An analysis of teachers’ and students’ perceptions of STS relationships based on PIEARCTS

• Autor(a) principal: Passeri, Mylena Guedes
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Chrispino, Alvaro
• 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.v8i1.14257

Considering the importance of understanding the three-way influence between science, technology and society (STS) for a more active and democratic citizen participation, the goal here is to investigate the results obtained from a question, in the Questionnaire of Opinions on Science, Technology and Society (QOSTS) created within the Ibero-American Project for the Evaluation of Attitudes Related to Science, Technology and Society (PIEARCTS), which addresses the STS’s multiple interactions. The question was presented to students from compulsory education and from university (Environmental Management course), as well as to teachers from the “Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca” (CEFET). Results fell short of expectations, especially in the teachers group, reinforcing the need of curricular changes and improvements in initial and continuous teacher training, in order to achieve education practices that better fit the Nature of Science (NoS) and scientific literacy.