The function of the group in the relation between mediation and knowledge building

• Autor(a) principal: Clarindo, Janailson Monteiro
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Colaço, Veriana de Fátima Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Psicologia (Fortaleza. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/psicologiaufc/article/view/1478
• topic: Group; Cultural Tool; Symbolic Mediation.; Grupo; Ferramenta Cultural; Mediação Simbólica

This paper’s main goal is make a discussion about a research that analyzed the group as a cultural tool in the knowledge building process. It was made considering the relation between group and mediated actions’ properties, having the cultural-historical Psychology as the theoretical foundation. An intervention research case study was made with an elementary school group of students; they were of both genders and have a 14 years old mean age. Five group meetings using a workshop methodology were held, using different activities it were analyzed the group dynamics and its operation. The study’s main conclusion indicates that the group can operate as a cultural tool, in other words, it can be a psychological instrument that mediates the human action (its participants’ actions). This process generates the knowledge building by the group domain. Besides, the facilitation group process can promote a mediated learning experience, thus making a propitious environment for the domain of other kind of mediated tools.