Agrotóxicos como uma questão sociocientífica e as potencialidades no ensino de física no contexto da educação CTS

Abstract

Amid the relationships between science, technology, society and the environment, it is It is important to understand the science present in our daily lives. The discussions about its influence on our lives and its effects highlight the importance of the population to participate in these discussions, exercising citizenship. In that sense, we need to prepare people to participate in these discussions, we can meet this purpose through a teaching process, using socio-scientific issues, which contribute to the development of understanding of students, about the relationships between science, technology and society, contributing to decision-making, student action, and training for citizenship. Thus, in this research, through a teaching process developed at school with socio-scientific issues that involve the theme of pesticides and based on the three pedagogical moments, we identified how potential aspects of this issue for physics teaching, in decision making: the development of ethical and moral aspects, mobilization of knowledge scientific research and risk analysis, which support the arguments shared by participants, in training for citizenship, in addition, it was possible to develop ability of argumentation and cooperation among students in the construction of arguments.