A noção de projeto na educação: o "método de projeto" de William Heard Kilpatrick

• Autor(a) principal: Leite, Ana Cláudia Caldas de Arruda
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• 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/10606
• topic: Projeto; Educação; Método de projeto; Kilpatrick, William Heard -- 1871-1965; Metodo de projeto no ensino; Project; Education; Project method; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This work, carried through from social sciences circumscribed education issues, has as object of study the concept of project, its introduction in the educational context, and its relation with modernity. Moreover, it is based on the project method , developed in 1918 by William Heard Kilpatrick, due to its contribution for the understanding of the nexuses established between psychology and education. Also, this method allows analyzing the input of the education and psychology in the history of teaching based on projects. The conception of project in modernity reveals two main features from the XVI century: the ascension of the individual and the development of the capitalism. From the hypothesis that the concept of projects evidences the lack of synchronism produced in this period, between the emphasis on the individual and on the transformations of the modes of production. Thus, it turns the making of this self-governing reasoning oriented person unachievable. In order to analyze the idea of project, Kilpatrick essays on the project method were used as primary reference source. Finally, the theoretical referential which support this work were Karl Marx and the authors of the critical theory