Análise de uma proposta para a disciplina Cálculo Diferencial e Integral Isurgida na UFMG após o REUNI usando o testbench de Engeström comomodelo de aplicação da teoria da atividade em um estudo de caso

Abstract

In recent years, changes in the Brazilian social-economical scenario have brought about a growing demand for high education in the country. In reply to this context, after years of debates and some unchangeability of the public sector, the Federal Government launched, in 2007, the REUNI a program aimed to increase the access to the public high education. Inthis time of changes, several proposals have emerged in order to adjust the Brazilian federal universities to a new reality. At this case study, the focus of the research was one of these proposals that came up in the Department of Mathematics at UFMG with the aim of creating a new model for the coursework of the freshman and sophomore years at the Faculty of Exact Sciences and which was being applied to engineering students in a class of Differential and Integral Calculus I. In order to carry out this research, interviews were made with students, monitors and the professor who developed the analyzed proposal. The appearance of other proposal in the meantime led us to also interview, shortly afterwards, others professors of the Department who were involved in this process of change in the coursework functioning. These acquired data were analyzed by means of the activity theory, according to the modelelaborated by Y. Engeström in a work about changes into the Finnish public health system. This study is, to its author, also a test (testbench) to the activity theory as applied to an actual case. Following the steps of Engeström in his research, we have came up with a model that reveals the inner tensions and limits in the elaboration of proposals in the operation of the coursework of the freshman and sophomore years at the Faculty of Exact Sciences, which is the activity evaluated in our work from the case studied