Abstract

COSTA, Helder Martins. Education in sciences and sociopolitical intervention in socioenvironmental and socioscientific questions: an experience in the initial training of teachers and educators. Invest. Práticas [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.2, pp.71-90. ISSN 2182-1372.

This article is based essentially on the importance, in the initial training of teachers and educators, of a sociopolitical intervention in different communities as a fundamental strategy for a constructive pedagogical approach of teacher’s and student’s thought. So, in this perspective, we present the results obtained in the implementation of the "We act" project, at the Jean Piaget Higher School of Education of Almada and in the curricular unit of Atelier and Didactics of Sciences and Environmental Education. For this purpose, a mixed methodological study was carried out in order to understand the impact of the activities proposed by the different groups of students The results indicate the need and the urgency to change our practices and to outline new paths that promote methodological and pedagogical change, based on differentiated strategies and student-centered teaching. They also suggest that this involvement in activities of sociopolitical action on socioenvironmental and socioscientific issues contribute to change behaviors and to broaden concepts. These students, future teachers, have thus gained a new posture, based on the importance of science for everyday life, for solving community problems.

Keywords : activism; science education; teacher training.

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