Representações sociais na licenciatura em educação do campo/ ciências da natureza: investigando estudantes e docentes

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Carlos Ventura
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Hesse, Fernanda Bianca, Jackle , Lauro Ely Jardim, Reppold, Danielle Prazeres
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Tear: Revista de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ifrs.edu.br/index.php/tear/article/view/6230

A case study is presented about an academic program in Rural Education / Natural Sciences Teacher Education linked to a federal university located in the city of Porto Alegre/ Rio Grande do Sul. We sought to investigate through the application of questionnaires the social representations of students and teachers regarding topics related to the specificity of the academic program (option for teacher education; interdisciplinarity; Natural Sciences teaching in Basic Education; characteristics of a good teacher) and the occurrence of convergences or divergences of these with correlated educational theoretical references. The textual data obtained were interpreted through content analysis. The results obtained showed that most of the research participants represent: the option for teacher education based on the social function of teaching, interest in Rural Education or Natural Sciences; interdisciplinarity, present as the organizing axis of the academic program, as a form of relatively restricted interaction associated with school subjects; the Natural Sciences teaching in Basic Education as an educational practice linked to the need for people to know how to deal with everyday situations and make decisions, with an impact on everyone's lives, in a judicious way; the good teacher as an individual whose profile is linked to the professional dimension, the strategic dimension and the relational dimension. This work points to a framework of reflections so that the teacher education in Rural Education with specificity in the Natural Sciences area?? can continue to be investigated, planned and/or rethought in different academic spaces in the country. Keywords: Rural education. Social representations. Teacher education.