O ensino de química numa escola pública estadual de Boa Vista-RR: a experimentação como parte do processo

Abstract

With the constant concern to review and renew our educational practices in chemistry teaching, using as official means such as LDB, PCNs among others, this work sought to investigate how the experimental teaching was happening in chemistry classes in a state public school in Boa Vista-RR. With the objective of disincarnating the habitual teaching of our practices, the current educational legislation points to a more contextualized teaching that stimulate the critical sense and the autonomy of our students. These official documents that legislate and guide our teaching practices make reference to the experimental activities in the teaching of chemistry, pointing out its characteristics, importance and ways of insertion, however, almost twenty years have passed since its publications, so, this work sought to verify If the teaching of chemistry suited the current type of teaching. Some aspects mediated the discussion, in which I emphasized: the traditional and contextualized teaching of chemistry; The daily life of the students; Motivation for learning; The role of experimentation in teaching chemistry; The use of low cost alternative materials as a way to overcome the absence of conventional materials and the textbook. The search for answers occurred through interviews with teachers, where they were open to innovations in the teaching of chemistry, mainly to those of methodological order. In any case, one of the contributions of this dissertation is to point to the permanent need to revise our pedagogical practices in order to follow the rapid changes that occur in the educational, social, cultural and technological spheres.