Avaliação processual pela metodologia IBSE (Inquiry Based Science Education) na formação ecocidadã: contribuições para o ensino de ciências

Abstract

This research aimed to implement and evaluate a pedagogical intervention using the IBSE teaching method (Inquiry Based Science Education), to promote critical teaching-learning processes in environmental education for the eco-citizen formation of students from EEEM Joao Pedro Nunes, in the county of São Gabriel-RS. The school has a heterogeneous public, a very large space and few employees for maintenance. The students do not have good habits of preservation of the school environment, they do not have concern with the conservation of the spaces; throw trash on the floor, do not even keep the classrooms clean. This behavior denotes not only the environmental "lack of education" of the students, but also the lack of an education for citizenship, an education in citizens' values. From this problem, the question arises, how to lead the student to perceive that his actions affect the environment and to become aware of the socio-environmental impact of his actions? Possibly, through critical and transformative processes of environmental education, justifying this research, which had an exploratory character and a qualitative approach. The pedagogical intervention was evaluated through rubrics and analyzed in light of the Critical Significant Learning Theory and the principles for emancipation. Most students have achieved meaningful critical learning by developing naive thinking in critical awareness and thus no longer being overwhelmed by the culture in which they are inserted and managing to apply the knowledge built on other occasions. In addition, students began to establish new ways of relationship with the environment, and now have the conditions to act to transform, through eco-citizens actions. All the activities carried out, as well as the lesson plans and rubrics are available to other education professionals in one site, elaborated and presented as educational production linked to this dissertation.