Eventos de divulgação científica como espaços não formais de educação em Tefé no Amazonas

Abstract

Non-formal Education spaces are environments suitable for organizing recreational activities and that stimulate learning in different ways. These spaces routinely organize events aimed at Scientific Dissemination, a lighter way of passing on scientific information to a wider audience without segregation. These events provide access to scientific information that is often only shared by its communicators, and with this, an even larger audience becomes aware of certain knowledge, be they adults or children. This research has the guiding objective of analyzing the educational contributions of Scientific Dissemination Events in non-formal spaces in line with Formal Education, carried out with two groups of students from the 5th year of elementary school at the Escola Estadual Professor Isidoro Gonçalves de Souza, in Tefé, in Amazonas, this being a research with a methodological organization of quantitative and qualitative aspects, where participant observation and action research were also carried out, approaches that served as a fundamental pillar for obtaining the results. Data collection was carried out through classroom observations, and during the collection process, knowledge leveling activities took place with the students. To obtain more concrete data, individual interviews were also carried out with each student, in addition to a final display with the knowledge they obtained during the scientific events. To complement this analysis, a questionnaire was administered to the teachers in charge of the classes to find out their perceptions about the use of non-formal spaces for teaching and learning Science. With the data collected and analyzed, it was possible to conclude that there is significant educational potential in scientific events, even outside nonformal spaces, since their impacts go far beyond, promoting great discoveries and debates, including within the classroom. Keywords: Science Teaching, Methodologies, Teaching, Learning.