Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006. / Title from title page screen, viewed on April 27, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Thomas P. Crumpler, Thomas S. Haynes (co-chairs), Aimee D. Adkins, Barbara B. Meyer. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-180) and abstract. Also available in print.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the extent of instructors at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Department of Foreign Languages regard in-service training programs crucial for their professional development. Another aspect of the study was to identify the professional needs of the instructors teaching preparatory classes as well as to determine the preferred instructional methods of an INSET program. The final aim of the study was to determine whether there are statistically significant differences between novice and experienced instructors regarding their needs and expectation of an in-service training program.The study was conducted among thirty-nine instructors who are teaching preparatory classes at TOBB ETU, DFL. The chairperson of the DFL also took part in the study. Data from the 39 instructors were collected through questionnaires which were developed to uncover the opinions of instructors in terms of the characteristics of effective in-service training programs, to identify the needs of the instructors and determine the instructional methods preferred in-service training program. The questionnaires included both Likert scale and open-ended items. Moreover, 50-minute lessons of 10 instructors were video recorded. Video recordings aimed to identify the needs of the instructors that should be addressed through an in-service training program. Finally, interviews were conducted with 10 instructors whose classes were video recorded. The aim of the interviews was to enable the instructors to reflect on the findings of the questionnaires and the video recordings. Another interview was conducted with the chairperson of the DFL to uncover to what extent his perceptions about in-service training activities correlate with those of the instructors. Data collected through the instruments were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Close-ended items were analyzed via the SPSS program and mean scores for each item were calculated besides an independent sample t-test. The qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis. The results of the study revealed that the instructors believe INSET is crucial for their professional development, they would like to keep on track with new developments in the field of ELT and participate in seminars and conferences as part of INSET programs. In terms of the professional needs, it was found that instrcutors need to be trained on teaching speaking skills and pronunciation, written and oral correction, promoting student autonomy, dealing with classroom management problems, teaching mixed-ability groups, raising language awareness of students and reflecting on their own experience. The t-test results demonstrated that there was a statistical significance between the answers of novice and experienced instructors concerning being trained in &lsquo / teaching vocabulary,&rsquo / &lsquo / teaching grammar&rsquo / and &lsquo / improving in written and oral correction strategies.&rsquo / It was found that experienced teachers are particularly interested in training sessions on teaching grammar, teaching vocabulary, and improving written and oral correction strategies. As a result of the findings, an ongoing INSET program model was proposed for the Department of Foreign Languages at TOBB ETU.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-08-08T19:03:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Moisés Gregório da Silva.pdf: 3056311 bytes, checksum: d8611c28fe28372375e7a82fee8a50a2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-08T19:03:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Moisés Gregório da Silva.pdf: 3056311 bytes, checksum: d8611c28fe28372375e7a82fee8a50a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-05 / This research aims to study the engineer professor. The main problem of the research is present in two questions: How is the teaching practice of the engineer professor? What are the ways of being, thinking, acting and teaching of the engineer professor? It is intended to understand how the engineer professor engages in teaching. It seeks to know how their way of being, working, learning, thinking, acting and perceiving the world around them influences the issues of their pedagogical practice, once it isn’t licensed. At no time do we intend to present solutions to problems, but only a collective construction, seeking alternatives to the researcher's pedagogical practice. We do not want old answers, but indeed new questions. As a methodological research strategy, it is adopted the participatory research carried out with professors from the civil engineering course of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goiás (IFG), Campus Aparecida de Goiânia. The study was developed taking up the historical, cultural and social aspects of this institution, because the understanding of memory, history and school culture can help in the understanding of social, educational, professional and pedagogical relations in the space studied. By analyzing the research object, the work necessarily went to the qualitative research, since the interest is to study the engineer professor, his ways of acting, of being and his history in the socio-professional context from his own perception and the conditions that surround him. Data collection was performed through semi-structured interviews that enabled the teacher to construct and compose the answer, thus allowing more information to be extracted. Six categories of analysis were used that allowed better structuring and organization of the field research by the researcher. From the point of view of the theoretical-methodological contributions, studies oriented sociologist Bourdieu (1983a, 1983b, 1989, 1996, 2003, 2007). Other authors also contributed to the theoretical basis of this research, such as: Tardif (2000, 2014), Freire (1991), Nóvoa (1995, 2013), Cunha (2014), Mészários (2005), Castro (2013), Bazzo (1998, 2006), Nogueira, M. and Nogueira C. (2004), Palacín (2008), Brzezinski (2008, 2010) Baldino (2014), as well as institutional documents and Brazilian legal system. Through the theoretical studies and the field research carried out, it was possible to conclude that pragmatism is the peculiar characteristics of the engineer and, therefore, of the engineer professor and the necessity of the immediate applicability of knowledge in his actions, including teaching. This statement does not mean that the engineer professor is not concerned with pedagogical actions or does not reflect on his professional practices or broader educational issues. On the contrary, all have stated and demonstrated that this knowledge is important for the exercise of teaching and seek in some way to mold it. Other convergent points verified by the field research were: the professor 'understanding of the students' level of interest, considered far short of what was necessary; a fragile base of knowledge in mathematics and science by the students, which makes the exercise of the teaching activity difficult; the social devaluation of teaching work, especially when compared to the work of an engineer, and the recognition of the marked influence of other professors in their current practices, including the search for mirroring in these masters. / Essa pesquisa tem por objeto de estudo o Professor Engenheiro. O problema central da pesquisa mostra-se presente em duas indagações: Como é a prática docente do Professor Engenheiro? Quais os modos de ser, pensar, agir e ensinar do Professor Engenheiro? Pretende-se compreender qual a maneira do Professor Engenheiro exercer a docência. Busca-se saber como sua forma de ser, de trabalhar, de aprender, de pensar, de agir e de perceber o mundo à sua volta influencia nas questões de sua prática pedagógica, uma vez que não é licenciado. Em nenhum momento pretende-se apresentar soluções para os problemas, mas apenas uma construção coletiva, buscando alternativas para prática pedagógica do pesquisador. Não se desejam velhas respostas, mas sim novos questionamentos. Como estratégia metodológica de investigação, adota-se a pesquisa participante, realizada com Professores Engenheiros do curso de Engenharia Civil do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Goiás (IFG), Câmpus Aparecida de Goiânia. O estudo foi desenvolvido retomando-se aspectos históricos, culturais e sociais dessa instituição, pois a compreensão da memória, da história e da cultura escolar pode ajudar no entendimento das relações sociais, educacionais, profissionais e pedagógicas no espaço estudado. Pela análise do objeto de pesquisa, o trabalho necessariamente se encaminhou para a pesquisa qualitativa, uma vez que o interesse é estudar o Professor Engenheiro, seus modos de agir, de ser e sua história no contexto socioprofissional a partir da sua própria percepção e das condições que o cercam. O levantamento dos dados foi realizado por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas que possibilitaram a construção e a composição da resposta pelo professor, permitindo assim extrair mais informações. Foram utilizadas seis categorias de trabalho que permitiram melhor sistematização da pesquisa de campo por parte do pesquisador. Do ponto de vista dos aportes teórico-metodológicos, orientaram os estudos conceitos do sociólogo Bourdieu (1983a, 1983b, 1989, 1996, 2003, 2007). Outros autores também contribuíram na fundamentação teórica desta pesquisa, como: Tardif (2000, 2014), Freire (1991), Nóvoa (1995, 2013), Cunha (2014), Mészáros (2005), Castro (2013), Bazzo (1998, 2006), Nogueira, M. e Nogueira C. (2004), Palacín (2008), Brzezinski (2008, 2010), Baldino (2014), além de documentos institucionais e do ordenamento jurídico brasileiro. Por meio dos estudos teóricos e da pesquisa de campo realizada, pôde-se concluir que são características peculiares do Engenheiro e, portanto, do Professor Engenheiro o pragmatismo e a necessidade da aplicabilidade imediata do conhecimento em suas ações, incluindo assim a docência. Essa afirmação não significa que o Professor Engenheiro não se preocupa com as ações pedagógicas ou que não reflete sobre suas práticas profissionais ou sobre questões educacionais mais amplas. Ao contrário, todos afirmaram e demonstraram ser importante esse conhecimento para o exercício da docência e buscam de alguma forma apropriar-se dele. Outros pontos convergentes verificados pela pesquisa de campo foram: a compreensão que os professores têm sobre o nível de interesse dos estudantes, considerado muito aquém do necessário; uma frágil base de conhecimentos em matemática e ciências pelos alunos, o que dificulta o exercício da atividade docente; a desvalorização social do trabalho docente, sobretudo se comparado ao trabalho de Engenheiro, e o reconhecimento da influência marcante de outros professores em suas práticas atuais, inclusive a busca pelo espelhamento nesses mestres.

Submitted by Rosina Valeria Lanzellotti Mattiussi Teixeira (rosina.teixeira@unisantos.br) on 2016-08-23T11:55:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Lascani Y¿red.pdf: 1316247 bytes, checksum: ae8f7ba1cf6dd70c0a789c98af008cf0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-23T11:55:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Lascani Y¿red.pdf: 1316247 bytes, checksum: ae8f7ba1cf6dd70c0a789c98af008cf0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research is part of the teacher-training discussions and focuses on a group of teacher-trainers who teach in an undergraduate Parfor-Pedagogy Program, part of the National Plan for the Training of Basic Education Teachers (Parfor) at a Confessional University in Baixada Santista (SP). This program was created by the Ministry of Education (MEC) as an emergency plan, and was implemented by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Staff (CAPES), with the purpose of achieving the goals of the National Plan for the Training of Basic Education Teachers, by offering scholarships for teachers who teach in public schools. We chose to investigate the implications of teaching in the Parfor-Pedagogy program for teacher professionalism of teacher-trainers. The authors who served as a solid foundation for this study were: Freire (2009), Gatti, Barretto & André (2011), Imbernón (2011), Mizukami (2005-2006), Roldão (2005), Tardif (2011), Tardif & Lessard (2005), among others. The approach for the research was of qualitative aspect. For data collection, we created a discussion group, composed of five trainers, and analysis of two accounts published as books, about the training practices developed by two members of the faculty. Data analysis was developed under the perspective of content analysis, proposed by Franco (2012). Data highlights what teacher-trainers do and what they think of the student-teachers as well as the activities that are developed on the training locus. Student-teacher profiles, as regards to the functional situation of the schools where they work and also to the lack of knowledge about cultural heritage and symbolic aspects of language, has required further search for answers concerning the training needs of these student-teachers. This has led teacher-trainers to develop teaching strategies in order to enhance student-teachers learning and also to articulate academic-theoretical knowledge. This practice has shown that teaching in the Parfor Program has encouraged trainers to rebuild their knowledge and their practices. It is highly desirable that the actions and teaching practices that have been developed by these teacher-trainers at Parfor are properly recorded, discussed and shared, so that it can help to improve teachertraining policies. / A presente pesquisa insere-se nas discussões sobre formação de professores e tem como foco um grupo de professoras formadoras que atuam em um curso de Pedagogia do Plano Nacional de Formação de Professores da Educação Básica (Parfor), em uma instituição de educação superior confessional da Baixada Santista (SP). O programa Parfor foi instituído pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC), em caráter emergencial, tendo sido implantado pela Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), com o intuito de atender aos objetivos da Política Nacional de Formação dos Profissionais da Educação Básica, com o oferecimento de bolsas de estudo para professores em exercício na rede pública de ensino. Optou-se por investigar as implicações da atuação no curso de Pedagogia Parfor para a profissionalidade docente das professoras formadoras. Os principais autores que subsidiaram o estudo foram: Freire (2009), Gatti, Barretto e André (2011), Imbernón (2011), Mizukami (2005-2006), Roldão (2005), Tardif (2011), Tardif e Lessard (2005), dentre outros. A investigação utilizou-se de uma abordagem qualitativa. Para a coleta dos dados, foi realizado um grupo de discussão composto por cinco formadoras, além da análise de dois relatos sobre as práticas formativas desenvolvidas por duas docentes do curso, publicados em forma de capítulo de livro. A análise dos dados foi realizada na perspectiva da análise de conteúdo proposta por Franco (2012). Os dados obtidos colocam em destaque o que as professoras formadoras fazem e o que pensam dos estudantes-professores e das atividades desenvolvidas no lócus de formação. O perfil dos professores-estudantes em relação à situação funcional nas redes em que atuam e à falta de domínio dos bens culturais e simbólicos da língua exigiu a busca de respostas no que se refere às suas necessidades formativas. Esse movimento possibilitou que as professoras formadoras desenvolvessem estratégias didáticas que contribuíssem para o aprendizado dos professores-estudantes e para a articulação do conhecimento teórico-acadêmico com a prática, evidenciando que a docência no programa Parfor levou essas profissionais a reconstruírem seus saberes e suas práticas. É desejável que as ações e práticas de ensino desenvolvidas por professores formadores do Parfor sejam registradas, discutidas e compartilhadas, contribuindo, assim, com o aprimoramento das políticas de formação de professores.

Policy makers, school and district leaders, researchers, industry, and parents are all increasingly concerned with improving the quality of education in schools. Therefore, teachers need to welcome and keep themselves up-to-date about the improvements, developments, and educational reforms. At this point, in-service training of teachers is one of the most urgent concerns of teacher educators and policy makers. Although there is a widespread view on the importance of teachers&rsquo / professional learning, how design and process should be handled is still questioning issue. The purpose of this study was to determine the kinds and qualities of in-service training that teachers needed. Professional development designs&rsquo / three elements were highlighted in this research. Content refers what designer of professional development expects teachers to learn / form denotes the context, materials, schedule, and evaluation in which learning takes place / audiences are targeted group of teachers who needs to participate some certain programs. Via survey design / data were collected from 1730 teachers, and analyzed through ANOVA and Structural Equation Modeling. Teachers reported an occasional need for Guidance and Special Education, Preparation for Inter/national Exams, Self-development, Professional Teaching Knowledge, and Technology Use, and reported medium satisfaction with previous programs. They also reported their preferences for in-service training program format. All these results were discussed together, and combined as design elements of training programs. Determining what teachers need and prefer and how they learn best made it possible to provide suggestions for Turkish teacher training policy to maximize the match between teacher needs and the content and process by which those needs are met.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research is part of a line of research in the Special Education Graduate Program of Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM. Sought to reflect and draw together a group of teachers from a state school in Santa Maria - RS, strategies for mitigation practices of school bullying aimed at the educational inclusion of their students. The investigation occurred from a qualitative methodology, focusing on Action Research (Carr and Kemmis, 1988), who guided the fellowship process of teacher training so as to raise the rethinking of practices and the creation of alternatives for the recognition and reduction practices of school bullying. The theoretical features of this research allow the analysis and understanding of the concept of educational inclusion studies by Garcia (2008), as a result, we seek to conceptualize school bullying and its protagonists , with the support of authors such as: Fante (2005), Guareschi (2008), Silva (2010), Alkimin (2011) and Silva (2013 ). And , with authors such as Freire (1996), Gómez (1998) and Pimenta (2005) sought to understand what processes of training teacher that are in this type of violence in a space consisting of a diversity of people, knowledge and practices. The main results are in the form of lines of analysis and rush on discussions about the importance of training teachers for the recognition of school bullying, as well as the establishment of strategies for minimizing these practices. Through dialogical meetings with the group of teachers participating in the research, it was possible to observe how the bullying constitutes at school where they work, what are the main cases of such violence. Different activities proposed for the minimization nine specific cases of bullying were identified in the school with two students with Special Educational Needs, assisted in the resource room, as well as Accordingly, based on the activities undertaken by teachers, in addition to discussions during the meetings were elected, in the form of conclusion, indicators for the minimization of the practices of school bullying that enhance educational inclusion. To hear what students have to say about the practice of bullying. Thus, the experiences become revealed and become susceptible to interventions; To develop a work that manage the control of aggressiveness, tolerance, respect for differences and individualities of each; To reframe the teaching practice, when necessary, in order to ensure that students leave the passivity and become agents of their own learning and active participants as subjects in combating bullying; Enlighten students about what constitutes bullying in the school, what are the characteristics of bullying and who the characters are; Continuing education of teachers in order to understand that in their practice, constant discussions and reflections in order to pursue new strategies and methodological alternatives that maya fight school bullying / A presente pesquisa faz parte da Linha de pesquisa em Educação Especial do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria UFSM. Buscou refletir e elaborar junto a um grupo de professoras de uma escola pública estadual de Santa Maria RS, estratégias para a atenuação das práticas de bullying escolar visando à inclusão educacional de seus alunos. A investigação ocorreu a partir de uma metodologia de cunho qualitativo, centrada na Pesquisa-Ação (Carr e Kemmis,1988), que embasou o processo de formação docente, de maneira a suscitar o repensar de práticas e a constituição de alternativas para o reconhecimento e minimização de práticas de bullying escolar. Os delineamentos teóricos dessa pesquisa permitem a análise e o entendimento do conceito de inclusão educacional através dos estudos de Garcia (2008), na sequência, busca-se conceituar o bullying escolar e seus protagonistas, com o amparo de autores como: Fante (2005), Guareschi (2008), Silva (2010), Alkimin (2011) e Silva (2013). E, tendo autores como Freire (1996), Gómez (1998) e Pimenta (2005) procurou-se compreender quais os processos de formação docente que se constituem frente a esse tipo de violência em um espaço constituído por uma diversidade de pessoas, saberes e práticas. Os resultados principais encontram-se sob a forma de eixos de análise e perpassam por discussões acerca da importância da formação docente para o reconhecimento do bullying escolar, assim como, na constituição de estratégias para a minimização dessas práticas. Através de reuniões dialógicas com o grupo de professoras participantes da pesquisa, foi possível observar de que forma o bullying se constitui no espaço escolar em que atuam, quais são os principais casos dessa violência. Foram identificados nove casos específicos de bullying na escola sendo dois de alunos com Necessidades Educacionais Especiais, atendidos em sala de recursos, assim como, propostas diferentes atividades para a sua minimização. Nesse sentido, a partir das atividades realizadas pelas professoras, além das discussões travadas durante as reuniões elegeram-se, sob a forma de conclusão, indicadores para a minimização das práticas de bullying escolar que potencializam a inclusão educacional: Ouvir o que os alunos têm a dizer sobre as práticas de bullying. Dessa forma, as vivências passam a ser reveladas e tornam-se passíveis de intervenção; Desenvolver um trabalho que permeie o controle da agressividade, a tolerância, o respeito às diferenças e às individualidades de cada um; Ressignificar a prática docente, sempre que necessário, a fim de que os estudantes saiam da passividade e tornem-se agentes de sua aprendizagem e ativos enquanto sujeitos partícipes no combate do bullying; Esclarecimento aos alunos acerca do que constitui o bullying dentro da escola, quais são as características e quem são os personagens; Formação continuada dos professores, a fim de que compreendam em sua prática, discussões e reflexões constantes, de forma a buscar novas estratégias e alternativas metodológicas que constituem um enfrentamento ao bullying escolar.

Orientador: Newton Antonio Paciulli Bryan / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T20:15:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bastos_AnaFannyBenzideOliveira_D.pdf: 2142703 bytes, checksum: 6973dcd5b992c0171425f39ea021ac63 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: O Decreto nº. 6755, que passa a vigorar no ano 2009, institui a Política Nacional de Formação de Profissionais do Magistério da Educação Básica. Nesse mesmo ano, surge a Portaria Normativa nº. 9, que institui o Plano Nacional de Formação dos Professores da Educação Básica (Parfor), objeto desta pesquisa. Vinculando as ações no regime de colaboração da União com os estados, Distrito Federal e municípios nos programas de formação inicial e continuada de professores da educação básica. Esta pesquisa analisa a implementação do Parfor, no novo contexto que é o regime de colaboração. Nos objetivos específicos, buscou-se analisar as atribuições de cada ente federativo no âmbito do Parfor e identificar as ações desenvolvidas pelas redes estadual e municipal, com vistas a viabilizar a participação dos docentes nos cursos de licenciatura presenciais ofertados pelo Plano Nacional de Formação de Professores. Adotaram-se como referências analíticas os Relatórios de Gestão da Capes, os Regimentos Internos, as Atas dos Fóruns Estaduais Permanentes de Apoio à Formação Docente dos Estados, as normas regulamentadoras do Parfor e as entrevistas com coordenadores na Capes e nos estados do Amazonas, Pará e Rondônia. Remonta-se o desenho da estratégia de implementação nas diferentes instâncias e momentos do Plano, mais precisamente no período de 2009 a 2013, com vistas a elucidar as determinações presentes tanto na ação estatal, quanto na atuação dos vários sujeitos envolvidos no Parfor e como tais condicionantes influenciam os resultados obtidos. Nesse percurso analítico, identificaram-se as convergências e divergências encontradas no processo de implementação do Plano nos estados no que diz respeito à estrutura, ao processo de gestão e às redes locais. A pesquisa concentra seu referencial na Análise da Implementação das Políticas Públicas, que se expressa num campo interdisciplinar. Toma-se como orientação o fato de que as Políticas Públicas, ao serem implementadas, são redesenhadas ou reconfiguradas, uma vez que esse processo se efetiva num ambiente permeado de incertezas, contingências e envolve diferentes sujeitos sociais com interesses diferenciados, configurando situações que exigem tomadas de decisão que acabam por imprimir mudanças e adaptações ou mesmo redirecionamento das ações anteriormente planejadas / Abstract: The Decree nº 6755 which went into effect in 2009 year, establishes a National Policy for training of Magisterium Professionals of Basic Education. In that same year aroused the Normative Order. 9 establishing the Plano Nacional de Formação dos Professores da Educação Básica ¿ National Plan for the training of Basic Education Teachers ¿ (Parfor), object of this research. This has linked the actions in the Union¿s collaborative scheme with the States, Federal District and municipalities in initial and continuing training programs for basic education teachers. This research analyzes the Parfor implementation in the new context that is the scheme of cooperation. In the Specific objectives sought to analyze each federative entity assignments within the Parfor and identify the actions carried out by the State and municipal networks to enable the teachers participation in classroom graduate courses offered by the Plano Nacional de Formação de Professores ¿ National Plan for Training Teacher. It has been adopted as analytical references The Management Reports of Capes, the Internal Regulations, the Proceedings of the Support Permanent State Forums of Teacher Education States, the Parfor regulatory standards and interviews with coordinators at Capes and in the States of Amazonas, Pará and Rondônia. It has reassembled the design of the implementation strategy in the different instances and moments of the Plan, more precisely in the period from 2009 to 2013, in order to elucidate the determinations which are both on State action, as in the performance of the various subjects involved in the Parfor and, as such, constraints that influence the obtained results. In this analytical route, it has been identified convergences and divergences found in the process of implementation of the Plan in the States as regards to the structure, the management process and local networks. The research focuses its benchmark in the Implementation of Public Policy Analysis, which expresses itself in an interdisciplinary field. It has been taken as guidance the fact that Public Policy, to be implemented, are redrawn or rewritten, since this process becomes effective in an environment permeated by uncertainties, contingencies and involves different social subjects with diverse interests, setting up situations that require decision-making that ultimately print changes and adaptations or even redirect previously planned actions / Doutorado / Politicas, Administração e Sistemas Educacionais / Doutora em Educação

In November 2010, the coalition government published its seminal The White Paper, The Importance of Teaching. Its recommendations sought to reform Initial Teacher Training (ITT) so that more training was school-based; to create a new national network of ‘Teaching Schools’ that gave outstanding schools in England a leadership role in the initial training and professional development of teachers. This thesis critically analyses the subsequent changes in relationships and tensions between universities and schools as the reforms were implemented. The consequent increase in the number of routes into teaching, coupled with more autonomy devolved to schools in relation to Initial Teacher Preparation (ITP), has served to jeopardise university-based preparation. The changing notions of pedagogy and practice in school-led initial teacher preparation alter the significance of theory in ITP and ultimately question the future for university-led initial teacher education. What constitutes effective teacher preparation is explored through a series of semi-structured interviews drawn from a small, reputational sample across the field of education. This provides the data that reveals a contemporary dichotomy between ‘training’ and ‘education’ that challenges the relevance of a theoretically informed teacher education in favour of ‘on the job training.’ From the discussion of the contested data provided by reputational sample, an outcome of the current changes could result in a peripheral role for universities in ITP. In particular, undergraduate provision, such as the B.Ed, was threatened because it did not provide a sufficient depth of subject knowledge; a shift to post-graduate school-based preparation and a reliance on assessment-only routes renders the role of the universities defunct. The findings from the analysis of the reputational sample were further examined in the workplace through questionnaire given to academics and partnership school mentors working in delivering ITP in an East Midlands University. The tensions between ‘training’ and education and the role of universities in initial teacher preparation were mirrored by teachers and academics. In conclusion, the changes made by the coalition government have made the future of ‘teacher education’ uniquely fragile.

The study used Social Cultural Theory as an analytical framework to understand the professional preparation of kindergarten teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A multi-method approach to data collection was adopted, involving a questionnaire, interviews and documentary analysis of both the pre-school curriculum in KSA and the programme content. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were therefore employed to achieve the research objectives. The research methodology was based on the interpretive approach and included a case study. The participants were student-teachers studying on the four-year teacher training programme at one of the universities in KSA. Responses to four hundred and nineteen questionnaires completed by student-teachers across the four years of the programme were analysed, and a detailed case study involving 32 student-teachers was carried out. These student-teachers were interviewed three times each over three terms, with a focus on the nature of their knowledge and beliefs. The quantitative and qualitative data were analysed using SPSS to summarise the results of the closed questions in the questionnaire and to compare the differences between the student-teachers’ perspectives in each study year. All interviews were taped and transcribed. The data were coded and recoded several times using the continuous comparative process. When broad categories/themes emerged, these created sub-categories. Similarly, the data gained from the questionnaire’s open-ended questions were also analysed qualitatively. The findings focus on the results from the questionnaire for each study year, followed by a direct comparison of student-teachers’ knowledge and beliefs across the four years. The findings from the interviews with student-teachers are presented separately for each study year in order that the development of their knowledge and beliefs over the four-year programme can be seen. The findings revealed that student-teachers’ beliefs and their knowledge were closely linked. Although student-teachers’ knowledge developed as a result of their learning, some of their beliefs about Early Childhood Education (ECE) in general seemed to remain stable over the period of their university course. Many factors influenced the training of the student-teacher within Saudi culture and practices, such as the cultural context, the society, national policy, religion, module content, styles of teaching, visits to kindergarten, self-learning, and others’ knowledge/experience and support. These others included friends, other student-teachers, and relatives who were studying on the kindergarten programme or worked in the field of ECE. The findings showed that student-teachers built their teaching identities on the wider social-cultural purposes of education in Saudi society, which were consistent with expectations of their roles in society. However, various constraints related to the university context, to the kindergarten context and to the social-cultural context influenced their preparation as teachers. The study indicated many limitations to the current apprenticeship approach, due to the predominantly transmissive style of education at university. Student-teachers were not progressively immersed in a more fully developed apprenticeship model in which teachers learnt about the cultures and practices of ECE within the contexts of practice. This study strongly challenges a system where student-teachers only have one term of teaching practice. It is argued that teaching practice should start much earlier in the programme and be extended. A model for developing professional preparation programmes of Initial Teachers (IT) in the field of ECE is presented. Implications arising from this study and recommendations which could improve Teacher Education (TE) in KSA are outlined. Finally, suggestions for further research are presented.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Regina Lima dos Santos Silva.pdf: 7864343 bytes, checksum: 9d5535b0910129225200d038eaf8d31c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this research was to identify and question the challenges and difficulties faced by training teachers in the beginning of their career in Higher Education as well their ways of response to those demands. The study was carried with teachers who have actuated in Mathmatics undergraduate programs ministered by institutions located in the states of São Paulo, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul. Out of a total of fourteen respondents, five have worked in public colleges and nine in private ones. This survey applied the qualitative approach as a methodologic procedure by using semistructured interviews and questionnaire. The research permitted to observe the Mathematics training teacher profile and his corresponding instruction, as well the types of teaching access and professional recognition. In order to find such data, we analysed the specificity and difficulties of teacher's conduction and the strategies which best respond to practice requirements considering the institutional conditions and working implications for the beginners of this segment. The cornerstone of this study lies on Higher Education teaching, training educators in the beginning of their career and their instruction learning. In general, the analysis of the data make it possible for us to state that beginner teachers face pedagogic and institutional challenges. In order to cope with that, such educator comes across situations which require a complex formative awareness about his teaching-learning process in Higher Education. The survey brought strong evidences that the support given by expert colleagues improves the specificity of beginners' practice. Through the analysis of this Mathematics beginner professoriate some particular elements were unveiled. They have been worthy when students respect them. In turn, their prior experience in Basic Education has seen as a condition to structure their practice in teaching programs. Moreover, they work in a pleasant and solidary environment which provides exchanges of pedagogic material and guiding with their partners. Finally, the results demonstrated that the beginning of teaching career has been founded apart when it comes to the dilemmas shown in this stage. In this case, training educadors have been seeking alternatives to cope with those problems evidencing that they are capable of building up their own learning from the pedagogic practice / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo identificar e problematizar os desafios e as dificuldades dos professores formadores em início da carreira no ensino superior, bem como as formas de enfrentamento encontradas para responder a essas demandas. O estudo foi realizado com catorze professores formadores em início de carreira, que atuam nos cursos de licenciatura em Matemática, sendo cinco docentes de instituições públicas e nove de particulares, localizadas em São Paulo, Paraná e Rio Grande do Sul. Para este estudo, utilizou-se a abordagem qualitativa como procedimento metodológico, optando-se por entrevistas semiestruturadas e questionário. A pesquisa permitiu conhecer quem é o professor formador iniciante dos cursos de licenciatura em Matemática e sua trajetória de formação; identificar as formas de ingresso na docência e as relações com o reconhecimento profissional; analisar as especificidades e dificuldades do trabalho desse professor e as estratégias utilizadas para responder às demandas da prática; analisar as condições de trabalho e institucionais e suas implicações para o trabalho do professor iniciante, desse segmento de ensino. O eixo teórico norteador desta pesquisa contempla a docência no ensino superior, os formadores de professores, o início de carreira no ensino superior e aprendizagens da docência. De modo geral, a análise das informações obtidas permitiu afirmar que os docentes, em início de carreira, enfrentam desafios pedagógicos e institucionais. No enfrentamento desses desafios o formador iniciante depara-se com situações que demandam uma preocupação formativa mais complexa sobre o ensinar e aprender no ensino superior. A pesquisa também trouxe fortes evidências de que uma especificidade do trabalho desses iniciantes é a busca de apoio junto aos colegas mais experientes. No decorrer das análises, alguns elementos mostraram-se específicos para esse grupo de docentes que está atuando nos cursos de Licenciatura em Matemática. Eles sentem-se valorizados ao trabalharem com alunos que os respeitam e avaliam a experiência anterior na educação básica como estruturante para sua atuação no curso de licenciatura. Trabalham num ambiente agradável e solidário com os pares que possibilitam trocas de materiais pedagógicos e orientações. O início da carreira, conforme evidenciaram os dados da pesquisa, vai se constituindo de forma isolada ao se confrontar com os dilemas que se apresentam nessa fase da docência. Os formadores vão buscando alternativas para enfrentá-los, evidenciando que são capazes de produzir sua própria aprendizagem baseada na prática pedagógica