The Anti-Vaccine Movement Discussion Toward a Critical Formation: Implications of the Teaching of Science by Means of the Social-Scientific Issues

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros da Fonseca, Eril
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Duso, Leandro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Tear: Revista de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ifrs.edu.br/index.php/tear/article/view/3972

Abstract: The anti-vaccine movement has currently been widely discussed in many sectors of society, and much information is spread without a bigger problematization of its implications. In the context of school curricula, such issues are involved in debates on Science and Technology (C&T) development. Yet on Teaching Science, controversial aspects about certain issues may be problematized through the socio-scientific issues (SSI). Thus, the focus is of discussing, in the critical Teaching of Science context, the SSI contribution in the anti-vaccine movement implications that Brazil has been experiencing. A few parameters on the anti-vaccine movement implications were associated to deepen the discussions, amongst which: dissemination of information and attribution to Science in society; and political-economic determinism in detriment of a critical formation. It is comprehensible the importance of such discussions in teaching processes, due to the public/collective health consequences, and associated to the importance of a conscious reading of reality. Such information can be made possible from the insertion of discussions on social issues in the teacher’s pedagogical practice, for instance the SSI, in view of, though, that the controversies do not constitute simply as a methodological contribution, but as a strategy that allows the articulations of a critical formation. Keywords: Teaching of Science. Science and technology. Social Issues.