Uma agenda de pesquisa para formação docente em educação em ciências: investigando elementos essenciais

Abstract

Based on ideas developed about the role of the teacher and his training, we conducted an investigation on the production of the Graduate Program in Science and Mathematics Education, Institute of Mathematical and Scientific Education, Federal University of Pará (PPGECM / IEMCI / UFPA), With the purpose of knowing, understanding and reflecting on the elaboration of a research agenda for the area of Scientific Education. With this purpose, we produced a panoramic picture of the general production of PPGECM, with the methodological context in which it was constructed, explaining in the works the indicators that delimited the field of research on teacher training; We show the training model (s) and the dimension in which they fit, and we place Science Education with emphasis for the CTS approach. The research was delineated in the qualitative, documentary type approach. The texts were selected by means of the identification of the descriptors "teacher training and conception" in the virtual and printed archives, deposited in the site and in the library of the Institute. For the corpus of analysis, 26 dissertations and one thesis were chosen, distributed in two periods. For the systematization, the data were organized in annual tables, called Integrative Synthesis, from which other analytical matrices were created.To analyze the data, we used the Bardin Content Analysis (2016). The results were presented in two blocks. We conclude, from the first block that there are methodological weaknesses in the productions that need to be worked out, however, the field of research teacher training has shown itself in a process of consolidation in the program. The second block showed that there is an evolutionary continuum referring to the training model, as well as in Education for Citizenship and Science Teaching, used in all productions. As for Education, with a CTS approach, the potentiality of the proposal to change students' conception emerges and self- training of teachers is evident. All these points constitute strong elements for the elaboration of a Research Agenda, however, considering all the aspects necessary for the development of the area, it is important the collaborative participation of all those involved in said program, to make feasible the planning, the development And its implementation of this agenda.