Educação na abordagem Ciência, Tecnologia, Sociedade e Ambiente como estratégia para o desenvolvimento

Abstract

This study Masters in Development and Environment aims to promote reflections on the incorporation of controversial issues and situations that are epistemologically transversal approach to teaching Science, Technology, Society and Environment (CTSA) for the training of teachers of medium as multiplying factors of the educational process in view of development. We assumed that education is a major duty factor that adds value to any development which is planned development. The research focuses on the study of a controversy, as represented by the inclusion of controversial issues in the classroom. The cause of AIDS and transgenics represent the two controversial issues and controversial elected for discussion due to the potential of them to provide expanded discussions on public health, and emphasize the social, economic, environmental, political and geopolitical problems of food security, in direct connection with the issue of development in the context of an interdisciplinary approach and cross CTSA. In our study, eight teachers who teach in public and in private, both participated in the focus group, discussing the relevance and appropriateness of the inclusion of such issues in the classroom. We come to the conclusion that there is urgent need to work with controversial topics that cover ethics, the environment, health, citizenship, and in this context, think of conceptions of teaching and learning we refer the epistemology of the teacher, know their conceptions of the world, society, man's nature. We believe that education should seek the integration of several disciplines in an interdisciplinary educational practice that can help citizens understand the reality and thus promote the development of the country.