TWENTY YEARS OF GEOGEBRA SOFTWARE: A LOOK AT THE DISSERTATIONS AND THESES IN BRAZIL
State of knowledge, Mathematics software, GeoGebra, Content analysis.
This research is inserted in the context of software for mathematics teaching. We aimed to investigate the academic productions of dissertations and thesis related to GeoGebra software, defended in graduate programs in Brazil, from 2001 to 2021. Thus, the guiding question of this research is: “what do academic research (dissertations and thesis) involving GeoGebra software developed in the period from 2001 to 2021 in Brazil reveal?”. To delineate understandings about the research objective, we conducted qualitative research, in the State of the Knowledge modality in a Multipaper format. The research data come from the following databases: Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD); ii) Catalog of Theses and Dissertations of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), in which we used the descriptor ‘GeoGebra’. The corpus of the research was composed of 713 research papers, 693 master’s theses and 20 doctoral dissertations involving the GeoGebra software in a context related to the teaching and learning processes of mathematics. To analyze the data, we used Content Analysis from the perspective of Bardin (1977) and Rodrigues (2019), which provided us with the constitution of three scientific articles, in which we interpreted through a dialogical movement – interlocution of the data with the concepts guided by the theoretical contributions of the research – to provide us with specific understandings about the investigated object in three perspectives explained in each of the elaborated articles. Article 1, entitled: GeoGebra Software in the Formative Processes of Mathematics Teachers: State of Knowledge of Dissertations and Theses in Brazil, aimed to investigate the academic productions of dissertations and theses defended in stricto sensu post-graduation programs in Brazil related to GeoGebra software for the formative processes of mathematics teachers. Article 2, entitled: Content Analysis of the Dissertations and Theses about GeoGebra Software for the Practice of Mathematics Teachers in Elementary School, aimed to investigate the academic productions of dissertations and thesis related to GeoGebra software for the practice of Mathematics teachers working in Elementary School, defended in stricto sensu post-graduation programs in Brazil, from 2009 to 2021. Article 3, entitled: GeoGebra in High School Mathematics classes: a look at the Dissertations and Theses in Brazil, aimed to investigate the contributions of research from 2009 to 2021 involving GeoGebra software to High School Mathematics classes. Based on the results explained in each of the articles, we understand that research related to GeoGebra software contribute to the reflection and discussion of proposals that enhance its use in the pedagogical practices of teachers who teach Mathematics in different contexts and levels.