Science curriculum: experiences, stories and narratives produced in a school laboratory

• Autor(a) principal: Borba, Rodrigo Cerqueira do Nascimento
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Selles, Sandra Escovedo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa (Auto)biográfica
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.uneb.br/index.php/rbpab/article/view/13944
• topic: Science teaching; Practical class; Memory; Enseñanza de las ciencias; Clase práctica; . Memoria; Ensino de Ciências; Aula prática; Memória

This paper results from research focused on a teacher's life story who taught science in a municipal public school located in Rio de Janeiro between the 1960s and 1990s. In (auto)biographical perspective, we used the memories of three narrators as sources to investigate the science laboratory's role in the curricula of the aforementioned educational institution. In addition to the narratives produced through interviews based on the methodology of oral history, photographs and reports circulated in newspapers were also used to elaborate the empirical evidence. As a result, we highlight the disputes around the consolidation of spaces destined for practical science classes and the progressive transformation of laboratories into places of memory based on the daily teaching experiences built in them. In conclusion, we reinforce the potential of narrative research for writing the histories of school subjects from a perspective that envisions curricular dynamics from the school interior. We argue that this type of investigation favours the recognition of teaching, valuing it, and reflecting the singularities of science teachers' work.