Formação continuada para o ensino de ciências na perspectiva Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS): contribuições para professores dos anos iniciais

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the contributions of a Continuing Education course in the area of Science with a CTS (Science, Technology and Society) approach, for teachers who work in the initial years of the Municipal Teaching Network of the city of Ponta Grossa, Paraná /Brazil. The study was developed with 25 teachers who work in the Schools of Integral Time. The methodological approach was qualitative, whose routing is based on the principles of action research which were used in the discursive textual analysis anchored in Moraes (2003), Moraes and Galiazzi (2006) and Torres et al. (2008). For data collection, the following techniques were used: interviews, reports, photos, videos of the activities carried out in the formations and annotations in field diary and questionnaire (instrument). It was found that CF's lecturers, offered as Extension Project, used methodologies that sought to awaken reflections and discussions in the participants, with the aim of promoting a Scientific and Technological Literacy, demystification of myths in relation to scientific and technological neutrality, salvationism and scientific and technological determinism, based on the contents established in the Municipal Curricular Guidelines (DCM) of Ponta Grossa as well as a theoretical-practical deepening in the areas of Physics, Chemistry and Biology with emphasis on the CTS approach. Through a training in the area of Science with a CTS approach, teachers will be able to offer students in the early years new teaching strategies that promote the interdisciplinary awakening so that scientific knowledge is worked from the earliest years, becoming a basis for the consolidation of other knowledge that will be addressed later. The FC sought to bring the university closer to the school, in a process of collective construction, fulfilling its social role, enabling a new Science Teaching through the plans elaborated by the participants, starting from the difficulties they find in teaching Science classes, offering a theoretical contribution, reconstructing their pedagogical practices. It should be noted that, in spite of small productions in the area of Science for the initial years dealing with Scientific and Technological Literacy (ACT), as well as the CTS approach, the formations, extension courses and postgraduate programs can contribute to the increase of researches in support of this relevant topic today. In this study, it was revealed that the process of continuous formation constitutes one of the ways for changes in different areas to occur, specifically for Science Teaching, opening possibilities for discussions and reflections in the area and contribute to its expansion.