PERCEPÇÃO ESPACIAL E INTERESSE POR GEOMETRIA NO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL

Abstract

This article presents an excerpt from my Doctorate in Education research, which aimed to investigate how interest in Geometry content was awakened in students of the 6th year of Elementary School, at EMEF Recanto da Lagoa (Viamão, RS), when doing allowing them to discover ways of three-dimensionalizing shapes in space, based on photographs of their daily lives (objects, constructions, plants, human figures, animals, among others), taken by themselves. It mentions the use of the case study in a descriptive approach, as a research strategy. It brings partial results of this research, which is about the students' interest in Geometry content, resulting from the promotion (sharpening) of spatial perception - of the space encoded in photographs and in the environment where they live - evidenced through categorical analysis, based on Bardin (2011), in which a dialogue was established between the threads of evidence (of interest), research in the area (dissertations) and, the original notions of interest elaborated by educators such as: Dewey (1978) and Decroly – this one, through the works of Moura (1931) and Lourenço Filho (2002).

Keywords: spatial perception; geometry; elementary School.