Analyses of the personal didactic models presented by a group of teachers training to teach Chemistry

Abstract:

The aim of this article was to present and to discuss the influence of the pedagogical courses in the teacher training of a group of Chemistry graduate students of a federal university in São Paulo State. For that, a methodology based on didactic models by García Pérez in the 2000s was used. The results allowed the identification of the didactic models of these students and they indicated that students who attended a larger number of pedagogical courses presented didactic models that were more organized and coherent. This analysis confirms the results of other articles which point to the need of an articulation between scientific and pedagogical courses, and it allows some suggestions for the university program and the teacher training course structure.

Keywords:
Didactic models; Initial training of Chemistry teacher; Chemistry teaching; Higher education