scholarly journals Conceptions of Students about Creativity and Mathematical Creativity: Two Cases Studies in Vocational Education

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (21) ◽  
pp. 1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldina Rodrigues ◽  
Paula Catarino ◽  
Ana Paula Aires ◽  
Helena Campos
Keyword(s):  
Young Person ◽  
Mathematical Creativity ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Compulsory Schooling ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
State Schools ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Do So

Given the diversity of meanings nowadays, creativity and mathematical creativity are difficult to define. However, it is crucial to do so, whether in society, in education or in mathematics education. Creativity is not valued as an integral part of the classroom context of mathematics or in Teacher practice, possibly due to the constant changes of Portuguese curricular. In this sense, it is necessary to promote the development of creativity as an integral part of the pedagogical practice of each teacher. The teacher’s role is fundamental to allow students opportunities to use the didactical resources, such as the mathematical tasks. In the 21st century, creativity and mathematical creativity have become important in Portuguese curricula through the implementation of the Students Profile in the end of compulsory schooling. This profile appeals to the development of creativity regarding of values, competences and guiding Principles, in order to mobilize schools and society for a better education. It is desirable that a young person, after leaving compulsory schooling, becomes a citizen capable of thinking critically, autonomously and creatively. Thus, in order to look for creative teaching approaches and strategies for the mathematical contents, it was decided to question students on the alluded concepts. This research took place in the academic year 2017/2018, with 14 participants aged between 15 and 21 years old (mean ages M = 17.36 and DP = 1.82) of two classes from one group of Portuguese state schools. The methodology was qualitative and interpretative, using a multiple case study design, one in a 10th grade class and another in a 12th. In data processing related to the analysis of the written documents, content analysis was used, and examples that represent each category were presented. The results achieved indicated, for these participants, that conceptions of creativity and mathematical creativity were not divergent in the two cases. In fact, the participants associated creativity with the category of Create something new and different and mathematical creativity with the category of Innovation.

scholarly journals Students’ Length Measuring Estimation Skills Related to The Daily Life Objects

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ömer F. Çetin ◽  
◽  
Himmet Akkuşçi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Seventh Graders ◽  
Class Level ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
State Schools

This research aims to explore the secondary school sixth and seventh graders’ length measuring estimation skills developing activities related to the daily life objects. The study is in a qualitative multiple case study model. The universe of the research consisted of the sixth and seventh graders. The sample of the research consisted of 85 students, who were studying at a secondary school in sixth and seventh classes in 2 (two) state schools determined with the purposive sampling method in the 2018-2019 educational year. The maximum variety was ensured for the class level, gender, and mathematics achievement scores; voluntariness for the easily accessible situation. The data were obtained with the scales and semi-structured interview forms prepared during the research process and analyzed descriptively. The research results suggest that the length measuring estimation skills of the secondary school sixth and seventh graders relevant to the daily life objects can be developed with the activities that will develop the students’ prior knowledge and skills.

What We Do Online Everyday

2010 ◽  
pp. 282-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith C. Lapadat ◽  
Maureen L. Atkinson ◽  
Willow I. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Young Person ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Digital Fingerprint ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter addresses the collaborative participatory nature of online interactivity within the range of social networking spaces afforded by Web 2.0 (O’Reilly, 2005). Each individual, through his or her situated usage patterns and choices, creates a unique digital fingerprint or electronic biography. Using a multiple case study method including children and youth ranging in age from five to fifteen years of age, the authors examined children’s online interactivity through their electronic biographies. This case report focuses on the children’s experiences of online interaction as a seamless component of their literacy (Thomas, 2007) and presents a profile of each young person that characterizes his or her unique online fingerprint. The findings provide insight into how children learn online interactivity, and their communities of practice at different stages of development. Their roles ranged from passive surfer-viewer-seekers to interactive discussant-displayer-players. Infrequently, some youth showed proactive leadership as host-builder-creators. The experiences of these young people provide practical evidence of the transformation of literacy; for them, the Internet serves as an information resource, a collaborative medium, and a design environment (Lapadat, Atkinson, & Brown, 2009). Narrative plays a key role online, especially in the construction of identity. The results of this study have implications for educators, parents, social scientists, and policy makers, and in particular, raise concerns about the commodification of childhood and how commercial interests have shaped sites used by children.

Students' Management of Goals in the Natural Classroom Setting: Methodological Implications

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 198-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Serra de Lemos ◽  
Teresa Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Action Orientation ◽  
Action Sequence ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Goal Management ◽  
Multiple Case

The conceptualization of goals as projects of person-environment relationships emphasizes the mutual influences of individuals and situations. This interactionistic view leads to a focus goal research on current behavior in proximal contexts. Moreover, within the real classroom context, as students encounter situations implying new demands and new opportunities, diverse and multiple goals are potentially elicited. Exploring these assumptions, the present study examined the strategies that students use to deal with multiple goals during ongoing classroom activities. Instead of valuing behavioral and phenomenological approaches as alternative models, we used both observed behavior and reported intentions viewed as representing two different levels of action, to allow a more comprehensive understanding of students' strategies. This approach is consistent with a contextualized view of action orientation, and with a view of goal-directed behavior as hierarchically organized ( Frese & Stewart, 1984 , Silbereisen & Eyferth, 1986 ; Volpert, 1982 ). To this effect, in a multiple case study of eight (6th-grade) students, methods included (a) videotaping, and interpretation of the student's actual behavior (the researcher perspective) in natural classroom settings, and (b) semi-structured interviews regarding the student's individual purposes (subjective perspective) for those activities. Results revealed diverse forms of goal management such as the automatization of certain action-orientations and the monitoring of action emergence and duration. Moreover, results illuminated the function of certain goals within the overall action sequence.

scholarly journals Implementing CLIL in Schools: The Case of the GoCLIL Project in Portugal

e-TEALS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Ellison ◽  
Álvaro Almeida Santos
Keyword(s):  
Educational Approach ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Rich Description ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Grassroots Initiatives ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The University ◽  
State Schools ◽  
Academic Year

Abstract Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), an educational approach in which an additional language is used to teach school subjects, has become increasingly widespread within state schools across Europe since the acronym was coined in the mid-nineties. This now includes Portugal where CLIL activity across educational levels has been growing in recent years. Like other national contexts in Europe, this has also been through the grassroots initiatives of individual schools keen to influence positive change in educational practices and reap the benefits which CLIL is purported to bring about. One such case is the GoCLIL project at Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves in Valadares, Vila Nova de Gaia, which has been operating a CLIL programme through English since the academic year 2013-2014. This article outlines fundamentals of implementing CLIL in schools and provides an overview of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of the case. It uses data collected from questionnaires administered to teachers, pupils and parents, lesson observations, pupil focus groups, and teacher reflections obtained during the ongoing monitoring process led by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. The data contribute to the rich description of the project from which it has been possible to identify and compare findings across years, as well as factors which have contributed to its sustainability. Insights gained from this case study will be interesting and potentially useful for schools which are considering setting up a project of this kind.

APPROPRIATION AND APPROPRIABILITY IN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

2005 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 259-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
LINUS DAHLANDER
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Innovative Process ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
First Mover ◽  
Do So

Firms in open source software (OSS) are active in a field encompassing all the characteristics of a public good, given the non-excludability and non-rivalry nature of OSS. The fact that many important inputs to the innovative process are public should not be taken to mean that innovators are prevented from capturing private returns. The objective of this paper is to explore how firms appropriate returns from innovations that are created outside the boundaries of firms and in the public domain, using the case of OSS. To do so, the paper draws upon an explorative multiple case study of five small firms that attempt to appropriate returns from OSS, with rich empirical evidence from various data sources. The cases illustrate how firms try a variety of approaches to appropriate adequate returns, and suggest that selling services is the dominant trend. Firms also balance the relative inefficiency of traditional means of intellectual property rights such as patents by putting greater emphasis on first-mover advantages and creating network externalities.

scholarly journals A construção da identidade profissional do professor cooperante de Educação Física [The construction of the Physical Education cooperating teacher’s professional identity]

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Mariana Cunha ◽  
Paula Batista ◽  
Amândio Graça
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Teaching Perspectives ◽  
Pedagogical Relationships ◽  
Supervisory Practices ◽  
Academic Year

This research focuses on the construction of the supervising teaching practice professional identity of the cooperating teacher. To this end, it explored the discourses on the teaching practices and teacher education experiences; the legitimate participation in teacher education and working spaces; and the teaching perspectives that substantiate the pedagogical relationships and learning trajectories in the context of professional practice. A case study was conducted to examine the narratives of cooperating teachers, an experienced and a beginner on the supervisory roles and tasks of the pedagogical practice of Physical Education pre-service teachers during an academic year. Data were gathered through interviews. The qualitative inductive thematic analysis was informed by grounded theory coding procedures. Themes included: i) challenges in interacting with the pre- service teachers; and ii) challenges in the (re)configuration of the supervisory practices. The reconstruction of the cooperating teacher’s professional identity happens in the doing of their roles, the confrontation with the challenges encountered, the negotiation of interactions with the pre-service teachers, and the implementation of teaching perspectives that inform their practices and pedagogical supervision relations.

scholarly journals Critical Aspects of the Innovation Management: the cases Natura and Oxiteno

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-19
Author(s):  
Sheila Serafim da Silva ◽  
Eduardo Pinheiro Gondim de Vasconcellos ◽  
Murilo Alvarenga Oliveira ◽  
Renata Giovinazzo Spers
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Innovation Projects ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Critical Aspects ◽  
Do So

This study has as its objective to analyze the critical aspects of the innovation management in terms of structure, strategy and processes of innovation of the Natura and Oxiteno companies. In order to do so, the study reviewed the literature about innovation management, strategies and processes of innovation. A multiple case study was adopted for the Natura and Oxiteno cases. As their data, instrument documents were obtained and interviews were made with managers and researchers working with innovation in both companies. A qualitative approach for the proposed problem was also utilized. The result highlighted similarities and differences within the structures and strategies of how innovation is developed inside and outside each company and their own innovation processes. In the case of Natura, the innovation funnel and technology funnel were used, whereas, in the case of Oxiteno, the innovation funnel and technology silos. Natura was distinguished for their model of open innovation, within the network, and for its sustainability culture. On the other hand, Oxiteno stood out for the freedom it gave to researchers to propose innovation projects. The study presented contributions to the organizations and academia by indicating some limitations in their development processes, as well as suggestions for further studies.

Verifying practical design on furniture industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 881-894
Author(s):  
Edu Grieco Mazzine Junior ◽  
Elpidio Oscar Benitez Nara ◽  
Liane Mahlmann Kipper ◽  
Julio Cezar Mairesse Siluk ◽  
Graciele Rediske
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
New Products ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Do So

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw a picture on the reality of furniture industries in relation to management practices for project design of new products. Design/methodology/approach – In order to do so it was developed a multiple case study in three companies of the sector located in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. This study was based on verification criteria focussing on project’s lifecycle. Findings – As a result, it was possible to detect major faults from the organizations examined, it was found that processes are analyzed in a non-formalized and non-standardized way and, thus, restricting the integration of the projective stages, which reduced the quality of the final product. Originality/value – From the results obtained in the multiple case study, it was possible to propose actions managerial characteristics that demonstrate the process of design of new products as a result of an operational standard, integrated with the management practices of the organization.

scholarly journals Too Young to Know? A Multiple Case Study of Child-to-Parent Intergenerational Learning in Relation to Environmental Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-77
Author(s):  
Jane Spiteri
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Intergenerational Learning ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Conversational Interviews ◽  
State Schools

Little is known about child-to-parent intergenerational learning for environmental sustainability. This qualitative multiple case study research investigated how young Maltese children (aged three to seven years) influence their parents’ pro-environmental actions. Participants included 12 children and 10 parents. Data were collected via observations in one household and two state schools, conversational interviews with children, children’s drawings and their interpretations of them, children’s photograph interpretations, semi-structured interviews with parents and document analysis. Findings revealed that most parents were influenced by their children’s requests to engage in pro-environmental actions, which in turn they had learned about as part of the Eco-Schools programme. Additionally, some parents regarded their children as having agency in discussing environmental issues and strived to empower them in acquiring environmental stewardship skills, but others did not. These findings provide insight into young children’s direct and indirect abilities to influence adults’ actions towards environmental sustainability.

Being wrong the right way: A multiple case study of three transmasculine persons’ experience with the Danish health system

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-587
Author(s):  
Sabina Pultz ◽  
Eva Goldfinger
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Treatment System ◽  
Danish Health ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Strategic Resource ◽  
Traditional Masculinity ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So

This article examines how three transmasculine persons are subjectified in the Danish treatment system. Based on a multiple case study with three transmasculine persons, we analyse how the treatment system encourages them to perform a more traditional masculinity in order to be culturally intelligible and in order to be assessed as being eligible for treatment. We explore the struggle of subjectivity embedded in these practices. By investigating the concrete subjectification mechanisms and the ways these are dealt with by transmasculine persons, we support existing literature identifying the queer community as a strategic resource in regard to teaching new patients how to “be wrong the right way.” They do so by sharing knowledge about how best to manage the system in order to get closer to living the lives they want. The study contributes theoretically by shedding light on the subjectification processes producing not only boundaries between normal and abnormal (such as binary and nonbinary), but also between legitimate abnormal (binary transgender) and illegitimate abnormal (nonbinary transgender).

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