Representações sociais da disciplina Química entre alunos dos centros de excelência de Aracaju

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Fernando Antônio Nascimento da
• Orientador(a): Silva, Veleida Anahí da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Ensino de Ciências e Matemática
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ensino de química; Disciplina química; Representações sociais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Chemistry education; Chemistry discipline; Social representations
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::MATEMATICA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5197

Chemistry is taken, in the words of a significant portion of high-school students, as "difficult, complicated and boring", causing various manifestations of discontent among students, when the need to study it. This research proposes the investigation of this relationship between this subject and the students, according to the Theory of Social Representations. It is proposed to identify the social representations of chemistry subjects in the individuals studied, the influence of social representations over the relation of students participating in the research and chemistry with differences and similarities, with regard to social representations, there are between the schools in study. Methodologically, we chose to use focus groups with students from the two Centers of Excellence located in Aracaju, to collect the data necessary to accomplish the study. The results demonstrate the construction of social representations which show that the distance of students toward the subject arises, significantly, because of the need for greater investment in their study, without, however, the guarantee of their learning.