Natural Sciences textbooks of the 7th grade: an analysis of structural, technological and pedo-didactic characteristics

• Autor(a) principal: Peixoto, Elisabete
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Pedro, Luís, Vieira, Rui Marques
• 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.v10i5.11127

This article presents the work that is being developed in the scope of the 1st author PhD within the theme “The use of transmedia in Geoscience teaching”. The reported study is related to a critical discussion regarding the current state of the art of the most used pedagogical resource used in Natural Sciences’ classrooms in Portugal: the textbook. Considering the curricular aims defined by the Ministry of Education, we pretend to analyse the structural, technological andpedo-didactic characteristics of the Natural Sciences’ textbooks that were adopted in the Aveiro district in the 2016/17 school year. In this analysis, an assessment instrument already validated by multimedia and didactics experts was used. The results obtained allow us to understand that the textbooks that were analysed have structural categories that are adequated to the teaching level. However, we also verified that the majority of textbooks do not have the needed pedo-didactics characteristics, namely the ones related to Science Education, such as identifies, formulates, or seeks answers to questions, makes decisions, or establishes links between elements of different content areas. Hence, this study stresses the need to contribute to the development of educational activities and resources that allow to fill that gap and alsocontribute to the development of students’ scientific knowledge, capacities and attitudes.