Alfabetização científica como objetivo do ensino de ciências

Abstract

The scientific literacy is one of the objects of investigation of the extern evaluations. Through the informations inherent the proposal of inclusion of the area of Sciences of the Nature in the Proof Brazil that it brings like the finality, to value the scientific literacy of the students, this inquiry aimed to understand like the approach of the scientific literacy they are when it was worked in classroom by the teachers of Sciences of the schools of the basic education of the local authority of Planalto, Pr. The methodology that shows the approach of the problem of inquiry is classified how qualitative. For the development of the study, one carried out interviews with four teachers of sciences of the 9th year of the basic teaching of the state schools of the local authority of Tableland, Pr. The interviews were analysed on basis of the Discursive Textual Analysis, in which it surfaced the next categories: School context and his relation with the Proof Brazil; The understanding of the teachers on scientific literacy; Constant formation. There was a need to discuss and rethink the goals of science education in order to provide the process of scientific literacy as there are many gaps in the understanding of this approach thus emphasizes the importance of the continuous process of training professional career teacher.