Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Freirean praxis'

My thesis is that museum exhibitions developed according to Freirean praxis would constitute a better learning opportunity for visitors, facilitate the process of evaluation, and enact the favoured museum principles of dialogic communication and community-building. ¶This project constitutes a cross-fertilisation of adult education, cultural studies and museum practice. In the last few decades, museum professional practice has become increasingly well informed by cultural critique. Many museum institutions have been moved to commit to building communities, but the question of how to do so via exhibition spaces is yet to be squarely addressed by the museum field. In this thesis I produce a detailed evaluation of a museum's informal learning program; and demonstrate the potential value of adult education theory and practice for enacting museums' commitment to dialogic communication and community-building. ¶To investigate the value of adult education praxis for museums, I consider the Australian War Memorial's signifying practice - the site and its exhibitions - as a program for informal learning. I conduct my analysis according to Ira Shor's (Freirean) method for engaging students in an extraordinary re-experience of an ordinary object. Shor's program calls for students to investigate the object through three stages of description, diagnosis and reconstruction. Respectively, I testify to my initial experience of the Memorial's program as a visitor, analyse its signification in national, international and historical contexts, and imagine an alternative means of signifying Australia's war memory. The resulting account constitutes a record of my learning process and a critical and constructive evaluation of the Memorial as a site for informal learning. It provides a single vision of what the Memorial is, what it means and how it could be reconstructed. But more importantly, my account demonstrates a program for simultaneously learning from the museum and learning about its signifying practice. This dual educational and evaluative method would mutually advantage a museum and its visiting public. In a museum that hosted a dialogic program, the exhibitions would invite evaluative responses that staff are otherwise at pains to generate. Concurrently, visitors would benefit because they would be engaging in a more critical and constructive learning process. In addition, the museum would be enacting the principle of dialogic communication that underpins the project of community-building.

Orientador : Joanne Marie McCaffrey Busnardo Neto
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Esta dissertação teve por objetivo investigar a implementação de uma pedagogia crítica freireana, com o foco na leitura, em inglês para adolescentes brasileiros. Para refletir sobre a viabilidade de tal projeto, é analisado, através de uma metodologia etnográfica de auto-observação em sala de aula, como certos conceitos centrais vindos da pedagogia freireana e das áreas de leitura e letramento crítico são concretizados na prática pedagógica. As investigações teóricas e as análises de interação em sala de aula (realizadas sob o ponto de vista neo-vygotskiano) sugerem que o conceito central da pedagogia freireana - o da conscientização dialógica - ao mesmo tempo em que é de grande inspiração para o professor de leitura crítica, pode apresentar problemas especiais. Especula-se que a tensão presente na própria visão freireana entre a urgência de mudar o mundo e a importância da dialogia pode re-aparecer como tensão no trabalho do professor. Conclui-se que a auto-observação em sala de aula é particularmente importante para o professor de língua estrangeira, uma vez que oferece elementos para o diálogo entre teoria e prática, fornecendo assim dados preciosos para a práxis freireana
Abstract: This dissertation aimed to investigate the possibility of elaborating a critical pedagogy focusing reading in English for Brazilian adolescents. In order to judge the viability of such a project an auto-observational classroom etbnography was undertaken to analyse how certain central concepts from Freirean, literacy and reading theories are concretized in pedagogical practices. The theoritical investigations, together with the analyses of classroom interactions (undertaken from a neo-vygotskian point of view), suggest that the central concept of Freirean pedagogy - that of dialogicalconsciousnessraising- although it greatly inspires teacher of critical reading, can also be a problem for them. A hypothesis is put forward that the tension present in Freirean theory itself between the urgency of bringing about change and the importance of dialogue may reappear in the practice of teaching. The dissertation concludes that self-observation in the classroom is particularly important for the teacher of foreign language, since it offers a rich source of data for the studies of the relationship between theory and practice, and for a more profound understanding of Freirean praxis
Mestrado
Ensino-Aprendizagem de Segunda Lingua e Lingua Estrangeira
Mestre em Linguística Aplicada

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O presente estudo propôs-se a compreender e interpretar as percepções e significados das experiências vividas por jovens e adultos alfabetizandos. Com esta pesquisa, queremos possibilitar aos profissionais que trabalham com Educação Popular, entre outros, os Assistentes Sociais, para que possam recolocar em suas práticas novos ou renovados paradigmas, enfoques e perspectivas na abordagem dos processos de socialização implicados em trabalhos populares, particularmente no que se refere à Educação de Jovens e Adultos. O Brasil ainda é um dos países mais atrasados em matéria de educação, ostentando a cifra vergonhosa de cerca de 15% de analfabetos entre a população adulta acima de 15 anos, onde o analfabeto não convive com a civilização e não progride no trabalho nem evolui socialmente. Com o objetivo de compreender e interpretar a dialogicidade freireana na educação de jovens e adultos, buscamos na fenomenologia hermenêutica um modo de pesquisa que atendesse à especificidade do tema. Foram ouvidos na primeira entrevista vinte discursos de alfabetizandos proferidos na inscrição do Curso e, na segunda entrevista, dezenove discursos no término do Curso, a partir da questão orientadora: o que significa ser alfabetizado? Esses discursos, uma vez submetidos à análise fenomenológica, desvelaram as seguintes categorias: primeira entrevista – “vivenciar situações de exclusão”, “aprender a ler e escrever a partir da realidade vivida”, “superar as atuais condições de vida”; segunda entrevista – “participar no processo de construção do conhecimento”, “ser reconhecido como sujeito e não como objeto de uma prática social”, “tomar consciência da realidade e de suas possibilidades”. Em seguida, enfocamos cada dimensão da relação realidade-homem-sociedade, percorrendo um caminho fenomenológico-hermenêutico...
The present study was aimed at understanding and interpreting the perceptions and meanings of the experiences lived by youngsters and adults in the process of learning how to read and write. With this study we wish to enable the professionals who work with Popular Education, among others the Social Workers, to reinsert new or renewed paradigms, focuses and perspectives in the approach of the socialization processes implied in popular work, especially in what concerns the Education of Youngsters and Adults. Brazil is still one of the most backward countries in matter of education, boasting the shameful figure of about 15% of illiterates among the adult population over 15, where the illiterate does not live along the civilization and cannot progress at work or evolve socially. Aimed at understanding and interpreting Paulo Freire’s dialogic in the education of youngsters and adults, we sought in the hermeneutical phenomenology a research design which fulfilled the specificity of our subject. In the first interview, twenty accounts of students learning how to read and write delivered at the registration in the Course were listened to and, in the second interview, nineteen accounts made at the end of the course triggered by the leading question: what is it to be literate? These accounts, once submitted to phenomenological analysis, yielded the following categories: first interview – “experiencing exclusion situations”, “learning how to read and write from the reality experienced”, “overcoming the current life conditions”; second interview – “participating in the knowledge building process”, “being recognized as a subject and not an object of a social practice”, “becoming aware of the reality and its possibilities”. Afterwards, we approached each dimension of the reality-man-society relation along a phenomenological-hermeneutical...(Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Orientador: Djanira Soares de Oliveira e Almeida
Banca: Alfredo Argus
Banca: Martha Maria dos Santos
Banca: Mário José Filho
Banca: Ubaldo Silveira
Resumo: O presente estudo propôs-se a compreender e interpretar as percepções e significados das experiências vividas por jovens e adultos alfabetizandos. Com esta pesquisa, queremos possibilitar aos profissionais que trabalham com Educação Popular, entre outros, os Assistentes Sociais, para que possam recolocar em suas práticas novos ou renovados paradigmas, enfoques e perspectivas na abordagem dos processos de socialização implicados em trabalhos populares, particularmente no que se refere à Educação de Jovens e Adultos. O Brasil ainda é um dos países mais atrasados em matéria de educação, ostentando a cifra vergonhosa de cerca de 15% de analfabetos entre a população adulta acima de 15 anos, onde o analfabeto não convive com a civilização e não progride no trabalho nem evolui socialmente. Com o objetivo de compreender e interpretar a dialogicidade freireana na educação de jovens e adultos, buscamos na fenomenologia hermenêutica um modo de pesquisa que atendesse à especificidade do tema. Foram ouvidos na primeira entrevista vinte discursos de alfabetizandos proferidos na inscrição do Curso e, na segunda entrevista, dezenove discursos no término do Curso, a partir da questão orientadora: o que significa ser alfabetizado? Esses discursos, uma vez submetidos à análise fenomenológica, desvelaram as seguintes categorias: primeira entrevista - "vivenciar situações de exclusão", "aprender a ler e escrever a partir da realidade vivida", "superar as atuais condições de vida"; segunda entrevista - "participar no processo de construção do conhecimento", "ser reconhecido como sujeito e não como objeto de uma prática social", "tomar consciência da realidade e de suas possibilidades". Em seguida, enfocamos cada dimensão da relação realidade-homem-sociedade, percorrendo um caminho fenomenológico-hermenêutico...(Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: The present study was aimed at understanding and interpreting the perceptions and meanings of the experiences lived by youngsters and adults in the process of learning how to read and write. With this study we wish to enable the professionals who work with Popular Education, among others the Social Workers, to reinsert new or renewed paradigms, focuses and perspectives in the approach of the socialization processes implied in popular work, especially in what concerns the Education of Youngsters and Adults. Brazil is still one of the most backward countries in matter of education, boasting the shameful figure of about 15% of illiterates among the adult population over 15, where the illiterate does not live along the civilization and cannot progress at work or evolve socially. Aimed at understanding and interpreting Paulo Freire's dialogic in the education of youngsters and adults, we sought in the hermeneutical phenomenology a research design which fulfilled the specificity of our subject. In the first interview, twenty accounts of students learning how to read and write delivered at the registration in the Course were listened to and, in the second interview, nineteen accounts made at the end of the course triggered by the leading question: what is it to be literate? These accounts, once submitted to phenomenological analysis, yielded the following categories: first interview - "experiencing exclusion situations", "learning how to read and write from the reality experienced", "overcoming the current life conditions"; second interview - "participating in the knowledge building process", "being recognized as a subject and not an object of a social practice", "becoming aware of the reality and its possibilities". Afterwards, we approached each dimension of the reality-man-society relation along a phenomenological-hermeneutical...(Complete abstract click electronic access below)
Doutor

Orientador: César Apareciddo Nunes
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo discutir as relações entre Política, Educação e Sociedade, sob a perspectiva freireana de ensino, visando à superação dos estigmas autoritários das relações escolares no Brasil atual. A pesquisa é bibliográfica e documental, realizada com base nas referências disponíveis no acervo geral de pesquisa na área da Educação, sobretudo em algumas obras de Paulo Freire e na literatura de outros autores que estudam a temática. Aborda os fundamentos filosóficos e históricos da educação brasileira, contextualizações políticas da conjuntura brasileira (1958-1996), período da atuação efetiva de Paulo Freire nas discussões da educação e as implicações da relação autoritária na escola e no autoritarismo político, econômico e cultural. Justifica-se o resgate histórico da trajetória da educação brasileira, definindo a educação emancipatória, educação bancária e alienação. Descreve analiticamente a biografia de Paulo Freire, com a intenção de compreender o significado de seu pensamento pedagógico na tradição política da educação brasileira. Enuncia e esclarece os conceitos como política, educação, sociedade, desmitificando o estigma da relação autoritária na educação escolar brasileira e seus fundamentos. Parte da questão: Por que somos organicamente autoritários? O pensamento freireano ajudou no entendimento e na análise dos movimentos sociais e dos novos sujeitos emergentes. Apresenta perspectivas e contradições da relação política, educacional e curricular na conjuntura brasileira, com o enfoque nas conquistas sociais e políticas advindas das legítimas e justas reivindicações populares, bem como os inegáveis avanços e limites da educação brasileira recente (1996-2014), uma fase de vida caracterizada pela debilidade física que impossibilitou Paulo Freire de participar intensamente nos debates educacionais e a luta dos diferentes movimentos sociais. Constitui a tipologia da relação pedagógica democrática e participativa, a partir das obras de Paulo Freire e sua contribuição diante da relação autoritária na escola e sociedade
Abstract: This research aims to discuss the relationship among Policy, Education and Society in the education of Freire's perspective, in order to overcome the authoritarian stigmas school relations in the actual Brazil. The research is literature and documents held on the basis of references available in the general library of Education, especially in the works of Paulo Freire and literature of other authors who deal with the subject. Discusses the philosophical and historical foundations of Brazilian education, political contextualization of the Brazilian situation (1958-1996), period of effective action of Paulo Freire in educational discussions and the implications of the authoritarian relationship in school and the political, economic and cultural authoritarianism. Justifies the historical rescue of the trajectory of Brazilian education setting the emancipatory education, banking education and alienation. Describes analytically Paulo Freire's biography, aiming understand his pedagogical thinking in the political tradition of Brazilian education. Lists and clarifies concepts such as politics, education, society, demystifying the stigma of authoritarian relationship in Brazilian school and its grounds. Part of the question: Why we are organically authoritarian? The Freire's thought helped in the analysis and understanding of social movements and the new emerging subjects. Intend to present the perspectives and contradictions of political relations, educational and historical in the Brazilian context, focused in the social and political achievements resulting legitimate and fair popular demands, and also the undeniable progress and limits of recent Brazilian education (1996-2014), a phase of life marked by physical weakness precluding Paulo Freire to participate actively in educational debates and the struggle of different social movements. It constitutes the type of democratic and participatory pedagogical relationship, from the works of Paulo Freire and his contribution facing the authoritarian relationship in school and society
Doutorado
Filosofia e História da Educação
Doutor em Educação

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This research aims to understand my construction process as an actress-womanteacher based on Paulo Freire s thoughts and having the idea of elaborating reflections about the of the historical subject in its aesthetic dimension and theatrical praxis as a pedagogical possibility in constructing this subject. The study has the qualitative bibliographical character with the focus on the theoretical production of Paulo Freire and in the autobiographical perspective of the research. The central theory is that Freire s thought of the construction of the historical subject in its aesthetic dimension, contributes to the re-signification of the pedagogical possibilities in the theatrical praxis on the process of constitution of this subject. In the attempt of establishing a dialogue between Freire s thought and scholars in the fields of philosophy, education and drama, I searched in Marx, Adorno, Fiori, Boron, Boal, Brecht, Duarte Jr, Gadotti, Nóvoa, Passeggi, Josso, Casali, among others, the basis to develop my theory. In this work, it was possible to verify that the theatrical pedagogical-praxis with the focus in the view of the world by the subjects involved can be an open space for the construction of historical subjects, that is, committed with the reflections concerning the relations between people and their humanization processes aiming social transformation
Esta pesquisa visa a compreender o meu processo de construção como atrizmulher-professora, tendo como base o pensamento de Paulo Freire, com o objetivo de elaborar reflexões sobre a constituição do sujeito histórico em sua dimensão estética e da práxis teatral como uma possibilidade pedagógica de construção desse sujeito. O estudo tem o caráter bibliográfico qualitativo com enfoque na produção teórica de Paulo Freire e na perspectiva autobiográfica de pesquisa. A tese central é que o pensamento de Freire sobre a constituição do sujeito histórico, em sua dimensão estética, contribui para a compreensão das possibilidades pedagógicas da práxis teatral no processo de constituição desse sujeito. Na tentativa de fazer dialogar o pensamento freiriano com teóricos do campo da filosofia, educação e do teatro, busquei em Marx, Adorno, Fiori, Boron, Boal, Brecht, Duarte Jr, Gadotti, Nóvoa, Passeggi, Josso, Casali, entre outros, subsídios para desenvolver minha tese. No trabalho, foi possível constatar que a práxis-pedagógica teatral, com o foco na leitura de mundo pelos sujeitos nela envolvidos, pode ser um espaço aberto para a construção de sujeitos históricos, ou seja, comprometidos com a reflexão sobre as relações entre as pessoas e seus processos de humanização, tendo em vista a transformação social

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The aim of this research is a comprehensive approach about the notion of politics liberation in Paulo Freire s thought. With this purpose, we present, first, some experiences that have influenced Paulo Freire s forging and its philosophical political thought, in a view that human beings can not be understood outside the social history context. This way we begin by analyzing the conception of man and dialogicity, due to it is highly valued by our author. Then we deal with the issues of education and revolutionary practice as the basis to the liberation of consciousness and a way to the transformation. Finally, we handle about the previous discussion in order to delineate the notion of politics liberation and their constituents of Paulo Freire s thought. After all, we managed to list four primary pillars that support this notion. They are: awareness of self, of others and of reality, coherence, solidarity and organization.
A finalidade desta pesquisa dissertativa é uma aproximação compreensiva da noção de libertação política no pensamento de Paulo Freire. Com esse intuito, procuramos apresentar, primeiramente, algumas experiências que influenciaram o forjamento de Paulo Freire e de seu pensamento político filosófico, visto que o ser humano não pode ser compreendido fora do contexto sócio histórico. Para iniciarmos à discussão proposta, analisamos a concepção de homem e a questão da dialogicidade, sendo essa uma postura humana muito valorizada por nosso autor. Em seguida, tratamos da questão da educação e da práxis revolucionária como base fundamental para a libertação da consciência e condição para a transformação. Por fim, dialogamos com a discussão anterior no sentido de delinear a noção da libertação política e evidenciar seus elementos constituintes no pensamento paulofreiriano. Nesse sentido, como resultado conseguimos elencar quatro pilares primordiais que sustentam tal noção. São eles: consciência de si, dos outros e da realidade, coerência, solidariedade e organização.

On-line writing workshops provide educational spaces within which aspiring writers can learn their craft. In order to understand the dialogic mechanisms behind that learning, this thesis examines ways in which one workshop, the Internet Writing Workshop (IWW), functions as a Freireian culture circle. The exegesis identifies several key characteristics that defined Paulo Freire's concept of the culture circle. It compares these characteristics with the structure and practice of interaction within the IWW. It unpacks some of Freire's ideas about dialogue as a means of achieving critical consciousness, and compares them to current learning theory and the ways in which dialogue takes place within the IWW community. The exegesis also examines some of the political axioms behind Freire's pedagogy, and examines ways in which the IWW community might be viewed as emancipatory or liberatory. I examine these areas in light of the development of a novel, Suicide Girls. The second draft of this novel was influenced and informed by my participant-observation of the IWW. This working draft of the novel is provided as a process document to demonstrate findings made in the exegesis and is annotated to reflect relevant process and development issues.

On-line writing workshops provide educational spaces within which aspiring writers can learn their craft. In order to understand the dialogic mechanisms behind that learning, this thesis examines ways in which one workshop, the Internet Writing Workshop (IWW), functions as a Freireian culture circle. The exegesis identifies several key characteristics that defined Paulo Freire's concept of the culture circle. It compares these characteristics with the structure and practice of interaction within the IWW. It unpacks some of Freire's ideas about dialogue as a means of achieving critical consciousness, and compares them to current learning theory and the ways in which dialogue takes place within the IWW community. The exegesis also examines some of the political axioms behind Freire's pedagogy, and examines ways in which the IWW community might be viewed as emancipatory or liberatory. I examine these areas in light of the development of a novel, Suicide Girls. The second draft of this novel was influenced and informed by my participant-observation of the IWW. This working draft of the novel is provided as a process document to demonstrate findings made in the exegesis and is annotated to reflect relevant process and development issues.

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This work starts stating that Brazilian education is crossed by the split between manual and intellectual work, offering a one-sided education of children. Search subsidies to overcome this condition, putting on two theoretical frameworks dialogue, a psychology and other education, both concerned with social transformation and integral formation of man: the educational theory of Paulo Freire and the Socio-Historical Psychology. Therefore, elects five analytical categories: the subject , the work, the práxis, the autonomy and the social transformation. Highlights the analysis of praxis, as indissolubility between intellectual work and practical work material, and the omnilaterality as the core element of the other categories. The methodology used was the analysis of two works by Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Pedagogy of Autonomy in the light of these categories raised in the work of Vygotsky, particularly the book Educational Psychology. The relevance of this work is to collaborate with the possibility of overcoming the disciplinary divide between education and psychology, in order to align a branch of Socio-Historical Psychology, call Social Psychology of Education, when designing the revolutionary education as its praxis and omnilaterality as a regulatory idea. Thus, Freire's revolutionary education was established as a praxis of the Socio-Historical Psychology
A presente dissertação parte da constatação de que a educação brasileira é atravessada pela cisão entre trabalho manual e intelectual, oferecendo uma formação unilateral da criança. Busca subsídios para a superação dessa condição, colocando em diálogo dois referenciais teóricos, um da psicologia e outro da educação, preocupados ambos com a transformação social e formação integral do homem: a teoria educacional de Paulo Freire e a Psicologia Sócio-Histórica. Para tanto, elege cinco categorias analíticas: o sujeito, o trabalho, a práxis, a autonomia e a transformação social. Destaca a análise da práxis, como indissolubilidade entre o trabalho intelectual e o trabalho prático material, e a omnilateralidade como elemento basilar das demais categorias. A metodologia utilizada foi a análise de duas obras de Freire: Pedagogia do Oprimido e Pedagogia da Autonomia à luz das mesmas categorias levantadas na obra de Vigotski, com destaque ao livro Psicologia Pedagógica. A relevância desta dissertação é a de colaborar com a possibilidade de superar a cisão disciplinar entre Educação e Psicologia, no sentido de alinhar uma vertente da Psicologia Sócio-Histórica, chamada Psicologia Social da Educação, ao conceber a educação revolucionária, como sua práxis e a omnilateralidade como sua ideia reguladora. Dessa forma, a educação revolucionária de Freire constitui-se como uma práxis da Psicologia Sócio-Histórica

My thesis is that museum exhibitions developed according to Freirean praxis would constitute a better learning opportunity for visitors, facilitate the process of evaluation, and enact the favoured museum principles of dialogic communication and community-building. ¶ This project constitutes a cross-fertilisation of adult education, cultural studies and museum practice. In the last few decades, museum professional practice has become increasingly well informed by cultural critique. Many museum institutions have been moved to commit to building communities, but the question of how to do so via exhibition spaces is yet to be squarely addressed by the museum field. In this thesis I produce a detailed evaluation of a museum's informal learning program; and demonstrate the potential value of adult education theory and practice for enacting museums' commitment to dialogic communication and community-building. ¶ To investigate the value of adult education praxis for museums, I consider the Australian War Memorial's signifying practice - the site and its exhibitions - as a program for informal learning. ...

博士
國立臺灣師範大學
教育研究所
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The purpose of this study is to explore the thoughts and praxis of Paulo Freire’s dialogic pedagogy. Firstly, by analyzing Freire’s biographical and philosophical background, the author identifies the main stages of his career and the development of his pedagogic ideas. Secondly, based on Freire’s concepts of human beings, the nature of reality, and the theory of knowledge, the author goes further to analyze the ideas of dialogue and it’s philosophical foundations. It is suggested that Freirean pedagogy is built on a platform constituted by a dynamic dialectical approach toward the world, a praxical view of knowledge and human beings, and a deep commitment to the liberation of the oppressed. Thirdly, following a detailed examination of Freire’s dialogic pedagogy, the author highlights that Freirean pedagogy is a pedagogy for liberation and a pedagogy of knowing. It means, dialogic pedagogy represents a specific approach to understanding human beings and the social world, from which general principles for teaching and learning can be generated. For Freire, pedagogy can be humanizing only when it is critical, dialogical, and praxical. And, dialogic pedagogy is an actual praxis of democracy. Finally, based on a thorough synthesis about Freirean pedagogy, the author not only reviews the major features of dialogic pedagogy, but also provides implications for curriculum transformation and pedagogic praxis.

This study set out to provide an understanding of the Certificate in Education programme, CE (PD), in terms of various stakeholder perspectives and its historical development. Through the use of case study method the study investigates the relationship between the first three semesters of the Certificate in Education (Participatory Development) CE (PD) offered largely on-campus at the University of KwaZulu-Natal with the final semester module of the programme offered as a service-learning off-campus called Development in Practice (DIP). The objective of DIP is to produce reflective learners in an authentic development context. Within the CE (PD) programme this is understood as praxis. The purpose of the study therefore is to investigate processes within the programme that facilitated or hindered the attainment of praxis. The case study method served this research goal well as it allowed for the social, ideological and historical reality of the CE (PD) to be viewed within a context of its development and the broader contexts of the university and South Africa. As such, this study looked at how one could ensure that theory, abstract knowledge and practice are combined for the purpose of improving community development practice. The study focussed on the aspect of praxis within the CE (PD) with the intention of contribution to the improvement of praxis in training for community development practitioners. Based on Freire's understanding of praxis, the situated cognition and transformative learning theories this study found that certain processes impacted positively or negatively to the CE (PD) programme in facilitating praxis. These processes were varied and included amongst others curriculum conceptualisation and planning, and the most important one being ideology and power related issues. The detailed description of the CE (PD) process would be useful to future curriculum development initiatives. This study argued that community development training is a contested area and cannot only focus skills training but must include consciousness raising located within an emancipatory tradition. Based on this argument an interactive programme development model located within praxis is offered as a contribution towards community development practitioner training in the South African context.
Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

There are Stories that we are told, stories that we tell, and Stories that are told through us. This text sets out to ask whether self-regulation is a tool to support the progressivist educator or something that undermines the goals of progressivism. But we cannot avoid the footnotes or philosophy in educational research. What is ‘progressivism?’ How does its theory connect or disconnect from its practice? Can it function or live up to its name if those who call themselves ‘progressive’ teachers or parents are distracted by The Question of ‘How do I get them to do what I want them to do?’ And, what about the follow-up fear of control or chaos or the belief that ‘Those kids can’t handle their freedom?’ Employing an ‘out-of-the-box’ narrative academic writing approach, weaving stories from personal parenting and teaching moments with case studies, the questions surrounding self-regulation reveal some surprising answers. Can the narrative surrounding Classroom Management co-exist with progressivist educational goals or the tool of self-regulation? Can democracy be promoted, taught, or lived without praxis?
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