Writings and testimonies in the academic culture of a mathematics course

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Shirley Patrícia Nogueira de Castro e
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Maria Laura Magalhães
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Zetetiké (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/zetetike/article/view/8654227
• topic: Academic culture; Teacher training in mathematics; Oral history; Course of mathematics of Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (Unimontes); Cultura acadêmica; Formação de professores de matemática; História oral; Curso de matemática da Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (Unimontes)

This article aims to characterize the academic culture of the Mathematics course offered by Fundação NorteMineira de Ensino Superior (FUNM), later Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (Unimontes) in the period1960-1990. The purpose of this study was to understand the pedagogical practices carried out and theconceptions about the type of mathematics teacher which that course intended to prepare. The sources wereacademic documents, textbooks and interviews of former teachers and students conducted in the methodology ofOral History. As for the practices, the use of oral exposition, the organization of the classroom context, theexplanation of teaching objectives and the use of examples and exercises were highlighted. The prospectiveteacher should transmit and know well mathematical content, as well as should know how to articulate theconcepts to everyday life and theory to practice. In the same way, he or she should be able to locatemathematical knowledge in history and sociology.