Para onde sopram os ventos : sentidos de questões sociocientíficas entre licenciandos de ciências biológicas

Abstract

The present work presents a research course that investigates the senses attributed to socio-scientific issues (SSI) in a context of initial formation of science and biology teachers. To do this, we first carried out a case study on the installation of wind farms in the municipality of Caetés (PE) through non-participant observation and interviews with 14 local social actors that had repercussion in the writing of a pedagogical material used in the second moment. So, then, we carried out a training process with students of the 8th period of the Licentiate in Biological Sciences course of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, under the discipline of Ecology Practice. Our intervention occurred in two stages. In the first one we present the assumptions of the SSI and we present the experience of a case about the wind energy in the municipality of Caetés (PE). In the second, the graduates planned and developed action plans based in SSI, elaborating experience reports on their practices. On the formative process we launched a descriptive analysis in the light of the indiciary paradigm, the action plans were analyzed according to criteria based on the literature (choice of SSI, objectives and resources used) and, finally, in the reports we follow a discursive textual analysis. The results indicate that socio-scientific issues present great potential for problematizing the nature of scientific knowledge, stimulating debates and questioning the interests that move science and technology and its influences on different social sectors. Moreover, its inclusion in teacher training demonstrates that it may lead to changes in the licentiate's epistemological and methodological conceptions.