Experimentação: um recurso didático no ensino da química para educação de jovens e adultos

Abstract

This research was conducted at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Amapá (IFAP / Macapa Campus) in 2013 with eighteen students from the Food Technology Course, in high school level, in the modality of Education Program for Young People and Adults/ PROEJA, which were attending the third module. The teacher-researcher was part of the group studied and aimed to investigate how experimentation fosters student learning of vocational education in the form of Education for Young People and Adults, using as theme the concept of chemical kinetics. The framework of this research was based on Ausubel's meaningful learning. To check whether there was success in learning not only due to the generating theme in question using experimentation, but also by the ability to articulate the (re)constructed knowledge in contextualization. The research was characterized as an ethnographic case study as it was based on both of qualitative and quantitative methodology, questionnaires, registration and description of dialogues. After analysis and discussion of the results, we found that learning occurred significantly and allowed students to correlate Chemistry not only to their academic trainings, but also to their citizenship practices, serving as a basis for later knowledge acquisition.