Transtorno do espectro autista: contribuições para a Educação Matemática na perspectiva da Teoria da Atividade

• Autor(a) principal: Takinaga, Sofia Seixas
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11044
• topic: Ensino e aprendizagem; Transtorno do espectro autista; Teoria da Atividade; Teaching and learning; Mathematics; Autism spectrum disorder; Activity theory; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::MATEMATICA

This study aims to understand elements of teaching and learning that contribute to the development of mathematical skills of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Our object of study is activities designed by teacher who teaches Mathematics to students with ASD. Faced with this initial intention of research, we conducted a literature review on the topic in question, which turned out to reveal the lack of research focused on the development of mathematical skills of students with ASD. The researches included in the literature review bring relevant aspects to consider about the characteristics and difficulties of students with ASD regarding the development of scholastic skills. For this research we carried out the analysis of ten activities, developed by a teacher who teaches mathematics to students with ASD, which aim to build the concept of number and introduce the addition operation for this audience. The main instruments for data collection were semi-structured interview and recording of the teacher performing and describing the activity. The research methodology follows a qualitative and interpretative approach. The theoretical framework adopted, the third generation of Activity Theory, enabled the organization and understanding of the data collected. The activities are described and structured in Activities Systems and later analyzed. The units of analysis are the Activities Systems and its components: Subject, Mediating Artifacts, Object, Outcome, Rules, Community and Labor Division. By the results obtained, we identify and understand elements of teaching and learning that enhance the development of mathematical skills for students with ASD. Finally we consider that to make an effective contribution to the process of teaching and learning of Mathematics for students with ASD it is needed to consider the characteristics of this public in the development of educational activities that find ways to construct the meaning about of the mathematical objects instead of prioritizing only procedures of memorization. We can say that some of the main characteristic of this public who present themselves as difficulties in learning mathematics, such as generalized knowledge, build abstract thinking, concentration difficulty, among others, can often be avoided observing the planning and structuring of the teaching, the proper use of materials and resources, environmental organization where learning occurs and the way of systematization the content