Socio-Scientific Controversies on Web 2: What Educational Possibilities Exist Regarding Racism and Machismo?

• Autor(a) principal: De Souza, Emanuella Geovana Magalhães
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Musa Boakari, Francis, Brito da Silva, Francilene
• 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/4914

Abstract: The need for alternative ways that can effectively help us approach and especially learn more from controversial issues like Brazilian machismo and racism, despite the digital technologies of the 21st century, triggered the following question - What educational possibilities are available from using Web 2.0 to promote discussions related to socioscientific controversies like machismo and racism in their intersectionalities? The authors of this article, focused on themes like education, race-gender intersectionality, internet and controversies in socio-scientific matters, to identify and discuss the educational potentials of Web 2.0 in teaching-learning-asking questions related to controversial issues, especially those involving race and gender intersectionalities. Research reports about socio-scientific controversies using digital technologies including YouTube, as social media for sharing videos, were also treated. Kimberly Crenshaw (2002), Sueli Carneiro (2005), Tim O’Reilly (2005), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2007), Pedro Reis (2006) and others alike, provided the needed theoretical support. Analyses helped conclude that the approach to controversial topics in virtual spaces, while providing rich educational venues, made it possible for more people to become protagonists of their own existence, and similarly, be resistant and independent in problematizing different issues to the extent that they could even bring about changes in a racist and sexist context such as the one we live in Brazilian society.  Keywords:  Socio-scientific Controversies. Internet. Race-Gender Intersectionality.