A função social do ensino de química no sentido de um protagonismo juvenil no contexto da economia solidária

Abstract

This research explores the relationship between the Teaching of Chemistry (EQ) and the Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL), in the perspective of the Science, Technology, Society-CTS approach, aiming to enable the active, critical, creative participation and the recognition of the students' imagination, in addition, brings a study that meets the general competencies of BNCC2018. In this perspective, we bring to this study education focused on the formation of citizenship with an emphasis on the social, cultural, historical, economic, political and scientific aspects. The pedagogical mediations offered are given by CTS education, articulating scientific knowledge with the reality experienced by students through the thematic soap approach. The present work aims to contribute to the teaching area of Natural Sciences in such a way that the objective is to raise and analyze the contribution, the social function and the political function of the theme of soap production from reusable soy oil linked to ECOSOL for the Chemistry teaching and learning process. To support the development of scientific knowledge that relates EQ and ECOSOL, built if a Didactic Sequence entitled: “Production of soap from reusable soy oil in the context of the Solidarity Economy”, being structured in three pedagogical moments, which are Study of reality, Knowledge organization and Knowledge application. The investigation about the active, critical, creative participation of students in the educational process, developed from the aforementioned didactic sequence, was designed based on qualitative research of a constructive-interpretative character, with a case study based on Qualitative Epistemology and Theory of Subjectivity and resorted to the method of configurational knowledge analysis in mode what the interpretation of information lt happened during all the process in search being what to final occurred emphasis for the subjective production of students. Participants are students at a public school in Cuiabá – MT. The results of the present research highlighted the subjective production during the study of the topic in the discussion and production of previous knowledge, the little support to ECOSOL in relation to that destined to the capitalism enterprises in force in society, a vision of another possible economy in these times of health crisis , respect for science and society and the student's interest in acquiring more knowledge about soap and solidarity, so that it makes it possible to defend the social and political contribution of the theme of soap production, based on reusable soy oil. We defend that there was a formation focused on citizenship in a critical, reflective, active, creative, dialogical and subjective production way, as the students made relations between the social chemical theme of soaps and the reality lived in other social spaces related to their experiences.