BONDS, PRACTICE, AND CHEMISTRY: EXPERIENCE REPORT AND REFLECTIONS ON POTENTIALITIES OF TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS OF CHEMICAL TECHNICIANS IN MIDST OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

This work aims to report the experience of teaching a course with practical contents in chemistry in the distance modality due to the period of isolation by the COVID-19 pandemic. The target of the course was students of the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Rio de Janeiro (Duque de Caxias campus), who study to be technicians in the field of Chemistry. In order to do so, the importance of experimentation in professional learning is discussed, as well as the difficulty of distance learning in practical training is analyzed. Following the course format and the resources used to overcome the limitations of distance learning and help the students keep the contents in mind are introduced. Student participation was an important component in choosing some themes for the course modules. Realizing the importance of construction that understands them as active subjects in the teaching-learning process, it was possible to offer modules that touched the students reality and expanded their knowledge through comprehensive training. The themes and approaches were proposed to help them define or rethink their career through contact with different realities of the work of a technician in the field of chemistry. The report ends by analyzing how a transdisciplinary education could help students connect knowledge acquired separately and aggregate it to see reality more broadly and completely. The difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic made it possible to discuss a teaching way that would lead students to participate more actively in their training and, dialectically, strengthen pedagogical praxis.