EducAction: professional development group as a strategy to improve the quality of learning in basic education

• Grant number: 22/05934-0
• Support Opportunities: Improvement in Public Education Program
• Duration: May 01, 2023 - April 30, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry
• Convênio/Acordo: Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo
• Principal Investigator: Ana Cláudia Kasseboehmer
• Grantee: Ana Cláudia Kasseboehmer
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química de São Carlos (IQSC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Marcos Roberto de Vasconcelos Lanza ; Renata Colombo
• Associated research grant: 17/10118-0 - Study and application of electrochemical technology for the analysis and degradation of endocrine interferents: materials, sensors, processes and scientific dissemination, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/13573-0 - The professional development group for initial training, BP.EP; 23/07288-1 - Definition of structuring concepts in mathematics, BP.EP; 23/06927-0 - Definition of structuring concepts in biology, BP.EP; + associated scholarships 23/05697-1 - Contextualization study on sustainability and eradication of hunger for student motivation, BP.EP; 23/03991-0 - Study of the implementation of an inquiry curriculum in public schools, BP.EP; 23/04006-5 - Study of the influence of socio-emotional education on student performance, BP.EP; 23/04014-8 - The professional development group for continuing education, BP.EP; 23/04176-8 - Definition of structuring concepts in chemistry, BP.EP; 23/04200-6 - Study of the contribution of scientific dissemination activities to motivation for learning, BP.EP; 23/05144-2 - Definition of structuring concepts in Physics, BP.EP - associated scholarships

Abstract

The educational literature is emphatic in defending that learning is conditioned to an active attitude of the student and to a teaching content in which the student recognizes its meaning to understand the world around him and how to intervene in it in a critical, supportive and active way. The inquiry approach is the subject of research by several Brazilian and foreign researchers and has already demonstrated its potential for student education. Academic research itself shows that changes in teachers' pedagogical practice do not occur easily. The hypothesis explored in this proposal to seek to overcome this difficulty in implementing academic research in the reality of basic education and in public schools, in particular, is to strengthen the acting teacher and train the future teacher, both engaged in prioritizing student learning and integral development of the individual. From a professional development group, ten themes are proposed in relation to strategic research axes as a source of studies and research by teachers of basic education. The interaction between the university and basic education has existed since 2016 from school visits to the university's research laboratories and the group of professors has interacted fortnightly since 2021 and has the potential to develop this proposal. Using the Theory of Self-Determination as a theoretical framework, it is expected to evaluate the contribution of professional development groups to the motivation of teachers and students of basic education. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DA SILVA, MATHEUS DOS SANTOS BARBOSA; KASSEBOEHMER, ANA CLAUDIA. Comparative analysis of chemistry teaching in city center and suburban public schools in Brazil: how school reputation and social profile influence chemistry teaching and high school students' performance in science. CULTURAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE EDUCATION, v. 18, n. 3, p. 35-pg., 2023-08-11. (22/09585-0, 20/03141-8, 22/05934-0, 17/10118-0, 19/22340-4)