Reflexões e análises do cotidiano de um curso de formação de professores de ciências e/ou biologia / Reflections and analyses on the daily life of a teachers formation course in Sciences/Biology

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2010

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The present work presented in its theoretical chapters the relation between knowledge and science, identifying some of its characteristics and meanings trough the ages. The project of modernity was questioned and we also tried to point what limits are these. Furthermore, we verified the relation between these limits of modern science and the theory of the complexity. Teaching and learning definitions, according to some authors, were presented and the existing relations between knowledge conceptions and the teaching-learning process were explored. We also highlighted the role of teachers and students in each one of the approaches, emphasizing these roles in the relation and interaction-centered pedagogy. To talk about the teachers conceptions on scientific knowledge, learning and teaching, concerning a reflexive approach, we contextualized the initial and/or continuous formation of teachers. The question guiding this thesis refers to the identification of science, learning and teaching conceptions of eleven science and/or biology teachers of São Paulo city private schools and their learning and teaching-practice problems. To achieve the objectives we proposed to this research, two instruments were used in an independent, but complementary, way. The first of them was the offer of an extension course about science teaching to teachers working, and the second one was the application of questionnaires. The methodological procedures used were describe and analyze, trough the perspective of a qualitative approach, the extension course meetings and then classify and analyze the teaching-learning conceptions of these teachers, verifying what kind of representations they have about they own teaching practice, according to Becker (1993). Some of our conclusions regarding the main points of the continuous formation courses of the teachers were: science was seen as a transitory truth and multiple context-dependent, the teachers were respected with regard to their necessities and dissatisfactions, the previous knowledge were covered and there was special care in integrate the teaching theory and practice, questions were made to provoke conflicts that may permit the gradual and non-linear knowledge construction, parting from constant dialogue between the ones involved in the formation course. Beside this, we classified the teaching-learning conception of the participating teachers of the course as interactionist when they were directly asked the meaning of teaching-learning and what are the roles of teachers and students in this process. It seems like the majority of the teachers change to an empiric classification when the question turns into a daily practice problem to be solved. We went back to the previous interactionist classification when they were asked to describe a class concerning the digestive system. We found a possible explanation to this peculiar situation in the fact that direct questions about teaching-learning and roles of teachers and students are very similar, in the essence, to the digestive system question, in other words, they are both direct questions, and differ from a daily-problem situation. The explanation to this apparent paradox were the use of slogans, according to Scheffler (1974), by the teachers, in situations that questions asked are direct and not problemsolving.

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teachers formation formação de professores reflexão ensino-aprendizagem e conhecimento reflexive process teaching-learning and knowledge

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