Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Maine. State Board of Education'

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2006.
"Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-103). Also available online.

This thesis is a history of the politics of education in nineteenth century Western Australia with a particular focus on educational administration. It traces the activities of the educational pioneers in Western Australia and in particular synthesises research material from a wide variety of sources to demonstrate and explain: •How and why these pioneers established an education system in Western Australia; •The difficulties faced by the pioneers and how they overcame those difficulties; •Why the General Board of Education ("the Board"), which was formed by the early pioneers, was established in 1847; •How and why the Board was terminated in 1871. To properly explain these issues it has been necessary to research the general conditions faced by the early settlers in Western Australia. Chapters one and two of the thesis provide an overview of the circumstances faced by the pioneers in Western Australia both generally and specifically with regard to education. Chapter three of the thesis is unique in that it dwells upon the major internal and external challenges posed by the Catholic Church's opposition to the Protestant makeup and ethos of the General Board that significantly affected church/state relations and the performance of the General Board in a politically and religiously turbulent era. Chapters four through to seven deal mainly with the development of educational administration in light of the General Board's overall performance. In order to adequately trace its establishment and performance during its twenty-four years of existence 1847-1871, the development of the General Board from a mediatory body of clergy and lawyers, to its incorporation in 1856, into the Colonial Secretary's Office, is imperative. This singular event was to eventually lead, to the gradual erosion of the decentralised structures of educational administration, and the translation of the Board into a civil service agency. This ‘developmental' theme coincides with its establishment and, along with its performance, traces the achievements and failures of the General Board from two perspectives : the level of success achieved by the Board in relation to its original intentions; and secondly; the influence that external factors, such as the Colony's extreme isolation and poverty and the secular and sectarian nature of society had on the eventual policy outcomes of the Board. An exposition of these extrinsic factors emerges from an analysis of the interactions of the General Board and its members with those of governors and prominent clergy, and moreover, from an assessment of its pragmatic and altruistic aims. This thesis will not only attempt to provide a history of the politics of education in nineteenth century Western Australia, but would also serve two other purposes. Firstly, the role and influence of the general Board in determining the fate of educational administration and education generally, is to be conveyed. And secondly, its chief purpose or utility would be to provide the background or precursory information to policy initiatives that acted as harbingers of centralised control. Awareness of the importance of the latter is significant, once it is understood, that the General Board, worked in an era when decentralised control, for both political and philanthropic reasons, was much in vogue. The General Board's avid quest to maintain a system of decentralisation, along with public style education, was examined in terms of the struggle to overcome the autocratic and populist excesses of governors and some clergy, who attempted the thwart, the altruistic aims of the original Committee. It is in the struggle that the dichotomy between public and elementary education, becomes synonymous, with that of a sectarian and secular system and hence society. Throughout the thesis a comparative approach was adopted with the educational systems and developments in Great Britain and the Colony of New South Wales with those of nineteenth century Western Australia. From the comparative analysis it was concluded that both the centralization of education and its compulsory status by law were global trends that lay beyond the power of the General Board to arrest. As a consequence this educational apparatus of the State could no longer function as intermediary between the competing and complementary interests of governors, clergy and the general populace. This was made poignantly clear with the abolition of the General Board upon the passing of the Elementary Education Act 187l (W.A). As an assessment of the formative years in Western Australia of State controlled education, the thesis attempts to fill the void left behind in past and present literature on educational history in Western Australia. In relation to the General Board, such literature fails to adequately examine its role and significance, in providing the impetus for the system of education in vogue today. The research is entirely feasible, easy to manage within the constraints of the word limit and time frame for submission. It is made all the more easier with the ready availability of primary and secondary material. It is hoped, that in filling the void, by way of providing a small history of the politics of education in nineteenth century Western Australia, an original contribution to the current stock of knowledge will be achieved.

All states have different perspectives and various statutes within broader constitutional law. Perception of public dissatisfaction with public schools has led to choice schooling options for parents. One of the fastest growing choice options in schooling is charter schools; schools privately run by organizations through public funds. This study analyzes the governance of charter schools and how charters operate under legal guidelines and Florida statutes, with significant legislative events cited. This study answers the following questions as they relate to evolution and legal parameters surrounding the charter movement using exploratory case study method: 1) What is the evolution of the charter school movement in the United States and specifically in Florida, and the legal precedence that comes from this reform effort? 2) What are legal parameters regarding the charter school movement nationally? (e.g. constitutional law, statutory law, administrative law, common or court/case law, and contract law) and 3) What present legal structures and parameters affect Florida’s charter school movement? The significance of this study lies in the need to understand significant legal parameters surrounding the current charter school movement and how policies and law related to charter schools impact stakeholders. All of the findings together signify the important role legislators and the judicial powers execute in the ongoing realization of the charter school movement. The legal support of the charter school movement fosters an opportunity for the development of charter schools. With charter school implementation, several issues arise in the process of the charter school practice. The study shows the following themes impacting the charter school movement: regulations, accountability, Special Education, facility concerns, innovations, and employee and legislative issues. Charter schools provide a niche for certain parents desiring a different approach from the local public school. Charter schools provide a niche to parents seeking alternatives to traditional public school education. Charter schools will continue to exist and cater to parents desiring school choice options.

As the connections between textbooks and schools, student self-esteem, and educational success are further articulated, and the ramifications of deficient textbook material are more clearly understood, textbooks become increasingly a source of concern and contention. The purpose of this study is to investigate the representation of African Americans in grade 8 American history textbooks approved by the California State Board of Education in 2005. This study develops a critical approach to identifying embedded power relationships in the text employing five evaluative criteria. These five criteria are ethnocentrism, over-simplification, voice, absence, and inclusiveness. The findings of this study are that, while particular sections of each textbook may be inclusive of African American perspectives and are satisfactory in their representation according to the criteria used in this study, the overarching narrative of American history remains ethnocentric. This study raises pressing concerns regarding the role of teachers and textbooks in delivering an equitable and inclusive curriculum.

The purpose of this study was twofold. The first purpose was to determine the extent to which the 14 two-year institutions of the Tennessee Board of Regents system expended funds in functional categories equal to the amount of funds provided by the appropriations funding formula for the same functional categories. The second purpose was to determine the extent to which the 14 two-year institutions expended funds for direct instructional purposes for each academic program equal to the amount of funds provided by the appropriations funding formula for direct teaching purposes for each academic program. Using an archival research design, appropriations funding data and actual expenditure data were collected for the period 1990-91 through 1996-97 relative to the first purpose. Data for only the years 1995-96 and 1996-97 were used for the second purpose. For each of the two purposes studied, the data were adjusted to reflect comparable funding and expenditure data. The final evaluation involved a comparison of the percentage of funding expended by function and by college for the first purpose and the percentage of funding expended by academic program and by college for the second purpose. The evaluation of the percentage of funding expended by function revealed that most colleges and the system as a whole expended approximately 90% or more of the funding for the function for which funds were allocated by the appropriations formula. This level was determined to be positive, because some funding is typically set aside for transfers to plant funds for renewals and replacements. The evaluation of the percentage of funding expended for direct teaching purposes revealed that most colleges and the system as a whole expended approximately 60% or less of the funding for direct teaching purposes. This is permissible according to the policies of the TBR and THEC. The funding formula for direct teaching is based on enrollment and an average full-time faculty salary amount. However, most colleges use part-time faculty to teach a portion of its student-credit-hours; thus, excess funds accrue from this area and are available for use in other areas. Based on the findings of this study, two recommendations are offered. A review of the funding formula with regards to potentially needed modifications is recommended for the specific functions in which either substantially more or less than 100.0% of the funding was expended. Additionally, a formal analysis of the proportion of student-credit-hour enrollment taught by part-time faculty should be made to assist in determining if the funding formula calculation for direct teaching activities should include an element for the proportion of student-credit-hours taught by part-time faculty.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2000.
Title from title page screen, viewed May 4, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Paul Baker (chair), Dianne Ashby, Linda Lyman, George Padavil, William Rau. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-121) and abstract. Also available in print.

The IT Education Specialist for the USBE, Brandon Jacobson, stated:I feel there is a deficiency of and therefore a need to teach Cybersecurity.Cybersecurity is the “activity or process, ability or capability, or state whereby information and communications systems and the information contained therein are protected from and/or defended against damage, unauthorized use or modification, or exploitation” (NICE, 2018). Practicing cybersecurity can increase awareness of cybersecurity issues, such as theft of sensitive information. Current efforts, including but not limited to, cybersecurity camps, competitions, college courses, and conferences, have been created to better prepare cyber citizens nationwide for such cybersecurity occurrences. In 2017, a meeting was proposed to discuss cybersecurity training methods for Utah high school teachers. Meeting attendees included the researcher, Brigham Young University Cybersecurity Professor, Dale Rowe, the Alpine IT Career and Technology Engineering (CTE) Program Area Specialist, Karsten Walker, and the IT Education specialist for the Utah State Board of Education (USBE), Brandon Jacobson. However, due to limited budget, resources, and time, few results were achieved since the meeting, including a cybersecurity class certification and offering of advanced cybersecurity related courses on UEN’s WebEx Platform (Alpine District only).However, due to limited budget, resources, and time, few results were achieved since the meeting, including a cybersecurity class certification and offering of advanced cybersecurity related courses on UEN’s WebEx Platform (Alpine District only).The research shows that of the 9 school districts reviewed, only 2 of the public high schools taught cybersecurity-focused courses as outlined by the Utah State Board of Education. This is a scarcity that cannot be ignored. There are insufficient offerings of cybersecurity courses in Utah high schools. As a result, Utah is one of the many states unable to fill the shortage of cybersecurity professionals. Thus, this research was conducted to better understand what is inhibiting potential teachers from offering a cybersecurity-focused course. In the hopes of answering the mentioned query, the research involved surveying high school computer teachers about their experience, as well as their perspective on teaching cybersecurity.

The problem of this study was to determine training priorities as mandated by the Texas Legislature on the CORE Curriculum for Management and Leadership Development and their implications for Texas public school principals. Purposes of the study were to validate an instrument for assessing principals' training needs, to provide data for planning and delivering training for principals, to provide results to staff developers, and to develop a profile of similarities and differences in the perceptions of principals and their superordinates.

This quantitative study examined the perceptions of members of Oklahoma public higher education governing boards and legislators concerning higher education governance. The purpose of this study was to gain a greater understanding among the participants as to the role governing boards should play in the system. The population for the study comprised 142 members of the Oklahoma Legislature and 107 members of 15 Oklahoma public higher education governing boards. The principal investigator used a web-based survey development company to design, collect, and store survey responses. Results from the study were examined using independent samples t tests and one-way ANOVAs. From these tests, 5 out of 15 research questions had statistically significant findings. Analysis of the data revealed that legislators and members of governing boards perceive the role of governing boards differently in some key ways. There were significant differences concerning governing boards primarily serving to promote the interests of individual institutions, with members of governing boards, Democrats, and participants from suburban areas more likely to agree with this position. Members of the legislature were significantly more likely to agree than members of governing boards that the primary role of governing boards is policy implementation. There were also significant differences concerning the role of governing boards serving primarily to keep the expenditure of public dollars as low as possible with participants from urban areas agreeing with this statement.

This study used a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for government. These are the learning standards that public schools are required to use as the curriculum in Texas. Additionally, the study critically examined the Texas State Board of Education meeting minutes from the spring of 2010, when the board revised all social studies TEKS. James Gee’s framework for conducting CDA was used to analyze the government TEKS and meeting minutes to uncover the ways in which the language in the documents defines democratic and citizenship education in Texas, determine if the language creates an imbalance of power among participants in education, and do these documents agree with educational philosophers’ construct of citizenship and democratic education? The results of the CDA concluded that the Texas learning standards, and the words of many SBOE members reveal a preference toward right-wing, conservative beliefs. The construct of citizenship and democratic education created by the Texas government TEKS and SBOE meeting minutes contradicts these notions, as defined by educational theorists, and excludes those participants who do not embrace these beliefs.

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This work has as interest to verify the participation of the Pertaining to school Council in the CERE Prof M Josà Santos Ferreira Gomes and in the EEFM Antonio Bezerra of 3 Region of the CREDE 21. The study object says respect to the performance of the Pertaining to School Council who adds the diverse representative segments of the Pertaining to school unit, reflecting on the impediments chokes of its effective functioning. The theoretical and methodological referential was based in authors as: Carvalho (2000), Arroyo (1979), Freire (1997), Gadotti (2000), LÃck (1998), Paro (1997) and LibÃneo (1984). The collection of data if gave with the use of 154 questionnaires that had been answered by 49 professors, 45 students, 40 parents and 20 employees. We still carry through two Focal Groups with representatives of the parents of the two schools. The results shows that it does not have significant differences in the performance of both the Council, limiting it a restricted participation to the functions administrative and financial, in detriment of excessively. We perceive that the parents believe the performance of the Advice, despite the little evolvement. The questionnaires indicate them that the diverse pertaining to school segments of EEFMAB and CERE deposit confidence in the work of the Council, recognizing that exactly still taking advantage one politics of central character, the school earned with its implantation. For us, still necessary a bigger joint between the SEDUC and the schools in the direction to promote the active participation and politics of the community.
Este trabalho tem como interesse verificar a participaÃÃo do Conselho Escolar no CERE Prof M Josà Santos F. Gomes e na EEFM AntÃnio Bezerra da 3 RegiÃo do CREDE 21. O objeto de estudo diz respeito à atuaÃÃo do Conselho Escolar que agrega os diversos segmentos representativos da unidade escolar, refletindo sobre os entraves bloqueadores do seu efetivo funcionamento. O referencial teÃrico e metodolÃgico embasou-se em autores como: Carvalho (2000), Arroyo (1979), Freire (1997), Gadotti (2000), LÃck (1998), Paro (1997) e LibÃneo (1984). A coleta de dados se deu com a utilizaÃÃo de 154 questionÃrios que foram respondidos por 49 professores, 45 estudantes, 40 pais e 20 funcionÃrios. Realizamos ainda dois Grupos Focais com representantes dos pais das duas escolas. Os resultados apontam que nÃo hà diferenÃas significativas na atuaÃÃo de ambos os Conselhos, limitando-se a uma participaÃÃo restrita Ãs funÃÃes administrativa e financeira, em detrimento das demais. Percebemos que os pais acreditam na atuaÃÃo do Conselho, apesar do pouco envolvimento. Os questionÃrios indicam-nos que os diversos segmentos escolares da EEFMAB e CERE depositam confianÃa no trabalho do Conselho, reconhecendo que mesmo ainda prevalecendo uma polÃtica de carÃter central, a escola ganhou com a sua implantaÃÃo. Para nÃs, ainda à necessÃria uma maior articulaÃÃo entre a SEDUC e as escolas no sentido de promover a participaÃÃo ativa e polÃtica da comunidade.

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Qualitative, theoretical and bibliographic research, with historical and documentary analysis. The purpose is the election of directors of the public basic school and the general goal is understand the mediating role of the State Board of Education and its influence in the democratic management of state public schools of basic education in the period 2003 to 2010. Democracy, school management, democratic management of public schools and mediation directed the delineation of this problem. It consists to observe the mediation of the state board of education for the choice of school managers through direct election, contributes to the strengthening of management the democratic in the state school, seeking the guarantee the right to quality education socially relevant. The guiding axes of the theoretical studies are made by the studies of the concepts of democracy through an insert in the history and current context of western society and characteristics of democratic management in education at the basic school. Comparisons are made among conceptions of democracy, administration and democratic management in educational spaces. The knowledge of the State Board of Education as a normative body, guiding and supervising the state system of education is deepened. It discusses the election of school managers to state public schools for basic education in the period 2003 to 2010. It analyzes the mediation of the State Board of Education of Goiás (CEE/GO) in the electoral process. This analysis allows how come the mediation goes beyond the organization and execution of the procedure for the election of managers, being combined with the category of totality and the contradiction being possible to show the opposition between the process and the expansion of democracy in school mediated by social structure, by the history and culture. The mediation reveals the limits and possibilities of building democracy in Brazilian capitalist society with a focus on Brazilian public space at school in Goiás. It shows that the direct election of directors and the management group is a starting point in order to create possibilities to guarantee the right to education for all Brazilians as a constitutional principle, and is the one of the mechanisms for the development of democracy in school. The democratic management of public school, however, must go beyond the choice by election, because democracy in school assumes the involvement of teachers, administrative servers, students and families, including the School Board and the Students´ Union, that means, the entire school community. It understands that he democratic management of public schools should be in the classroom, curriculum development, in the process of learning, learning assessment, inclusion of parents in the school in its reality. Analysis showed that the participatory process of construction of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of the State of Goiás (Complementary Law nº 26/1998) and the plural composition and parity of the EEC/GO made possible, for more than a decade, the regularity of choice for the election of school administrators. It should be noted, however, that should be created and strengthened the collegiate bodies as school boards and student unions. It should be encouraged also democratic practices throughout the educational process. It is concluded that the election of managers for the state public school of Goias mediated by the State Board of Education as a process of expansion of community participation in school management is still limited but is legally guaranteed and it has regularity. It follows that the State Education System, how it structures, limits and reduces a school democratic management but is in the proper process to the election to managers that the structure and the limits are questioned, allowing better conditions to realize the democracy in school.
Pesquisa qualitativa, teórica e bibliográfica, com análise documental e histórica. Tem por objeto a eleição de diretores da escola básica pública e o objetivo geral de compreender o papel de mediação do Conselho Estadual de Educação e sua influência na gestão democrática das escolas públicas estaduais de educação básica no período de 2003 a 2010. As categorias democracia, gestão escolar, gestão democrática da escola pública e mediação orientaram a delimitação do problema. Este consiste em verificar se a mediação do Conselho Estadual de Educação para a escolha de gestores escolares, por meio de eleição direta, contribui para o fortalecimento da gestão democrática na escola estadual que busca a garantia do direito à educação de qualidade socialmente referenciada. Os eixos orientadores do referencial teórico são constituídos dos estudos dos conceitos de democracia por meio de uma inserção na história e no contexto atual da sociedade ocidental e da caracterização da gestão democrática no sistema educacional e na escola básica. São feitas comparações entre concepções de democracia, de gestão e de gestão democrática nos espaços educativos. O conhecimento do Conselho Estadual de Educação como órgão normatizador, orientador e fiscalizador do Sistema Estadual de Educação é aprofundado. Discute-se a eleição de gestores escolares para as escolas públicas estaduais de educação básica no período de 2003 a 2010. Analisa-se a mediação do Conselho Estadual de Educação de Goiás (CEE/GO) no processo eleitoral. Essa análise permite a compreensão de que a mediação vai além da organização e execução do processo para a eleição de gestores. Combinada com as categorias totalidade e contradição foi possível desvendar a oposição entre o processo e a ampliação da democracia na escola mediada pela estrutura social, pela história e pela cultura. A mediação revela os limites e as possibilidades da construção da democracia na sociedade capitalista brasileira com foco no espaço público educativo da escola de Goiás. Claro está que a eleição direta de diretores e do grupo gestor é um ponto de partida com vistas a criar possibilidades para garantia do direito à educação para todos os brasileiros como princípio constitucional e, constitui um dos mecanismos para o desenvolvimento da democracia na escola. A gestão democrática da escola pública, entretanto, deve ir além da escolha por eleição, porque a democracia pressupõe a participação de professores, servidores administrativos, alunos e famílias, do Conselho Escolar e do Grêmio Estudantil, ou seja, de toda a comunidade escolar. Entende-se que a gestão democrática da escola pública deve estar na sala de aula, no desenvolvimento do currículo, no processo de aprendizagem, na avaliação da aprendizagem, no acolhimento dos pais na inserção da escola em sua realidade. As análises permitiram constatar que o processo participativo de construção da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases do Estado de Goiás (Lei Complementar nº 26/1998) e a composição plural e paritária do CEE/GO possibilitaram, por mais de uma década, a regularidade da escolha por eleição dos gestores escolares. Salienta-se, contudo, que devem ser criados e fortalecidos os órgãos colegiados como conselhos escolares e grêmios estudantis. Devem ser estimuladas, também, práticas democráticas em todo o processo educativo. Conclui-se que a eleição de gestores para a escola pública estadual goiana mediada pelo Conselho Estadual de Educação, como processo de ampliação da participação da comunidade na gestão da escola, ainda é limitada, mas, é garantida legalmente e possui regularidade. Decorre que o Sistema Estadual de Educação, da forma em que se estrutura, limita e reduz uma gestão escolar democrática, mas é no próprio processo de eleição para gestores que a estrutura e os limites são questionados, o que possibilita melhores condições para a realização da democracia na escola.

Em 1929, após diversas tentativas goradas na I República, é criada a Junta de Educação Nacional, pela qual se procura europeizar a ciência e pedagogia em Portugal, não esquecendo a renovação económica. Influenciada por instituições congéneres internacionais, com destaque para a Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas e os Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, esta instituição estatal aplica um conjunto articulado de práticas – atribuição de bolsas de estudo no estrangeiro e no país, financiamento de centros de estudo e de publicações científicas, e organização de serviços de expansão cultural e intercâmbio intelectual – visando a convergência científica com a Europa. Apesar das resistências corporativas, nomeadamente da Universidade, da actividade da Junta de Educação Nacional resulta um suporte institucional à comunidade académica nos inícios da ditadura, facilitando-lhe a actualização científica, a integração nas redes internacionais de comunicação em ciência e a internacionalização do conhecimento produzido; ABSTRACT: After several thwarted attempts to set up a national education board during the First Republic, the Junta de Educação Nacional was finally created in 1929 with the aim of Europeanising science and pedagogy in Portugal, and promoting economic regeneration. Influenced by similar international bodies, especially the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas and the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, the board introduced a coherent range of measures, including granting scholarships for study and research both at home and abroad, providing funding for study centres and scientific publications, and organising facilities and programmes for raising cultural awareness and academic exchange, with the aim of helping science in Portugal catch up with the rest of Europe. Despite resistance from some bodies, particularly the universities, to the implementation of this policy, an effective means of state support to the academic community was thereby successfully created during the early years of the dictatorial regime, thus enabling the community to keep abreast of the latest scientific developments, play an active role in international networks for scientific exchange, and see the knowledge it produced projected at the international level.

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The purpose of this study is to look at the path of the making of professional practice under the bias of the teaching intelligentsia of two teachers from the state public network that would allow us to build an understanding of teaching as an intellectual function, as advocated by Giroux (1997; 1999) the theoretical framework we adopted. In this perspective, the analysis of paths was based on two distinct schools of investigation: a) With respect to forming elements suggesting a disqualification of the teacher's work and freeing her from critical and purposeful features, namely those from the models training and acting markedly homogenizing and linked to the educational policies and interests committed to standards of international organizations and the state’s political party programs. b) On the other hand, other current research explores the intellectual concept and claims it is possible to make this reference also to teachers. As to research methodology, we chose to develop in light of studies by Lahire (2004; 2005), about the construction of sociological portraits with regard to the interest of explicit trajectories of life and work to learn the provisions built from many socialization contexts that teachers, the subjects of this study, have been submitted to in life and because of that to meet the research objectives listed, which include: learning which provisions have been built and as configured by teachers in different socialization processes during their professional careers, so that the grasping of these provisions would allow us to affirm or not the power of a teaching intelligence taking them the design of a teacher as an intellectual as defended by Giroux. In the example of socializing experience, we highlight the participation of teachers in Practice Seminar organized by SEE-SP in 2013, while formative experience in this way, it was also our intention to examine to what extent the experience of the teachers surveyed at the seminar in question allowed them to apply to themselves and the work they have done on occasion, traits that they attributed themselves qualifying teachers as intellectuals. From the results of the survey, we highlight the following: engagement and commitment; clarity of their political and social function as well as their theoretical beliefs, recognizing their potential as scholars and active and reflective professionals. These provisions, built on the job of teaching, are presented as a work of these teachers differential which enabled visibility in them. Thus, participation in the Good Practice Seminar reinforced what they believed about education, expanding the look of the universe of activity in which they were inserted and giving them a greater awareness of themselves and the work they performed that could be exposed and employed with this experience.
La investigación propone una mirada acerca de la trayectoria de la constituición de la actuación profesional bajo la perspectiva intelectual de dos profesoras de la red pública de enseñanza educacional del estado de São Paulo, lo que nos permitió construir y comprender la enseñanza como una función intelectual, así como se propone en Giroux (1997; 1999) como marco teórico adoptado . En esta perspectiva, el análisis de las direcciones que se basan en dos hincapiés distintos de investigación: a) Acerca de la formación de los elementos que sugieren una descalificación del trabajo del profesor y la disminución de puntos críticos como los modelos de formación de profesores uniformes vinculados a los intereses y políticas educacionales con reglas de entidades internacionales y programas de partidos políticos del estado. La otra línea de investigación examina el concepto intelectual y asegura la posibilidad en hacer referencia también al profesor. En cuanto a la metodología que se aplica en la investigación, se optó por desarrollar los estudios por Lahire (2004; 2005), en relación con la construcción de modelos sociológicos relacionados con el interés de las trayectorias explícitas de la vida y el trabajo con el fin de aprender las disposiciones construidas a partir de diversos contextos de socialización en que las profesoras, como sujetos de la investigación, se han sometido a cumplir con los objetivos de la pesquisa citados, que incluyen: aprender cuales disposiciones fueron construida y configuradas por ellas en distintos procesos de socialización durante su carrera profesional, las disposiciones nos permiten afirmar el poder de la intelectualidad docente, o no, acercándose a las concepciones de profesor como intelectual defendida por Giroux. Como ejemplo de experiencia de sociabilización, destacamos la participación de las profesoras en el Seminario de Buenas Prácticas organizado por SEE-SP en 2013, mientras experiencia formativa en el trayecto, hay también una intención en examinar en qué medida la experiencia de las profesoras investigadas con el Seminario en cuestión les permitió reflexionar sobre sí mismos y el trabajo que han hecho en alguna ocasión, los rasgos que atribuyeron a la calificación docente como intelectual. A partir de los resultados de la encuesta, podemos destacar las siguientes disposiciones: participación y el compromiso; claridad de su función política y social, además de sus creencias teóricas, reconociendo su potencial como académicas y profesionales activas y reflexivas. Las disposiciones construidas a lo largo del recorrido sobre la constitución acerca de la función del profesor, se presenta como un diferencial en el trabajo de las maestra lo que nos permitió también una la visibilidad a respecto de ellas. Así, la participación en el Seminario de Buenas Prácticas reforzó lo que se creían acerca de la educación, ampliando la observación del universo de la actuación en que la cual estaban inseridas, además de darles una mayor conciencia de sí mismos y del trabajo ejecutado, y que pudieron ser expuestos y explorado con experiencia.
Esta pesquisa propôs um olhar para o percurso de constituição da atuação profissional de duas professoras que atuam na educação básica I na rede estadual paulista, sob o viés da intelectualidade docente, que nos permitisse a construção de um entendimento do trabalho docente como uma função intelectual, conforme defendido por Giroux (1997; 1999) nosso referencial teórico adotado. Nesta perspectiva, a análise dos percursos se pautou em duas linhas de investigação distintas: a) Uma que diz respeito aos elementos de conformação que sugere uma desqualificação do trabalho do professor e seu alijamento de traços críticos e propositivos, a saber, aqueles provenientes de modelos de formação e atuação docentes marcadamente homogeneizadores e ligados aos interesses e políticas educacionais comprometidos com normas dos organismos internacionais e programas político-partidários de estado. b) Por outro lado, outra corrente de investigação que explora o conceito de intelectual e afirma ser possível fazer essa referência também ao professor. Quanto à metodologia de pesquisa, optamos por desenvolvê-la à luz dos estudos desenvolvidos por Lahire (2004; 2005), no que tange à construção de retratos sociológicos no que se refere ao interesse de explicitar trajetórias de vida e de trabalho de modo a apreender as disposições construídas a partir dos diversos contextos de socialização a que as professoras, sujeitos desta pesquisa, estiveram submetidas ao longo da vida que desse conta de atender aos objetivos de pesquisa elencados, os quais destacamos: apreender quais disposições foram construídas e como se configuraram pelas professoras nos diferentes processos de socialização, durante seu percurso profissional, de modo que a apreensão destas disposições nos permitissem afirmar a potência de uma intelectualidade docente, ou não, aproximando-as à concepção de professor como intelectual defendida por Giroux. À exemplo de experiência socializadora, destacamos a participação das professoras no Seminário de Boas Práticas organizado pela SEE-SP, em 2013, enquanto experiência formativa dentro deste percurso, deste modo, também foi nossa intenção analisar em que medida a experiência das professoras pesquisadas com o Seminário em questão permitiu que elas tecessem, sobre si mesmas e sobre o trabalho que desenvolveram na ocasião, traços que lhes atribuíssem qualificativos de professor como intelectual. Dos resultados obtidos da pesquisa, destacamos as seguintes disposições: engajamento e compromisso; clareza da sua função política e social bem como de suas convicções teóricas, reconhecimento de suas potencialidades enquanto estudiosas e profissionais ativas e reflexivas. Tais disposições, construídas ao longo do percurso de constituição da função docente, apresentavam-se como um diferencial do trabalho destas professoras o que possibilitou visibilidade sobre elas. Deste modo, a participação no Seminário de Boas Práticas reforçou aquilo em que acreditavam sobre educação, ampliando o olhar sobre o universo de atuação em que estavam inseridas e conferindo-lhes uma maior consciência sobre si mesmas e sobre o trabalho desempenhado que pôde ser exposto e explorado com tal experiência.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: A, page: . Adviser: Donald G. Hackmann. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-164) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Multi-Layered Predictors of ESE Policy Adoption: A growing number of K-12 public school districts in the United States have begun to embrace the whole-school approach to environmental and sustainability education through the implementation of simultaneous efforts to green their facilities and provide related educational programming. This article explores the breadth of this critical approach in the 200 largest school districts in the country. In examining policy predictors at the district, municipal, and state levels, the study combines National Center for Education Statistics data and information from a systematic web scan of school district and municipal websites. Using logistic regression, the analysis reveals four main findings. First, school districts under mayoral control are more likely to have a policy. Second, the study underscores the interconnectedness of these policies with the sustainability efforts of the municipalities they are located in. Third, school districts located in large cities are more likely to have a policy. Fourth, support from state educational agencies plays a role in advancing a policy. The Case of New York City Public Schools: Within an educational system increasingly focused on test-based accountability, how can a local education authority adopt a holistic environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy? What local and global factors and actors shape and inform the creation of such a policy? In answering these questions, this article examines the formulation of ESE policy in the New York City Department of Education. Based on an analysis of archival documents and 20 expert interviews, the study draws on the Advocacy Coalition Framework and extends its application by adding global and social movement perspectives. In doing so this study finds that external events enabled the initial enactment of the policy in 2009, while the practice and local pilots of ESE programs substantially informed the reformulation of the policy in 2012. Taking the Expected Path vs. Forging Their Own: ESE Policies at DPS and PWCS: How do similar environmental and sustainability education policies unfold in fundamentally distinct locations? This article compares and contrasts environmental and sustainability education policies in two school districts: Denver Public Schools and Prince William County Public Schools. Although the districts are similar in size and education governance (elected school board), the locale of the school district, public opinion, local sustainability efforts, and the support at the state level for environmental and sustainability education are quite different. Grounded in an extended Advocacy Coalition Framework, the study contextualizes the different global, state and local factors and explores the agency of actors that shape policy change over time. The research finds that the policy at Denver Public Schools is following an expected path influenced by external factors such as the city’s sustainability plan, public opinion, and state support in the form of an Environmental Literacy Plan. In contrast, gubernatorial influence, and joint action of the sustainability team, parents and students forged a pathway to an unexpected policy at Prince William County Public Schools. The study strengthens empirical research of subnational environmental and sustainability policies and shows how different pathways are possible.

The aim of the study was to investigate the training of school governing bodies in the Free State Province from an education management point of view. Since 1994 the South African government has adopted a number of policy documents aimed at democratizing education in the country. The transformation of education in the new South African context encompasses the idea of partnership in which participants - such as parents, educators, learners (in secondary schools) play an active role in taking decisions on behalf of the school. The State alone cannot control schools, but has to share its power with other stakeholders. However, this can only happen if participants in school governance are trained to have power and the capacity to decide on matters affecting their schools. Hence, training is the cornerstone of affirming governors in the execution of their roles and responsibilities. Since school governing bodies are composed of a cross section of people with different ideologies, expectations and levels of education - training is necessary to prepare then for co-operative governance. Without adequate and on-going in-service training, it is unlikely that school governing body members can make informed decisions. The empirical method, namely qualitative research, was successful in obtaining information from participants about the training offered to them. It also established how participants felt and thought about their experiences and perceptions about the training they received, whether it built capacity or not. A number of recommendations were made with regard to the research findings for stakeholders to note.
Educational Studies
D. Ed. (Comparative Education)

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, many Americans quickly rallied to support the nation. Among the numerous committees, organizations, and individuals that became active in the mobilization process were the forty-eight state councils of defense. Encouraged to form by President Wilson and his administration in the days and weeks following U.S entry in the war, the state councils grew as offshoots of the Council of National Defense and assisted in bringing every section of the country into a single scheme of work. Everyone was expected to do their part in WWI, whether they were fighting overseas or helping on the home front. The state councils, broken down into various sections and county, township, and high-school level councils, made sure that this was the case by reaching down into local communities and encouraging individuals to become involved in the war effort. Their work represented the embodiment of a “total war” philosophy and, yet, studies on these organizations are surprisingly scarce, giving readers an inadequate understanding of the American home front during the conflict. This thesis therefore places the focus directly on the state councils and examines the work they undertook to make the United States ready for, and most effective in wartime service. In particular, it explores the efforts of the Educational Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense. By concentrating on this one section, readers may gain a better understanding of the lengths that the state councils went to in order to put every person – teachers and students included – on a wartime footing.

TITLE : Historical development Competencies of Managerial Staff in the Edication Sector in the years of 1855 till 1900. AUTHOR : Eva Krupková DEPARTMENT : School Management Center SUPERVISOR : PhDr. Václav Trojan, Ph.D. ABSTRAKT: This Diploma Thesis focused on the Historical development Competencies of Managerial Staff in the Education Sector in the years of 1855 till 1900 . The main focus of this Thesis is base on the analysis and critical evaluation of the determination as well on the outline of the skills of school employees in the given time period . In this Thesis , I will explain school managers' requirements which are imposed for each of individual types of school as well how the responsibilities and competences' of school managers had changed . Objective of this final theses is very difficult . I am going to be focusing on the basic detail analysis of all functions done by the school principle which has to be accomplish . As well the school principle should take in consideration all suggestions by his/her leaders of given school. I will clarify concepts that are used in the old Austrian law for all changes which influenced control of school teachers and all administrative staff which all was in control of the Managerial Staff (School Director) . This Thesis is based on an analysis of information...

O objeto de estudo desta tese é a política cultural alemã em Portugal durante o regime nacional-socialista. Procuraremos demonstrar que a ciência e a cultura “alemãs” foram a estratégia utilizada para alcançar uma hegemonia política e ideológica. Esta diplomacia, que recorria aos institutos culturais, a sociedades bilaterais, às escolas alemãs, ao intercâmbio de técnicos, professores, estudantes, artistas, ou intelectuais, à troca de livros, à organização de conferências e exposições, escondia um imperialismo de cariz económico e político, que a Alemanha pretendia impor a Portugal. Escolhemos como estudo de caso o intercâmbio académico. Dado que a JEN e o IAC foram as instituições que, em Portugal, mais promoveram o intercâmbio cultural e científico, desde cedo os alemães delineram uma estratégia de aproximação a ambas, que visava a intensificação do intercâmbio académico com Portugal. Com recurso ao arquivo histórico do Instituto Camões, que herdou a documentação de ambas as instituições, estudámos o intercâmbio entre os dois países, analisando, nomeadamente, as bolsas concedidas para serem usufruídas na Alemanha. Por fim, escolhemos um grupo de bolseiros que estagiou na Alemanha, de forma a rastrear as redes científicas – individuais e institucionais - que uniram os dois países, e compreender os processos de influência e de transferência do conhecimento. Tratou-se, no fundo, de acompanhar a circulação, a transferência e apropriação de conhecimentos científicos, de técnicas e metodologias num ambiente transnacional.
This thesis aims to understand the Nazi cultural policy in Portugal. We seek to demonstrate that the "German" science and culture were employed as part of a strategy aimed at achieving a political and ideological hegemony. This diplomacy, which used cultural institutions, bilateral societies, German schools, the exchange of technicians, teachers, students, artists, or intellectuals, the exchange of books, conferences and exhibitions, hid Germany’s economic and political ambitions. Among the various aspects of the cultural relationship between Portugal and Germany, we chose the academic exchange as a case study. Since the Portuguese National Board of Education (JEN) and the Institute for High Culture (IAC) were the institutions that promoted in Portugal, the cultural and scientific exchange, Germany approached them early, in order to intensify the academic exchange with Portugal. Using the historical archive of the Camões’ Institute, an institution that inherited JEN's and IAC’s historical archives, we studied the exchanges between the two countries, analyzing in particular the scholarships awarded to Portuguese academics to study in Germany. Finally, we chose a group of scholars who studied in Germany, in order to trace the scientific networks - individual and institutional - which crossed the two countries, and to understand the knowledge transfers and its appropriations.

This qualitative study uses narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988, 1990, 2001) and self-study to investigate ways to further understand and facilitate the integration of holistic philosophies of education with media literacy pedagogies. As founder and director of the Youth Media Literacy Project and a self-titled Imagitator (one who agitates imagination), I have spent over 10 years teaching media literacy in various high schools, universities, and community centres across North America. This study will focus on my own personal practical knowledge (Connelly & Clandinin, 1982) as a culture jammer, educator and cancer survivor to illustrate my original vision of a ‘holistic media literacy pedagogy’. This research reflects on the emergence and impact of holistic media literacy in my personal and professional life and also draws from relevant interdisciplinary literature to challenge and synthesize current insights and theories of media literacy, holistic education and culture jamming.