Ensino de ciências por investigação: análise de atividades práticas em livros didáticos de ciências do ensino fundamental e na Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA)

Abstract

The Inquiry-based teaching (IBT) is the idea of solving problems for the construction of knowledge with the objective to create a critical and discursive thinking in the students, with this, knowing that books are inherently part of school culture, the search for good science textbooks which make Inquiry-based teaching possible are essential to use in this process. This work aims to analyze the textbooks for the youth and adult education in elementary school, through three specific points: Examine selected experimental activities; Estimate the potential use of inquiry-based teaching with these activities; analyze the practicality of the application of them. For this, it was used a bibliographic research, as a support for qualitative/descriptive research performed with the use of a table prepared as a test in a study group. Finally, we identified, in higher elementary education, a significant number of experimental activities, based on the YAE (youth and adult education) the initial series up to the 5th year, this lower quantification of experimental in the YAE and elementary school textbooks can be explained if we think about the level of schooling, or the time and space available for carrying out these activities.