Problemática socioambiental sob o olhar da abordagem CTS: uma proposta para o ensino de Ciências na Educação de Jovens e Adultos

Abstract

This research came from reflections on the teaching of science developed in the context of the Youth and Adult Education (EJA), and the recognition that the traditional approach of scientific content hinders the construction of knowledge by the students, because it ignores previous knowledge, with disarticulated the social, political, economic and technological. In this sense, we consider important to develop a proposal in which the approach of scientific content in EJA leave a problem situation addressed in CTS perspective, we believe that this can lead young people and adults to appropriate scientific knowledge and to develop the critical capacity for decision-making. From this, we seek answers to the following questions: science classes with CTS approach enables the construction of scientific knowledge by students of EJA? Students of adult education is able to grasp scientific knowledge related to the problems of their daily lives? And the scientific content approach starting from a problem situation allows the development of an active, reflective and critical stance by the student EJA? This study was a qualitative research, with a focus on action research. For analysis, we adopted the discursive textual analysis as a process aimed at producing new insights into phenomena and speeches. The data that constitute the corpus of the research were built in the classroom with the extracts of the most significant speeches of students. The results showed that it is necessary to insist on educational proposals that promote links between school subjects and everyday actions, this being an educational trend that enables the teacher to develop the curricula of interdisciplinary and contextualized way, exploring social, technological and environmental aspects in teaching sciences from a problem situation. Thus, in addition to allowing the exploration of issues that are under discussion in the media, the adoption of the CTS approach enables greater interaction between the triangulation: teacherstudent- knowledge, given that everyone can participate actively in the construction process knowledge through dialogues that develop during the exploration of this theme. Through research it was possible to build a new look in classes focused on science education with students of EJA.