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STS Approach and Secondary Education: spaces of joint

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Author(s):
Roseline Beatriz Strieder
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI)
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Examining board members:
Maria Regina Dubeux Kawamura; Decio Auler; Alice Helena Campos Pierson
Advisor: Maria Regina Dubeux Kawamura
Abstract

We investigated the concerns of STS (Science-Technology-Society) approaches on secondary school taking into account the results from a real school intervention. The meaning and objectives of STS perspectives were analyzed in an extensive bibliography review, which indicated a large variety and multiplicity of significations. It also resulted that it must be considered the advantages of STS association with a general education perspective. In this sense, we investigated possible consonance and connections between STS and Paulo Freire\'s ideas, in theoretical as well as practices propositions. With this intention we developed a school project in Salvador das Missões, RS-Brazil, where it is being built a hydroelectric power plant. From data and development analyses of this project, we tried to confront ideas and practices through research-participant methodology. Our research approaches took in account three different classes of considerations: (i) project strategy, (ii) school involvement and (iii) educational objectives. The results from these perspectives reinforced the contribution of Freire\'s idea to STS approaches, allowing to identify its potentialities as well as some restrictions and challenges. (AU)