Novos desafios para o ensino de ciências

Abstract

This work was subject to initial and continuing teacher education, the work reveals and exposes 6 challenging times for those involved in science education. The first moment of the educational challenge is to Overcome the pedagogical common sense. Therefore, it is necessary that the teacher has a dominant scientific theories and its links with the technologies and assist their students in the construction of knowledge through questioning and reflection. The second moment is the proposed Universalist Science, which aims to put scientific knowledge to everyone. The third challenging time is the Science and Technology as sources of Culture, where the teaching needs to be directed to the critical appropriation and action by students, so that they incorporate the spectrum of social representations and is constituted as culture. The fourth challenge is to incorporate teaching practice and education programs Contemporary Knowledge in Science and Technology relevant to the cultural, educational and social development of students. The fifth challenging time is overrun limiter that is the Textbook, which although it is the main instrument teacher, has its shortcomings and absences. To do this, the teacher and students should make use conscious, critical, reflective, inferential of textbooks and other research sources such as magazines, CD-ROMs, DVDs, educational television programs, newspapers, internet, museums, laboratories, exhibitions and fairs, among other textbooks resources in a planned, systematic and coordinated in order to improve the teaching and learning process. The sixth and final challenging time is the approximation of Research in Teaching Science and Science Teaching in such a way that qualitatively the research on science education may reflect satisfactorily and active way in the teaching practice, through revelation and discussion of the results obtained through research, and never forgetting that every result should be reflected and asked for an action in the present and future.