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Owens, Darya. "Teachers' Pedagogical Resistance to Prescribed Curriculum." Thesis, Wayne State University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10599931.
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Research indicates that teachers feel intimidated into fully implementing prescribed literacy curriculum at the expense of their own praxis which may indeed be effective in boosting student literacy achievement. This perceived intimidation may serve to compromise students’ literacy outcomes. The objective of the study was to recognize the different forms of resistance teachers demonstrate in order to take responsibility of their own pedagogical practices as it helps develop students’ literacy skills. This paper analyzes teachers’ praxis and use of integrated methods of prescribed literacy curriculum in relation to teacher resistance. It answers four key questions: 1) What forms of resistance to the prescribed literacy curriculum do teachers at this elementary school use? 2) Why do teachers use resistance? 3) What do teachers say are the implications of their resistance? 4) What are teachers’ pedagogical choices in relation to resistance?
The study gathered qualitative and qualitative data in order to detail the frequency with which teachers favor their praxis over prescribed literacy curriculum, and to address concepts such as culturally responsive teaching and social participation. The limitations inherent in the research are the lack of diversity among the 18 respondents interviewed (all of them white female teachers from a northeastern U.S. suburban school); and the possibility that respondents might be less than candid in their responses due to concerns about anonymity.
Most of the teachers reported that they felt teachers resist prescribed literacy curriculum by developing their own pedagogical practices within their classroom in order to feel responsible for developing students’ literacy skills. At the same time, participants reported that they tended to completely follow prescribed literacy curriculum consistent with their professional development training. Teachers have strategically adjusted controlled academic environments to serve students, which implies a strategy of politicizing education within their classrooms. The long standing educational systems which were believed to promote education for the sake of preparing students for service jobs and consumerism are adjustable in classrooms where teachers promote students’ social capital instead.
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Kanyane, C. M. B. "The politics of resistance in the implementation of integrated quality management system." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2010. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04062010-154900.
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Moustakim, Mohamed. "Power and resistance in the classroom : teachers' and pupils' narratives on disaffection." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/117485.
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This study sought to analyse critically the discourse of pupils’ disaffection captured in the views of a teacher, a Learning Mentor and a group of six pupils from key stage 4 at a secondary school in south London. The analysis examined how some pupils acquired the label ‘disaffected’ and considered the extent to which dominant curriculum ideologies and power relations between teachers and pupils contributed to pupils’ disconnection from learning. Additionally, the study examined the effectiveness of the Alternative Education project organised by the school in a bid to engage disaffected pupils in learning. The corpus of data was generated through a combination of semi-structured one to one interviews and a focus group interview. Drawing on Fairclough’s (1989, 2001, 2003) approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), excerpts from the data were chosen on the basis of their salience to the key themes of the study to describe, interpret and explain the opaque and contradictory discourse of disaffection. The teachers’ narratives largely located explanations for pupils’ disconnection from learning in pupils’ cognitive, emotional and behavioural pathologies or the influence of a moral underclass culture in their communities. The pupils’ counter-narratives suggested that their disengagement was a rational response to a perception of de-motivating curricula and disrespectful teachers, resulting in a counter school culture, where resistance accorded status among peers and compliance with teachers’ demands for conformity earned the derisory label ‘Neek’. The teacher’s narrative also revealed that curriculum overload and the preoccupation with attainment targets posed significant challenges in his attempts to engage disaffected learners. However, the success of the Alternative Education Programme highlighted the importance of flexibility and positive educator-pupil relationships in capturing and sustaining the interest of learners. It is argued that an adequate analysis of the determinants of disaffection ought to consider the impact of instrumentality in education on relationships in the situational, institutional and societal contexts of schooling. Furthermore, the significance of class, ethnicity and gender on the academic under-achievement of black working class boys, can not be overstated.
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Steinhoff, George. "Examining and addressing resistance to change in an elementary school." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 232 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456290041&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Yasar, Mustafa. "An ethnographic case study of educational drama in teacher education settings resistance, community, and power /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1149082511.
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Fisher, James, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "D.A.R.E. (Drug abuse resistance education) : perceptions of teachers, principals, and school resource officers." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2002, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/179.
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This study employs interviews to measure the perceptions of sixteen teachers, nine school principals, and seven School Resource Officers on the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program, offered to grade six students in one small (population approximately 70,000) city in western Canada. Perceptions in three areas are examined: curricular content, program delivery, and efficacy. Subjects overwhelming viewed the curricular content favourably. Similarly, there was strong agreement that the program was well delivered. The efficacy of the program was judged less positively; however, this did not mitigate the subjects' strong desire to continue implementation of the program. These results are consistent with the research literature on DARE which documents the popularity of the program, but acknowledges that it appears to have limited effects upon reducing student drug use. The results of this study are used to examine five options for delivering an in-school program for preventing or reducing drug abuse and violence among students. The options explored range from retaining the DARE program in its current form, to eliminating it, reforming it, implementing an alternative program, or designing an entirely new drug and violence prevention program. The conclusion drawn is that the DARE program should be withdrawn and replaced with an entirely new drug and violence prevention program and curriculum specific to community realities and needs.vii, 109 leaves ; 28 cm.
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Downey-Skochdopole, Laura. "Teachers in an online Earth Systems Science course : mediating tensions of resistance and reproduction /." Search for this dissertation online, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.
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Brown, Ciara, Natalia Ward, Eileen Galang, Betty Thomason, and Robin F. Scheil. "A Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis: Teacher Resistance to Educating English Learners." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5941.
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This study reports reanalyzed findings from three separate studies that examined the impact of professional development on teachers’ instructional change. The commonality among the studies was content area teachers’ resistance to ESL pedagogy, which inspired the current study in its undertaking and analysis of pooled data. The study aimed to more closely examine the effect of teacher resistance on reform efforts and ultimately its impact on English Learners’ (ELs) academic achievement. The reanalyzed findings show that all participants held strong feelings of resentment toward external mandates that required any change to their current teaching practices. This study determined that professional development alone cannot induce true reform for ELs in the classroom as long as teachers are reluctant to transform themselves.
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Rashotte, Angela L. "Resistance to technology integration in elementary teaching by the technologically proficient classroom teacher." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83144.
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The Quebec Ministry of Education has implemented curriculum reforms that emphasize the integration of information technology into classroom teaching practices. Despite these efforts, however, many teachers appear to resist using computers in their classrooms. Some of these resistors are technologically literate! The purpose of this qualitative study is to better understand the reluctance of the technologically-literate teachers (with two to three years of experience) to integrate technology into their teaching practices.The six teachers participating in this study completed questionnaires and were individually interviewed using an open-ended approach. The data were then analyzed using the Constant Comparative Method. The results showed that although the participants were using computers in their classrooms, they were not actually integrating technology as stipulated by the curriculum reforms. This was attributed to a number of factors, including personal limitations, job stability, lack of resources and funds, time, training, and curriculum issues.
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Weeda, Jocelyn R. "Cultivating the Fire With(In): Teacher's Resistance in an Age of Corporate Reform." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1407193226.
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Lusher, Katelyn J. "Recognizing Student Emotion: Resistance and Pathos in the Composition Classroom." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492017509722133.
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Overton, Deidre, and n/a. "Understanding teachers' responses to educational change in ACT high schools: developing professional voice and identity." University of Canberra. Education & Community Studies, 2004. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20051205.130321.
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This research identifies those practices and/or conditions that facilitate (or hinder) school and/or system based innovation in ACT high schools. It examines teachers� ways of making meaning of change in their working lives. It draws on narrative inquiry and teacher in-depth interviews. The work story is used to engage teachers� individual agency as a way to conceptualise the requirements of innovation. The data is represented as teachers� narrative categorized as the Red Hots and Unfreezables. The primary themes or motifs emerging in the teachers� talk�teacher agency, resistance and leadership�provide collective insight into teachers� working lives and the capacity of schools to cope with change. Analyses of the �lived experiences� of teachers suggest that innovative practice is linked to teacher agency and the presence of professional learning communities, and that those leading change must focus on the realities of the teachers implementing change. This study also explores the culture of teacher resistance, supporting the research that school cultures are characteristically and strongly resistant to change from within the organization. As a result of this study, we have an improved understanding of the conditions that
contribute to effective school change, and the importance for teachers to conduct their own research. This study contains important recommendations for governments and education systems implementing change initiatives.
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Zisook, Karla J. "Professional Development, Writer's Workshop and Identity: A Case Study of Women Elementary School Teachers Using Writing as Resistance." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/msit_diss/84.
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The purpose of this qualitative case study was to uncover the ways that women elementary school teachers negotiate their identities within the context of writer’s workshop by exploring issues of gender, literacy, and identity. The two central participants were women elementary school teachers who were involved at their Professional Development School with university partnership and were learning how to implement a writer’s workshop instructional model. This study considers how the participants’ involvement in professional development with a university faculty member shaped their identities as women and professionals. The theoretical framework is critical theory and identity theory in which literacy and identity are deeply connected (Moje & Luke, 2009). Furthermore, this study is situated in the literature exploring teachers’ roles and identities historically in order to position them today (Carter, 2002; Hoffman, 2003; Biklen, 1995). The questions this study will explore include: (a) How have the participants’ identities been affected by their involvement in the Corey Richardson Writing Collaborative? (b) How does gender mediate their professional identities? This case study used in depth interviews, document analysis, and observations to generate detailed data. Themes that were prominent in the data were gender and teaching, dealing with mandates, issues of expertise, caring, and writing as resistance. The conclusions of this study reveal that the within the context of caring professional development, teachers were able to take up writer’s workshop as a means of resisting a system that was often frustrating and oppressive. They negotiated their gendered roles as teachers in complex ways and used literacy as a way to reclaim their own power.
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Slinn, Hazel Ann. "The development and performance of professional identity within a resistance culture: Kosovo-Albanian teachers' stories from the conflict years." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488574.
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This study explores how teachers create and perform their professional identities within a resistance culture. It is set in Kosovo and covers the period from 1974 when the province was granted autonomy within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, through to the present day, when Independence has recently been declared. It presents the experiences of a small selection of Kosovo-Albanian teachers who were part of a widespread civil resistance, taking the view that a group's collective history is created by bringing together individual experiences. This study interprets some of these experiences.
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Aldrich, Debora Lynn Hill. "Heteroglossia and persuasive discourses for student writers and teachers: Intersections between out-of-school writing and the teaching of English." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5405.
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Research studies have investigated issues in the teaching of writing, particularly at the elementary and university levels. Studies of out-of-school writing done by adolescents have focused on digital contexts and social media. This study examines the intersections of the out-of-school and in-school writing worlds of three high school writers: a poet, a novelist, and a contest essay writer. I use data gathered over seven years from the student writers and four of their English language arts teachers. Research questions focused on how notions of student writers and the teaching of high school English might be informed by the ways student writers described their out-of-class writing and motivation for writing, how their teachers developed and implemented their philosophies and practices in teaching writing, and how the student writers developed their internally persuasive discourses about writing. In analyzing case study data to answer these questions, I used constant comparison analysis and narrative inquiry analysis, drawing upon theories of heteroglossic discourses, figured worlds, and writing identity. My findings show that in the intersections of out-of-school and in-school writing experiences, students select some writing practices and discourses from their teachers to adopt or adapt, such as developing writing processes, participating in writing communities, and caring about writing. They complicate their definitions of writing, however, as they create figured worlds of writing in which they explore identity, navigate and negotiate complex emotions, and receive recognition. The students illustrate their dialogism with writing discourses in stories of improvisation in which they find power and enact resistance. I argue that writing teachers need encouragement, education, and agency to entertain more complex perceptions of student writers and teaching writing to support students for future personal, academic, career, and public discourse worlds.
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Harness, Oliver. "Change and power in the profession : a study of the lived experiences of teachers' opposition and resistance witin a neoliberal hegemony." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/31658/.
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Schools in England have undergone huge change since neoliberal ideologies introduced notions of choice and competition. This study seeks to understand how teachers rationalised their roles alongside the demands of performativity associated with managerialisation and marketisation. As such, this research explores the lived experiences of teachers within a neoliberal hegemony. Methodologically, I used a social constructionist paradigm and an interpretative phenomenological analysis after Smith, Flowers and Larkin (2009). I conducted six in-depth semi-structured interviews with teachers in primary, middle and secondary school settings. My interpretative phenomenological analysis used Wenger’s (1989) concept of a community of practice as well as concepts from social theorists such as Habermas (1979, 1996), Giddens (1986, 1991) and Bourdieu (1984, 1994) to frame my thinking. The research found that the changes being experienced by teachers are not aligned with their understandings and beliefs concerning education, either for themselves as a professional body or for the pupils in their care. As such, the teachers express notions such as the suppression of their voice and the oppression of their autonomy. Furthermore, teachers’ descriptions include philosophical and practical resistance to change. The descriptions of change and resistance show alignment towards notions of welfare education not neoliberal managerialisation and marketisation. The nature of the new knowledge concerns changed forms of organisational experiences, from changed forms of organisational communication to changed forms of learning. It is this change, brought about by managerialisation and marketisation, that the teachers describe as resisting, both philosophically and practically. As such the participants describe a clash of lifeworlds and a clash of doxa, such that they experience ontological insecurity. Furthermore the managerialisation and marketisation of schools is at odds with Wenger’s (1989) notion of a community of practice and as such, is degrading organisational learning and practice.
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Brewer, Helene. "In search of a transformative pedagogy – a study of experiences and consequences amongst teachers facing resistance to workplace based gender training." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-28650.
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Syftet med denna masteruppsats är att söka en transformerande pedagogisk praktik omjämställdhet och jämställdhetsintegrering. Det är en studie av några pedagogersupplevelser och konsekvenser av motstånd i arbetsplatsbaserad undervisning omjämställdhet och jämställdhetsintegrering.Den svenska retoriken kring jämställdhet bidrar till att det inte talas om det motståndsom pedagoger möter, ett motstånd emot jämställdhet och jämställdhetsintegrering. Trefokusgrupper med totalt tretton deltagare har träffats runtom i Sverige och samtalat omundervisning och transformativ pedagogik utifrån frågeställningar kopplade till maktoch motstånd. Innehållsanalys har använts, framförallt med hjälp av Paulo Freiresbegrepp conscientização och Sara Ahmeds begrepp snap. Resultaten har relaterats tillMalin Rönnbloms dekonstruktion av svensk jämställdhetspolitik och rådandekunskapsdiskurs.De viktigaste resultaten handlar om att pedagogerna möter motstånd oavsett vilkenfråga som lärandet handlar om inom jämställdhet. Motståndet leder till känslor av blandannat trötthet, ledsamhet och ilska. Effekter av motstånd på undervisningen är blandannat att ämnet adresseras på ett avdramatiserande sätt för att förekomma motståndet.Resultaten synliggör ett behov av att använda den praktik och de erfarenheter somfinns i större utsträckning än vad som görs idag. Studien bidrar till en ökad förståelseför vilka konsekvenser motstånd får i arbetsplatsbaserad vuxenundervisning omjämställdhet.
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Soroko, Agata. "The Politics of Teaching Financial Literacy Education: A Case Study of Critical High School Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices in Ontario and Québec." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42779.
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Teachers’ voices have been largely excluded from the academic and political debates regarding the aims and merits of financial literacy education. Through case study research, this project examined the beliefs, practices, and lives of 10 teachers in Québec and Ontario who teach financial literacy at the intermediate and senior levels. Specifically, the teachers in this study report taking a critical approach to financial literacy education–a subject that tends to be framed in simplistic and individualistic terms as mere personal financial decision-making. In an analysis of in-depth interviews and deliberative inquiry focus groups with self-identifying critical teachers and investigation into various documentary sources, I detail the ways in some of these teachers adhere to mainstream understandings of financial literacy education while others work to reframe it towards more critical and economically just ends. This research results in the development of a framework for critical economic literacy education, documenting the intellectually demanding set of skills, knowledge, and pedagogical strategies a critical economic literacy requires of students and teachers. Findings also bring forth distinctions in teachers’ ideas about criticality, revealing that teachers navigate between common, critical, and transformative sense orientations in sophisticated ways to achieve their pedagogical aims. Last, I investigate how criticality emerges in teachers, narrating the ways in which their personal biographies, professional and political activities, and intellectual pursuits inform their critical teaching in relation to financial literacy. This case study is further contextualized by the current political moment in which escalating economic inequality and the widening racial wealth gap, the current financial crisis, impending climate disasters, and antidemocratic politics worldwide convey a sense of urgency and a timely relevance for a more critical and transformative financial literacy education.
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Eayrs, Ansel. "The effect of cognitive bias video instruction on high school biology student acceptance of evolution: Implications for teachers and educational leaders." Scholarly Commons, 2014. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/63.
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Cognitive biases have long been studied for their effects on an individual's decision-making. This study is the first of its kind to link these preferential thinking patterns to high school biology students' acceptance of evolution. At five urban high schools, 164 high school biology students were surveyed using a new instrument called the Cognitive Bias Assessment For Science Students – Evolution. The CBASS-E assesses both the level of non-acceptance of evolution, as well as how intensely participants demonstrate four specific cognitive biases. The four biases measured on the CBASS-E are anchoring, bandwagon effect, confirmation bias, and wishful thinking. This study showed that confirmation bias closely relates to a student's view of evolution. As part of this research, students were shown a video designed to teach high school students about cognitive bias and its effect on science learning. Results indicated that both cognitive bias and views on evolution are persistent, as student responses did not significantly change after watching the video. Included in this research are implications for teachers and administrators, as well as suggestions for further areas of study.
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Clark, Judith. "To Hell in a Handcart Educational realities, teachers' work and neo-liberal restructuring in NSW TAFE." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/590.
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This thesis examines the impact of neo-liberal economic restructuring on teachers, specifically teachers in technical and further education. Historically, there has been limited research undertaken on teachers as workers, and even less on TAFE teachers. During the period covered by the study, TAFE was buffeted by the massive changes, social, political, cultural and economic, that were occurring on a global scale. As a result, TAFE has been a system in crisis. The consequences are addressed by an empirical study that examines NSW TAFE teachers' experience of the great changes that have occurred to their work since the late 1980s. Forty-one teachers were interviewed in tape recorded sessions lasting around one hour each. The respondents were drawn from twenty-seven teaching sections across all the major industry areas represented in TAFE. Twenty of the teachers were from metropolitan locations, twenty-one were regional. Nine managers were also interviewed, from Head of Studies to senior management levels, covering those with local as well as state-wide responsibilities. The changes to TAFE have been driven by a pervasive neo-liberal ideology adopted by both major parties in Australia. This study documents the experience of TAFE teachers as that ideology led to a corporatised vocational education and training system strongly oriented to the market. It also records their responses to the narrowing of curriculum that resulted from the "industry-driven" vocational education and training policies of governments. The study gives voice to their grief, frustration and anger as their working conditions deteriorated and their commitment to quality education was undermined. The study documents the teachers' resistance to the processes of organisational fragmentation, the increasing incidence of cost-driven, rather than educational, decision-making, and the commodification of curriculum driven by a series of policy decisions taken at both national and state level. The study compares these experiences with those of the TAFE managers, whose response to the crisis, while differing from that of the teachers, supports the teachers' commitment to public education as a social good. The study concludes that the NSW TAFE teachers' resistance has continued to act as a brake on the excesses of neo-liberalism. Some possibilities for an alternative vision of technical and further education thus remain.
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Clark, Judith. "To Hell in a Handcart Educational realities, teachers' work and neo-liberal restructuring in NSW TAFE." University of Sydney. Education, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/590.
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This thesis examines the impact of neo-liberal economic restructuring on teachers, specifically teachers in technical and further education. Historically, there has been limited research undertaken on teachers as workers, and even less on TAFE teachers. During the period covered by the study, TAFE was buffeted by the massive changes, social, political, cultural and economic, that were occurring on a global scale. As a result, TAFE has been a system in crisis. The consequences are addressed by an empirical study that examines NSW TAFE teachers' experience of the great changes that have occurred to their work since the late 1980s. Forty-one teachers were interviewed in tape recorded sessions lasting around one hour each. The respondents were drawn from twenty-seven teaching sections across all the major industry areas represented in TAFE. Twenty of the teachers were from metropolitan locations, twenty-one were regional. Nine managers were also interviewed, from Head of Studies to senior management levels, covering those with local as well as state-wide responsibilities. The changes to TAFE have been driven by a pervasive neo-liberal ideology adopted by both major parties in Australia. This study documents the experience of TAFE teachers as that ideology led to a corporatised vocational education and training system strongly oriented to the market. It also records their responses to the narrowing of curriculum that resulted from the "industry-driven" vocational education and training policies of governments. The study gives voice to their grief, frustration and anger as their working conditions deteriorated and their commitment to quality education was undermined. The study documents the teachers' resistance to the processes of organisational fragmentation, the increasing incidence of cost-driven, rather than educational, decision-making, and the commodification of curriculum driven by a series of policy decisions taken at both national and state level. The study compares these experiences with those of the TAFE managers, whose response to the crisis, while differing from that of the teachers, supports the teachers' commitment to public education as a social good. The study concludes that the NSW TAFE teachers' resistance has continued to act as a brake on the excesses of neo-liberalism. Some possibilities for an alternative vision of technical and further education thus remain.
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Wiechmann, Juria C. "Pedagogies of Resistance." Thesis, Minot State University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13425660.
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Many teachers describe teaching as a vocation. Similar to a priest, rabbi, imam, nun or monk, a teacher may feel morally justified to break policy or go against curriculum that they feel is immoral or oppressive. The purpose of this study is to explore the ways in which teachers resist or rebel in their classrooms when the policies or curriculum go against their beliefs. Furthermore, I aim to understand the implications of their resistance or rebellion. This study’s findings are taken from observations and interviews with two elementary teachers. The results demonstrate that in order to help their students succeed, teachers may work around or silently disobey policy and curriculum. As this study highlights, the impact of resistance or rebellion is felt in different ways by schools, teachers, and students.
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Klatt, Suzanne. "They're just kids: Residential educators' frustration and hope expressed as action." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1367600530.
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Rebecca, Sjösvärd. "Barns reaktioner mot avbrott - Om maktrelationer i förskolan." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-31232.
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Studiens syfte är att undersöka olika typer av avbrott i förskolans verksamhet, hur barn reagerar på dessa och vilka maktrelationer som kan skapas i dessa situationer. Barnen i förskolan blir ofta avbrutna i sin lek eller aktiviteter som de håller på med och utifrån ett maktperspektiv har jag undersökt dessa avbrott och barns reaktioner på dessa. För att kunna undersöka detta har jag gjort en kvantitativ studie i form av observationer på en förskola. För att analysera materialet använde jag mig av Michael Foucaults teorier kring makt och tidigare forskning om bland annat makt och motstånd.I min studie har jag sett att barns reaktioner varierar. Ibland följer barnen de förväntningar som pedagogerna har vid ett avbrott och ibland motsätter sig barnen och visar att de har en annan åsikt än pedagogen om vad som ska ske. Motstånden kan vara tydliga och verbala men de kan även vara tysta och lätt missuppfattas som något annat än motstånd. Jag har även sett att vissa barn följer de regler som gäller och styr varandra till att göra det som anses vara rätt.
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Paz, Cláudia Terra do Nascimento. "As trajetórias estudantis em licenciaturas com baixas taxas de diplomação : tendências e resistências." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/152649.
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Esta tese tratou da formação inicial de professores em cursos de licenciatura com baixas taxas de diplomação, buscando investigar as tendências das trajetórias estudantis nessas licenciaturas, a partir da perspectiva da resistência. Foram estudados os cursos de licenciaturas de Física e de Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul e investigadas as trajetórias de 845 estudantes, através do método do diagnóstico do fluxo de estudantes, no período de 2000 a 2015, compondo 15 coortes de análise em cada curso. A Licenciatura de Filosofia apresentou percentual médio de evasão de 60,64% por abandono, de 18,29% por mobilidade e de 20,5% de diplomação. Os alunos permaneceram no curso três anos e oito meses em média e integralizam 37,22% do currículo. A Licenciatura de Física apresentou percentual médio de evasão por abandono de 72,57%, de mobilidade de 11,70% e de diplomação de 15,72%. Os estudantes permaneceram no curso quatro anos em média e integralizam 31% do currículo. Vários estudos já identificaram que os principais motivos do abandono nesses cursos estão ligados a impossibilidade de conciliar estudos e trabalho; insatisfações relacionadas à ausência de trajetórias formativas flexíveis e altos percentuais de repetência em disciplinas distantes da prática pedagógica, além do desprestigio da profissão docente. Tais variáveis também se mostraram válidas para a realidade dos cursos investigados, uma vez que os mesmos possuem percentual significativo de estudantes trabalhadores, de um lado, e opções curriculares que explicitam estratégias de poder utilizadas em prol de percursos formativos conservadores, longos e rígidos, bem como elementos históricos nacionais envolvendo esses cursos, de outro. Assim, considerando os campos acadêmicos de disputas de poder, parece que os estudantes estão resistindo a essas mesmas forças que insistem no conservadorismo e que impedem a construção de uma identidade docente. No entanto, essa resistência não se dá como um enfrentamento frontal, mas como forma de re-existência e como possibilidade alternativa de escolha. Assim, a tese que defendo é a de que as trajetórias analisadas são de resistência e não de fracasso.This dissertation is focused on initial training of teachers attending bachelor’s degrees with low rates of graduation, investigating tendencies of the student pathways in these bachelor’s degrees from the perspective of resistance. The courses that have been studied were Physics and Philosophy of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. It has been investigated pathways of 845 students through the diagnostic of students flow method from 2000 to 2015 with 15 coortes of analysis in each course. The Licentiate in Philosophy presented an average percentage of evasion of 60,64% due to abandonment, 18,29% due to mobility and 20,5% due to graduation. The students remained in the course on the average time of three years and eight months and integrated 37,22% of the academic curriculum. The Licentiate in Physics presented an average percentage of evasion of 72,57% due to abandonment, of 11,70% due to mobility and 15,72% due to graduation. The students remained in the course for an average of four years and integrated 31% of the academic curriculum. Several studies had already identified that the main reasons of evasion due abandonment in these courses are related to the impossibility of reconciling study and work purposes; dissatisfactions related to the absence of flexible training paths and high percentage of grade repetition in subjects that are far from a pedagogical practice, apart from the discredit of teaching profession. On one side these variables turned up applicable to the reality of the investigated courses as they have a meaningful percentage of working students and curriculum options that define empowerment strategies driven by a conservative prolonged and strict formation journey, as well as national historical elements involving these courses, on the other side. Therefore, considering the academic fields of power related disputes, it seems that the students are resisting to those same forces which insist in conservatism and hinder the construction of a teaching identity. Nevertheless, this resistance does not happen as a direct confrontation but as a re-existence and an alternative choice. Therefore, the thesis that I defend is that the analyzed pathways are of resistance and not of failure.
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Frank, Adam Harrison. "Inclusive Deliberation (ID): A Case Study Of How Teachers Experience The Decision-Making Process For Change Initiatives Within A School Committee." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1573900707645968.
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Sundstrom, Krystal. "Rhizomatic Resistance: Teacher Activism and the Opt-Out Movement." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24223.
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High-stakes testing has grown in scope and impact in recent years, as accountability decisions regarding funding, school sanctions, and teacher evaluations often depend on standardized test results. The shift toward more stringent and punitive testing mandates has not gone unchallenged however, as pockets of resistance have emerged among teachers, parents, and scholars, and a growing "opt-out" movement has picked up steam nationwide. Teachers in particular have played a critical role in resistance to high-stakes testing, even while adhering to these same policies in their professional roles. This study examines resistance to standardized testing via the 'opt-out' movement organizing process. I specifically look at teachers' participation in organizing and resistance, and how positions as teachers and sometimes parents influence their participation. I frame the project with a post-structuralism lens, utilizing the Deleuzoguattarian concept of the rhizome to illustrate the complex and connected nature of teachers' involvement in this social movement.
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Araújo, Maria Dolores Martins de. "(Auto)representações de professores de uma escola pública do ensino médio sobre a docência: os processos discursivos de objetivação/subjetivação e as possibilidades de resistência." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8027.
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This research is configured as a case study with an ethnographic character (ANDRE, 2005; LÜDKE, ANDRE, 1986; MOURA FILHO, 2005; STAKE, 1994), within the scope of the qualitative interpretativist research (DENZIN; LINCOLN, 2006; ESTEBAN, 2010; ROSA, ARNOLDI, 2006) and aims to contribute to the understanding of the process of representation of public school teachers. In order to do so, it is based on the constructs ‘identity and representation’ in the post-structuralist perspective of Cultural Studies presented by Hall (2009, 2011), Tadeu da Silva ([1999]/2001, 2001, 2009) and Woodward (2009). In this sense, representation is understood as a form of attribution of meanings, product of discourses and subject to asymmetric relations of power (FOUCAULT, 1995; TADEU DA SILVA, 1999), and identity would therefore be representational (TADEU DA SILVA, 2009). We also take the contributions given by Foucault (1979, 1995, 1996, 2003a, 2003b, 2004a, 2004b, 2004c) concerning the notions of discourse, subject, relations of power /knowledge /truth, objectification, subjectivation and resistance as well as on Paniago’s (2005) Morgado’s (2015), Silva’s (2016) and Paraguassú’s (2017) contributions on the discursive processes of objectification/subjectivation and the possibilities of resistance of the subject-teacher. In addition, the elucidations of research in the areas of Education are considered (ARROYO, 2000; TARDIF, 2000, 2014). The research involved sixteen teachers from a state public high school of a town in the interior of Goiás. In the data generation process, the following instruments were used: questionnaires (profile and reflective), narrative, interview and the field diary of the researcher. Initially, it was possible to perceive that the identity is representational and is in continuous (trans) formation, so that the professional representation involves the life histories of each of the teachers, their social reality, the context in which they live, financial conditions, family issues and representations (objectifications) around teaching. They (re)construct their identities through relationships with the work context, with socially recurrent discourses, with a national educational policy, and from relationships with one another (Seduce, direction, students, parents, co-workers), and power relations integrate the whole process. Thus, the subject teachers are an effect of power, a product constituted from the productive power-knowledge-truth relationship, but also, subjects who find micro-practices of resistance. Our analyzes show the productivity of power and the “perpetual and multiform struggle” between power/ knowledge /resistance. However, since the power of the teacher is a micro-power, its resistance, predominantly, is in the sense of denying the objections imposed upon him/her. Thus, this research may be relevant because it allows conditions for reflection on the teaching profession of the public school in Goiás in the current political-social context, opening space for these professionals to (represent) themselves.
Esta pesquisa se configura como um estudo de caso de cunho etnográfico (ANDRÉ, 2005; LÜDKE; ANDRÉ, 1986; MOURA FILHO, 2005; STAKE, 1994), inserindo-se no âmbito da pesquisa qualitativa interpretativista (DENZIN; LINCOLN, 2006; ESTEBAN, 2010; ROSA; ARNOLDI, 2006), e tem por objetivo contribuir para a compreensão do processo de representação dos professores da escola pública. Para tanto, tem-se como alicerce os construtos identidade e representação, na perspectiva pós-estruturalista dos Estudos Culturais apresentados por Hall (2009, 2011), Tadeu da Silva ([1999]/2001, 2001, 2009) eWoodward (2009). Nessa acepção, a representação é entendida como uma forma de atribuição de sentidos, produto dos discursos e sujeita às relações assimétricas de poder (FOUCAULT, 1995; TADEU DA SILVA, [1999]/2001), e a identidade seria, portanto, representacional (TADEU DA SILVA, 2009). Também tomamos as contribuições dadas por Foucault (1979, 1995, 1996, 2003a, 2003b, 2004a, 2004b, 2004c) referentes às noções de discurso, sujeito, relações de poder/saber/verdade, objetivação, subjetivação e resistência, bem como pautamo-nos nas considerações de Paniago (2005), Morgado (2015), Silva (2016) e Paraguassú (2017) sobre os processos discursivos de objetivação/subjetivação e as possibilidades de resistência do sujeito-professor. Além disso, consideram-se as elucidações das pesquisas nas áreas da Educação (ARROYO, 2000; TARDIF, 2000, 2014). A investigação envolveu dezesseis professores de uma escola da rede pública estadual de Ensino Médio de uma cidade do interior de Goiás. No processo de geração de dados foram utilizados os seguintes instrumentos: questionários (perfil e reflexivo), narrativa, entrevista e diário de campo da pesquisadora. Inicialmente, foi possível perceber que a identidade é representacional e está em contínua (trans)formação, de modo que a representação profissional envolve as histórias de vida de cada um dos professores, sua realidade social, o contexto em que vivem, suas condições financeiras, questões familiares e representações (objetivações) em torno da docência. Eles (re)constroem suas identidades mediante as relações com o contexto de trabalho, com os discursos recorrentes socialmente, com a política educacional nacional e a partir das relações com o outro (Seduce, direção, alunos, pais, colegas de trabalho) e as relações de poder integram todo esse processo. Desse modo, os sujeitos professores são um efeito do poder, um produto constituído a partir da produtiva relação poder-saber-verdade, mas também sujeitos que encontram micropráticas de resistência. Nossas análises evidenciam a produtividade do poder e a “luta perpétua e multiforme” entre poder/saber/resistência. Contudo, como o poder do professor é um micropoder, sua resistência, preponderantemente, está no negar as objetivações que lhe são impostas. Assim, esta pesquisa pode ser relevante por possibilitar condições para a reflexão sobre a profissão de professor da escola pública em Goiás na atual conjuntura político-social, abrindo espaço para que esses profissionais se (auto)representem.
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O'Hare, B. O. "Educational innovation and resistance to change : The teacher as adult learner." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242171.
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Lopes, Francisca Maria de Souza Ramos. "A constitui??o discursiva de identidades ?tnicorraciais de docentes negros/as: silenciamentos, batalhas travadas e hist?rias (re) significadas." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2010. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/15145.
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In this research study, in which I discuss the discursive constitution of ethnic-racial identity of black male and female teachers, I understand that the process of identity formation of the subject covers both personal/family and social/professional areas. In it, I propose, in general terms, to analyze the discursive practices present in narratives of black male and female teachers when they look for their social insertion into different social contexts, identifying outbreaks of resistance that are present in their process of ethnicracial identities. The fundamental issue that permeates the survey investigates: how can black male and female teachers behave discursively in the construction of ethnicracial identities in multiple distinct contexts? The theoretical foundations that support this research work come from theoretical fields that complement each other; among them, French Discourse Analysis, Foucault s Theory and cultural studies. These, even with their singularities, are being interlaced by the conception that conceives language as social practice. Methodologically, I adopt an interpretative and qualitative paradigm to examine not only the linguistic repertoires that compose these teachers written narratives written but also the data that were generated by semi-structured interviews. The results show that the subjects, realizing contrary forces that interfere in their process of social inclusion, make use of acetic techniques to (re)signify the history of their lives
Nessa pesquisa em que discuto a constitui??o discursiva de identidades ?tnicorraciais de docentes negros e negras, parto da compreens?o de que o processo de forma??o identit?ria do sujeito abrange tanto a ?rea pessoal/familiar quanto ? social/profissional. Nela, proponho-me, a analisar as pr?ticas discursivas presentes em narrativas de quinze professores/as negros/as residentes nas cidades de Assu e Pend?ncias RN quando buscam sua inser??o em diversas inst?ncias sociais, identificando focos de resist?ncias que atravessam seu processo constitutivo de identidades ?tnicorraciais. A quest?o fundamental que perpassa a pesquisa investiga: Como ser? que professores/as negros/as se posicionam discursivamente na constru??o de identidades ?tnicorraciais nas diversas inst?ncias sociais? Os fundamentos que respaldam a pesquisa adv?m de campos te?ricos que se articulam, entre outros, a AD francesa, teoriza??es foucaultianas e os estudos culturais. Esses, mesmo com suas singularidades, est?o sendo entrela?ados pelo fio condutor que concebe a linguagem enquanto pr?tica social. Metodologicamente, adoto um paradigma qualitativo interpretativista para examinar n?o apenas os repert?rios lingu?sticos que comp?em narrativas escritas por docentes, mas tamb?m os dados gerados pelas entrevistas semiestruturadas. Os dados indiciam que os sujeitos colaboradores, ao perceberem as for?as contr?rias que atravessam seu processo de inser??o social, se utilizam de t?cnicas ac?ticas para (re) significarem suas hist?rias de vida
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Laight, Jean. "Resistance and resilience : exploring narratives of women teacher trade union activists." Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 2018. http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/5543/.
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This thesis is born out of concern that large numbers of teachers have left the profession. The work involved in teaching has become more time-consuming, and a trend of working longer hours, both at school and at home, has become an expectation. Excessive workload has, therefore, become an important issue within the profession. With so many teachers leaving the profession, particularly women - who make up over 75% of the profession- it was noted that some women teachers were not only staying in the profession but were also giving up their time and energy to take on the work of trade union activism as a form of resistance against the raft of policy changes which they believed to be the root cause for the exodus. This thesis attempts to discover why they are motivated to do so. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) was chosen as a locus for recruitment of participants, primarily because it is the only trade union which permits exclusive membership to those who have achieved, or are working towards, Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Narrative analysis was employed as the methodology for this study, because it can be particularly efficient when dealing with disruption or change in a person's life, or group of people's lives, whilst promoting empathy. Narrative analysis, in conjunction with a life history interview approach (Smith, 2012), was used, as these can enable a transformative experience in which the narrator can feel empowered as a result of their awareness of their situation. In total, 11 women from five different NUT demarcated regions across England were interviewed, ranging from the Northern, North West, Yorkshire/Midland, South East and London Regions. The thesis was steered and driven by the voices of the women teacher activists who describe and explain why they became activists, what they do and how they do it, in order to protect their profession and their colleagues. Their thoughts, feelings and behaviour were explored throughout. A substantial theoretical framework was provided through the work of Michalinos Zembylas, focusing on emotion and affect in education, and political and social justice issues. Zembylas's work highlights issues of teacher identity, teachers' self-formation, the emotional labour of teaching, resistance and power, and also elucidates the concepts of 'emotional ecology' and 'knowledge ecology' (Zembylas, 2007). Rooted in the social theory of post-structuralism, which explores the construction of meaning, Zembylas cites the work of Michel Foucault as a significant exponent of this thinking, examining the deconstruction of discourses which concern power relationships. iv The key findings show that the relationship between teachers and the government is strained. Teacher professionalism is perceived by government as an act of resistance in itself. The rapid changes caused by the government's neo-liberal education reform agenda have created a negative effect on teachers. The emotional investment that teachers make in their work causes them to be overworked and stressed, often damaging their mental health. Some implications from the findings show that the resistance of teachers to the current reforms is what drives their activism. Trade unionism is a vehicle for transformational change. Not only is transformational change possible through discourses, it is also possible to achieve within one's own self. The deprofessionalisation of teaching is not so much about the partnership with unqualified people at classroom level, but more about the attempts made by government to professionalise other areas of the education workforce which have led to the deprofessionalisation of teaching. Blame, therefore, should be directed towards the government.
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Chaves, Silvania Maria. "A politicidade da educação a partir da experiência de uma docente de sociologia." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2017. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/9231.
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This job had as objective Reflect and reaffirm Education as a political act and democracy. The studies conducted evidence we are living in times of setback regression, marked by loss of rights and by the productions of impotence and suffering: the capitalist Western rationality has produced, in this way, atomized, fragile individuals and the idea that changing reality is impossible. Although this context contributes to the construction of conformed subjectivities, we perceive History as a possibility in which men and women are subjects of change and resistance in midst of forces that act, simultaneously, in a regulatory and emancipatory manner. From the perspective of education as a possibility, as a result of historical time, we share powerful experiences, loaded with how to understand education as a political act, held in the sociology classes of the State School Aggêo Pereira do Amaral, located in Sorocaba, in the interior of the State of São Paulo, considering that they are tools for confronting the dynamics of servitude, prejudice, racism, fascism and machismo, intricate in the daily microrelations. Based on the theoretical dialogues and the narrated experiences, we affirm that pedagogical practices based on solidarity, dialogue and cooperation open doors to the creation of emancipatory sociability’s and constitute seeds for the construction of a world did from humanized and democratic relations. The educational processes and ongoing resistance movements shared in this research fuel the hope that another reality is possible and that social transformation will occur through collective action. In a scenario that has denied politics, we reaffirm it as an extension of life as a power.
Este trabalho teve como objetivo refletir e reafirmar a politicidade da educação em defesa da escola pública e da democracia. Os estudos realizados evidenciam que vivemos tempos de retrocesso, marcados pela perda de direitos e pelas produções de impotência e de sofrimento: a racionalidade ocidental capitalista tem produzido indivíduos atomizados, fragilizados e a ideia de que mudar a realidade é impossível. Apesar deste contexto contribuir para a construção de subjetividades conformadas percebemos a História como possibilidade, na qual homens e mulheres são sujeitos de mudanças e resistências em meio a forças que atuam, concomitantemente, de forma regulatória e emancipatória. Da perspectiva da educação como possibilidade, pois fruto do tempo histórico, compartilhamos experiências potentes, realizadas nas aulas de Sociologia na Escola Estadual Aggêo Pereira do Amaral, localizada em Sorocaba, interior do Estado de São Paulo, considerando que as mesmas constituem ferramentas para o enfrentamento às dinâmicas da servidão, do preconceito, do racismo, do fascismo e do machismo, intrincadas nas micro relações cotidianas. À luz dos diálogos teóricos com as experiências narradas afirmamos que práticas pedagógicas fundamentadas na solidariedade, no diálogo e na cooperação abrem portas para a criação de sociabilidades emancipatórias e constituem sementes para a construção de um mundo tecido a partir de relações humanizadas e democráticas. Os processos educativos e movimentos de resistência em curso, compartilhados nesta pesquisa, alimentam a esperança de que outra realidade é possível e de que a transformação social ocorre por meio da ação coletiva. Em um cenário que tem negado a política, a reafirmamos como ampliação da vida, como potência.
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Maybaum, Lenore DeBok. "Resistance and engagement in the critical classroom: a psychoanalytic reading of critical pedagogy." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5566.
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This research takes up psychoanalysis as an analytical lens to examine participants' literacy narratives, particularly how critical discourses are engaged and resisted, in order to generate multiple and competing definitions of what it means to be critical in the composition classroom. Using autoethnography as research method, participants narrated their literacy histories by anchoring personal stories in the broader cultural and social contexts of their lives. The researcher lays out competing definitions of criticality as refracted through each participant's narrative arc, ultimately suggesting how teachers of composition might use autoethnography as a way of doing critical work.
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DiReeze, Gianna. "Becoming and being a teacher, arts-based narratives of relational knowing, response-ability and resistance." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0023/NQ50047.pdf.
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Rottmann, Cynthia. "Student response to equity issues in teacher education, pushing the boundaries of resistance and transformation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58892.pdf.
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Haerr, Catherine. "Teacher Narratives of Resistance: Maintaining Professional Autonomy within the (Curriculum and) Pedagogy of High-Stakes Testing." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1354218011.
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Kiess, Kolter. "Rhizomatic Resistance: A Pedagogy for Social Transformation." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1248147584.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 26, 2010). Advisor: Masood Raja. Keywords: Rhizomatic; resistance; social transformation; pedagogy; radical; education; literature. Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-161).
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Ibrahim, Eronif. "A case study of Texas regional education service center multicultural/diversity trainers' perception of teacher resistance and structural barriers to multicultural education." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2489.
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Hebling, Milene Cristina. "Memória e resistência: os professores no contexto da ditadura civil-militar (1964-1985)." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2013. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/2681.
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Previous issue date: 2013-04-08Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
This is a study about the resistance of teachers of first and second degree to brazilian military regime. We try to identify which resistance practices were developed by these teachers and understand if they were organized in the individual sphere, as isolated actions of some teachers, or collectively, as an organization of professional category. Beyond that, we are also interested in investigating if this resistance had used the teacher profession as a support, being performed through pedagogical practices, or if it occurred outside the school environment, not presenting a relation, therefore, with the teaching activity. To treat our research object, we used two methodological strategies, which are oral history and documental research. For the realization of oral history, were previously selected eleven teachers who had lectured in primary or secondary school during the civil-military dictatorship. Of this total, six were located and four agreed to participated of the research. We conducted semi-structured interviews, using a predefined questionnaire as a guide, in order to know memories of the participants about the researched topic. The documental research was realized in the collection of the Departamento Estadual de Ordem Política e Social (DEOPS/SP), in order to find documents produced by this politics police organ about the studied teachers. We attribute great relevance to the oral sources obtained, due the possibility they represent of understanding our object of study from the point of view of the involved, i.e., the teachers. This research did not seek to be generalizing, since we do not work with samples, but with specific cases. In the analysis of collected sources, were constructed thematic axes which address different resistance practices developed by the focused teachers and the repression suffered by their actions. These axes are: "Presentation of teachers"; "resistance through the profession: possibilities and limits"; "resistance out of school" and "repression." As result, it can be seen that the participants built, through various practices, resistance to the military regime. Moreover, the opposition performed by these teachers was bounded by the characteristics of the opposition movement of society in general, i.e., the resistance developed by them was integrated into the social and political context in which the country was in each period of civil-military dictatorship.
Esse é um estudo sobre a resistência de professores de primeiro e segundo graus ao regime militar brasileiro. Buscamos identificar quais as práticas de resistência desenvolvidas por tais docentes e compreender se elas foram organizadas na esfera individual, como ações isoladas de alguns professores, ou coletiva, como organização da categoria profissional. Além disso, interessa-nos investigar também se essa resistência utilizou a profissão professor como suporte, sendo realizada por meio das práticas pedagógicas, ou se ocorreu fora do ambiente escolar, não apresentando ligação, portanto, com a atividade docente. Para tratar de nosso objeto de pesquisa, utilizamos duas estratégias metodológicas, quais sejam a história oral e a pesquisa documental. Para a realização da história oral, foram previamente selecionados onze professores que lecionavam no ensino de primeiro ou segundo grau durante a ditadura civil-militar. Desse total, seis foram localizados e quatro aceitaram participar da pesquisa. Realizamos entrevistas semi-estruturadas, utilizando um questionário pré-definido como guia, a fim de conhecer as memórias dos participantes acerca do tema pesquisado. A pesquisa documental foi realizada no acervo do Departamento Estadual de Ordem Política e Social (DEOPS/SP), a fim de localizar documentos produzidos por esse órgão de polícia política sobre os professores estudados. Atribuímos grande relevância às fontes orais obtidas, devido à possibilidade que elas representam de compreender nosso objeto de estudo a partir do ponto de vista dos próprios envolvidos, ou seja, dos professores. A pesquisa não procurou ser generalizante, uma vez que não trabalhamos com amostragens, mas sim com casos específicos. Nas análises das fontes coletadas, foram construídos eixos temáticos que abordam as diferentes práticas de resistência desenvolvidas pelos professores focalizados e a repressão sofrida por suas ações. Estes eixos são: apresentação dos professores ; resistência através da profissão: possibilidades e limites ; resistência fora da escola e repressão . Como resultados, pode-se constatar que os participantes construíram, através de práticas diversas, a resistência ao regime militar. Além disso, a oposição realizada por esses professores foi delimitada pelas características do movimento oposicionista da sociedade em geral, ou seja, a resistência por eles desenvolvida estava integrada no contexto social e político pelo qual o país passava em cada período da ditadura civil-militar.
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Radina, Rachel. "Critical Resistance as an Act of Love: Creating Space for Education as the Practice of Freedom Within Urban Teacher Preparation." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1436179173.
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Majerus, Pamela Marie. "Teacher Perceptions of Common Core-Based Evaluations for Students With Cognitive Impairments." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1415.
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Education reform in schools has focused on inclusion of all students in general education environments and accountability measures. Students with cognitive impairments are mandated to participate in standards-based alternate assessments. Special education teachers in a school district in a southeastern state in this study have been faced with the challenge of implementing these assessments. A bounded case study design was used to examine their perceptions of the use of standards-based alternate assessments for students with cognitive impairments. Guiding research questions focused on the nature and process of implementing alternate assessments. Resistance to change was the conceptual framework. The bounded case included 3 elementary, 1 middle school, and 4 high school special education teachers who have taught students with mild to moderate cognitive disabilities in self-contained classrooms in the district. Teachers were interviewed and data were coded and analyzed for common themes. Results included implementation concerns such as time for administration, scoring issues, lack of usefulness of assessment results, inappropriate expectations for performance, and lack of validity of assessments for cognitively impaired students. Recommendations included decision makers' reconsideration of the procedures for implementation and establishing validity and usefulness of standards-based alternate assessments. Findings in this study reflected teachers' resistance to change, but were informative in providing local decision makers with an opportunity for social change that includes examination of where current policy fails to accommodate students with cognitive impairments and creation of appropriate policy and assessments that actually benefit those students.
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Shultz, Colby Rebekah. "RESISTANCE AS NEGOTIATION: STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR REDEFINING POWER RELATIONSHIPS IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1149196934.
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James, Caleb Acton. "Learning to Teach Locally: A Case Study of Graduate Students' Teaching Philosophies and Classroom Practices." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1493981597133484.
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Rapley, Eve. ""Taking the path of least resistance" : a constructivist grounded theory of H.E. teacher practice enactments at a UK landbased college." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622834.
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Landbased Studies Foundation and Bachelor degrees (FD and BSc) are generally taught in specialist FE landbased colleges, with teachers typically teaching both FE (Ofqual RQF Levels 0–3) and HE (Ofqual RQF Levels 4–6). Such teachers are designated in the literature as being HE in FE (Higher Education in Further Education) or CBHE (College Based Higher Education) teachers. Using a single case study landbased college, this study adopts a qualitative, naturalistic methodology using intensive interviewing and classroom observations of six Animal, Equine and Veterinary Nursing Studies HE in FE teachers. Characterised as an under-represented group within UK education research, these teachers teach both HE and FE within a small, UK landbased college. The study examines the nature of HE teacher pedagogic practice enactments, and factors which enable and constrain them within an FE college environment. Conceived within a interpretivist socio-constructivist framework, this study is influenced by the anti-dualist social philosophy of Practice Theory (PT) whereby people, places and material objects all contribute to how practice is enacted. Rather than considering material artefacts to be merely background objects and a college being simply an inert container where teaching takes place, a sensitivity to Practice Theory considers the FE context, material aspects and teacher pedagogic practices as a whole, rather than from one or other side of the structure versus agency divide. Within this study a particular variant of Practice Theory, Practice Architectures (PA) (Kemmis and Grootenboer, 2008), has been used to sensitise the study. The study adopts a Constructivist Grounded Theory (CGT) approach as a means of exploring a neglected and under-theorised area of Post-Compulsory education. The CGT methodology influenced and guided the research design and interpretive data iv analysis. Using purposive sampling of teacher participants, theoretical sampling, and the iterative cycles of constant comparison associated with Grounded Theory (GT), the data was used to construct four key categories. From these categories three main theoretical themes were identified from the data; Surveillance and Control, Teacher Identity and Agency, and Pedagogic Risk Aversion. The interpretive analysis suggests that HE pedagogic practice enactments are influenced and constrained by the college as a site, by its management, and by the wider neoliberal landscape of surveillance and auditing, as well as by the teachers themselves, the HE students, and material, non-human physical spaces and artefacts. The resultant HE pedagogic practice enactments are risk averse, tending towards instrumentalism and teacher-centeredness. The final CGT theoretically accounts for the HE practice enactments of the HE in FE teachers at the college and is discussed in relation to HE in FE literature, and to a number of pertinent theories within and beyond education. The CGT contributes to an enhanced understanding of HE teacher pedagogic practice enactments, and has potential for generalisability beyond the specific college. The original contributions to knowledge consists of: devising a novel methodology whereby PT/PA and CGT are articulated; adding to the body of literature for HE in FE pedagogy; and adding to the pauce corpus of literature for landbased education.
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Sarsilmaz, Defne. ""I am a Teacher, a Woman's Activist, and a Mother": Political Consciousness and Embodied Resistance in Antakya's Arab Alawite Community." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3542.
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Often pointed to as the region’s model secular state, Turkey provides an instructive case study in how nationalism, in the name of conjuring ‘unity’, often produces the opposite effect. Indeed, the production of nationalism can create fractures amongst, as well as politicize, certain segments of a population, such as minority groups and women. This dissertation examines the long-term and present-day impacts on nationalist unity of a largely understudied event, the annexation of the border-city of Antakya from Syria in 1939, and its implications on the Arab Alawite population. In doing so, it deconstructs the dominant Turkish narrative on the annexation, rewrites the narrative drawing on oral history from the ground, and it shows how nation-building is a masculinist project that relies on powerfully gendered language through studying the national archives. The heart of the project, however, remains the investigation of the political, social, and religious subjectivity of Arab Alawite women, with an emphasis on resistance to the structures and practices sustained by the state and patriarchy.
The Arab Alawites, once numerically dominant in the Antakya region, are now an ethno-religious minority group within the Turkish/Sunni-dominated state structure. Although Antakya was the last territory to join Turkey in 1939, ever since that time many of its Alawites have resisted assimilation through covert, yet peaceful, methods. Through this research, I show that a multiplicity of forces have increased the politicization of the Antiochian Alawite community and broadened their demands upon the Turkish state. My research highlights Alawite women’s leadership as a key driver of this process, thanks to the large-scale out migration of Alawite men, the increased socio-economic independence of Alawite women, and the perception of more progressive gender ideals being held by the members of this Muslim sect, when compared to those of nearby Sunni Turkish women.
This dissertation relies on a postcolonial and feminist geopolitical analysis of the Turkish nationalist project to examine how the Turkish state has historically viewed Antakya and the Arab Alawites and how, in return, the experience and collective social and political memory of Alawites was formed. By utilizing innovative methodologies, this research shows how Alawite women are resisting/rewriting/reconfiguring political and social structures through everyday actions that shift the discourse on minorities and women on local and national scales.
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Weggelaar, Cristy Lauren. ""It's All Because I Like the Person That's Teaching Me": Masculinities, Engagement, and Caring Relationships in Secondary Schools." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5007.
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U.S. schools face a well-documented gender gap within some important educational and social indicators. In the United States, boys and young men are significantly more likely than girls and young women to be diagnosed with a learning disability, leave high school without a diploma, receive failing grades in core classes, and be suspended or expelled from school. This study uses an interpretive research framework to investigate the relationship between this gender gap in education and constructions of masculinity, social and cultural capital, agency, caring and resistance in secondary schools. Data collected through interviews with young men who engaged in acts of resistance against schooling yielded three major findings. First, some acts of resistance provided the participants with a means to ease the tedium and stress of academic work and enhance social capital among their male peers. Second, some acts of resistance provided participants with a means to regain personal agency when they felt either marginalized by an oppressive system or generally rejected, ignored, or alienated from the formal schooling environment. Finally, participants expressed an appreciation for authentic relationships with their teachers and stated that they were less likely to engage in acts of resistance with teachers who nurtured authentic caring relationships in the classroom.
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Phillips, Jean. "Resisting contradictions : non-Indigenous pre-service teacher responses to critical Indigenous studies." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/46071/1/Donna_Phillips_Thesis.pdf.
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The study examines non-Indigenous pre-service teacher responses to the authorisation of Indigenous knowledge perspectives in compulsory Indigenous studies with a primary focus on exploring the nature and effects of resistance. It draws on the philosophies of the Japanangka teaching and research paradigm (West, 2000), relationship theory (Graham, 1999), Indigenist methodologies and decolonisation approaches to examine this resistance. A Critical Indigenist Study was employed to investigate how non-Indigenous pre-service teachers managed their learning, and how they articulated shifts in resistance as they progressed through their studies. This study explains resistance to compulsory Indigenous and how it can be targeted by Indigenist Standpoint Pedagogy. The beginning transformations in pre-service teacher positioning in relation to Australian history, contemporary educational practice, and professional identity was also explored.
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Jensen, Filip, Daniel Åström, and Freddy Jakobsen. "Motstånd till förändring." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-24574.
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The aim of this study is to compare attitudes to change among innovation and economics students and teachers at one of the universities in Sweden.Data about students’ and teachers’ attitudes to change was gathered using a survey.Keeping in mind that knowledge can lower ones resistance this study is based on a hypothesis that individuals from the innovations program have a lower resistance to change. The study is also based on earlier research in regards to comparisons between students and teachers.The results of the study show that teachers have less resistance to change than students. Individuals in the innovation program are however less resistant to change than individuals in the economics program.One can discuss whether or not results of the study show that the hypothesis is correct.The difference between individuals in the economics- and the innovation program are statistically significant and has moderate effects in reality. The differences between teachers and students are statistically significant but only have a small effect.It is however a starting-point for future studies that will possibly explore the subject more profoundly.Målet med den studien är att jämföra attityder mot förändring hos studenter och lärare på Innovationsprogrammet och Ekonomprogrammet på en högskola i Sverige.Data om attityder mot förändring hos lärare och studenter på båda program samlades in med hjälp av en enkätstudie.Med tanken om att kunskap kan minska ens motstånd utgår studien från en hypotes om att individer inom innovationsprogrammet har lägre motstånd till förändring. Studien utgår även från tidigare studier när det gäller jämförelser mellan studenter och lärare.Resultat av studien visar att lärarna är mer benägna till förändring än studenterna. Däremot visar individerna på Innovationsprogrammet mindre motstånd till förändring än individerna på Ekonomprogrammet.Man kan diskutera om resultaten har visat att hypoteserna är rätt eller inte. Skillnaden mellan individer på Innovationsprogrammet och Ekonomprogrammet är statistiskt signifikant och har en moderat effekt i verkligheten. Skillnaden mellan studenterna och lärarna är statistiskt signifikant men har endast en liten effekt.Resultaten kan däremot vara en utgångspunkt för vidare, mer djupgående forskning.
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Gay, Ronald L. "Exploring Barriers to Implementing a School-Wide Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support Program." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2069.
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This study examined factors related to the implementation of a School Wide Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support (SWPBIS) program at a large middle school in the United States. Parent Teacher Student Association volunteers at the school reported that teacher fidelity to implementation of SWPBIS activities was inconsistent, threatening the SWPBIS program's effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers that hindered teachers' fidelity in implementing SWPBIS. Teacher resistance to change, change leadership framework, and the model for effective professional development were used in this case study to explore the perceptions of 16 participants. The research questions focused on teachers', SWPBIS coaches', and administrators' perceptions and experiences with barriers to implementing SWPBIS in the third year of implementation (2013-2014). Emergent themes derived from coding participant interviews revealed 7 major barriers to teacher implementation fidelity including confusion about priorities, peer and student influences, philosophical differences, and weaknesses in leadership and professional development. The interview data were triangulated with data from archived documents to ensure the credibility of the study. A project recommendation for 6 professional development modules was made to address study findings. Positive social change implications include the efficacy of using the project study as an example for other schools to improve teacher effectiveness by responding to teacher weaknesses and facilitating improved student outcomes.
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Paraguassú, Alita Carvalho Miranda. "O discurso da desistência do professor: estratégia de resistência e governo de si mesmo." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6888.
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This thesis, titled, The abandonment discours of the teacher: strategy of resistance and selfgovernment aims to understand the discursive elaboration of the subject-teacher who, because of being affected by the diseases of work, chooses to give up the profession. The saying of abandonment participates in the teacher's identity constitution. We study abandonment through the discursive manifestations that materialize the desire or the need to leave the educational sphere in defense of the teacher's own body. These discursive manifestations are understood, in fact, as strategies of problematization and recreation of school practices and school space. In the recognition of oneself through the discourse, the teachers carry out practices of self-government, being possible the fight against certain forms of subjectivation. Our work is based on Discourse Analysis with Foucaultian bias. Thus, are resumed at work the foucaultian concepts that allow the reading of the participant reality of the discourse of abandonemnt. There are also reflections about doing research in school, both in relation to the instruments used, the differences between qualitative and quantitative research and the relationship between the academy and the school, or the researcher and the subject researched. For the data collect were used a questionnaire, answered by 91 teachers, field notes elaborated in the observation of 10 schools and interviews with 3 teachers, named by us as confessions; being that the interviews are considered in this work the most relevant data in terms of deepening the relationship between the subject and his discourse, between discourse and social practices. From the readings in Foucault (1990, 1993, 2007b, 2010c, 2011), confession is understood as a practice of subjectivation in which the confessor authenticates in himself the truth about himself, his emotions and his thoughts. If in the Middle Ages confession was materialized by the way of interrogation in an imperative way, in modernity the confession takes on a reflexive and paradoxical character, since it frees the subject to correlate with its truth, while imprisoning it to an identity . Far from being just the place of secret, confession is a form of social control of subjectivities, because confession provides a qualification and normalization of thoughts and desires. To confess is an act of conducting oneself in the attempt to establish a veridiction of oneself. When confessing the desire to give up, teachers walk verbally to meet their own being-teacher, reflecting on their pedagogical practices and the conjuncture surrounding the school environment, from training in undergraduate courses to the naturalness of cursing into classroom. The discourse of giving up works as a way of finding oneself in the passage between the past, the present and the future.
Esta tese, intitulada, O discurso da desistência do professor: estratégia de resistência e governo de si mesmo tem como objetivo compreender a elaboração discursiva do sujeitoprofessor que, por ser acometido pelas doenças do trabalho, opta por desistir da profissão. O dizer a desistência participa da constituição identitária do professor. Estudamos a desistência por meio das manifestações discursivas que materializam o desejo ou a necessidade de deixar a esfera educacional em defesa do próprio corpo do docente. Essas manifestações discursivas são compreendidas, de fato, como estratégias de problematização e recriação das práticas escolares e do espaço escolar. No reconhecimento de si mesmo através do discurso, os professores realizam práticas de governo de si, sendo possível a luta contra certas formas de subjetivação. Nosso trabalho é pautado pela Análise de Discurso com viés Foucaultiano.Assim, são retomados no trabalho os conceitos foucaultianos que permitiram a leitura da realidade participante do discurso da desistência. São feitas também reflexões sobre o fazer pesquisa na escola, tanto em relação aos instrumentos utilizados, às diferenças entre pesquisas qualitativas e quantitativas e à relação entre a academia e a escola, ou o pesquisador e o sujeito pesquisado. Para a coleta de dados foram utilizados um questionário, respondido por 91 professores, notas de campo elaboradas na observação de 10 escolas e entrevistas realizadas com 3 professoras, nomeadas por nós como confissões; sendo que as entrevistas são consideradas neste trabalho os dados de maior relevância em termos de aprofundamento da relação entre o sujeito e seu discurso, entre o discurso e as práticas sociais. A partir das leituras em Foucault (1990, 1993, 2007b, 2010c, 2011), a confissão é compreendida como uma prática de subjetivação em que o confitente autentica em si mesmo a verdade sobre si, sobre suas emoções e seus pensamentos. Se na Idade Média a confissão era materializada pela via do interrogatório de modo imperativo, na modernidade a confissão assume um caráter reflexivo e paradoxal, posto que libera o sujeito para correlacionar-se com a sua verdade, ao passo em que o aprisiona a uma identidade. Longe de ser apenas o lugar do segredo, a confissão é uma forma de controle social das subjetividades, pois a confissão propicia uma qualificação e normalização dos pensamentos e dos desejos. O confessar é um ato de conduzir-se na tentativa de estabelecer uma veridicção de si mesmo. Ao confessar o desejo de desistência os professores caminham verbalmente ao encontro de seu próprio serprofessor, refletindo sobre suas práticas pedagógicas e a conjuntura que envolve o ambiente escolar, desde a formação nos cursos de licenciatura à naturalidade do xingamento em sala de aula. O discurso da desistência acaba por funcionar como uma maneira de encontrar-se consigo mesmo na passagem entre o passado, o presente e o futuro.