Programa de ação interdisciplinar como modelo de letramento científico na Amazônia.

Abstract

The need to introduce or improve science education starting from school is recognized in socioeconomically developed countries, which prioritize the quality of their citizens' education and pay maximum attention to scientific and technological careers. In Brazil, we still do not have a consistent tradition of science education, which has repercussions on the struggle to overcome educational inequalities. The objective of this article is to analyze the importance of science education from the perspective of the Interdisciplinary Action Program (PAI), a Scientific Literacy initiative for basic and higher education in a municipality in the Brazilian Amazon. This is a documentary study with a qualitative descriptive approach. The PAI is a model of dialogue between the University and the School, committed to reducing distances between the two realities and ensuring full dissemination of the scientific method. In the Amazonian context, it becomes a scientific education reference with the potential to be replicated in other municipalities.