Aprender a Cooperar na Aprendizagem das Ciências: Um estudo de caso em Estudo do Meio do 2.º ano do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Tânia
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Silva, José Luís Coelho da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v8i5.2479

Cooperative learning is framed as a goal and as an educational strategy since it can contribute to the development of cooperation skills and, simultaneously, can constitute a route to enhance learning. Having in consideration this theoretical framework, an educational intervention was conceived, designed, implemented and evaluated. In general terms, this intervention is characterized by the operationalization of cooperative learning activities - Jigsaw and TGT (Teams– Games Tournaments) – and by the involvement of 27 students attending 2nd grade of primary school, in the subject Environmental Studies. The research methodology employed an articulation of qualitative and quantitative procedures, and a collection of data through students’ learning tasks and through a final evaluation questionnaire. Results suggest that cooperative learning activities contributed significantly to the development of cooperation competences. The scientific subject underlying the activities and the cooperation strategy employed were considered by students as factors that constrain the educational value of the cooperative learning activities. The difficulty in implementing information searching task, characteristic of the Jigsaw approach, is pointed out by the students as the reason for considering the Jigsaw cooperation activity more difficult than the TGT. The results support the implementation of pedagogical approaches focused on cooperative learning in primary school. However, they also suggest the importance of engaging students in reflection activities about the pedagogical process in order to increase the educational impact of these approaches.