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This article presents parameters and educational purposes of STS Education, present in the Brazilian context of science education. Methodologically, the research involved the deepening of theoretical frameworks that discuss science, technology, society, education and science education from different points of view; and, the discursive textual analysis of articles published in Brazilian conference proceedings and journals, from de area of Science Education. The STS Education parameters are related to scientific rationality, technological development and social participation. The educational purposes involve the development of perceptions, questions and social commitments. From these analyses was possible to recognize and locate intentions and, furthermore, explain reasons for choices, referrals, limits and potential of different STS approaches.

In this article, we presente the results about an investigation about an investigation with qualitative and quantitative approach, conducted with 22 students of the sixth grade of elementary school in a public school of Tijucas, Santa Catarina, about the mathematical topic. For data collection, written records and drawings produced by students were used. Subsequently the content analysis was used to interpret the data collected, which were tables and graphs. The results generally show that students assign the concept of mathematical formulas and utilitarian way, its origin dates back in the early age and a world without mathematics would be a chaos.

A few articles report contributions from the perspective of teachers who are former participants of the Institutional Scholarship Program Initiation to Teaching (PIBID). The data of this article was collected by semi-structured interviews with former participants, who were graduates in Chemistry Teaching and are currently working as teachers, aiming to investigate the program’s contribution to the teaching learning. Was employed the Teaching Learning Focus (FAD), an analytical tool that presents categorical proposals. The subjects who expressed more Reflection on the Teaching are those with greater experience in teaching. The Interest by Teaching and Teacher’s Identity are present in the speeches of all the subjects, which demonstrates the construction of their professional identity process. Thus, it was observed that the interviewed presented their first impressions of the teaching career as professionals, linking their participation in PIBID as a learning period of didactic and pedagogical strategies and assessment to teaching.

Biosafety sets the necessary parameters and guidelines to all educational levels when it comes to performing Natural Sciences-related experimental practical activities in the laboratory and in the field, in order to minimize the risks of accidents when handling animals, sharp objects and toxic substances. Aiming at knowing future Science and Biology teachers’ conceptions about Biosafety applicability, we analyzed conceptual maps and answers to questions regarding cautions and alternatives related to experimental practices. It was found that the subject is little explored during teachers’ trainings. It is necessary to enlarge the knowledge on the subject during the training periods or do it by means of guidelines that discuss and guide teachers and students in the fundamental and/or higher education levels on caution procedures to minimize accident risks and set alternatives to teaching activities in practical classes.

As we take the federative unity of Mato Grosso do Sul for example, which is marked by the large production of transgenic soy, we intended to research the relations established between biotechnologies and chemistry teaching by high school chemistry teachers from Campo Grande. The qualitative research was a Comparative Study Case-type, relying on interviews with one teacher from a country school and two teachers from a urban school. Their speeches were entirely transcript and analyzed by means of Discursive Textual Analysis, highlighting that teaches do not approach deeply the biotechnologies in their classes, due to the complexity of this knowledge. The teachers training and closer relations with universities are pointed out as means to enable the teaching of this theme which is socially defying and technologically polemical.

This article presents the results of a study conducted to analyze which elements on the construction of science students of the eighth grade of elementary school problematized along a historical and contextual study of heredity, from the introduction of the hypothesis of pangenesis, prepared by Charles Darwin. The research was conducted over a pedagogical approach based on strategy called three axes, which aims a more contextual approach to science, presenting artistic elements, technical and scientific the study period. To build the research we used the methodology of action-research and we use the framework of discursive textual analysis to analyze the data collected. Among the results discussed, we emphasize that students problematized contextual issues students problematized contextual issues like slavery in Brazil. During the research, we observed some challenges related to the history of science insertion in elementary school, cultural approach to science, indicating future research prospects.

The scientific literature on museums has, over the years, expanding to highlight the contributions of these spaces in our society for Scientific Non-formal education. Based on this, the objective to characterize the educational profile of Museum Ecology Fritz Müller to constitute indicators of their potential in research and science education. For this, there were two methodological paths, a literature search to identify the Brazilian scientific production research whose object of study is the MEFM and field research, with the collection of information of the Museum in order to take stock of activities. For all identified features and the systematization of their potential, supports the use of MEFM space as science education learning environment for your visitors and students of different levels and types of education; for initial and continuing teacher training; for scientific research and professional training of science.

Group work in science classes in the elementary school: everyday practice if we have in perspective an inquiry-based teaching. By choosing the science teaching methodology that it surpasses the concern only the conceptual content, we offer students the opportunity to build their moral autonomy. This construction is promoted by social interactions in educational proposals that allow for group work. This article presents a research realized to students of the 4th year of elementary school in a public school in São Paulo. We investigate the construction of moral autonomy, while the students, in groups, solved one investigative activity Science activity. This is a qualitative research. For data analysis, we created categories that would define the diversity of attitudes presented by the students. This analysis confirms the importance of group work and social interactions and diversity of present attitudes to the construction of moral autonomy.

In this article, we aim to know the constitution of teaching knowledge of Mathematics teachers from IFRN, considering the experiences in schooling prior to higher education. We are interested to understand how these teachers recall and reflect on their experiences. This is a qualitative study using narrative interviews. The reports of respondents revealed teaching methodologies used by their former teachers, school cultures and remarkable teachers they had. Despite the temporal distance, the school experiences of teachers remain alive and active and remain helpful to justifying their professional career choices.

This work is part of a research that investigates the opinion of the graduates of a public university in Maranhão that at the time, not engaged in teaching, at its option. Fact, which brings to the professional field the shortage of teachers to meet the demand of basic education. Issue that challenges both the teacher-training courses as educational authorities in search of action / response, to awaken in students (undergraduates), the desire to take and stay in teaching. For the data collection, we used a questionnaire that was been answered by 73.17% of undergraduates, who were in the last periods in 2014, and they had attended the Supervised Internship discipline. The collected data pointed to the need to build skills that confer future teachers, autonomy and security to face the confrontation with the real situations of professional practice and thereby gain and remain in teaching.

The aim of this study was to contribute to the ongoing debate on chemistry teacher education in Brazil and pose questions concerning existing and future research conducted on this subject. A total of 104 master dissertations and 33 doctoral theses on this topic defended in Graduate Programs in Chemistry, Education, and in Science and Mathematics Education, between 2001 and 2010, were analyzed. The most recurrent research themes were initial teacher education (56.2%) and continuing teacher education (24.1%). At lesser proportion, there were found studies on teacher identity and professionalization (9.5%) and teaching pedagogical practice (3.6%). With respect to initial teacher education, the most recurring topics involved licensure programs, whereas with regard to continuing education, the ones related to teachers’ conceptions were favored.

This paper fits the area of Mathematics Education at Higher Education, especially the area of studies concerning the teaching and learning of Differential and Integral Calculus. It is presented two applications for the differential equation solutions, theoretically referenced by the notion of local straightness, formulated by David Tall. The first application is explored the notion of slope field. The second one is adapted a situation developed by English researcher for a sketch of a solution curve of a differential equation. The development of these applications is based on the need to integrate theory and practice in the field of mathematics education and to produce materials for teaching, based on research results. It is expected that such applications to promote development of rich concepts images in the student, in the relation to the treaty mathematical concept.

Based on the theoretical-methodological approach of the Critical Discourse Analysis, the aim of this study was to analyze the texts of introduction and presentation of the Science/Biology Minimum Curriculum in the state of Rio de Janeiro. While analyzing the texts, we sought to comprehend how the educational purposes of Science Education are represented in the discourse. By analyzing these representations, we were able to identify discourses on the development of new relationships between humans and nature and also on the importance of understanding the scientific and technological production processes in the current scenario. Based on these analyses, we seek to improve the dialogue between Science Education and Critical Environmental Education regarding the challenges that the environmental debate points to the critical approach of the relationship between human beings and the environment.

Investigam-se contribuições e dificuldades identificadas por professoras da Educação Básica na construção de atividades didático-pedagógicas, a partir de um Tema Gerador, em conjunto com um grupo de estudos da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz. Os procedimentos metodológicos incluem a construção de um diário reflexivo e a realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas, junto com as professoras. A análise das informações foi orientada pela Análise Textual Discursiva, que permitiu a construção das categorias: a) Condições para o planejamento e implementação da proposta baseada em Tema Gerador e b) Parceria universidade-escola. Entre os resultados, destacam-se as seguintes dificuldades das professoras: falta de tempo, seja para o planejamento em conjunto ou para a implementação de atividades em sala de aula e a necessidade de adaptar as atividades baseadas em temas para diferentes turmas. Quanto às contribuições, destacam-se a parceria com o grupo de estudos para aproximação dos resultados da pesquisa em Ensino de Ciências da Educação Básica e a abordagem de Temas Geradores para a formação dos educandos.

Neste artigo é apresentada a análise de uma proposta para efetivar a reflexão sobre a prática docente na formação inicial de professores, lançando mão do conjunto teórico e das técnicas do Psicodrama. Relataremos parte de uma pesquisa feita em uma universidade federal paulista focalizando uma experiência realizada em uma das reuniões ordinárias do PIBID (Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência) entre coordenadoras e bolsistas dos subprojetos de Física e Química.  Nesta experiência, que chamaremos de sessão sociodramática, a cena protagônica trará à tona uma situação real vivida pelos participantes em uma sala de aula dando margem à reflexão sobre o papel do professor. As ideias de Perrenoud, Freire e Moreno nos servirão como suporte para analisar a experiência relatada e endossar a utilização do Psicodrama como teoria e método para promover a tomada e a evolução da consciência, bem como a reflexão sobre a prática docente.

Neste artigo são traçadas reflexões sobre a formação de professores de ciências no âmbito da Educação Ciência-Tecnologia-Sociedade (ECTS) e da Educação Ambiental (EA). Por um lado, a partir da análise da produção sobre ECTS e EA, discutem-se ações voltadas à formação de professores no que se refere tanto à natureza e contexto de desenvolvimento das mesmas, quanto aos elementos e/ou recomendações que têm sido enfatizados por pesquisadores. Por outro lado, são apresentados exemplos de propostas em desenvolvimento no contexto do Ensino de Ciências, em três universidades brasileiras: Universidade de Brasília (UnB), na Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC) e na Universidade Federal do Tocantins - campus Universitário de Araguaína (UFT-Araguaína). À medida que são traçadas considerações sobre esses dois universos, da pesquisa e das universidades, discutem-se elementos para a formação de professores preocupados com o exercício crítico para a cidadania.

Este trabalho apresenta a criação e a avaliação de uma história em quadrinhos e um texto paradidático como recurso educacional para ensino sobre os riscos da automedicação. Foi utilizado como exemplo um paciente acometido por um quadro de intoxicação alimentar. O estudo foi realizado com 52 estudantes do Ensino Médio, por meio da aplicação de questionários e realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas. A metodologia de análise foi qualitativa. Os resultados apontaram que a história em quadrinhos motivou os participantes do estudo e despertou-lhes grande interesse, em aprender sobre outros assuntos ligados a medicamentos e enfermidades. Os dados obtidos indicaram que a História em Quadrinhos e o texto paradidático contribuíram para o aprendizado dos estudantes sobre os riscos da automedicação e intoxicação alimentar.

Estudos apontam a desarticulação dos temas origem da vida e teorias da evolução como possível alternativa para minimizar conflitos entre estudantes e suas crenças religiosas. Este artigo relata pesquisa comparativa entre cinco escolas do ensino médio. Resultados indicam que a alternativa de separar o ensino da origem da vida para que o ensino das teorias da evolução seja favorecido, visto que crenças religiosas estariam mais associadas ao primeiro, não se justifica, pois como os discursos dos estudantes revelaram, ao falar dos processos evolutivos, estes se referem ao primeiro ser vivo tanto quanto se referem aos processos evolutivos quando se referem à origem da vida. A expressão das crenças religiosas também não parece possível de ser contida pela desarticulação no ensino dos temas. As conclusões sugerem que pensar e praticar ciência é o caminho educacionalmente apropriado para o ensino e aprendizagem da origem da vida e teorias da evolução.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar as características educativas das propostas experimentais de baixo custo apresentadas em revistas brasileiras da área de Ensino qualificadas na base Qualis 2014 entre A1 e B1, quanto ao papel do professor e do aluno na atividade, ao nível de ensino privilegiado, ao tipo de roteiro utilizado e ao tipo de material apresentado, tendo como recorte o conteúdo específico de Mecânica. O período compreendido nesta investigação inicia-se com os artigos publicados desde a primeira edição dessas revistas até o ano de 2014. Um resultado relevante desta investigação é a constatação de que o Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física (CBEF) tem publicado a maior parte dos artigos que tratam de experimentos de baixo custo em Mecânica. Além disso, a maior parte destes artigos está direcionada para a Educação Básica. Outro dado relevante está no fato de que a maioria das propostas experimentais de baixo custo está vinculada a trabalhos de verificação e demonstração.

Neste artigo apresentam-se resultados de um estudo exploratório em que foi avaliada a influência de atividades experimentais, envolvendo oscilações mecânicas, fluidos e termodinâmica, com enfoque na modelagem científica: i) na atitude de estudantes de graduação em Física em relação às aulas de laboratório; ii) na percepção deles sobre uma boa aula de laboratório; e iii) na capacidade deles para relacionar os modelos teóricos da Física, o processo de modelagem científica e a experimentação. Os resultados evidenciam que o enfoque no processo de modelagem científica gerou atitudes positivas dos estudantes em relação às aulas experimentais, especialmente em decorrência da liberdade que possuíam durante as atividades. No entanto, possivelmente devido à forma implícita como aspectos epistemológicos foram tratados, não foi observada evolução satisfatória na capacidade dos estudantes de relacionar suas investigações com o processo de modelagem científica, e foi bastante tímido o avanço em suas concepções sobre a natureza da Ciência.