“Biologia do encantamento”: despertando o interesse dos alunos em um cursinho popular de Fortaleza

Abstract

One of the characteristics of higher education, in our country, are the difficulties of access, especially for public school students. Many initiatives have been taken by the government aiming to provide greater access for public school students, such as the PROUNI and REUNI. Noting this and becaming concerned about these inequality issues, a group of undergraduation students from Federal University of Ceará got together and got the idea to create the popular course “Projeto Novo Vestibular”. The PNV comes with the mission of assisting in human formation of young and adults, not only by transmiting content required in the entrance exam, but seeking to arouse new senses, helping the critical thinking and inserting them in our society. In this perspective, the teacher has autonomy in aspects such as the conception of the syllabus of his/her subject and in the definition of the schedule that he/she wants to follow and this autonomy is a very positive and very successful point with those who participate in it. Therefore, the present work aims to analyze my course of teaching formation, evidencing elements that contributed for a critical performance in classroom; get know the students’ view of the Project about the education received in schools where they concluded high school, comparing to the purpose of critical education, in the Freirean sense that I adopt as a teacher; evidencing these students’ comprehension about the Biology subject ministered in the formal teaching and in that experienced in the Project, and understand if my action as a Biology teacher in this Project contributes to their critical and liberator learning. The methodological approach used to develop this work was the narrative of experiences lived, and for the research, qualitative interviews in form of Focus Group were undertaken with a few students of the Project, randomly selected, where their interaction is made by a moderator (interviewer) and aims to stimulate the interviewed to speak and react. With the conclusion of this work, it is noticed that many students still have a traditional view of the Biology teaching; however, after a few months of studying in a free teaching methodology, they can think of the subject in another way, with another look, seeing its importance in everyday life. It is also observed that the pupil-teacher relationship was also of great importance for this change in look and enchantment to happen.