Erros e obstáculos: os conteúdos matemáticos do ensino fundamental no processo de avaliação

A presente pesquisa apresenta um sucinto levantamento histórico sobre ‘avaliação’, ‘obstáculos’ - epistemológicos e didáticos - e ‘erros’, com o objetivo de fazer um estudo analítico do desempenho dos estudantes de 5ª a 8ª séries em Matemática, utilizando as respostas dadas em avaliações feitas por quatro grupos de estudantes de uma escola pública de Ensino Fundamental em testes específicos de matemática. A investigação foi desenvolvida em várias fases: na primeira, as respostas foram agrupadas em categorias de questões (a) sem respostas, (b) incompletas, além de (c) certas e (d) erradas, como sugere o tema. Na segunda fase, o objetivo foi (e) tentar desvendar as relações entre conceitos contidos nos erros expressos pelos estudantes. Os resultados da pesquisa apontam para um grande percentual de ‘erros’ relativos aos conceitos presentes em assuntos estudados em séries anteriores, mais acentuados do que os assuntos previstos para a série em que se encontrava o aluno, evidenciando que um conteúdo que não tenha sido bem assimilado pode se constituir em um ‘obstáculo didático’ de caráter coletivo e que se propaga pelas séries posteriores. Deste resultado, é possível afirmar que um ‘obstáculo didático coletivo’, uma vez estabelecido, dificilmente será superado pelos discentes sem uma intervenção docente sistemática que considere tal obstáculo e sua possível superação. Isso faz com que pese sobre os professores de matemática a responsabilidade de assumirem e verem com um olhar diferenciado os erros dos estudantes como aprendizes, com a finalidade de discernir entre o ‘erro eventual’ e o ‘obstáculo didático’ (individual ou coletivo), favorecendo a superação das dificuldades advindas dos “conteúdos passados burocraticamente” que obstaculizam a aprendizagem dos assuntos e temas matemáticos que são objeto de estudo nas séries do ensino fundamental.

Integração de tecnologias e webtecnologias no ensino de língua inglesa: concepções teóricas, crenças e interações na prática docente

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Constituir-se professora de ciências para crianças de 4 a 6 anos de idade: processos formativos do ensino e aprendizagem

Nesta pesquisa assumo a narrativa como suporte epistemológico, por entender que a investigação narrativa possibilita compreender os processos de formação, de conhecimento e de aprendizagem pelos quais os sujeitos passam e assim constituem o seu processo identitário. Objetivo construir relações entre as experiências de formação vividas e relatadas pelas professoras investigadas e suas atitudes na docência relativa à alfabetização científica para crianças de 4 a 6 anos de idade. Foram seis os sujeitos que participaram da investigação: duas atuando em turmas de 4 anos; duas, com turmas de 5 anos e, duas com turmas de 6 anos, que atuam em 2 escolas do município de Castanhal, nordeste do Estado do Pará. Para fazer a triangulação da pesquisa, constituí o corpus a partir dos seguintes registros de informações: i) transcrição da entrevista semi-estruturada realizada com as seis professoras; ii) registro em meu diário de campo das observações das práticas pedagógicas em educação em ciências por elas desenvolvidas e iii) registros fotográficos, que foram analisados na perspectiva da análise textual discursiva. A partir de minha imersão no corpus, por meio de leituras e releituras, da sua desconstrução e unitarização, construí três eixos de análise: i) Formação das Professoras para Ensinar Ciências: sentidos do vivido; ii) Condições de Produção do Trabalho Docente: implicações pedagógicas; e iii) Estratégias de Ensino e Aprendizagens em Educação em Ciências. As análises dos resultados das experiências vividas pelas professoras investigadas durante o processo de formação inicial e continuada evidenciam que a preparação profissional relacionada à iniciação em ciências no âmbito da Educação Infantil e do primeiro ano do ensino fundamental ao longo do curso de magistério e/ou de licenciatura realizado e a ausência de um plano municipal ou escolar de formação continuada influenciam diretamente suas concepções e condutas pedagógicas quando ensinam ciências para crianças. As narrativas das professoras, em geral, também demonstraram que as implicações do cotidiano docente estão relacionadas ao pouco tempo que têm para o planejamento das práticas pedagógicas em educação em ciências, a sua não compreensão dos conceitos científicos a serem ensinados às crianças, as dificuldades de acesso às fontes de pesquisa e a grande quantidade de crianças por turma. Ainda sobre os resultados, a partir os relatos das professoras pesquisadas e do que observei em suas práticas pedagógicas em educação em ciências, em geral, as estratégias de ensino mais utilizadas por elas são: rodas de conversa; recorte e colagem; atividades mimeografadas do livro didático; e, uso de materiais concretos. Ao narrarem suas práticas docente em educação em ciências, as professoras demonstraram que, independente de como cada uma ensina ciências às crianças, elas acreditam estarem contribuindo em seu aprendizado à medida que as envolvem nas atividades ou ainda, a partir da compreensão de que os ensinamentos acerca da ciência, propagados pelas escolas, estão diretamente relacionados com a sua realidade.

Media Education and Brazilian Educational Policies for the Enhancement of Learning

As media education concepts and practices have been disseminated and strengthened in European countries and Americas, the policies responsible for that expansion remain little known, particularly in countries where the achievements have been recently noted. That is the case for Brazil, where there have been new opportunities for media education, considered as a valuable resource to help accomplish goals of the educational system. This paper looks into the contribution of media education to the enhancement of teaching and learning in the context of innovations brought by recent policies of the Brazilian Ministry of Education. After educational reform programmes which brought the opportunity for emerging fields such as media education, we produced teaching material and conducted a series of workshops with students and teachers from state secondary schools. By reading and producing multimedia information about local public services available to young people, pupils learned about democracy, citizenship, civic engagement, media language, and identity. Lessons from our experiment are discussed against the backdrop of education policies being implemented to ameliorate harsh conditions resulting from the recent economic crisis. We suggest that media education can help by creating a learning environment in which the students become aware of the value of educational attainments.

Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação em Bibliotecas Escolares: em busca de um espaço dinâmico

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be combined with the acquisition of academic knowledge and cultural development of students, as they improve their information literacy, and why not say, also digital. Weaim in this research seek references and present experiences that encourage a new concept of school library with the use of ICT in teaching and learning in individual and collective development of the student community. To complement this study we prioritized the following objectives: to insert the technology into the routine of a school library; identify the informational and technological profile of adolescents; understand the needs and technological resources they use to obtain information in daily life and also analyze the importance the effective participation of the school library in the educational context of the school, through greater interaction between the librarian, teacher and pedagogical coordination seeking a cooperative and informal ICT teaching and learning for along with the students, sharing the search for information and knowledge, in a conscious and responsible way. Chosen as theoretical foundation the cognitive studies of Jean Piaget, witch explains how the stages of assimilation and accommodation of knowledge in cooperative practices work. As a methodology was developed a participatory-action research, to learn the behavioral state of young people and adolescents, based on the model of information search for the everyday life (Everyday Life Information Seeking) – ELIS, developed by Finnish researcher Savoleinen (2006), as well as identify the informational and technological profile of adolescents from two selected approaches in the scientific literature (HUGUES-HASSEL; AGOSTO, 2007; UCL, 2008). Thus, came up the initiative to create a Confraternity of the Library in a collaborative digital environment, providing the participants discussion and learning technologies as well as digital information literacy enhancement.

A aplicação de tópicos de História da Química no processo de ensino e aprendizagem: dificuldades dos alunos

This research project aims to determine the main way that the inclusion of topics of history and philosophy of science education activities aimed at high school, influence the process of teaching and learning of chemistry. The subject of research will be a teacher, undergraduate student in chemistry and public school students that the teaching units developed will be applied. The literature presents a large of research indicating the need to include these topics in education and present the results of large withdrawals of original sources of the development of scientific knowledge. Despite of the large number of these works are not very common reports of application of the results of these studies on activities of the classroom, which reinforces the importance of this study

Tecnologia da informação e comunicação no ensino de Química: o projeto Rived como estudo de caso

Modern society is characterized by being in evolution finds, technology strides and every day becomes the setting in which we live. At school, however, we found no features of these changes, the years pass and the methodological tools remain unchanged. In this paper we analyze an object produced by the Learning Network Interactive Virtual Education - RIVED to discuss whether it covers the content and answers to the questions proposed by the National Curricular and Curricular Proposal of the State of Sao Paulo, and may be inserted in the educational environment, both to perform a qualitative analysis, focusing on information retrieval. The results showed that the Learning Objects: Abundance, has most of the proposals relating to the subject of study, prepared by the NCP and the Proposed Structure for the State of Sao Paulo, so it is valid for teachers to use this tool trying that with a new approach, we can give students a better understanding of chemical concepts

o ensino de leitura na escola: um olhar sobre as concepções de professores do 1º ciclo do ensino fundamental de uma escola municipal de Bauru - SP

This research is being read, thus rendering text on the pole of understanding, as a practice effective dialogue and therefore responsive through which the reader, author, text and context interact. To this end, the reader must turn their knowledge systems and relate them to the linguistic materiality. Thus, aimed to investigate whether the teaching of reading in the early years of elementary school literacy builds skills related to this cultural practice and its relationship to the conceptions of classroom teachers of reading, as well as the teaching and learning methodologies practiced in class classroom. Therefore, I base this research on the theoretical basis of linguistic studies and expository sociointeractionist redefine that, among other things, the concepts of language, genre and text. As for the methodological framework, this study followed the methodology of literature research and fieldwork. The fieldwork took place from the perspective of observing the pedagogical practice of teaching reading, in order to investigate how the educational activities are conducted in a reading room for the third year of elementary school, part of the municipal education Bauru- SP. Were used as instruments of data collection the questionnaire given to school teachers and the school studied the direct observation of teaching practice of one of these professionals. The results of data analysis indicate that the teachers surveyed know key content for teaching reading, as well as renovations of the theoretical and methodological studies of reading, with the consequence that the practices of reading done in the classroom limit the role of student as a reader and does not guarantee the formation of the reader

Matemática comercial e financeira com a utilização de recursos digitais: uma experiência no ensino médio

This work aimed to investigate the possible contributions of the use of digital resources in the teaching and learning process of Commercial and Financial Mathematics concepts to high school students. Its development has included a survey of some researches on the topic as well as an experimental study of a qualitative type, in which the Webquest was used as methodology. It uses the computer, more precisely the internet resources, to assist students in building up knowledge. Eight meetings were held, in the after-school period, with a group of students of the second year of high school at a state public school in the city of Guaratinguetá. Aiming to evaluate the knowledge that students had about the theme, it was applied a diagnosis at first glance for further analysis and development of activities and interventions according to the students’ answers. Once the research data was analyzed, it was noted that the students had little knowledge regarding the basic contents of Commercial and Financial Mathematics, in addition to presenting difficulties in handling some of the digital resources used in the meetings. Nonetheless, from the students’ works, it was seen significant advances in understanding and building up knowledge on concepts such as percentage, simple and compound interest, savings, and sales involving prompt payment or in arrears

Reflexõs sobre a linguagem do ambiente chat no Teletandem sob a perspectiva da natureza heterogênea da escrita

This paper aims at discussing the characteristics of computer mediated language within a foreign language teaching and learning environment enabled by the use of synchronic writing resources – chat. The present research is based on (i) theoretical principles about the use of technologies and the teaching-learning of foreign languages in the scope of the Teletandem Brazil Project: Foreign languages for all – Projeto Teletandem Brasil: línguas estrangeiras para todos (TELLES, 2005); (ii) studies on the characteristics of the language within chat interactions; (iii) different theoretical perspectives on the relationship between spoken and written language, emphasizing the constitutive heterogeneity of writing perspective (CORRÊA, 1997, 1998, 2001); and (iv) some relevant concepts related to Prosodic Phonology field (NESPOR; VOGEL, 1986). Is being taken as research data, the written production of a Brazilian student (finishing a Licentiate in Literature) interacting with an American student (in Religious Studies) through Windows Live Messenger. The data were collected during a five-month period, during which the participants interacted through chat, totalizing 12 interactions in English and in Portuguese. During the analysis, a particular attention was given to the messages’ fragmentation, the use (or not) of punctuation signs and abbreviations within the Brazilian participant’s production, in order to discuss the representations she built of her writing, her interlocutor, herself and on the teaching-learning process of a foreign language.

Construction of the dispositions of institutional habitus in the academic field

This paper describes the main phases of development of an Institute of Chemistry in relation with national policy from the academic field. Its history begins with a proposal to meet the demand for chemistry teacher education and goes on to become a major center for research, education and extension. Throughout its 50 years of history, the Institution has faced numerous challenges by adopting strategies that have established and revealed its institutional habitus. To this end, we use some of René Kaës’s concepts about the development of groups and institutions, highlighting mainly the origins, expectations and covenants that underpinned its foundation, and the entire process of its expansion and institutionalization. Our main focus, also interpreted based on the theory of Pierre Bourdieu and followers, is the establishment of its institutional habitus, i.e., how it interprets and organizes its institutional teaching, research and extension activities within the context of the academic field. The peculiarity of the process has been the mismatch between internal and external pressures. Even though presenting the results of a case study, in general, our methodology can improve the understanding of institution’s development in relation with educational policy.

Os efeitos do Game Design no processo de criação de jogos digitais utilizados no ensino de Química e Ciências: o que devemos considerar?

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

Educação a distância online: potencialidades para a formação de professores que ensinam matemática

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Concepções e corporeidades docentes na educação infantil

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

Biology Teachers'Conceptions of the Diversity of Life and the Historical Development of Evolutionary Concepts

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)