Informal Science learning in PIBID: identifying and interpreting the strands

Abstract

This paper presents a research on informal Science learning in the context of the Institutional Scholarship Program Initiation to Teaching (PIBID). We take as reference the strands of informal Science learning (FAC), representing six dimensions of learning, they are: 1) Development of interest in Science; 2) Understanding of scientific knowledge; 3) Engaging in scientific reasoning; 4) Reflection on Science; 5) Engagement in scientific practice; 6) Identification with Science. For the lifting data, it was used the filming record of the interactions and dialogues of undergraduate students while performing activities of Optical Spectroscopy in the laboratory. Based on the procedures of content analysis and interpretations through communication, we investigate which of the six strands were present during the action of the students in activities. As a result we have drawn a learning profile for each student by distributing communications in different strands of informal Science learning.