Química no cotidiano de pessoas idosas da Universidade Aberta a Terceira Idade - UATI: Inclusão, saberes e práticas

Abstract

Education routinely undergoes changes, with this teachers must always be up to date, so that they can adopt teaching methodologies capable of achieving the desired educational objective. This work aimed to rescue intergenerational knowledge and promote the scientific literacy of elderly students belonging to UATI, through the use of alternative experiments in teaching chemistry in the domestic kitchen theme. Concurrent with the Covid-19 pandemic, part of this research was carried out remotely through the Google platform, using Meet and Forms tools. This research is characterized as qualitative and has a pedagogical approach. The target audience was 12 female students aged between 62 and 74 years old from a class at the Open University for Senior Citizens (UATI) located in the city of Campina Grande - PB, working within the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG). UATI intends to welcome seniors to participate in the permanent extension course with several disciplines. The data collection instrument was based on the application of a questionnaire containing five questions, of which 4 were open and 1 closed, seeking to understand the perception of elderly students about Chemistry Teaching and the importance of home cooking in understanding scientific concepts. Data analysis was carried out following the theoretical contribution of Pêcheux, which deals with discourse analysis. According to the results obtained, it was possible to observe the importance of experimental practices for elderly students, as well as understand that education can take place in different environments. Bringing a theme focused on the apprentices' domestic cooking, such practices were designed to strengthen their scientific literacy and also showed that the kitchen as a space to develop a pedagogical intervention aimed at elderly students, promotes the development of scientific concepts of chemistry, providing changes significant in their learning and space for sharing intergenerational knowledge.