Métodos lúdicos aplicados ao ensino da microbiologia do pescado

Abstract

Playful teaching techniques were applied to Fisheries Engineering undergraduate and graduate students in the Fish Microbiology course, at the Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil, to groups of 8-12 pupils. For each /isted bacterium by the National legislation body, the CNNPA-National Commission for Legislation and Standards for Food, one of the following methods were used: (a) awards for best poster elaboration; (b) writing up of a playful text or a folklore story - a catch word is set up by the teacher and the students judge which is the best one for awarding; (c) game contest - teams A and B study a text for 5-question matches with rules having been previously laid out; the winners get scores that might be useful for Partial Exams, or instead they get books or papers on the subject as a way of being awarded; (d) the last method is drama - a text on a certain bacterium is prepared by the pupils; after the drama presentation the teacher comments upon the text; the pupils assessment of the method shows that: it stimulates the learning process, develops the ability to create, improves the relationship pupil-teacher and makes it easier to learn the programmes of studies.