Teaching Sciences and Mathematics in the ProRural Project in Rondônia (1983-1987)

Abstract

The Pro-Rural project was implemented in Rondônia in 1983 to serve the rural school student. He had specific teaching materials, called booklets, in module format. In this sense, the question arises: what conceptions of teaching science and mathematics were disseminated through the didactic materials of this project? In order to try to answer these and other questions, this article aims to analyze the conceptions of science and mathematics teaching spread in Pró-Rural. For discussion and analysis, some Pro-Rural booklets that had access, notably part of Sciences and Mathematics, as well as the pilot project for this project, were used as sources. The results that the contents of the Pro-Rural Project were allowed by the ideals of the Movement of Modern Mathematics (MMM) in the field of mathematics and by a simulation of sciences aimed at caring for problems related to rural men. As final considerations, there are for the Teaching of Accounting Sciences that discuss the main problems of the region (ex. Malaria), step by step for the Teaching of Mathematics, strong conceptions of the Modern Mathematics Movement.

Keywords

• history of education
• rural education
• teaching.