Professor de língua portuguesa: divulgador científico por meio do campo jornalístico-midiático

Abstract

The popularization of science for non-scientific audiences has gained traction with the increase in education levels, particularly after the emergence of the press in the 15th century. Since then, newspapers and magazines have played a fundamental role in popularizing science and technology, and this role has gained certain prominence with the advent of digital media, especially when targeting young audiences. In this context, the question that guided this work arises: what role does the Portuguese language teacher play in the interface between scientific communication, full literacy, and reader formation, in line with the proposal of the National Common Core Curriculum (BNCC)? To investigate this question, we relied on the theoretical basis of Social Representations Theory (MOSCOVICI, 1981) and Semiolinguistics – discourse analysis (CHARAUDEAU, 1983). This is a documentary research (which portrays a specific moment in society and education) and a qualitative-interpretive analysis of the social representations of science made by teachers from various regions of Brazil – students of the Specialization Course in Reading Teaching Theories and Practices and Text Production at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. In general terms, it is observed that the teachers have created a representation of scientific communication as an exclusive responsibility of the media and colleagues who teach the subject of science. They stated being unaware of the BNCC proposal to consider media journalism as one of the five fields of action in the Language area. Although they frequently use news and reports in their classes, the teachers acknowledged the need to motivate students by working with topics of youth interest related to science and technology, as well as with multisemiotic texts. Based on these findings, it is important to recognize the significance of providing teachers with opportunities to better understand the BNCC text, so that the field of media journalism, which includes scientific journalism as one of its specialties, becomes an important tool for the formation of readers and text producers about science in basic education schools.