A construção de discursos escritos sobre aquecimento global: análise das explicações dos alunos / Written discourse about global warming: analysis of students\ explanations
AUTOR(ES)
Sarah Milani de Moraes Leandrini
FONTE
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
26/08/2011
RESUMO
Science education should be structured to provide conditions for students to engage in the scientific culture, learning not only concepts but also the specific practices and language of science, building an intellectual autonomy to make decisions in their real life. Under this assumption, we propose to investigate what students write when they opine about global warming and how they appropriate a publicizing material on the subject. The texts analyzed are from a composition contest sponsored by a television broadcasting company in the region of Ribeirão Preto (SP) with the theme \"Global Warming: what do I have to do with it?\" and the publicizing material is a DVD produced by the company for the schools. We sought to characterize the students\ texts according to the genre of speech that is predominant, the main ideas and the approach and discourse that are present, how they use the scientific knowledge and what concept of greenhouse effect they presented. We analyzed the DVD with the same approach and compared it with the contents of the compositions. Our results show that most students write argumentative and narrative texts about the causes and consequences of global warming linked to human activities and the measures aiming to resolve the problem. They predominantly use personal and environmental dimensions to compose their texts, and less than half of them use an approach or language close to the scientific. Half of the students who use scientific knowledge in their essays provide some kind of explanation that justifies their assertions. Most of them did not mention greenhouse effect in their texts, and few have established the relationship that the greenhouse effect causes global warming, showing little conceptual understanding. Regarding the appropriation of the DVD, in general, we could say that the students do not position themselves before this material, but when we specify the main ideas and each dimension of the texts we see that they question some of the contents of the DVD. We conclude that moral and personal values and environmental awareness are important when it comes to this kind of problem, but we must also pay greater attention to the learning of scientific knowledge if we want students to understand the phenomenon and know how to choose the best alternatives for resolving the problem.
ASSUNTO(S)
basic education educação education efeito estufa ensino fundamental estudo e ensino greenhouse effect learning and teaching
