PANORAMA DO ENSINO DE CIÊNCIAS NATURAIS NO BRASIL NA ESFERA PÚBLICA

Abstract

It is easy to see that natural science is present in the daily life of human beings. This perception becomes much more evident with the development of scientific knowledge combined with technological development. Within this vision, this perception should be stimulated even within studies at the elementary school level, as advocated by the Curriculum Parameters of Natural Sciences. In this sense, this work focused on carrying out a survey in the form of an active search for higher education institutions that hold the training of the graduate in Natural Sciences and similar terminologies through the E-MEC platform. It was aimed to know if the proposition of this licensee is still growing in the country. In addition, two public schools in the municipality of Catalão-Goiás were used as samples to understand, in the view of the students, how the teaching of the discipline or the component of Science in Elementary School II is going, the teaching of Science in Elementary School II can be improved through approaches that promote contextualization, active learning, technology integration, interdisciplinarity, critical thinking and continuous teacher training. The achieved results demonstrated that the students of two schools A and B, belonging to the 6th and 9th grade, demonstrate a lot of interest in the discipline of Sciences. However, some factors such as curricular fragmentation, lack of teacher training, projected theoretical approach, among others, end up not being favorable to a unified vision of this discipline. Keywords: Natural Sciences. Nature Sciences. Active-Search.