A construção do conhecimento científico em curso profissionalizante: ensinar e aprender a produzir gêneros acadêmicos

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate the modes of appropriation of scientific and academic discours practices in listening/reading/writing subjects of vocational technical course in Agricultural School ―Assis Chateaubriand‖ Campus II, the State University of Paraíba. The methodology which has guided the formation of the corpus of this work follows the paradigm of ethnographic research interpretative basis by taking into consideration the fact that in discursive events in the classroom, these activities take place as a trait of a social situation that includes the values, rules, meanings, attitudes and behavior of the interacting subjects. From this perspective, the data contained in our analysis area result of i) audio recordings of classes; ii) interviews with students and teachers; iii) the students written production; and iv) official documents. The data from the observation of classes, the reading and written production of the students, were collected from the subjects ―Aviculture‖, ―Management and Conservation of the Soil‖, ―Basic Fundamentals of the Soil, Plants and Atmosphere‖ , which are central to the modular organization of the Course in Agriculture and Livestock Farming into two large areas: animal husbandry and agriculture. In this context, the following objectives were established: 1)examine in the interactive events in the classroom, those listening/ reading and writing that can promote the inclusion of students to scientific discourse genres; 2) examine the conditions given by teachers to students to take ownership of the linguistic/discursive resources in academic-scientific genres; 3) analyze written texts ―abstract‖, ―account‖ and ―research‖ effectively produced by the students in situations referred by teachers. The theoretical foundation for this analytical process has been based on the theoretical proposals of Bakhtin and his Circle, as the philosophical thinking of these authors provides a base to articulate the different positions of subjects who act in real and concrete communicative situations. Informed by the data set results point to the inconsistency of an educational project in vocational technical course, sustained by ideologies of technical rationality and economic market economy, linked to a notion of language conceived as structure and text as one truth and universal. In dialogic situations of knowledge construction in the events of the lesson, the teachers of specific subjects think of reading / listening activities as object recognition / identification of scientific content through didatizados texts identified as handouts. When requesting writing in academic genres "abstract" production "account" and "research" by the mediation of texts of wide and narrow scientific education teachers use instructional procedures nonspecific, assuming that the student is a reader able to reconstruct the intention of the authors of the texts they read, informed only by the linguistic dimension. When requesting writing in academic genres "abstract" production "account" and "research" by the mediation of texts of wide and narrow scientific education teachers use instructional procedures nonspecific, assuming that the student is a reader able to reconstruct the intention of the authors of the texts they read, informed only by the linguistic dimension.