Comunidades de prática no auxilio ao combate à evasão : um estudo de caso com estudantes do curso de licenciatura em física

Abstract

In this Course Conclusion Paper (CBT) a case study was performed, according to Yin, and a questionnaire was built and applied to 22 students, graduating in Physics Degree (LF) from the Federal University of Pampa (Unipampa). Bagé Campus and Physics Education Instrumentation Laboratory (room 1207). The purpose of this application was to identify elements that demonstrate the students' sense of belonging in relation to room 1207 and the intention to participate in a Practical Community (CoP) that is welcomed to the LF students at Unipampa Campus Bagé. For the development of the work was used related studies from works that address the sense of belonging and CoP. The theoretical basis was the Lave and Wenger situated learning framework, Tinto dropout and Wenger Communities of Practice. With the purpose of analyzing the importance of room 1207 in the permanence of the LF students, it was identified that most consider that this environment is a potential element to contribute to coping with dropout, since of the 22 respondent students 14 attend room 1207 outside the classroom. class time, showing that this place is sought by LF students, both for extra-class studies and for socializing between students and teachers. Finally, we emphasize that room 1207 may become a CoP, however, further studies and, especially, new actions need to be performed for room 1207 to become a CoP welcome to undergraduate physics students. Thus, in the present study, the following guiding proposition was established: a CoP welcomed at 1207 has the potential to develop and assist in the fight against dropout and retention of LF students at Campus Bagé at Unipampa, promoting overcoming learning difficulties. starting from the interaction between freshmen and veterans and fostering in the graduates the spirit of group studies, which may arouse interest in proposing CoP in their future professional activities, that is, creating CoP in schools of Basic Education to promote the overcoming of difficulties of learning basic physics and mathematics content.