Educação Ambiental e água: concepções e práticas educativas em escolas municipais

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Currículos de formação de professores de educação física no estado do Pará: conteúdos curriculares, concepções pedagógicas e modelos de profissionalidade

O estudo se insere no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal do Pará, na linha de “Currículo e Formação de Professores”, como parte das produções do grupo de pesquisa “Includere”. Tem como objeto de estudo as propostas curriculares adotadas pelos cursos de formação de professores de Educação Física do Estado do Pará, de 2000 a 2010. Possui o seguinte problema: que concepções de Educação Física e modelos de profissionalidade docentes orientam os currículos prescritos adotados pelos cursos de licenciatura em Educação Física do Estado do Pará? Fundamenta-se metodologicamente no materialismo histórico e dialético, na pesquisa do tipo qualitativa e documental. Realiza análise de conteúdo (TRIVIÑOS, 1987; FRANCO, 2008) dos Projetos Políticos Pedagógicos (PPP) de seis cursos de licenciatura em Educação Física do Estado do Pará. Discute questões teóricas e conceituais sobre currículo, seleção curricular, concepções pedagógicas da Educação Física, profissão, profissionalidade e proletarização docente ao longo das seções. Constata que as Diretrizes Curriculares acionais dos Cursos de Graduação em Educação Física (DCNEF) adotam a concepção pedagógica da Aptidão Física e o modelo de profissionalidade técnico-racionalizante. Nos seis currículos de Educação Física investigados, observa que as concepções pedagógicas predominante são a Saúde renovada e a Fenomenológica, com a presença da Desenvolvimentista, Competitivista e Crítico-Superadora, porém, estas se apresentam hibridizadas nos currículos. Identifica que o modelo de profissionalidade docente adotado nos cursos investigados é técnicoracionalizante, apesar do uso de terminologias progressistas e de contradições entre os textos dos PPP e a estrutura curricular. Conclui que os currículos investigados reproduzem as determinações gerais do capital no projeto de formação, porém que é possível resistir às normatizações oficiais, como demonstra o currículo do Curso de Educação Física da Universidade do Estado do Pará, ainda que este se apresente com limitações em relação ao projeto formativo almejado.

Análise das produções bibliográficas sobre trabalho infantil e educação no período de 2002 a 2012

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

Lei de responsabilidade educacional: direito fundamental à educação, regime jurídico administrativo e responsabilização dos agentes públicos

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

The teaching of certain aspects of child development in the homemaking program in the secondary school: a complilation of materials from states. Home economics education.

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The impact of a training program in phonological awareness on children's early writing

This study examined the effects that a training program in phonological awareness had on the early writing skills of children in a Grade One class in the Lincoln County Separate school system. The intent of the training program was to provide consistent and systematic practice in the manipulation of the phonological structure of language. The games and activities of the training program were related to a framework of developmental phonological skills and practised in a group setting during an unstructured period of the regular classroom schedule. The training program operated three days in a six-day cycle for approximately twenty minutes a day, from November until mid-March. All children were tested at the outset and conclusion of the study to determine level of functioning in letter identification, word recognition, verbal intelligence, phonological awareness and spelling. Results of the pre-tests and post-tests were compared to determine differences between the experimental and control groups over time. In addition, a systematic analysis of the children's writing looked at the development of the spelling of regular and irregular words. The results of this study provided strong support for the hypothesis that the treatment group would progress through the stages of early writing development more quickly than children without such training. On the basis of differences between the groups over time, it was evident that training in phonological awareness had a direct positive effect on the spelling of regular words for children during the early stages of writing. The training program did not have a significant effect on the spelling of irregular words. Test results evaluating phonological awareness indicated a significant difference within each group over time but no significance between the groups during the experimental period. It would appear that the results of these tests reflect maturational changes in the child rather than causal effects of the training program. Nor did the effects of the training program transfer significantly to other aspects of language. Although some of the hypotheses considered were not supported by the study, the results do indicate that children during the early stages of writing development can benefit from a training program in phonological awareness. The theoretical direction for effective programming as a result of this study is discussed. The educational implications of training phonological awareness concurrent to beginning efforts in writing are considered.

The role of the learning community in the development of discipline knowledge and generic graduate outcomes

In this paper we describe a study of learning outcomes at a research-intensive Australian university. Three graduate outcome variables (discipline knowledge and skills, communication and problem solving, and ethical and social sensitivity) are analysed separately using OLS regression and comparisons are made of the patterns of unique contributions from four independent variables (the CEQ Good Teaching and Learning Communities Scales, and two new, independent, scales for measuring Teaching and Program Quality). Further comparisons of these patterns are made across the Schools of the university. Results support the view that teaching and program quality are not the only important determinants of students' learning outcomes. It is concluded that, whilst it continues to be appropriate for universities to be concerned with the quality of their teaching and programs, the interactive, social and collaborative aspects of students' learning experiences, captured in the notion of the Learning Community, are also very important determinants of graduate outcomes, and so should be included in the focus of attempts at enhancing the quality of student learning.

Developing graduate knowledge and skills for the world of work: The case of the translation curriculum in Vietnam

National and global challenges have given rise to the need to prepare Vietnamese graduates for effective adaptation to the increasingly changing professional field, their community, their society and the globalised world. The tertiary education curriculum thus needs to take into account the employment market, socio-cultural demands and students’ individual needs in order to develop highly educated populations for the world of work and for the current knowledge economy.

Based on a case study of the translation curriculum in a B.A. (Bachelors of Arts) language program, this paper addresses the mismatch between the demands of the translation employment market and the curriculum within the context of Vietnamese tertiary education. It raises a number of important issues related to the tensions between the centralised curriculum, learner-centred education, the actual demands of the employment market as well as the issue of capacity building in response to the socialist-oriented market economy and the changing workplace context in Vietnam. Implications are drawn not only for the translation curriculum, but also for the reform of the Vietnamese tertiary education curriculum as a whole, in order to enhance graduate employability.

Evaluation of the Implementation of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) Methodology in the Didactics of the English Language in Preschool Education Course Taught in the Preschool Education Teacher Undergraduate Program at the University of Alicante

Although it is known that the Spanish current Educative System promotes using the Communicate Approach to teach foreign languages in schools, other recently designed approaches are also used to help students improve their skills when communicating in a foreign language. One of these approaches is Content and Language Integrated Learning, also known as CLIL, which is used to teach content courses using the English language as the language of instruction. This approach improves the students’ skills in English as the same time as they learn content from other areas. The goal of this thesis is to present a research project carried out at the University of Alicante during the academic year 2011-2012. With this research we obtained results that provide quantitative and qualitative data which explains how the use of the CLIL methodology affects the English level of students in the “Didactics of the English Language in Preschool Education” course in Preschool Education Teacher Undergraduate Program as students acquire the contents of the course.

The program of higher education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America : an historical analysis of its growth in the United States /

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Foods for health : report of the pilot program : a pilot nutrition education program by Giant Food Inc. in cooperation with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute /

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