Ensino de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia à luz da BNCC: uma análise documental.

Abstract

In the last few years, several technologies have been developed based on scientific knowledge and they directly influence our daily lives. Meanwhile, an area of knowledge that is increasingly making part of our experiential world is the Nanoscience and the Nanotechnology (N&N), an essentially interdisciplinary theme, since it involves knowledge from several areas such as: Physics, Chemistry and Biology. It is interesting that current affairs, like the N&N, are approached in an environment in which people have a first contact with the sciences, that is, at school. Addressing contemporary themes in the classroom can make students understand how technologies work, which are often present in their daily lives, contributing to the scientific literacy process of these students. Technological discoveries also end up influencing the development of educational legislation, including the BNCC. In its scope, this document aims to implement contemporary themes in the classroom. Thus, this research aims to analyze how the BNCC support the teaching of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in the Basic Education. This document is organized around competencies and skills, which are developed through scientific knowledge. Our investigation started from a documental research, in which we tried to understand, initially, how the BNCC deals with interdisciplinarity and scientific literacy. Moreover, we identify which skills are linked to concepts related to N&N. This procedure resulted in an analysis of the document divided into three categories, namely: Interdisciplinarity; scientific literacy and scientific knowledge. We also carried out a bibliographical research, in order to discuss the BNCC from the theoretical references that could support the listed categories. We observed, in our analysis, that the implementation of the BNCC supports the N&N approach in the Basic Education. In the last few years, this approach has already been carried out, even if incipient, for this reason, we hope the results of the research now carried out can guide other researchers who work with this respective theme, as well as teachers who work in Basic Education.