Dissertação
Divulgação científica e cidadania nas páginas da revista Minas Faz Ciência Infantil
Autor
Manoel de Oliveira Silva
Institución
Resumen
The present study analyzed the scientific dissemination work carried out by the
Minas Faz Children's Science Magazine, edited by the Foundation for Research
Support in the State of Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) and its contribution to the
popularization of science in the State of Minas Gerais. For this the main objectives of
the research were to identify the concept of science expressed in the editorials and in
the topics addressed in the editions; the possibilities of building scientific citizenship
from the scientific dissemination carried out by the journal; the media discourse as an
instrument for translating scientific knowledge into the journal's public; the graphic
and iconographic aspects, used as language resources for the compression of the
topics covered. For the background of the research, the theoretical framework raised
sought to take into account the concepts of scientific dissemination and
popularization of science; information as a duty of the State and as a social right, the
construction of citizenship through educational processes and the characteristics of
media discourse. As an exploratory and descriptive research, the editions published
in the months of December of the years of 2015, 2016 and 2017 were chosen as the
corpus of the study, during which period the physical and electronic recording of
reports were collected , editorials, interviews and photographs published by the
magazine and which were constituted in the analyzed material. The data collected
were organized and classified in a table, taking into account the topics covered, the
titles and the number of reports per theme in each edition of the journal. From this
survey and the classification, an analysis was carried out considering the previously
established criteria, being the editorials first, followed by the reports. The analysis of
the material demonstrated that the concept of science expressed by the magazine
Minas Faz Children's Science goes through the understanding that science is an
activity that is present in people's daily life and confirmed the hypothesis raised by
the research project that the work of dissemination in the three editions published so
far, contributes to the popularization of science. The approach and use of textual and
graphic resources with the aim of facilitating the understanding of the topics treated
in the reports bring the reader closer to the universe of science and opens
possibilities for the realization of a citizen science where the reader can become an
agent that contributes to the development of science itself.