A concepção do conhecimento e o desenvolvimento da competência em informação por meio da aprendizagem significativa

Abstract

The challenge of teaching in higher education is to stimulate the creativity of students through learning methodologies applied in teaching. This requires that teachers reflect on the improvement of educational methods and tools that will work in the classroom. The objective is to describe the experience of using concept maps as a construction tool of knowledge and the development of information literacy, through theoretical and practical content taught in the course of Library of the Federal University of Ceará. The methodology was the literature related to the theory of conceptual map, developed by Novak (1984) from the David Ausubel learning theory in which has the prospects the organization of knowledge, based on the acquire prior knowledge. The second step was the implementation in the classroom and monitoring of the construction of conceptual maps. The results of the concept maps construction process reflect the critical and participatory attitude of the student in the content taught in the classroom. It was noticed that the use of concept maps can help students and teachers to lay out and highlight the aspects that must be worked into the classroom through an interrelationship between theory and practice.