O Consenso Científico sobre Aquecimento Global Antropogênico: Considerações Históricas e Epistemológicas e Reflexões para o Ensino dessa Temática

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https://doi.org/10.28976/1984-2686rbpec2018182455

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aquecimento global, controvérsia científica, consenso científico, controvérsias científicas fabricadas, educação ambiental.

Resumo

Um dos desafios da educação ambiental para o século XXI é a inserção da temática do aquecimento global ou mudanças climáticas na sala de aula escolar. A natureza complexa do tema torna difícil a tarefa do(a) professor(a) em separar os elementos controversos e não controversos dessa temática. Neste sentido, este trabalho visa ir ao encontro dessa dificuldade discutindo sob uma perspectiva da história e epistemologia da ciência a temática do consenso científico sobre aquecimento global antropogênico. Embora em contextos midiáticos e inclusive educacionais este tema muitas vezes ainda seja apresentado como um exemplo de controvérsia científica, argumentamos, tomando por bases trabalhos de história, filosofia e sociologia da ciência, que aquecimento global antropogênico é uma matéria sobre a qual existe atualmente um amplo e legítimo consenso científico. Neste sentido, defendemos que é necessário que educadores(as) e pesquisadores(as) em ensino de ciências tomem cautela ao tratar dessa temática da perspectiva do ensino da controvérsia e, de modo especial, prestem atenção ao que vem sendo chamado na literatura internacional de ‘controvérsias científicas fabricadas’ na esfera pública, com vistas a confundir o público em geral sobre a seriedade de diferentes problemas ambientais, inclusive as mudanças climáticas. Assim, consideramos importante que educadores(as) das ciências que pretendem optar pelo ensino da controvérsia em sala de aula aprofundem seus estudos de história da ciência para avaliar, de modo apropriado, o debate sobre aquecimento global.


Biografia do Autor

  • Alexandre Luis Junges, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
    Doutorando em Ensino de Física no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino de Física (UFRGS).
  • Neusa Teresinha Massoni, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
    Professora Adjunta na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul-UFRGS e docente permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino de Física do Instituto de Física da UFRGS.

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O Consenso Científico sobre Aquecimento Global Antropogênico: Considerações Históricas e Epistemológicas e Reflexões para o Ensino dessa Temática. (2018). Revista Brasileira De Pesquisa Em Educação Em Ciências, 18(2), 455-491. https://doi.org/10.28976/1984-2686rbpec2018182455