Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Reflexive journal'

While some parts of identity remain constant throughout one’s life, many aspects of a person’s identity are subject to rapid and constant change and negotiation. Using theories regarding the role possessions play in the construction, reinforcement, and manifestation of a person’s identity, this thesis project explores the potential to facilitate meaningful insights and awareness into one’s own identity. This will be achieved by designing a reflexive journaling process. A qualitative evaluation of this prototype journal process used by a pilot group of young creative individuals will generate an assessment of the proposed process

As an art educator, I found student art lacking in meaning and students lacking personal engagement. I sought a way to engage students in more meaningful art-making in the classroom by exploring family heritage and personal spaces. This case study searched the family heritage and personal spaces of students in a junior high art class to engage students and find deeper meaning and context for student art-making. The research was informed through an arts-based inquiry with a/r/tographic influence. It was a qualitative inquiry, mining the familiar for development of a curriculum rich in context and personal significance for students. This inquiry examined the influences of family through art-making and research into the visual culture of student homes and heritage. We curated our personal spaces and made art that reflected our findings, keeping reflexive journals of our experiences, and exhibiting our art in a culmination of our research. The results were meaningful content in student art as well as more enthusiastic engagement in the art making process. This experience gleaned more than just student art rich in meaning, but in a deeper understanding of one another in our classroom.

Pour favoriser la réflexion sur la pratique professionnelle, nous avons proposé à des futurs enseignants en stage d'utiliser un journal de bord au départ de consignes semi-structurées. Notre intention est d'identifier les traces de réflexion dans les journaux de bord et de différencier son utilisation par trois caractéristiques individuelles: l'anxiété, la perception d'efficacité personnelle et le rapport à l'écrit du futur enseignant. Notre thèse développe dans la partie théorique le premier chapitre sur le journal de bord parmi les dispositifs de formation favorisant la réflexion sur la pratique, le deuxième chapitre sur la notion de réflexion sur la pratique et plus particulièrement sur le modèle métacognitif de réflexion de McAlpine et ses collègues (1999, 2001) et le troisième chapitre sur les trois variables individuelles mesurées. La partie empirique développe la méthodologie utilisée, à savoir que cette recherche exploiratoire, visant l'induction d'hypothèses, décrit les trois étapes de la démarche d'analyse de contenus des journaux de bord(recueil, exploitation et transformation des données qualitatives avec traitement quantitatif)en lien avec les questions de recherche et explique la construction et la validation des trois quesitonnaires mesurant les caractéristiques individuelles. Cette partie s'achève par le chapitre des résultats et des discussions. Parmi les 96 futurs enseignants, 45 d'entre eux ont réalisé leur journal de bord. Différents contenus ont été identifiés dont de la réflexion sur la pratique. A partir du modèle de McAlpine et al., nous avons essentiellement trouvé des passages de description de l'action et des passages d'évaluation de l'action. Une typologie des journaux de bord et de la réflexion a été obtenue par une analyse en clusters. Au moyen de corrélations de Kendall, nous avons pu observé une relation positive entre le rapport à l'écrit de l'enseignant et l'appropriation du journal de bord et une relation négative entre la perception d'efficacité personnelle et le composant d'évaluation de l'action. Aucune relation n'a été obtenue avec la variable d'anxiété. POur conclure, de nouvelles hypothèses de recherche ont été formulées ainsi que les apports et les limites de cette recherche.

This study was conducted in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, South Mrica. Triggered by the demands of South Mrican post-apartheid curriculum transformation, the study focused on establishing a sustainable science teachers' trans formative and continuous professional development (TTCPD) network with the view to improving their practice. It is premised on the assumption that teachers are capable of taking responsibility for their own professional development. It is a case study carried over a period offour years with a group of eight teachers. Rooted in the socially critical-emancipatory orientation in conjunction with the participatory action research approach, and located in the qualitative and interpretive research paradigms, it focuses on doing research in democratic and egalitarian ways through working with teachers rather than on them. Such a stance supposes a collaborative partnership and a dialogic relationship viewed as being both reciprocal and mutually enriching for the teachers who were seen as co-learners and co-researchers in this study. Two main goals of the study may be identified. For the first goal, the actors in this study established a sustainable and participative approach to professional development. This was explored through the formation of a TTCPD network which was informed by the actor-network theory framework. Our focus was on co-construction of scientific knowledge utilising the development and adaptation of learning and teaching support materials (LTSMs) as a catalyst to drive the process. The second goal was to examine how the TTCPD network enhanced the teachers' subject-content knowledge, pedagogical-content knowledge as well as individual and collaborative reflections. The research process evolved into three mam phases: The initial phase involved adapting and modifying LTSMs which were initially used in conjunction with microscale science kits and pilot tested with a group of Grade 10 students. This led to the second phase of the research project, which was aimed at gaining insights into the science teachers' capabilities in developing teaching and learning units of work. ii \ The second phase focused on the development of a collaborative orientation to the development of LTSMs and culminated in the formation of sub-networks responsible for certain tasks within the broader network. AB common ground, we focused on developing teaching and learning units of work on the following science topics: electrostatics, electricity, and electrochemistry, to illuminate and foster integration within science. The third phase was concerned with gaining insights into the science teachers' practice in their classrooms. This phase focused on putting theory into practice through the collaborative implementation of teaching and learning units of work. Feedback on the lessons was discussed during our workshops as an attempt to further enhance collaborative reflections. Data was generated usmg workshop discussions with reflective notes; active interviews; focus group discussions; co-teaching, participant observation and videotaped lessons with reflective notes; and a research journal. A variety of data generation techniques were employed to enhance validity and quality of the research. Techniques for validation and trustworthiness of data included triangulation; member checks orface validity; prolonged engagement; catalytic validity and peer validation. The study exposed the underlying historical, ideological and epistemological contradictions of the teachers' past educational backgrounds. It emerged that the ways in which they were taught were at times an inhibitor to innovativeness, perpetuating transmissive approaches to teaching and learning. Lack of professional development and support, and the tensions between policy formulation and implementation exacerbated this. Reflections from the teachers' experiences further revealed that, for teachers to be effective agents of change in the reform process, empowerment opportunities are vital. AB a result, exposure to the TTCPD network was useful in capacitating the teachers with the development of LTSMs, which led to the enhancement of their pedagogical, and science content knowledge conceptual development as well as collaborative reflections.The main findings of this study is that, science teachers' transformative and continuous professional development based on participative approaches and mutual collegial support are indispensable, and that teachers' socio-cultural contexts and experiences should be taken into consideration during this process. Teachers should be regarded as central in the process, and mutual respect and dialogical relationships are pivotal. A further recommendation of this study is that capacity-building is critical for quality teaching and learning, and there is a need to move beyond the rhetoric of complacency to pro-activism, supporting ongoing development of teachers in professional transformative networks.
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This paper addresses a modern trend within the road movie genre, where reflexive imagery is utilized as a mechanism of storytelling. Within the “reflexive road movie,” the reflexive space and the road movie space are cinematically contrastive to each other. The road movie provides a cinematic space for the protagonist to explore cultural, societal, and personal boundaries, perpetually moving towards an unreachable horizon. Reflexivity, on the other hand, consistently reminds the viewers of the technical and conceptual means of production, forcing the viewer (and the film itself) to reference its own borders and form. Thus, reflexivity obstructs the traditional motion within the road movie space. In order to conceptualize this claim, this thesis appears in two parts: the theoretical and the artistic. Theoretically, this study draws from Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of (de)territorialization and Deleuze’s movement-image and time-image. Artistically, this study references an original film, titled Wanderweg (2013), which was created as a means of visually illustrating the theoretical conclusions of this study. Together, the theoretical and artistic components of this thesis examine how reflexivity spatially positions itself within a road movie.

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Situated in the field of Applied Linguistics, the present study addresses the representations, construction of meaning, and reflective practice of a public school teacher of English in northeastern Brazil. The teacher documents her academic and professional trajectory through a reflective journal (BAILEY, 1990; PEYTON, 1990; MACHADO, 1998, 2007; ZABALZA, 2004; LIBERALI, 1999; BURTON, 2005, and REICHMANN, 2007). The journal is a way to unveil the teacher´s successes, failures, sensations, and perceptions. In this case study, fourteen narratives in the reflective journal constitute the corpus; voice and ´pedagogical truths´ (MOITA LOPES, 2004) surface in these teacher narratives. In this study, I defend the idea that language is used to construe and maintain interpersonal relations, to represent and interpret the world of others and our own, to represent knowledge and to construct meaning (HALLIDAY e MATTHIESSEN, 2004). I also argue that a crucial moment in teacher development is critical reflection on past or current practice, so as to improve future practice (FREIRE, 1996). Based on these assumptions, the main objective of this piece of research is to investigate representations of teacher experience and construction of meaning through written narratives in the journal. The three specific objectives are the following: to describe and to interpret lexico-grammatical choices in selected fragments, from the perspective of the transitivity system (HALLIDAY, 1994); to investigate meaning construction in relation to the academicprofessional context construed in teacher narratives, through other significant linguistic choices; and to examine reflective practice in the journal, focusing on the form of action reconstruction (SMYTH, 1992). Linguistic analysis reveals that teacher discourse represents, reflects and reconstrues academic-professional experience mainly through material and relational Processes, signaling doing, being and becoming, and, furthermore, that there are signs of critical reflection. In sum, as a contribution to the field, this study highlights the importance of the teacher-as-researcher stance, whereby teachers investigate and reflect on language use as social practice in their own academic-professional contexts.
Situado no campo da Lingüística Aplicada, o presente estudo focaliza representações, construções de significados e processos reflexivos de uma professora de inglês da rede pública na região nordeste brasileira, atuando em um contexto acadêmico e profissional e documentando seu percurso por meio de um diário reflexivo (BAILEY apud MATTOS 1999; PEYTON, 1990; MACHADO, 1998, 2007; ZABALZA, 2004; LIBERALI, 1999; BURTON, 2005; REICHMANN, 2007). O diário é um meio de expor os sucessos, fracassos, sensações e percepções da professora ao longo da sua trajetória. É um estudo de caso em que catorze narrativas escritas no diário reflexivo compõem o corpus desta pesquisa. As narrativas docentes produzidas pela professora trazem à tona sua voz, suas verdades pedagógicas (MOITA LOPES, 2004). Neste estudo, defendemos a idéia que a língua é usada para construir e manter relações interpessoais, para interpretar e representar o mundo do outro e o de nós mesmos, para representar o conhecimento e construir significados (HALLIDAY e MATTHIESSEN, 2004). Defendemos também que o momento fundamental na formação permanente dos professores é o da reflexão crítica sobre a prática de hoje ou de ontem para que se possa melhorar a de amanhã (FREIRE, 1996). Alicerçado nessas idéias, o objetivo geral deste trabalho é investigar as representações de experiência docente e construção de significados por meio das narrativas escritas no diário. Os objetivos específicos envolvem descrever e interpretar as escolhas léxico- gramaticais em fragmentos selecionados nas narrativas, sob a ótica do sistema de transitividade (HALLIDAY, 1994); investigar a construção de significados em relação ao contexto acadêmico-profissional constituído nas narrativas docentes, através da interpretação de outras escolhas lingüísticas significativas; como também observar de que maneira a prática diarista da professora exerce impacto no seu processo de reflexão crítica, focalizando a forma de ação reconstrução (SMYTH, 1992). Os fragmentos analisados revelam que a professora representa, reflete e reconstitui sua experiência acadêmico-profissional utilizando-se, prioritariamente, de Processos materiais e relacionais, como também, o seu processo reflexivo apresenta indícios de reflexão crítica. Concluindo, como contribuição para a área, este estudo reafirma a importância de pesquisas em que o professor de língua estrangeira assuma uma postura de professor-pesquisador, ou seja, investigando e refletindo sobre o uso da linguagem como prática social no seu próprio contexto acadêmico-profissional.

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This thesis critically reviews thoughts and experiences that arose out of a nine-week internship and post-internship volunteer work at Street Universe, a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) working with 'street children' living in Cape Town's city centre and surrounds. It touches on two main topics, 'street children' and the NGO. Although I did not work exclusively with the 'street children', I interacted with them on a daily basis and therefore part of this thesis touches on issues pertaining to their lives. My main focus is the inner workings of an NGO and the context within which it strives to achieve its goals. I explore methodological and ethical aspects of doing fieldwork in an NGO setting, which coalesce with the problem of positionality, of situating myself as a researcher within webs of fluid interpersonal and professional relationships. Grounding my research in the day-to-day work of Street Universe allows me to identify how internal organisational matters affect the presentation and implementation of the organisation's aims. My aim is to link the two topics by showing how organisational matters are ,enacted in the relationship between 'street children' and Street Universe as a whole.

This Ethnographic/Autoethnographic study reflects in rich detail a young teacher’s life as she navigates the changing landscape of her first pregnancy, the birth of her child and her subsequent return to work as a full-time teacher. Using data which has been collected from a personal journal which she kept throughout the eighteen month period of the study, it examines the practical and emotional challenges which she faced, and the commitment, self-sacrifice and dedication required of her for the continuation and advancement of her career. By combining her data with observed field notes, semi-constructed interviews and reflexive narrative, I have been able to offer a holistic and balanced account of her experience and expose the complexities of motherhood today and the impact they have on a woman’s life choices and professional decision making. My study revealed how this new mother faced a myriad of decisions and dilemmas, decisions, which ultimately impacted on her emotional well-being, and her power and identity as a woman, a wife, a daughter and a professional teacher. Its findings suggest that notwithstanding the historical political and legislative policies which have been implemented, in reality, little has changed since my own experience of being a working mother some thirty years ago. It recommends that if the increase in working mothers is to continue to rise, more must be done, both culturally and institutionally to alleviate the physical and emotional pressures which currently only serve to exacerbate the guilt and stress which appear to be an innate characteristic of the maternal condition. It concludes by recommending that working mothers need to harness “their strengths, their ability to learn, their confidence and joy in their work –[because this is] all part of being a woman now, [it is] part of [their] female identity” (Friedan, 1963, p.331), and rather than accepting motherhood as being a moderating factor, they should allow it to become an influence for further personal and professional growth and liberation, so that they can reassert their power and fight back to assume their equal place in society (Kristeva, 2015).

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Based on the assumptions that texts represent and construe the world (FAIRCLOUGH, 1992), that identity construction occurs through individual and public forums‟ (TÁPIAS-OLIVEIRA, 2005), that ´located´ teacher development is essential in order to trigger a critical-reflective stance (FREEMAN, 1996; FREIRE, 1996; JOHNSON, 2006; REICHMANN, 2007a), this case study addresses a reflective journal produced by an EFL teacher the teacher-researcher herself over six months. In order to investigate teacher representations and discursive constructions about professional identity, this research follows an emic perspective (FREEMAN, 1998; GHEDIN & PIMENTA, 2002) and focuses on lexicogrammatical choices in the journal, grounded on Systemic-Functional Grammar, in special, the transitivity system (HALLIDAY, 1994; HALLIDAY e MATHIESSEN, 2004), and more specifically, in transitivity constructs such as Processes and mental projections. Systemic-Functional Grammar views language as a complex social semiotic system construing ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings (HALLIDAY, 1994). Results suggest that in terms of teacher representations, over time, there is an increase in relational and mental Processes, signaling characteristics related to teacher identity, students, the classes and the journal itself, as well as to reflective features of teaching practice. In terms of mental projections, they (re)constitute change in teacher positioning, suggesting new social roles adopted by the teacher. Highlighting the importance of the reflective journal as a literacy practice and as a literacy event, constituting a catalyzing genre‟ (SIGNORINI, 2006), it is relevant to underscore the importance of literacy practices in initial and continued language teacher development.
Partindo das premissas que textos representam e constituem o mundo (FAIRCLOUGH, 1992); que a construção identitária ocorre através de foros íntimos e públicos‟ (TÁPIAS-OLIVEIRA, 2005) e que a formação localizada de professores é essencial para favorecer uma postura crítico-reflexiva (FREEMAN, 1996; FREIRE, 1996; REICHMANN, 2007a), este estudo de caso focaliza um diário reflexivo produzido por uma professora de língua inglesa a própria professora-pesquisadora ao longo de seis meses. Com o intuito de investigar as representações da experiência docente e as construções discursivas sobre identidade profissional, esta pesquisa segue a perspectiva êmica (FREEMAN, 1998; GHEDIN e PIMENTA, 2002) e centra-se nas escolhas lexicogramaticais no diário, baseada na Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional (HALLIDAY, 1994; HALLIDAY e MATHIESSEN, 2004), mais especificamente, em construtos do sistema de transitividade, a saber, dos Processos e projeções mentais. Na ótica sistêmico-funcional, a língua é vista como um recurso sócio-semiótico complexo para construir significados ideacionais, interpessoais e textuais (HALLIDAY, 1994, p. xiii). Os resultados da análise indicam que em termos de representações da experiência, há um crescimento longitudinal dos Processos relacionais e mentais, sinalizando, respectivamente, características da identidade da professora, de seus alunos, das aulas e do diário; bem como traços de reflexão sobre a prática dessa professora. Quanto às projeções mentais, (re)constituem a mudança de posicionamento docente, sugerindo novos papéis sociais que ela assume. Apontando para o diário reflexivo simultaneamente como prática e evento de letramento, e constituindo-se como um gênero catalisador‟ (SIGNORINI, 2006), percebemos a importância de práticas de letramento na formação inicial e continuada de professores de línguas.

Thesis (MBA (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This reflexive narrative traces the development of the author’s authentic leadership fingerprint. The document outlines the author’s developmental journey from the streets of North-End in Port Elizabeth, to the boardroom tables of major telecommunications organisations in Africa, Continental United States and Europe. Utilising autoethnography as a vehicle of enquiry, the author relates his life story, with a specific focus on significant trigger events, individuals who had a positive or negative influence on the development of his world view; and the dynamic of a racially reclassified family living in Apartheid-era South Africa. The author recounts specific incidents and reflects upon significant learnings that continue to influence his leadership style as corporate manager today. The author concludes with a reflection of the transformative power of the autoethnographic process and it’s potential use as a leadership development tool, before defining an authentic leadership fingerprint that is unique to his management style.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie persoonlik reflekterende dokument weerspieël hoe die deurlopende ontwikkeling en persoonlike groei van die outeur se leierseienskappe verfyn is deur sy lewenservaringe en ondervinding. Die roete wat die outeur in sy persoonlike omstandighede moes onderneem om die oorbrugging, vanuit Port Elizabeth se noordelike voorstede, tot in die beheer van vergaderings in raadsale van een van Suid-Afrika, die VSA asook Europa se voorste telekommunikasiespelers te bemeester. Met behulp van outoetnografie, koppel en vereenselwig die outeur die ontwikkeling van sy lewensverhaal met spesifieke gebeurtenisse, positief sowel as negatief, asook met die individue wat ‘n moontlike impak gehad het op sy uitkyk op die lewe sowel as die leierseienskappe wat die outeur vandag in sy daaglikse lewe so suksesvol weerspieël en implimenteer. Die dokument raak ook aan die historiese rasse klassifikasie en apartheidswette van Suid-Afrika en watter impak dit op die outeur se familielewe asook persoonlike opvoeding en ontwikkeling gehad het. Die proporsionele bydrae van hierdie eksterne insette soos vergestalt deur staatsregulasies en diskriminasie word bespreek met spesifieke verwysing na die invloed wat dit gehad het op die ontwikkeling van die outeur as leier en watter impak dit moontlik kon gehad het met verwysing tot die outeur as leier en bestuurder soos wat spanlede en mense in sy daaglikse lewe hom ervaar. Die outeur sluit af met ‘n oorsig gefokus op die moontlike impak wat ‘n outoetnografie proses op verandering in ‘n werkshoedanigheid kan hê met betrekking tot die moontlike insluiting in die leierskap onwikkelingsproses van maatskappye. Die klem val op die ontwikkeling van die toekomstige leier en hoe die outoetnografie proses ‘n roete of handleiding kan verskaf vir die omskrywing van die leier se individuele en unieke styl van leierskap.

This study is inspired by three observations – the complex nature of the existing understandings of the meaning of work (MoW) and the absence of a well-articulated theory in relation to this concept; the complex nature of social configurations found in postcolonial societies, and the under-representation of critical realist studies relating to such societies. The present work, therefore, aims to explore what work means for individuals within a postcolonial society from a critical sociological perspective. To achieve this purpose, an integrated framework is developed to study MoW, drawing on several theoretical and methodological positions and on-going debates within the critical realist tradition and MoW literature. Based on the critical realist methodological assumptions, this new approach to MoW acknowledges the relationship between individual and society, and incorporates the ongoing debates concerning agency, structure, reflexivity and ingrained social and cultural practices which reflect an individual’s social practices or habitus. The fieldwork was conducted in Sri Lanka, and gathered life and work histories of 75 participants. The main findings of the research can be summarised as follows; the research context is consisted of a dual social system – a more traditional (morphostatic) social system characterised by caste, agriculture and religion and a colonisation based modern (morphogenetic) social system typified by social class, participants are identified as representing the already established four dominant reflexive modes – communicative, autonomous, meta- and fractured, and the MoW corresponds to the modes of reflexivity practised by each individual and is also shaped by their habitus. The main conclusion of the study is that MoW is predominantly an agential process and ‘work’ becomes the central lifelong endeavour for all individuals but for achieving different ends based on their particular reflexive mode. Four wider implications of the research can be recognised. Firstly, the present work contributes to the development of Archer's model of agential reflexivity and establishes that the realist theory of reflexivity as a viable approach to study of complex social phenomena. Secondly, this study empirically contributes to the on-going critical realist debate ‘can reflexivity and habitus work in tandem’. Thirdly, by addressing the absence of an established approach, this work contributes to broaden the understanding of MoW and offers an integrated framework which is adaptable to suit different situations. Finally, the present study provides useful insights into under-researched postcolonial contexts widening our understanding on such societies.

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This action-research placed in the field of Applied Linguistics has as general objective to investigate the representations of experience in a reflective journal of a researcher-teacher, in context of Educação de Jovens e Adultos in a public school at Paraíba, in relation to a literacy project in English as FL which aims to elaborate a cultural folder. More specifically, I objective to examine the ways of acting of the reflexive process (SMYTH, 1992) in relation to the practice of the researcher-teacher when developing the literacy project, deepening the analysis through the system of transitivity (HALLIDAY, 1994). To achieve the proposed objectives, this study is based on the theoretical assumptions on journals and reflective practice (BAILEY, 1990; ZABALZA 1994, 2004, LIBERALI, 1999; REICHMANN, 2001; TÁPIAS-OLIVEIRA, 2006, among others), on literacy practices (KLEIMAN, 1995, 2000; BARTON et al 2000; OLIVEIRA and KLEIMAN 2008; TINOCO, 2008; ROJO, 2008) and on Sistemic-Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY, 1994). The results reveal that the way of acting occurred the most correspond to describing; it is also the most significant one. In relation to the researcher-teacher's representations concerning her own practice, it is verified that that representation happened, mainly, through the material Processes, portraying the concrete actions, including more Actors, i.e., the teacher and the students. It is possible to notice a great incidence of material Processes, that signalizes different doings suggesting a transformation of the researcher- teacher in terms of changes in foreign language teaching in context of EJA. In conclusion, this study demonstrates the importance of reflective journaling as a literacy practice and as an instrument of self-development tool, (re)signifying the role of the teacher. This study also underscores the need to reimagine English language teaching/learning process, emphasizing the importance of focusing on writing as a social practice and on literacy projects.
Esta pesquisa-ação situada no campo da Linguística Aplicada tem como objetivo geral investigar as representações da experiência em um diário reflexivo de uma professora-pesquisadora, em contexto de Educação de Jovens e Adultos em uma escola pública na Paraíba, em relação a um projeto de letramento em inglês como língua estrangeira, cujo intuito é a elaboração de um folder cultural. Mais especificamente, objetiva examinar as formas de ação do processo reflexivo (SMYTH, 1992) em relação à prática da professora-pesquisadora ao desenvolver o projeto de letramento, aprofundando a análise por meio do sistema de transitividade (HALLIDAY, 1994). Para atingir o objetivo proposto, este estudo está ancorado nos pressupostos teóricos sobre diários e prática reflexiva (BAILEY, 1990; SMYTH, 1992; ZABALZA 1994, 2004; ROMERO, 1998; LIBERALI, 1999; REICHMANN, 2001; TÁPIAS-OLIVEIRA, 2006, entre outros), práticas de letramento (KLEIMAN, 1995, 2000; BARTON et al 2000; OLIVEIRA e KLEIMAN 2008) e Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional, em especial, os Processos (HALLIDAY, 1994). A análise do corpus revela que a forma de ação mais recorrente e significativa corresponde a descrever. Em relação às representações da professora-pesquisadora, verificamos que ocorreram, principalmente, por meio de Processos materiais, inscrevendo fazeres e incluindo mais Atores, ou seja, a professora e os alunos. É possível perceber uma grande incidência de Processos materiais, que passam a sinalizar fazeres diferentes, sugerindo uma transformação da prática da professora-pesquisadora em termos de mudanças nas aulas de língua estrangeira em contexto de EJA. Concluindo, esta pesquisa demonstra a importância do diário reflexivo como prática de letramento e como instrumento de autoformação, proporcionando uma (re)significação do papel do professor, como também ressalta a necessidade de reinventar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem da língua inglesa, enfatizando a relevância de projetos de letramento, dando um maior enfoque na questão da escrita como prática social.

Doctor of Philosophy
The current study explored the formative processes of twelve student teachers constructing role understandings in the context of their experiences and interactions with people with disabilities. In particular, it examined the participants’ changing notions of self-as-teacher and their unfolding perceptions of an inclusive educator’s role in teaching children with disabilities. The research aimed to investigate personal and professional forms of knowledge linked with the prior subjective life experiences of the student teachers and those arising from their interactions in situated learning experiences in community settings. The contextual framework of the study focused on the development of the student teachers’ unique understandings and awareness of people with disabilities through processes of biographical situated learning. The investigation examined participants’ voluntary out-ofcourse experiences with people with disabilities across three community settings for the ways in which these experiences facilitated the participants’ emerging role understandings. These settings included respite experiences in families’ homes of young children with disabilities receiving early intervention, an after-school recreational program for primary and secondary aged children and adolescents with disabilities, and an independent living centre providing post-school options and activities for adults with disabilities. ii Two groups participated in the current study, each consisted of six student teachers in the Bachelor of Education Course at the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University. Group One participants were in the second year compulsory inclusive education subject and Group Two participants were in the third year elective early intervention subject. The investigation examines the nature of reflexive and reflective processes of the student teachers from subjective, conflict realities in an attempt to link community experiences with real-life issues affecting inclusive educational practices. The voluntary community experiences engaged the research participants in multi-faceted interactions with people with disabilities, providing thought-provoking contexts for their reflections on observations, responses and reactions to situations, such as critical incidents. The participants engaged in reflexive and reflective processes in records made in learning journals and in semi-structured interviews conducted throughout the investigation. Results were analysed from a constructivist research paradigm to investigate their emerging role understandings. Prior to this study there had been few practical components in the compulsory undergraduate inclusive education subject which meant that previously student teachers gained theoretical knowledge without the opportunity to apply their learning. Many student teachers had expressed their feelings of anxiety and uneasiness about what they should do and say to a person with a disability. Thus, the community experiences were selected in order to give a specific context for student teachers’ learning and to provide participants with expanded opportunities to consider their professional identity, social awareness and acceptance of people with disabilities. iii An analysis of the data demonstrated the centrality of reflection within a situated teaching and learning framework. Understandings of prior experiences and motivation were shown to interact with the outcomes of the community experiences through an on-going process of reflection and reflexivity. This reconstructing process encouraged learners to reflect on past, present and projected future experiences and reframe actions from multiple perspectives as a way of exploring alternatives within broader contexts. The data reveal the participants’ engagement in the community experiences facilitated their awareness of wider socio-cultural educational issues, while focusing their attention on more appropriate inclusive teaching and learning strategies. The reflective inquiry process of identifying diverse issues led participants to consider other possible alternatives to current community practices for better ways to support their changing perspectives on ideal inclusive classroom practices. The dialogic nature of participants’ on-going deliberations contributed to the construction of their deeper understandings of an inclusive educator’s role. The findings of the study identified external environmental and internal personal factors as contributing biographical influences which shaped the student teachers’ emerging role understandings. The results emphasised the value of contextual influences in promoting desirable personal and professional qualities in student teachers. Importantly, situated learning enhanced participants’ unique interpretations of their prospective roles. As a result of analysing their insights from interactions in community contexts, the student teachers had increased their personal and professional understandings of individuals with disabilities and broadened their perceptions of their roles as inclusive educators. Thus, the study found that encouraging a biographical reflexive and reflective orientation in participants was conducive iv to facilitating changes in their understandings. Overall, the outcomes had benefits for student teachers and teacher educators in finding innovative ways for integrating biographical perspectives into situated teaching and learning approaches. The study showed that contextual influences facilitated deeper understanding of role identity and produced new ideas about the nature of reflexivity and reflection in guiding student teachers’ learning. (Note: Appendices not included in digital version of thesis)

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Esta dissertação tem como tema a gestão pedagógica e o acompanhamento docente, com foco no trabalho da Coordenação Pedagógica junto aos professores e às práticas que ambos desenvolvem conjunta ou individualmente. Tem como objetivo contribuir para a qualificação da gestão pedagógica no que diz respeito à proposição de estratégias de acompanhamento docente, que favoreçam práticas pedagógicas reflexivas. A relevância deste estudo está na inovação das estratégias de coordenação pedagógica com o intuito de tornar mais dialógico o acompanhamento docente. O cenário é um colégio confessional, que integra a rede privada de ensino no RS. A metodologia utilizada consiste numa abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa-formação, realizada por meio dos Círculos Dialógicos Investigativo-Formativos e do Diário de Registros, a fim de promover o diálogo entre a pesquisadora e os demais participantes: uma orientadora educacional e oito professores dos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental. Os registros produzidos durante a pesquisa - analisados com base na Análise Textual Discursiva reafirmam o potencial formativo dos Círculos Dialógicos e do Diário de Registros, revelando ainda os significados de sua realização no âmbito da coordenação pedagógica da escola. Com essa concepção, este trabalho incorpora como possíveis estratégias de coordenação pedagógica os Diário de Registros e os Círculos Dialógicos às práticas de acompanhamento docente, visto que dinamizam o processo dialógico de reflexão sobre a prática. Por fim, com a intenção de levar esta reflexão ao conhecimento das demais coordenações pedagógicas, a pesquisadora elabora uma Carta Pedagógica que convida as demais coordenadoras pedagógicas da mesma Instituição à leitura desta dissertação, com vistas a incentivar a continuidade do trabalho, bem como novas autorias quanto à proposição de estratégias reflexivas de acompanhamento docente na escola.
This dissertation has as a theme the pedagogical management and teaching go along, focusing on the pedagogical coordination work with the teachers and their developing school practices in groups or individually. Has as objective contribute for qualification of pedagogical management related to the proposal of strategies in teacher accompaniment, which hone the reflective pedagogical practices. This research relevance is in the innovation of coordination strategies with the aim of monitoring teacher more dialogical. The scenario is a confessional school, which is part of the private education in Rio Grande do Sul. The methodology used consists in a qualitative research-training performed by through Investigative-Formative Dialogues Circles and the log journals, in order to encourage/promote dialogue between the researcher and the other participants: a guidance counselor and eight teacher of Elementary School. The records produced during the research – analyzed based on Discursive Textual Analysis – reaffirm the formative potential in Dialogues Circles and the Log Journal, also revealing the meaning of its achievement in scope of the ´pedagogical coordination in the school. With this conception, this work incorporates as possible strategies for the pedagogical coordination the log journals and the Dialogues Circles in practices of teacher accompaniment, visa its dynamize the dialogical process of reflection about practice. Lastly, with the intention to sharing this knowledge with the others pedagogical coordinators, there searcher elaborates a formal pedagogical letter witch invites the other pedagogical coordinators from the same institution to read this dissertation, in view of encouraging the following of this research, as well new authorships regarding reflexive strategies of accompaniment teaching in school.

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