Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa Científica e Tecnológica do Estado de Santa Catarina / In the face of current educational problems, indicated by research, as the propedeutic education and the separation between the "world of life" and the "world of school," the conception of science and technology neutral, among others, it is necessary to "make changes" in curriculum. Moreover, it is argued that teachers should be part of the process of curriculum reconfiguration. So, in this research, it is looked for identify and critically analyze challenges and potential faced by trainees in physics in the process of reconfiguring a curriculum guided by the approach of social themes marked by the Science and Technology. More specifically, focus on the elaboration and implementation of themes under the Supervised Internship Course in Teaching of Physics. The structure of these themes is referenced by an approximation of the presuppositions of the educator Paulo Freire and the Science-Technology-Society movement (CTS). The research problem is characterized by the following questions: 1) What dimensions the school context influences the execution of curriculum reconfigurations based on themes? 2) What are the constraints that the training of future teachers, has in the process of elaboration/implementation of themes? The research, entered on the Research Line called School Practice and Public Policies (PPGE/UFSM), is developed according to the dynamics of participative research. The instruments to obtain the "data" were used the Teacher's Journal, a semi-structured interviews and analysis of reportsfiled by the student teacher. The analysis was done using content analysis. The results were organized under four thematic categories: Training Fragmented; From Rigor" to the Curricular Flexibility; Real Problems and Epistemological Curiosity, and Student Problem or Curriculum Problem?. / Frente a atuais problemas educacionais, apontados pelas pesquisas, como o ensino propedêutico, a desvinculação entre o mundo da vida e o mundo da escola , a concepção de ciência e tecnologia neutras, entre outros, considera-se necessário mexer no currículo. Além disto, defende-se que os professores devem fazer parte do processo de reconfiguração curricular. Neste sentido, busca-se, nesta pesquisa, identificar e analisar criticamente desafios e potencialidades encontradas por estagiários de Física, no processo de uma reconfiguração curricular pautada pela abordagem de temas sociais marcados pela Ciência-Tecnologia. Mais especificamente, focalizar a elaboração e implementação de temáticas no âmbito do Estágio Curricular Supervisionado em Ensino de Física. A estruturação destas temáticas é referenciada por uma aproximação entre pressupostos do educador Paulo Freire e do movimento Ciência-Tecnologia-Sociedade (CTS). O problema de investigação é caracterizado pelas seguintes questões: 1) Em que dimensões o contexto escolar influencia a efetivação de reconfigurações curriculares baseadas em temáticas? 2) Quais os condicionamentos que a formação, destes futuros professores, exerce no processo de elaboração/implementação de temáticas? A pesquisa, inserida na Linha de Pesquisa Práticas Escolares e Políticas Públicas (PPGE/UFSM), é desenvolvida segundo a dinâmica da Pesquisa Participante. Como instrumentos, para a obtenção dos dados , foram utilizados o Diário do Professor, uma entrevista semi-estruturada e a análise dos relatórios entregues pelos estagiários. Em termos de análise, fez-se uso da análise de conteúdo. Os resultados foram sistematizados sob quatro categorias temáticas: Formação Fragmentada; Do Rigor à Flexibilidade Curricular; Problemas Reais e Curiosidade Epistemológica; e Aluno Problema ou Currículo Problema?.

The STS movement has as a main objective the democratization of decision-making on social issues involving science-technology (ST). Also, this arises in contexts in which the supposed neutrality of ST began to be questioned. Neutrality understood as legitimizing technocratic decision models. In the educational field, I seek curriculum geared toward to the creation of a culture of participation, based on reference Freire-STS and LATSTS (Latin American Thought in Science Technology Society). As well, my research problem was: Historic Buildings, called myths, in other words, the supposed neutrality / superiority of technocratic decision model, the Salvationist perspective / redeeming attributed to ST and scientific-technological determinism, sustained and feeding back the supposed neutrality have been worked on educational practices related to the Science-Technology-Society? Which referrals have been given? The objectives that guided the research were: i) identify, in educational practices presented in the literature of the area, the approaches given to the three historic buildings; ii) analyze and deepen the featured aspects in regard to the three historic buildings, in a vision of non-neutrality of ST; and iii) signal parameters to Science Education in order to support proposals for educational practices. Methodologically, consisted of a qualitative research, bibliographic nature, being the corpus of analysis consisting of six articles published in journals in the field of Science Education. I used the Textual Discourse Analysis, which resulted in three categories of analysis: a) Silencing on the design of ST may be signaling an endorsement to a close understanding of the scientific-technological determinism; b) Silencing on dimensions other natures, beyond the scientific-technological in decision-making processes; and, c) Silencing about the values internalized in the scientific-technological product. / O movimento Ciência-Tecnologia-Sociedade (CTS) tem como um dos objetivos centrais à democratização de processos decisórios sobre temas sociais envolvendo ciência-tecnologia (CT). Também, este surge em contextos nos quais a suposta neutralidade da CT passou a ser questionada. Neutralidade entendida como legitimadora de modelos decisórios tecnocráticos. A pesquisa está inserida na busca de currículos voltados para a constituição de uma cultura de participação, apoiada nos referenciais Freire-CTS e no Pensamento Latino Americano em Ciência-Tecnologia-Sociedade (PLACTS). Assim, o problema de pesquisa foi: Construções históricas, denominadas de mitos, ou seja, a suposta neutralidade/superioridade do modelo de decisões tecnocráticas, a perspectiva salvacionista/redentora atribuída à CT e o determinismo científico-tecnológico, sustentadas e realimentando a suposta neutralidade, têm sido trabalhadas em práticas educativas relacionadas à CTS? Quais encaminhamentos têm sido dados? Os objetivos que guiaram a investigação foram: i) identificar, em práticas educativas, apresentadas em literaturas da área, as abordagens dadas a estas três construções históricas; ii) analisar e aprofundar os aspectos caracterizados no que tange as três construções históricas, em uma visão de não neutralidade da CT; e, iii) sinalizar parâmetros para a Educação em Ciências, fundamentando propostas de práticas educativas. Metodologicamente, constituiu-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, de cunho bibliográfico, sendo o corpus de análise constituído de artigos publicados em seis periódicos da área da Educação em Ciências. Utilizou-se a Análise Textual Discursiva, da qual resultaram três categorias de análise: a) Silenciamento sobre a origem, sobre a concepção de CT pode estar sinalizando o endosso a uma compreensão próxima do determinismo científico-tecnológico; b) Silenciamento sobre dimensões de outras naturezas, além da científico-tecnológica, em processos decisórios; e, c) Silenciamento quanto aos valores internalizados no produto científico-tecnológico. Estas categorias, sintetizando os resultados da pesquisa, sinalizam desafios para a educação em ciências, particularmente para a constituição de uma cultura de participação.

The overall aim of this study is to contribute to the understanding of how a pervasive digitalization and mediatization takes part in shaping and reshaping the relations between science and society and popular understanding of scientific epistemologies. In recent years, the prevalence of disinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories together with suggestions on how to combat this have come to characterize general discourses on knowledge, science, truth and digital media. Encounters with myths or disinformation can give impetus to what is usually called myth debukning. On social media, there are discussions and debates about whats should be considered as truth and facts and what we should reject as disinformation. The digital platform Tiktok has in a short time become one of the most popular places for digital social interaction and is today part of public discourse. The purpose of this study is to study examples of science myth debunking or the exposure of myths about science on the digital social platform Tiktok. The study shows that discursive practices for myth debunking are formed through the interaction between a variety of human and non-human actors. Myth debunking can be seen as to shed light on scientific development and how scientific knowledge production plays out in interplay with society in general. Understanding the role of science communication as a means of disseminating scientific knowledge in some popularized form separates science from the social and cultural contexts in which learning and reflection usually take place. Here, Tiktok, with its "messyness" and as a place for diversity of expressions, palys an important role.

This thesis answers the question how and why do individuals specialise in different types of political participation? By examining the degree to which individuals concentrate their political activities within one type of political participation, or spread them out across many. This thesis complements previous research on rates of political participation; and adapts and extends existing theories of political participation to explain differences in the degree of specialisation between different groups in society and between countries. Using data from the European Social Survey, covering as many as 21 European countries, and applying a range of different statistical methods, I distinguish four types of political participation: voting, conventional and unconventional political participation and consumer politics. I show that in countries with higher levels of socio-economic development, more democratic experience, and an increased presence of mobilising agents, the degree to which individuals concentrate their political activities within one type of political participation is higher, regardless of the accessibility and responsiveness of their political institutions. This is partly due to the fact that these countries have a higher educated population and that higher educated individuals specialise more. Specialisation also varies along the lines of other socio-demographic divisions, such as those based on gender. Moreover, I show that in contexts in which political issues are salient, such as during an election year, individuals are more likely to engage in non-electoral types of political participation if they also vote. This implies that specialisation is reduced during times of country-wide political mobilisation. The final finding of my thesis is that non-Western immigrants tend to concentrate their political activities less within one type of political participation than the majority population in Western Europe. Western immigrants specialise quite differently, suggesting differences in the way in which they are mobilised. As well as providing an important contribution to the study of political participation, these findings are relevant to discussions regarding citizen engagement and representation.

Cette thèse a pour objet d’identifier les degrés d’implication de l’État en faveur de l’éducation critique et politique au numérique. Elle analyse les dispositifs publics liés à la diffusion des usages du numérique et les caractéristiques des acteurs professionnels et bénévoles chargés de leur mise en œuvre : leurs appellations, leurs lieux d’exercices, leurs qualifications et les représentations de leurs missions prioritaires. Les questions de recherche sont : En quoi l’enchevêtrement de dispositifs d’action et de formation constitue-t-il une aide ou un empêchement au travail des acteurs pour former la population à une compréhension critique et politique du développement du numérique ? Ces acteurs développent-ils des stratégies d’adoption ou de contournement de ces dispositifs pour assurer leurs actions de formation et d’éducation ? Le corpus est composé de 5 sources complémentaires : les textes réglementaires au niveau français et européen ; 699 offres d’emploi et les référentiels de compétences des formations ; une enquête par questionnaire auprès d’un échantillon de 140 médiateurs numériques ; 10 entretiens d’experts sur la médiation numérique ; 2 monographies issues de 2 périodes d’observation participante au sein de deux entités d’animation de réseaux d’Espaces Publics Numériques. La thèse montre que l’éducation critique et politique est minoritaire, supplantée par l’initiation aux « bonnes pratiques » des usages de l’Internet, fondée sur la prise en main des outils. L’enchevêtrement par le haut des dispositifs conduit à un empêchement de la formation de la population aux enjeux de la société numérique : il produit une double contrainte indépassable entre la recherche de performances comportementales pour répondre aux exigences économiques et la recherche de recul critique en faveur de l’intérêt sociétal du numérique. Seuls les cas de subversion et l’engagement militant notamment sur les logiciels libres, le développement durable, l’anti GAFAM,… résistent à cette injonction de développement normatif. La thèse fait apparaître quatre grandes phases de cette évolution, en lien avec les modes de diffusion des innovations informatiques dans la population française : de 1967 à 1984, le temps de la genèse des méthodes pour la massification des usages de l’informatique : l’éducation scientifique et technique et les clubs informatiques. de 1985 à 1999, le temps des méthodologies de l’appropriation des outils et des usages : l’éducation nationale et le Minitel. de 2000 à 2011, le temps de l’accès public à l’Internet : emplois jeunes et Espaces Publics Numériques. de 2012 à 2016, le temps de la réduction de la fracture culturelle au numérique : les emplois d’avenir numériques, les fablabs et les tiers lieux. Après les tâtonnements des débuts (phase 1), le système d’initiation aux usages du numérique engendre la disqualification des animateurs des clubs informatiques (phase 2) ; il empêche l’offre des systèmes préexistants de l’éducation nationale et de l’éducation populaire (phase 3) ; il provoque l’autocensure des animateurs territoriaux, peu encouragés à une pensée réflexive sur la société numérique (phases 3 et 4). Toutefois, il produit une éducation critique en résistance à travers certaines figures de l’animateur multimédia en emploi jeune (phase 3), et de l’animateur « hackers » ou « systémiste » (phase 4), plus militant et entrepreneur inspiré par les modèles du libre qui détournent les dispositifs en maniant avec agilité les innovations sociales et numériques. Il en résulte que l’éducation critique au numérique reste un point aveugle de la réglementation (aucun texte n’encourage à y réfléchir), sans qualifications ou flux financiers pour la soutenir. Le risque demeure que le numérique soit un nouvel instrument au service de la reproduction et de la distinction sociale. / This thesis aims to identify the degree of state involvement in critical and political digital literacy. It analyzes the public mechanisms linked to the dissemination of digital uses and the characteristics of the professional and volunteer actors responsible for their implementation: their titles, their places of practice, their qualifications and the representations of their priority missions. The research questions are: • How does the interweaving of action and training “devices” (dispositifs) help or hinder the work of actors to train people in a critical and political understanding of digital development?• Do these actors develop strategies to adopt or circumvent these devices to ensure their training and education activities? The corpus is composed of 5 complementary sources: regulatory texts at French and European level; 699 job vacancies and training skills benchmarks; a questionnaire survey of a sample of 140 digital mediators; 10 interviews of experts in digital mediation; 2 monographs from 2 periods of participant observation in 2 networks of digital public spaces. The thesis shows that critical and political digital literacy education is not prevalent, supplanted by the introduction of "good practices" concerning the uses of the Internet, based on the handling of tools. The top-down entanglement of the devices leads to an impediment of the training of the population to the stakes of the digital society: it produces an impenetrable double bind between the search for behavioural performances to answer the economic exigencies and the search for a critical stance in favour of the societal interest of the digital. Only some cases of subversion and militant commitment of individuals in particular those supporting free software, sustainable development and anti GAFAM policies, show a degree of resistance to this injunction of normative development. The thesis shows four major phases of this evolution, in connection with the diffusion modes of computer innovations among the French population: 1. from 1967 to 1984, the time of the genesis of the methods for the massification of the uses of informatics: the scientific and technical education and the computer clubs. 2. from 1985 to 1999, the time of the methodologies for the appropriation of the tools and the uses: the national education and the Minitel. 3. From 2000 to 2011, the time of public access to the Internet: youth jobs and Public Digital Spaces. 4. from 2012 to 2016, the time of reduction of the cultural and digital divide: digital jobs of the future, fablabs and third places. After initial trial and error (phase 1), the initiation system for digital uses leads to the disqualification of computer club leaders (phase 2); it prevents the supply of pre-existing systems of national education and popular education (phase 3); it provokes the self-censorship of local animators, who are not encouraged to think reflexively about the digital society (phases 3 and 4). However, it produces a critical education in resistance through certain figures, such as the multimedia animators for youth employment (phase 3), and the "hacker" or "systemist" animators (phase 4), who are more activist and entrepreneurial, as they are inspired by the free models that hijack devices with agile handling of social and digital innovations. As a result, critical and political digital literacy remains a blind spot of regulation (no text encourages or discourages it), without qualifications or financial flows to support it. The risk remains that the digital transition could be a new instrument at the service of social reproduction and cultural distinction.

Im Mittelpunkt des Sammelbandes stehen die Materialien des Workshops 'MINT - Zukunft schaffen. Innovation und Kreativität' am 23. und 24. September 2011 in Leipzig. Dieser Workshop war der Höhepunkt der Leipziger Gespräche zum digitalen Wandel, mit denen wir uns seit Anfang 2011 der komplexen Thematik der aktuellen Wandlungsprozesse zu nähern versuchen. Über diese Gespräche wird in weiteren Aufsätzen berichtet.:Vorwort der Herausgeber Grußwort aus der Bundesgeschäftsstelle 'MINT - Zukunft schaffen' Hubert Laitko: Der Wandel des wissenschaftlichen Denkens und die Entwicklung der Menschheit. Tendenzen der letzten 400 Jahre Ken Pierre Kleemann: Vier Anmerkungen zu Laitkos Text Rainer Thiel: MINT und die Entwicklung der Menschengesellschaft. Ein Plädoyer gegen das Ziegelstein-Denken. Gibt es Alternativen? Florian Krahmer: Creative Industries - Industrie im postindustriellen Zeitalter Hans-Gert Gräbe: Anmerkungen zu Rainer Thiels Autobiografie \\\'Neugier, Liebe, Revolution\\\' Rainer Thiel: Erfinderschulen der DDR - Silbernes fürs ganze Deutschland Hans-Gert Gräbe: Die Leipziger Gespräche zum digitalen Wandel. Rückblick auf die Debatten im Jahr 2011 Hans-Gert Gräbe: Wie der kleine Philosoph die Welt veränderte. Eine Variation auf die 11. Feuerbachthese Zu den Autoren dieses Sammelbandes

With the proliferation of 21st century educational technologies, science teaching and learning with digitally acclimatized learners in secondary science education can be realized through an online Science-Technology-Society-Environment (STSE)-based issues approach. STSE-based programs can be interpreted as the exploration of socially-embedded initiatives in science (e.g., use of genetically modified foods) to promote the development of critical cognitive processes and to empower learners with responsible decision-making skills. This dissertation presents a case study examining the online environment of a grade 11 physics class in an all-girls’ school, and the outcomes from those online discursive opportunities with STSE materials. The limited in-class discussion opportunities are often perceived as low-quality discussions in traditional classrooms because they originate from an inadequate introduction and facilitation of socially relevant issues in science programs. Hence, this research suggests that the science curriculum should be inclusive of STSE-based issue discussions. This study also examines the nature of students’ online discourse and, their perceived benefits and challenges of learning about STSE-based issues through an online environment. Analysis of interviews, offline classroom events and online threaded discussion transcripts draws from the theoretical foundations of critical reflective thinking delineated in the Practical Inquiry (P.I.) Model. The PI model of Cognitive Presence is situated within the Community of Inquiry framework,encompassing two other core elements, Teacher Presence and Social Presence. In studying Cognitive Presence, the online STSE-based discourses were examined according to the four phases of the P.I. Model. The online discussions were measured at macro-levels to reveal patterns in student STSE-based discussions and content analysis of threaded discussions. These analyses indicated that 87% of the students participated in higher quality STSE-based discussions via an online forum as compared to in-class. The micro-level analysis revealed students to attain higher cognitive interactions with STSE issues. Sixteen percent of the students’ threaded postings were identified in the Resolution Phase 4 when the teacher intervened with a focused teaching strategy. This research provides a significant theoretical and pedagogical contribution to blended approach to STSE-based secondary science education. It presents a framework for teachers to facilitate students’ online discussions and to support learners in exploring STSE-based topics.

With the proliferation of 21st century educational technologies, science teaching and learning with digitally acclimatized learners in secondary science education can be realized through an online Science-Technology-Society-Environment (STSE)-based issues approach. STSE-based programs can be interpreted as the exploration of socially-embedded initiatives in science (e.g., use of genetically modified foods) to promote the development of critical cognitive processes and to empower learners with responsible decision-making skills. This dissertation presents a case study examining the online environment of a grade 11 physics class in an all-girls’ school, and the outcomes from those online discursive opportunities with STSE materials. The limited in-class discussion opportunities are often perceived as low-quality discussions in traditional classrooms because they originate from an inadequate introduction and facilitation of socially relevant issues in science programs. Hence, this research suggests that the science curriculum should be inclusive of STSE-based issue discussions. This study also examines the nature of students’ online discourse and, their perceived benefits and challenges of learning about STSE-based issues through an online environment. Analysis of interviews, offline classroom events and online threaded discussion transcripts draws from the theoretical foundations of critical reflective thinking delineated in the Practical Inquiry (P.I.) Model. The PI model of Cognitive Presence is situated within the Community of Inquiry framework,encompassing two other core elements, Teacher Presence and Social Presence. In studying Cognitive Presence, the online STSE-based discourses were examined according to the four phases of the P.I. Model. The online discussions were measured at macro-levels to reveal patterns in student STSE-based discussions and content analysis of threaded discussions. These analyses indicated that 87% of the students participated in higher quality STSE-based discussions via an online forum as compared to in-class. The micro-level analysis revealed students to attain higher cognitive interactions with STSE issues. Sixteen percent of the students’ threaded postings were identified in the Resolution Phase 4 when the teacher intervened with a focused teaching strategy. This research provides a significant theoretical and pedagogical contribution to blended approach to STSE-based secondary science education. It presents a framework for teachers to facilitate students’ online discussions and to support learners in exploring STSE-based topics.