Contaminação alimentar: o que a área da educação química vem publicizando?

Abstract

The present work intends to understand the importance of the problematization of food contamination, especially in the Revista Química Nova na Escola (Qnesc), and in a second moment, the construction of a class proposal anchored in the Educar Pela Pesquisa approach. In order to understand how the theme has been addressed within the journal, we will analyze the articles with an initial search using the keywords (Food + Chemical Education), where 105 articles were initially found, forming the corpus of analysis. The articles were submitted to Discursive Textual Analysis (ATD), from which units of meaning emerged. Later, these units were grouped to form categories, among the categories formed, only one of them was investigated in a more intense way. The category we chose was “The students' learning process takes place collectively”. From the analysis of the category, both in the articles and in the authors who have been investigating about it, it was possible to understand more deeply how the studied theme is worked on in Science Education. Which leads us to argue that we are within the great area of Science Education and not in separate curricular components. As for the class proposal, we can demonstrate that this process is fully learning, even with a small indication that we have already addressed the proposal in the Supervised Curriculum Internships, we argue within this proposal, which is anchored in the Freirean theme and in Educating through Research in order to enhance the student learning, in this great area of Science Education.