Alfabetização científica com foco no meio ambiente: estudo de caso no Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia do Tocantins campus Paraíso do Tocantins

Abstract

The Sustainable Development established by the United Nations in 2005-2014 is a period that closes a decade of education and it leads to reflect on the state of environmental education in our schools. Science is a language that can be conducted through the Scientific Literacy and as a base, to drive a more effective people participation in environmental issues, it can be "regarded as one of the dimensions to enhance alternatives that favor a more committed education" (Chassot , 2003). Thus, in order to measure the scientific literacy process in class I was selected from the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Tocantins, Campus Paraíso do Tocantins, with the disciplinary Environment matrix combining method and citizenship, it is observed as a hypothesis an assumption that a normal daily life of Geography component class combining method and citizenship, which provides the Scientific Literacy. For this, the research uses qualitative and quantitative analyzes questionnaires according to the standard arguments by Toulmin (2006). The aim is also to analyze the knowledge about the nature of science in students. The research involved the participation of 50% of the students of the first year in 2013 and over 50% of the second year students in 2014, adding to the research 50% of the first year in 2014, but it also was carried out a comparative study of two teachers. Over the studies, the students answered to a questionnaire before and after the didactic sequences, based on scores from various authors, on specific and particular concepts of the nature in science features, to meet and somehow classify the level and the progress or not, the students understanding on the scientific world, in the process. The results compared, have positive reinforcement within the analyzed whole, moreover, it is evident in the seizure by students of their own speech authority. Therefore, it is concluded that the theory evolution and the science practice is a slow process, however, it is necessary and deemed a tight reality, it needs to be improved continuously, to promote social inclusion and effective participation of citizens in environmental issues.