A percepção dos alunos de licenciatura em química da UFAL sobre o papel das disciplinas pedagógicas na sua formação

Abstract

In the last few years, the initial formation of teachers, has gained space in national and international debates, mainly in tangent to the quality of these courses. The changes in the curriculum and the teaching practice of the teachers gain strength, given the reflections promoted on the theme. Another very important situation when we evaluating teacher education is the articulation between undergraduate courses and the reality of basic education. Considering the relevance of the thematic, this work aims analyze the perception and understanding of the students of the course of Degree in Chemistry of the Universidade Federal de Alagoas on the obligatory pedagogical disciplines. Methodologically, we used the qualitative and quantitative approaches, by means of the application of a questionnaire to the students of the seventh and eighth period. During the work it was observed that the students complain about the distance between the pedagogical disciplines and the specific ones of the course of chemistry, where it was obtained notes about the lack of a joint of the chemical knowledge with the pedagogical one, that would be a great contribution for the training of the chemistry teacher, who often fail to insert the chemical content within a given school context, with methodologies that facilitate the learning of chemistry. Taking into account everything that has been reported, it was verified the importance of the pedagogical disciplines in the initial formation of these students, as well as the need to insert methodological proposals aimed at teaching chemistry, articulating chemical and pedagogical knowledge.