Desafios contemporâneos à prática do ensino de ciências

Abstract

Science education in Brazil, in the context of public education, faces structural challenges, which include teacher training, available teaching materials and the physical space of educational institutions. The present work aims to survey the main challenges in the teaching of natural sciences within the scope of public education in a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo, in the teaching perspective, listing the contemporary challenges of the reality of this group, and through a theoretical review of the problem, discuss new ways for education. In order to identifycontemporary challenges in teaching practice in science teaching, research was carried out with teachers who teach the discipline of science in the city in question. Due to the historical situation experienced during the pandemic, it was decided to adopt the questionnaire via Google Forms, with questions aimed at investigating and lifting these obstacles from the perspective of science teachers in the public school system. It was observed that the problems pointed out by the teachers surround the main discussions about education in Brazil. Among them are the difficulties with the fulfillment of the curriculum and essential skills, the lack of infrastructure in the educational institutions, the little investment for the purchase of teaching materials, insufficient time to carry out experiments and overcrowded classrooms.