The Interdisciplinarity in the Students' Questions in Science Classes of the Elementary School: Contributions of Discursive Textual Analysis

• Main Authors: Maurivan Güntzel Ramos, Estrella Marlene Thomaz
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Centro Universitário de Anápolis 2017-12-01
• Series: Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science
• Subjects: Análise Textual Discursiva; Perguntas dos Estudantes; Pensamento Complexo; Interdisciplinaridade.
• Online Access: http://revistas.unievangelica.edu.br/index.php/fronteiras/article/view/2666

The article presents the analysis of 342 questions on the theme "Water", proposed by 114 students from three elementary schools in the South region of Brazil, in order to identify interdisciplinary articulations associated with complex thinking present in these questions. The research sought to answer the following question: What revelations can emerge from the analysis of student's questions about a specific topic of study, such as "Water", in relation to interdisciplinarity and complex thinking? From the discursive textual analysis of the questions, two categories emerged: disciplinary questions; and interdisciplinary questions. The examination of the content of the categories enabled the writing of metatexts that reveal that in the text of most of the students' questions, is present a complex mode of thinking and interdisciplinary relationships, since 77.8% of the questions belong to second category. This can be an indication to teachers of how to initiate pedagogical actions, whose focus is interdisciplinarity.