Alfabetização científica e tecnológica no ensino de química: uma proposta baseada em ilha interdisciplinar de racionalidade e COVID-19

Abstract

This study presents a qualitative research, having the Scientific and Technologycal Literacy (STL) as its theme, through the use of a methodology called Ilha Interdisciplinar da Racionalidade (IIR), which is going to use COVID 19 as a problematic proposal. It is a study carried out by an action research developed with the students of a technical course in Pharmacy in a puclic school, located in Prudentópolis (PR). The main goal was to analyse, through STL, the contributions from the discussions on the theme COVID-19 and its drugs, to a critical formation. Firstly, a sysmatic literature review was conducted about COVID-19 and STL, and its classification was demonstrated as one of the socioscientific questions nowadays. The construction of IIR involved the pharmaceutical themes, vaccines and fake news, and each step was analysed in order to indentify which skills were approached and acquired within the STL criteria. Data collection was carried out via an initial questionnaire, participant observation of classes with notes in a field diary, audio recordings (with subsequent transcription), photographic record and analysis of research materials prepared by students in the work groups. Data collection and discussion were also guided by the Dialogic-Problematizing Matrix, that involves four aspects that make up the educational process: teacher(s), student(s), subject of study and context. For data analysis, some STL criteria were determined, identifying skills that guided the steps of the IIR, leading to a critical formation of the student. It can be concluded that the IIR methodology allowed achieving the objectives of an STA and assisting in the preparation of conscious students, with their own opinion, decisionmaking capacity and positioning in the face of a complex issue such as a pandemic.