Mapa conceitual, um gênero textual escolar: uma proposta de retextualização de textos didáticos de história

Abstract

We presente here na experience report on a retextualization practice of didactic texts on History based on production of conceptual maps.This research was carried out with students of the 6th grade of the elementar school II, at the state school located in the city of Cambé (Paraná state).In the study, we investigated whether new knowledge was built by students as from the production of such conceptual maps. Results indicate that by retextualizing didactic texts, students established new relationships and gave a new meaning to the contentes studied, compared to their previous knowledge about the subject. We also observed that the collaborative and dialogical practice was essential to the construction of new knowledge for the relationship they established in the diagrams produced. We expect to contribute to the debates involving the production of conceptual maps a possibility of retextualization and as an important academic genre to develop a meaningful learning.