Problem-based learning: case study in the discipline water treatment, effluent and sewage.

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Regina
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Böhm, Giani, Böhm, Emerson
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/10497
• topic: Teaching-learning process; Alternative methodology; Traditional model; Didactic material.; Proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje; Metodología alternativA; Modelo tradicional; Material didáctico.; Processo de ensino-aprendizagem; Metodologia alternativa; Modelo tradicional; Material didático.

Any Educational Institution that offers professional courses carries with it a great responsibility, that should lead to the formation of a fully qualified professional who has proper competences and abilities that are required to a competitive and selective labor market. Therefore, based on this premise and on the existing literature, we believe that Problem-based Learning (PBL) could be a guide, once it is a facilitating tool for students to assimilate skills more easily (attitudes and knowledge), which can be applied in their future professional career in a forceful way. Therefore, the present research lies with the objective of evaluating the PBL applied to the discipline of Water, Effluents and Sewage Treatment of the Technical Course in Chemistry of the IFG, that was held in the year 2013. In order to do it, this research was based on the technical procedure and a case study. Data were collected through participant observation, questionnaires and the generated prototype. In general, the results have showed that the PBL was helpful to include greater integration and involvement of the students, motivated by bilateral teacher/student communication and participation, as well as the use of technologies as tools for personal, intellectual and professional growth, as students using and real problems led them to learn skills in solving problems of both practical and professional nature.