Cenas e cenários das questões socioambientais: mediações pela fotografia

Abstract

The social-environmental issues have consolidated important sources of research from many areas. In turn, social and environmental issues constitute the focus of constant concern of contemporary times, including for Science Education. Moreover, the science education has been based on willingness to contribute to a correct perception of environmental problems, and promote the formation of a critical and autonomous citizen, able to understand the complexity of the natural and social world, approaching these two fields. In this context, we seek to understand the readings of undergraduate students (biology and physics) about environmental issues prevailing in the metropolitan region of Belém, from photography, and its possibilities of use in Science Education in perception them. We choose a qualitative approach and as methodological strategy, we use action research. The research took place during the workshop "Photography in Science Education", strategy for data collection, in six days, with 10 students. The photo appears as an instrument to facilitate the apprehension of social, economic, environmental, political, educational, among others, and permeate the reading of the environment; in other words, favors extended readings (multidimensional) the socio-environmental context evidenced/lived. Data on knowledge, the understandings and interpretations, among other things, were organized and analyzed using discursive textual analysis. We choose to produce metatexts on apprehension of environmental issues, from the analysis of the texts of the photographs. The analysis showed that the students "(re) directed" the present research. In our assessment, the students reached a level "beyond expectations", the trivial, in its construction, the ordinary stagnated up. This is because, during the students' analytical constructs, we observed the extrapolation of these issues, to other fields of knowledge (social, economic, etc.).