PEDAGOGICAL MEDIATION OF CHEMISTRY TEACHERS: CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEACHER AND STUDENT TRAINING

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5583172331057

• Palavras-chave: mediation; teacher training; teaching and learning; pedagogical practices; student training.

• Keywords: mediation; teacher training; teaching and learning; pedagogical practices; student training.

• Abstract:

  Investigations of teachers' pedagogical mediation can help to understand their conceptions of mediation and practices, enabling ways to improve teaching/learning in Chemistry. This investigation intended to know the conceptions of high school and higher education chemistry teachers in Iturama-MG about mediation and their teaching practices. The starting point was the study of the different meanings that the word mediation assumes in literature and in teachers' daily lives. The qualitative research used electronic questionnaires sent to public school teachers: data were transcribed, categorized and analyzed in order to know the teachers' conceptions of mediation and their practices. The mediation of students' learning carried out by the teacher is implicit in their professional skills, so we sought to contribute to the theoretical and practical advances on the importance of mediation and how teaching processes can be improved to improve learning in Chemistry.