The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between professional isolation of teachers and their occupational stress. A systematic random sample of 1,110 teachers in Quebec were administered French Canadian versions of the UCLA Loneliness Scale and Teacher Stress Inventory. Analysis gave, as expected, a positive and significant correlation between isolation and occupational stress. This highlights the importance of looking for ways to reduce professional isolation of teachers.
Résumé : Cet article décrit les pratiques et les conceptions de huit enseignants du primaire qui se situent à divers stades du processus d’implantation des TIC. Les résultats, issus d’entretiens et d’observations, montrent que les enseignants qualifiés d’expérimentateurs, qui se situent au niveau inférieur d’utilisation des TIC, ont des conceptions et des pratiques plutôt béhavioristes. Les enseignants collaborateurs ou adaptateurs, qui se situent à des niveaux supérieurs du processus d’implantation des TIC, ont des pratiques plutôt variées et affichent plus de conceptions constructivistes que les enseignants expérimentateurs. La discussion analyse les liens entre les conceptions affichées par les enseignants et les usages des TIC. Teaching practices and elementary school teacher’s concepts of teaching and learning at different levels of integration of ICTs Abstract: This article describes both practices and concepts of eight elementary school teachers who are at different stages of implementation of ICT in their practice. The results, taken from interviews and observation, indicate that teachers, identified as “experimenters” and who tend to use ICT less, adopt concepts and practices that lean towards behaviourism. Teachers identified as “collaborators” or “adaptors” and who are at higher levels of integration of ICTs tend to have practices that are more varied and show evidence of internal representations leaning more towards constructivism. The discussion further analyzes the relationship between the concepts that are evoked by the teachers and their uses of ICTs.
L’article porte sur les stratégies de recherche et de traitement de l’information des futurs enseignants utilisant des environnements informatiques. Dix étudiantes terminant leur programme de formation à l’enseignement dans une université québécoise ont réalisé neuf activités de recherche et de traitement d’information dans des environnements informatiques. Les données recueillies renseignent sur les stratégies utilisées. Les résultats montrent que les participants utilisent des stratégies diversifiées à chacune des étapes du processus de recherche et de traitement de l’information, mais que ces stratégies ne sont pas toujours pertinentes.This paper presents a study focusing on student teachers’ information searching and information processing strategies in Web-based environments. Ten student teachers completing their program performed nine information searching and processing tasks. Data collected through observation, thinking aloud process and interview showed a wide range of strategies throughout the completion of these tasks, but the study also highlights some shortfalls and limitations related to those strategies
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