The chemistry teachers training in P´ré-universitário popular: a focus group in Projeto de Educação Comunitária Integrar

Abstract

This paper debates chemistry techers’ training in Pré-Universitários Populares (PUPs). Analysed with a case study, a focus group was organized by chemistry teachers that are active in Projeto Integrar. The conversation was analyzed by discursive textual analysis, whose emerging categories were “The role of planning” and “The classes development”. The research pointed out that Integrar contributes to the training of the chemistry teachers, which emphasizes the student in the educational process, and trying to hold off the banking model education. The Integrar’s students are people who was excluded from the universities because of several reasons, such as color, gender, sexual orientation, poorness, etc. Hereupon, the Integrar as an important part of PUPs, demonstrated teaching integrated with social struggles, then highlighting the importance of this movement to the Brazilian education.