Ensino de ciências em ambientes não formais

• Autor(a) principal: Mayer, Gabriela Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/28573
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO; Ensino de Ciências Naturais; Ensino Fundamental; Museus locais de aprendizagem; Metodologias de ensino em Museus; Avaliação de aprendizagem em ambientes não formais; Teaching Natural Science; Elementary and Middle School; Museums as a learning environment; Teaching methods in museums; Evaluation of non formal education environments

Education nowadays, independently on the area, faces a variety of challenge. Science helps to form on every individual a critic eye regarding what happens in the world. Regarding the importance of science, this present study has as the main goal to analyze de science education in the elementary and middle school, expatiate about the development of science museums as a place for teaching and learning, analyze different teaching methodologies in museums and discuss the assessments methods of learning in a non formal place. The scientific literacy can improve significantly by non formal learning environments, in partnership with the formal environments. Although museums have been established in the past, the idea of the museum as place for teaching and learning is recent, and it is strongly influenced by the social movements and society’s aspirations. The non formal education allows the learning to happen through the process of sharing experiences, therefore, the interaction with others that are in the same context. The non formal education makes the learning more meaningful and requires the participation of those who visits the place. In a science museum, knowledge is acquired through the method of experimentation. The method established in museums reinforces the strategies of a museum as a place that complements the experiences and learning in the formal education. Through programs and educational projects the experiences that visitors explore in sciences museums go beyond the fun and enjoyment. However, the role of museums is not only to impart knowledge, but to provoke the motivation needed to learn new things. A scientifically literate population is better prepared to discuss, monitor and reclaim public policies related to natural sciences, thus, exercise their role as citizens in their society. Therefore, we consider that: science education is fundamental to the development of citizens; science museums are dynamic, and act as partners in teaching of natural sciences at school, and learning methods must consider the main audience, arouse curiosity and engage the visitor