Dispositivos complexos de aprendizagem no ensino de ciências : o imaginário mundo da microbiologia

Abstract

In this project we mapped the invention process of a complex learning device, which has the intention to stimulate and challenge the students in their capabilities to imagine worlds, act collectively and collaboratively and create solutions for the presented issues. The thematic that resulted in the creation of this device was the study of microbiology in the elementary school, with exploration of the science curriculum planned for the seventh grade and the investment in a methodology that could overcome the linear methodologies that unfold in the following questioning: how do the Complex Learning Devices provide microbiology learning/teaching conditions in an interdisciplinary and meaningful way? In microbiology we are constantly interacting with theories and organisms invisible to the naked eye; requiring, in a certain way, the teaching creativity to think pedagogical practices capable of, through imagination, get in real worlds, however, in other scales. In order to defend the study proposal and base this research, support was sought mainly in the texts of Edgar Morin, Ivani Fazenda, Gilles Deleuze and Virgínia Kastrup. The research was conducted in May and July of 2018, with a seventh grade class from a public school in the city of São Borja/RS. The intervention research involved, along with the students, the construction of a “Felt City” as a Complex Learning Device – CLD, where problem situations involving microbiology were presented for the students who, through interactions with the other participants, researched and sought to solve the problems presented. Mental maps and interdisciplinary organizational charts gave students the necessary clues for the device organization on each situation. Throughout the process, the study cartography reveals how much the creativity, imagination and the autonomy emerge from the process of interaction and intervention by the problem situations. It is also confirmed the important role that the interdisciplinary proposals with systemic and complex perspective perform in the comprehension process of microbiology.