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| Author(s): |
Érica Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Dell Asem
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2010-12-09 |
| Examining board members: |
Silvia Luzia Frateschi Trivelato;
Agnaldo Arroio;
Rosana Louro Ferreira Silva
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| Advisor: | Silvia Luzia Frateschi Trivelato |
| Abstract | |
In this work, I analyze to what extent a group of students from the fifth year of the Elementary School from a private school of São Paulo appropriate the scientific concepts disclosed by a juvenile movie (Over the Hedge, 2006) to construct their argumentative discourses, and whether they also use moral patterns and values in their writings, when dealing with a socioscientific issue. The socioscientific issues involve the decision taking process related not only to scientific, cultural, social, and political aspects, but also to morals and ethics aspects. These issues do not have one unique satisfactory and definitive solution from the moral perspective. The problem of deforesting for the construction of condominium homes raises different point of views and opinions, and in this research, the socioscientific issue was considered the most important of them, and this issue was developed from the main theme of the juvenile movie seen by the students. The criteria for choosing the movie were: its dynamic language consistent with the student\'s age range, its broad dissemination and acceptance by the general public, and its thematic related to environmental, political, economy, social, ethical, and cultural issues, all of them contemplating the curriculum with Scientific-Technology-Society-Environment - STS - emphasis. Initially a discussion about the movie\'s discourse analysis is done, in order to realize the messages inside its discourse, with the goal to support the analysis of the students\' writings. The writings about the deforesting issue were transcribed and analyzed according to the Toulmin argument pattern (2006). From this referential analysis, values used by the students, such as respect for the environment and value for life, collective, culture, housing, and financial resources were identified. The values used in the answers were in the movie, showing that it made a huge influence on the construction of the student\'s answers. The respect for the environment was the value that most appeared in the answers, showing a close connection between these and the movie\'s messages. Students solved the questions using reasoning based on principles, consequences, emotion or intuition. The moral patterns were categorized according to the rationalist moral pattern proposed by Sadler & Zeidler (2004). Most answers had consequences (Consequentalist Reasoning) to the deforesting act, the same approach of the movie. The scientific concepts also appeared significantly, mainly the concepts presented during the movie, such as: deforesting, species extinction, necessary resources to species survival, animals as natural pest, food chain, hibernation, and planting trees. The warranty (W), according to Toulmin pattern (2006), was the argument element with most concepts presented in the movie, showing that the students used the movie\'s information as justification to their answers. The strong presence in the student\'s answers of moral patterns, values and scientific concepts from the movie shows not only how the messages in this kind of resource are significant to the students, but also that these messages become part of their repertories. (AU) | |