Quimicando: desenvolvimento de uma disciplina eletiva com foco em química no contexto de uma escola de tempo integral

Abstract

Today's society requires a school with multiple functions and more complete professionals. In this context, the concept of an integral education is reflected in the official documents that regulate education in the country. As a reflection of this panorama, the Government of the State of Goiás started the Full and Integral Education Program, which regulates the Full-time Teaching Centers (CEPIs). With the aim of putting into effect the integral education proposal outlined in the guiding documents, the curricular matrices of the CEPIs are structured around two cores: the Basic Common Core and the Diversified Core. In this sense, within the scope of the Diversified Nucleus, which comprises the flexible part of the curriculum, elective disciplines emerge. The elective subjects are curricular elements of free choice by the students, built collectively, considering interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, presenting themselves as a privileged space for interaction, experimentation, interdisciplinarity, deepening of studies and construction of new knowledge. Thus, this work sought, through participatory research methodology, to contribute to the school community in the planning and development of an interdisciplinary elective subject between the areas of knowledge, focusing on Chemistry using the theme of phytochemistry. The experience of collaborative research, promoted an intense immersion in the educational process and in the administrative process that involve the teacher's performance, and culminated in the discipline Chemistry: Chemistry close to you, developed in 19 meetings in the academic semester 2023/1.