Alfabetização científica no ensino de química: um olhar para as propostas de aulas do portal do professor

Abstract

Considering the scientific literacy as one of the factors essential to the formation of citizens, as it enables them to reach solutions to problems presented to them in everyday life, this work aims to identify chemical classes posted on Teacher Portal in order to verify that scientific literacy has been the subject of teachers, since this is a supportive space for many teachers and undergraduate students. For Attico Chassot, scientific literacy is considered "as the body of knowledge that would facilitate the men and women take a reading of the world in which they live" (Chassot, 2007, p. 36). The survey was conducted from August 24 to October 5, 2015, with the key words "science education", "chemical science education", but it was still necessary to define the search more. For this, we opted for the "chemical" word to make a more specific search. With this word found 493 classes. It is noteworthy that these were excluded those whose theme was difficult context or they were far from the reality of the student. Classes selected dated 2008 until 2012 there intervals posts in this period. For analysis were selected 10 classes, whose results showed that many address issues of everyday life and student interest, for example, Tattoo, alcohol, cigarette. And the majority of the activities developed by teacher has support of technologies such as computers, cameras type, allowing students to become familiar with these features thus facilitating the search for more information. For the student to be scientifically literate teachers have to prioritize relations of science - technology - society and the environment. It was found that, in the analyzed classes, scientific literacy was present.