Doctoral Thesis – PPG EPS - UFSC
Title: An educational proposal towards link between whole and parts construction under Blaise Pascal enunciation
ABSTRACT
This thesis constitutes a
theoretical contribution to a pedagogy
that considers Education as a Human Development System. The proposal concerns
to the application of a theoretical tool named Object Oriented Modeling. This
tool is referred to Complex Systems Development in Informatics. This tool
appears adequate to be used in Educational Context, if it is, just, considered as a Complex Development System.
Over a scenery where the
Human Civilization contains the Education, as a category, it is analyzed the
present Knowledge Specialization Paradigmatic crisis. Knowledge Specialization
and Fragmentation from the Present Predominant Paradigm deep affects human
people, strong way, in face of Globalization phenomenon.
Some concepts are searched,
focusing more flexible aspects to traduce an adequate pedagogic praxis related
with nowadays context. It is built an Educational Model, including Teaching
Environment essential aspects. The Educational proposal faces Pascal enunciate
about a " link between whole and parts ". On Education, an
answer towards the proposed link, is reached by the alignment of educational
principles with the Natural Laws. This formulation gives a theoretical support
to some teaching methodologies. Those methodologies are practiced today, all
over the world, also in Engineering and Computer Sciences domain, under the
name of Project Orientation. The author’s Educational Methodology is named
Thematic Oriented Methodology. Author ´s teaching concrete experience are
presented. Conclusions points out that: 1- it is important to integrate Object
(Thematic), Subject (Student-Members) in an Educational Humanistic Perspective
in all knowledge domains. 2 - isolated integrative pedagogic proposals must
migrate towards curricular level support, promoting its potentiality and profit
from its advantages. 3 - The Object Oriented Modeling appears to be a generic tool
for Complex Thematic Modeling support. So, it can be applied to all other
Knowledge Complex domains, independent from Informatics Modeling products,
themselves.