A resolução de problemas: uma estratégia metodológica para o ensino por investigação no nível fundamental

Abstract

From the new school, which proposes a model in which the student has freedom of expression, and which methodology is guided in an educational action of social andcultural order. Environmental education, understood as a dimension given to the content and practice of education oriented to solve the special problems of the environment, through an interdisciplinary approach and an active and responsibleparticipation of each individual and collective (DIAS, 2001) . The study to show thedevelopment stage of education by research that is problem solving, and to analyzehow is the development of students' conceptions of the 9th grade of elementary school about the awareness of their role in relation to its entering and remaining in the environment in which they live. In this context the troubleshooting demandthinking in solving strategies, steps hierarchy, handle the unexpected, persistence and discipline. This proposal must be based on the student, and the teacher will bethe mediator. Through this work, we concluded that students increasedenvironmental vision that is around them, better understanding that they are part ofa whole and that their problems become common to the environment and the people who are in this environment; that most of the students who solved theirproblems, received the backing and support of the people responsible for them,making necessary the participation of family members so that these adolescentsprogress in solving their problems. And that from the problem-solving methodologycan introduce environmental education in experiences of students taking them to an investigation that should is based on the student, and the teaching that must be accompanied by actions.