The history of science in Brazilian periodic of chemistry : contribution for teaching formation / A historia da ciencia em periodicos brasileiros de quimica : contribuições para formação docente

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This thesis presents the results of a documentation analysis on the production of History of Science made known in the Brazilian periodicals Química Nova and Química Nova na Escola over the period of 1978 to 2004. After mapping the papers and having set a database up, we have analyzed sociological and historiographical aspects of such a production, aiming at granting it bigger visibility in the educational field and drawing it closer to teacher formation. We base ourselves on the theoretical matrices of Pierre Bourdieu (1930- 2002), and on debates by historians of science, between them Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb from the Brazilian Society for History of Science, and Helge Kragh from the History of Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Among the analyzed papers, which were one hundred and fourteen, more than sixty percent were signed by five authors. Although most authors do not advance the production of History of Science as their main research activity, we have observed that most works are marked by debates on modern Historiography of Science, including a variety of topics ? Institutional History, History of Chemistry in Brazil and General History of Science. The periodicals have also a set of texts like minutes, reports and historical compliments, which can be used as primary fonts for future works. We have noticed that some pieces of knowledge arise through the reading of the papers which we have taken as necessary for teacher formation, like for instance the acknowledgment of paradigmatic crises in scientific development, the participation of women in science, the collective building and cultural practice of science and the impacts of science on society. The investigation has shown that the periodicals studied are important vehicles for the flow of information related to History of Science and can occupy a privileged role in teacher formation as regards the supply of historical, theoretical and epistemological data for the improvement of teachers conception about science, and in order to grant meaning or understanding on issues that are able to assemble contents, places of production as much as social, cultural and political topics. The study of production of history of science in these periodic assisted us in the mapping of collaborating agent groups of area and definition of a situation on the insertion of history of science in chemistry education in Brazil.

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periodicos brasileiros historia da ciencia - brasil formação de professores brazilian periodicals history of science training of teachers chemistry quimica

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