Design thinking como estratégia de ensino e aprendizagem na Química: explorando a química ambiental e sustentável no ensino médio

Abstract

Active methodologies are teaching and learning processes that encourage students to overcome challenges and commit to their learning. These methodologies make the student have an active posture, which allows to solve; know and investigate challeng- ing problems that make sense to him. Although active methodologies are favorable for the teaching and learning process in chemistry teaching, they are not yet fully known and applied in the educational context. One of the little known and very current active methodologies is Design Thinking (DT). DT or design thinking, is presented in this work as a teaching and learning strategy that has as main characteristics the possibility of developing in its stages skills such as: critical thinking, empathy, collaboration and en- gagement. This research brings the application of Design Thinking as a teaching and learning strategy with the objective of applying and evaluating the development of the use of Design Thinking involving the content of Environmental Chemistry with third- year high school students in a state reference school in the state of Pernambuco. To meet the objective of this research, the work was carried out in four steps: 1) Environ- ment of the school and survey on the possibilities of implementing Design Thinking in the school reality; 2) Elaboration and evaluation of the didactic strategy of Design Thinking tied to the content of environmental chemistry and sustainable; 3) Analysis of the data obtained on the students' perceptions in relation to the strategy. The results indicate that the application of Design Thinking proved to be of great importance in the classroom, bringing a lot of interaction between students and teachers, with students as main agents of their learning process, developing soft skills, such as empathy and creativity. In summary, the use of the Design Thinking methodology can contribute to the teaching of Chemistry in a ceative, innovative and empathetic way, allowing stu- dents to develop different skills, contributing to make them citizens capable of solving problems, challenges and transforming the society in which they live, in addition to becoming protagonists of their learning process.