Práticas pedagógicas de professores formadores e abordagem CTS: o ensino de ciências rumo a novas percepções neste século XXI

Abstract

Considering the increasingly strong presence of scientific and technological aspects in the society of the XXI century, this paper reports a qualitative research, through narrative, which investigates pedagogical practices of professors who are responsible for science teachers' education, through demonstrations of three educators of the Natural Sciences course of UEPA (Universidade do Estado do Pará - University of Pará), and it intends to understand which formative aspects contribute to the CTS approach pedagogical practice, as well as to identify and understand which elements of the CTS approach are present in the pedagogical practices of the investigated professors. Therefore, the practical construction of this research was developed through individual interviews - properly recorded in audio and transcribed - with the investigated professors who were selected through nominations from a network system consisted by people - teachers and technicians – involved in the context of the research. Based on Textual Analysis of Discourse used for qualitative analysis of empirical data, three perspectives of analysis emerged: 1) initial and continuing teacher education: reflections on teaching practices; 2) pedagogical practices: meetings with the CTS approach; 3) differentiated education: the XXI century teacher outlining. The analysis of empirical data shows that the formative aspects that contribute to teaching practices related to CTS Approach are connected to the assumptions linked to the emerging paradigm that pursues a prudent knowledge in support of a decent life and because of that, it directs a new perception of world, contrary to the paradigm of the Modern Science that has long prevailed leading the way we see and interact with the world. With this in mind, I realized that the convergences of teaching practices to CTS approach are correlated to the stage of paradigmatic transition where the investigated professors are inserted, as demonstrated in their manifestations. This statement gains strength when reports distinguished ideas about what kind of teachers the subjects have in mind when they develop their practices. For this, however, it is required that professors have an open mind and be sensitive to constant and intense changes of this century which, as unfinished beings, we experience.