Education quality dimensions at São Paulo Language Study Centers (CEL-SP): subsides to the implementation of spanish teaching in the state of São Paulo.

Author(s)

Jefferson Januário dos Santos

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD)
• Defense date: 2011-04-11

Examining board members

Vera Lucia Marinelli; Isabel Gretel Maria Eres Fernandez; Eliane Gonçalves

• Advisor: Vera Lucia Marinelli

Abstract

The main goal of this research is to make an assessment of how the historical knowledge and analysis of the pedagogical activities developed by São Paulo Language Study Centers (CEL-SP) units can contribute to an effective and high quality implementation (BROOK and SOARES, 2008; HOPKINS, 1987; HOPKINS, 1997; MURILLO, 2007) of the spanish language in the curriculum of the public schools of São Paulo. With this objective, we will approach mainly two questions: the educational context of the spanish education in the analyzed schools and the approaches and teaching methodology used by teachers in the development of daily pedagogical activities. The data that sustains the study of these questions were obtained basically through a qualitative research (LUDKE e ANDRÉ, 1986) in three units of CEL-SP, in the Capital, Great São Paulo and countryside. The elements gathered by Santos (2007) research about the CELs students, coordinators and teachers representations (ROUSSIAU e BONARDI, 2000) about the teaching and learning quality of the institution are also fundamental. Through data review, we will clarify if the relations (social, affective, cultural and organizational) present in the analyzed schools and the teachers pedagogical practice are related to the principles of the educational quality stated in official documents for education in Foreigner Languages like the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN, 1998; 2000) and the Orientações Curriculares (OC, 2006) and, also, the theoretical principles that characterize high quality education (AÇÃO EDUCATIVA, UNICEF, INEP, 2007; HOPKINS, 1987; HOPKINS and LAGESWEUJ, 1997, MACHADO, 2007 et al.). (AU)