Vivências através do educar pela pesquisa: reconstruindo saberes sobre radiobiologia

Abstract

Educating through Research is an innovative pedagogical proposal, which brings aspects of research into the classroom. This approach aims to overcome reproductive teaching, proposing that the student must be a subject in the learning process, stimulating the individual's critical and reflective thinking as a citizen. The present work aims to analyze the use of Educating through Research in the training of undergraduate students in the Biological Sciences course at UEPB, who are studying the Biophysics discipline, with a focus on Radiobiology content. The methodological aspects of this work include data collection through questionnaires (for comparison between different stages of the intervention) and Log Diary (for the researcher's notes regarding observations arising from the pedagogical intervention processes). Data processing occurred through comparison between the objective answers to the questionnaires, as well as through Similarity Analysis to quantify the words present in the answers to discursive questions. Similarity Analyses show us that students who participated in activities involving Educating through Research are able to attribute more connections between the concepts covered in the same theme, which in the case of this study is Radiobiology. Likewise, objective questions show us, in most cases, positive impacts of research as an educational principle. In this way, the work meets the proposed objectives and brings an understanding of two more assumptions of Educating through Research, which are Reading and Writing, in addition to those prescribed by Pedro Demo. The work also suggests the application and development of Educating through Research, so that we can maintain and develop school and academic culture through research.