Banca de DEFESA: DIOGINYS CESAR FELIX DE LIMA

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STUDENT : DIOGINYS CESAR FELIX DE LIMA
DATE: 22/08/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Remoto
TITLE:

TECHNOLOGY IN FOCUS IN STS EDUCATION: A STUDY IN THE INITIAL EDUCATION OF SCIENCE TEACHERS

KEY WORDS:

 

 STS Education; Nature of Technology; Science teacher training

PAGES: 106
BIG AREA: Ciências Exatas e da Terra
AREA: Química
SUMMARY:

Some research in the field of studies of Science, Technology and Society Education (CTS) indicate that the proposals and approaches in recent years tend to privilege only the secondary elements (C and S) - Science and guide the debate on Society Technology and/or merely to a broad instrumental definition, without proposing a further discussion of this element so as not to consider its epistemological character. In this perspective, in order to give greater visibility to the element (T) in STS Education, the present study aimed to investigate how concepts of Technology of Degrees in Natural Sciences in two Higher Education institutions in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. To this end, a survey was carried out on the topic of Technology in the area of Science teaching in the 2010-2020 decade; and we identified how these parts are addressed in the curricular and extracurricular activities of the courses to which the participants are linked. This research is exploratory, with a qualitative approach. The instrument used was a Physics applicator (UFRN) with the help of Google Forms with 8 undergraduates, Chemistry and Biological Sciences courses (UFRN) and the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN). The research was promoted to the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) of UFRN, approved by Opinion No. 5.26.294, thus close to the norms of Resolution 510/2016 of the National Health Council. To analyze the corpus, we used elements from Bardin's content analysis (1977). The results indicate that the dimension Technology as a human activity was the most frequent, followed by the dimensions Technology as object/artifact and Technology as a mode of knowledge. We observed that most of the answers allude to the prevalence of Restricted Conceptions of Technology, as these are close to deterministic and instrumentalist concepts of Technology. For the researched universe, technologies are useful to satisfy human needs, in addition, aspects such as non-neutrality and the volitional dimension of Technology were not mentioned in the answers acquired. Therefore, we consider the need for discussion and insertion of curricular proposals for the Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Physics Licentiate courses of these institutions in order to consider the aspects of the Nature of Technology in a broad way. In this way, we emphasize that, for the rise of the element (T) to occur in a way that it is equivalent to the other elements (C and S) of the CTS triad in the Brazilian context, it is necessary to propose and carry out more studies that involve this theme in the formation initial and/or continuing education of Science teachers.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1630751 - JOSIVANIA MARISA DANTAS
Interna - 3321606 - MARCIA GORETTE LIMA DA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - RUTH DO NASCIMENTO FIRME - UFRPE