STS Educational practices: deepening the understanding of social participation in Brazilian educational context

• Autor(a) principal: dos Santos, Rosemar Ayres
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Auler, Décio
• 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.v11i2.6196

The disregard of the presence of values, in the given direction to the scientific and technological development, has generated educational practices, particularly in STS field, which can be considered limited. Limited because they postulate a social participation, in decision-making process, that limit to an impact evaluation of the scientific and technological products in society after their conception and execution. In general, it is ignored that hegemonic values, in certain space-time, condition the research agenda, there being silencing about relevant demands to specific segments of society. Thus, the problem of the research result flag in this article comes up. In other words, what referrals have been given, in Science-Technology-Society educative practice, in Brazilian context, that contemplates, that give visibility to the presence of values, of interests on the given direction to scientific-technological development? The corpus of the analysis was constituted by assignments presented in the editions of the Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, as, in articles present in national periodical. Corpus, in its analysis, submitted to Discursive Textual Analysis. Between the various signs found, considering the breadth of research, in this article, we limited the analysis to one of the categories: Social participation limited to implications/impacts of Science-Technology in Society. Result that places challenges to STS field. Challenges that refer to the problematization and possible overcoming of three interdependent dimensions: Limited understanding about the non-neutrality of Science- Technology, instrumental conception assigned to Science-Technology and prevalence of north American tradition in STS field.