Relação entre monitores de um museu de ciências com a transposição do conhecimento científico : um estudo de caso

Abstract

The present research aims to examine how happen a possible relation between the monitors of the House of science and technology in the city of Aracaju (CCTECA) and transposition of scientific knowledge in this area of informal education. This space of informal education was chosen for being the only one in the Sergipe State. Semi structured questionnaires were used for a better understanding of people s ideas who were under investigation. With the information obtained in the questionnaires, it was analyzed the relationship between monitors and CCTECA, between monitors and visitors and between monitors and experimentations. In these investigations, we selected some specific experiments to analyze and identify the relation between monitors and the transpositions of scientific knowledge. Observations and recordings were made of explanations that were presented by monitors about the experiments; later on, the speeches of the monitors were transcribed for categorization and analysis. The transcripts obtained from the recordings were grouped in order to help to understand the way that the transposition of scientific content mentioned by the monitors occurred, and the relation that these monitors did between the experiments and everyday life. It was also carried out an analysis of transcripts of two monitors in interactions with different audiences, in order to establish whether there were variations in transpositions of scientific knowledge and the questions due the different audience. At CCTECA experimental apparatus are exhibited aimed to approach scientific themes. Based on the results of the transcript analysis, it was noticed that the monitors uses the transposition of scientific knowledge to heterogeneous public by mean of reproductive methods, without discussing the scientific knowledge. If the monitors implement the mediation, they would occupy a central role in the museums of science; they would be mediators between the previous visitors conceptions and scientific knowledge, facilitating scientific literacy.