THE SCIENTIFIC PROJECT PEDAGOGY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: BUILDING YOUNGSTERS’ AUTONOMY IN THE LAST YEARS OF BASIC EDUCATION
Scientific Project Pedagogy; Autonomy, Youngsters and Youth
The world has been marked by deep and intense transformations. Some meaningful advances were produces and they are also being produced throughout centuries, what proves the uncontested human necessity to keep producing culture based on the ongoing longing for overcoming obstacles. In today’s society there are many challenges related to basic education, which are not out of the scope of the desire for changes, however, regardless of some noticeable advances, the common framework to modern science is present and rebounds in schools and in some important thoughts, which turns what is considered new into something outdated. It is with the emergence of criticism on these demands that many studies based on learning through projects appear. This qualitative research cast a new outlook about young learners’ schooling upbring in basic education and it has as its main goal to analyze these students’ narrative about some possible contribution of scientific project pedagogy to build up autonomy, thus, to search for pieces of evidence from youngsters’ voices and the way they deal with those experiences. As a result, the description of these theoretical methodological elements present in the scientific project pedagogy through focal group and analyze learners’ narratives as being subjects that have a voice and rights will outcome as a tool to help us build data and understand the phenomenon we analyzed. This study and its responses will guide a new perspective to schools and their importance to society as a whole. To achieve what was exposed here, it is extremely important to have a new approach that is able to open all possibilities to understand new realities by considering all participants and protagonist of their own life histories, which in this case are students through their life narratives.