Trilha urbana de aprendizagem (wajãpi): o uso da gamificação na educação profissional e tecnológica no Instituto Federal do Amapá: campus Laranjal do Jari

Abstract

The ecological trails gained new emphasis in the field of educational sciences and through educational projects they have qualified other ramifications in this bias, with emphasis on the learning trails and, more recently, the urban ones. In the context of Vocational and Technological Education (EPT) developed at the Federal Institute of Amapá (IFAP), Laranjal do Jari campus, we found an ecological trail with characteristics of these aforementioned ramifications. The Wajãpi Trail that runs through the if constitutes a methodological proposal within the urban space, having an epistemological approach, configuring itself as a very important and current theme for the propagation of scientific, historical, technological, cultural and social knowledge. Thus, this study is inserted in the line of research Educational Practices in Vocational and Technological Education. Specifically, it is located in Macroproject 1, which addresses methodological proposals and didactic resources in formal and non-formal teaching spaces at EPT, comprising projects that address the main issues of teaching and learning. The general objective of this work was to describe the Wajãpi Ecological Trail, located on the Laranjal do Jari campus of the IFAP, as a probable urban path of learning in EPT, through gamification. The research of this study is characterized as of an applied nature, with a quali-quantitative approach and its data collection was carried out through a semi-structured questionnaire applied to teachers and students from the Laranjal do Jari campus, who had initial contact with the trail. Data analysis consisted of a graphic representation, through a histogram based on the information collected in the closed questions, qualitative analysis of the content of the open questions, described from the perspective of the case study. As it is research with human beings, the project was submitted and approved by the Research Ethics Committee. The results presented by the research proved that the ecological trail is an important methodological tool on campus and that it contributes to the dissemination of knowledge among teachers, students and the school community. However, this study culminated in the production of an educational game as an Educational Product, whose purpose was to provide the school community with contact with the gamified track, that is, provided in different formats. We also conclude that the first version of the proposed game, a gamification prototype, streamlines the teaching-learning process and propagates the knowledge inherent to the trail and that, therefore, we have an urban learning trail on the Laranjal do Jari campus. Having made these considerations, this work in the form of an article is organized as follows: Introduction; Theoretical Reference; Methodology; Results and Discussion and Final Considerations. The educational product and assessment are found in Appendix A.