SCIENCE TEACHING ON THE FLOOR OF PRISON SCHOOLS: ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENCE SITUATED IN A SCHOOL UNIT IN RECIFE-PERNAMBUCO
science education; scientific literacy; following teaching; Youth and Adult Education; prison.
This work arose from concerns regarding my pedagogical practice, which permeate sixteen years of my teaching career in a prison context. The purpose of this research is to explore the human terrain of the learning process of the sciences, aiming to contribute to the improvement of the quality of the education offered. In science teaching, it is extremely valuable to promote learning in which students are awakened to a scientific literacy that provides the opportunity to develop skills and competencies to understand and act in the world, in the face of technological and scientific advances. The research has as general objective: to analyze, through an educational experience, senses and meanings attributed by students to the experience of attending school and learning sciences in a prison context. The theoretical-methodological assumptions of this research are based on a phenomenological perspective and Discursive Textual Analysis. It is a qualitative research with intervention, in which we use a didactic sequence entitled: Are you hungry for what? From the intervention, we seek to identify the meanings of learning that emerge in the classroom, such as curiosities, knowledge exchanges, discourse elaboration and development of scientific knowledge. As for the results, we highlight the mobilization of scientific concepts and decision-making. As for the potentialities inherent to science teaching, interest, curiosity and involvement in studying science stand out. As for the difficulties, we highlight the numerous setbacks caused by the emergence of transfers of students between prison units, diseases, conflicts in the pavilions and punishments, in addition to the presence of students on the effect of controlled drugs and narcotics during the time of class.