Banca de DEFESA: ANGELA DA SILVA CELESTINO

THE FILM RADIOACTIVE AS A TEACHING RESOURCE AND ITS PEDAGOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TEACHING OF CHEMISTRY

Teaching resource. Media. Chemistry teaching.

In recent years education (as well as all society)has gone through evolutions and changes which influence the way we act and think. Indeed, modern society is increasingly connected to new technologies and media, which makes their use and integration in the classroom fundamental. However, classrooms continue to be impacted by significant media, political, and pedagogical challenges. It is well known that all this impact has affectednot only classrooms but also the process of integral development and social formation of students; thus, opening a range to new possibilities in teaching and learning. Therefore, this research has as its main study objective to analyze the pedagogical contributions of the movie‘’Radioactive’’ as a teaching resource in chemistry classes. Many were and are the challenges for educators and students when it comes to teaching and learning throughout science. Thus, it requires support, adaptation, strategies, and a diversity of pedagogical resources. With that being said, it becomes necessary to study the media as pedagogical contributions and the movie‘’Radioactive’’ as a teaching resource for the teaching-learning process in chemistry classes. This research, based on a qualitative and descriptive approach, was carried out through the analysis of the movie work and, later on, through the analysis of the teacher's perception. For the data collection, the instruments were set up for the analysis of the movie work and questionnaires to be applied to chemistry educators. For the research outline, action research and content analysis were carried out. As for the data analysis, it was performed in the light of cultural studies, conducted by concepts of media and teaching, identity and teaching-learning of chemistry, as well as by the concepts of kellner's media culture (2001). This research allows students to understand the movie from their own perception of the world, analyzing what is internalized in them, promoting the integration of new cultures, critical thinking, construction of knowledge and students’ social formation, bringing awarenessto all of science.