The teaching of sciences in pre-school education and the STS approach: a project developed in a space of child education – RJ

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Denise Leal de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Nascimento, Angelica Rangel do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v8i1.8063

The present work aims to identify how science teaching is addressed in early childhood education, specifically in a Space of Child Education, which are schools specialized in taking care of 6 month-old to 5 years 11 month-old children, from the municipal school system of Rio de Janeiro. The conducted research, with participant observation, was developed through the application of a lecture on awareness to the STS approach, in which 6 teachers participated; the presentation to teachers and learners of ludic activities and their respective implementation; the collection of teachers’ and learners’ opinions on the ludic resources; and a questionnaire survey of the teachers, aiming to assess their perceptions on the proposed activities and on STS Science teaching. The idea that motivated this research emerged from the educational project “Being of Nature”, developed in 2014, that included a writing activity called “In my yard, I realized that nature is really cool”, which focused the STS approach. Observation allowed us to conclude that many of the teachers were unfamiliar with this approach and did not value science education in early childhood education, giving preference to linguistic and mathematical knowledge. We concluded that teachers need to focus on scienceteaching activities that surpass the simple study of concepts and definitions; activities that, in some cases, surpass the learner’s understanding. It is imperative that all learners develop scientific and technological literacy that enables them to achieve effective meaning, that helps them understand the reasoning underlying scientific education and that allows them, as future citizens, to fully develop themselves.