Banca de DEFESA: ARIELLY CHANTTAL MOREIRA SOARES

SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS (SCQ) ABOUT BACTERIAL RESISTANCE IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS: A PROPOSAL FOR A TRAINING COURSE FOR SCIENCE TEACHERS

Keywords: Socioscience Issues, bacterial resistance, antibiotics, CTS movement, Microbiology.

The social and scientific issues (SQS), which emerged within the Science, Technology and Health (STH) movement, defined as controversial topics, have proven to be an innovative and essential methodology for current Biology teaching. Several Biology contents can be approached from the SQS, allowing students to develop critical thinking about current and recurrent issues. One of the areas of Biology that is little explored by the KSFs is Microbiology, due to the fact that its content requires a certain amount of abstraction from the students. However, the theme of bacterial resistance in aquatic environments shows great pedagogical potential due to its impact in several areas such as health, politics, environment, among others. Therefore, this research aims to: 1) Plan and implement a science teacher training course about the SQS of bacterial resistance in aquatic environments; 2) Develop and validate a didactic sequence proposal involving SQS about bacterial resistance in aquatic environments using the 3 Pedagogical Moments Methodology (3MPs). To understand what the conceptions about SQS are, a questionnaire was applied via Google Forms with science teachers in the municipality of Natal. The preliminary results of the questionnaire show that teachers have little or no knowledge about the SQS approach, and those who have knowledge do not use it in the classroom due to lack of time for lesson planning. In view of this, a training course was held with the teachers, where, at the end, they developed a didactic sequence with SQS themes. In the first moments of the training course, teachers demonstrated they could identify SQS issues, but reported that they would have difficulty in using the SQS in their classes due to the longer planning and relate it to the competencies and skills of the BNCC.