Evaluation of the Outreach School Garden Project: Building the capacity of two Indigenous remote school communities to integrate nutrition into the core school curriculum

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonietta Viola
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Joana Elisa Röwer ◽  
Annie Ribeiro Madeira

As reflexões aqui marcadas surgem a partir das experiências vividas nos estágios supervisionados do curso de Licenciatura em Sociologia, realizados em escolas de ensino secundário de tempo integral em municípios do Maciço do Baturité, cujos projetos pedagógicos contemplam o currículo integrado. O artigo tem como objetivo analisar a efetivação da componente curricular Núcleo de Trabalho, Pesquisa e Práticas Sociais (NTPPS) no currículo da escola, a partir das percepções dos professores. O embasamento teórico retoma a discussão sobre o entendimento do conceito de currículo através de autores como Silva (2010), Macedo (2007) e Moreira et al. (2012), que consideram o currículo como construção histórica e defendem o modelo de educação pautada nos preceitos democráticos. A pesquisa de caráter qualitativo teve como instrumento de coleta de dados questionários aplicados aos professores da escola. Os resultados apontam que um currículo guiado pela democracia e liberdade não só emancipa a pessoa, mas também traz as melhores formas para a aprendizagem. O NTPPS na sua atuação com as novas práticas escolares, de formação integral, tem essa intencionalidade. De certa forma, as disputas políticas marcadas nesse campo, muitas vezes, condicionam a aplicação de um currículo construído de forma centralizada, mas que possibilita considerações/transformações a partir da instituição escolar.Palavras-chave: Currículo. Escola secundária. NTPPS.NTPPS in the curriculum of integral time average education: an analysis from the perception of the teachers of a school in the municipality of Redenção/CEABSTRACTThe reflections we have here emerge from the experiences of the supervised stages of the degree course in Sociology, held in full-time secondary schools in the municipalities of the Baturité Massif, whose pedagogical project contemplates the integrated curriculum. The article aims to analyze the effectiveness of the Core Work, Research and Social Practices (NTPPS) curricular component in the school curriculum based on the teachers’ perceptions. The theoretical background retakes the discussion about the understanding of the concept of curriculum through authors like Silva (2010); Macedo (2007); and Moreira et al. (2012), in the understanding of the curriculum as historical construction and in the perspective of defending the model of education based on democratic precepts. The research of qualitative character had as instrument of data collection questionnaires, applied to the teachers of the school. The results indicate that a curriculum cataloged in democracy and freedom not only emancipates the person, but also, it brings the best forms for learning, especially NTPPS in its action with the new practices in schools. In a way, the political disputes marked in this field often condition the application of a curriculum based on the cultures of the communities in which the school institution is inserted.Keywords: Curriculum. High school. NTPPS.NTPPS en el currículo de la enseñanza medio de tiempo integral: un análisis a partir de la percepción de los profesores de una escuela del municipio de Redención / CERESUMENLas reflexiones aquí marcadas surgen a partir de las experiencias vividas en las etapas supervisadas del curso de Licenciatura en Sociología, realizadas en escuelas de enseñanza media de tiempo completo en municipios del Macizo del Baturité, cuyos proyectos pedagógicos contemplan el currículo integrado. El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la efectividad del componente curricular Núcleo de Trabajo, Investigación y Prácticas Sociales (NTPPS) en el currículo de la escuela a partir de las percepciones de los profesores. La base teórica retoma la discusión sobre el entendimiento del concepto de currículo a través de autores como Silva (2010); Macedo (2007); y, Moreira et al. (2012), en la comprensión del currículo como construcción histórica y en la perspectiva de la defensa del modelo de la educación pautada en los preceptos democráticos. La investigación de carácter cualitativo tuvo como instrumento de recolección de datos cuestionarios, aplicados a los profesores de la escuela. Los resultados apuntan que un currículo pautado en la democracia y la libertad no sólo emancipa a la persona, sino que también trae las mejores formas para el aprendizaje. El NTPPS en su actuación con las nuevas prácticas escolares, de formación integral, tiene esa intencionalidad. En cierta forma, las disputas políticas marcadas en este campo, muchas veces condicionan la aplicación de un currículo construido de forma centralizada, pero que posibilita consideraciones / transformaciones a partir de la institución escolar.Palabras clave: Currículo. Escuela secundaria. NTPPS.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 9-25
Author(s):  
Maria Kwiatkowska‑Ratajczak

The author undertakes the topic of the Polish language education undergoing constant reform. She refers to the fact that the reformers disregard established didactic conclusions and take into account neither the students’ needs nor the subjectivity of both young people and teachers. She indicates restrictions imposed on the spheres of school leeway and, at the same time, the expansion of the prescribed duties. Additionally, she points to the school curriculum overload. While underscoring the flaws of the literary mandatory readings’ chronological ordering, she elucidates that the contemporary perspective, which have been introduced in teaching, is largely ostensible. What she proves is that editors of new Polish language school books simply multiple requirements towards teenage students and their humanist formation. She denies the purposefulness of teaching multitude of terms to students, and reminds us that such a rote learning trains memory but does not teach one how to think. She describes the petrification of knowledge of language and omission of communicative learning, which both stem from the core curriculum and the conservatism of handbooks. She is convinced that what is genuinely important may transpire at school outside the core curriculum and the scope of school books.


2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Anita Lie ◽  

The Second Vatican Council cautioned regarding the increasing secularization of Westem societies that the greatest error of our age is the separation between faith and life. Through its history of the kingdoms of Buddhism and Hinduism, 350 years of Westem colonization and growth of Islam, Indonesia claims to place religion in high regard. Citizens are obligated to proclaim one ofthe six recognized religions. All schools allocate four hours of religious teaching weekly. Critics doubt that the teaching of religion in schools will help solve problems. Corruption is rampant and ethnic-reliigious conflicts are increasing despite the people's claim as a religious nation. The challenge, then, is to integrate religious and character education into the core as well as hidden curriculum and teach students to nurture their faith and moral sense throughout their schooling. This essay explores how religious and character education in the school curriculum endeavors to prepare young people to enhance their intellectual capabilities and form them to be people of faith and character.


Author(s):  
Wayne Ross

Social studies education has had a turbulent history as one of the core subjects in the school curriculum. The fundamental content of the social studies curriculum – the study of human enterprise across space and time –however, has always been at the core of educational endeavors. It is generally accepted that the formal introduction of social studies to the school curriculum was instigated by the 1916 report of the National Education Association’s Committee on Social Studies, which emphasized development of citizenship values as a core aim of history and social science education. Earlier commissions of the N.E.A. and American Historical Association heavily influenced the Committee on Social Studies recommendations. The roots of the contemporary social studies curriculum, therefore, can be traced to two distinct curriculum reform efforts: the introduction of academic history into the curriculum and citizenship education. There is widespread agreement that the aim of social studies is citizenship education, that is the preparation of young people so that they possess the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for active participation in society. This apparent consensus, however, has been described as almost meaningless because social studies educators continue to be at odds over curricular content as well as the conception of what it means to be a good citizen. Since its formal introduction into the school, social studies curriculum been the subject of numerous commission and blue-ribbon panel studies, ranging from the sixteen-volume report of the American Historical Association’s Commission on Social Studies in the 1930s to the more recent movement for national curriculum standards. Separate and competing curriculum standards have been published for no less than seven areas of that are part of the social studies curriculum: United States and global history, economics, geography, civics, psychology, and social studies. Social studies curriculum is defined a lack of consensus and has been an ideological battleground with ongoing debates over its nature, purpose, and content. Historically there have been a diverse range of curricular programs that have been a prominent within social studies education at various times, including the life adjustment movement, progressive education, social reconstructionism, and nationalistic history. The debate over the nature, purpose, and content of the social studies curriculum continues today, with competing groups variously arguing for a social issues approach, the disciplinary study of history and geography, or action for social justice as the most appropriate framework for the social studies curriculum.


2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy T. Campbell

[T]each the law to empower physicians individually and collectively to use the law and law colleagues to serve patients and promote public welfare; in short to better foster the goals of the medical profession.And yet:[A]ntipathy appears to be deeper and more pervasive than ever before, making it hard to imagine that relations between attorneys and physicians can get much worse.It has long been recognized that an understanding of at least some core legal rules and concepts is an important piece of medical training. To address this, law is now typically part of the core medical school curriculum, often incorporated into bioethics and/or practice of medicine coursework — whether as part of a distinct course or series of courses or threaded through the curriculum (or both). While often this education focuses on rules, some have recommended that it also include fundamentals of legal reasoning, and go beyond knowledge to include skills, attitudes, and behaviors vis-à-vis the law.


2020 ◽  
pp. 105268462098035
Author(s):  
Justin V. Benna ◽  
Elyse Hambacher

In this article, we draw on the literature on trust to examine how elementary school principals make sense of superintendent trustworthiness. We examine trust in the context of the principal–superintendent relationship because it is the “social glue” needed for effective professional relationships where student learning and success is at the core. We used purposeful sampling and conducted fifteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews with five elementary school principals. Drawing on constructivist grounded theory guidelines, we describe the principals’ foundations of superintendent trustworthiness, including how they conceptualize trust, the importance of superintendent competence, and shared values between both parties. Participants viewed trust as a reciprocal two-way path, requiring vulnerability from both parties and occurring over time. The experiences of the five participants are helpful for principals and superintendents who wish to strengthen trust relations for the purposes of their leadership and for creating healthy, thriving school communities.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annique van der Boon ◽  
Andrew J. Biggin ◽  
Greig A. Paterson ◽  
Janine L. Kavenagh

Abstract. Paleomagnetism is a relatively unknown part of Earth sciences that is not well integrated into the school curriculum in the United Kingdom. Throughout recent years, there has been a decline in the number of Earth science students in the UK. In 2018 and 2019, we developed outreach activities and resources to introduce the scientifically-engaged general public to paleomagnetism and raise awareness of how geomagnetism affects society today, thus putting paleomagnetism, and Earth sciences, in the spotlight. We tested our ideas at local events that were visited mostly by families with small children, with tens to hundreds of participants. Our project culminated in the ‘Magnetic to the Core’ stand at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in 2019, which is visited by members of the general public as well as students and teachers, scientists, policymakers and the media. At this event, we communicated the fundamentals of paleomagnetism through hands-on experiments and presented our recent research advances in a fun and family friendly way. To test the impact of our exhibit on knowledge of paleomagnetism and Earth’s magnetic field on visitors, we designed an interactive quiz and collected results from 382 participants over 8 days. The results show an increase in score of 19.1 % between those who had not yet visited the stand to those who had visited for more than 10 minutes. The results from school-age respondents alone show a larger increase in score of 28.1 % between those who had not yet visited and those who had spent more than 10 minutes at the stand. These findings demonstrate that this outreach event was successful in impacting visitors’ learning. We hope our Magnetic to the Core project can serve as an inspiration for other Earth science laboratories looking to engage a wide audience and measure the success and impact of their outreach activities.


2021 ◽  
pp. 004947552110343
Author(s):  
Sai Arathi Parepalli ◽  
Archith Kamath ◽  
Roba Khundkar

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document