Ciências do Mar: Curso de Extensão Universitária em uma comunidade costeira da Amazônia

Abstract

The present work presents the co-creation of an educational process that materialized as a University Extension Course, within the scope of the Master's in Teaching course of the Postgraduate Program Creativity and Innovation in Higher Education Methodologies, at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), in correlation with the objectives of the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, established by the United Nations (UN). The objective of this research was the construction of an extension course, as a curricular activity of the Degree in Natural Sciences course, which is linked to the Institute of Coastal Studies (IECOS) at UFPA, located in the municipality of Bragança, in the northeast of the state of Pará. , in a collaborative way with students from the Natural Sciences course and members of the women's savings club “Maré Alta”, from the coastal community Vila dos Pescadores, located on Ajuruteua beach, in the municipality of Bragança, working with themes of Marine Sciences and encouraging the construction of activities that enable the sustainability of the local community. This dissertation is structured into six chapters, which narrate the conception and development of the educational process, which are, respectively: The Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, which addresses the importance of stimulating research and sustainable actions to preserve the Ocean and coastal environments together with the populations that reside in them; University Extension as a basis for rethinking the structuring of academic extension activities in undergraduate courses at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA); the Theory of Learning through Experience, constructed by the philosopher John Dewey and visualized as the potential energy for the co-creation of this educational process; The Tide Methodology - parts one and two, being a methodological format designed for this educational process, which makes up the experience of planning the co-creation of the extension course and the experiences surrounding the course; Extension Format for the Coastal Environment that we want, representing the analyzes and considerations on the learning and construction of knowledge that occurred throughout the extension course; the sixth chapter describes the final plan of the extension course, with step-by-step instructions on how other educators can also develop this experience. Throughout the exploration of the co-created methodology, the evaluation and validation processes carried out by all participating subjects are evident, highlighting the exchanges of experiences and lived moments that served as a basis for the contextualization of concepts, both physical and other scientific concepts, perceived in the coastal space. The aim, with this co-created extension course, is to collaborate with the process of curricularization of extension in the Degree course in Natural Sciences at UFPA, offered in Bragança/PA, contribute to the objectives and goals of the Decade of Ocean Science and stimulate studies of Physics concepts and other scientific concepts in a contextualized way, through dialogue between scientific knowledge and local knowledge, in experiences in a coastal environment.