O presente trabalho apresentou nos capítulos teóricos a relação entre conhecimento e ciência, identificando algumas de suas características e de seus significados através dos tempos. O projeto da modernidade foi questionado e tentamos apontar que limites são esses. Além disso, verificamos a relação entre esses limites da ciência moderna e a teoria da complexidade. Definições de ensino e de aprendizagem, segundo alguns autores, foram apresentadas,assim como as relações existentes entre as concepções de conhecimento e o processo de ensino-aprendizagem foram explorados. Destacamos também o papel do professor e do aluno em cada uma das abordagens dando ênfase a esses papéis na pedagogia centrada na relação e na interação. Para falarmos das concepções docentes do conhecimento científico, do ensino e da aprendizagem numa abordagem reflexiva, contextualizamos a formação inicial e/ou continuada de professores. A questão que norteia a tese refere-se à identificação das concepções de ciência, ensino e aprendizagem de onze professores de ciências e/ou biologia da rede particular de ensino do município de São Paulo e suas representações sobre problemas da prática de ensino e de aprendizagem. Para atingir os objetivos a que nos propusemos nesta pesquisa, dois instrumentos foram utilizados, independentes, mas complementares. O primeiro deles foi o oferecimento de um curso de extensão sobre ensino de ciências para professores em serviço, e o segundo foi a aplicação de questionários. Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados foram: descrever e analisar, sob a perspectiva da abordagem qualitativa, os encontros do curso de extensão e classificar e analisar as concepções de ensino-aprendizagem desses professores, verificando que representações esses têm da sua prática docente, segundo Becker (1993). Algumas de nossas conclusões em relação às características principais do curso de formação continuada de professores foi: que a ciência foi tratada como verdade transitória e dependente de vários contextos, os professores foram respeitados no que concerne a suas necessidades e insatisfações, contemplaram-se os conhecimentos prévios e, houve cuidado em integrar a teoria e a prática docente.Questionamentos foram feitos provocando conflitos que podem permitir a construção gradual e não linear do conhecimento, a partir do diálogo constante entre os envolvidos no curso de formação. Além disso, classificamos a concepção de ensino-aprendizagem dos professores participantes do curso como interacionista quando perguntamos diretamente o que é ensino-aprendizagem e quais os papéis de professores e alunos nesse processo. Parece que a maioria dos professores muda para uma classificação empirista quando a questão é um problema da prática, a ser resolvido. Voltamos a classificar os professores como interacionistas quando pedimos a eles que descrevam uma aula sobre sistema digestório. Encontramos uma possível explicação para tal situação no fato de as questões diretas sobre ensino-aprendizagem e papel do professor e do aluno serem muito semelhantes à natureza da questão do sistema digestório, isto é, perguntas diretas, e diferentes de uma situação problema do cotidiano. A explicação que encontramos para aparente paradoxo foi a utilização de slogans, segundo Scheffler (1974), por parte dos professores em situações em que as perguntas feitas são diretas e não solução para problemas. / The present work presented in its theoretical chapters the relation between knowledge and science, identifying some of its characteristics and meanings trough the ages. The project of modernity was questioned and we also tried to point what limits are these. Furthermore, we verified the relation between these limits of modern science and the theory of the complexity. Teaching and learning definitions, according to some authors, were presented and the existing relations between knowledge conceptions and the teaching-learning process were explored. We also highlighted the role of teachers and students in each one of the approaches, emphasizing these roles in the relation and interaction-centered pedagogy. To talk about the teachers conceptions on scientific knowledge, learning and teaching, concerning a reflexive approach, we contextualized the initial and/or continuous formation of teachers. The question guiding this thesis refers to the identification of science, learning and teaching conceptions of eleven science and/or biology teachers of São Paulo city private schools and their learning and teaching-practice problems. To achieve the objectives we proposed to this research, two instruments were used in an independent, but complementary, way. The first of them was the offer of an extension course about science teaching to teachers working, and the second one was the application of questionnaires. The methodological procedures used were describe and analyze, trough the perspective of a qualitative approach, the extension course meetings and then classify and analyze the teaching-learning conceptions of these teachers, verifying what kind of representations they have about they own teaching practice, according to Becker (1993). Some of our conclusions regarding the main points of the continuous formation courses of the teachers were: science was seen as a transitory truth and multiple context-dependent, the teachers were respected with regard to their necessities and dissatisfactions, the previous knowledge were covered and there was special care in integrate the teaching theory and practice, questions were made to provoke conflicts that may permit the gradual and non-linear knowledge construction, parting from constant dialogue between the ones involved in the formation course. Beside this, we classified the teaching-learning conception of the participating teachers of the course as interactionist when they were directly asked the meaning of teaching-learning and what are the roles of teachers and students in this process. It seems like the majority of the teachers change to an empiric classification when the question turns into a daily practice problem to be solved. We went back to the previous interactionist classification when they were asked to describe a class concerning the digestive system. We found a possible explanation to this peculiar situation in the fact that direct questions about teaching-learning and roles of teachers and students are very similar, in the essence, to the digestive system question, in other words, they are both direct questions, and differ from a daily-problem situation. The explanation to this apparent paradox were the use of slogans, according to Scheffler (1974), by the teachers, in situations that questions asked are direct and not problemsolving.

There has been a growing prevalent interest to explore the role of knowledge in organizations. Bhardwaj and Monin (2006) identified the knowledge of individuals' as a valuable source of competitive advantage. An organizations well-rounded institutional memory- the organizations collective experiences (Rothwell & Poduch, 2004), fosters competitive advantage. There is a prevailing need to scrutinize the role of tacit knowledge in organizations and how it's hard to articulate nature makes it difficult for organizations to acquire and preserve institutional memory value. The aim of this review is to illustrate that tacit knowledge contributes significantly to the institutional memory value, expansion and preservation. In an effort to simplify this relationship between tacit knowledge and institutional memory, a comprehensive literature search was performed. I first discuss the role of knowledge in organizations and use the literature on tacit knowledge as a guide to explain the importance of its elicitation for institutional memory expansion and preservation. I then propose: (1) the use of tacit knowledge elicitation as a mediator, and (2) recommend training and a learning organization environment as moderators, for the contribution to take place. Finally, I suggest that organizations: (a) Elicit tacit knowledge sharing at their human capital development training programs (b) develop and implement this trainings at managerial levels, and (c) a "know-why" method to elicit and capture tacit knowledge in a reference guide, to consequently add value to the institutional memory, I conclude with a discussion of implications and limitations for the proposed perspective, and provide suggestions for future research.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of History, 2007. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-68).

Die Nutzung von Social Media ist für Mitarbeiter längst zur Alltagsroutine geworden und drängt immer stärker in die Unternehmen und ihre Personalentwicklungsmaßnahmen (Gori & Robes, 2015). Aktuelle Forschungen von Franken & Franken (2015) zeigen deutlich, dass sich zukunftsorientierte Unternehmen verstärkt auf praxisorientiertes, in Arbeitsprozesse integriertes und computergestütztes Lernen fokussieren, um an die individuellen Bedarfe der Mitarbeiter angepasste Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen direkt am Arbeitsplatz zur Verfügung zu stellen. Dies führt zu einem zunehmenden Verschmelzen von Lern- und Arbeitsprozessen. Dabei sind Unternehmen mit einer ausgeprägten Lernkultur mit einer höheren Wahrscheinlichkeit innovativer, produktiver, liefern eine höhere Qualität und haben eine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit, zu Marktführern in ihrer Branche zu gehören (Mallon, 2010). Wesentlicher Bestandteil dieser Lernkultur sind florierende, virtuelle, hochvernetzte unternehmensinterne Lern- und Wissenscommunities, in denen Kollaboration und Kooperation dominierende Arbeitsprinzipien sind. [... Einleitung]

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Cette étude qui s’inscrit dans la perspective de l’action située, vise à comprendre le phénomène de (re)construction des communautés de pratique (CoPs) en contexte de fusion hospitalière. La recherche repose sur un devis d’étude de cas longitudinale qui combine plusieurs sources de données : documentaires, d’entretiens semi-directifs et d’observations de terrain. La stratégie d’analyse combine deux méthodes : l’une processuelle, permettant un ordonnancement temporel de récits d’événements et d'activités qui ont contribué à situer l’action dans le temps; l’autre selon l’approche de la théorisation ancrée, a permis la comparaison des données par leur regroupement systématique en catégories et sous catégories, tout au long de la collecte des données. La démarche de recherche processuelle adoptée, nous a conduit à révéler la dynamique de construction d’une communauté de pratique (CoP) à partir des caractéristiques inter reliées, identifiées dans la littérature et qui font référence à un engagement mutuel, une entreprise commune et un répertoire partagé. Ainsi, nos analyses montrent que le domaine d’action qui vient délimiter les points de convergence des participants, constitue le dénominateur commun de la pratique de la communauté qui met à jour des savoirs tacites et explicites qui s’échangent et se développent dans le temps. Cette pratique partagée, éminemment sociale, génère des connaissances et des règles négociées et entretenues par les membres dans le cadre de leurs rencontres. Nos analyses révèlent également que le processus d’évolution d’une communauté de pratique, s’inscrit dans une trajectoire d’apprentissages continue où se combinent de façon dynamique, des temps de participation intense, propices à la construction progressive d’une compréhension commune et négociée du domaine d’action (participation) et des temps de mise en forme de ces représentations (réification). Ici, la dialectique participation/réification qui se donne à voir, révèle un véritable travail d’organisation où la construction du sens à donner à l’action s’instruit à l’aune d’une régulation sociale omniprésente. Toutefois, le résultat de la régulation sociale, n’implique pas de facto, la rencontre d’une régulation conjointe. Plutôt, nos résultats mettent à jour un ensemble de régulations, tantôt concurrentes, tantôt en équilibre en regard du contexte dans lequel sont placés les acteurs. Enfin, nos résultats sur la dynamique de (re)construction des communautés de pratique en contexte de fusion, permettent d’appréhender le changement organisationnel non plus sous ses seuls aspects stratégiques et en direction des équipes dirigeantes, mais également sous l’angle des capacités d’acteurs « ordinaires » à l’initier dans une perspective continue et située. / This study, which draws on the situated action approach, aims to understand the (re)construction of communities of practice (CoPs) in the context of a hospital merger. Combining documentary sources, semi-open ended interviews and observations data, the analysis strategy is twofold. A first method takes into account the merging process itself and the situation of action in time and place. A second method is guided by grounded theory as data are continuously categorized and compared throughout the data collection phase. Within this perspective, where the notion of process is a key figure, we have identified, in link with current literature, interrelated characteristics, such as mutual engagement, a joint enterprise, shared repertoire that intervene in the reconstruction of a community of practice (CoP). Our analysis points to the action domain as the common denominator of community practices, domain where tacit and explicit knowledge tend to converge in time. This shared practice, eminently social in nature, generates knowledge and negotiated rules that are upheld by its members within the framework of their meetings. This perspective has also brought forth how communities of practice take shape within processes of continuous learning that combine phases of intense participation that favor a shared understand of the action domain and the reification of their representations. In this specific study, the participation/reification dialectic reveals a “making sense” process where meaning of action and social regulation are intricately linked. Nevertheless, the resulting social regulation does not de facto, imply the encounter of a shared regulation. Rather, our results reveal an ensemble of regulations, sometimes concurrent, sometimes in equilibrium, in relation of the context within actors are situated. These findings on the dynamics of the reconstruction of communities of practice offer a new way of thinking changes within organizations such as the hospital, not only in respect to strategic dimensions and changes amongst team leaders but also in taking into account the lay actors and their capacities of thinking and acting out change.

Cette étude qui s’inscrit dans la perspective de l’action située, vise à comprendre le phénomène de (re)construction des communautés de pratique (CoPs) en contexte de fusion hospitalière. La recherche repose sur un devis d’étude de cas longitudinale qui combine plusieurs sources de données : documentaires, d’entretiens semi-directifs et d’observations de terrain. La stratégie d’analyse combine deux méthodes : l’une processuelle, permettant un ordonnancement temporel de récits d’événements et d'activités qui ont contribué à situer l’action dans le temps; l’autre selon l’approche de la théorisation ancrée, a permis la comparaison des données par leur regroupement systématique en catégories et sous catégories, tout au long de la collecte des données. La démarche de recherche processuelle adoptée, nous a conduit à révéler la dynamique de construction d’une communauté de pratique (CoP) à partir des caractéristiques inter reliées, identifiées dans la littérature et qui font référence à un engagement mutuel, une entreprise commune et un répertoire partagé. Ainsi, nos analyses montrent que le domaine d’action qui vient délimiter les points de convergence des participants, constitue le dénominateur commun de la pratique de la communauté qui met à jour des savoirs tacites et explicites qui s’échangent et se développent dans le temps. Cette pratique partagée, éminemment sociale, génère des connaissances et des règles négociées et entretenues par les membres dans le cadre de leurs rencontres. Nos analyses révèlent également que le processus d’évolution d’une communauté de pratique, s’inscrit dans une trajectoire d’apprentissages continue où se combinent de façon dynamique, des temps de participation intense, propices à la construction progressive d’une compréhension commune et négociée du domaine d’action (participation) et des temps de mise en forme de ces représentations (réification). Ici, la dialectique participation/réification qui se donne à voir, révèle un véritable travail d’organisation où la construction du sens à donner à l’action s’instruit à l’aune d’une régulation sociale omniprésente. Toutefois, le résultat de la régulation sociale, n’implique pas de facto, la rencontre d’une régulation conjointe. Plutôt, nos résultats mettent à jour un ensemble de régulations, tantôt concurrentes, tantôt en équilibre en regard du contexte dans lequel sont placés les acteurs. Enfin, nos résultats sur la dynamique de (re)construction des communautés de pratique en contexte de fusion, permettent d’appréhender le changement organisationnel non plus sous ses seuls aspects stratégiques et en direction des équipes dirigeantes, mais également sous l’angle des capacités d’acteurs « ordinaires » à l’initier dans une perspective continue et située. / This study, which draws on the situated action approach, aims to understand the (re)construction of communities of practice (CoPs) in the context of a hospital merger. Combining documentary sources, semi-open ended interviews and observations data, the analysis strategy is twofold. A first method takes into account the merging process itself and the situation of action in time and place. A second method is guided by grounded theory as data are continuously categorized and compared throughout the data collection phase. Within this perspective, where the notion of process is a key figure, we have identified, in link with current literature, interrelated characteristics, such as mutual engagement, a joint enterprise, shared repertoire that intervene in the reconstruction of a community of practice (CoP). Our analysis points to the action domain as the common denominator of community practices, domain where tacit and explicit knowledge tend to converge in time. This shared practice, eminently social in nature, generates knowledge and negotiated rules that are upheld by its members within the framework of their meetings. This perspective has also brought forth how communities of practice take shape within processes of continuous learning that combine phases of intense participation that favor a shared understand of the action domain and the reification of their representations. In this specific study, the participation/reification dialectic reveals a “making sense” process where meaning of action and social regulation are intricately linked. Nevertheless, the resulting social regulation does not de facto, imply the encounter of a shared regulation. Rather, our results reveal an ensemble of regulations, sometimes concurrent, sometimes in equilibrium, in relation of the context within actors are situated. These findings on the dynamics of the reconstruction of communities of practice offer a new way of thinking changes within organizations such as the hospital, not only in respect to strategic dimensions and changes amongst team leaders but also in taking into account the lay actors and their capacities of thinking and acting out change.

Companies struggle against complex and dynamic conditions in order to survive in their business settings. Being in the knowledge era, learning has been accepted as one of the main sources of sustainable competitive advantage. Organizational learning (OL) is a set of activities to obtain organizational memory (OM) by acquiring, sharing, interpreting, integrating and institutionalizing knowledge. OM is exploited by the companies in strategic decision-making process, which makes OL a critical concept. The major objective of this study is to explore how construction companies create OM and how they exploit this asset in strategic decision-making process. In this context, an interview study is conducted with eight large Turkish construction companies and OM perceptions of each company are presented as case studies. This survey revealed the strengths and weaknesses in terms of OL competence. One of the key outputs is that companies are successful at acquiring and storing knowledge but they are not familiar with decision support systems (DSSs) that benefit from OM. Such systems enable OL by assisting decision makers in processing, assessing, integrating and organizing knowledge. To meet the requirements of the industry, a DSS is proposed to aid construction companies in international market entry decisions. This tool is generated under a software package by adopting case-based reasoning (CBR) as the problem solving approach, which finds solutions to new problems based on the past experiences. The model is developed by the acquisition of past real international project data as input information. The model produces two outputs that are indicators of attractiveness of a project and competitiveness of a company, which are the key decision criteria in international market entry problem.

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However, this model of learning would have to associate the proposals to it of the Physical Education, that is, to interact with the productions of the area, and, thus, to reveal the possibilities of a practical significant learning in the pedagogical one. In this direction, it was necessary to analyze that teach-learning process the professors of Physical Education are providing. For this, it was considered as the professors worked with the previous knowledge of the pupils, with the material of learning and the disposal to learn, that is, as the appropriation of the knowledge in the lessons of Physical Education was happening. The general objective of the research was centered in analyzing practical the pedagogical one of professors of Physical Education who acts with pupils of Average Education, looking for to understand if this action favors the learning significant. The identification of the elements was defined as objective specific - gifts in the scienters of the professors and daily pedagogical practical its - that they propitiate the significant learning. This work was characterized as a qualitative research, with delineation of case study. Two professors of the public net of the State of São Paulo had been citizens of the research, called professor and the teaching B, that lessons in first and the second series of Average Education give, respectively; as well as the pupils of these series, in a total of 20 pupils, corresponding to the half of the total of pupils of each series. For the collection of data he opted himself to the interview with the professors and the pupils by means of semistructuralized scripts, comments of lessons and documentary analysis (proposal pedagogical used by the professors). From ownership of the data, it was proceeded the analyses. On the basis of the theoretical referencial of the research and in the reading of the collected data had emerged categories that had allowed to analyze the process of teach-learning of the Physical Education and the possibilities to unchain the significant learning, what it disclosed to the necessity of practical changes and improvement of the pedagogical ones of the professors. Finally, one expects that this research contributes for one better understanding of the teach-learning process and favors practical the pedagogical one of the professor of Physical Education in the search of a significant learning. / Durante a prática pedagógica verificou-se que a aprendizagem de muitos conteúdos apresentava resultados pouco satisfatórios, isto é, na avaliação, os alunos memorizavam o conteúdo ou reproduziam de forma mecânica os movimentos. Assim, surgiu a necessidade de aprofundar essa discussão por meio da articulação, nas aulas de Educação Física, do conteúdo, da metodologia e da avaliação a um modelo de aprendizagem que contribua para uma efetiva prática pedagógica, na qual o professor possa concentrar seus esforços nos elementos indispensáveis a uma boa aprendizagem. Nesta perspectiva, o modelo da Aprendizagem Significativa de Ausubel, baseado na psicologia, foi usado como fundamento teórico. Porém, esse modelo de aprendizagem deveria vincular-se às propostas da Educação Física, isto é, interagir com as produções da área, e, assim, manifestar as possibilidades de uma aprendizagem significativa na prática pedagógica. Nesse sentido, foi necessário analisar que processo de ensino-aprendizagem os professores de Educação Física estão proporcionando. Para isso, foi considerado como os professores trabalhavam com os conhecimentos prévios dos alunos, com o material de aprendizagem e a disposição para aprender, isto é, como estava acontecendo a apropriação do conhecimento nas aulas de Educação Física. O objetivo geral da pesquisa centrou-se em analisar a prática pedagógica de docentes de Educação Física que atuam com alunos do Ensino Médio, procurando compreender se essa ação favorece a aprendizagem significativa. Definiu-se como objetivo específico a identificação dos elementos presentes nas intencionalidades dos docentes e na sua prática pedagógica cotidiana que propiciam a aprendizagem significativa. Este trabalho caracterizou-se como uma pesquisa qualitativa, com delineamento de estudo de caso. Foram sujeitos da pesquisa dois docentes da rede pública do Estado de São Paulo, denominados docente A e docente B, que ministram aulas na primeira e segunda série do Ensino Médio, respectivamente; bem como os alunos dessas séries, num total de 20 alunos, correspondendo à metade do total de alunos de cada série. Para a coleta de dados optou-se pela entrevista com os docentes e com os alunos por meio de roteiros semiestruturados, observações de aulas e análise documental (proposta pedagógica utilizada pelos professores). De posse dos dados, procedeu-se às análises. Com base no referencial teórico da pesquisa e na leitura dos dados coletados emergiram categorias que permitiram analisar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem da Educação Física e as possibilidades de desencadear a aprendizagem significativa, o que revelou a necessidade de mudanças e aprimoramento das práticas pedagógicas dos docentes. Por fim, espera-se que esta pesquisa contribua para uma melhor compreensão do processo de ensino-aprendizagem e favoreça a prática pedagógica do professor de Educação Física na busca de uma aprendizagem significativa.

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However, this model of learning would have to associate the proposals to it of the Physical Education, that is, to interact with the productions of the area, and, thus, to reveal the possibilities of a practical significant learning in the pedagogical one. In this direction, it was necessary to analyze that teach-learning process the professors of Physical Education are providing. For this, it was considered as the professors worked with the previous knowledge of the pupils, with the material of learning and the disposal to learn, that is, as the appropriation of the knowledge in the lessons of Physical Education was happening. The general objective of the research was centered in analyzing practical the pedagogical one of professors of Physical Education who acts with pupils of Average Education, looking for to understand if this action favors the learning significant. The identification of the elements was defined as objective specific - gifts in the scienters of the professors and daily pedagogical practical its - that they propitiate the significant learning. This work was characterized as a qualitative research, with delineation of case study. Two professors of the public net of the State of São Paulo had been citizens of the research, called professor and the teaching B, that lessons in first and the second series of Average Education give, respectively; as well as the pupils of these series, in a total of 20 pupils, corresponding to the half of the total of pupils of each series. For the collection of data he opted himself to the interview with the professors and the pupils by means of semistructuralized scripts, comments of lessons and documentary analysis (proposal pedagogical used by the professors). From ownership of the data, it was proceeded the analyses. On the basis of the theoretical referencial of the research and in the reading of the collected data had emerged categories that had allowed to analyze the process of teach-learning of the Physical Education and the possibilities to unchain the significant learning, what it disclosed to the necessity of practical changes and improvement of the pedagogical ones of the professors. Finally, one expects that this research contributes for one better understanding of the teach-learning process and favors practical the pedagogical one of the professor of Physical Education in the search of a significant learning. / Durante a prática pedagógica verificou-se que a aprendizagem de muitos conteúdos apresentava resultados pouco satisfatórios, isto é, na avaliação, os alunos memorizavam o conteúdo ou reproduziam de forma mecânica os movimentos. Assim, surgiu a necessidade de aprofundar essa discussão por meio da articulação, nas aulas de Educação Física, do conteúdo, da metodologia e da avaliação a um modelo de aprendizagem que contribua para uma efetiva prática pedagógica, na qual o professor possa concentrar seus esforços nos elementos indispensáveis a uma boa aprendizagem. Nesta perspectiva, o modelo da Aprendizagem Significativa de Ausubel, baseado na psicologia, foi usado como fundamento teórico. Porém, esse modelo de aprendizagem deveria vincular-se às propostas da Educação Física, isto é, interagir com as produções da área, e, assim, manifestar as possibilidades de uma aprendizagem significativa na prática pedagógica. Nesse sentido, foi necessário analisar que processo de ensino-aprendizagem os professores de Educação Física estão proporcionando. Para isso, foi considerado como os professores trabalhavam com os conhecimentos prévios dos alunos, com o material de aprendizagem e a disposição para aprender, isto é, como estava acontecendo a apropriação do conhecimento nas aulas de Educação Física. O objetivo geral da pesquisa centrou-se em analisar a prática pedagógica de docentes de Educação Física que atuam com alunos do Ensino Médio, procurando compreender se essa ação favorece a aprendizagem significativa. Definiu-se como objetivo específico a identificação dos elementos presentes nas intencionalidades dos docentes e na sua prática pedagógica cotidiana que propiciam a aprendizagem significativa. Este trabalho caracterizou-se como uma pesquisa qualitativa, com delineamento de estudo de caso. Foram sujeitos da pesquisa dois docentes da rede pública do Estado de São Paulo, denominados docente A e docente B, que ministram aulas na primeira e segunda série do Ensino Médio, respectivamente; bem como os alunos dessas séries, num total de 20 alunos, correspondendo à metade do total de alunos de cada série. Para a coleta de dados optou-se pela entrevista com os docentes e com os alunos por meio de roteiros semiestruturados, observações de aulas e análise documental (proposta pedagógica utilizada pelos professores). De posse dos dados, procedeu-se às análises. Com base no referencial teórico da pesquisa e na leitura dos dados coletados emergiram categorias que permitiram analisar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem da Educação Física e as possibilidades de desencadear a aprendizagem significativa, o que revelou a necessidade de mudanças e aprimoramento das práticas pedagógicas dos docentes. Por fim, espera-se que esta pesquisa contribua para uma melhor compreensão do processo de ensino-aprendizagem e favoreça a prática pedagógica do professor de Educação Física na busca de uma aprendizagem significativa.