Formação Continuada de Professores nas Políticas Educacionais no Brasil do Século XXI


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O livro Formação continuada de professores nas políticas educacionais no Brasil do século XXI traz à baila uma análise das ações governamentais voltadas para a melhoria da qualidade da educação no âmbito do planejamento e da gestão da educação pública. O olhar dialético adotado descortina os cenários da formação de professores, no Brasil, marcados por importantes movimentos, por um lado, em defesa da escola pública e, por outro, com objetivos de adequar as políticas educacionais e a formação de professores à reestruturação produtiva, imprimindo à educação o papel de elemento facilitador dos processos de acumulação capitalista. Em seu fulcro, a obra analisa a imp lantação das ações de formação continuada de professores em sistemas públicos municipais de ensino a partir de 2007, período que marca significativas mudanças nas políticas públicas educacionais, fortemente marcadas pelo discurso, reconfigurado, da qualidade da educação básica pública no Brasil. A preocupação deste estudo é apresentar o contexto que impulsionou as reformas que vêm se desenhando a partir da promulgação da atual LDBEN, sem prescindir de momentos históricos anteriores, e como tais reformas têm contribuído para a adoção de políticas públicas voltadas para a formação docente e para a melhoria da qualidade da educação. Como foco do trabalho, escolhi o PAR (Plano de Ações Articuladas) porque representa o atual instrumento do planejamento dos sistemas públicos de ensino, tendo na formação continuada de professores uma das suas principais prioridades. A análise destaca que a formação de professores tem ganhado, historicamente, importância estratégica para a realização das reformas que se expressam pela melhoria da qualidade da educação básica, mas que escondem o caráter eminentemente ideológico, cuja estratégia está relacionada à crise estrutural do capitalismo, que precisa criar novos meios para operar as contradições do sistema, conferindo à educação e à formação de professores importância decisiva para o crescimento econômico. A obra faz, pois, um convite a refletir sobre as políticas educacionais em curso no Brasil, neste significativo momento histórico em que a formação de professores, no âmbi to das políticas públicas educacionais, é considerada impulsionadora para a elevação dos indicadores de qualidade da educação básica pública do país.




Movimento


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1808: The Flight of the Emperor


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In a time of terror for Europe’s monarchs—imprisoned, exiled, executed—Napoleon’s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent João had to make the most fraught decision of his life. Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil with his entire family, including his deranged mother, most of the nobility, and the entire state apparatus. Until then, no European monarch had ever set foot in the Americas. Thousands made the voyage, but it was no luxury cruise. It took two months in cramped, decrepit ships. Lice infested some of the vessels, and noble women had to shave their hair and grease their bald heads with antiseptic sulfur. Vermin infested the food, and bacteria contaminated the drinking water. Sickness ran rampant. After landing in Brazil, Prince João liberated the colony from a trade monopoly with Portugal. As explorers mapped the burgeoning nation’s distant regions, the prince authorized the construction of roads, the founding of schools, and the creation of factories, raising Brazil to kingdom status in 1815. Meanwhile, Portugal was suffering the effects of abandonment, war, and famine. Never had the country lost so many people in so little time. Finally, after Napoleon’s fall and over a decade of misery, the Portuguese demanded the return of their king. João sailed back in tears in 1821, and the last chapter of colonial Brazil drew to a close, setting the stage for the strong, independent nation that we know today, changing the New World forever.




Recruiting and Educating the Best Teachers: Policy, Professionalism and Pedagogy


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This book demonstrates that policy, professionalism, and pedagogy are integral to the development of the best teachers that our students deserve. The empirical quantitative and qualitative studies and narratives presented in this volume demonstrate that strong analyses are needed to drive decisions on policy and practice.




Distributed Creativity


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This book challenges the standard view that creativity comes only from within an individual by arguing that creativity also exists ‘outside’ of the mind or more precisely, that the human mind extends through the means of action into the world. The notion of ‘distributed creativity’ is not commonly used within the literature and yet it has the potential to revolutionise the way we think about creativity, from how we define and measure it to what we can practically do to foster and develop creativity. Drawing on cultural psychology, ecological psychology and advances in cognitive science, this book offers a basic framework for the study of distributed creativity that considers three main dimensions of creative work: sociality, materiality and temporality. Starting from the premise that creativity is distributed between people, between people and objects and across time, the book reviews theories and empirical examples that help us unpack each of these dimensions and above all, articulate them into a novel and meaningful conception of creativity as a simultaneously psychological and socio-material process. The volume concludes by examining the practical implications in adopting this perspective on creativity.




Creativity in the Classroom


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The fourth edition of this well-known text continues the mission of its predecessors âe" to help teachers link creativity research and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. Part I (chs 1-5) includes information on models and theories of creativity, characteristics of creative people, and talent development. Part II (chapters 6-10) includes strategies explicitly designed to teach creative thinking, to weave creative thinking into content area instruction, and to organize basic classroom activities (grouping, lesson planning, assessment, motivation and classroom organization) in ways that support studentsâe(tm) creativity. Changes in this Edition: Improved Organization -- This edition has been reorganized from 8 to 10 chapters allowing the presentation of theoretical material in clearer, more manageable chunks. New Material âe" In addition to general updating, there are more examples involving middle and secondary school teaching, more examples linking creativity to technology, new information on the misdiagnosis of creative students as ADHD, and more material on cross-cultural concepts of creativity, collaborative creativity, and linking creativity to state standards. Pedagogy & Design âe" Chapter-opening vignettes, within-chapter reflection questions and activities, sample lesson ideas from real teachers, and end-of-chapter journaling activities help readers adapt content to their own teaching situations. Also, a larger trim makes the layout more open and appealing and a single end-of-book reference section makes referencing easier. Targeted specifically to educators (but useful to others), this book is suitable for any course that deals wholly or partly with creativity in teaching, teaching the gifted and talented, or teaching thinking and problem solving. Such courses are variously found in departments of special education, early childhood education, curriculum and instruction, or educational psychology.




Acta Scientiarum


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A Guided Science


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That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their surrounding social world is not new. Jaan Valsiner fills in the wide background of scholarship on the history of science, the recent focus on social studies of sciences, and the cultural and cognitive analyses of knowledge making. The theoretical scheme that he uses to explain the phenomena of social guidance of science comes from his thinking about processes of development in general--his theory of bounded indeterminacy--and on the relations of human beings with their culturally organized environments. Valsiner examines reasons for the slow and nonlinear progress of ideas in psychology as a science at the border of natural and social sciences. Why is that intellectual progress occurs in different countries at different times? Most responses are self-serving blinders for presenting science as a given rather than understanding it as a deeply human experience. For Valsiner, scientific knowledge is cultural at its core. Major changes have occurred in contemporary sciences--collective authorship, fragmentation of knowledge into small, quickly published (and equally quickly retractable) journal articles, and the counting of numbers of such articles by institutions as if that is a measure of "scientific productivity." Scientists are inherently ambivalent about the benefit of these changes for the actual development of knowledge. There is a gradual "takeover" of the domain of scientific knowledge creation by other social institutions with vested interests in defending and promoting knowledge that serves their social interests. Sciences are entering into a new form of social servitude.




Eco-Phenomenology


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This groundbreaking collection explores the intersection of phenomenology with environmental philosophy. It examines the relevance of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas for thinking through the philosophical dilemmas raised by environmental issues, and then proposes new phenomenological approaches to the natural world. The contributors demonstrate phenomenology's need to engage in an ecological self-evaluation and to root out anthropomorphic assumptions embedded in its own methodology. Calling for a reexamination of beliefs central to the Western philosophical tradition, this book shifts previously marginalized environmental concerns to the forefront and blazes a trail for a new collaboration between phenomenologists and ecologically-minded theorists.




Conservatism and Democracy


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