Open AccessConceptions of indigenous students in early training about Chemistry and its education
Author(s) -
Marcelo Franco Leão,
Nilma Silvânia Izarias,
Eniz Conceição Oliveira,
José Cláudio Del Pino
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista de ensino de ciências e matemática
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2179-426X
DOI - 10.26843/rencima.v10i5.1900
Subject(s) - indigenous , graduation (instrument) , mathematics education , chemistry education , chemistry , ethnic group , subject (documents) , exploratory research , interpretation (philosophy) , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , engineering , social science , computer science , ecology , library science , anthropology , social psychology , biology , mechanical engineering , enthusiasm , programming language
This text describes the conceptions that some indigenous students in early training from Mato Grosso hold about chemistry and chemistry education. The research investigated eleven students from ten different ethnicities from a specific course for indigenous people, named Graduation in Mathematical and Natural Sciences at UNEMAT, Barra do Bugre-MT campus. This survey, descriptive and exploratory, is of a qualitative approach and took place in the first semester of 2014 during the Chemistry Education course. The choice of images to illustrate the chemistry before the training activities and a questionnaire consisting of three open questions and completed at the end of the course were the instruments used to collect data. The interpretation of these reports occurred through the technique titled Content Analysis. The images chosen and their justifications revealed the limited conception that the students held before the subject. From the data gathered four categories emerged: previous conceptions about chemistry and its performance; aspects of the student‟s trajectory; definition of ideal classes and contributions of chemistry to life. The study revealed the conceptions these indigenous students and future teachers hold about chemistry and teaching this discipline.