Análise de aproximações das concepções presentes em questões associadas ao ensino de química aplicadas no novo ENEM com as concepções do enfoque CTS

Abstract

The National High School Examination (Enem) comprehends the evaluation of skills and competences fundamental to the exercise of citizenship, one of the objectives of the Science, Technology and Society (STS) approach. This qualitative research, which also adopts quantitative standards, has the objective of analyzing STS concepts in the issues associated to the chemistry teaching of this exam, in the period between 2009 to 2015 (new Enem), and the factors that influence these relations. For this, it was necessary to analyze the content and the structure of the questions associated to the teaching of Chemistry, examining if and how occurred the approximation of these questions with the principles of the STS educational perspective, and what conditions determine the mediation of this relation of proximity. As an instrument for analyzing the questions, the Discursive Textual Analysis (ATD) was used. Among the 156 analyzed questions, which are pertinent to the teaching of Chemistry, 46.1% did not present an approximation with the principles of the STS approach; 32.1% showed an apparent relationship with these assumptions and 21.8% were associated with the principles of the STS approach. The results showed that the questions of the new Enem presented proximity, at different levels, to the theoretical principles of the STS approach.