O trabalho com projetos como construção complexa de conhecimento sobre o idioma alemão como língua estrangeira

Abstract

This study aims at describing and interpreting the complexity involved in the phenomenon of teaching German as a foreign language, where project development is taken as an additional means of constructing knowledge. The theoretical foundations of the current study are related to complexity (Demo, 2002; Maturana & Varella, 2007; Moraes, 2006; Morin, 2005; Tescarolo, 2005), and to the concept of project, as described and interpreted on the scope of this work (Almeida, 2005; Behrens, 2006; Boutinet, 2002; Hernández & Ventura, 1998; Josgrilbert, 2004; Moresco & Behar, s/d; Valente, 2005). Hermeneutic-phenomenological methodology was taken up for describing and interpreting the above mentioned phenomenon (Ricoeur, 2002; van Manen, 1990; Freire, 2006, 2007), by means of electronic-hermeneutic conversations (e-conversations) with a participating teacher, in a private language institute. In a complex scenario where previous understandings are acknowledged as additional strategies to teaching German as a foreign language, the research has shown that working with projects might help mediating, not only language learning itself, but it may also promote the construction of knowledge on socio-cultural aspects, as well as political and economical ones. Two major themes, attitude(s) and process, have come up while interpreting the phenomenon of teaching German as a foreign language, in its complexity, by working with projects