A elaboração e aplicação do método de estudo de caso sobre automedicação durante o aprendizado de química na educação básica.

Abstract

Currently science teaching has aroused in researchers the interest of seeking new methodologies to assist in the process of teaching and learning science, because the traditionalist model is still very present in the school context, where often knowledge is transformed only into concepts, formulas. And calculations without articulating with students' daily life, making their interest in scientific knowledge less and less. Given this context, this study aimed to analyze the extent to which the case study method, mediated by the theme 'self-medication', can contribute to a contextualized approximation of chemical concepts with real situations of students' daily life and to the development of your skills. The method we used in this paper was the case study, which is an active methodology that has already been developed mainly by teachers of higher education. In this method the teacher mediates scientific knowledge and the student becomes an active subject in the teaching-learning process. According to the results, the chosen theme made it possible to address social and current issues related to the theme, and also contributed to the motivation of students during the analysis of the case, because the theme “self-medication” is related to the very reality of these students. Still according to the results, the case study allowed that during the learning process were developed skills such as critical-reflexive thinking, investigative ability to solve problems and make decisions in the face of real-life problems, teamwork, propose and test hypotheses, among other skills. Given these results, we can consider that the application of the case study method proved to be very efficient both in the contextualization of the studied content and in the development of skills.