Disciplinas de educação matemática em cursos de licenciatura em matemática: um estudo sobre enunciações de licenciados do Instituto Federal do Piauí (IFPI)

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the utterances of undergraduates in Mathematics from Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Piauí (Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí) on the curriculum of their course, in respect to the disciplines of Mathematics Education. To identify which disciplines, the work takes as a parameter a survey of Gatti and Nunes (2009) on undergraduate curriculum in Brazil. In this regard, it was considered Didactics of Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling, Research in Mathematics Education and History of Mathematics as disciplines. The theoretical referential, in which the research is based, is located on the slope of Mathematics Education called Ethnomatematics in their dialogues with the thought of Michel Foucault. Seven undergraduates participated in the survey and they were taking last semester. The qualitative study used interviews as a tool for data collection, which were recorded and then transcribed. The analysis of empirical data showed that: 1) The teaching of subjects didactics of mathematics and mathematical modeling emphasized the manufacture and use of concrete materials as an effective resource for the process of learning mathematics; 2) History lessons of mathematics were "traditional"; 3) Discipline Research in Mathematics Teaching was mainly north of the development work of completion (TCC); 4) the disciplines of mathematics education contribute to the dynamism in the classroom.