Cidadania e ensino de ciências: aulas contextualizadas como ferramenta pedagógica para a formação da cidadania

Abstract

Being a citizen means, to have aware of your role in society, assuming your rights and duties, making a positive contribution to social transformation. Education is one of the tools for the development of citizenship, as it establishes a dialogue between students and teachers and allows the construction of knowledge. However, science teaching has often been carried out, emphasizing the decontextualized scientific knowledge of citizenship. In this way, there is a separation of the individual from society. However, it is necessary for the student to see how part of the environment is not inserted, and can transformative their reality. This research aims to understand how a contextualized class of science education can contribute to the development of citizen awareness in students. The realization of the research took place in a state school in Dois Vizinhos-PR. Three theoretical-practical classes were taught, where it was used as didactic resource, materials collected in the city, as well as images of places of different conservation states for presentation. The theme addressed was basic sanitation, seeking to bring reflections on the theme, and make students active parts of the environment where they live. A pre and a post-questionnaire were applied which generated data that were analyzed by the qualitative and quantitative methodological perspective. From the information obtained it was realized that the contextualized classes can become an important social instrument in the formation of the citizen as the students realized that state and population are linked. For, when, the authorities propose to intervene in the well-being of the people, in order to prevent diseases and contribute to a better quality of life, everyone wins, since it is the population that keeps the resources that enable the conservation of the environment. and the services they consume.