%0 Journal Article %T Teaching and learning in Basic Education. Interaction mediated by research %A Ortenila Sopelsa %J S¨Ēsifo : Educational Sciences Journal %D 2007 %I %X This article presents a narrative work of qualitative research on the education and learning processes which interact with research and are related to the scientific and pedagogical approach to the human body. The research was developed with a group of thirty five students and their teacher, with the participation of the researcher, in Year four of a Basic Education state school, with the aim of establishing how the dimensions of the human body emerge and are specified. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with the students and their teacher, through research developed by students and their community and teaching activities. The analysis revealed that significant learning of the human body emerged from constructed practice and constant dialogue in some of the real work situations involving the group of students, which was developed and overlapped with the life histories of each student in terms of their conflicts, anxieties, challenges, desires, knowledge and social and emotional experiences. %K Education %K Human body %K Research %K Science %U http://sisifo.fpce.ul.pt/?r=14&p=135