O enfoque CTSA e a prática extensionista : uma análise a partir de oficinas sócio-educativas em Anápolis – GO

Abstract

Because of the great need, as in licensing training for professional practice in teaching biological sciences, aimed up, starting at university extension, mediating the scientific knowledge obtained throughout the academic training in line with the Science-Technology-Society-Environment (STSE). The environmental issue is a space for these actions and manifests itself as the research problem of this study. The present research was guiding problem knowing how students understand the relationship between science-technology-society-environment? Based on this assumption aimed to create opportunities socio-educational workshops aimed at critical training through the STSE approach to non-formal learning space Núcleo Casa Brasil de Anápolis from the practice of extension. The method chosen for data collection approach was qualitative, with records and photos to record data from each workshop and subsequent analysis according to the theoretical framework linked to the STSE focus protocols, so according to the following structures analysis: technology and society; environmental education and consumerism. Throughout the first semester of 2014 totaled 12 workshops were 15 students in the early years of elementary school. It was possible to understand, along with students, as has been the role of humans on the environment and the consequences of its intervention to the entire biosphere. During the workshops the students were conducted by the questioning method to find solutions so that we can change this environmental framework that we have faced and as reflected in the media. Moreover, the extension action led to understand how the effects of consumerism, which in all its power relation and social status reflects the environment. It is believed that the main goal of learning had been achieved: to allow discussion and deconstruction of a naturalist and naive view of nature compared to environmental issues.