761 resultados para Secondary School
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The English language has become an international language and is globally used as a lingua franca. Therefore, there has been a shift in English-language education toward teaching English as an interna-tional language (EIL). Teaching from the EIL paradigm means that English is seen as an international language used in communication by people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. As the approach to English-language education changes from the traditional native-speaker, target country context, so does the role of culture within English-language teaching. The aim of this thesis is to in-vestigate and analyse cultural representations in two Swedish EFL textbooks used in upper-secondary school to see how they correspond with the EIL paradigm. This is done by focusing on the geograph-ical origin of the cultural content as well as looking at what kinds of culture are represented in the textbooks. A content analysis of the textbooks is conducted, using Kachru’s Concentric Circles of English as the model for the analysis of the geographical origin. Horibe’s model of the three different kinds of culture in EIL is the model used for coding the second part of the analysis. The results of the analysis show that culture of target countries and "Culture as social custom" dominate the cultural content of the textbook. Thus, although there are some indications that the EIL paradigm has influ-enced the textbooks, the traditional approach to culture in language teaching still prevails in the ana-lysed textbooks. Because of the relatively small sample included in the thesis, further studies need to be conducted in order to make conclusions regarding the Swedish context as a whole.
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This is a qualitative interview study aiming to examine the concept of tolerance as it is a core value in the curriculum for the Swedish upper secondary school and high school. The concept of tolerance is linked to the subject of religious studies. A total of six teachers were interviewed regarding their understanding and interpretation of the concept, as well as its place in their teaching. The method of analysis was hermeneutic and the statements made by the teachers were further analyzed in the light of normcritical pedagogy and didactical awareness. The results show a diversified understanding of the concept, manifested in a broad scale of attitudes to it, ranging from negative to positive, though all were based on a reflective approach. This affected the teachers' tendency to include, or focus on, the concept of tolerance in their teaching, varying from active inclusion to exclusion. The discussion focuses on the differences and difficulties associated with acts of tolerance versus attitudes of tolerance. The teachers define religious studies as a subject with heavy focus on interpersonal relations. Acts of tolerance are therefore problematic as they are also acts of power between individuals and groups. This shows the didactical importance of discussing the concept of tolerance, mainly in relation to attitudes and acts, between teachers as well as in the classroom.
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The following study was conducted at an upper secondary school in Sweden and attempts to explore the question of what influences male pupils’ reading habits. Many quantitative international studies, including PISA, PIRLS and IEA Reading Literacy, have sought to answer this question, but only partially succeeded due to the limitations of their methods. Therefore, this study seeks to explore this question in more depth using qualitative methods, including interviews and classroom observations, but also minor tests. Two facts which the previously mentioned international studies have found is that boys and particularly immigrant boys tend to have worse reading results than their counterparts. It is therefore the aim of this study to study four male students in upper secondary school; of which two are native Swedes and the other two are unaccompanied refugee children; one from Afghanistan and the other from Morocco. The findings of this study are as follows. Firstly, necessity was found to be the single most important factor for the reading habits of these four pupils; especially the two refugees. Both refugees learnt to read under harsh circumstances in madrassas in their respective home countries. Moreover, the Moroccan pupil learnt to speak and read Spanish fluently during his seven years as a homeless child. Furthermore, in the absence of necessity, interest was found to be decisive in determining the pupils’ reading habits. In addition to this, the study theorizes that an interest in reading generally arises before the ability to read and not vice versa. However, teachers can in fact affect their pupils’ reading habits even in upper secondary school.
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BACKGROUND: Despite extensive use of self-rated health questions in youth studies, little is known about what such questions capture among adolescents. Hence, the aim of this study was to explore how adolescents interpret and reason when answering a question about self-rated health. METHODS: A qualitative study using think-aloud interviews explored the question, "How do you feel most of the time?", using five response options ("Very good", "Rather good", "Neither good, nor bad", "Rather bad", and "Very bad"). The study involved 58 adolescents (29 boys and 29 girls) in lower secondary school (7th grade) and upper secondary school (12th grade) in Sweden. RESULTS: Respondents' interpretations of the question about how they felt included social, mental, and physical aspects. Gender differences were found primarily in that girls emphasized stressors, while age differences were reflected mainly in the older respondents' inclusion of a wider variety of influences on their assessments. The five response options all demonstrated differences in self-rated health, and the respondents' understanding of the middle option, "Neither good, nor bad", varied widely. In the answering of potential sensitive survey questions, rationales for providing honest or biased answers were described. CONCLUSIONS: The use of a self-rated health question including the word 'feel' captured a holistic view of health among adolescents. Differences amongst response options should be acknowledged when analyzing self-rated health questions. If anonymity is not feasible when answering questions on self-rated health, a high level of privacy is recommended to increase the likelihood of reliability.
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Woodworking industries still consists of wood dust problems. Young workers are especially vulnerable to safety risks. To reduce risks, it is important to change attitudes and increase knowledge about safety. Safety training have shown to establish positive attitudes towards safety among employees. The aim of current study is to analyze the effect of QR codes that link to Picture Mix EXposure (PIMEX) videos by analyzing attitudes to this safety training method and safety in student responses. Safety training videos were used in upper secondary school handicraft programs to demonstrate wood dust risks and methods to decrease exposure to wood dust. A preliminary study was conducted to investigate improvement of safety training in two schools in preparation for the main study that investigated a safety training method in three schools. In the preliminary study the PIMEX method was first used in which students were filmed while wood dust exposure was measured and subsequently displayed on a computer screen in real time. Before and after the filming, teachers, students, and researchers together analyzed wood dust risks and effective measures to reduce exposure to them. For the main study, QR codes linked to PIMEX videos were attached at wood processing machines. Subsequent interviews showed that this safety training method enables students in an early stage of their life to learn about risks and safety measures to control wood dust exposure. The new combination of methods can create awareness, change attitudes and motivation among students to work more frequently to reduce wood dust.
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By virtue of the volume and nature of their attributions, including secondary school as well as problem-areas such as security and traffic, the Brazilian states are the ultimate responsible entities for young people. This study argues in favour of granting greater freedom for the states to define their own public policy parameters to deal with local features and to increase the degree of learning about such actions at the national level. In empirical terms, the study assesses the impacts of new laws, such as the new traffic code (from the joint work with Leandro Kume, EPGE/FGV doctor’s degree student) and traces the statistics for specific questions like drugs, violence and car accidents. The findings show that these questions produce different results for young men and women.The main characters in these dramas are young single males, suggesting the need for more distinguished public policies according not only to age, but also by gender. The study also reveals that the magnitude of these problems changes according to the youth’s social class. Prisons concern poorer men (except for the functional illiterate) while fatal car accidents and the confessed use of drugs concern upper-class boys.
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Um dos maiores desafios atuais do Brasil em relação ao seu sistema educacional é a melhora da qualidade da educação oferecida pela rede pública de ensino. Motivado por isso, o Instituto Unibanco criou o Projeto Jovem de Futuro. O projeto oferece às escolas públicas estaduais de ensino médio apoio técnico e financeiro para a implantação de um plano de melhoria de qualidade na dinâmica de funcionamento escolar, com o objetivo de aumentar o rendimento dos alunos e diminuir os índices de evasão escolar. Este trabalho faz uma avaliação do primeiro ano do projeto nos estado de Minas Gerais e Rio Grande do Sul. Os conceitos de avaliação estatística de programas sociais são utilizados na estimação do efeito médio do projeto sobre as notas dos alunos, dos efeitos heterogêneos e do efeito na dispersão das notas dos alunos. Os resultados encontrados indicam que o Projeto Jovem de Futuro teve grande impacto sobre a nota média dos alunos e contribuiu para a redução da desigualdade nas notas dos alunos das escolas participantes. A fim de entender o que gerou o aumento da proficiência dos alunos participantes do programa, também são feitas algumas estimações com o objetivo de captar qual o tipo de investimento que, em média, contribuiu mais para o desenvolvimento dos alunos. Neste aspecto não foi possível chegar a um resultado conclusivo.
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O presente estudo constitui-se de uma análise de dados referentes a testes de ciências aplicados a alunos de quarta, sexta e oitava séries do primeiro grau e do ultimo- ano do segundo grau, de escolas publicas e particulares, de dois países latino americanos, Brasil e Argentina. Tivemos por objetivo examinar como as diferentes habili dades cognitivas, definidas segundo a taxionomiade B.S.Bloom, se distribuem nos diferentes estratos sociais. Tinhamos por hipote se que elas se distribuem de modo diferente e que as habilida des mais complexas como compreensão , aplicação de conceitos e raciocínio são mais afetadas pelos fatores socio-econômicos e culturais em contraste com os processos de memorização. Procedemos às análises dos dados utilizando análises de variância das médias e modelos multivariados de regressão. Os re sultados que emergem dessas análises revelam que alunos cuja ocu paçao do pai ou educação da mãe são de níveis mais elevados ou sãode áreas urbanas com maiores recursos socio-econômicos tendem a ter melhor desempenho nas questões mais complexas de compree~ sao, aplicação e raciocínio. Entretanto, em questões de memó ria, as diferenças tendem a ser menores. Em resumo, há uma dis tribuição pronunciada de habilidades mais complexas nas camadas mais altas dos estratos.sociais. A confiabilidade dos resulta dos, ou seja, seus níveis de significância estatística, é para o fator escola e-aceitâvel para as outras variáveis. alta Os resultados apresentados tem algumas implicações con cretas. Quanto mais memorizado é o ensino, mais ê accessível aos menos preparados para o processo escolar. Por outro lado,há cada vez mais um esforço explIcito e consciente de enfatizar em provas e exames as dimensões mais somplexas de compreensão e ra ciocínio. Os dados obtidos mostram que, na medida em que se va lorizam os processos superiores, o ensino tende a se tornar mais elitizado. Ao reduzir a participação das questões de memória in troduzimos uma dificuldade adicional para o pobre concorrer com o rico. Evidencia-se, portanto, que a democratização de partici paçao no processo escolar e a melhoria dos métodos de seleção podem ser objetivos conflitantes. Talvez a implicação mais importante -- dada a inevitabilidade da evoiliução do ensino nesse sen tido -- seja a necessidade de urna política educacional delibera da no sentido de melhorar a capacidade das escolas que atendem aos menos favorecidos pela situação econômica e educacional fami liar.
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Apoiando-se em proposições teóricas de Althusser, Baudelot & Establet e Bourdieu & Passeron, levantaram-se subsídios para a verificação da hipótese principal de que a disciplina Ciências do currículo de 1o grau, serve de veículo para a inculcação da ideologia dominante, visando a reprodução das relações de produção e da estrutura de classes vigentes no Brasil. Partindo-se do pressuposto básico de que a disseminação de uma cultura científica popular, tal como o incentivo às carreiras ci entíficas, gera oposições da classe dirigente. O trabalho desenvol - veu-se em duas etapas: na primeira, procedeu-se à análise de dados históricos relacionados com a evolução do ensino de Ciências na esco la secundária brasileira. Essa análise mostrou que, desde as reformas pombalinas até à reforma do ensino de 1o e 2o graus, em 1971, praticamente não ocorreram mudanças nos objetivos fixados, programas e procedimentos didáticos da disciplina. Vez que não se modificaram substancialmente as forças condicionantes da estrutura de classes brasileira e das relações de produção aqui encontradas e que determinam as características da escola. Na segunda etapa do trabalho, lançou-se mão de informações obtidas em escolas goianas, não só por meio de entrevistas com professores e alunos de Ciências de 8a série do 1o grau mas também através da análise de livros didáticos. Informações que, permitindo uma reconstrução aproximada da visão de mundo de mes tres e alunos bem como das suas condições materiais de trabalho, serviram para comprovar a hipótese e para mostrar a natureza dos conteú dos da ideologia e as formas pelas quais a mesma é inculcada através da disciplina.
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O objetivo da pesquisa é fazer um levantamento dos sentidos de educação e escola dentre os alunos do 2o Grau, Formação Geral, do município do Rio de Janeiro. O corpus do trabalho constitui-se de entrevistas com alunos do Colégio Estadual José Accioli em Marechal Hermes, zona oeste do município. A metodologia de análise dos depoimentos é aquela fornecida pela escola francesa de Análise de Discurso na linha de Michel Pêcheux. Nessa perspectiva, o que se busca não é o sentido que estes jovens dão à educacão e escola, mas os vários sentidos que convivem sob estes temas. A pesquisa, entretanto, não se esgota nessa abordagem e procura elucidar as condições históricas e ideológicas de produção dos sentidos apontados. Paralelamente à investigação dos sentidos de escola e educação, a pesquisa propõe-se, também, a examinar os sentidos atribuídos à noção de participação. A inclusão deste terceiro elemento não é gratuita e procura inserir a discussão acerca da educacão no contexto mais geral da questão democrática.A participação, então, não é entendida como o engajamento episódico e localizado à uma associação ou agremiação qualquer, mas como o principio (utópico, por certo) organizador de toda e qualquer relação social. Assim, apesar de não se adotar uma postura teórica que "julga" os sentidos apreendidos a partir de uma concepção de educação e participação estabelecidas a priori, também não se pode negar que a simples inclusão do terceiro elemento já pressupõe , pelo menos, uma filiação a um determinado sentido. De fato, esta pesquisa alinha-se com o pensamento de Dumerval Trigueiro, que em seus trabalhos sempre ressaltou a íntima relação entre os conceitos de educação e participação. O educador atribui ao pensamento liberal, principalmente à tecnocracia, a responsabilidade do alijamento do povo (pelo poder e pelo saber) da construção da polis. Entretanto, é essa mesma população desestimulada a participar ativamente da vida política que será convocada a fazê-lo com a inclusão do principio de gestão democrática do ensino na nova Lei de Diretrizes e Bases. Por isso, a questão da participação ganhou relevo neste trabalho e ampliou-se no sentido de investigar como os sujeitos situam-se frente às relacões de poder na nossa sociedade e como a educação e a escola afetam e são afetadas por essas relações.
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processo de modernização do ginásio secundário brasileiro, que culminou com a Reforma do Ensino do primeiro grau, nos anos 70 e, portanto, com a estruturação de uma nova escola· fundarrental. A maioria das propostas para a criação de um novo ginã 510, nos anos 50 e 60 I procurava atende~ às exigências do modelo político e econômico da época. No período 61-64, fase crítica do modelo desenvolvimentista, surgiram projetos de educação secundária, como os Ginásios da Comunidade e os Giná 5105 Vocacionais, propondo urna prá~ica pedagógica, voltada para a conscientização do homem como ser histórico e produtivo e, conseqüentemente, orientada para a transformação da sociedade. A política educacional, após 1964, rechaçou as propostas de uma e'ducação secundária conscientizadora e lançou os Ginásios Poli valentes corno estratégia para a reFormulação do ensino de primeiro grau em âmbito nacional. Concluiu-se que os projetos de renovaçao do ensino secundário surgiram em decorrência das contradições do ItXldelo desenvolvimentista. Enquanto os Ginásios Poli valentes apre - sentavam uma proposta pedagógica compatível com a manutenção do capitalismo periférico, os projetos de criação dos Ginásios da Comw1idade e dos Ginásios Vocacionais constituiram resposta diferente da política de dominação cultural.
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This thesis presents a study on Tversky & Kahneman s (1974) Anchoring theory, and Vroom s (1964) Expectance theory in the context of education and students motivation. It is surveyed 424 students of a secondary and agricultural technical school in Brazil Northeast (EAJ). The survey form try to capture the Vroom s Expectance Theory constructs of Valence, Instrumentality, Expectation and Motivational Force, and also the Tversky and Kahneman Anchoring effect in terms of grade expected. The main findings suggest that the minimum grade required by the school is much strong in driving the students motivation and performance than the Expectancy Theory. It was found that the different grades required drive the students to pursue different grade in the same way
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This piece of work has investigated the alternative conceptions shown by students of secondary school, concerned to the concepts of warmth and temperature, aiming the elaboration and application of a learning strategy as of the diagnose risen from the conceptions present in students. The learning strategy was built up by a sequence of activities that involve History of Science and experiments, put in a course that had as a base the proposal of the Group of Redevelopment of Physics Teaching (GREF). We have used as the conductor wire of our research the development of thermo dynamics since the development of the first thermo machines, passing by the Industrial Revolution and the evolution of concepts of warmth and temperature. The learning strategy was applied to a group of second grade of secondary school in a public school in Mossoró (RN). By doing these activities we tried to become the concepts, which are part of thermo dynamics, more meaningful to the students. We have estimated that the application of the strategy has represented some profits to the students of the group, concerning to learning of laws and concepts of thermo dynamics (specifically the concepts of warmth and temperature), as well as what it is referred to the overcoming of its initial conceptions
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In recent decades, humanity has become increasingly concerned with environmental problems. Proofs of this are increasing initiatives in civil society organizations, private institutions and government actions, either local, state or national actions to promote environmental protection. The goal of this research is to contribute to the formation of citizens more aware of their responsibilities to sustainable development issues, simultaneously to their learning of physics in the secondary school. Thus, we have designed a research project that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the adoption of the concept of sustainable development as a central theme in physics classes in high school. From this goal, we designed, implemented and evaluate lesson plans that aim not only to construct and apply the concept of energy, but also to understand their transformations and conservation law, as well as their processes of production, distribution and consume in the context of physical laws in which it is involved. Then, it was deliberately provided to students, during classes, to read, interpret and produce texts, by this way being able to think and start to have a critical view of the world around him, as well as absorb the energy concept and understand his occurrence in phenomena of nature and in technologies. The approach used for this was that constraining science, technology, society and environment - STSE. This teaching methodology has been applied in the IFRN Ipanguaçu campus, for students of two classes of first year of high school integrated course in agroecology and in technical computing. The survey results show the effectiveness of both methods with respect to the viewpoints of students in relation to the guidelines of sustainable development and the learning of physics content proposed. It is hoped with this dissertation to contribute to the formation of future men and women as citizens environmentally friendly, but also as a source of inspiration for teachers who wish to foster in its students such a critical position about civic education, from their classes