O Processo de investigação temática no contexto escolar da Colônia de Pescadores Z-3/ Pelotas - RS

Abstract

This master dissertation presents a study carried out in the context of Paulo Freire's Thematic Research (1987). We developed a theoretical and methodological basis that articulates discussions and relationships between the stages and moments belonging to the Freirean Thematic Approach and the Curricular Praxis Via Generator Theme. A research investigates generating themes in the context of a school of the Z-3 Fishing Colony (Pelotas / RS), with education of the first year of high school. Investigate in the social practice of the subjects socio-cultural and historical aspects that interrelate with socioeconomic, socio-environmental and socio-historical dimensions. The research aims to facilitate the search for tensions between science teachers, social science professionals and science curriculum knowledge, in an interdisciplinary way in the areas of chemistry and physics, with its theory in biology, for those who are subject. the biology constituent To later select elements of the curriculum in an ethical way. Thus, the production of activities, the supporting pedagogical material, that is, the educational product, which can promote confrontations or factors that limit pedagogical practice, problems and processes of dialogue and teaching. In the methodology used, the associations and relationships between the mentioned methodological theoretical assumptions result in 5 steps: Pedagogical Local Study, Decoder Dialogues, Thematic Network Relations, Classroom Development and Meaningful Praxis Thematic Action. To perform as appropriate analysis the Discursive Textual Analysis, in the Unitarization and Categorization processes for analysis of recent findings. However, for the emergence of identified faults, the unitarization process (Unit of Meaning) is used and for the construction of methodological tracking we developed the Analysis of significant speeches. As results emerged four generating themes with themes related to Pollution, Floods, Drug addiction and handcrafted fishing. Build eight pedagogical activities that are part of the educational product (or Mapograftheory), a digital tool that features a georeferenced map, based on the thematic network of Silva (2004), which relates how social organization structures with speech, problems with problems and situations. local (common sense) with possible contents and concepts to be considered, whose goal is to assist the educator in science teaching to perform problems that have as a starting point the students' own local reality.