A history of (dis)agreement in the Professional Master Course of Teaching Natural Science and Mathematics in the UFRN (2002-2016) – a video about the use of an educational product related to the teaching of Mathematics
Teaching master’s course. Mathematic teaching. Educational product. Video.
The Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) defines professional master’s course as a postgraduate modality Stricto Sensu that offers professional courses aiming to stimulate scientific capacity applied to the teachers from the basic education and/or professionals from formal and not formal teaching in the diverse fields of knowledge. The context of this research is the professional master’s course in the Natural Sciences and Mathematic (CMPECNM), that started in the first half of 2002, aiming to qualify, in a master level, teaching graduated or bachelors involved in teaching activities. This study has importance due to necessity to tell the CMPECNM’s trajectory related to the individual representations about professors and students from this master’s course. This research has the following leading question: how professors, coordinators and students developed their Educational Products in this professional master’s course? To this, it has as general aim to elaborate a historiographic study related to the coordinators, professors and students’ comprehension about Educational Product of the CMPECNM from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), from 2002 to 2016. Research data is from 2016, due to the curricular structure of this course that offers the subject Developing and Evaluation of Instructional Materials, whose menu comprises elaboration and evaluation of Educational products. The methodologic proceedings are oral history concepts, to become possible a historiographic writing of the professional master’s course of the PPGECNM/UFRN based on theoretical approaches of Meihy (2005), Alberti (2004a, 2004b), Lang (2011) and Grupo História Oral e Educação Matemática (GHOEM) studies. To the historiographic writing, it takes intertextuality based on Ruiz & Faria (2012) and Oliveira & Brito (2013) about interviews and many documents related to the professional master’s course. The Educational Product is a video that can be used as an audiovisual technology to pedagogical approaches, named “Informative video about the importance of Educational Products to the Mathematic teacher”. It presents general information about Educational Products created by students from CMPECNM/UFRN, detaching its importance to the Mathematic, and how to access it. At last, this analyze shows that the interviewers’ point of view about Educational Products are neither pacific nor linear, however, passing time and PPGECNM consolidation, they work according to CAPES’ determination (elaboration, application, evaluation and Educational Product validation), after reflections and discussions among professors, during meetings of collegiate or among them, in informal meetings, consolidating in the curriculum of this course the subject Developing and Evaluation of Instructional Materials.