The emergency of meanings about the concept of ethnomodelling during a training action for mathematics teachers

• Autor(a) principal: Eça, José Lucas Matias de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Peixoto, Jurema Lindote Botelho, Madruga, Zulma Elizabete de Freitas
• 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/5433

Abstract: Ethnomodelling is consolidating itself as a theoretical-methodological and political construct in the area of ??Mathematics Education, when it allows the exploration of mathematical knowledge practiced in different social groups (Ethnomathematics), normally minorities, in a formal character — translated through techniques (Modelling). Pedagogical actions based on this approach can allow the construction of more critical educational scenarios involving teachers and students. For this to happen, teachers need to know and reflect on this concept. The aim of this study was to investigate the meanings of Ethnomodelling that emerged during a formative action with Mathematics teachers from a municipality in the interior of Bahia. A training action was carried out, in six meetings, with all teachers who taught mathematics in the final years of elementary school, in the city, and the corpus of this article is composed of only three teachers who accepted to respond to a semi-structured interview addressing aspects of training. For data analysis, Discursive Textual Analysis (ATD) was used. From this analysis, four categories emerged: formative process; teaching; curriculum, and dialogic approach, the latter being analyzed in this article. The results showed that the teachers participating in the training process understood Ethnomodelling as a methodological approach that mainly aims at valuing the local mathematical knowledge of students, and the Mathematics practiced by the various cultural and social groups to which they belong. Keywords: Mathematics Education. Ethnomodelling. Teacher training.