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03/09/2025 Rafaela Rejane Samagaia Lamy-peronnet

Line 3

Active learning methodologies

Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Alves Barros - IFSC / USP

     In order to design and implement effective and relevant curricular innovations adapted to the context of Brazilian basic education, it is essential to investigate the effectiveness of the methodologies used. Research line 3 – active learning methodologies – focuses on a set of proposals that have been gaining prominence both in the academic context and among basic education teachers. These include: flipped classrooms, gamification, problem solving, the STEAM approach, peer mentoring, inquiry-based learning, teamwork, etc. They differ from traditional lectures, bringing a new set of demands to the pedagogical process that transform all stages of teaching as well as the role of the student. This makes them powerful allies in rethinking education for contemporary challenges.

   Committed to developing skills and attitudes of cooperation, communication, participation, motivation, and autonomy, these proposals provide opportunities to identify new pedagogical strategies, expanding the possibilities for curricular innovation and the integration of new technologies. Because they focus on individuals rather than content, they also create favourable conditions for the introduction of interdisciplinarity in the classroom, through real questions that aim to broaden understanding of the world. A process conducted in this way is fundamentally different from the perspective that it is first necessary to access knowledge adapted to the school environment, committed to a stable curriculum, and only then apply it, leading students and teachers to look at the world through the lens offered by different subjects.

Associated researchers:

  • Profa. Dra. Carmen Pimentel Cintra do Prado – IF/USP.
  • Profa. Dra. Carmen FernandezIQ/USP.
  • Profa. Dra. Anne L. Scarinci IF/USP.
  • Profa. Dra. Verónica Marcela Guridi – EACH / USP.
  • PhD Lilian Cássia Bacich Martins – IEA/USP. 
  • PhD Ricardo H. Pucinelli IEA/USP

   For the year 2024, the option taken by line 3 to collectively and practically investigate the potential of these methodologies was to offer a semester-long course entitled: Active learning methodologies and pedagogical references for co-learning in Natural Sciences. Bringing together primary school teachers and trainee teachers, the aim was to broaden the group’s knowledge base and support them in developing actions that demonstrated the applicability and potential of the proposals in the classroom. As a result, in 2025, the group’s main task will be to develop a broad set of research projects based on the data collected during and after the course. The aim is not only to improve the training proposal itself so that it can be offered again in the future, but also to broaden the understanding of what these methodologies are and how they can be characterised and differentiated: how do they differ from other ways of approaching classroom work? How does contact with such methodologies change teaching practices? How do they make student learning more meaningful? Taking into account the functioning of the Department of Education (SEDUC) and the physical characteristics of schools in São Paulo, what are the difficulties in implementing these proposals in the classroom? What factors favour the incorporation of active learning? What adaptations are made by teachers when they implement these methodologies in their daily activities? What is the potential of mentoring in the implementation of this type of proposal, especially when it comes to addressing interdisciplinary content? The answers to these questions should provide contributions capable of producing effects on the activities of the thematic project, both within and outside the line of research.

Keywords: methodologies, teaching-learning, protagonism, interdisciplinarity, teaching.

Undergraduate and postgraduate students:

  • Adalberto Cordeiro de Brito – Mestrado (PIEC / USP).
  • Bento Filho de Souza Freitas – Doutorado (PIEC / USP).
  • Isabella Yumi Hiroshue – Mestrado (PIEC / USP).
  • Letícia Bezerra da Silva – Mestrado (PIEC / USP).
  • Marcela Openheimer – Doutorado (PECIM / UNICAMP).
  • Karen Adrielle de Faria Silva – Mestrado (PECIM / UNICAMP).
  • Felipe Telles de Souza – Iniciação científica (IFSC / USP)

Scholarship teachers:

  • João Pedro Mardegan – SEDUC / Bolsista Fapesp EP3.
  • Fabrício Hender Inoue – SEDUC / Bolsista Fapesp EP2.