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- 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).
- Português L2 / L1: compreensão na leituraPublication . Gonçalves, Carolina; Sousa, OtíliaEste texto resulta de um estudo que pretendia avaliar comparativamente a compreensão na leitura de alunos de ascendência africana e de alunos lusos, em final de escolaridade obrigatória, em Portugal. Para recolha e análise dos dados, aplicouse um teste de língua a um universo de 170 alunos, metade de ascendência africana e metade de ascendência lusa a frequentar escolas da periferia de Lisboa. Os resultados parecem sugerir que ambas as populações têm dificuldades ao nível desta competência. Dos resultados pode inferir-se que as condições socioeconómicas parecem ser mais importantes do que a condição linguística, no que diz respeito ao desenvolvimento da compreensão leitora.
- 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.