A aprendizagem baseada em problemas: uma perspectiva no ensino de estrutura em metal no curso de arquitetura e urbanismo

Abstract

By the faced the resistance of architecture and urbanism students in disciplines involving structural calculation, this work sought to answer the following question: What are the contributions of the application the PBL approach to teaching in the discipline Metal Structure in a course Architecture And Urbanism? The research is classified as exploratory, the technical procedure used was the case study, and for the approach, the research is classified as qualitative and the category of participant observation. The data collection was done through observations made by the teacher, annotated and expanded in diaries, and the work done by the students and their notes. The research was developed in two phases, the first phase being a pilot project, applied in the first half of 2015 and the second phase in the second half of 2015 with students on the sixth period of Architecture and Urbanism, registered in the discipline Metal Structure in a private college in Ponta Grossa. The applied teaching approach during the discipline was Problem-Based Learning, also known as PBL, being the problem proposed the elaboration of a project in metallic structure during the semester. The project was divided into stages and the class was divided into groups. During the execution of the steps, the students undertook self-study and the teacher acted as mediator. At the end of each stage the students performed a performance evaluation. At the end the semester, the students answered a questionnaire evaluating the subject, whose results were analyzed to observe the students perception of the proposed method. At the end of the research it was observed that the teacher perception was positive and the student perception was partially positive, since the traditional teaching culture is still very present, both in the students behavior and the educational institutions philosophy. In order to achieve success in the PBL approach, efforts are required of all actors involved in the teaching and learning process, the teacher acting as mediator, the student as the main responsible for their learning and the teaching institution collaborating so that the proposal of approach is fulfilled. After the application of the research, a notebook containing the teaching strategies was elaborated, with reflections and notes about the methodology of applied teaching.