Ensino com abordagem ciência, tecnologia, sociedade e ambiente em uma escola de origem agrotécnica

Abstract

This research aims to analyze pedagogical practices in the context of Science, Technology, Society and Environment (STSE) approach in a school of agrotechnical origin that was constituted in the model of a school-farm, under technicists principles eminently, localized in the city of Codó, State of Maranhão. Admitting the hypothesis that there are indications of the STSE approach in this school, this investigation is ruled by the question: What are the factors which potentiate the teaching focused in Science, Technology, Society and Environment in a agrotechnical school? The research has qualitative nature and adopts quantitative informations to give support, if necessary. The methodology utilized in the investigation was based in the analisyis of Laurence Bardin’s contents, using keywords in search of indicative elements of the STSE approach as the first level of analysis and depth reading of the text when there were indicative aspects of the STSE context, but that do not have characteristic terms of STSE field. On these terms, the analysis of the investigations are based on three axes: (a) STSE in the orientations and in the everyday of IFMA Codó, (b) the bibliography STSE by authors in the documents that were reserched; (c) The context of STSE in didactics textbooks of Physics adopted. The results achieved confirms the research thesis that there are elements of the Science, Technology, Society and Enviroment in the pedagogical practices and in the everyday of the researched institution, and the aspects that potentiates the STSE teaching are found in the Teaching Plans, Practical interdisciplinary classes, events and researching projects. Finally, I understand that this research can give base to the curriculum of the disciplines with initiatives in the STSE context, proper to the new educational orientations and thereby cause deep changes in the pedagogical actions in a technicist school.