This study aimed to analyze the characterization of the representations in statements produced
during the investigative activity on the Science Club in the construction of meanings found by
the students. The methodology of this research is the qualitative approach with the constitution
of the data made from elements of the participant observation, material of video recordings,
audio recordings and texts produced by the students during SEI. It was realized at the Science
Club Prof. Dr. Cristovam W. Diniz space and the participants were students who attended the
5º or 6º years of the Middle School, with the ages between 11 and 12 years old. For the
procedures of data analysis, we rely on the transcription, description and interpretation of
students' statements during the proposed investigative activity, which had the proposition that
insects were separated into groups and differentiated from other animals. The theoretical
support used was an interface between Jean Piaget's studies on cognitive representations, the
work with discursive statements based on Michael Foucault and institutional analysis of
Marlene Guirado's discourse. The results showed that their statements were linked to the SEI
steps, in the way they solved the proposed problem, they made relationships between activity
and daily life through the use of explanations and inferences and a language of referencing and
negotiation of meanings. Inside that meaning, the Science Club was not constituted only as
cognitive operations, but it maintained a relationship with the statements in the assimilation and
accommodation processes for the construction of meanings, in this anthropic space of
construction of knowledge.
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