As representações a partir de enunciados dos alunos em um Clube de Ciências

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the characterization of the representations in statements produced during the investigative activity on the Science Club in the construction of meanings found by the students. The methodology of this research is the qualitative approach with the constitution of the data made from elements of the participant observation, material of video recordings, audio recordings and texts produced by the students during SEI. It was realized at the Science Club Prof. Dr. Cristovam W. Diniz space and the participants were students who attended the 5º or 6º years of the Middle School, with the ages between 11 and 12 years old. For the procedures of data analysis, we rely on the transcription, description and interpretation of students' statements during the proposed investigative activity, which had the proposition that insects were separated into groups and differentiated from other animals. The theoretical support used was an interface between Jean Piaget's studies on cognitive representations, the work with discursive statements based on Michael Foucault and institutional analysis of Marlene Guirado's discourse. The results showed that their statements were linked to the SEI steps, in the way they solved the proposed problem, they made relationships between activity and daily life through the use of explanations and inferences and a language of referencing and negotiation of meanings. Inside that meaning, the Science Club was not constituted only as cognitive operations, but it maintained a relationship with the statements in the assimilation and accommodation processes for the construction of meanings, in this anthropic space of construction of knowledge.