Physics and Science Fiction: unveiling cultural myths in an education for freedom / Física e ficção científica: desvelando mitos culturais em uma educação para a liberdade

AUTOR(ES)

Adalberto Anderlini de Oliveira

FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

25/02/2011

RESUMO

Our intention with this work is to answer the question: why to discuss science fiction in physics teaching? Searching for authors that propose it as a pedagogic instrument, we have found predominantly studies that indicate the narratives as a way to motivate, captivate students. After we have built a theoretical castle based on Paulo Freire, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Thomas Kuhn and others, we notice that to motivate means, in fact, to seduce - in the sense of convincing the apprentice that science needs to be learned. That is, some works, using the scientificism of science fiction, leads the students to adore science, persuading them to venerate it, in a submissive devotion. In our view, this mystic fascination would weaken their autonomy in front of the options that this knowledge represents and in front of the limits that it carries. Because of it, and based upon Freire\"s philosophy, we defend science fiction precisely as a way to present and to discuss cultural myths that fills our imagination, defining our conceptions about science, technology, civilization, human relations, etc. That is, we propose the decoding of the narratives of this genre inherently transdisciplinarity in a culture circle compound by an interdisciplinary team responsible for putting in question our ways to understand and to imagine the world - ways that reveal ideologies culturally incorporated since childhood. Inquiry followed by the study of specialists\"s vision (such as physics, philosophers, literary critics, etc.) and by the application of this organized knowledge at the elaboration of cultural actions. We indicate, in the end, one instrument to analyze the scientific language games shared by science and science fiction, with the intention of clarifying the scientific thought and, consequently, the way it influences the relation among the subjects and between these ones and the world. We finalize with an exposition of some experiences involving science fiction in physics classes at the high school where we teach.

ASSUNTO(S)

ensino ensino médio ficção científica física e arte high school physics and arts science fiction teaching

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