Formação de educadores de infância e professores do 1º ciclo para a prática das ciências experimentais
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2012
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O Ensino Experimental das Ciências é fundamental para que os cidadãos adquiram conhecimentos, competências, capacidades e valores necessários para viver na sociedade atual. As novas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação propiciam uma cidadania participativa, crítica, uma nova forma de aprender e ensinar e também novas conceções de saber.
Neste projeto de supervisão clínica conciliou-se a dinamização das Ciências Experimentais com as novas Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação proporcionando-se assim não só a formação contínua de docentes do Pré-Escolar e do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico em exercício, mas também o desenvolvimento de competências nestas duas áreas por parte das crianças envolvidas.
Este trabalho baseou-se na metodologia de investigação-ação, foi desenvolvido nos laboratórios de Biologia e de Geologia da Escola Secundária Cacilhas-Tejo, e envolveu uma turma de crianças do Pré-Escolar e uma escola com seis turmas de alunos do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, do 1º ao 4º ano de escolaridade. As atividades experimentais/laboratoriais foram planificadas, avaliadas e feita uma reflexão de modo a adequar objetivos e estratégias.
Para a concretização desta investigação foram utilizados vários recursos e para a sua avaliação várias fontes de dados, os quais foram recolhidos em diferentes momentos do desenvolvimento do mesmo. Ao longo deste estudo, que se focou no segundo ano do desenvolvimento do projeto “Experimentar a Brincar”, recolheram-se dados pela observação participante e pelo diário do investigador. No final realizaram-se entrevistas, às docentes que participaram no projeto. Outra fonte de dados utilizada consistiu nos relatórios finais do primeiro e do segundo ano de implementação do projeto.
Na avaliação final deste trabalho de investigação-ação concluiu-se que tinham sido melhoradas as práticas de ensino dos docentes do Pré-Escolar e do 1º Ciclo no âmbito das Ciências Experimentais, ocorrendo assim formação contínua, levada a cabo através do trabalho colaborativo, patente no desenvolvimento de vários tipos de competências nas crianças envolvidas.
The Experimental Teaching of Sciences is essential, for it allows the citizens to acquire the knowledge, skills, capacities and values required by the society we live in. The new ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) promote a participating critical citizenship, a new way of learning and teaching as well as new conceptions of knowledge. In this project of clinical supervision, it was possible to bring together the Experimental Sciences and the new ICT, thus providing not only further training for the nursery and the primary school teachers but also the development of skills in the children involved as far as these two areas are concerned. This study, based on the research-action methodology, was developed in the Biology and Geology labs of Cacilhas-Tejo Secondary School and it involved a class of kindergarten children and six classes of primary school children (1st to 4th grade). The experimental/lab activities were planned and evaluated and a further analysis followed, in order to adjust objectives and strategies. This study has been accomplished thanks to several resources and its evaluation was possible due to the various data sources used, which were collected in different moments of the development of the study. The data collected throughout this study, which focused on the second year of the development of the project Experimentar a Brincar (“Experiment while playing”), had as a basis the direct observation, the researcher`s diary and the interviews to the teachers who participated in the project. The final reports of the first and second year of the project`s implementation were also regarded as a meaningful data source. In the final evaluation of this research-action project it was concluded that there was an improvement in the teaching practices of the kindergarten and primary school teachers within the Experimental Sciences, due to further training which was carried out through collaborative work and which can also be seen in the different types of skills developed in the meantime by the children involved in the project.
The Experimental Teaching of Sciences is essential, for it allows the citizens to acquire the knowledge, skills, capacities and values required by the society we live in. The new ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) promote a participating critical citizenship, a new way of learning and teaching as well as new conceptions of knowledge. In this project of clinical supervision, it was possible to bring together the Experimental Sciences and the new ICT, thus providing not only further training for the nursery and the primary school teachers but also the development of skills in the children involved as far as these two areas are concerned. This study, based on the research-action methodology, was developed in the Biology and Geology labs of Cacilhas-Tejo Secondary School and it involved a class of kindergarten children and six classes of primary school children (1st to 4th grade). The experimental/lab activities were planned and evaluated and a further analysis followed, in order to adjust objectives and strategies. This study has been accomplished thanks to several resources and its evaluation was possible due to the various data sources used, which were collected in different moments of the development of the study. The data collected throughout this study, which focused on the second year of the development of the project Experimentar a Brincar (“Experiment while playing”), had as a basis the direct observation, the researcher`s diary and the interviews to the teachers who participated in the project. The final reports of the first and second year of the project`s implementation were also regarded as a meaningful data source. In the final evaluation of this research-action project it was concluded that there was an improvement in the teaching practices of the kindergarten and primary school teachers within the Experimental Sciences, due to further training which was carried out through collaborative work and which can also be seen in the different types of skills developed in the meantime by the children involved in the project.
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Orientação: Maria Manuela Abreu da Silva ; co-orientação: Ana Paula Silva
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EDUCAÇÃO, TECNOLOGIAS DA INFORMAÇÃO E COMUNICAÇÃO, FORMAÇÃO CONTÍNUA, EDUCATION, CONTINUING EDUCATION, MESTRADO EM CIÊNCIAS DA EDUCAÇÃO NA ÁREA DE ESPECIALIZAÇÃO EM SUPERVISÃO PEDAGÓGICA E FORMAÇÃO DE FORMADORES, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES