O conceito de natureza a partir das representações sociais dos participantes da residência pedagógica

Abstract

This research deals with the study of social representations about the nature concept of a group of students participating in the Pedagogical Residence Program, Area of Natural Sciences. Since the representations built on the concept of nature will directly influence the activities developed by the students in said program, from an Environmental Education perspective. In this context, the question that guides this research is: What are the social representations about the concept of nature of the participants of the Program of Pedagogical Residence in the UEPB of the undergraduate courses in Chemistry, Physics and Biology? The general objective of the research was to identify the Social Representations about the concept of the nature of a group that participates in the Pedagogical Residence Program, since these can reflect in the scientific teaching, the ways to inquire, to select and elaborate the information on the subject; because it is directly related to the teacher's attitudinal knowledge. The methodological course developed in order to answer the guiding question and reach the proposed objectives, consists of a descriptive research of qualitative approach that was carried out with the residents of the Chemistry, Physics and Biology courses of Campus I of the State University of Paraíba (UEPB) . The data collection instrument is composed of a structured questionnaire with objective and subjective questions, about what the students conceive about the concepts of nature, and the Test of Association of Words, being "Nature", the word inductor. For the treatment of the data obtained from the Word Association Test we used the IRAMUTEQ software in the prototypical analysis and similarity analysis. The data obtained through the questionnaire contributed to the analysis of the evocations through the elaboration of theoretical categories of analysis. The results obtained evidenced the fragmentation of the concept of nature for the researched group, pointing to the vegetation element as a common and central point in the structure of the representations.