O GÊNERO DA QUÍMICA

UMA INTERVENÇÃO SOBRE A PERSPECTIVA DE GÊNERO NO ENSINO DE RADIOATIVIDADE

Abstract

This article presents the experience report of a project developed in a technical high school class in chemistry in 2019, "The gender of chemistry", in which a didactic sequence was used that aimed to provide, in addition to learning chemistry, more specifically on the topic of radioactivity, a reflection on the representation of gender in science. The results are presented through the discourses of the students participating in the project, collected from (self) evaluative questionnaires and it was possible to evaluate the results in terms of significant learning, the difficulties encountered, the contextualization of knowledge through the adoption of interdisciplinarity, their reflections about women's issues in the sciences and the historical erasure of women chemists, as well as how much the chemical knowledge of radioactivity was appropriated by them and the positions that were possible as a result of this appropriation. The research showed that the inter and transdisciplinary pedagogical proposal of the project allowed the students to feel they were the subjects of the learning process and contributed to their better understanding and position in relation to the reality that surrounds them and to radioactivity. Likewise, it was possible to verify the importance of addressing the gender issue with science, contributing to social discussions in the area.