A abordagem CTSA no ensino de ciências: um estudo documental do plano estadual de educação no estado do Pará

Abstract

The use of the STSE approach in the teaching of High School Sciences is important for the formation of the human being who lives in contemporary society. This scenario demonstrates the relevance of performing this research, in the context of the State of Pará, by the analysis of pertinent documents to this approach, as the State Education Plan approved in 2015, and the Innovative High School Program (IHSPRO), developed at the federal level since 2009, to verify its approximations to the STSE approach, which is already present in the General National Curricular Guidelines for Basic Education. For the establishment of comparisons from the classical science teaching and the one that uses the STSE approach we use the studies from Zoller and Watson (1974 apud SANTOS, SCHNETZLER, 2010), having as a methodological procedure the content analysis of Bardin (2011). The initial perception from the study shows that the analyzed documents - SEP / PA and IHSPRO -, in it general contextualization, present visions, views related to the STSE approach and the Sciences teaching, in search of improvements in the offering of High School in Paraense public schools, making it possible to affirm that contributions were found in the SEP / PA that approximate the STSE approach in the Innovative High School Teaching (IHSPRO) in Pará. However, it has also been fully demonstrated that, from the six keywords highlighted for analysis, four - "citizenship", "technology", "society" and "values" - are not expressly mentioned in both documents analyzed, leading us to consider that were not properly used all aspects of the STSE approach and the science teaching by the federal and state public authorities in the preparation of the reported public politics, built for the High School level education. Thus, it is clear that the documents analyzed were not built in the perspective of the STSE approach, even if High School Education values science and technology in the student's human formation, in the sociocultural aspects, for the formation of citizenship. It was possible to verify, therefore, that the objective of this research was reached.