Natural Sciences teachers’ questioning and opinions on STS Education

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Roseane Freitas
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Strieder, Roseline Beatriz
• 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.v8i1.3292

Researches done with science teachers, that know nothing or just a little about STS subject, show some challenges to be faced, specially, about teachers qualification. However, a lot of science teachers have been developing teaching proposes based on STS teaching, what shows the importance of investigating what questions and opinions these teachers have related to this educational perspective. Then, the present study investigated questions and opinions about STS Teaching from a group of High School teachers that have been developing a reflexive activity based on this perspective. For all of that, it was developed a reflexive activity about concepts and interdisciplinarity in STS Teaching. The teacher production analysis at the end of this activity was based in the Discursive Textual Analysis that pointed three categories, related: i) to the teachers qualification, ii) to the STS Teaching concepts and interdisciplinarity and iii) to the class practical. The results show the necessity to favor the teacher’s first and continued qualification, discussions related to the STS Teaching and interdisciplinarity to the effective practical of this perspective in the school context.