Percepções discentes sobre o ensino experimental e teórico de química para o Proeja de uma escola estadual de Santa Maria

Abstract

This study brings the analysis of students perceptions from the regular nocturnal teaching at the State High School Profª Maria Rocha, Santa Maria, RS, about the integration between theoretical and the experimental teaching of chemistry seeing the implementation of Professional Education integrated to Basic Education in the model of Education for Youth and Adults – PROEJA, and it looked to establish a dialog between the answers of students and of studied authors in the area of chemistry and education of youth and adults, where a field research was done and was characterized as a qualitative study. when analyzing the students perceptions, it was concluded that, despite the chemistry subject be recognized by the students as a difficult one, about 50% of them like this science and highlight the importance of integration between theoretical and experimental classes to the qualification of the teaching and learning relation. What comes to PROEJA, to the questioning: How should we proceed in teaching chemistry at PROEJA in a way of favoring a significant learning? How to elevate the level of schooling and to influence positively in the construction of professional knowledge of youth and adults students having as a horizon the world of labor? in this study was evidenced the necessity of new methodological strategies, contextualized approaches of chemical concepts related to the students previous knowledge, fruit of their life experiences, where the importance of integration is reinforced - schooling and world of labor, thought as a public policy which treats about the universalization of rights, and the reduction of social inequalities, with a new posture of subjects facing the social reality.