SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION TO THE CHILD AND YOUTH AUDIENCE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PEDAGOGICAL POTENTIAL

Abstract

Research in Scientific Dissemination has contributed to expand the possibilities of teaching and learning from the use of scientific dissemination magazines as a didactic strategy in the school environment. In this work, we analyzed four publications of scientific dissemination in three different periods aimed at children and adolescents. The analysis aimed at verifying the pedagogical potential of scientific dissemination texts (TDC) for Science Teaching in the Early Years of Elementary School. The selected articles dealt with related subjects, namely: pandemic, coronavirus, and vaccines. To this end, we used Ribeiro and Kawamura's (2005) TDC analysis proposals as an instrument. Our results indicate that TDCs present easy access to reading, clear, objective, and impersonal language, scientific information and concepts and varied topics, and can integrate the set of pedagogical resources to teach Science in the classroom. However, its use requires a previous and careful evaluation, in the sense of not harming the teaching and learning of science, as well as not representing a meaningless didactic activity and disconnected from the student's world. Furthermore, we conclude that the pedagogical potential of scientific dissemination texts as a complementary activity in the classroom overcomes the weaknesses observed and represents the insertion of the student in the scientific field.