A form of spook - thinking about a chemistry class with the television show Breaking Bad

• Autor(a) principal: Fary, Bruna Adriane
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Moisés Alves de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Actio (Curitiba)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/actio/article/view/6857
• topic: Ciências Humanas, Educação; Ensino de química; Etnografia virtual; Mídia televisiva.; Chemistry teaching; Virtual ethnography; Television media

The present work analyzes, with the virtual ethnography, a chemistry class in the television series Breaking Bad (2008). The analysis focus to discuss how chemistry can be thought by a cultural viewpoint, conceiving science, chemistry, as a result of human relations and not as an immutable, essentialized knowledge. In this sense, the idea is to create a form of spook with act of chemistry teaching portrayed in the first episode of the television show, which starts a class with "what is chemistry" and to carry out unfoldings of this episode for a teaching that celebrate students experimenters and creators of their own Educational practices. The results of our virtual ethnography have shown us that the belief in a universal essence, and also the possibility that words offer, so that we can enunciate the truth of some essence, of "chemistry", transform the language we use into a species of metaphysics - atom, energy, electron -, forming the basis of the fabrication of scientific knowledge. The way the chemistry class is conducted in this cut of the episode lends itself to a stratified chemistry that does not seem to be vascularized in the collective, in the desires of the students; however, the silence of the learners can be a form of resistance.