INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICES IN THE INITIAL TRAINING OF TEACHERS OF NATURAL SCIENCES: DIFFERENT CONTEXTS, SIMILAR INQUIRIES

ABSTRACT:

The idea of interdisciplinarity has established itself in the Brazilian educational scenario in recent decades, leading to demands for interdisciplinary activities in the school context. Contrary to what curriculum documents advocate, such practices do not happen naturally. Anchored in Goodson, we argue that school subjects have no dimmed boundaries. Thus, we investigate how interdisciplinary practices are engendered in the initial training of natural science teachers, within the scope of supervised internships in two Brazilian public universities, one in the northeast region, the other in the southeast. Through the Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA), we analyze reports and scripts produced by the undergraduates. Although they indicate possibilities for interdisciplinary work, it is noted that the establishment of such practices is not trivial. The remarkable belonging to the area and the robustness of the disciplinary structure within the school indicates the importance of negotiating and working together for carrying out interdisciplinary practices.

Keywords:
Interdisciplinarity; Initial training teachers; School subject