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STUDENTS CONCEPTIONS FROM A COUNTRYSIDE AREA OF A CONTINENTAL NATION ABOUT SCIENCES PRACTICAL CLASSES: A BRAZILIAN CASE STUDY
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias Ensino e Bioprodutos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias Ensino e Bioprodutos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias Ensino e Bioprodutos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias Ensino e Bioprodutos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade Federal Fluminense. PPBI, PGCTIn, CMPDI, LABiEMol. Niterói, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias Ensino e Bioprodutos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias Ensino e Bioprodutos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias Ensino e Bioprodutos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade Federal Fluminense. PPBI, PGCTIn, CMPDI, LABiEMol. Niterói, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Quality education is one of UNESCO’s goals for sustainable development, including
in the science area. In order to achieve this goal, experimental activities
are needed to produce dynamic, interactive, and more effective teaching.
Brazil is a continental country with problems in assures education for all. In
this work, with the aim of identifying student conceptions about the importance
of practical classes, we performed a literature review and developed a
research questionnaire for using with elementary school students from the
municipal and state public schools in a Brazilian small town in the mountain
region, located in the north-central region of the state of Bahia. The questionnaire
contains subjective, semi-subjective and objective questions divided
into categories: Profile (gender, age, grade) and Practical Classes (concept,
importance, achievement). The questionnaire was applied to all elementary
and high schools of the municipal and state public network located in this
small town, together with the Free and Informed Consent Term (FICT), for
the personal consent of students over 18 years of age, and in the case of underage
students, the consent of parents and/or guardians. The results with the
students from the final grades, respectively 9th year of 2 elementary schools
in the urban area and 5 in the rural area, which made up all the elementary
schools of this city at the time of the research, and students of the 3rd year of
a high school revealed that they do miss practical class and know what is necessary
to have those, despite their knowledge about of “what is a practical
class ” is not linked directly to disciplines such as biology. This work may
contribute to stimulate the investment in laboratories at elementary schools
not only in this small city, from a Northwestern state, one of the poorest
countryside areas of Brazil, but also in other cities in developing countries.
Thus, this may help them to improve their scientific ability to develop themselves
thus improving the quality of life of their own citizens.
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