Educação ambiental desde o enfoque ciência/tecnologia/sociedade (CTS) - um possível caminho

Abstract

Starting from the principle that it is possible to insert the environmental dimension via STS (Science/Technology/Society) in the process of teaching and learning of Biology, we have made an investigation whose central problem was the analysis and the evaluation of an educative simulation: "An STS case - a vaccine against AIDS has been created". It was worked with high school students. This work characterizes and bases the investigation and discusses its results in relation to two categories of analysis: development of the capacity to argue and construction of the knowledge from the social interaction.