Distance teacher education – some experiences from Dalarna University, SwedenPaper presented at the 33rd Annual ATEE Conference Brussels, Belgium, 23rd – 27th August 2008

Distance teaching is now-a-days used in different shapes. However, it is something different from traditional campus organised education as it systematically uses Information Communication Technology (ICT) as a key element. When the distance teacher education started in Sweden many teacher educators doubted the wisdom of this. They expressed that the educational process to become a teacher would be deteriorated. For instance, they feared for high drop out rates and difficulties to examine in a proper way. The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education has recently edited a report that showed that this form of teacher education was well adapted to the labour market, but the possibilities for the teacher students to shape their education were relatively limited. However, we still know quite little about the effects of this way to educate teacher students. This paper explores the possibility of using distance teacher education.In a case study 20 students, who were the first to finish a complete a distance teacher education at Högskolan Dalarna, were asked in a questionnaire how they had apprehended their education. We also interviewed four of these students, as well as five teacher educators.One of our findings were that the distance teacher education reached new target groups, who not had been able to participate in university studies if it not had been offered in this form. Especially, this was valid for the middle-aged women, living a long distance away from a university, with social responsibilities for children or old parents. Other findings were that these students in general were target oriented and ambitious, wrote more than the campus students and developed that kind of skill better. Marratech, an ICT system for small groups, e-mail and chat were used for the communication. Marratech was considered to permit free and spontaneous communication, both of the teacher educators and the students. Initially the teacher educators were sceptical to distance teacher education, but afterwards they were surprised of how well it had worked. They declared that they had better and nearer contact with their students and more control over the students´ performance, but some parts of the teacher education were better suitable for campus education, for example, power of creating characters. Distance teacher education was considered time consuming and demanded much activity from the teacher educators as the students wanted rapid responses. This study indicates that distance teacher education works well for mature individuals with high motivation. However, it demands more time from the teacher educators, but it gives in general good results. Still, there are pedagogical challenges to overcome. Maybe we should reflect on a mix of distance teacher education and campus based teacher education, instead of separated ways of accomplishing teacher education?

Consumo ético e sustentabilidade ambiental: estudo exploratório para conhecer comportamentos de aprendizagem, participação, responsabilidade e solidariedade do consumidor

O modelo de desenvolvimento sustentável trata de questões como a iniqüidade social, as limitações ambientais e a necessidade de compatibilizar o presente com as expectativas das gerações futuras. O consumo contemporâneo, hedonista e individualista, de troca de informações, de diferenciação social e de vocação consumista, parece dificultar que essas questões sejam ponderadas e se priorize a sustentabilidade ambiental. Como uma direção de comportamento em que o consumidor está orientado pelo senso de integração coletiva, de responsabilidade com os outros e o ambiente, o consumo ético estabelece uma ponte entre consumo contemporâneo e sustentabilidade. Como objetivo deste estudo, de caráter exploratório, busca-se conhecer tendências de comportamento para o consumo ético, um tema ainda incipiente no campo das ciências sociais. No levantamento bibliográfico, procurou-se integrar conteúdos que delimitassem a interdisciplinaridade entre consumo, desenvolvimento sustentável e ética, gerando as variáveis de estudo. Foram pesquisados estudantes como “líderes do amanhã” por sua influência nas organizações. A amostragem foi não probabilística por julgamento. O instrumento de pesquisa, baseado em escala de Likert de sete pontos, foi aplicado para alunos de graduação e pós-graduação em Administração. Foram utilizadas as análises multivariada fatorial e de agrupamento. Como resultado, obteve-se uma taxonomia da amostra pesquisada, como: “consciente cético”, “seguidor independente”, “teórico não praticante” e “individualista dissonante”. Este estudo reforça o achado prévio do levantamento bibliográfico de que há um paradoxo no individualismo contemporâneo, sendo concomitantemente consumista e ecológico. Também sugere a hipótese de que o sexo, trabalhar ou não e a escolaridade materna influenciam a aprendizagem do consumidor para questões ambientais, a decisão de participar em um pacto global sobre o consumo e a responsabilidade com as gerações futuras. Concluiu-se que a ética do discurso pode ser uma referência para a compreensão da troca de informações para o desenvolvimento sustentável e que o consumidor pesquisado não conforma um consumo ético, estabelecendo estágios de comportamento que não associam teoria e prática para a sustentabilidade ambiental

Estudo comparativo de empatia entre estudantes universitários de profissões assistenciais e não assistenciais

Este trabalho teve por objetivo investigar a existência de diferentes níveis de empatia entre estudantes universitários de cursos preparatórios para profissões classificadas como assistenciais e não assistenciais. Nos últimos anos tem-se evidenciado a presença de um nível elevado de empatia nos terapeutas que provocam mudanças construtivas em seus clientes. Por outro lado, pesquisas levadas a efeito revelaram que pessoas necessitadas de ajuda para problemas pessoais, têm encontrado alivio para seus problemas junto a outros profissionais não terapeutas. Partindo-se destas evidências, duas questões foram levantadas: 19) a média dos alunos dos grupos de profissões assistenciais é maior do que a média dos alunos dos grupos de profissões não assistenciais? 29) Considerando-se cada profissão individualmente, a média dos alunos, em cada curso, apresenta diferenças significativas? Para testar as hipóteses nulas, os sujeitos foram submetidos ao Recognition Assessment-Empathy e as médias encontradas, comparadas através de um teste t. Por se tratar de um estudo preliminar, onde foram usados estudantes, os resultados encontrados devem ser encarados com as naturais reservas, recomendando-se que o mesmo seja replicado usando-se uma amostra de profissionais experientes.

O sentido do estudo para os alunos de graduação em administração e as percepções dos agentes envolvidos nesse processo

O censo da educação superior de 2009 mostrou que o curso de Administração é o maior curso de graduação em número de matrículas no país. Somados os cursos presenciais e a distância são 1.102.579 alunos matriculados (18,5% do total). Além disso, o número de matrículas no curso de Administração cresceu 51% entre 2005 e 2009. Devido à representatividade do curso, não se pode desprezar o sentido do estudo para os alunos que buscam o título de bacharel em Administração. Também não pode ser desprezada a congruência entre o significado atribuído ao curso por esses alunos e os objetivos dos agentes envolvidos no planejamento e na execução desses cursos. Essas agentes são: o governo federal, representado pelo Ministério da Educação e Cultura (MEC); o órgão de classe, representado em nível estadual pelo Conselho Regional de Administração do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (CRA-RJ); as instituições de ensino superior (IES); os Coordenadores dos cursos de Administração; os Professores; e, finalmente, os Alunos. Sabendo que cada um desses agentes tem seus próprios objetivos e interesses e pensando no aluno como destinatário das políticas e práticas de todos os envolvidos no processo, busca-se, no presente estudo responder à seguinte questão: Qual o sentido do estudo para o aluno de graduação em Administração do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e as percepções dos agentes envolvidos nesse processo? A pesquisa de campo foi realizada em instituições de ensino superior do estado do Rio de Janeiro que disponibilizam cursos de graduação em Administração. Foram entrevistados nove coordenadores de curso, 17 professores e 58 alunos, totalizando 84 entrevistados. As entrevistas foram transcritas e submetidas à análise de conteúdo. O estudo conclui que o sentido atribuído ao curso pelos estudantes é o da empregabilidade e os agentes envolvidos na formação do administrador, em sua maioria, a ele vêm se adaptando quando deveriam provocar e oferecer um sentido mais amplo ao curso.

A sistematização do conteúdo jogo nas aulas de educação física do ensino fundamental e médio

Since the enactment of LDBEN 9.9394/96, Physical Education began to be understood as a curricular component in school. Thus, we see the need for systematization of content. We observed that the physical education classes at the public schools in Natal/RN from the game content, teachers did not use the existing proposals for systematization. And it was on this reality that the study occurred, aiming to present and discuss a proposal to systematization the game content in physical education classes in elementary and secondary education. Accordingly, we departed of following question: What possibilities of systematization of the game content in school physical education classes?. The methodology used was the action research, which allowed us to structure the intervention plan for the game content, directed to a reflective didactic process. The dialogue with action research provided an opportunity to understand of the proposal of systematization, the knowledge of game content, the planning and process of teaching and learning in physical education lessons developed. We use the proposed systematization the book Educação Física Escolar e Organização Curricular , to direct and organize the lesson plans. As research technique, we use the participant observation, filming, photographic records and field diary, guiding us in the debates and discussions about the field of research. The applications of the lesson plans were carried out in three schools, all located in Natal / RN: Escola Municipal Professora Ivonete Maciel, Escola Municipal Professor Ulisses de Góis e Professor Escola Estadual Josino Macedo. The members of this study were students PIBID-EF-UFRN, teachers, supervisors and school. They made the bridge between research and action, theoretical foundation and pedagogical practice, university and school. The results were advanced for beyond the propositions submitted by the above-mentioned book. For the Elementary School 1, the proposed systematization broadened experiences and learning of knowledge of the game and of playful and body manifestations. Provided an opportunity to know and learn about game of make account, rules, popular games, cooperative games, among others. For Elementary Schools 2 and Middle education, systematized lessons allowed the practical, the incorporation of knowledge of the game and its features: such as rules, origin, meaning of the name, different denominations, among others. The students experienced and learned, popular games, pre-sport games, cooperative games, with recycled material, among others. The treatment from three dimensions of contents: procedural, conceptual and attitudinal, occurred parallel to approach the game content, and in conjunction with our interventions, not being done separately during practice, but an ongoing process during class. This new perspective of work the game, in a systematized way, with applying, description and discussion the activities, allowed elaborate a summary framework of thematizations for game content, by year of teaching

Cidadania ambiental em centros urbanos : um estudo com estudantes do ensino superior

This work presents a study of the ambient management in urban centers, considering the ambient perception as element necessary to develop in the population the conscience of the necessity to preserve the environment. For this, the attitudes and behaviors of the community, represented for students of an Institution had been evaluated, so that strategies and actions are traced that come to minimize the ambient degradation and to provide an aggregate sustainable development to the economic development. The objective of this research consists of studying the problematic one of the ambient management in urban centers under the point of view of the awareness, of the ambient perception and of the participation of the population, this because the ambient questions are inserted in the aspects that involve the practical life and the daily one, for what becomes excellent to understand that the environment is a right of all, therefore, must be preserved. The methodology used in this work constitutes in the application of a questionnaire with scales of the type likert contends variables that compose the acts and mannering aspects, beyond a partner-demographic scale. The Chi-square method was used in the analysis statistics de Pearson to verify the dependence of the associations between the partner-demographic 0 variable and the acts and mannering variables. The results point that the academic environment is opportune to deal with the subject, in view of that the ambient preservation goes for all the contents, and that the pupils of today will be able, in the future, in its areas of performance to plan action to safeguard the sustainable development. One concludes that the strategies to manage the environment pass for the awareness of the citizen, therefore when it is educated its attitudes will be more responsible, a time that the ambient concern will be present in its day-by-day. Therefore, the Public Power when planning programs of ambient preservation that comes to promote changes of habits of the population, such as: management of the solid residues generated by the population, recycling, programs of selective collections, ambient education, etc. the local community for the success of its actions will have to be involved

A energia e suas implicações no ensino-aprendizagem da química

The area of Education in Chemistry in Brazil has appeared over 30 years and its growth has been accelerated by the need of comprehension of the processes of teaching and learning in chemistry. Many researches, in this area, has among its investigation objects the teaching tools like teaching materials and the learning processes of students in high school and basic education, but when dealing with higher levels of education, they are seldom portrayed. This study aimed to investigate the General Chemistry textbooks with respect to approach the concept of energy; know the main ideas of graduate students in Chemistry on the relation of the concept of energy and chemical transformations; finally, developing a cicle of studies with the proposition of an approach wich inter-relate the concept of energy and its implications in the teaching-learning process of a chemical transformation. To do so, we used as instruments a questionnaire, press conference, conceptual map and experimental activities. All activities of the study cicle were videotaped and recorded, transcribed and the results organized in tables. For the activities of the study cicle texts that have been developed and inter-relating concepts of chemistry and energy, which in turn gave theoretical support to the activities in the cycle. In the analysis it was used as a theoretical content the analysis of Laurence Bardin. The results revealed that the analysis of the book might be perceived that not always the concept of energy is used in order to generate the abstract thought of chemical transformations, but that the main macroscopic thermodynamic variables are present in the explanation of these transformations. During the study cicle, were studied two chemical reactions: the first one, made possible to approach the macroscopic dimension to quantify the concept of energy and the second one, made possible to demonstrate the macro and microscopic dimension of the concept of energy during a chemical transformation. In all reactions proposed, students used, in most of the times, as explanations, only macroscopic observations of the reactions under study and failed to realize that the concept of energy can be used to explain macro and microscopic chemical transformation. As a final action of the study cicle, students requested further discussion, to clarify the link between the concept of energy and the meanings constructed in the process of studying the reactions. This is done through an oral explanation, during the cycle, and registered in this thesis and attempts to show the interrelationship existing conceptual

Habilidades expressivas de um grupo de alunos com paralisia cerebral na atividade de jogo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Sustentabilidade e responsabilidade socioambiental: crenças provendo a formação de graduandos em administração

This research aims to focus on the education problem, since its source of development is the Research Base: Teachers Training and Qualification of UFRN. Therefore, we seek guidance in the beliefs in sustainability to propose plausible alternatives to promote the education process of UFRN administration undergraduates in order to meet the demands of a market-oriented society, since the market trend is to evolve from environmental guided activities, and future administrators should be trained to meet those conditions. The need to develop an instrument capable of understanding the beliefs of undergraduates on the sustainability problem becomes the object of analysis. This research aims to develop a normative questionnaire to study administration students beliefs in sustainability. The complexity and sensitivity of this research required the integration of various methodological procedures. These proposals were made as follows: analysis and selection of literature, expert validation procedures and psychometric methods and statistics. As for the literature, types of sustainability were identified and categorized, such as: political, social, economic and environmental sustainability. However, it is understood that the educational type, although included in all of those, needed to be converted into another type to fit the theme, since education is believed to be the best way to raise awareness about sustainability. Thus, it was required the categorization of the types, which was defined using criteria such as: contexts, objectives, goals, pathways and hypotheses. The normative questionnaire was the guiding instrument to investigate the role of administration students, regarding the level of knowledge established and regulated by social educational context, especially by becoming a basic condition for carrying out research on beliefs. The study confirmed that the types of sustainability - political, social, economic, environmental and educational - for having institutionalized literatures as sources, in international and national levels, are representative in the identification of future administrators. Therefore, it is believed that the types of sustainability categorized to provide a characterization of sustainability include the structuring of knowledge for undergraduates. The economic and political types, however, were not as representative with respect to their typicality and polarity indices as the educational, environmental and social ones. Although the beliefs of the undergraduates show how much they share ideas on all types, they present more identification with the educational and environmental types. Finally, it is expected that this instrument be subject to application in similar contexts so that it can ascertain whether such statements are part of the knowledge structure of future administrators from other institutions. Therefore, it is expected this strategy to strengthen the validation of the normative questionnaire

T-Learning: limites e possibilidades em televisão digital interativa

Pós-graduação em Televisão Digital: Informação e Conhecimento - FAAC

A influência da carga imposta pela mochila escolar em alunos do ensino fundamental e médio: uma contribuição para estudos ergonômicos

Pós-graduação em Design - FAAC

Estudo do mobiliário escolar durante o desempenho de atividades lúdicas por alunos com paralisia cerebral espástica / Franciane Teixeira de Oliveira. -

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Mediação da leitura em bibliotecas públicas

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação - FFC

Motivação na aprendizagem de inglês como língua estrangeira mediada pelo uso da internet

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Um retrato de uma licenciatura em matemática a distância sob a ótica de seus alunos iniciantes

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)