Currículo de química: uma reflexão coletiva

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Herber, Jane
• Orientador(a): Basso, Nara Regina de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: QUÍMICA - ENSINO MÉDIO; CURRÍCULO - ENSINO MÉDIO; PROFESSORES - ATUAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL; PROFESSORES - FORMAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL; EDUCAÇÃO CONTINUADA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3129

The research had as objective to investigate High School Chemistry teachers understanding of the Chemistry curriculum and of the National Curriculum Parameters (PCNs). A study group was organized as a continuous education program for the involved teachers. The group met weekly during three months in the first semester of 2006 to reflect on their curriculum understanding in relationship to public political demands. The study was conducted as an action research, with all teachers participating in the production of the results. The meetings were organized in two sections, one of discussion and interchange of experiences and the other working on texts made available in a virtual group that functioned as a portfolio of the group. In this setting, group and individual productions were added for continuous interaction among participants. The discussions and reflections produced in the group demonstrated the importance of to the research problem, as it became clear that the teachers were not used to discuss curriculum and were limited to a rigid and closed curriculum, resulting usually in a decontextualized Chemistry teaching. The group meetings were recorded and the ideas categorized by use of qualitative textual analysis, conducting to the research results. From the analysis emerged the following categories: The teachers understanding of curricula and PCNs; Study plans, interdisciplinarity and Chemistry teaching; Chemistry curriculum and daily knowledge; Teachers reality; Education, values and the quality of teaching; Continuous education; and Our students and the schools. Through the discussion and production on these categories the teachers were able to reconstruct their understanding of curricula they were working with and of the National Curriculum Parameters.