Materiais manipuláveis: mediadores na aprendizagem significativa da matemática

Este trabalho foi elaborado no âmbito do Mestrado em Ensino da Matemática no 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e Secundário da Universidade da Madeira, no ano letivo de 2011/2012. Tem como objetivo apresentar em traços gerais, o trabalho realizado pelo meu grupo de estágio e em particular o trabalho que desenvolvi ao longo da Prática Pedagógica. Neste âmbito será analisada a atividade de ensino da matemática, desenvolvida numa turma do Curso de Educação e Formação em Técnico de Bar, tipo II, equivalente ao 9º ano de escolaridade, quando em contacto com uma estratégia de ensino, baseada na exploração de materiais em concreto, que visa facilitar a compreensão dos conceitos envolvidos, para uma consequente aprendizagem significativa da matemática. Neste estudo destaca-se a importância da motivação no processo de ensino/ aprendizagem. Para tal, analisaremos o comportamento destes alunos num ambiente dinâmico, onde estes são envolvidos numa atividade e participam ativamente na construção do seu conhecimento.

Dificuldades de aprendizagem específicas: estudo de caso sobre dislexia

Neste estudo abordamos aspectos relacionados com as dificuldades de aprendizagem específicas designadamente a dislexia, debruçando-nos sobre a questão conceptual, sua tipificação, etiologia e processos de avaliação e intervenção. A dislexia é uma dificuldade da aprendizagem da leitura que não se pode explicar por um défice cognitivo nem sensorial, nem por um ambiente social ou familiar desfavorável, nem por métodos de ensino desajustados. O estudo empírico que desenvolvemos, consiste na caracterização de um grupo de alunos com o diagnóstico de dislexia bem como no levantamento dos procedimentos mais usuais em termos de avaliação e reabilitação. A recolha de dados foi realizada num Centro de Apoio Psicopedagógico da Madeira, através da consulta de documentos constantes dos processos dos alunos diagnosticados com dislexia/disortografia e inscritos na educação especial e da realização de entrevistas a psicólogas do mesmo centro. A amostra é constituída por 52 alunos distribuídos pelos vários ciclos escolares do ensino básico e do ensino secundário a frequentarem 15 escolas do concelho adstritas ao CAP. Para a organização da informação recolhida através da análise documental, utilizámos uma grelha de registo e na condução das entrevistas utilizámos um guião que contempla, genéricamente, questões relacionadas com a etiologia, despiste e reabilitação da dislexia. Os resultados do estudo, apontam para um maior número de rapazes com diagnóstico de dislexia do que raparigas, diagnósticos um pouco tardios, sobretudo nos grupos de alunos mais velhos, alguma heterogeneidade na utilização de instrumentos de avaliação nos diferentes casos e alguma dificuldade em estruturar medidas educativas específicas e direccionadas a esta problemática. Neste sentido, tecemos algumas considerações face à necessidade de um diagóstico atempado, uma maior sensibilização e, formação dos vários técnicos envolvidos no diagnóstico e na intervenção, bem como, propomos sugestões para o desenvolvimento de estudos posteriores que permitam o aprofundamento e um maior conhecimento sobre esta problemática.

O percurso curricular alternativo, um desafio à inovação pedagógica?: uma abordagem etnográfica aos cenários de aprendizagem de uma turma de 5º ano com proposta de PCA

Este estudo pretendeu descrever, compreender e interpretar a cultura emergente de uma turma de 5º Ano de Escolaridade com proposta de Percurso Curricular Alternativo (PCA) em que se procurou esclarecer, à luz do conceito de inovação de que forma o PCA se constitui um desafio à Inovação Pedagógica. Ao debruçar-se sobre os padrões culturais da turma procura conhecer e avaliar o impacto desta proposta alternativa, na vida dos alunos, através do conhecimento das representações de todos os envolvidos no projeto. Além de pretender situar as práticas pedagógicas em termos de inovação ou o contínuo de práticas tradicionais, procura compreender que ambientes são emergentes da utilização das TIC. A presente investigação insere-se numa abordagem metodológica de natureza qualitativa, de cariz etnográfico, justificada pela natureza do estudo. Desenvolve-se através da imersão da investigadora no ambiente natural dos sujeitos, com vista à descrição pormenorizada e facetada da vida do grupo e o acesso a formas de entendimento e compreensão da realidade estudada a partir dos padrões culturais e significados vividos no interior da turma. Foram utilizadas diversas formas de recolha de dados, com destaque para a observação participante e a entrevista, que constituíram os principais recursos da investigação empírica, ainda que complementada com registos de cariz etnográfico como notas de campo, conversas informais e dados de opinião, recolhidos durante a permanência no contexto do estudo. As conclusões desta investigação apontam para o reconhecimento do PCA como uma medida positiva para o aluno na construção do seu projeto de vida pessoal, valorização, integração social e profissional, plenas. A utilização da tecnologia permitiu instituir novos contextos de aprendizagem ao nível micro, da sala de aula e romper com princípios, crenças e atitudes estruturantes da escola tradicional, prefigurando um desafio à Inovação Pedagógica, ou seja, à mudança e transformação da escola.

A Contribuição da etnomatemática na aprendizagem significativa dos aprendizes na comunidade Quilombola numa perspectiva etnográfica

A Educação Matemática é uma parte essencial da educação, tão importante como a leitura e a escrita, destacando a presença da Matemática como instrumento de análises, interpretações de dados estatísticos, mensuração, entre outros. Abordamos na pesquisa três categorias: etnomatemática numa perspectiva de superação da prática tradicional ainda presente no ensino da matemática; inovação pedagógica como premissa na contemporaneidade, afirmar que a inovação pedagógica constitui uma ruptura de natureza cultural das práticas desumanizadoras, antidialógicas é aderir ao novo paradigma educacional construtivista, sem apego às práticas anteriores. Ser inovador é estar constantemente reflexivo de sua prática educativa e a aprendizagem significativa numa dimensão de valorização dos conhecimentos prévios como principal instrumento para construção dos conhecimentos sistematizados. Investigamos a contribuição da etnomatemática na aprendizagem significativa dos aprendizes na comunidade quilombola. O campo de estudo foi a Escola Alfredo Gomes de Araújo no Distrito de Trigueiros-Vicência-PE, Brasil. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram os aprendizes e a educadora que leciona matemática no sétimo ano do Ensino Fundamental na citada escola. Os resultados da pesquisa demonstram que a etnomatemática contribui para inovação pedagógica, proporcionando aprendizagem significativa nos diversos contextos que foram submetidos, desenvolvendo o senso crítico, a criatividade, a curiosidade, a metacognição, o autoconhecimento, o protagonismo, as relações intraculturais e interculturais, entre outros. Foi desenvolvida uma metodologia qualitativa de caráter etnográfico, justificada pela natureza do estudo. Desenvolveu-se com a presença da investigadora no ambiente natural dos sujeitos, visando à descrição pormenorizada dos fenômenos estudados buscando entendimento e compreensão dos aspectos culturais e os significados vivenciados no âmbito da turma pesquisada. Para recolha dos dados foram utilizadas observações participantes, diário etnográfico, entrevistas semiestruturadas, essas técnicas constituíram os principais recursos da investigação empírica e para complementar as observações e os registros, fizemos notas de campo, conversas informais, recolhidos durante a estada no campo pesquisado.

Objetos concretos: prática de inovação pedagógica na aprendizagem matemática?

Este estudo tem a intenção de descrever, entender e explicar processo deaprendizagem de uma turma de 4º Ano do Ensino Fundamental I, com proposta de utilizar objetos concretos na aprendizagem matemática, no qual procurou desvendar à luz da concepção de inovação de que maneira esses objetos constituem uma instigação à Inovação pedagógica. Mediante aos padrões culturais da turma pretende-se conhecer e verificar o impacto desta proposta, no cotidiano dos alunos, por meiodos saberes de cada um envolvidos. Uma vez que, é visível a complexidade e a desmotivação que o aluno do ensino fundamental I apresenta com a Matemática. A necessidade de tornar a aula mais interessante e motivadora é uma inquietação constante do professor, no qual a dissertação investiga a importância dos objetos concretos, sua funcionalidade e aplicabilidade, de modo que possa facilitar a aprendizagem, bem como, proporcionar subsídios para que o aluno desenvolva estratégias significativas e inovadoras, melhorando assim, a qualidade do aprendizado matemático e seja capaz de criar situações que promovam a curiosidade, a instigação e a busca de resoluções, possibilitando no seu cotidiano empregar o conhecimento científico. O estudo tem como alusão a construção do pensamento crítico dos alunos a partir das concepções trabalhadas na sala de aula. Nessa acepção, a presente investigação insere-se numa abordagem qualitativa, de caráter etnográfico. Desenvolve-se por intermédio da investigadora com a turma, com vista à descrição da realidade estudada, seus padrões culturais e significativos, visando a compreensão do ambiente analisado. Através dos recursos como a observação participante, a entrevista e os documentos foi possível o recolhimento de dados durante a estadia no contexto do estudo. As conclusões desta investigação apontam de certa forma para a interatividade e a compreensão de certos conceitos matemáticos, mas não induz a autonomia dos alunos, o seu projeto de vida, ou seja, não perfigura um desafio à Inovação Pedagógica.

Desempenho internacional de empresas exportadoras: um modelo estrutural baseado em capacidades organizacionais e ambiente

The internationalization as an organizational phenomenon fundamentally strategic had as theoretical contributions some Schools that throughout the decades 60, 70, and 80 developed behavioral and economic approaches in order to explain the process. The behavioral approach deals with the perception of phenomenon as a gradual process from the perspective of the executives behavior (JOHANSON and VAHLNE, 1977; HALLÉN and WIEDERSHEIM - PAUL, 1979; CZINKOTA, 1985). This phenomenon in permanent theoretical and managerial evolution made an opportunity to build this investigation, whose goal is to analyse the impact comes from organizational capabilities and the external environment on the international performance of exporting firms. For both, were used as theoretical basis two types of analysis for the comprehension of international performance: Strategic Management - Industrial Organization and Resource-Based View and International Businesses - Current Economic and Behavioral. It was made a cross-sectional survey-based explanatory research, including 150 exporting companies with operations in the Northeast of Brazil. A conceptual model was made with eight constructs and eight research hypotheses, representative of the effects of external factors on international performance. The data were processed using the Exploratory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling. The structural equations model was reespecified and estimated through the use of the maximum-likelihood method up to achieve adequated values of indexes of adjustment. As the main theoretical contribution, were identified organizational and physical resources which shows the importance of the management skills development, of the learning capability and capability to establish strategic alliances abroad. That because the knowledge, as the operational point of view as in its strategic application, offers to organization conditions of market positioning which can create opportunities sustainable competitive advantages and which impact the performance of international companies

A Internet como tecnointeração da aprendizagem: valorização da cultura e identidade juvenil

The present study investigates Internet as technological interaction in the school environment as a resource of the teaching-learning process. It aims to discuss the lack of synchronicity between proposals of educational access for Internet use and types of access and interaction applied by youngsters. For the development of this research, I resorted to a qualitative, descriptive and explanatory research focused on a group whose subjects are youngsters from eleven to fifteen years of age in a catholic school which belongs to a group of private teaching schools in Natal city, Rio Grande do Norte state. As methodological option it focus on a group and the observation of its participation, discourse analysis and ethnography, considering facts and data of the pedagogical practice concerning the focused theme, besides the attempt to know the youngsters everyday at school and the relationship between them and juvenile cultures. It recognizes the existence of two moments of the focused group: the first related to internet use like technological interaction; the second concerns to the way Internet is problematic as technological interaction in classroom learning. While contacting with youngsters, the study discusses the concepts of Media Environments, Culture, Identity, Network, Consumption and Citizenship. It recognizes that it is relevant for the school to consider Internet a pedagogical tool, directed not just at research, but mostly as learning environment and as learning construction in a collaborative way. It points out the need of approach between school and media environment, reevaluating the pedagogical practice, offering a new evaluation proposal (self-evaluation). It suggests a renewal in the teacher's pedagogical practice in the classroom and using Internet, valuing the connection between technological interaction and communication as motivation elements of student s learning construction and their effective participation in decisions involving citizenship. It gives priority to educational work directed at the establishment of dialogic relationship between codes, learning and contents, leading to the new findings domain in the media environment, enabling the development of abilities and performances directed at the recognition and consumption of information from a critical reading of the media

Avaliação da aprendizagem no curso a distância de licenciatura em ciências biológicas da Universidade Estadual de Pernambuco

In contemporary society, distance education is expanding, especially in the offering of courses of initiatory professor training. By the side of possibilities, there is the need to critically reflect on the government decision to finance, and even to incite distance education, as a more economic way to achieve, within different time and space, the greatest quantity of the population, trying to fill the gaps of the Brazilian school education. The research was made in the Biology Bachelor Course offered by the Pernambuco University (UPE), in the context of the Presential Support Pole of the Paraiba State University, located in the city of Campina Grande. Along this study, we intend to analyze the evaluation practice and the instruments of valuation available in the virtual environment of learning (AVA), used by the former professors in the learning evaluation of the contents offered by the reference course. The relevance of the discussion is to reflect about the results of distance education in the initial of the professor training. To perceive the possibilities and limitations concerning the technological resources available at the educational process, especially to the evaluation practice, is primordial in order to comprehend the contents of learning that can be explored by the professors and which is the dialogical relation that is firmed between professor, preceptor and student, in favor of the learning development and an effective and meaningful education. The qualitative research had the symbolic interacionism as a methodological-theoretical approach. We gathered informations through institutional documents, documental records, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Treating and analyzing the data we used the content analysis method (Bardin, 1977). As a theoretical basis, we relied on authors such as Zabala (1998, 1999), Aretio (2002), Hoffmann (2003, 2005), Silva, M. (2003, 2006), Belloni (2006), Luckesi (2008), Silva, J. (2008), Vasconcelos (2008) and Domingos (2009). It was evident the need to reflect about the educational practice of the professors and preceptors responsible for the academic distance learning, concerning the evaluation of the learning contents in a autonomous and innovatory way, identifying its influence in the development of values which are considered vital to a complete professor upbringing. The evaluation in a mediator approach is necessary to the reality of an online classroom, because of its character to promote the improvement of the action of the one who is teaching and the one Who is learning in an interactive, collaborative and cooperative perspective, seeking a transformative praxis. Involved in this formation, the bachelors will be able to promote the development of capacities and skills necessary to the complete learning of theirs future students, certifying the education for life, which is a perspective that includes the knowing, the knowing how to do and how to be, a living being with sustainable relations with the others and with nature

Objetos de aprendizagem e alfabetização: a proposição de um encontro

This study investigates the development of Learning Objects for the literacy of children. It aims to know based in the notion of literacy teachers the main factors of academic failure in literacy and researching in Brazil, as well as identify relevant activities in the literacy process of children to support the creation of a set of Learning Objects. Refers to an exploratory research, which is configured as a qualitative nature case study, inspired in part in an action-research described by Thiollent (2003), conducted with ten early grades elementary school teachers of a public municipal school in Parnamirim / RN. As methodological options for data collection uses questionnaires and focuses on the group of teachers, analyzing the data, referring back to the ideas by Szymanski (2001; 2008) and content analysis, guided by Bardin (2002). The development of Learning Objects, follows the steps of development suggested by Garrett (2000). Rules in its multidisciplinary theoretical reference and promotes a conceptual dialogue on: Literacy; Literacy School Failure; Pedagogical Practice in Literacy; Thoughts and Language; Multimedia and Hypermedia; Learning Objects. Perceives that the act of education in literacy as an act of love, courage and social interaction between individuals - educator and pupil, so there is ownership of the object of knowledge in the relations with the world and with the experience, through a pedagogical practice that assumes all different knowledges, the moral political ideal, the mindsets of the students, and can make use of teaching materials that supports the learning process and are consistent with the educational objectives (FREIRE, 1998; FREINET, 1976; VYGOTSKY, 1998; FERREIRO AND TEBEROSKY, 1985; JONASSEN, 2000; WILEY, 2001). Figures out, through the teachers' opinions, five reasons for school failure in literacy, three inside the school environment: teacher; academic assistant and principal; student, and two outside the school environment: parents/family; government and public management. Presents a set of Learning Objects, based on the constructivist thought, developed from the identification of activities considered relevant by teachers in literacy's teaching and learning process. Suggests the use of Learning Objects as pedagogical practice in literacy as a digital resource that supports learning and can trigger important cognitive processes for the acquisition of reading and writing skills in the school environment

Construção e implementação do Balanced Scorecard em uma organização educacional: o caso do Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial do Rio Grande do Norte SENAC RN

The changes that have taken place in the organizational environment in recent decades have led to new performance measurement systems being proposed, given the inadequacy of traditional models. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) emerged as an instrument to translate financial and non-financial assets into real values for all interested parties in the organization, allowing the introduction of strategies to achieve the desired goals. Research shows that most errors committed with the use of this method are related to the implementation process. Thus, the aim of this dissertation is to analyze the process of building and implementing the BSC in an organization. This empirical exploratory study is based on the classic case study method, which enables the researcher to work with a set of evidence, including direct observation, interviews and document analysis. The results show that the use of BSC in the company investigated posed problems during the process of building and implementing the method. These problems were caused mainly by the lack of involvement on the part of upper management and the team s scant knowledge of Balanced Scorecard. One of the gains obtained from adopting the system was the introduction and/or consolidation of a culture of strategic planning and participative management. The continuous implementation phase was highlighted in the monitoring program, created by the organization in an attempt to reverse existing problems, using the BSC as a third generation strategic management system, which led to significant gains, better use of the system and stronger management practices

Uma arquitetura baseada em agentes para configuração dinâmica de aplicações inteligentes em ambiente foundation fieldbus

The industrial automation is directly linked to the development of information tecnology. Better hardware solutions, as well as improvements in software development methodologies make possible the rapid growth of the productive process control. In this thesis, we propose an architecture that will allow the joining of two technologies in hardware (industrial network) and software field (multiagent systems). The objective of this proposal is to join those technologies in a multiagent architecture to allow control strategies implementations in to field devices. With this, we intend develop an agents architecture to detect and solve problems which may occur in the industrial network environment. Our work ally machine learning with industrial context, become proposed multiagent architecture adaptable to unfamiliar or unexpected production environment. We used neural networks and presented an allocation strategies of these networks in industrial network field devices. With this we intend to improve decision support at plant level and allow operations human intervention independent

Roteamento em Redes de Sensores Sem Fios Com Base Em Aprendizagem Por Reforço

The use of wireless sensor and actuator networks in industry has been increasing past few years, bringing multiple benefits compared to wired systems, like network flexibility and manageability. Such networks consists of a possibly large number of small and autonomous sensor and actuator devices with wireless communication capabilities. The data collected by sensors are sent directly or through intermediary nodes along the network to a base station called sink node. The data routing in this environment is an essential matter since it is strictly bounded to the energy efficiency, thus the network lifetime. This work investigates the application of a routing technique based on Reinforcement Learning s Q-Learning algorithm to a wireless sensor network by using an NS-2 simulated environment. Several metrics like energy consumption, data packet delivery rates and delays are used to validate de proposal comparing it with another solutions existing in the literature

A modelagem matemática como alternativa de ensino e aprendizagem da geometria na educação de jovens e adultos

This is work itself insert in the mathematics education field of the youth and adult education to aim to practitioners of the educational action into the mathematics area performing to with this is teaching kind, adopting to as parameter the Mathematics Molding approach. The motive of the research is to draw up a application proposal of the molding mathematics as teaching and learning geometry alternative in the youth and adult education. The research it develops in three class of the third level (series 5th and 6th) of he youth and adults education in the one school municipal from the Natal outskirts. Its have qualitative nature with participating observation approach, once performing to directly in to research environment as a mathematics teacher of those same classes. We are used questionnaires, lesson notes and analyses of the officials documents as an basis of claim instruments. The results indicates that activity used the mathematic moldings were appreciated the savoir-faire of the student in to knowledge construction process, when search develop to significant learning methods, helping to student build has mathematics connections with other knowledge areas and inside mathematics himself, so much that enlarges your understanding and assist has in your participation in the other socials place, over there propitiate to change in student and teacher posture with relation to mathematic classroom dynamics

O hipertexto eletrônico de meio ambiente : estratégias de leitura e navegação

The incorporation of computing in class instigate the use of the Internet and websites as a content support in the teaching/leaning process. This kind of practice had challenged the students to read through eletronic hypertextual means. In that way, we re trying to undestand which strategies of reading and navigation the students of the second and third grade of highschool levels are using when reading electronic hypertexts from the www.ambientebrasil.com.br website. The research took place in the Escola Estadual Jerônimo Rosado in Mossoró RN. Our theoretical base was estructured on the digital Technology (electronic hypertext estructure and it s navigation modes), in applied linguistics (act of reading) and in cognition (interaction of the reader with the text and the use of reading strategies in the virtual computing enviroment). The applied methodology was the case analysis which was developed with the reunion of collected data through qualitative reseach questionaries, direct observations and video recording sessions. The research demonstrates that reader s ability in the act of navigating on virtual sites activates his/her reading strategies. Also shows how the semantic architecture of the hyperlinks can interfere directly over the strategies of reading and navigation in specific websites. Our research also intend to demonstrate that the student use his strategies of linear text reading when are not accustomed to use the reading through websites in a regular basis. The investigation concludes observing that the amount of hypertexts per pages and the inappropriate use of the multimedia elements were harmful to the reading fluency