O uso de blocos de Lego:uma proposta para a construção de conhecimentos históricos

Abstract

This paper seeks to insert in the academic and educational world a proposal with the use of the “Lego toy-game” as an educational methodology. For this, it aims to research possible alternatives, to propose the following problem: How to make high school students can visualize an event or historical scene, building knowledge in a playful way, using Lego? The objectives of this paper are to reach a deeper level of understanding of the historical content, events, facts and particular elements of history, to promote the class discussion of historical content, to stimulate students’ social interaction and to use Lego in a playful way, for the construction of knowledge. For this, the study seeks to show through the analysis of the book “Building a better business using the Lego Serious Play Method”, steps and processes in the construction of knowledge through the toy. Thus, the methodology used will be qualitative and exploratory, seeking to investigate, analyze and understand the very methodology exposed in the book about Lego toys, the case study narratives of the application of these resources in various sócio-educational environments and the author’s experience on the various Legos models that can be used in the classroom in the History discipline. At the end of this work it is possible to verify the results of the application of this educational methodology through the case studies researched and to raise the positive and negative points.