Condensation of information: a reflexion on teaching practices

Abstract

An analysis of the development of the subject Condensation of Information, in the course of Information Management in Universidade Federal do Paraná. It presents the syllabus, the aims, and the unities studied in the subject. It highlights, in the activity planning, the existence of a pedagogic work turned to provide students with the construction or their own knowledge, founded on the perspective offered by Bakhtin’s verbal interaction theory. From the data gathered during two times in which this subject was offered, it discusses its learning practices and provides examples of the works performed and of some manifestations of students in a scope of ninety pupils. It relates this formative guideline to Bachelardian postulates. It gathers some evidences on the pedagogic range of the practices achieved, and, by means of its critic posture, some bases to a possible improvement in this subject teaching.