Aprender com historietas desde as pegadas iniciais: a construção do pesquisador

Abstract

This paper reports the results of a research carried out in a learning community thaat comprises professors and students in the Master´s Porgram in Environmental Educaction at FURG, RS. The research was carried out with eighteen students in one of the courses in the second semester of 2003. Its theme was the construction process of the thesis project, which must be defended in the first year of the program. The research was developed on the following question: What is the meaning of the construction of the thesis project for the Masterps program students? Fifteen students were interviewed and the process of analisys consisted of the unitarization, categorization, and the elaboration of meta-texts (MORAES, 2005); this analysis was developed collectively in class up to the categorization. After that, categories were written in pairs and a new process analysis based on these texts was developed. This process resulted in this paper. The categories presented here, in the perspective of narrative research (CLANDININ and CONNELLY, 2000) are; the outline of the project; the construction of the object; and the difficulties the students faced in this process.