O construtivismo e o ensino artístico

: conceção e experimentação de uma estratégia pedagógica no desenho de um ambiente de aprendizagem

Abstract

The transformations that establish this modern age, in which we live, create new needs, but also, new opportunities. We feel the changes, the update of old practices and the draw of new tools. Facing this reality, the least capable, will become obsolete and subsequently disposable. Towards such essencial emporwement, the right education can, and should, make all the difference. An education that places the student at the center of learning process, which refer to their prior experiences in the construction of new structures of knowledge, by solving problems in context, where there are no unique solutions and pre-determined responses, always enhancing the discussion of ideas and collaboration. A pedagogy that allows the acquisition of core competencies, rather than standardized and obsolete goals. In this study, after an attentive research, we found in the foundations of Constructivist paradigm of human development, also applied to learning, the principles that fulfill our educational intentions. Thereby, within our supervised teaching practice, we decided to conceive and experiment a pedagogical strategy, that would allow the design of a constructivist learning environment. The resulting assessment of this application, relied on the five scales set by Construtivist Environment Learning Survey (CLES), therefore, in the students opinions about their classroom climate, settled in the Desenho A classes. The results generated have indicated a rise in the mean values obtained, between the pre-test and post-test, in four of the five dimensions measured. Wherein, two of those differences between conditions were marginally significant and another statistically significant.

Date of Award	11 Jun 2013
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Paulo César Dias (Supervisor)