Oportunidades de aprender sobre pesquisa na iniciação científica júnior de uma bolsista no Clube de Ciências da UFPA

Abstract

After ascertaining the success of undergraduate research at graduation recently, funding agencies have extended the funding of scholarships for Scientific Initiation Junior (JSI). Although little is known the specifics of the teaching and learning in this context. In this sense, the objective of this dissertation was to conduct a case study, following a dyad guiding-advisee JSI over a year, featuring the main opportunities to learn and produce research on the subjective sense and the nature of scientific activity. The teacher-adviser and elementary school student, participated in the Science Club at the Federal University of Pará and had a research project approved and subsidized financially by the Research Foundation of the State of Pará (FAPESPA).The goal the project was to study the use of natural insecticides to control the proliferation of weevils in the corn. Constitute my data through interviews with the participants, footage of orientation meetings and events attended scientific, technical reports they sent to the journal kept by FAPESPA and scholarship. Triangulating the information obtained, described the main activities of the JSI, taking into account the way they had for the stock. Based on this description, to characterize the main opportunities that the student had to learn or producing a subjective sense of research and science. Identified traces of personal growth and interpersonal relationships, development of skills to read, discuss, argue, reporting, and public speaking, in addition to expanding the knowledge of experimental practice. In this experiment, the stock had the opportunity to spell the scientific knowledge as a collective, and contextual process that implies a problematization of previous knowledge and whose decisions must be justified. However, as the knowledge produced in their research was not sufficiently understood or derived from theoretical models, the experience provided an opportunity to develop the production stock of scientific knowledge in an inductive-empirical perspective.