Impasses in learning and teaching Exact Sciences: knowledge and the teaching profession between desire and renunciation – a reading by Psychoanalysis-Education
Desire to know; impasses in learning and teaching; teacher training; exact Sciences; Psychoanalysis and education.
Inscribed in the Psychoanalysis and Education interface, this thesis sought to identify and analyze the impasses that cross learning and teaching (in) Exact Sciences, an area of knowledge marked by “unique complexities” and disturbing problems unveiled by the expressive rates of failure, repetition and school dropout/academic, apathies and malaise in relation to teaching and learning, both in the context of public and private educational institutions, from basic to higher education. The empirical research, with a qualitative approach, had as participating subjects professors and studentalready-teachers linked to undergraduate courses in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry at the Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia (UFOB), Brazil. For the construction of the data, the Educational Memory writing device associated with the semi-structured clinical interview was chosen. The narratives of teachers and students-already-teachers show an intricate multiplicity of obstacles present in attempts to learn and teach: visible and invisible impasses, internal and external to disciplines and educational institutions, and which are revealed in the classroom and outside, her teaching-learning processes of a given discipline, area of knowledge or course. We understand that curricular, institutional, epistemological, social and cultural issues, among others, that is, not exclusively concerning one or another element of the teacher and student duo, can emerge in the course of learning and being, making or remain a teacher. Furthermore, in addition to the manifest (conscious) dimension, we think of learning and teaching surrounded by the presence of phenomena linked to the register of the unconscious, which transcends the individual dimension, since the classroom also includes the social unconscious, constructed from the relations between subject-culture.