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Pre service education of Biology teachers: the computer-mediated collaborative methodology and learning for teaching

This article presents the results of the implantation and application of a computer-mediated collaborative methodology applied to Biology students at Practicum Internship course at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Based on qualitative approach, data was collected through questionnaires, documents, in locus observations and analysis of ideas. The conceptions and participants reflections was processed according to three groups of formative elements to teaching constructing a professional identity, construction of shared knowledge and mediation. It follows that student-teachers (ST) had significant attitudinal changes regarding the teaching-learning process and concerning the teacher role, as they embrace the importance of appreciate the collaborative methodology and the use of computers as a pedagogical resource in Biology teaching-learning, contemplating this items on their own experience, they were able to constructed knowledge for teaching.

Collaborative methodology; Computer; Pre-service education; Teaching


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