The impact of structured teaching methods on the quality of education

This paper estimates the impact of the use of structured methods on the quality of education of the students in primary public school in Brazil. Structure methods encompass a range of pedagogical and managerial instruments applied to the education system. In recent years, several municipalities in the State of São Paulo have contracted out private educational providers to implement these structured methods in their schooling system. Their pedagogical proposal involves structuring curriculum contents, elaboration and use of teachers and students textbooks, and training and supervision of the teachers and instructors. Using a difference in differences estimation strategy, we find that the fourth and eighth grader students in the municipalities with structured methods performed better in Portuguese and Math than students in municipalities not exposed to the methods. We find no differences in approval rates. However, a robustness check is not able to discard the possibility that unobserved municipal characteristics may affect the results.

O argumento de inclusão enquanto política de acesso à universidade pública

There are a great number of evidences showing that education is extremely important in many economic and social dimensions. In Brazil, education is a right guaranteed by the Federal Constitution; however, in the Brazilian legislation the right to the three stages of basic education: Kindergarten, Elementary and High School is better promoted and supported than the right to education at College level. According to educational census data (INEP, 2009), 78% of all enrolments in College education are in private schools, while the reverse is found in High School: 84% of all matriculations are in public schools, which shows a contradiction in the admission into the universities. The Brazilian scenario presents that public universities receive mostly students who performed better and were prepared in elementary and high school education in private schools, while private universities attend students who received their basic education in public schools, which are characterized as low quality. These facts have led researchers to raise the possible determinants of student performance on standardized tests, such as the Brazilian Vestibular exam, to guide the development of policies aimed at equal access to College education. Seeking inspiration in North American models of affirmative action policies, some Brazilian public universities have suggested rate policies to enable and facilitate the entry of "minorities" (blacks, pardos1, natives, people of low income and public school students) to free College education. At the Federal University of the state Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), the first incentives for candidates from public schools emerged in 2006, being improved and widespread during the last 7 years. This study aimed to analyse and discuss the Argument of Inclution (AI) - the affirmative action policy that provides additional scoring for students from public schools. From an extensive database, the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique was used as well as a Quantile Regression considering as control the variables of personal, socioeconomic and educational characteristics of the candidates from the Brazilian Vestibular exam 2010 of the Federal University of the state Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The results demonstrate the importance of this incentive system, besides the magnitude of other variables

O uso pedagógico de uma seqüência didática para a aquisição de algumas idéias relacionadas ao conceito de números complexos

The aim of the present work is to contribute to the teaching-learning process in Mathematics through an alternative which tries to motivate the student so that he/she will learn the basic concepts of Complex Numbers and realize that they are not pointless. Therefore, this work s general objective is to construct a didactic sequence which contains structured activities that intends to build up, in each student s thought, the concept of Complex Numbers. The didactic sequence is initially based on a review of the main historical aspects which begot the construction of those numbers. Based on these aspects, and the theories of Richard Skemp, was elaborated a sequence of structured activities linked with Maths history, having the solution of quadratic equations as a main starting point. This should make learning more accessible, because this concept permeates the students previous work and, thus, they should be more familiar with it. The methodological intervention began with the application of that sequence of activities with grade students in public schools who did not yet know the concept of Complex Numbers. It was performed in three phases: a draft study, a draft study II and the final study. Each phase was applied in a different institution, where the classes were randomly divided into groups and each group would discuss and write down the concepts they had developed about Complex Numbers. We also use of another instrument of analysis which consisted of a recorded interview of a semi-structured type, trying to find out the ways the students thought in order to construct their own concepts, i.e. the solutions of the previous activity. Their ideas about Complex Numbers were categorized according to their similarities and then analyzed. The results of the analysis show that the concepts constructed by the students were pertinent and that they complemented each other this supports the conclusion that the use of structured activities is an efficient alternative for the teaching of mathematics

Lócus de controle e conceito de maternidade e paternidade em adolescentes

Locus of control is a construct that seeks to explain people's perceptions about the source of control of events, if the subject's own - internal - or belonging to some element outside of oneself - external. The location of individual s locus of control will suffer influence of their developmental period. During adolescence, individuals turn to the construction of their identity, and the structuring of sexual identity is a relevant part of this process, since the roles of males and females are the most important from the socio-cultural point of view. One of the roles that adolescents can take is the mother or father. We chose to head the adolescents who are not mothers and fathers, and question them about their concepts of parenthood. It is hypothesized that adolescents with internal locus of control will probably develop concepts of maternity and paternity in which they attach to themselves the responsibility for children. The aim of this study was to relate the locus of control s predominant dimension in adolescence and the way that these young people conceptualize parenthood. This is an exploratory analytical cross-sectional study accomplished with 400 adolescents from the classes of the sixth to ninth grade of high school at public schools in Natal / RN. We used as protocols: structured questionnaire involving sociodemographic questions and questions about the concept of parenthood, and the Multifactorial Scale of Locus of Control. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, with the aid of statistical package SPSS 18.0. The results regarding questions about the concept of maternity and paternity were analyzed using the analysis program often ALCESTE 4.7. The results showed that for boys and girls, maternity and paternity were characterized by the acquisition and assumption of responsibilities of adulthood. This concept is supported by the locus of control s classification of individuals, since most of the subjects of this study was characterized as individuals who tend to take responsibility for their life's events. For young people from lower classes (as the subjects of this research), the project of autonomy and social mobility is realized by the constitution of his own family and the ability to sustain it

A aprendizagem de conceitos climáticos e ambientais através de novas tecnologias visando a inclusão digital e a educação ambiental

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Consumo alimentar familiar e indicadores antropométricos do estado nutricional de escolares de Piracicaba-SP

Pós-graduação em Alimentos e Nutrição - FCFAR

Recursos de apoio didático-pedagógico na educação ambiental

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

Oferta educacional e parceria com o setor privado: um perfil dos municípios paulistas com até 10.000 habitantes

Pós-graduação em Educação - IBRC

Necessidades formativas dos professores dos anos iniciais na sua inserção no exercício da docência

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A Identidade de meninas negras: o mundo do faz de contas

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

Formação docente & Centro de Ciências: estudo sobre uma experiência de formação continuada de professores de química

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

A voz como recurso didático: reconhecimento e julgamento de suas qualidades

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Programa de orientação a professores para o desenvolvimento de projeto educativo: efeito na aprendizagem acerca de alimentação saudável

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Práticas de gênero e sexualidade: a produção discursiva sobre o/a professor/a homossexual na docência primária

A tessitura textual ora apresentada incursiona no entrecruzamento das questões de gênero, sexualidade e docência em sua produção em um movimento investigativo de cunho póscrítico. A abordagem da temática tem como base teórico-metodológica, as possibilidades de tratamento dos discursos proposta por Michel Foucault, como referencial que orienta a investigação e análise das práticas discursivas sobre a sexualidade produzidas por professores/as homossexuais que atuam na docência nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental. Tornam-se, portanto, objeto investigativo, as práticas discursivas produzidas por esses docentes. A investigação parte da seguinte questão central: quais práticas discursivas sobre a sexualidade são produzidas por professores/as homossexuais que atuam na docência dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental de escolas públicas de Belém - PA? O objetivo geral do estudo voltou-se para analisar a constituição discursiva da sexualidade examinada do ponto de vista das relações de gênero, a partir da análise das práticas discursivas de docentes homossexuais que atuam na docência dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental de escolas. A partir da análise discursiva dos enunciados sobre gênero e sexualidade produzidos por professores/as homossexuais da docência primária, pude constatar que essa ambiência docente é produzida por discursos que constituem esses docentes homossexuais a partir de práticas e ações normatizadoras e hegemônicas de gênero e sexualidade que tentam, sobretudo, ocultar a sexualidade homossexual no ambiente escolar, produzida a partir de discursos de silenciamento, negação, controle e vigilância sobre esses sujeitos ditos “anormais”. Há, portanto, uma maior vigilância e controle por parte da escola quando se trata desses professores/as homossexuais, as exigências institucionais são redobradas, seus dispositivos institucionais têm maior efeito e, agem na manutenção de uma suposta heteronormatividade sexual na escola.

Professoras brasileiras: o imprescindível investimento em aquisição de capital cultural

O ingresso na profissão de professora faz as mulheres ascenderem socialmente, mas não possibilita que adquiram capital cultural, o pilar que sustenta o sucesso da escola. Esta é a conclusão de Eva Poliana Carlindo nesta obra, uma adaptação da tese de mestrado que ela defendeu no programa de pós-graduação da Faculdade de Ciências e Letras da Unesp. O estudo, baseado em conceitos teóricos do sociólogo francês Pierre Bordieu, se deu por meio da análise dos elementos que a autora considera como os mais significativos para se estudar a relação entre formação e atuação docente: experiências sociais e individuais e aquisições acadêmicas e intelectuais. As análises foram feitas a partir das respostas de quatro professoras dos primeiros anos do ensino fundamental de escolas públicas, durante entrevistas nas quais as docentes expõem suas histórias individuais e profissionais, ações e aspirações. Professoras Brasileiras traça um cenário que vem colaborar com as reflexões acerca da complexa tarefa de melhorar a qualidade do ensino básico no Brasil.