ABSTRACT
The present work investigates the interaction in classroom, under the trine
conception of the mediation of the learning. The object of the study is composed by
the very mediation elements: pupils, teacher, and learning object. The research main
target was to demonstrate how, under the perspective of Feuerstein, the interaction
among mediator, mediated and learning object is processed. Specifically, the
proposal is: to characterize the relationships that occur between the constituent
elements of the mediation and the mediational criteria; to demonstrate how the
mediation criteria occurs in the teaching and learning process; and to identify the
possibilities and impediments in the planning and accomplishment of the classes
under the parameters of the moderated activity experience. The theoretical reference
is based in Reuven Feuerstein's theoretical-instrumental proposal, particularly on the
concerns of the mediated learning experience (MLE) – conceived as a process of
mediated intentions that promote the structural cognitive modifiability (SCM) – and of
the mediation criteria, that constitute the basic condition for characterization of the
mediation. The methodology proposes the observation of the educational practices of
mediation, according to the mediational categories, to be evaluated either by the
pupils as by the teacher in classroom. In a research-action idea, the teacher and the
twenty-five students – of the Normal Course, at a private school in the city of Ponta
Grossa (state of Parana, Brazil) – became subject/object of the research, in the
sense of the mediational actions evaluation. As instruments, the following were used:
class plans, teacher's diary notes and recordings, teacher's and students’ records
protocols, video-recording and questionnaires. The analysis and discussion were
constituted in the interlacement of quantitative and qualitative indicators. The
conclusion was that the interaction mediator-moderated – object of the learning, took
place in different ways. The variables that interfere in such distinctions refer to: the
cognitive and subjective aspects of the mediator and of the moderated ones, the
specificities of the learning object, the didactic-methodological strategies, time,
space, the moment lived by the group, and the differences of each criterion. From the
interaction between each criterion and the elements of the mediation, some
unilateral, bilateral and trine relationships emerged, which demonstrated the
differentiation of the actions promoters of the mediation of each criterion. The
occurrence of all of the criteria, with different frequencies, superior indexes for the
criteria of mediation of the meaning, of the behavior of sharing, and of the
intentionality/reciprocity, was observed. The mediational criteria are interdependent;
the closest link was observed between the mediation of meaning, and the mediation
of transcendence; however, the mediation of all of the criteria was permeated from
those which are considered universal and fundamental parameters for the
occurrence of the MLE: the intentionality/reciprocity mediation, the mediation of
meaning, and the mediation of transcendence. The mediation is a two-way road: in
the same class, each individual goes thru different processes of interaction and
subjectivity, he attributes a self sense to a certain same lived social situation, and he
constitutes his autonomy and identity as subject of the learning. Despite the distinct
interactions, the indicators denote that the richness of the interaction enabled
progresses, and the use of the parameters as advisors of the class favored the MLE
in the school context. So, learning and teaching rendered being inseparable actions
for mediators and mediated.
Word-key: teaching-learning, research-action, mediated learning experience,
subjectivity.