Possibilidades de uso das questões sociocientíficas no ensino de Ciências

Abstract

Currently, schools still propagate the technicist ideology of the traditional curriculum in their teaching practices, representing a challenge for the development of critical curricular proposals that consider ideological, political and cultural issues of science teaching. To overcome this issue, it is necessary to adopt teaching approaches that incorporate students' social experiences, fostering a stronger connection between the school and the community. One of the approaches that can be adopted is the Socio - Scientific Issues (QSCs), which enable the discussion and work with controversies, developing skills of evaluation of different perspectives and application of mature and grounded judgments in students. In this sense, the objective of this work is to analyze how the QSCs can be used in the teaching of the sciences through a bibliographic review from the Google Scholar database, considering the articles published in the period 2019-2023. It is, therefore, an exploratory bibliographic research of qualitative nature. From the evaluation of the works presented in this study, it can be concluded that the adoption of QSCs in science teaching can be an effective tactic to foster the scientific literacy of students, contributing to the development of critical and conscious individuals. However, there are still obstacles to be overcome in the application of teaching approaches based on QSCs, such as the excessive emphasis on the transmission of scientific knowledge to the detriment of the provision of activities that encourage the learning of argumentative skills.