Neurociências e seus vínculos com ensino, aprendizagem e formação docente : percepções de professores e licenciados da área de ciências da natureza

Abstract

In the last decade, the advance of Cognitive Neuroscience has been well-known, conceptualizing new understandings about the different cognitive processes that support teaching and learning processes. In this sense, knowing an opinion of teachers and graduates about such knowledge becomes relevant and necessary for those who work in the classroom. Thus, the research reported in this dissertation presents some answers to the following question: How do Basic Education teachers in the area of Natural Sciences and Biology, Physics and Chemistry graduates prepare for teaching and teaching from the perspective of Cognitive Neuroscience and how do they value these assumptions in their teaching practice? A data collection through the application of questions to 13 teachers of Basic Education and 20 students of undergraduate courses in the area of Natural Sciences, all of them are interviewed, with audio recording. With perspectives as participant perceptions, as answers and analyzes through Discursive Textual Analysis - ATD, allowing a conclusion to be obtain. The lack of interaction between neuroscientists and professionals in the field of education implies information and, consequently, lack of applicability of the consolidated results not Brazil and in other countries, even if they are documented researched values such concepts. From the analysis of the collected data, it is highlighted that, despite the low utilization of the knowledge of Cognitive Neuroscience in the classroom, there is great enthusiasm on the part of the participants, a respect to the use of knowledge. The results also show the existence of neuromyths in the teaching field, which may result in inadequate teaching approaches, in real time in data without scientific criteria. Thus, there is a need to train teachers in reference to brain functioning, associated with learning situations, in order to expand studies with scientific bases, which may contribute to a qualification of non-country education. Thus, there is a space to be filled between the neuroscientist who studies learning, the teacher of Basic Education and a training of teachers of Higher Education.