ACTIVE METHODOLOGIES: A SURVEY ON THEIR USE IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the progress of the use of active methodologies in Brazilian education, and its most used methods. Based on the fact that Brazilian educators are familiar with Paulo Freire's pedagogical thinking, with a focus on combining students' knowledge and coexistence with the basis for teaching, a method that converges with the active teaching methodology, where the incentive to sharing between teacher/student in the protagonism in the teaching process. A brief description of the methods described in the research was elaborated as a way to improve the understanding of their use. The applied methodology was a bibliographical review, in the Scopus database related to the period from 2017 to 2021, based on the delimitation of the period encompassing before the isolation until the full return of school activities; only articles with the description of the method and the result of its application and the identification of the group of students or people were accepted. The result showed that in the period the methodology was widely used in higher education, highlighting the health area, as well as the method problem-based learning was the most used, even covering the period of social isolation, the study did not bring data on this impact.