Research knowledge and meaningful learning: a journey through Teacher education

Abstract

The article brings discussions about the knowledge of research in the continuing education of teachers of Mathematics for Meaningful Learning. This is a literature review that raised the following question for the construction of the State of the Question: what has already been produced academically about the contributions of research practice to the development of meaningful learning, considering the pedagogical practice of the Mathematics teacher at 6th year, in his/her continuing education? This aimed to map what exists of scientific production on Research Knowledge in the continuing education of Mathematics teachers for Meaningful Learning. For searches in the databases we applied the 2000-2021 time frame. The theoretical-methodological discussion is supported by Ausubel (2003), Moreira (2012), Therrien (2010), among others. The results show that there is very little production of papers addressing the Research Knowledge and Meaningful Learning categories in the discussion of the Mathematics teacher's knowledge, which leads us to consider that this is a category that has not yet been consolidated. It is increasingly necessary to research, discuss and reflect on their training needs.