Revista ciência hoje das crianças: ferramenta educativa para o ensino de ciências e incentivo á pesquisa

Abstract

The Scientific Divulgation conveyed through magazine CHC (Ciência Hoje das Crianças), with emphasis on Science Education, emerges as source of scientific knowledge for a young audience, in formation and layman. This can act as a support tool for students as well for teachers. However, believing that not everything can be presented in a scientific magazine, it was sought to analyze, through Bardin (1977), the themes more submitted, the little mentioned and those that are topics not presented. It was saw also the criticality, the interdisciplinarity that this periodic exposes, in order to direct the student to reflect as participatory individual of actual society, a man imbued with reading and research and prepared for new types of conduct. It was treated a qualitative research, with bibliographical survey of 61 magazines since 2010 to the first half of 2015. The research, with subsequent content analysis, led to the finding of facts related to the themes, authors, narratives and other information also scientific not mentioned in periodic. It was used guiding principles those were cited in the PCN of natural sciences, revealing, thus, relations of power in the Scientific Divulgation. The CHC has fulfilled parts of its function about disseminate science; meanwhile, conversely, it has proven to be like an obstacle to contemporary Science by not submitting of multiple angles of reality, reproducing the informations, through which it make it simplistic.