Investigando a construção de competências para comunicação científica com licenciandos de biologia durante o processo de ensino-aprendizagem de um tema de ciência e tecnologia

Abstract

The importance of scientific literacy began to be drawn in mid-1996 when he appeared in several countries proposed for education reforms include some of its main guidelines. Among these has been the upgrading of skills of scientific communication. In this context we developed this research, aiming to investigate the construction of competence for scientific communication in the teaching-learning process of a specific theme of Science and Technology. Used in this way a sequence of structured teaching and learning from the Cycle of Experience by Kelly (1963), and structure the set of proposed activities based on the program "Scientific Communication", developed in Israel. We work with a group of students from bachelor's degree in biology, as we aim to identify the difficulties encountered by them during the process, as well as areas considered most significant. Data were collected from questionnaires, interviews recorded on audio, video recording during the performance of activities and material produced by students in these activities. The results indicated that students lacked strategies and develop criteria for the proposed activities and after the intervention, there was that developed the tasks requested with greater ease which showed the advisability of using the sequence proposed for the improvement and construction of skills to communicate scientific and this has enabled the understanding of specific knowledge regarding the conceptual contents of the theme nanoscience.