(456)TRANSFERRING LEARNING METHODOLOGIES. THE CASE OF ACTIVE ROLE PLAYING EXPERIENCES IN SCIENCES HIGHER EDUCATION IN UNIJUI (BRAZIL)

摘要

Undoubtedly, the Bologna Declaration process is reporting important benefits to the EuropeanUniversity (although there are also problems in its application)since it was signed in 1999 by most ofthe Education ministers in the UE to the year 2010 that was the deadline for its application. Three ofthe most important goals of the Bologna Declaration are the following: 1)mobility promotion 2)International Competitiveness 3)employability of our students.Attending to the above mentioned goals, we want to remark the experiences in transferring learning -teaching methodologies developed in the UNIJUI (Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado doRio Grande do Sul)- Brazil. Several activities to interchange learning experiences with teachers weredeveloped in this university. There, we worked with people from the GIPEC (Grupo Interdepartamentalde Pesquisa sobre Educa??o em Ciências)that were especially interested in innovative actions inscience learning. They showed a great interest in our actions, strategies and methodologies ofteaching-learning in the European University especially since the application of the Bologna process.In the UNIJUI, we developed some conferences focused on engineering teachers’ formation, to talkabout the European University, the Bologna Process and modern learning-teaching methodologiesapplicable to this field. A seminar of Ethics and Sustainability in Engineering was also developed.There, we worked on the application of these transversal matters in the educational planning ofEngineering Careers (in fact we are convinced that these matters are very important and they shouldhave more relevance in Engineering Higher Education).In this sense, a practical seminar of applying these matters in Higher Education subjects was alsodeveloped. To get this, a practical session of active role of the students at class was done and severalprofessors of this university, including most of the staff in science education, participated in thisactivity. The final results were successful: everybody showed their point of view about the state ofHigher Education nowadays and several remarkable conclusions were obtained.In the end, the results of these Brazilian experiences do not end in those showed in this paper butthere are several other plans for the near future such as implementing some of the describedmethodologies in the science learning there in UNIJUI, especially the ones relative to seminars basedon active role playing at class in order to implement ethics and sustainability matters in the modernengineers’ formation.