R&D activities as a supporting tool of the active teaching and learning methodologies in an engineering course has been less explored. This document compares the results obtained after two questionnaires were applied to ...

Through the intermediation between the historical-critical pedagogy and historical-cultural psychology based on the fundamentals of historical and dialectical materialism, the paper aims to discuss the dialectic of teaching ...

Teaching written communication as a productive skill is an activity properly human, is very important that teachers knows and apply techniques and methods for its developments. The purpose of the work is to understand ...

Six years ago we were invited as editors of a special issue of Mind, Brain, and Education devoted to the role of sleep and circadian rhythms on teaching and learning activities (Golombek & Cardinali, 2008). Several authors ...

This article presents the results of a study that investigated the meaning of evaluation in mathematics from the historical cultural perspective, focusing on activity theory. In order to develop the investigation, a ...

The expansion of Distance Learning and the rise of Engineering courses at ODL have resulted in new challenges regarding carrying out experimental activities within this modality. Among the main challenges there is the need ...

Is analyzed in this article a didactic sequence developed during a master's research. The didactic sequence in question, together with five experimental assemblies composed a teaching approach designed and implemented by ...

We studied the use of methodological pluralism in physics classes for the improvement of secondary school students' scientific argumentation, in the heartland of Sao Paulo state. The research was carried out during a ...