Percepções de professores de química do ensino médio a respeito do jogo cooperativo temático sobre ésteres: a feira central de Campina Grande (PB) em foco

Abstract

Awakening students' interest in learning has become a challenge for the educator, so games in teaching are playful practices that encourage collaboration in everyday dynamics, awakening learning, cooperation, solidarity, inclusion, effective participation, creativity, leisure, collective work and dialogue, enabling teachers to share their goals and objectives with students. Games promote meaningful learning experiences in a playful and pleasurable way, in addition to demonstrating that the teacher needs to seek new, diversified methodological strategies that arouse students' interest and promote their cognitive, motor and affective development. Faced with this issue, this research work aims to analyze, in practice, the contribution of the applicability of a thematic cooperative game as a teaching resource for the scientific study of esters, based on the commercialization of products sold at the central fair. Thus, the board game called “O Caminho dos Ésteres na Feira Central” has a historical-cultural context of the Central Market of Campina Grande- PB, with the purpose of being a teaching tool to assist the teacher, so the game serves as a intermediary between teacher and student. The research is based on educational contributions from theorists such as Vygostky (1987), taking the historical-cultural approach into the teaching of organic functions, Huizinga (2012) with his foundations on cooperative playful games within the school context, Kishimoto (1996) where play helps in the process of socialization, communication, expression and construction of knowledge, and Paulo Freire (1987), highlighting the importance of including generating themes, dialogue and problematization. Therefore, this research was a case study of a qualitative nature with six high school teachers from public schools as research subjects, and as a research tool there was a questionnaire for these teachers to evaluate the teaching proposal presented. Therefore, the construction of the game has a board that illustrates a top view of the set of warehouses, stalls and stores in the area that comprises the Central Market with a route to be followed by the players (pedestrians) to prepare the demand for a shopping list. purchasing products that have or are made with substances representing the organic ester function, with the aim of bringing chemistry into students' daily lives, in a different and dynamic way, through active and collaborative learning, to awaken students' interest student for the content.