Popularization of science and scientific journalism: possibilities of scientific literacy

Amazônia

卷:13

Flavia Chini Alves¹  Alessandro Augusto Barros Façanha² 

[1] Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL;

[2] Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN;

关键词: ensino de ciências;    alfabetização científica;    divulgação científica;   

DOI  :  10.18542/amazrecm.v13i26.4283

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This study evidences the intersection between science education and communication in the perspective of the popularization of sciences based on the evidence produced in a specific column of a large circulation newspaper of the city of Teresina / PI. The discussions were based on the analysis of content carried out in the context of science classes in a school of basic education with elementary students, where journalistic texts were used with diverse themes that involved science and daily life in order to understand the interpretation of texts And the relationship with the context of scientific dissemination and citizenship. The analysis of the content was used and the answers were stratified into categories of conceptual nature and application of the themes. The analyses show that the texts of scientific dissemination have a contribution in relation to the popularization of Sciences, fomentation to the debate in the classroom, didactic increment in the classes of sciences, in spite of their insertion still incipient in the context of science education. However, the results of the research denote the difficulty faced by the students in understanding the text of dissemination in their conceptual comprehension and resolution of daily problems, as well as the distance between the context of the sciences in their theoretical scope and their presentation in everyday situations, Despite this, the texts of divulgation corroborated as an important way of real insertion in the process of scientific literacy and promotion of citizenship.

【 授权许可】

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