O contrato didático na educação de jovens e adultos : um olhar metacognitivo sobre as aulas de matemática

Abstract

The present research had as objective to investigate the relation between the didactic contract and the metacognition, in classrooms of the EJA, in the learning of the mathematics. We analyzed the same teacher and her students in two classes (Module I and PROEJA), a reference school in youth and adult education. Initially observations were made in both classes; after the observations were made video recording of four classes, two classes of each class, and to complement the data, an interview was made with the teacher. After the transcription of the data, we analyzed the discursive interactions, seeking to 'capture', more objectively, if the teacher promoted the development of metacognitive processes in their students. The initial idea was to use the categories of metacognitive strategies found in the literature (ARAUJO, 2009 and LUCENA, 2013), but the reality of the classroom investigated did not allow us to go this way, the only strategy found was the order of the procedure, which showed us that the didactic contract established by the teacher did not allow an advance in the reflections, and that these, only happened in a few moments, related to mathematical rules and procedures. This attitude of the teacher reminded us of two rules of the didactic contract, evidenced in the interactions between the teacher and her students in both classes: the priority was in explaining the subject, which seemed enough for the students to learn; and also the questions raised by the teacher were mostly answered by herself, giving no opportunity for students to reflect on what was being taught. These results demonstrate that the development of metacognitive reflections is far from being a support for the teaching-learning of mathematics in the EJA, in reality investigated. This fact certainly contributes to a traditional teaching, unrelated to reality, and unrelated to what they would need in mathematics as an aid to their professional activity, and the school ends up not contributing in this sense, and loses the sense of continuing in it.