O lixo como tema de estudo na formação inicial de professores

Abstract

Social and environmental issues are presented as complex challenges to modern society and the current economic system. Among these challenges, there is the garbage problem, increasingly in evidence with the stimulus to consumerist attitudes. Considering the importance of science education in the debate of these issues, this research through the liquid- modernity conception, in accordance with Bauman and dimensions of sustainability, aims to seize the opportunities and challenges of an initial training of teachers concerning the theme of garbage and its various aspects. Thus, we obtained data collection from three teaching and learning Situations that we developed during the theme "Relationship between Science, Society and Citizenship I" with students from the Integrated Bachelor of Education in Science, Mathematics and Languages, Institute of Mathematics and Science Education (IEMCI / UFPA). This work is based on qualitative research and is characterized by being a research-action. Data were analyzed by use of Textual Analysis Discourse. Based on features such as documentary, extracted reporting from electronic media, scientific paper and production of photos, the students could reflect on several aspects which relate to the complexity of the theme waste: environmental, economic, social and political dimensions, as well as understand how they operate as consumers in waste generation from confrontation with their own waste; also, in relation to the mechanisms of manipulation by capital. These concerns imply own challenges of a critical education focused on civic education and that can not be achieved in a state of conformity with the superficiality with which reality is presented to us routinely, also reinforcing the values concerning the assumptions of sustainability.