Abstract
Nos últimos anos têm vindo a aumentar os apelos para a promoção da interdisciplinaridade entre as várias áreas curriculares, com o objetivo de preparar melhor os estudantes para os desafios científicos e tecnológicos cada vez mais exigentes das sociedades modernas. Os professores desempenham um papel fundamental em qualquer processo de renovação pedagógica, o que torna necessário promover o seu desenvolvimento profissional de modo a inovar as suas práticas. Mas para promover o desenvolvimento profissional dos professores levanta-se a seguinte questão: como se caracteriza o conhecimento que promove a inovação nas práticas dos professores? Em particular, qual é o conhecimento necessário para promover a interdisciplinaridade? Esta última questão é o principal foco deste artigo, num contexto que envolve atividades experimentais hands-on que integram tópicos tais como ciências, tecnologia e matemática, entre outros. Com uma abordagem qualitativa de natureza interpretativa, com recurso a estudos de caso, procuramos investigar quais são os tipos de conhecimento que se destacaram em alguns professores que participaram num programa de desenvolvimento profissional e implementaram tarefas interdisciplinares, em aula, com os respetivos alunos. Para implementar atividades experimentais interdisciplinares concluímos ser necessário adquirir conhecimento especializado relacionado com os conteúdos a ensinar, mas, não menos importante, é fundamental o conhecimento pedagógico para tornar os conteúdos acessíveis aos alunos de modo a promover uma aprendizagem significativa.
Lately, there has been an increasing call for the promotion of interdisciplinarity amongst several subject matters in order to better prepare the students to the scientific and technological challenges of modern societies. Teachers are the cornerstone of any educational reform, being crucial to promote their professional development. But professional development raises the following question: what knowledge promotes the innovation of teachers’ practices? In particular, what knowledge is necessary to promote interdisciplinarity? This last question is the main focus of our research in the context of primary school teachers’ professional development related to Mathematics, Science and Technology. With a qualitative methodology and an interpretative approach and based on case studies we intend to research what knowledge is highlighted in primary school teachers who participated in a Continuing Professional Development Program and implemented several hands-on interdisciplinary experiments in class. Main conclusions appoint to the need of specialized subject matter knowledge related to the topics to integrate but, not less important, there is a need for pedagogical knowledge to make the contents meaningful to students.
Lately, there has been an increasing call for the promotion of interdisciplinarity amongst several subject matters in order to better prepare the students to the scientific and technological challenges of modern societies. Teachers are the cornerstone of any educational reform, being crucial to promote their professional development. But professional development raises the following question: what knowledge promotes the innovation of teachers’ practices? In particular, what knowledge is necessary to promote interdisciplinarity? This last question is the main focus of our research in the context of primary school teachers’ professional development related to Mathematics, Science and Technology. With a qualitative methodology and an interpretative approach and based on case studies we intend to research what knowledge is highlighted in primary school teachers who participated in a Continuing Professional Development Program and implemented several hands-on interdisciplinary experiments in class. Main conclusions appoint to the need of specialized subject matter knowledge related to the topics to integrate but, not less important, there is a need for pedagogical knowledge to make the contents meaningful to students.
Translated title of the contribution | Professional knowledge of teachers in STEAMH hands-on experiments |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Article number | e5373 |
Journal | Revista de Educação, Ciências e Matemática |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Conhecimentos dos professores
- desenvolvimento profissional
- atividades experimentais hands-on
- STEAMH
- ensino básico
- Teachers’ knowledge
- professional development
- hands-on experiments
- interdisciplinarity
- primary school