Alfabetização científica no ensino fundamental : a obra literária “Procura-se um coração” como conteúdo

Abstract

The Study presented here is the result of an action-research in which the central question is understanding how to enable Scientific Literacy through a didactic sequence using the children's literary work "ProCura-se um Coração", Seixas (2010). The challenging task of reading stimulation and the search for knowledge in order to contribute to the subject’s full development can be facilitated for each teacher by scrolling through the pages of good literature. Using or producing structured resources for teacher's actions is important in the pursuit of intellectual growth implementation, since it ensures a path that may or may not be either modifier or modified aiming preestablished purposes facing new challenges. In this sense, the Didactic Sequence becomes a guiding instrument with easy elaboration and applicability; also enabling the analysis of possible interventions as well as the evaluation of their respective validity, Zabala (1988). We seek to highlight the important contribution of literature to the discussion on the organ donation topic and, thus, to the development of the concept of Scientific Literacy, aiming the understanding of scientific language (Chassot 2003, 2008) which allows the student’s interaction with a new culture (Sasseron and Carvalho, 2011) being encouraged to make decisions about practices that are still shrouded in myths. We also seek to base ourselves on the reading mediation process according to Vygotsky (1991), given the significant and timeless school responsibility as an enabling environment for the subject’s development in order to involve him in this continuous and constant process.