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The term Community of Practice (CoP) is often used rather loosely to describe many types of instructional settings that support more constructivist or social learning settings. This study differentiates CoP from other learning communities with greater discipline in defining CoP, as characterized by sustained self-organization for example. Such a CoP sits quite apart from the typical intent of instructional settings. The literature on intentional CoP suggests that the greatest challenges are a sense of interdependence among CoP members, the authenticity of the practice or purpose, and a trajectory for the CoP's future. The purpose of this case study was to attend to these issues with an online initiative to nurture CoP among practicing teachers in a reading-specialist, graduate program. For the course under study, learners engaged only in cooperative projects with the support of a community worksite (Sakai). Throughout the term, the worksite was promoted as a community place independent of the course and program, a place where they could continue to share indefinitely; and they were encouraged to think of what formal and informal activities the system could support, and how. The study explored how participants responded verbally and behaviorally to the community worksite and the other technologies employed to better support their group work and sharing of knowledge in general. The group's technical skills, competing cultures and practices, and the level of authenticity were all significant challenges. The study's findings challenge the application of this learning theory at the course level of academics, and they inform future design of online support for intentional CoP. / Ph. D.

This study focused on peer teaching and learning in preschool children's peer collaborative interactions. The research took place in the naturalistic setting of a preschool classroom at the Virginia Tech Child Development Laboratory, which is a university-based preschool in Blacksburg, Virginia. The children were videotaped in their collaborative interactions and the interactions were analyzed for moments of teaching and learning between the children. The study found that children use a variety of verbal and non-verbal teaching strategies when collaborating with each other. Children's learning from the interactions was exhibited through many forms of modeling, reciprocation, and exchange of ideas. / Master of Science

Traditionally, geometry at school starts on a formal level, largely ignoring prerequisite skills needed for formal spatial reasoning. Ignoring that geometry conceptualisation has a sequential and hierarchical nature, causes ineffective teaching and learning with a long lasting inhibiting influence on spatial development and learning. One of the current reform movements in mathematics education is the appropriate use of dynamic computer technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Concerning mathematics education, the lecturers may involve the introduction of both dynamic computer technology and mathematics in meaningful contexts that will enable interplay between the two. Pre-service mathematics teachers (PMTs) can be encouraged to become actively involved in their learning and, therefore, less frustrated in their study orientation in mathematics. Therefore, such learning environments may be essential to enhance the conceptual understanding of PMTs. To be able to reach their eventual learners, PMTs' own conceptual understanding of geometry should be well developed. When PMTs have conceptual understanding of a mathematical procedure, they will perceive this procedure as a mathematical model of a problem situation, rather than just an algorithm. This study aimed at investigating the effect of a technologically enhanced learning environment on PMTs' understanding of geometry concepts and their study orientation in mathematics, as prerequisite for deep conceptualisation. A combined quantitative and qualitative research approach was used. The quantitative investigation employed a pre-experimental one-group pre-test post-test design. A Mayberry-type test was used to collect data with regard to PMTs' conceptualisation of geometry concepts, while the Study Orientation in Mathematics (SOM) questionnaire was used to collect data with regard their study orientation in mathematics. The qualitative investigation employed phenomenological interviews to collect supplementary information about the participating PMTs' experiences and assessment of the influence of the use of the dynamic software Geometer's Sketchpad (GSP) on their learning and conceptualisation of geometry concepts. During post-testing the participating group of PMTs achieved practically significantly higher scores in the Mayberry-type test, as well as in all fields of the SOM questionnaire. Results seem to indicate that PMTs gained significantly in the expected high levels of conceptualisation, as well as high degrees of acquisition of those levels during the intervention programme. The main conclusion of the study is that a technologically enhanced learning environment (such as GSP) can be successfully utilised to significantly enhance PMTs' conceptualisation and study orientation, as prerequisite for deep conceptualisation, in geometry. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006

Abstract The aim of the essay is to investigate how two teachers in grades 4–6 work with reading comprehension in their teaching in order to enable the pupils’ reading development. The methods used in the study are questionnaires and observations which were then subjected to qualitative analysis. The result shows that both teachers use various strategies to facilitate the pupils’ development in reading comprehension. The empirical data revealed the teachers’ opinion that reading comprehension is about moving freely between different reading comprehension strategies so that the pupils can own their own learning. Judging by the observations, the classroom climate and the teacher’s competence are of great importance for the pupils’ learning.

The present study examines the relationship between the practices of schooling and classroom teaching and learning on the one hand and learners’ cognitive development and functioning on the other. The study uses innovative system of ideas in developmental and educational psychology, originally formulated by Lev Vygotsky to investigate the interrelations between learning, instruction and development. Carried out in a rapidly changing socio-cultural context of Venda, South Africa, the study examines the realities of schooling practices that exhibit both continuity with the past practices of society and some profound transformations that together lead to a multi-dimensional and a complex picture of cognitive development in learners. By examining the relations between the cultural practices of schooling and its socio-historical context on the one hand, and the consequent psychological process on the other hand, the present study offers an opportunity for exploring processes that may be more opaque in relatively stable socio-cultural contexts of schooling. The observations on the history of schooling in South Africa in general, and in Venda in particular, support the theoretical formulation that particular practices of schooling, themselves originating from and continuing larger social-historical processes, represent contexts in which learning and development take place and are shaped. The empirical investigations revealed that even the socio-cultural contexts of schooling characterized by strong ruptures, such as in South Africa, nonetheless carry on some vestiges of their past practices that affect today’s learning and development of learners. The study concludes, extending the prevailing theoretical formulation, that the social and cultural setting of schooling in Venda is multifaceted; manifesting xvi. instances of indigenous practices, the traditions of past missionary practices, as well as the traditions of the past, apartheid schooling. By taking into account these socio-cultural influences, the study provides crucial insights into the regularities of cognitive and conceptual developmental processes taking place in conditions of rapid social change in the course of the schooling of today’s children in Venda. The study furthers our understanding about the regularities of the socio-cultural and historical processes of schooling in conditions of rapid social change, and concludes by proposing ways of improving contemporary educational practice in South Africa, grounded in sound psychological knowledge and research about school transformation and classroom teaching and learning improvement.

No meio acadêmico internacional, há décadas, discussões vem sendo empreendidas, especialmente pela Sociologia e pela Antropologia, em defesa de uma outra ciência possível, que considere plenamente as crianças como protagonistas e participantes da vida em sua totalidade, e, como desdobramento disso, em suas pesquisas. Mais recentemente, pesquisadores da Geografia vem se colocando nesta arena de vozes, como sujeitos enunciativos da Geografia da Infância, defendendo que as crianças não apenas estão no espaço geográfico ou o ocupam, mas, se apropriam dele, bem como o produzem. Neste ínterim, nos embrenhamos pelas sendas da Geografia da Infância, campo de estudo que está se constituindo no Brasil desde o início do presente século e, ao mesmo tempo, nunca estará constituído, porque processo feito COM as crianças, seres humanos plenos, impassíveis de catalogação. A pesquisa de doutorado que ora apresentamos foi realizada junto com vinte crianças moradoras do Bairro Dom Bosco, em Juiz de Fora - MG. Bairro que, conforme o Plano Diretor do município, é uma Área de Especial Interesse Social (AEIS), apresentando condições precárias de habitabilidade. Contudo, o Dom Bosco tem sido impactado, sensivelmente, pelo que chamamos de reestruturação capitalista do espaço, de modo mais contundente a partir da década de 1990 - com a instalação e ampliação de equipamentos urbanos segregacionistas e o aumento da especulação imobiliária. Em 2008, a população do bairro Dom Bosco viu de muito perto a inauguração do primeiro shopping de padrão luxuoso de Juiz de Fora, o Independência Shopping, bem em frente de suas portas e janelas (aqueles que as tem). O aparente progresso não conferiu ao Dom Bosco sair do rol dos bairros mais empobrecidos da cidade, continuando a ser um bairro de ausências relativas a infra-estruturas mínimas de habitabilidade. E, pelo contrário, a chegada do Shopping removeu a maior área de lazer pública a que a população do bairro Dom Bosco tinha acesso, a Curva do Lacet. Nossa entrada no bairro e os primeiros contatos com as crianças, pouco a pouco, foram nos encaminhando a uma problemática central de pesquisa: O que é o bairro Dom Bosco para as crianças que nele moram? Com seus desenhos, impregnados de suas falas pulsantes de suas vidas, as crianças nos possibilitaram alcançar nosso objetivo pautado em apreender as lógicas utilizadas por elas para delimitar o Dom Bosco delas. As crianças participantes nos mostraram que suas definições de bairro não se alinhavam aos limites político-administrativos do poder público e aos ditames das iniciativas privadas e nos levaram à busca de uma teoria que pudesse dialogar com o que elas nos revelaram. Disso, surgiu nossa aproximação com a teoria histórico-cultural de Lev Semionovitch Vigotski, que, certamente, desvela-se também espacial. Para além do escopo construído a priori, as crianças do bairro Dom Bosco nos apresentaram suas geografias, nos instigaram a pensar num conceito de Bairro- Vivência e, assim, contribuíram para o estado da arte da Geografia da Infância. / In the international academic world, for decades, discussions are being undertaken, especially in Sociology and Anthropology in defense of another possible science, which considers the children as protagonists and participants of life in its entirety, and as a extension that, in their research. More recently, geography researchers has been putting in this arena of voices as enunciative subject of Geography of Childhood, arguing that children are not only in the geographic space or occupy it, but that they also take possession of it, as well as they produce it . Meanwhile, we engage in the paths of Geography of Childhood, field of study that is forming in Brazil since the beginning of this century and at the same time it will never be fully complete because the process is being done WITH the children: full human beings, impassive of cataloging. The doctoral research presented here was conducted with twenty children living in the suburb of Dom Bosco, in Juiz de Fora-MG. According to the urban planning of the city, is a Special Area of Social Interest (AEIS), with precarious living conditions. However, Dom Bosco has been impacted significantly by what we call capitalist restructuring of space, more forcefully from the 1990s - with the installation and expansion of segregationist urban infrastructure and increasing property speculation. In 2008, the population of the Dom Bosco saw very closely the opening of the first luxury pattern shopping mall of Juiz de Fora, \"Independência Shopping\", right in front of your doors and windows (for those who have it). The apparent progress not allowed Dom Bosco leaves the ranks of the poorest neighborhoods of the city, continuing to be a region of absences on minimum infrastructure habitability. Instead, the arrival of the mall removed the largest public recreation area that the Dom Bosco neighborhood population had access, the Lacet curve. Our entry in the neighborhood and the first contacts with children, little by little, were directing us to a central problem of the research: What is the Dom Bosco neighborhood for children who live in it? With their drawings, impregnated with pulsating lines of their lives, the children enabled us to achieve our goal guided to grasp the logic used by them to delimit what Dom Bosco is for them . The participating children showed us that their neighborhood definitions are not aligned to political and administrative boundaries of government and the dictates of private initiatives and led us to search for a theory that could dialogue with what they showed us. Hence, it arose our approach to the historical-cultural theory of Lev Semionovitch Vygotsky, that certainly is revealed also spacial. Beyond the extents built a priori, Dom Bosco\'s neighborhood children presented us their geographies, inspiring us to think of a Neighborhood-Experience concept and thus contributed to the state of the art of Geography of Childhood.

Tendo por base teórica a perspectiva histórico-cultural do desenvolvimento psicológico humano, esta pesquisa investigou a constituição leitora de jovens nas camadas populares da cidade de São Paulo. A coleta de dados para análise consistiu de entrevistas com 13 sujeitos entre 17 e 31 anos, usuários de uma biblioteca comunitária na cidade de São Paulo. Inicialmente, buscou-se investigar a constituição de leitores literários. Uma vez em campo, alargou-se o espectro de investigação para outros leitores. Os resultados evidenciaram que o processo de constituição leitora não foi homogêneo, linear nem tampouco mecânico. Ao contrário, ele foi possível graças a configurações sempre singulares de fatores interdependentes que contribuíram para a gênese do interesse por ler. Dentre tais fatores estiveram: a freqüência de acesso a material impresso e sua qualidade; o poder de entretenimento desse material, em especial na infância, a identificação com a temática de algumas obras, e, por outro lado, o caráter exótico de outras obras; uma relação positiva com o saber e a percepção de si como excelente aluno; e acima de tudo as oportunidades de contato com leitores mais experientes O convívio com leitores mais maduros deu-se em diferentes configurações de âmbitos, os quais assumiram diversos graus de importância na constituição leitora de cada um. A maior parte dos sujeitos que tiveram oportunidade de conviver com tais leitores mais experientes durante a infância e adolescência na família, na escola básica, entre os vizinhos, namorados, ou no grupo de estilo tornaram-se leitores literários. Para os outros sujeitos a que se chamou leitores que não conviveram com leitores mais experientes ou o fizeram mais raramente, o desenvolvimento de práticas de leitura deu-se mais tardiamente, a partir dos 17 anos, quando encontraram tais mediadores mais experientes na biblioteca comunitária e se envolveram em projetos de transformação social, o que favoreceu o desenvolvimento do prazer e do sentido de saber. Do ponto de vista teórico, foram levados em consideração os estudos sobre leitura e letramento de Magda Becker Soares, Marisa Lajolo, Regina Zilberman e Ivani Ratto, as análises sociológicas de Pierre Bourdieu, Bernard Charlot, Bernard Lahire e Maria José Viana, as reflexões sobre a sociabilidade juvenil, a escola e os grupos de estilo realizadas por Marília Pontes Sposito e Juarez Dayrell e os estudos sobre a perspectiva vygotskiana do desenvolvimento humano, a escolarização e o letramento, conduzidos por Marta Kohl de Oliveira e Teresa Rego. / This qualitative study aimed at investigating the constitution of young readers in the working classes of São Paulo city, from the cultural-historical perspective of the human psychological development. Data collection consisted of interviews with 13 subjects aged 17 to 31, who are users of a community library. At first it aimed at studying the constitution of literary readers. In the field, the research spectrum was enlarged and included other readers. Results showed that the reader constitution process was not homogeneous, linear or mechanical. On the contrary, such constitution was possible thanks to singular configurations of interdependent factors that contributed to the genesis of an interest in reading. Among such factors were: the development of a positive relationship with knowledge and of a self-image excellent student; reasonably frequent access to printed material and its high quality; the entertaining power such material had, especially during ones childhood, ones identification with the theme of some works and, on the other hand, the exotic characteristics of other works; and most importantly, the opportunities of being in contact with more experienced readers. The contact with such more experienced readers took place in different ambit configurations, and each ambit had various degrees of importance for each persons reading constitution. Most of the subjects that had the chance to have contact with such more experienced readers during their childhood and adolescence in their family, at school and among neighbors, friends or in the style group became literary readers. Most of the subjects who did not have frequent contact with more experienced readers or did have it but only very rarely during their childhood and adolescence, did not develop reading practices until the age of 17, when they met such more experienced readers in a community library and were involved in social transformation projects, which favored the development of a meaningful and pleasant relationship with knowledge. Data was analyzed from the theoretical point of view of studies on reading and literacy by Magda Becker Soares, Marisa Lajolo, Regina Zilberman and Ivani Ratto, sociological analyses by Pierre Bourdieu, Bernard Charlot, Bernard Lahire and Maria José Viana, investigations on juvenile sociability, education and style groups by Marília Pontes Sposito and Juarez Dayrell, and studies on Vygotskys perspective of human development, schooling and literacy conducted by Marta Kohl de Oliveira and Teresa Rego.

Submitted by Maicon Juliano Schmidt (maicons) on 2015-03-21T15:10:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Nelymar Gonçalves do Nascimento.pdf: 4481549 bytes, checksum: 21b5a514f949b28777aa459f24555974 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-21T15:10:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nelymar Gonçalves do Nascimento.pdf: 4481549 bytes, checksum: 21b5a514f949b28777aa459f24555974 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-21 / IFPI - Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí / Esta investigação aborda a construção do conhecimento no campo da moda por meio do uso das tecnologias digitais, tendo como sujeitos os alunos no cotidiano do seu ambiente acadêmico. Esse estudo analisa o uso das tecnologias digitais como meio e fim do método de aprendizagem para o desenvolvimento da capacidade criativa do aluno. Para este fim, buscou-se verificar: a) a estrutura física proporcionada a esses alunos pela universidade; b) as metodologias de ensino utilizadas no âmbito dessas tecnologias; e c) a percepção dos alunos ambientados ou não com as tecnologias. Esta pesquisa fundamentou-se na teoria sócio-histórica de Vigotsky acerca da construção do conhecimento, na qual o sujeito se constitui psicológica e cognitivamente na interação com o seu grupo social pela mediação de instrumentos e relações constituídas ao longo da história. O método empregado para a produção dos dados utilizou-se da entrevista em grupos de discussão e a técnica de análise de conteúdo para a leitura compreensiva dos mesmos. Considera-se que o aprendizado dos alunos do curso pesquisado se constrói não só na interação com a máquina e com os seus softwares, mas também pela participação dos seus colegas e professores através da interação proporcionada pelo empenho na realização das suas atividades. Esse processo de mediação leva ao estímulo do desenvolvimento potencial de características imprescindíveis ao design de moda. / This research focuses on the development of knowledge in the field of fashion through the use of digital technologies, taking students as subjects in their everyday academic environment. This study aims to analyze the use of digital technologies as a means and end of the learning method for the development of creative skills of the student. To this end, we attempted to check: a) physical structure provided to these students by the university; b) the teaching methodologies used within these technologies, as well as, c) the perception of acclimated or not with the technologies students. This research was based on the socio-historical Vygotsky’s theory about the construction of knowledge, in which the subject is psychologically and cognitively in interaction with their social group for mediating instruments and relationships established throughout history. The method employed for the production of the data was used in the interview discussion groups and content analysis technique for reading comprehension thereof. It is considered that students learning of the course builds researched not only in the interaction with the machine and its software, but also the participation of their classmates and teachers through interaction provided by commitment in carrying out their activities. This mediation process leads to stimulating the potential development of essential features to fashion design.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:56:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Henrique Meira de Castro.pdf: 968354 bytes, checksum: efc12339e49fe6013a418d2e3fee45c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-16 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work on fear and relations of power is a bibliographical research and a theoretical approach to how fear can be used as an instrument of social control. All the reflection about fear and its possible uses as an instrument of social control is made from the synthesis of Vygotsky in his studies on the theory of emotions. For him, emotion, and therefore, fear is not a simple natural and instinctive survival strength, but also a higher psychological function that constitutes itself on a mediation between person and society, thus a complex synthesis of multiple determinations. After a very brief history of the fears that have plagued, and continues to plague, the human race, some situations in which fear is used as one of the forms of power in relationships are presented, from biblical scriptures and indigenous legends to the 21th century establishment of massive frightening news announcements, through the relations of power within families, schools and the labor s world. Also, we discuss the possible consequences of this culture of fear as an expansion of armed conflicts, social hygienism, as well as the increase in related diseases to that phenomenon, the perpetuation of disciplinary forms of education and how some sectors of society profits from these fears. Finally, a reflection on how we can overcome these relationships, and if this is possible within a class society / A presente dissertação sobre medo e relações de poder é pesquisa bibliográfica e reflexão teórica sobre como o medo pode ser utilizado como instrumento de controle social. Toda a reflexão sobre medo e seu possível uso como instrumento de controle social é feita a partir da síntese que Vigotski faz em seus estudos sobre a teoria das emoções, na qual a emoção e, por conseguinte, o medo não são uma simples força natural e instintiva de sobrevivência, mas também, uma função psicológica superior que se constitui na mediação entre indivíduo e sociedade, portanto complexa, em transformação e síntese de múltiplas determinações. Após traçar uma breve história dos medos que afligiram, e continuam a afligir, o gênero humano, são apresentadas diversas situações nas quais o medo é utilizado como uma das formas de poder nas relações, desde textos bíblicos e lendas indígenas à veiculação massiva de notícias amedrontadoras do século XXI, passando pelas relações de poder dentro das famílias, escolas e no mundo do trabalho. A partir disso, discute possíveis consequências dessa cultura do medo como, uma expansão de conflitos armados, higienismo social, aumento de doenças relacionadas a esses fenômenos, a perpetuação das formas disciplinares na educação e como alguns setores da sociedade lucram com esses medos. Faz uma reflexão sobre como podemos superar essas relações e se isso é possível numa sociedade de classes