Ciências em um ambiente não formal de ensino: como o supermercado me ajudou na minha formação docente

Abstract

Discussions about education in non-traditional teaching environments make it possible to trace new paths for what we want as teachers and scientists. In this way, sharing experiences and worldviews becomes an important tool to provide a discussion with elements for action and reflection. In this paper, I use the autobiographical narrative resource, having as a common thread a trajectory marked by the performance in a work environment, a supermarket, in which I bring a series of experiences that will be part of my reflections as an educator and science communicator, still a student in a course of Science and Biology teacher training. I base myself on Paulo Freire's ideas and refer to the curricular structure of the Biological Sciences course. This is qualitative research, arising from a social practice. The considerations demonstrated here are personal impressions that helped and still help me in the formation of the teaching self and in the awakening in relation to being a biologist. Furthermore, I conclude that the supermarket can be an informal environment in which science is applicable and educational activities are feasible, since it has several products that can interact with Biology and there is a daily flow of people with different levels of education. By being in a space opposite to the classroom, it is possible to see how people see and interact with the items and with the knowledge applied to their daily lives. It also facilitates my development and scientific awakening to unlikely fields of education.