Integrated Degree in Science, Mathematics and Languages: interdisciplinary education for the elementary school
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https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2022.261.27Keywords:
Teacher education; Interdisciplinarity; Elementary school.Abstract
In this article, we narrate research carried in an interdisciplinary degree class to educate teachers to work in the elementary school. We aim to understand educational actions developed with undergraduates designed to provide the development of scientific, mathematical, digital and mother tongue literacies in an interdisciplinary perspective, with a view to future teaching. As teachers of the course, we develop research-education, through qualitative research, in the narrative modality, forming partnerships with other professionals. The education design carried is based on the formative triad: collective work - use of digital technologies - classroom research, associated with the methodological perspective of inverted symmetry. We used audiovisual records from two consecutive academic semesters, in which students and teachers narrate about the formative experiences lived in a shared way. We assume the discursive textual analysis for the treatment of empirical material. The results reveal that undergraduate, when experiencing interdisciplinary processes as students, from a place similar to the one they will teach, are able to plan, discuss, justify and defend interdisciplinary teaching practices. The results allow us to conclude that it is possible to integrate curricular components of specific education, through classroom research, in two levels of discursive practices in the classroom: i) the level of horizontality of the contents, in which the different languages move in a same discursive horizon in search of understanding reality; ii) the level of verticalization of the content (s), seeking to deepen specific knowledge, in a more specialized way; both levels are caused by pedagogical intentionality and mediated by the teacher. Therefore, the teaching partnership in class is promising to encourage and develop new attitudes and interdisciplinary teaching practices.
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