Cerrado do século XXI: uma sequência didática para a Educação de Jovens e Adultos

Abstract

Established as a teaching modality in the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education (LDB/1996), Youth and Adult Education (EJA) configures a space of struggle in search of overcoming exclusionary processes that, historically, made the formation of Brazilians unfeasible. workers. Thus, the EJA needs its own training project that meets its specificities. In this context, the present work intended to develop a Didactic Sequence (DS) as an educational product for Science Teaching in EJA, based on the principles of scientific literacy and the approach that emphasizes the relationship between Science, Technology and Society (STS). For that, a didactic-pedagogical proposal was structured involving the Socio-scientific Question "Cerrado in the 21st century", emphasizing the fires and pollution in the municipality of Inhumas-GO, highlighting the main polluting sources of the place, they are: Tannery, Animal Recycling Factory (Shrink Shop), Refrigerator, Poultry Farm and Alcohol Plant. The relationship between scientific knowledge and the reality of students contributes to the attribution of meaning to concepts and, consequently, the process of teaching and learning through scientific literacy. In other words, it can enhance the training of agents that transform reality for a fair and democratic society, as well as expand the possibility of developing the capacity for participation and decision-making, autonomy. In this sense, the SD proposes discussions on the richness of the biome, deforestation, polluting sources and their socio-environmental impacts, as well as scientific concepts that contribute to the understanding of this reality.