Educating for research in initial teacher education

Abstract

Nowadays science and technology are evolving at a great speed, but the implementation of discussions about these developments in Basic Education do not evolve in the same way. The main problem is the difficulty of teacher training to overcome the simple reproduction of information, quite often within a classical context, and encourage students to education through inquiry. This text reports didactic activities, in initial teachers training, based on the proposal of "educating through inquiry", and the results of a research carried out in this context, aiming to understand students' conceptions about the proposal and the future perspectives of its use. The research used a methodology based on the content analysis of the open answers of the students who concluded the subjects, obtained through a questionnaire applied in an online platform. The results indicate the future teachers have a positive view on the use of the research in the activities to be developed in Basic Education, and pointed out the possibility of using similar activities in their future practice. The final analysis shows a positive evaluation of the activities carried out and pointing to the fact that future teachers have better perspectives to use and carry out research in their future teaching practices when it permeates their training process.