PEDAGOGICAL LINK-MAKING IN HIGHER EDUCATION SCIENCE CLASSROOMS

The higher Education, when compared to basic Education, deals with much more specialized knowledge, usually thought in more technical terms. This specialization of the disciplinary fields that are objects of the graduate courses and the technical character present in most of these courses tend to compartmentalize the knowledge. We developed this work with the aim of analyzing the pedagogical link-making, as proposed by Scott, Mortimer and Ametller (2011), used by four professors of Higher Education, when teaching a class. We observe that the links between the content and the context depend on the area in which the professor acts. Micro and meso continuity links, in turn, do not depend on the area of knowledge, but on the performance of the professor. Macro relations, which could help build a coherent idea of the curriculum, are little present in the lessons of all the professors analysed.