Experimental Physics activities of Ciência Hoje das Crianças journal

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Jéssica Taynara
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Elrismar Gomes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/fisica/article/view/2175-7941.2020v37n2p455

The Ciência Hoje das Crianças (CHC) journal, created by the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science, stands out as a material for scientific dissemination in Brazilian basic education due to its distribution through the Programa Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático (PNLD) in Brazil. Since the end of the 20th century, studies have been carried out on the importance of experimental activities in science education aiming at scientific literacy. Research recommends that the routing of activities should start with a problem, not limited to manipulation or observation. They also emphasize that children in the early years of school are able to reflect and seek explanations, going beyond the mere execution of scripts or contemplation. Thus, the objective of this work is to present the analysis of the experimental activities of Physics proposed in the CHC. The result shows that the CHC is in the opposite direction of what science teaching research recommends. The experimental activities have empirical inductive characteristics marked by a rigid view of science. They allow little or no freedom for students' creative and reflective performance, with no room for error or discussion of results. The journal is not a teaching material and does not make scientific literacy among its objectives. However, considering the science teaching research of the last decades, we believe that material that can compose the libraries of more than 60 thousand Brazilian public schools cannot lead to stereotyped conceptions of Science, such as, for example, the empirical inductive view. Due to the dimensions of the PNLD and its evaluation policy of the distributed materials, the CHC should stand out as a mediator between research and teaching in schools.