Interdisciplinaridade no ensino de ciências: uma análise das publicações das atas dos Encontros Nacionais de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciência (ENPEC)

Abstract

The curriculum documents for Science Education have been defending the Interdisciplinarity as an approach that contribute to an improvement of teaching and learning. In this sense, the present work aimed to understand, through the analysis of the minutes of the National Meeting of Research in Science Education (ENPEC), what the area of Science Education is producing on interdisciplinarity and specifically within the transversal theme health, check whether the issue postural problems has been debated in the researchs. The methodology of the assignment constituted in a bibliographical research of the states of art type o the last five events of the ENPEC from the keywords Interdisciplinarity, Physical Education, Postural Problems and Postural Reeducation. After selecting the articles pertinent to the study, they were qualitatively analyzed by the following criteria: 1. Number of papers published on the topic. 2. Whether it is a theoretical or applied study, 3. Integrated knowledge areas; and 4. Methodology of data constitution and analysis. The results of the state of art type have shown that in the period from 2009 to 2017 there was a significant increase of published works, of which 5,784 papers published in the five editions of event 117 were on the subject interdisciplinarity and the increase of the research was verified, -since in 2009 three publications were found and in 2017 we identified 40 papers on the subject, which points to the increase in research on interdisciplinarity, which, even though it is a recent trend, has been prominent within the area of Science Education. On the nature of the published researches on the subject, we identified 81 papers as empirical ones, that have intervention in reality from a practical application, and 36 theorists to improve, corroborate or question the knowledge already produced. Regarding the areas of integration in the studies, we found several examples of the articulation between Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Arts, Portuguese, Geography and others, which demonstrates the possibility of breaking with fragmented teaching and making interdisciplinary teaching viable. Finally, on the methodologies used in the work, we observed a variety of data collection and analysis instruments applied in the studies, which shows the maturation of the research in the area of Science Teaching in the country, besides the preference in the qualitative investigations. However, we found no work on the postural problems. It is concluded from the results that the research on interdisciplinarity has been expanded in the last years, but it is still necessary more practical studies of how to apply interdisciplinary teaching besides the need to produce works within the subject postural education.