A formação no curso de pedagogia para o ensino de ciências nas séries iniciais

Abstract

A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo identificar a percepção que os professores responsáveis pela disciplina de Metodologia Para o Ensino de Ciências têm ao ministrar suas aulas no Curso de Pedagogia e a concepção dos alunos de 3.º e 4.º anos desse curso, quanto ao oferecimento de tal disciplina para a formação do professor de Ciências nas séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. A metodologia escolhida foi o estudo de caso, tendo como abordagem a pesquisa quanti-qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados em três etapas: na primeira, aplicaram-se os questionários aos grupos de graduandos de cinco universidades, três públicas e duas particulares; na segunda etapa, um aluno de cada instituição foi entrevistado, tendo em vista que esses alunos já ministram ou ministraram aulas de Ciências no Ensino Fundamental; na terceira etapa, os entrevistados foram os professores universitários, um de cada instituição pesquisada, e responsáveis por disciplinas correspondentes à de Metodologia Para o Ensino de Ciências. Em seguida, os dados foram analisados e sintetizados em quadros de classe e subclasse de conteúdos para, assim, fornecer um eixo facilitador de análise, de resultados e discussões chegando à conclusão de que a pesquisa pedagógica oferece um norte para se pensar mais efetivamente na formação inicial do professor, principalmente no que tange às práticas diferenciadas em sua formação, bem como ao interesse pelo ensino e grau de importância a ele dado.

The present research has aimed to identify the subject Methodology for Science Teaching, responsible teachers' perception have on teaching their classes in the Course of Pedagogy and the 3rd and 4th graders conception in these courses, as for the offer of such subject for the Science teacher graduation in the very beginning of the Elementary course (grades) levels. The Methodology chosen here was a subject study having the qualitative research as an approach, without excluding the quantitative research, though. The data were collected in three steps: at first it was made some questionaries to the graduating groups of five universities, in which three of then are public and two are private focusing: the satisfaction with the preparation to teach Science, the Pedagogic Practice and the Science teaching; in the second step, one student from each Institution was interviewed, being aware that those students had taught or were teaching Elementary Science classes, the semi-structured interview focus is aiming the existence or lack of articulation between theory and practice, as for the importance and preparation for the subject teaching; in the third step, the interviewed ones were university professors, also one from each researched Institution and who were the responsible ones for the subject of methodology for Science teaching or similar ones as a subject with the same objective. Then, the data were analyzed and summarized into classes and sub-classes of contents made easier through analysis so to furnish a connection of results and discussions coming to a conclusion that the Pedagogic research offers an orientation to think more effectively in the very first teacher's education, mainly about the different practices in their education as for the teaching interest and how much importance was given to it.