Metodologia de ensino em sociologia: contribuições de uma sala de humanas

Abstract

This work aimed to evaluate, through an experiment, the methodological possibilities of working on themes, concepts and theories using the human space in two aspects: to evaluate the effectiveness of the pedagogical practice developed during the teacher 's work and to enable students to be protagonists of their own knowledge. We used qualitative and quantitative techniques to develop a comparative study of social representations between two first-year high school classes submitted to a different teaching methodology: one with a traditional character and another with inspiration in Paulo Freire's pedagogical principles and later, compared focal group technique. The problem studied is to verify that pedagogical practice should be used to address the contents of the minimum curriculum capable of establishing connections between the school knowledge and the social reality of these students. The result of the analysis of the material collected in the focus groups indicates different meanings given the Sociology according to the methodology applied in these classes. The study allows to conclude the pedagogical gain through the interaction between the group, the paradigm shift from the teacher to the mediator and the contribution to the process of appropriation of the human room in order to construct a positive vision of the pedagogical practices developed in this space.