CONECTIVIDADE NA CONSTRUÇÃO DE CONHECIMENTOS -ADEQUAÇÃO DA GRADE CURRICULAR NO CURSO DE ENGENHARIA DE MATERIAIS

Abstract

Scholar curriculum can be designed from a perspective that knowledge construction is made from a connection process between distinct information in progressive levels of complexity. Starting from what one knows, new understandings and abilities can be continuously constructed. In higher education disciplines in the scholar curriculum seems to be linearly arranged, however, sometimes there is no connectivity among subjects. Based on that, the present paper aims to raise the question of the curriculum adequacy in the construction of knowledge within the course of Materials Engineering of Federal University of Santa Catarina. To this end, questionnaires were developed and implemented with students in a specific discipline of the course for an opinion survey and for verification of prior knowledge. In general, the data show a deficiency of prior and elementary knowledge on the part of students, which ultimately result in high failing rates in this discipline.

Keywords

• learning
• meaningful knowledge
• curricular adequacy