Xeque mate! Potencialidades pedagógicas da utilização do jogo de xadrez no ensino médio integrado à educação profissional em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate chess game as a pedagogical resource which can be used as a possibility of interdisciplinarity, one of the guiding principles for integrated curriculum construction a modality of teaching which has been the focus of Institutos Federais IFs (Federal Institutes). The place of the research was the Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul IFMS (Federal Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul) that is known to implement interdisciplinarity considering that knowledge construction of pedagogical resource can be a subject of interdisciplinarity. This way, the goal of this research is to ”identify pedagogical possibilities for the interdisciplinary use of the chess game from Integrated High School to Professional Education as a possibility of curricular integration”. The methodology chosen was bibliographical review on the game of chess and how chess is used in IFMS; for this purpose, semi structured interviews were carried out with teachers who had already performed chess game activities within the context of the IFMS. The analysis of the data collect ed through the interviews was based on Bardin (1977). This thesis is of qualitative nature, since it resulted in the development of an Educational Product. This product is consisted of an e book, containing pedagogical materials and practices that can be u sed by teachers who wish to explore the potential of chess as a pedagogical tool, demonstrating the interdisciplinary capacity of the said game. The e-book was provided to IFMS faculty, who were invited to evaluate the educational product in order to make adjustments, improvements and refinements, so the final version can be made available to the general public.