Sequência de ensino investigativa em educação alimentar e nutricional: contextualizando conceitos microbiológicos via webquest

Abstract

From the motivating challenge of the research in search of promoting the citizen formation of the students, in face of the current scenario of reform in basic education and reflection of the pedagogical praxis, came the proposal to elaborate a didactic sequence that could contemplate the yearnings of the teaching of Biology in relation to the process of construction of scientific knowledge. This work aimed to analyze the contributions of the elaboration and application of the Investigative Teaching Sequence-SEI, integrated to Webquest, in search of the guarantee of structuring principles of the action of Food and Nutritional Education-EAN, governed by the self-care and education as a permanent process and generator of autonomy, active and informed participation of the subjects. It was an action research, of qualitative approach by analysis of the observations made in the data collection of the interactions and variety of perspectives of the participants: high school students of public state school. Webquest presented pedagogical strategies/instruments for the construction of scientific knowledge on key concepts, contextualized to the theme Diseases Transmitted by Food-DTA, involving a survey of previous conceptions by problematizing issues; research on the web; exposure of research; discussion; resumption of initial conceptions; reflection; application of knowledge acquired in the elaboration of infographic. The unveiling of the emerging categories, the intervention of the teacher and the performance of the student, highlighted, via Webquest produced, experiences of teaching and learning in the discursive interactions teacher-student and student-student and stimulus to the scientific way of thinking. The evidence revealed the potential of this proposal, to be applied by teachers, in the collaboration of the promotion of self-care and autonomy of students, on health care, and improvement of the praxis.