Moluscos nos espaços expositivos / Mollusks in exhibitions
AUTOR(ES)
Maria Júlia Estefânia Chelini
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2006
RESUMO
Science Education is a growing and developing social practice and, in this respect, museums have gained prominence as places for doing public communication of science and non-formal education. In this sense, the nature and educational role of museums are clearly suffering gradual changes, what leads to questions about the theoretical and practical pre-assumptions that formed and still form the basis for actions in non-formal education occurring in these places. Thus, having in mind the fundamentals of the science communication work that the Malacology Lab (Institute of Biosciences-USP) has begun, the intention was to verify how mollusks are approached in the exhibitions of two universitary science museums, discussing some of the scientific, communicative and museological approaches that guide the expositive praxis of these places. For doing so, a qualitative methodological approach by means of two research instruments was chosen: observation, producing written and photographic records, and documental analysis. The analyses of scientific approaches indicated that both institutions have expositive subjects that meet their objectives of divulging the research they do and, in the case of the Zoology Museum, of discussing the dominant ideas in Zoology. The texts, in turn, appear predominantly as printouts, with each institution presenting different diagramming patterns and, consequently, bringing up different questions. As for the discourse used, it is clear that the text presented is a hybrid of several discourse categories. Finally, the exhibitions showed to be predominantly of the Educative type as described by Dean (2003), making wide use of real objects even though these were always far from the visitors and used for illustrative purposes. As for the levels of interactivity described by Wagensberg (2000), what calls the attention is the fact that none of the museums works all three existing levels and the only one worked by both museums, mental interactivity, is timidly explored.
ASSUNTO(S)
exhibition mollusks moluscos comunicação exposição public communication
