Contribuições da divulgação científica para o ensino de Ciências no Brasil e seu reflexo nos Programas de Pós- Graduação da área 46 da CAPES

Abstract

Scientific Divulgation in the area of Information Science is considered as a subarea, in addition to being a subject present in its curriculum. However, her contributions to science teaching and teacher training were still unknown to the author. In this sense, the present research was dedicated to research as a contribution of Scientific Divulgation in Science Education in Brazil through Bardin's Content Analysis in Research Lines and Disciplines of Graduate Programs in the Teaching area. As changes occurred in recent years in our research field, it was necessary to define a panorama before carrying out a content analysis itself. Thus, in a sample of the 43 programs analyzed, we identified that only 12 Graduate Programs mentioned Scientific Divulgation, simultaneously, in their Research Lines and Disciplines. Of these, the majority addresses the teaching of Scientific Divulgation in the relationship between Science Education and non-formal education. Regarding the training of teachers, it was found in the analyzed contents the participation of Scientific Divulgation in lines of research and disciplines focused on the process of Teaching-learning and CTS Approach. Regarding the participation of Information Science in the analyzed sample, we observed the presence of a line of research and eight disciplines that address Scientific Divulgation, demonstrating, through this, a proximity of Science Education to Information Science, whose themes addressed are new Information and Communication Technologies, interdisciplinarity in museums, public policies in S&T, democratization of Science, and the use of media as resources for the dissemination of science.