Research lines and projects
Focusing area
Name: Science and Mathematics teaching
Description: The area of Master and Doctorate degree, professional modality, focuses the research in promoting reflections about questions that are linked to Science and Mathematics teaching, valuing the teachers’ qualification and improvement, aligned with the national regulations and the scientific and technological advances presents in the contemporary world. The area aimed, also, the research connected to development of educational products aligned to innovative strategies of teaching which are capable to provide enhancements in basic education. The propose is to concentrate the research activities and initiatives in didactical intervention process and the development of educational products related to Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and related fields, in different educational levels. In particular, this area involve the development and application of didactical and devices materials, such as educational app, didactical sequences, support texts for teachers, prototypes and proposals for experimental activities (physical or virtual laboratories), technological resources for communication, information and interaction, digital learning objects, educational software, among others. Therefore, this area looks for to feed discussions related to national education, looking for ways to qualify the teacher’s continuous formation within multidisciplinary perspective and pedagogical innovation.
Research line 1. Educational Practices in Science and Mathematics teaching
This research line has the aim to investigate, evaluate and operationalize educational practices based on educational fundamentals binded to teaching and learning in Science and Mathematics. The focus is in research, development and implementation of didactical resources, from different natures, in school context, based in scientific, pedagogical and epistemological aspects. The studies developed in this line occur in formal and non-formal spaces. The projects linked to this research line emphasis lies in strategic actions with the aim to improve the teachers work in different educative levels. The research and extension projects, associated to this line, prioritize the application of didactical strategies in order to provide meaning to the contents developed in the disciplines and areas involved, based on contemporary pedagogical references, such as those linked to didactics of Science and Mathematics, learning theories, metacognition, scientific literacy, teaching through inquiry, the history of Mathematics, the history of Science and problem solving.
Researchers: Adriana Bragagnolo, Cleci Teresinha Werner da Rosa, Cristiano Roberto Buzatto, Elisa Mainardi, Luiz Henrique Ferraz Pereira, Luiz Marcelo Darroz, Nelson Luiz Reyes Marques (Collaborating teacher).
Research line 2: Pedagogical Innovations for Teaching Science and Mathematics
Description: This research line has the aim to investigate, evaluate and operationalizeeducational actions associated with the appropriation of pedagogical innovations in the educational field, with an emphasis on the use of digital technologies. The purpose of this line is to develop and to implement, in accordance with the educational environments, technological devices of interaction and communication, which allow the innovative production of educational materials for qualification of the teaching and learning process. In this context, the line deals with research associated with innovative pedagogical actions in the educational field, bringing as a core aspect the presence of digital resources and teaching in formal, non-formal and distance learning environments. The projects developed in this line present theoretical foundations supported by contemporary perspectives on education, particularly those emerging in connection with constructionism, STEAM education, learning theories, the Science-Technology-Society approach, interdisciplinarity, among others.
Researchers: Adriano Canabarro Teixeira, Adriano Pasqualotti, Aline Locatelli, Alisson Cristian Giacomelli, Juliano Tonezer da Silva, Marco Antonio Sandini Trentin, Johnny Ferraz Dias (Collaborating teacher), Luciane Spanhol Bordignon(Collaborating teacher).
