Diversidade sexual e ensino de ciências: buscando sentidos

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

Atividades práticas no ensino de ciências: saberes docentes e formação do professor

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Meio ambiente no ensino de Ciências: análise de livros didáticos para os anos finais do ensino fundamental

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Entre o sistema e o mundo da vida: possibilidades de ação comunicativa na trajetória formativa de professores de Ciências

This study aimed at both identifying possibilities of communicative action that occur in the formative trajectory of Science teachers, and therefore collaborate in the discussion on the rationality approach that supports teacher education. Therefore, we hope to contribute for the construction of a formative model that encourages human emancipation. For this purpose, we draw concepts from Communicative Action Theory proposed by Jürgen Habermas. Data were obtained by half-structuralized interviews. Although strategic actions predominate among those used by teachers during their education period, we observed some tension focus could be identified, better recognized and built up in order to enlarge possibilities of increasing communicative actions in teacher education. We identified political and epistemological factors as obstacles for these possibilities to materialize.

Elementos sociais para a compreensão do prestígio científico e de seus riscos

Natural sciences have an enormous status in public opinion. Their achievements, which become known mostly by means of technology, give to them social credibility, unconditional support and positive social expectances. Further, their social images, generated by the success of their products, tend to lead people to develop only favorable ideas about scientists and about how science works, which are even more reinforced in the schools. By another side, the history of science has been allowed us to comprehend the internal and external social relations concerning to science, showing it as a field of disputes, interests and contradictions as many other fields which comprise human relations. Therefore, the objective of this text is to present social elements of the construction and impacts of natural science, aiming at putting in evidence the importance of the social studies of the scientific world for the courses of education of science teachers.

Educação inclusiva: concepções de professores de ciências com relação à inclusão de alunos com deficiência visual em aulas de astronomia

Despite of intense discussion over recent decades about the inclusion of disabled people and the influence of conception of teachers about that inclusion for the effectuation of it, this work sought to identify conceptions of science teachers regarding the inclusion of students with visual impairment in the classes of astronomy providing basis for future studies.

Formação de professores de ciências: reflexões sobre a formação continuada

This article reflects on the continuing education of science teachers and, for that, it was conducted a documental analysis of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Educations (Law No. 9394/96) and a bibliographical research to make a survey and a study about the authors with recognized contribution in this area, focusing on the following items (i) aspects of legislation and public policies for the continuing education on Basic Education teachers; (ii) teaching knowledge needed in their professional training; and (iii) continuing education of science teachers. It was concluded that teachers’ professional development should happen through institutional continuing education, guided by a work plan, so that they can effectively develop their as mediators between the students' interaction with the information obtained, so that the teaching-learning process can happen and consistent scientific knowledge can be constructed by students.

O tratamento de questões sociocientíficas na formação de futuros professores de ciências: possibilidades e desafios nas vozes dos licenciandos

The perspective STSE (Science-Technology-Society-Environment) was recently implemented in the training courses for science teachers in Brazil, and proposes greater coordination of scientific knowledge with subjective questions that constitute the science, enables discussion of the nature of science and its implications for social and environmental issues. The present work aims to contribute to training of science teachers that approximates the current demands of contemporary society. Having as theoretical reasons the implications of STSE Movement in science teaching, we bring some considerations on pedagogical practices of undergraduates in Biological Sciences held within its Supervised. Through content analysis of the speeches of undergraduates, we can identify contributions and limitations that treatment of socio-scientific issues (SSI) revealed in the process, putting to discuss some aspects that are tangent training teachers committed to a contextualized view of science and scientific training. It discusses, among them, the relationship theory and practice in supervised training of future teachers’ conceptions about the implications of the STSE perspective in science teaching and science teacher positioning ahead controversial themes.

Perspectivas críticas na pesquisa sobre formação de professores de Ciências

This text is in theoretical study, with consideration of the authors of the critical perspective of education and training of science teachers. We indicate a set of principles and concepts of some philosophers, like Habermas and Gramsci and theoretical education in a critical bias, as Freire, Saviani, Giroux and Duarte, which can enrich the discussions in the field of science teacher education. Some of these concepts: organic intellectual philosophy of praxis, inconclusiveness, incompleteness, dialogue and problematization, communicative action, critical pedagogies of learning to learn, dialectical relationship between theory, culture and depth psychology. Thus, we intend to explain the richness of the dialogue among this perspective and its implications for the training of science teachers.

From Concrete to Abstract: Teaching for Transfer of Learning when Using Manipulatives

One of the most important uses of manipulatives in a classroom is to aid a learner to make connection from tangible concrete object to its abstraction. In this paper we discuss how teacher educators can foster deeper understanding of how manipulatives facilitate student learning of math concepts by emphasizing the connection between concrete objects and math symbolization with, preservice elementary teachers, the future implementers of knowledge. We provide an example and a model, with specific steps of how teacher educators can effectively demonstrate connections between concrete objects and abstract math concepts.

¿Para qué educar en ciencias naturales, ambiente y salud hoy en Argentina?

Este artículo presenta un análisis de representaciones sociales (RS) sobre finalidades de la educación en ciencias naturales y rol docente, enmarcado en una experiencia de formación en servicio y trabajo colaborativo con docentes de diferentes niveles educativos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Las RS del rol docente mostraron las dimensiones vocacional, profesional y política. La última emergió con fuerza en innovaciones que implicaron procesos concretos de participación ciudadana con estudiantes. Como finalidades aparecieron diferentes aspectos de las RS: formación para la ciudadanía, ciencia como cultura, ciencia útil para la vida cotidiana, propedéutica y alfabetización científica. Estos hallazgos se contrastan con documentos curriculares y propuestas de teóricos de la educación en ciencias naturales

¿Para qué educar en ciencias naturales, ambiente y salud hoy en Argentina?

Este artículo presenta un análisis de representaciones sociales (RS) sobre finalidades de la educación en ciencias naturales y rol docente, enmarcado en una experiencia de formación en servicio y trabajo colaborativo con docentes de diferentes niveles educativos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Las RS del rol docente mostraron las dimensiones vocacional, profesional y política. La última emergió con fuerza en innovaciones que implicaron procesos concretos de participación ciudadana con estudiantes. Como finalidades aparecieron diferentes aspectos de las RS: formación para la ciudadanía, ciencia como cultura, ciencia útil para la vida cotidiana, propedéutica y alfabetización científica. Estos hallazgos se contrastan con documentos curriculares y propuestas de teóricos de la educación en ciencias naturales

¿Para qué educar en ciencias naturales, ambiente y salud hoy en Argentina?

Este artículo presenta un análisis de representaciones sociales (RS) sobre finalidades de la educación en ciencias naturales y rol docente, enmarcado en una experiencia de formación en servicio y trabajo colaborativo con docentes de diferentes niveles educativos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Las RS del rol docente mostraron las dimensiones vocacional, profesional y política. La última emergió con fuerza en innovaciones que implicaron procesos concretos de participación ciudadana con estudiantes. Como finalidades aparecieron diferentes aspectos de las RS: formación para la ciudadanía, ciencia como cultura, ciencia útil para la vida cotidiana, propedéutica y alfabetización científica. Estos hallazgos se contrastan con documentos curriculares y propuestas de teóricos de la educación en ciencias naturales

Observar com sentido: uma competencia importante na vida profissional do professor de Matemática

Este artigo apresenta um experimento com sete estudantes de Licenciatura em Matemática da Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, com o objetivo de desenvolver a competência de “observar com sentido”. Para isso foi desenvolvido um ambiente de investigação composto por um vídeo de uma aula de Matemática, dois textos de suporte às discussões, um fórum de discussão e uma wiki sintetizando o debate realizado no fórum. Os resultados apontam que os estudantes conseguem analisar uma aula e identificar a metodologia utilizada e que com o experimento foi possível ampliar a compreensão do ambiente profissional.

Formas del discurso y razonamiento configural de estudiantes para maestros en la resolución de problemas de geometría

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo estudiar la relación entre las formas del discurso generado por los estudiantes para maestro al resolver problemas de geometría de probar y el razonamiento configural. Analizamos las respuestas de 97 estudiantes para maestro a dos problemas de probar para determinar cómo identificaban y relacionaban propiedades geométricas para deducir nuevos hechos y propiedades de las figuras. Los resultados muestran tres formas del discurso generado por los estudiantes para maestro para comunicar su resolución: gráfico, texto y una mezcla de los dos; y que las formas del discurso generado no influyen en el truncamiento del razonamiento configural que desencadena los procesos deductivos.