O conteúdo desenvolvido nas aulas de Química da Educação Básica: como estudantes em formação se apropriam desse conhecimento

Abstract

Teachers’attitude in class shows more of the knowledge they have acquired through experience as students themselves than what is suggested by contemporary learning theories. With that in mind, we decided to investigate the students of the distance course of Didática do Ensino de Química I (Didactics of Chemistry Teaching I) from the Chemistry teaching course of UFMG (Minas Gerais Federal University). We observed how the students deal with teaching theories. The focus was on the discussion about the knowledge required in basic education and how the new teachers apply the theories they have studied to teach the appropriate chemistry curricular content. The reflection on what content of chemistry to be taught in school on the discipline investigated did not provide meaningful results in terms of numbers. However, the quality of those results is meaningful. This first approach to the discussion on what is relevant content for basic studies shows that teachers will easily accept a trendy theory but their attitude will still be based on what we call ‘continuism’. Once this reality is acknowledged new approaches to the development of school syllabuses can come up. This way, the knowledge present in the discipline of chemistry in basic education will be taken into consideration for further improvements.