Combatendo a racionalidade tecnológica: explorando as possibilidades educativas do rádio junto ao ensino de Ciências

Abstract

In Brazil, the radio began educational and cultural allowing communication and integration with part of the population marginalized from school process. Chronological analysis of radio in Brazil allows to affirm that the State fluctuated moments of closeness and remoteness along the educational radios; sometimes committed ideological interests. Strong economic changes, social, political and cultural changes in the last century promoted changes in the role of radio and others media. The remoteness of the state coincides with the process of globalization, giving space to commercial interests. We believe that disclosure standards, ideologies and false needs help to form a one-dimensional society, with lots of products, but without freedom to think, act and live. The State, in turn, enhances the "technological rationality", neglecting the potential of educational radio and highlighting the use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education. Develop educational radio programs of a scientific nature may stimulate listening skills, interpretation, mental development, and the construction of scenarios, the subject needed to take the place of passivity, opening him opportunities to knowledge.