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- Conceções e representações de crianças e de professores em formação acerca dos animais: das similaridades aos desafios colocadosPublication . Almeida, António; Figueira, Conceição; Gonçalves, CarolinaÉ consensual que as atitudes e os comportamentos dos professores são um dos fatores que influenciam a postura das crianças nos mais diversos aspetos da sua vida quotidiana. As conceções e representações acerca dos animais não são por isso exceção a este princípio. Este estudo procurou comparar as perceções de 210 crianças do 3.º e do 4.º ano provenientes de 6 escolas da região de Lisboa e do Porto com as de 82 estudantes do Curso de Mestrado em Ensino do 1.º do 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Para tal, foi aplicado um mesmo questionário que contemplava 25 animais, sendo os sujeitos convidados a manifestar o seu grau de simpatia através de uma escala que variava entre 7 e -7. O questionário foi devidamente validado e pilotado antes da sua aplicação. Para cada animal foi calculado o valor médio obtido e o desvio padrão em cada uma das amostras consideradas. Os resultados impressionam pela sua similaridade, quer a nível do ranking final dos animais quer daqueles que apresentam um maior valor de desvio padrão. A título de exemplo, dos cinco animais mais apreciados quatro foram os mesmos nas crianças e nos adultos, e a mesma tendência se verificou entre os menos apreciados. De igual modo, três dos animais cujos resultados apresentaram um maior desvio-padrão foram os mesmos. Após a apresentação destes resultados aos alunos que frequentaram a unidade curricular de Didática das Ciências da Natureza do referido curso no ano letivo de 2011/2012, e que igualmente fizeram parte da amostra, foram delineados pequenos projetos de intervenção que visaram melhorar a imagem de alguns dos animais. O principal objetivo destes projetos foi desde logo proporcionar uma maior compreensão do papel ecológico dos animais menos queridos e proporcionar formas de abordar esse papel com as crianças do 1.º e do 2.º ciclo. Simultaneamente, procurou-se que o trabalho desenvolvido fosse suficientemente marcante nos estudantes do ensino superior para que os mesmos evitassem no futuro muitas das ideias negativas que osprofessores transmitem em relação a alguns animais em contexto de sala de aula, muitas delas no âmbito do denominado currículo oculto
- Ecology through literature for children: a study with pupils in the primary schoolPublication . Neves, Sónia; Almeida, António; Gonçalves, CarolinaEcological knowledge plays an increasingly important role in today’s society, since it allows us to understand how nature works and how severe the human action is when related to its destruction. Ecology includes concepts with different levels of complexity, which has raised doubts about their inclusion in the primary school curriculum. Therefore, the main aim of the present study was to evaluate the approach of ecology concepts in a class of the 4th grade of primary school, through children’s literature books which are focused on ecological relations, and exploring them from the Reading Circles strategy (Cercles de lecture), a dynamic proposed by Giasson (2003), which promotes text understanding, using collaborative working and proposing different functions to be assigned by pupils, called the roles (Les rôles).
- The approach of socioscientific issues through children’s literature: a survey about the importance given by pre-service teachersPublication . Almeida, António; Gonçalves, CarolinaThe approach of socioscientific issues, some of them controversial, has led teachers to look for educational resources that help them in this task. Children’s literature has been one of this resources, as several books have been incorporating these issues. Some emerging issues are those related to sexuality and parental reality as well as the ones addressing environmental themes.
- Princípios pedagógico-didáticos para a conceção de recursos educativos digitais: análise do recurso cozinhar a aprenderPublication . Cardoso, Adriana; Almeida, António; Gonçalves, Carolina; Pereira, Susana; Rodrigues, Margarida; Silva, EncarnaçãoNeste capítulo, discutem-se princípios pedagógico-didáticos para a conceção de recursos educativos digitais que promovam situações de aprendizagem inovadoras. Neste âmbito, destacam-se: (i) a criação de contextos significativos para a aprendizagem; (ii) a integração curricular; (iii) a implementação de um desenho instrucional de base construtivista; (iv) a promoção da autonomia do aluno; (v) a promoção do envolvimento e da motivação do aluno no processo de ensino-aprendizagem. Estes princípios são mobilizados, no presente capítulo, na análise de um recurso educativo digital concreto (Cozinhar a Aprender), que visa promover o desenvolvimento integrado de competências (Português, Matemática, Estudo do Meio) no 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico a partir da exploração do género textual receita culinária.
- Outdoor education and interdisciplinarity: a connection between science and mother tonguePublication . Gonçalves, Carolina; Almeida, AntónioThe study plans of the courses for Primary School Teachers in the Lisbon Higher School of Education include a curricular unit designed "Projects of Curricular Integration between Science and Mother Tongue". Their main goal is to develop interdisciplinarity reflection, discussion and didactic proposals between these two subjects. In the final session of the unit, in the last two school years, a questionnaire about interdisciplinarity was administered to the 37 students that chose it, in order to identify, among other aspects, the advantages and potentialities of this type of knowledge articulation. Fourteen educational resources designed by the students to explore Nacional Tapada of Mafra were also analyzed. The results showed that the majority of the students tend to emphasize the importance of interdisciplinarity in promoting meaningful learning and in the perception that knowledge is interconnected. Concerning the educational resources, the students explore mainly scientific vocabulary and the use of description and expository text, regularly used in outdoor tasks.
- PBL Methodology: Enhancing Science and Mother Tongue IntegrationPublication . Vaz, Odete; Almeida, António; Gonçalves, CarolinaCurricular integration in school usually departs from a theme that reveals potential to interrelate knowledge from different disciplinary areas. However, an integrated approach can also be achieved by following a certain didactic line, problem situation or activity. In this study, a Problem Based Learning (PBL) methodology was implemented with the intention of promoting better learning in the fields of Science and Mother Tongue (Portuguese). This methodology has been used at different levels of schooling, especially related with Science learning, and our aim was to verify its potential to the improvement of expository text production. The participants were 44 pupils from the 4th grade of a primary state school, aged between 8-9 years old, divided into two groups (the experimental one and the control one). To achieve the established aim, three activities related to topics of the science syllabus were designed in accordance with PBL principles, that are: a) to present a problem that is relevant in a real context; b) to frame it using a real or a fictional scenario that can motivate pupils c) to give data sources to help its resolution; d) to promote collaborative work; e) to help pupils dealing with the proposed data sources through a tutorial process; f) to ask for a final product in which the answer to the problem is included; g) to assess all the learning process, presenting new situations that imply the knowledge acquired. The study took place during three months and the written productions of pupils were assessed with the help of grids for learning verification of scientific concepts and internalization of the key dimensions associated with written text production. The control group had a traditional approach of the contents of both disciplines. The results were particularly encouraging in the experimental group in terms of the presented aims, and reveled that the use of PBL can help learning in the two subject areas involved. It was also verified that the use of PBL activities had an impact on communication skills of pupils as well as in their motivation for learning.
- Integrated didactics: an example of a curriculum model enhancing knowledge crossingPublication . Gonçalves, Carolina; Almeida, António; Rodrigues, Margarida; G Dias, AlfredoIn this paper, we introduce an innovative course in the Portuguese Context, the Master's Course in “Integrated Didactics in Mother Tongue, Maths, Natural and Social Sciences”, taking place at the Lisbon School of Education and discussing in particular the results of the evaluation made by the students who attended the Curricular Unit - Integrated Didactics (CU-ID). This course was designed for in-service teachers of the first six years of schooling and intends to improve connections between different curriculum areas. In this paper, we start to present a few general ideas about curriculum development; to discuss the concept of integration; to present the principles and objectives of the course created as well as its structure; to describe the methodology used in the evaluation process of the above mentioned CU-ID. The results allow us to state that the students recognized, as positive features of the CU-ID, the presence in all sessions of two teachers simultaneously from different scientific areas, as well as invitations issued to specialists on the subject of integration and to other teachers that already promote forms of integration in schools. As negative features, students noted a lack of integrated purpose, applying simultaneously the four scientific areas of the course, and also indicated the need to be familiar with more models of integrated education. Consequently, the suggestions for improvement derived from these negative features. The students also considered that their evaluation process was correct, due to the fact that it was focused on the design of an integrated project for one of the school years already mentioned.