Motivações dos professores-orientadores em Mostras de Saberes de Uberaba/MG (2016-2019)

Abstract

One of the ways of scientific dissemination within schools are the Science Fairs, as they awaken in students curiosity, interest and incentive research, collaboration, union and leadership, making it an important research environment. For an effective work, it is necessary that the students develop the proposal, have feelings for the proposed theme, be agents in this development, being necessary that the teacher gives them autonomy. In this sense, the main objective of this research is to investigate the motivations of these teachers to be supervisors of Science Fairs. For that purpose, interviews were carried out with teachers who were supervisors of these events in the city of Uberaba - MG in the period from 2016 to 2019 according to the categories raised in the work of Machado (2021), that were treated through the discursive textual analysis – DTA. Four axes were raised from her analysis: (i) Science Fairs as a possibility of changing methodologies: motivated for learning; (ii) The possibility of teaching professional development through participation in Science Fairs; (iii) Recognition of the teacher's role through the Science Fairs and (iv) Science Fairs and new perspectives of life projects for Basic Education students. One of the motivations of these teachers is to awaken in students the desire to discover what is new, in search of scientific dissemination, as it is necessary to train researcher students, who do not view the Science Fairs just as a schoolwork, but as a possibility of developing their research skills search. Another point to be highlighted is that the teacher feels motivated when he perceives the evolution of his students, when they feel valued as teachers and when they realize that they have managed to change their status from transmitter to mediator of knowledge, giving their students the opportunity to play a leading role. From another angle, we note that the teacher can only be a motivating agent if he is motivated.