O desencantamento do mundo: uma reflexão necessária para o ensino de ciências e matemática

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Elian Sandra Alves de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Alagoas; Brasil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino de Ciências e Matemática; UFAL
• Palavras-chave em Português: Desencantamento do Mundo.; Educação Científica.; Ensino de Ciências.; Ciência e Tecnologia.; Cidadão.; Disenchantment of the World.; Science Education.; Science Teaching.; Science and Technology.; Citizen.; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/1227

In this work we intend to reflect on some possible meanings for the expression 'disenchantment of the world'. When these positions assume extremes, they are not recommendable, because the act of demonizing or divinize the advent of science and technology restricts the real complexity involved in both: as regards the scientific achievements as with regard to its impact on modern life. We argue that a constructive and open dialogue involving a gradation of positions constitutes something more advisable to guide a critical science education for the citizen. We proceed to a confrontation between a worldview guided by free imagination that knows no limitations of the laws of the natural world with a vision of the world that is governed by these laws. In order to do that, we implement a confrontation between the texts of Galileo (1935), with the narratives of Jonathan Swift (1978) and Monteiro Lobato (1968). We emphasize that a scientific education that engenders a genuine formation for the citizen must be based on the complementarity between the two worldviews, since this should be considered as essential to the realization of the Teaching of Science and Mathematics in their current perspective.