Abstract

MAGALHAES, Glória Lúcia. Crianças de seis anos no ensino fundamental: elementos de ciências em escolas rurais do município de Três Pontas/MG. ETD [online]. 2008, vol.10, n.01, pp.262-263. ISSN 1676-2592.

This study considers as a problematic situation the fact that the six-year-old children, that a short time ago were on the Infant Education, already are today in the Fundamental Education, and it has as objective the establishing of methods of working in the sense of the knowledge advancement related to the science at a specific situation, in other words, at the schools with non-literate children that live in the rural area, in Três Pontas town/MG, and that attend the Introductory Phase of the Fundamental Education. For this, we considered the following study questions: 1. How to work knowledge aspects related to the nature sciences with non-literate children. 2. In which ways resources such as infant stories, music, drawing can constitute themselves into mediations for the advancement of the nonliterate children with regard to knowledge related to the nature sciences. For the development of the study, two meetings were performed. In the first one, the children were motivated to report what they liked to do, how they used to play, where, with whom, the places they used to go to and their daily occupancies. In the second one, we ministered a class, in which the subject to be discussed with the class was related to the interests and problems manifested by the children at the first meeting. The rainbow and some gender questions, and the Wind were the discussed themes during the class, in which the children’s approach with multiple pedagogic resources such as the earth, images, texts, puppets contributed to the mediation of knowledge related to the nature sciences and some social questions. The discursive analyses of part of the classes organized and ministered by us was performed, while researcher-teacher, regulated, especially, in notions of studies published in Brazil, by Eni Orlandi, with the mentioned resources. The main aspects worked with, are related to knowledge about the rainbow, and gender questions, and the wind. It was possible to make the knowledge brought by the children evident, and to detect advances in relation to this knowledge.

Keywords : Science; Study and Teaching; Elementary School; Children; Illiteracy; Teaching Methods; Mediation Educational.

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