Questão para a pesquisa em educação: um debate teórico - metodológico

O tema central desta investigação, desenvolvida através da pesquisa bibliográfica, é a prática da pesquisa em educação. O objetivo principal foi analisar os aspectos teóricos- metodológicos dessa prática. A análise foi feita a partir de uma discussão conceitual sobre os fundamentos teórico-metodológicos da investigação científica em educação. As questões que o trabalho investigativo buscou responder foram as seguintes: como tem sido a prática investigativa na área da educação? Existe, na prática da pesquisa em educação, um debate teórico-metodológico? A discussão de teoria e de metodologia encaminhou para a elaboração de questões no que concerne às fragilidades teórico-metodológicas na pesquisa em educação e sobre as denominadas pesquisas nos/dos/com os cotidianos, uma perspectiva que nega tais fragilidades. Por fim, em face destas questões, foi apresentada outra perspectiva epistemológica para se pensar a prática investigativa em educação, a partir das contribuições de Miriam Limoeiro Cardoso (1976, 1978, 1990). Em linhas gerais, ao longo da dissertação, foram levantadas questões, discussões que, de modo geral, são concernentes ao processo de produção de conhecimento, a partir da investigação na área da educação, no que tange aos aspectos teóricos, metodológicos, epistemológicos.

A igreja católica no debate da LDB de 1961: ação, estratégias e manutenção da influência da hierarquia católica através da estrutura do Estado

A presente dissertação trata da atuação da Igreja Católica nos debates sucedidos no processo de formulação e promulgação da primeira Lei de Diretrizes e Bases do Brasil, lei 4.024 de 1961. O objetivo central é discorrer sobre as ações e as estratégias de atuação da Igreja, que lhe permitiram vitórias na aprovação da referida lei, buscando demonstrar que esta vitória não é apenas o fruto de uma luta de treze anos (tempo de tramitação da lei), mas sim de um processo iniciado na década de 1920. Apresenta-se uma pesquisa qualitativa do tipo exploratória explicativa, com pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, que visa explicar o porquê da participação católica na elaboração da primeira LDB. Ao longo dos três capítulos recorre-se a fontes primárias de tipo variado como revista no caso, a revista A Ordem; o Boletim SERVIR; artigos - os analisados para a presente pesquisa estão todos reunidos no livro Indicações Políticas de Alceu Amoroso Lima -; e recorro também, a fontes jurídicas como a Constituição de 1934, a Constituição de 1946, os projetos apresentados ao Congresso em 1948 e em 1958, Diários e Anais do Congresso Nacional, a Lei 4.024 de 1961 a lei de Diretrizes e Base. A metodologia empregada em todas as fontes segue a linha de uma análise de conteúdo, ou seja, com leitura e interpretação de seu teor.

Intelectuais nas trincheiras: a Liga Brasileira pelos Aliados e o debate sobre a primeira guerra mundial (1914-1919)

Esta dissertação procura compreender a atuação e o discurso da Liga Brasileira pelos Aliados, associação fundada com o propósito de apoiar a campanha dos Aliados na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Pretende-se analisar sua estrutura de funcionamento e formas de atuação para promover a campanha daquele bloco de combatentes ao longo do conflito europeu. Através dos boletins, artigos e moções publicados na imprensa carioca, observa-se a elaboração de um discurso com o intuito não apenas de persuadir a opinião pública brasileira a favor dos Aliados, mas de estabelecer uma representação da nação brasileira na Primeira República.

Habermas e o debate em torno do secularismo: implicações para o lugar da religião na esfera pública

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo principal investigar o conceito de pós-secularismo na filosofia de Jürgen Habermas. Para tanto, buscamos compreender como a religião aparece ao longo da construção do pensamento habermasiano, pontuando as diversas revisões feitas pelo filósofo e suas escolhas metodológicas, que resultaram numa mudança de perspectiva sobre o papel da religião na esfera pública das sociedades contemporâneas. A discussão de Jürgen Habermas se insere num debate mais amplo sobre o reexame do conceito de secularismo, envolvendo não apenas a filosofia, mas a ampla gama das ciências humanas e sociais. Assim, procuramos apresentar o contexto geral desse debate e os principais interlocutores com quem ou contra quem Habermas constrói sua argumentação. Por fim, tentamos mostrar de que maneira as revisões feitas por Habermas nos seus últimos escritos a respeito da religião, bem como a apropriação do conceito de sociedades pós-seculares, se enquadram na moldura geral da teoria habermasiana, principalmente dentro da estrutura do agir comunicativo e da política deliberativa.

Agricultura familiar: como organizar visita-intercâmbio e um debate painel.

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Curriculum: directions, decisions and debate.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the factors which may effect, stimulate or be the cause of curriculum changes in higher education (HE) in Scotland. This overview leads to a series of questions which could be used to encourage debate within and across institutions on strategic developments, which may enhance and inform the development of and support for the curriculum. The paper will begin by offering a definition of the term 'curriculum' before identifying the current areas of influence on how the curriculum, in its broadest sense, is shaped and delivered. This paper will provide an outline of some of the different approaches to the design and delivery of the curriculum which enhance the student experience in Scottish higher education, but which will of course have a wider relevance to HE in the UK and perhaps beyond.

Exploring the compassion deficit debate.

Several recent high profile failures in the UK health care system have promoted strong debate on compassion and care in nursing. A number of papers articulating a range of positions within this debate have been published in this journal over the past two and a half years. These articulate a diverse range of theoretical perspectives and have been drawn together here in an attempt to bring some coherence to the debate and provide an overview of the key arguments and positions taken by those involved. In doing this we invite the reader to consider their own position in relation to the issues raised and to consider the impact of this for their own practice. Finally the paper offers some sense of how individual practitioners might use their understanding of the debates to ensure delivery of good nursing care.

The poetic debate of Edmwnd Prys and Wiliam Cynwal

Williams, Gruffydd. 'The poetic debate of Edmwnd Prys and Wiliam Cynwal', In: The Renaissance and the Celtic Countries (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005), pp.33-54 RAE2008

Cortical Learning of Recognition Categories: A Resolution of the Exemplar Vs. Prototype Debate

Do humans and animals learn exemplars or prototypes when they categorize objects and events in the world? How are different degrees of abstraction realized through learning by neurons in inferotemporal and prefrontal cortex? How do top-down expectations influence the course of learning? Thirty related human cognitive experiments (the 5-4 category structure) have been used to test competing views in the prototype-exemplar debate. In these experiments, during the test phase, subjects unlearn in a characteristic way items that they had learned to categorize perfectly in the training phase. Many cognitive models do not describe how an individual learns or forgets such categories through time. Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) neural models provide such a description, and also clarify both psychological and neurobiological data. Matching of bottom-up signals with learned top-down expectations plays a key role in ART model learning. Here, an ART model is used to learn incrementally in response to 5-4 category structure stimuli. Simulation results agree with experimental data, achieving perfect categorization in training and a good match to the pattern of errors exhibited by human subjects in the testing phase. These results show how the model learns both prototypes and certain exemplars in the training phase. ART prototypes are, however, unlike the ones posited in the traditional prototype-exemplar debate. Rather, they are critical patterns of features to which a subject learns to pay attention based on past predictive success and the order in which exemplars are experienced. Perturbations of old memories by newly arriving test items generate a performance curve that closely matches the performance pattern of human subjects. The model also clarifies exemplar-based accounts of data concerning amnesia.

The intra-Traveller debate on ‘Traveller ethnicity’ in the Republic of Ireland. A critical discourse analysis

This dissertation assesses from an under-explored angle the enduring contention over Travellers’ ethnic recognition in the Republic of Ireland, particularly over the last decade. The novelty of this study concerns not only its specific focus on and engagement with the debate on ‘Traveller ethnicity’ among Traveller activists. It also pertains to the examination of Travellers’ arguments for and against ethnicity in light of critical theorisations as well as insights from identity politics. Furthermore, the adoption of a Critical Discourse Analytical framework offers new perspectives to this controversy and its potential implications. Finally, this thesis’ relevance extends beyond the contention on ‘Traveller ethnicity’ in itself. It also draws attention to the complex dynamics of colonisation and appropriation between the global and the local. Particularly, it points to the interplay between international human rights discourses and the local ones, formulated by NGOs struggling for equality. In this way it sheds light on more general issues such as the dialectical potential of human rights discourses: the benefits and pitfalls of framing recognition claims in the legalistic terms of human rights. In this study it is argued that the contention on ‘Traveller ethnicity’ defies a simplistic polarisation between Irish Travellers and the Irish State since it has been simultaneously played out within the Travelling community. Specifically, this study explores how ‘Traveller ethnicity’ has been introduced, embraced, promoted and contested within Traveller politics to the point of becoming a hotly debated and divisive issue among Traveller activists and at the heart of the community itself. Putting Traveller activists centre-stage, their discourses for and against ‘Traveller ethnicity’ are examined and assessed against one another and their potential implications for Traveller politics, policies and identities are pointed out. Contending discourses are historically contextualised as the product of specific structural, material and discursive configurations of power and socio-economic relations within Irish society. Discourses for and against ‘Traveller ethnicity’ are assessed as being significant beyond the representational level. They are regarded as contributing to dialectically constitute Travellers’ ways of being, representing and acting. Furthermore these discourses are considered as sites and means of power struggles, whose stakes are not only words, but relate to issues of power and leadership within the Travelling community; adjudications over material resources; the adoption of certain policy approaches over others; and, finally, the consolidation of certain subject positions over others for Travellers to draw upon and relate to mainstream society. This study highlights an ongoing ideological struggle for the naturalisation of ‘Traveller ethnicity’ as a self-evident ‘fact’, which involves no active choice by Travellers themselves. Overall, ‘Traveller ethnicity’ appears to constitute an enduring source of dilemmas for the Travelling community. These revolve around the contradictory potential of ethnicity claims-making —both its perils and advantages— and its status as a potent political strategic resource that can both challenge and reinforce existing power relations, policies and identities.

Caring for the Celtic cubs: Discursive constructions of mothers and mothering in the Irish childcare debate

Drawing on an understanding of the public sphere as a multiplicity of communicative and discursive spaces this paper examines the constructions of mothers, mothering and motherhood which emerged in recent debates about childcare in Ireland. Preliminary analysis of these discursive constructions suggest that they are often based on rhetoric, informed by stereotypical assumptions and rooted in frames of reference which mitigate against the emergence of alternative ways of understanding the issues of mothering and childcare. It will be argued that the reductionist and divisive nature of the childcare debate which ensued prior to the 2005 budget, stymied childcare policy development at a time when its unprecedented prominence on the political agenda and the strength of public finances could have underpinned a shift in policy approach. The paper concludes with an exploration of the ways in which feminist scholarship can challenge the Irish model of childcare policy, which continues to be premised on an understanding of childcare and the reconciliation of work and family life as the privatised responsibility of individual women.

Aprendiendo a reconocer evidencias del proceso de generalización de los estudiantes a través de un debate virtual

Este estudio tiene como objetivo examinar cómo los futuros profesores de secundaria (EPS) reconocen evidencias de la comprensión del proceso de generalización en estudiantes de secundaria. Los EPS realizaron dos tareas: (1) describir las respuestas dadas por estudiantes de secundaria a dos problemas de generalización lineal y agrupar las que reflejaban características comunes de la comprensión del proceso de generalización; (2) participar en un debate virtual sobre las características de la comprensión del proceso de generalización. Los resultados indican que la participación en el debate virtual permitió a los EPS centrar su mirada en las ideas que subyacen en el proceso de generalización (generalización cercana y lejana e intento de expresar la regla general, pasando de una estrategia aditiva a una funcional) más que en el procedimiento realizado.