Perceptions of Science and Technology by Graduate students in the Human area

• Autor(a) principal: Favetta, Flávia de Assis
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Tommasiello, Maria Guiomar Carneiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ensino de Ciências e Matemática - REnCiMa
• Texto Completo: https://revistapos.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/rencima/article/view/413
• topic: Movimento CTS; Percepções de ciência; Percepções de tecnologia; Motion CTS; Perceptions of science; Perceptions of technology

This work is the result of an undergraduate research project of scientific initiation, with objective to investigate the perceptions of Science and Technology by the students of the earlier period of Education postgraduate courses (sensu-stricto and sensu-lato). One reason of the importance of knowing their perception is that most graduate students in education are professors of public and private schools and usually opinion makers, although there is no direct relationship between teaching practice and beliefs about the nature of science. Interviews and questionnaires were applied and, the students generally have a simplistic ideas, believing in the neutrality of science and technology, understanding them as instruments of progress and welfare of the society.