Letramento científico em ciências: investigando processos de mediação para a construção dos saberes científicos em espaços não formais de ensino

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Amaral, Lisandra Catalan do
• Orientador(a): Fernandes, Cleoni Maria Barboza
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação
• Departamento: Faculdade de Educaç
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: EDUCAÇÃO; CIÊNCIAS - ENSINO; QUÍMICA - ENSINO; PRÁTICA DE ENSINO; APRENDIZAGEM
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/3814

Even these days, teaching Science has been an obstacle for many teachers. In the same way, getting to know science and being able to promote a dialogue between science and everyday situations, have been a challenge for many students. When searching for this movement, teachers have demonstrated some demotivation and doubts, once, for many times, they cannot achieve the proposed educational goals. In addition, students may not understand science, considering it difficult, and associating it with memorization, abstraction, recognition and interpretation of formulas and symbols. With this perspective, it is not only important to seek strategies in order to provide meaning to science teaching, but also to understand how students build their scientific knowledge, indicating a path and developing mediations that may bring scientific knowledge closer to them. Thereby, it is necessary to perceive which strategies may contribute for inserting students in a scientific culture, starting from an assumption that science teaching makes part of a scientific literacy process. Moreover, the recognition of scientific literacy, as a possibility to read the world, makes feasible understanding and constructing knowledge and values, and students become critical subjects and able to characterize the multiple applications of science and technology in daily routines. Therefore, the possibility of developing scientific literacy may occur in non-formal teaching spaces so that Science Clubs or Chemistry Clubs have been characterized as these places. Known as wide investigation fields, Science Clubs are the places where teachers perform as mentor teachers, teachers in training and students. Accordingly, it is interesting to observe what has been different in these spaces, identifying in which way science clubs can contribute for the education of students and teachers in training, promoting scientific literacy. Thus, the questioning of this research has been anchored in a question in order to understand the pedagogical dimensions present in teaching non-formal spaces, here understood as Science Clubs, by distinguishing which mediation processes may construct scientific knowledge in these places. For this research, a qualitative methodological approach has been utilized, by considering the own environment as the direct data source, and the own researcher as the research instrument, occurring through research fieldwork. Afterwards, counting on a delineated methodological course, four clubs were chosen to make part of this research, located in public educational institutions (State and Municipal schools) and private ones. It was possible, with this research, to identify that Science Clubs may provide the development of actions promoting scientific literacy as well as revealing an educational space that gets involved in it. Hence, they have contributed as a pedagogical space for the integral development of students, being a way of diversifying teaching and learning processes, aiming to educate and increase the scientific culture of their members.