Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ADSON LUCAS ALEIXO DUARTE

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ADSON LUCAS ALEIXO DUARTE
DATE: 27/02/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Sala 71 (CCET)
TITLE:

PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION: RAISING AWARENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE

KEY WORDS:

Science Teaching; Photography; Science Communication; Critical Environmental Education.

PAGES: 90
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Ensino-Aprendizagem
SUMMARY:

The integration of science and art in the educational context has shown vast possibilities for developing a critical sense and promoting socio-environmental debates in the school environment. Photography, as an artistic expression, stands out as a unique resource capable of broadening perceptions and fostering deep reflections on social and environmental realities and contexts. Its visual language allows for multiple interpretations, transcending imagery to act as a catalyst for highly relevant socio-environmental discussions. By establishing an interdisciplinary connection that brings together science, art and teaching, photography can sensitize students to environmental issues that are often ignored in everyday society. With this in mind, the study aims to understand how photography, in its artistic dimension, can contribute to raising awareness of nature, promoting a critical debate about environmental issues with students from a public school in the municipality of Baía Formosa/RN. Adopting a qualitative, interpretative and critical approach, the research is characterized as action research and is being carried out at the Manoel Germano dos Santos Municipal School, with 7th grade students in the Science subject, with the collaboration of the Science Popularization Laboratory (LabPOP) at UFRN. The data construction process includes the use of instruments such as an audio recorder, field diaries, a camera and focus groups. The photographs produced during the research will be analyzed using Content Analysis, while the written records and audio transcripts will be examined using Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA), involving stages such as unitarization, thematic categorization and synthesis into meta-texts. The activities will involve thematic workshops and a field trip, in order to provide a critical and participatory experience. The preliminary results include two articles submitted to academic journals. The first presents a bibliographic review of scientific productions (2012-2023) on the extension of photography in science teaching, highlighting that, although widely used as a tool, its artistic character has received little attention. The second article proposes a theoretical foundation that brings photography closer to Critical Environmental Education, highlighting its potential for stimulating critical thinking in science teaching. The partial results indicate that photography, in its two movements - composition, represented by the construction of the image, and decomposition, translated into the critical analysis of the production - contributes significantly to the development of critical thinking in the educational context. In addition, they point to the development of the following educational product: a teaching guide for teachers, with the aim of integrating photography into teaching, adopting a critical and interdisciplinary approach.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1051578 - THIAGO EMMANUEL ARAUJO SEVERO
Externa à Instituição - MARCIA BORIN DA CUNHA
Externo à Instituição - PATRÍCIA CRISTINA DE ARAGÃO ARAÚJO - UEPB