A qualidade de vida dos professores de ciências e a relação das suas disciplinas com o cotidiano dos alunos em uma escola pública no interior do Rio Grande do Sul

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Brum, Liliani Mathias
• Orientador(a): Schetinger, Maria Rosa Chitolina
• Banca de defesa: Adaime, Martha Bohrer , Soares, Félix Alexandre Antunes , Araújo, Maria Cristina Pansera de , Santos, Daniela Lopes dos
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em Ciências: Química da Vida e Saúde
• Departamento: Ciências Biológicas
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Ensino; Ciências; Cotidiano; Qualidade de vida; EJA
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Teaching; Sciences; Quotidian; Life quality; Education of Young and Adults (EJA)
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/3524

The teaching of sciences has been a challenge for education, considering that the students do not demonstrate to realize the usefulness of the contents given in classes and the teachers refer themselves to difficulties to carry out assignments at school. The investigation may be a way of promoting a better performance of these professionals in the quotidian of schools and encouraging the teachers and students growth in educational and social level. Before this, the aim of this study was to investigate the science teachers life quality and the relationship of their subject-matters with the student s quotidian. Two distinct populations were studied: 1) science teachers working in a public school in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and; 2) the students enrolled in the final degrees of the Primary School and in Youth and Adult Education (EJA) at the same school. The teachers filled out a self-applied form with five sets of questions, with information about demographic, economic, occupation characteristics, domestic activities, physical exertion, physical health, mental health and medical diagnoses. The students answered to a semi-structured questionnaire subjected to Content Analysis and Descriptive Statistics. In this research it was observed that the dedication of the science teachers requires long concentration periods in the same task (87%), 71% feel nervous and 41% feel irritated. Regarding to the mental health of the teachers surveyed in this study, it was detected that the most frequent symptoms were feeling nervous, tense or worried (83%). Among the students of the final series of Ensino Fundamental surveyed, 59.9% considered that physical well-being is related to health of organism, 64.7% answered that they may modify their body through physical activity, 72.5% believe that the content learned in sciences can help them to live better, 47.1% would like to see subjects related to health and organism during sciences classes, 80.4% think that those classes could be more interesting if the teachers related the content to the everyday life. Even then, the students participants from EJA , 55.1% considered that the physical well-being is related to health, 53.9% maintain that they feel better with their body from physical activity, 66.3% responded that the content learned in sciences could help them to live better, 76.5% would like to see matters related to health and organisms during science classes and 72.0% think that these classes could be more interesting if the teachers related the content to the quotidian. From the data of this work it was possible to detect that at this school there is a lack in relation to the theme health, because the teachers reported several complaints related to health and the students requested that themes from quotidian are approached in science in science classes mainly the ones related to health and welfare. The knowledge of these evidences can contribute for the building of measures for the reorganization of systematics of working, thereby assisting the teachers and students school performance.