Approach to Aspects of the Nature of Science through STS Education in High School

• Autor(a) principal: de Brito, Jorge Felipe Fires
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: de Araújo, Mauro Sérgio Teixeira
• 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.v15i1.32114

This paper presents results of a set of didactic-pedagogical interventions performed with students of the 1st year of high school in the Physical curricular component of a private school in São Paulo with the objective of emphasizing aspects of the Nature of Science and clarifying some relationships between the elements of the S-T-S triad, in order to provide more meaning to the scientific concepts addressed, based on the objectives of STS Education. The investigation is characterized as a qualitative research supported by typical procedures of The Intervention Research, and the activities sought to improve the teaching approaches in order to favor the student protagonism, encouraging him to build new knowledge and broaden its understanding of the world in which he lives. Through debates and seminars involving relevant topics, as well as semi-structured interviews, it was possible to verify that most students can develop their critical thinking, expand their ability to reflect and argue, allowing to strengthen intellectual autonomy, youth protagonism and under­standing of issues aligned with the PPP of the participating school and with the STS Education. The results point to the understanding that science is a human and historical construction, presenting a character of non-neutrality, non-salvationist and that scientific and technological knowledge is not characterized as absolute truths, and its effects on society and the environment are felt both in the form of benefits and harms.