Licenciandos do PIBID e o aquecimento global: redes de actantes na elaboração de atividades didáticas

Abstract

This text presents the results of a research with two groups of BiologicalSciences pre-service teachers, from a Brazilian public university. The purpose of this study is to describe the didactic approaches used by these undergraduate students in teaching controversial topics, in this case, global warming. To describe how the licensees address the issue of global warming. To identify the human and non-human actors that are mobilized to develop educational activities on the subject. To describethe interest translations that occur in the collective. To identify how undergraduate describe the participation of experts (scientists), lay people and politicians in the management of global warming controversy and which functions they assigned to them. To describe how the licensees address the relationship between science and politics involved in the issue of global warming. The Actor-Network Theory was themain theoretical framework used in this study. Other theoretical contributions included the STS Movement, the Sociology of Science and the field of Politics related to citizen participation on controversial science issues. The study object were two groups of preservice teachers, undergoing pre-service training at two public high schools, under thesupervision of two different teachers. Data were obtained through global warming lesson plan meetings, among pre-service teachers and their supervisors. These meetings were observed and recorded. The material was transcribed and analyzed. The data allow concluding that: Among human actants, we highlight the role of group 1 supervisor, who was considered an obligatory passage point, a decisive actant tocomplete activity by actively guiding pre-service teachers to complete their planning and activities. The group 2 supervisor, and school teachers had an important impact on the licensees' work, particularly by limiting their possibilities of action, that is, they are deviations in interest translations. Non-human actants were important for pre-service teachers work included: time, school's physical space and curriculum, mainly bylimiting their possibilities of action. They are also deviations in the interest translations. Internet was considered an obligatory passage point to both groups. The undergraduate partially identified the factors involved in the global warming controversy, such as the relationship between science and politics. However, at various times they reinforced the deficit model, by disqualifying the role of the lay people andby adopting a position of subordination in relation to scientists.