Jean Piaget e o ensino da matemática elementar no curso primário: o que dizem as revistas pedagógicas (1950-1970)?

Abstract

This work analyzed the circulation process of Jean Piaget’s ideas in the Brazilian Teaching Magazine and its implications to the teaching of mathematics in the primary school of Brazil in the period of 1950 a 1970, period of consolidation if the new school and the opening to the modern mathematics. Therefore, it was necessary a research for fonts that occurred in the Digital Collection of the Grupo de Pesquisa em História da Educação Matemática no Brasil (GHEMAT) hosted in the Repositório Digital da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). From the pre-reading and filtering of magazines and papers that bring the Jean Piaget’s ideas, twelve papers were selected for the analysis. We used as theorical-methodological tools authos like Chartier (1988), Julia(2001) and Certeau(1982). We wanted to connect Jean Piaget’s ideas’ circulation, with an analysis of the school culture and in the process that give meaning to the elements presents in this culture, like the school knowledge and the teacher’s formation knowledge explained in the pedagogical magazines. The analysis of the articles allowed to evaluate that they contributed to the transmission to the professors readers knowledge about the theory of Jean Piaget, the relations with Modern Mathematics and the necessary knowledge for the teaching of mathematics in the first years of school. It is clear the attempt to break with an automated teaching of mathematics, focused on "doing calculations" and much more concerned with the students learning process of the operative structures according to the phases of their development. Mathematics classes designed to promote situations of imbalance and thus be more effective and lead to reflection, reflective abstraction.