Avaliação em Paulo Freire: um estudo com professoras formadoras do curso de Licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas

Abstract

Faced by the importance of the valorization process of evaluation from the perspective of knowledge construction; the significant influence of initial training in the construction of conceptions and the evaluative posture of future teachers; the relevance of Paulo Freire's thought for teacher education; and the lack of studies that address the assessment according to the Freirean conception in the Biology initial training teachers, the need to understand of the relationships between the assessment practiced by the trainer teachers and the assessment from a Freirean perspective has arisen. In this direction, this work aims to analyze how Paulo Freire's ideas have influenced the assessment practices of teachers in the disciplines of mandatory supervised internship (ESO). For this, the locus of the study was the Licentiate Course in Biological Sciences of a Public Federal University located in the Pernambuco state and the social authors of the research were the professors who teach the ESO curriculum component. By delimiting the means to obtain answers to our research question, we organized the data collection process in three stages: 1. Documentary analysis of the Pedagogical Course Project (PPC) and teaching plans; 2. Semi-structured interview with training teachers; 3. Treatment and analysis of data that were submitted to Bardin's content analysis. Among the results, we highlight that the most recent PPC, compared to the previous one, presented an approximation with a Freirean bias regarding evaluation concepts, as well as the concepts revealed in the teaching plans and in the interview’s, speeches allowed us to attest that they are aligned with an evaluative proposal based on Freire's ideas. The assumptions and the development basis of the evaluative actions move towards to an emancipatory and liberating practice. We have neither observed the use of evaluation as a classification instrument, nor as a form of punishment. On the other hand, the evaluation conceptions support the valorization of the autonomy, humanization, reflection, liberation, and emancipation from the evaluative actions. The development of a Freirian's evaluation in teacher education courses has a worth contribution for future teachers to practice less exams and more evaluation. Thus, we believe that Freire's evaluation is a way to overcome traditional evaluation models.