, death and primitive scenes. Enigmatic tools, such as the Rorschach and the TAT, produce fixated images and insistent repetitions on specific cards which summon fantasies echoing those at play in the encounter between the adult and the child of oedipal, latency or adolescent age.

Much scientific research has been conducted to examine the effects of music on the brain and abilities of people. The results have shown a positive correlation between music used in various ways and the abilities and skills of people, especially children. However, the use of music in the general intermediate classroom is lacking. After reviewing scientific research to provide a foundation for the study and synthesizing the five Music Integration Practices, two teachers were interviewed and observed on their use of music in their general intermediate classrooms. The interviews, observation checklists, and anecdotal notes taken by the researcher provide music activities and rationales for the use of music in the classroom, as explained by the participating teachers.

U.S. students with learning disabilities' math skills acquisition has been on the decline in recent years. Studies show that teachers using traditional methods of teaching math lack knowledge of task analysis, chunking, sequencing, mass practice, modeling, and repetition of instruction. These components of direct instruction or pedagogical activities are hallmarks of special education teaching and are collectively described as cognitive support pedagogy. The study evaluated direct instruction teaching strategies to teach Common Core math to middle school students with learning disabilities, to determine if the current downward trend in math skills acquisition amongst them can be reversed. The theoretical framework of this study was based on Watson's theory of behavioral psychology as it applied to learning and teaching. The participants consisted of a convenience sample of students with learning disabilities. The study used a Solomon 4-group experimental design, in a series of two One-way ANOVAs to measure differences in math score by intervention for pretested and for non-pretested students, with one Factorial 2 X 2 ANOVA which measured for differences by interaction between pre-testing and intervention. Results of ANOVAs were significant at the α-levels of .05 (F (1,78) = 233.66 p < .001), indicating that significant differences existed in math scores of pre-tested students who received intervention and those who did not. The study is significant to teachers, curriculum developers, and instructional leaders because it is the first study of its kind to measure the outcomes of Common Core math using direct instruction and it points a way forward to creating positive social change by increasing students' graduation rates and promoting students' engagement in school and beyond.

本篇論文重組並重現一個合作敘事探究的生命經驗。在這集體的生命故事中，研究者與四位女性英語實習教師，透過一個全校性的英語同儕輔導計畫，一同探究學習如何教英語。本研究包含兩個研究重點：（一）探索英語實習教師在教學實習過程中對英語教學的概念覺知與教學發展;（二）檢視機構與社會情境與英語實習教師之教學發展的互動關係。本研究提出三個研究問題核心，協助對於現象的分析與詮釋：（一）英語實習教師在實境教學中教學發展之轉化歷程;（二）驅動英語實習教師之教學發展轉化的支配力類型;（三）英語實習教師對於實境教學之生命經驗的理解與覺知。 本研究發現，英語實習教師的教學發展，呈現前進式的結構模式。教學行動系統中的內、外部矛盾，引發一連串的衝突與失序，直接衝擊英語實習教師的教學發展轉化。在問題解決的轉化過程中，有三種主要的驅動能量，對教學發展轉化形成支配：情境支配力、策略支配力、情意支配力。在故事的尾聲，英語實習教師對於英語教學有新的覺知：對於教學行為及身為英語教師本體的覺知、對於英語學習者的認知、對於英語學習的本質的理解。 本研究回應相關文獻，提出三點新發現。首先，學習如何教的過程，包含持續性的觀察、分析、評量和反思。其次，英語實習教師的教學發展，透過跨層次行動系統的比對與分析，發現並理解可能存在的失序、衝突與解決方案，進而從事教學改變與教學發展轉化。最後，本研究提出，有關教師學習、學習如何教的相關研究，應該採用一種全方位的研究方法、一種廣泛理解的觀點，用以分析詮釋實作教學中既存的知識斷層。 / This collaborative narrative inquiry reconfigures and represents the lived experiences of four female prospective TESOL teachers’ learning to teach through a campus-based tutoring program. The research foci of this inquiry-based study are twofold. Firstly, the research aims at exploring how prospective TESOL teachers learn to teach through practical teaching experiences, as they examine the definition of learning to teach itself and the understanding of the what and how of the learning process evolves. Secondly, the research investigates the role of the social and institutional context in prospective TESOL teachers’ learning to teach, in examining how activity setting shapes the process of learning to teach. Drawing on the research approach of narrative inquiry, prospective TESOL teachers’ stories are told in their own voices while the school’s stories, and the stories about the school are told by the supervisor of the structured program in this research, the researcher, for purpose of providing a context to the prospective TESOL teachers’ stories. Following such respects, research questions are generated with special emphasis on (a) the transformational process of the prospective TESOL teachers’ learning to teach in situ; (b) the driving forces for the transformation to take place; (c) how the prospective TESOL teachers make sense of the lived experiences of learning to teach. The prospective teachers’ collective story appeared to be a progressive mode of development. The transformational process was overwhelmingly influenced by the dissonance and conflicts emerging from the contradictions within and across the collective activity system of teaching, namely primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary contradictions. In order to solve the problems resulting from the contradictions, the prospective teachers undertook changes and transformation in their teaching. Three types of driving force appeared to be significant for the transformation in the process of the prospective teachers’ learning to teach, including contextual force, strategic force, and attitudinal force. During the process of engaging in the socially situated activity of teaching, the prospective teachers formulated new conceptualizations of teaching, inclusive of the understanding of their teaching and of themselves as English teachers, of the students as English learners, and of the nature of English learning. The findings of the research suggest that a campus-based tutoring EFL program could be an alternative form of practicum teaching. Corresponding to previous research into teachers’ learning and learning to teach in second and foreign languages, three notions are provided. Firstly, the process of learning to teach prospective teachers includes continuous observation, analysis, evaluation and reflection on the entirety of the teaching activity embedded within a specific context, rather than shifting their focus from one entity to another entity, such as focusing on themselves at early stage and then shifting their focus to either on students or instructional techniques. Secondly, the process of prospective teachers’ learning to teach includes changes and transformation following iterative analysis and interpretations of cross-level activity systems to determine possible dissonance and solutions with the help of structured resources. Thirdly, research into teachers’ learning should employ a holistic research approach with a comprehensive perspective in analyzing and interpreting existing gaps in teaching practice.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:32:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amalia Neide Covic.pdf: 5801132 bytes, checksum: ad3db4327b5c15aacdf03a7e55765991 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study contributes with the knowledge construction related to the learning to teach in an hospital context that have differences from the traditional classroom. These assumptions need to be made: (i) When scholar quotidian actions are enunciated there exists docent learning; (ii)The enunciations of the scholar quotidian actions, when seem as cultural artifacts, can be investigated; and (iii) the docent space of practices is considered a strategy of learning. This research focus in this question: What are the possibilities that the practical enunciations made by intern teachers in an hospital environment promote the docent learning? The search to answer this question is sustained by studies with strong qualitative methodology, oriented in the investigation of the meanings construction in a space which the communicative action takes the place of the experiment. The data for this study comes from the modular discursive analysis and from the study of the Habermas Theory of Communicative Action. The enunciations used in this research comes from a group of eight teachers and eight intern teachers of the IOP-GRAACC-UNIFESP from june 2005 to july 2006. It´s possible to observe that, in the enunciations of the actions used in this study, the group: creates new meanings to the implicit docent knowledge related to the institutional space of Health and Education; there are tendencies of traditional curriculum adaption to the hospital reality; investigation spaces are created in the process; there are arguments for consensus when spaces are open for differences and mobilization of the action; the properties appears as the environment adaptabilities are created; specific curriculum are constructed for the patient-students in oncology treatment; signifies the position of the Hospital School sphere of actions; create a relation of inclusion in the hospital space; investigates the practice with autonomy construction of the docent; space construction for docents; and mobilize knowledges linked to solidarity / O estudo pretende contribuir com a construção do conhecimento acerca da aprendizagem da docência em contextos externos às salas de aulas tradicionais, mais especificamente no ambiente hospitalar. Para tal, partiu-se dos pressupostos: (i) Existe aprendizagem da docência ao se enunciarem ações escolares cotidianas, (ii) As enunciações de ações escolares cotidianas, quando percebidas como um artefato cultural, são passíveis de serem investigadas e (iii) O espaço de práticas situadas da docência é considerado uma estratégia de aprendizagem da docência. A pesquisa tem como orientação de investigação a pergunta: Quais as possibilidades das enunciações de práticas cotidianas realizadas por professores estagiários em um ambiente hospitalar promoverem a construção da aprendizagem da docência ?. A busca de respostas se deu pelo viés dos estudos predominantemente qualitativos, com orientação para a investigação de construção de significados em um espaço em que a ação comunicativa assume o lugar do experimento. Assim a produção de dados se dá com apoio da análise discursiva modular e dos estudos da Teoria da Ação Comunicativa habermasiana. Procuramos, nas enunciações de um grupo de oito professoras e professores estagiários do IOP-GRAACC-UNIFESP, indícios dos processos reflexivos da ação docente. As observações se deram de junho de 2005 até junho de 2006. Foi possível observar que, ao enunciar suas ações, o grupo ressignifica conhecimentos implícitos da docência quanto ao espaço institucional da Saúde e da Educação e: indicam tendências de adaptação dos currículos tradicionais para a realidade hospitalar; criam espaços de investigação do meio; fornecem argumentos para a busca de consenso ao abrirem espaço para diferenciação e mobilização da ação; antecipam as propriedades e criam adaptabilidade ao meio; constroem currículos específicos para os alunos pacientes em tratamento oncológico; significam a posição da esfera da Escola Hospitalar, entre as demais esferas de atividade do espaço hospitalar; estabelecem uma relação de pertencimento ao espaço hospitalar; investigam intersubjetivamente a própria prática com construção de autonomia do espaço da docência, constroem espaços para docência e mobilizam saberes ligados à solidariedade

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:43:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcos Antonio Nascimento.pdf: 1158809 bytes, checksum: 9485639682d667ca11eac94aa7fe4674 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-10 / This research has the objective to understand, under the view of former students, the contribution of the Curso Normal Superior Fora de Sede [Early Childhood Education Graduate Program Outside the Campus] (CNSFS)named Programa Especial de Formação Pedagógica Superior [Special Childhood Education Graduate Program], by Hermínio Ometto University Center (Uniararas) which provides graduation for Early Childhood Educators (ECE) in the teaching network of the City of São Paulo from 2005 to 2007. The Program relies on the former teaching experience of non-graduate professionals in the public teaching network enabling them to achieve their graduation in the course of two years, with a setting of 2.800 hours which is equal to programs that offer graduation in the course of three years. 12 teachers, former students from this Program, collaborated with the research answering an application and being interviewed. The analysis of the data relied on a reference about distance education as long as the course is attended outside the campus and the graduation of educators. The data revealed that the course contributed to the personal lives of the students as long as to their Professional development, especially in the way they performed their work with children in their workplace. / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo compreender, sob a perspectiva de ex-alunas, a contribuição do Curso Normal Superior Fora de Sede (CNSFS) denominado Programa Especial de Formação Pedagógica Superior , do Centro Universitário Hermínio Ometto (Uniararas) para a formação em nível superior das Atendentes de Desenvolvimento Infantil (ADI) da rede Municipal de Ensino de São Paulo no período de 2005 a 2007. O Programa aproveita a experiência docente e possibilita aos profissionais em exercício nas redes públicas de ensino, a realização do curso em nível superior em dois anos, com carga horária mínima de 2.800 horas - equivalente aos cursos de graduação com duração de três anos. Como colaboradoras a pesquisa contou com 12 professoras, ex-alunas do Programa, que responderam a um questionário e participaram de uma entrevista. A análise dos dados pautouse em referencial sobre educação a distância visto o curso ser fora de sede e formação de professores. Os dados revelam que houve contribuição do curso tanto para a vida pessoal como para o desenvolvimento profissional das participantes, especialmente no modo como passaram a conduzir o trabalho com as crianças nas instituições em que trabalham.

University officials have identified a problem among secondary preservice teachers (SPTs) who have expressed reluctance to teach in local urban schools. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions of SPTs regarding their preparation for and experiences with teaching in urban school settings. Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and Bruner's concept of scaffolding served as the conceptual frameworks that guided this study. Data were collected from 11 SPTs who completed the requirements of their field service experiences in urban schools. Data collection consisted of individual interviews, one focus group interview, and field observations. Findings showed that SPTs desire to make a difference in urban schools, lack confidence in managing culturally diverse classrooms, and desire more faculty guidance in working with diverse populations. SPTs asserted that they need more research-based teaching strategies and urban field experiences. Implications for social change include more collaboration among university faculty, urban school principals, mentor teachers, and community organizations. Findings may be used to prepare SPTs to serve culturally diverse populations, which may improve students' academic achievement in urban classrooms.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 ricci_m_me_arafcl.pdf: 912075 bytes, checksum: ba480013485ecf7b98bb56b1874453cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente estudo foi elaborado a partir de dados obtidos pela vivência da autora como licenciando bolsista do Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência - PIBID no curso de Licenciatura em Pedagogia UNESP, que atuou no ensino fundamental I em uma escola da rede estadual do interior paulista nos anos de 2011 e 2012. Dentre os vários enfoques referentes ao estudo da formação de professores, trabalho docente e práticas pedagógicas, linha de pesquisa a que se vincula esse projeto, a reflexão dessa experiência conduziu ao estudo das relações entre bolsista de iniciação à docência PIBID e professora colaboradora visando identificar os elementos formadores para a atuação docente provenientes da gestão da matéria e gestão da classe, relações estas, que a proposta do programa PIBID oportuniza pela interação entre o aprendizado adquirido na universidade e na escola de educação básica com o propósito de melhorar a formação inicial e continuada dos docentes. O estudo teve por objetivo identificar, analisar e discutir quais são os elementos formadores para atuação docente provenientes da gestão da matéria e da gestão de classe no âmbito da sala de aula, presentes nas relações pedagógicas socialmente compartilhadas entre bolsista de iniciação à docência e professora colaboradora no ensino fundamental: anos iniciais durante a participação no subprojeto PIBID Pedagogia. E verificar as influências decorrentes desse processo de socialização para a atuação e formação da bolsista de iniciação à docência e da professora colaboradora nessa troca de experiências, a partir do referencial teórico sobre as práticas pedagógicas e ações docentes discutidas por Gauthier et al., Gimeno Sacristán e Marcelo Garcia. O percurso metodológico baseou-se procedimentos alinhados à abordagem qualitativa de natureza empírica e revisão bibliográfica de estudos sobre o programa PIBID. Desse modo, o trabalho estruturou-se mediante leitura das fontes documentais que tratam do PIBID e do subprojeto investigado e, a coleta de dados por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas individuais realizadas com uma bolsista e uma professora colaboradora. Os dados levantados foram organizados em categorias e subcategorias de análise provenientes dos processos que envolveram coleta, transcrição e a sistematização dos registros escritos das entrevistas, conforme as orientações de Laville e Dionne (1999). Com a análise dos dados foram apresentadas as principais concepções das participantes sobre as práticas pedagógicas, as tarefas didáticas específicas do ensino, a relação pedagógica socialmente compartilhada entre bolsista e professora colaboradora e as contribuições do PIBID para a iniciação à docência em Pedagogia no processo de socialização sob a perspectiva do conceito delineado de gestão da matéria e da gestão da classe. Os resultados obtidos demonstram que a hipótese inicial na qual o pressuposto de que a relação pedagógica socialmente compartilhada entre bolsista de iniciação à docência e professora colaboradora, dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental, possibilita ao futuro professor conhecer e reconhecer os elementos formadores específicos do ensino para realizar as futuras ações docentes em sala de aula, entretanto, diante do contato com as práticas pedagógicas para a bolsista os conhecimentos são reconhecidos e aprendidos de forma parcial, fragmentada e superficial. / This study was drawn from data obtained by the experience of the author as licensing intern of the Institutional Initiation to Teaching Program - PIBID in the Bachelor's Degree in Education at UNESP, who served in the elementary school in the countryside of São Paulo state in 2011 and 2012. Among the various approaches referring to the study of teacher education, teaching work and teaching practices, research line which this project links to, the reflection of this experience led to the study of relations between initiation to teaching intern PIBID and collaborator teacher to identify the formative elements for teaching performance from the management of the subject and class management, relations that the proposed PIBID program provides an opportunity for interaction between the knowledge acquired at university and elementary school institutions with the purpose of improving the initial and continuing training of teachers. The study aimed to identify, analyze and discuss what the formative elements for teaching performance are from the management of matter and class management within the classroom, present in pedagogical relationships socially shared between fellow initiation to teaching and collaborating professor in elementary school: early years while participating in subproject PIBID education. Also check the influences resulting from this socialization process for the work and training of initiation to teaching intern and collaborating professor in this exchange of experiences, from the theoretical framework on educational practices and teaching actions discussed by Gauthier et al., Gimeno Sacristán and Marcelo Garcia. The methodological approach was based on procedures aligned to the qualitative approach and empirical literature review of studies on the PIBID program. Thus, the work was structured by reading the documentary sources that deal with PIBID and subproject investigated, and data collection through individual semi-structured interviews with an intern and a cooperating teacher. The data collected were organized into categories and subcategories of analysis from processes involving transcription and systematization of written records of interviews, according to the guidelines of Laville and Dionne (1999). With the data analysis were presented the main ideas of the participants about the pedagogical practices, the specific educational tasks of teaching, socially shared pedagogical relationship between scholar and collaborator teacher and PIBID contributions to the initiation to teaching in pedagogy in the socialization process from the perspective of the outlined concept of management matters and management class. The results show that the initial hypothesis in which the assumption that the socially shared pedagogical relationship between initiation to teaching intern and collaborating professor, the early years of elementary school, enables the teacher to future know and recognize the specific elements that form of teaching to realize future teaching practices in the classroom, however, before the contact with the pedagogical practices for interns knowledge are recognized and learned in a partial, fragmented and superficial way.

The aim of the presented work is to map the issue of pedagogical practice regarding its importance in the decision-making of future teachers about entering or not entering the profession, evaluate its benefits for students and outline possible changes in undergraduate teacher training. The presented text contains two main parts, namely the theoretical part and the practical part. The theoretical part consists of chapters dealing with the training of future teachers. The first chapter defines the key concepts in the field. The second chapter follows the general characteristics of pedagogical practice as an integral part of the study of teaching. The core of the text then consists of a passage, the content of which is specifically focused on the description of the special importance of the training of future teachers. The design of the research survey in the practical part is based on a qualitative methodology, primarily the use of the method of explanatory case study. Data collection is realized through semi-structured interviews with individual students, where a large amount of data is collected from a few respondents. A thorough examination of a small sample of respondents will help to understand similar cases. Furthermore, the theoretical part defined key terms related to the topic. Terms such as...

This investigation on teacher induction documents case studies of three beginning teachers in one target Woreda in Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia. It is organized into six chapters. In Ethiopia, the implementation of the teacher induction programme began in 2005 as part of a larger teacher education reform that is designed to promote the quality and effectiveness of teachers. Five years into the implementation process, it became essential to investigate how well the induction practices are organized and implemented, how beginning teachers were being integrated into the system, and whether the whole process has given beginning teachers better opportunities to learn in practice than by trial and error. The research design for the present investigation was the case study method. As teacher induction is a new venture in the Ethiopian education system, it was important to establish an in-depth understanding of this new phenomenon through case study than making generalizations. My literature readings convinced me about the use of the case study method to do an in-depth study of the situation. Interviews, observations and document analyses were the main tools used to collect the data needed in this research. The data suggests that the three case study teachers, with the support from their respective mentors, completed the formal aspects of the first year induction course as prescribed by the two first-year induction modules. The induction approach followed and applied the course module materials as is. However, in spite of following the prescriptions by the education authorities, variations were noticed in the quantity and quality of professional development activities, action research projects, classroom observations and reflections offered to and completed by the three beginning teachers. Furthermore, the changes observed as a result of the induction programme also varied largely due to personal and situational factors. On the whole, even though the induction guidelines set by the Ethiopian Ministry of Education contain most of the fundamental components of what the literature would consider to be effective for the induction programmes, its implementation in this context was constrained by the lack of some key elements and resources viz. the limited capacity of the mentors, absence of allocated time for induction and mentoring activities in the school programme, lack of subject-specific support in the schools and ineffective monitoring and evaluation of the entire programme, both in school and at the district levels. The present investigation offers policy makers a window into the practices and possible consequences of the induction programme in Ethiopia and presents possibilities for making informed decisions about how to assist practitioners to establish a successful induction programme for beginning teachers. Furthermore, the study offers an empirical test of the theoretical models suggested for setting up effective induction programmes for beginning teachers. The major conclusion that arises is that it is not so much whether the formal aspects of an induction programme are in place or not but more how the on-going support for and interpretations by all the role players that determines the success or otherwise of the programme. It is suggested that more research be done on the conditions that are necessary for the success of beginning teacher induction programme in different contexts in the country. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)