Os livros didáticos do PNLD 2021 da área de ciências e suas tecnologias de projetos integradores e suas contribuições no combate às notícias falsas

Abstract

This work aims to verify the contributions of the Textbooks of the PNLD 2021 of the Integrating Projects of the Area of Science of Nature and its Technologies in the fight against Fake News. The study is a documentary research, in which we carried out a qualitative analysis of thirteen books approved in the National Textbook Program_ PNLD 2021. The analyzed collections are from the Science Area and its Technologies of Integrating Projects aimed at High School. To carry out the analysis, we determined the following terms: Fake News/False News, Denialism, Post-truth and Fake Science. Our research problem is: to understand how the textbooks of the PNLD 2021 of the Integrating Projects of the Area of Science of Nature and its Technologies have been approaching the issues of false information? As a method of analysis we work with the content analysis of Bardin (2011). Through this, we sought to identify the books that addressed the theme, which are the most relevant topics related to the theme and the solutions highlighted in the fight against false information. From the analysis and creation of categories, we identified the significant presence of the theme in textbooks, among the terms the expression Fake News appears in abundance, although the definition explored in some works has been limited to the translation of the term, the contribution is undeniable of the debate generated by the exploration of themes, such as the Anti-Vaccine Movement, Scientific Denialism and Flat Earth, in addition to highlighting their main damages to society. As a solution, books move towards a plural method with the use of various mechanisms that encourage a closer relationship between science, information and society.