Integração das tecnologias e currículo: a aprendizagem significativa de licenciandos de ciências na apropriação e articulação entre saberes científicos, pedagógicos e das TDIC

Abstract

The objective of this research is interpret the theoretical understandings and practices of undergraduates in Biological and Physical Sciences, concerning scientific, pedagogical and digital technological knowledge, as well as the integrations established among these, from a transdisciplinary methodological approach. A field research was carried out by conducting face to face and distance learning classes, during the semester 2011.2.The research, which has a qualitative approach, was based on Case Study. The target audience consists of seven pre-service teachers, undergraduates in Biological and Physical Sciences from the Federal University of Ceará, offered by the Department of Computer Science. The research is divided into three phases: planning, data collection and analysis. In the first phase, we adapted the course syllabus to insert a transdisciplinary methodological approach. In the second one, it was investigated the pre-service teachers’ understanding of integrations among scientific, educational and digital technology knowledge. The written productions of the subjects were collected in five stages: prior knowledge; understanding of the use of TDIC in the context of Science teaching and learning; understanding of Science teaching and learning; relations established among the knowledge areas from the construction of concept maps; application of constructed knowledge in lesson planning. In the third phase, the collected data were analyzed through the techniques of the Textual Discourse Analysis and Multidimensional Data Analysis approach, using the software for multidimensional data mapping CHIC. The data collection tools made use of digital technologies: surveys were available on Google Docs, discussion boards were available on the Virtual Learning Environment TelEduc, concept maps were developed using the CMap Tools software and lesson plans were shared by the pre-service teachers and stored in the Portfolios area in TelEduc. The results revealed that pre-service teachers emphasized aspects related to teaching more than those related to learning, making use of TDIC or not in proposed teaching practices. The pre-service teachers established conceptual integrations among the scientific educational and digital technology knowledge. They revealed that they recognize the difficulties of academic education. They expressed the need for teaching education that incorporates the TDIC in the context of Science teaching and learning. As a consequence, proposals for teaching work and curriculum change that allow the integration of different types of knowledge needed for teaching were presented.