A mulher cientista na perspectiva CTS: uma análise em livros didáticos de ciências da natureza e suas tecnologias

Abstract

This research discusses a social issue, namely the invisibility of the female scientist figure, as well as her contributions to the scientific-technological environment. Therefore, by carrying out the research we sought to rethink the incentives given to girls and women and bring CTS Education as a means of problematizing social issues in classrooms and curricula. Given this, starting from the research problem: What is the role of the female scientist from the perspective of STS Education throughout the history of education and how is this present or not in Brazilian textbooks? And aiming to understand, characterize and analyze how the female scientist figure is presented in Textbooks of Natural Sciences and their Technologies from the perspective of STS Education. Proceeding to the general problem and objective, the research was divided into specific problems and objectives and was subdivided into four chapters, each corresponding to an article submitted or to be submitted to a journal. The first chapter/article corresponds to a bibliographical review of Brazilian theses and dissertations that deal with women scientists from the perspective of CTS Education. The second chapter/article is a documentary analysis of official curricular documents in the search for mentions related to the female scientist figure from the perspective of CTS Education, both chapters/articles seeking to contribute to the theoretical contribution of the dissertation. The third chapter/article (under construction) presents an analysis of Natural Sciences Textbooks and their Technologies in the search for images of women scientists from the perspective of CTS Education. The fourth chapter/article investigates the female mentions of scientists in the area of Natural Sciences and their Technologies that appear in Textbooks. As for methodological analysis, which involves bibliographic and documentary research, we used Discursive Textual Analysis throughout its composition. During the chapters/articles we point out that, sometimes, despite the female representation being greater when compared to the male, the reproduction of stereotypes of the Scientist person remains, portraying her as white, gray haired, elderly, wearing glasses, in the laboratory next to her glassware. These facts may indicate that science-technology was only produced in past years and by white people. Furthermore, gender issues and female contributions to science-technology are not brought up either. When we refer to mentions, they occur very little and when they do appear, they are in the shadow of men or are ignored, briefly mentioning their contribution in a special section of Textbooks or in figures.