O ensino colaborativo como proposta pedagógica para o desenvolvimento de projetos de aprendizagem: a promoção da saúde como eixo articulador

Abstract

In the past few years, the methodology of projects has been the ideal of many teachers who intend to improve the educational process, trying to apply changes, involving knowledge and thoughts about the teaching practice. However, despite this ideal, teachers are experiencing difficulties in its implementation. In this way, through this research, we sought to analyze the perception of teachers, students and graduation students about the prospect of the collaborative learning in the development of learning projects having health promotion as the main subject. We started it with an educational practice guided by the collaborative learning precepts, having a school from the state‟s public system as the strategic scenario. The kind of research that guided this work was the collaborative research-action, having as participant teachers and students from elementary and high school of a state‟s public school of Cruz Alta Rio Grande do Sul, and academics of the physical education graduation course of Cruz Alta‟s University UNICRUZ. The study was performed in three distinct moments: Identification of the school reality; planning, developing, and evaluating a learning project at the elementary school context and at the high school context. To obtain the information concerning the methodology‟s effectiveness, different instruments were used, such as: surveys, interviews, participant observation and field journal. The data was interpreted by its content analysis. After analyzing the results, it was revealed that the methodology of learning projects can constitute as an important strategy for: learning to work in an interdisciplinary way, the perception of teachers; professional growth, motivation and preparation for the future, in the perception of the graduation student; and a better understanding of the subject, the motivation to learn, a greater appreciation of the school and the importance of teamwork for high school students. There was also that collaborative interventions that occur in the classroom, constitute an important strategy for teachers to restructure their existing practices and overcome the difficulty "time" for their training. Thus, we conclude that the adopted perspective of integration of specific content (health promotion) with educational content (collaborative work and project methodology) and the reality of the classroom was an appropriate choice of work.