CTS-Freire Education in Formative Itineraries in the curriculum of the Public Education of the Federal District: analysis of guiding documents from a humanistic perspective of citizenship exercise
Curriculum in Motion; Nature Sciences; Life Project; High School
In this graduate research project, we will investigate relationships between STS-Freire's education and commitments to citizenship in curriculum documents of the New High School of the Public Education Network of the Federal District. We begin our reflective process by situating the STS Movement and the contributions of the European, American and Latin American strands. We outline articulations between STS Education, the polysemes in productions of the teaching science area and different contributory natures. We consider citizenship as a structuring exercise in the parameters and purposes of STS Education to deal with information related to Science-Technology, make decisions, formulate critiques, analyze controversial issues, risks and benefits, understand social issues, discuss politics, ethics and values, make choices in personal and/or social dimensions. In the second part of our reflections, we analyze the commitments of STS-Freire Education with citizenship exercise under the focus of three axes: generating words and thematic investigation, political education and public participation, problematizing education and non-neutrality of science-technology conceptions. Associating STS-Freire-LATSTS, we discuss a humanistic interpretation of the exercise of citizenship towards an emancipatory and progressive educational perspective in a regional context. We assume action-reflection as essential for the humanistic exercise of citizenship in the sense of problematizing realities based on STS relations for the transformation of subjects and reality. We argue that the humanistic exercise of citizenship will allow us to base articulations between Freire's HTS Education and Formative Itineraries of the New High School taking the subject and his life projects as the center. We have defined Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) in our methodological path, due to the possible convergence with the Freirean reflexive perspective. We hope that Freire-DTS will contribute to the understanding of the humanistic nature of the exercise of citizenship as intrinsic to research in STS Education. It will be an investigation centered on action-reflection from the production of information to the process of synthesis-analysis of discourse phenomena. From this hermeneutic movement committed to the exercise of citizenship, we presume to emerge confluences and divergences between Humanistic Science Education and the curriculum of Natural Sciences.