Conhecimento prévio e aprendizagem significativa de conceitos históricos no Ensino Médio

Abstract

This study is inserts in the line of research Teaching, Learning School and Human Development and has the assumption that the characteristics of previous knowledge are determinant to new learning. In this perspective aims to analyze the general content for the substantive knowledge prior submitted by students from high school, in the discipline of history. For both, tried to identify attributes of the previous knowledge on the discipline of history those students presents when enter in the high school and describe the variations of previous ideas of the beginners students when compared with those of ending of this level of education. The search of data was done using the format diagram of conceptual map. The sample has been of 73 diagrams prepared by 143 students enrolled in public schools, and 37 diagrams of beginners and 36 diagrams of graduated students of high school. The analysis supported in the theory of meaningful learning of Ausubel and collaborators and in the researches and reflections on the historical knowledge of students as basic for the determination of historical conscience. The results show Discovery of Brazil as the most important issue of education of History of Brazil, according to participants, and three sets of narratives that express their ideas on the topic: descriptive framework of the finding of Cabral; meeting of cultures; start of the process of confrontation, occupation and exploitation that are the origin of economic development Brazil. The interpretative reading of diagrams indicated that beginners and graduated students have similar most general concepts, only with greater differentiation conceptual to the end of high school. It also states those participants of the research, in your context and condition of students of the basic education, produce meaning and direction to construct narratives on the theme. The results show that the concepts maps presents how a compatible tool with the historical narrative when catch the essential in the student’s idea.