Map of research on experimentation in chemistry teaching in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: de Souza, Renata Faria
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Cabral, Patrícia Fernanda de Oliveira, Queiroz, Salete Linhares
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Alexandria (Florianópolis)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/alexandria/article/view/1982-5153.2019v12n2p93

This work analyzes the academic production expressed in dissertations and thesis on experimentation in Chemistry teaching, defended in Postgraduate Programs related to the areas of Teaching, Education and Chemistry of the CAPES from 2004 to 2013. Dissertations (122) and theses (21) were investigated based on the following descriptors: year of defense; level of academic qualification; geographical region; institution; educational level and thematic focus. The results showed a significant growth in the number of studies on the subject in question. The most researched levels of education were high school (68.5%) and higher education (27.3%), whereas the most important thematic focus was experimentation as a didactic strategy (58.3%) and experimentation in teaching materials (20.2%). Experimentation related to preservice and inservice teacher education was still incipient, 7.1% and 13.1% of production, respectively, enabling us to infer that this is an important gap to be filled by future studies.