A Metodologia de Investigação na Escola em aulas de Geografia

Abstract

This Masters dissertation discusses about teaching methodologies and presents one in specific, the School Research Model that during this research was applied by four Geography teachers from different places in Rio de Janeiro. Sought to investigate with the Scholl Research Model in a Brazilian context because it wasn´t, on the time of initial research elaboration, possible to find publications in Portuguese, even in academic papers in national databases, not even information about its use or experimentations in Brazil. This is a qualitative research, using for data collection teaching narratives based on the perceptions about the activity developed with School Research Model. It had as objectives to present the School Research Model in depth, to point out contributions that the experiences can give to the teaching of Geography, to observe the changes in the relationship between teacher and students from the transformation of the dynamics of the classes and verify their possibilities in the Brazilian context. The analysis of the narratives sought to highlight what the teachers collaborators pointed out as contributions and possibilities of the aforementioned methodology. This way we found appointments like the improvements of the relationship between teachers and students in the daily basis, decrease of the problem of indiscipline and the increase in chances of autonomy of students, as well as the possibility of more meaningful learning of the school geographical knowledge. We conclude that the School Research Model can contribute to the geography classes in Brazil by enabling another type of relationship between the contents e concepts studied, and between students and teachers. This work can serve as a basis for future research on this methodology, since we seek to present it together with its main theoretical frameworks and detailed the step by step for its use, gradually and initially for students and teachers who have never had contact with it until reaching more advanced stages.