Exposição dengue : investigando as aprendizagens mobilizadas em museu de ciência

Abstract

This work is based on the theoretical-methodological framework of Generic Results of Learning (GRL) analysis as research tool, with emphasis on skills dimension. Considering the museum of science valorous to education, we are concerned with the way of knowledge mediation is carried out within the expositions in these spaces and therefore, was used the GRL dimensions to investigate the learning mobilized by the mediators in the mediation´s moments. This study was essentially qualitative, using strategies to identify it as being of the ethnographic type and was carried out at the Dengue exhibition, in the Espaço Ciência, located in Olinda - PE, using as research subject a graduate student in Biological Sciences. In addition, the data construction involved ethnographic observation and videotapes of three mediation moments with distinct groups (one scholar and two formed by families) that were analyzed based on four dimensions of GRL developed from the action, which are: knowledge and understanding; attitudes and values; pleasure, inspiration and, creativity and skills. The research results indicate that several actions characteristic of each of these dimensions emerged up during each of the mediations observed, and that therefore the GRL can be used as an alternative to measure the learning mobilized by mediators within the museum spaces. In light of these results, we hope to contribute with current and future studies on the formation of mediators within these spaces.