A divulgação científica como ferramenta educacional

Abstract

Scientific Divulgation (CD) has followed science itself since its inception, and aims to popularize scientific knowledge produced in the academic environment for lay people or people with little knowledge in the area, acting as a link between science and society, being a possibility to transform science into practical actions, and thus be able to stimulate sociocultural changes. DC uses different methods and communication vehicles, which has recently drawn attention is its increasingly prominent presence on social networks, through dynamic and didactic publications using audiovisual resources such as graphics, infographics, animations and videos. The use of social networks is quite interesting with regard to the ease and speed at which information is disseminated and, as it is a democratic tool, it allows interaction and gives its users a place to speak. This allows the creation of a knowledge diffusion network, acting in this way as a form of education, which is characterized by taking place outside the formal school environment, but still intentionally, it is called non-formal education, where the "other" it is the educator, differing in the formal model in that there is no associated teacher figure. Thus, the present work aims to describe the importance of Scientific Divulgation as a non-formal education tool, the research was done through online questionnaires through the Google Forms platform, disseminated on social networks. The results were analyzed by the quali-quantitative method and the discursive questions through the method of Bardin (2006), of content analysis. It was possible to see that CD actually presents itself as a potential educational tool, with the power of political-social transformation, social networks are seen as a unique instrument of non-formal education. The research allowed us to realize that there are still few works aimed at the public's perception in relation to CD, thus the area of research in CD still lacks works aimed at the conception of the public that consumes this type of content.