Teacher conceptions in the area of Nature Sciences about the construction of interdisciplinarity in Polytechnic Intermediate Education: the contribution of faculty expertise to reality in two schools in Northern Rio Grande do Sul
High School education in Rio Grande do Sul underwent reformulations with the proposal for Polytechnic Intermediate Education suggested by the State Education Office. Overall, this proposal arose from the demand for improvements in elementary education, where High School education is concerned, an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2015-08-01
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| Series: | Investigações em Ensino de Ciências |
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| Online Access: | http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID407/v20_n2_a2015.pdf |
| Summary: | High School education in Rio Grande do Sul underwent reformulations with the proposal for
Polytechnic Intermediate Education suggested by the State Education Office. Overall, this proposal
arose from the demand for improvements in elementary education, where High School education is
concerned, and was implemented along the years of 2012, 2013 and 2014. Among the desired
improvements was the need to overcome content education through interdisciplinarity and an integrated curriculum. Taking such changes into consideration – which implied the creation of
knowledge areas, curricular restructuring, changes to the means of evaluation and the planning and
teaching methodology presumptions – this article aims to report the path and results from research
that proposed to investigate the manner in which interdisciplinarity began being constructed by
educators in the area of Nature Sciences from faculty expertise. The methodology employed was of
ethnographic research, that allowed to gather a wealth of data and opinions from the individuals
investigated, namely nine teachers from the Nature Sciences area that encompasses the subjects of
chemistry, physics and biology, from two intermediate education public schools in Northern Rio
Grande do Sul. Data interpretation was carried out under the perspective of Discursive Textual
Analysis and allowed for the identification of both the hurdles that made interdisciplinary
construction and action unfeasible, such as lack of time for planning, and possible alternatives to
overcome such hurdles, among which faculty expertise. From the discussion of those results, it can
be observed that the proposal for Polytechnic High School provided space for the construction of
the interdisciplinary praxis as well as for reflecting on and awareness building of its need, making it
feasible from theoretic-methodological (re)options on the part of the faculty in the bias of their
expertise as such. |
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| ISSN: | 1518-8795 1518-8795 |