EDUCATIONAL GAMES ARTICULATED WITH PROBLEM SOLVING: AN ANALYSIS IN THE CONTEXT OF INITIAL TRAINING OF CHEMISTRY TEACHERS, BASED ON ACTIVITY THEORY
Didactic games, problem solving, training process, activity theory
The thesis project aims to investigate the potentialities and challenges of a formative process that involves the articulation between educational games and the resolution of problems in the teaching of chemistry, developed for Chemistry graduates, in an Institution of Higher Education in the Agreste of Pernambuco, based on the cultural-historical theory of activity. The approach adopted for analyzing the research data is of a qualitative nature, of the type of exploratory and participant research. The research participants will be students of the degree course in chemistry enrolled in the subject Methodology of Chemistry Teaching II, at the locus of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Academic Center of the Agreste. The research stages will involve: literature review, structure and development of a training process on educational games articulated with the problem solving approach, and data analysis, which will be carried out based on categories related to aspects of the historical-cultural theory of activity. The adopted data collection and recording instruments will be: video recording, problems, lesson plans, episodes of the training process and questionnaires. The norms and principles of ethics in research will be considered according to resolution 510/2016.