Difusão da perspectiva construtivista na FaE/UFPel nas (décadas de 80-90).

Abstract

The present work aimed at investigating the diffusion and use of the constructivist perspective at FaE/UFPel in the 1980s and 1990s, meeting the characters and institutions which were part of this historical moment and constituted this educational scenario. Methodologically the study focused on the sue of oral history and document analysis with the purpose of highlighting the generating matrix of pedagogical practices, through the constructivism making possible the understanding of the trajectory of the diffusion of the constructivist perspective at FaE/UFPel, then collaborating in the consolidation of the investigation of ideas and scholar practices in a historical perspective. This study presents the paths taken by the research, which mean, the theoreticalmethodological questions, a bibliographic review on the origin of the term constructivism and a brief idea of the fundamentals of Brazilian educational constructivism. To end, it approaches the diffusion of the constructivist perspective at FaE/UFPel, highlighting the political-pedagogical scenario of the city of Pelotas and the Education College, as well as the constructivist ideas which constituted this pedagogical moment and which enabled a new epistemological view specially on how the child learns how to read and write. In the final considerations, it is focused the necessity of unveilment of the pedagogical practices in order to provoke a historical analysis of the pedagogical ideas which led and continue leading the school practices, searching for elements which allow us to understand the path that education has been following in the last decades, specially concerning literacy, with the diffusion of constructivism.