interdisciplinary islands of rationality in science teaching: a teaching experience in parfor marajó island, pará, brazil

This research had as objective to analyze the use of the STS approach departing from the development of interdisciplinary islands of rationality (IIR) with natural science licentiateship students in the city of Breves, in Marajó Island (PA). This course emphasizes the knowledge from Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Geoscience. The research was developed in the discipline "Teacher Practice for the Teaching of Science: Education in Science and Technology", which culminated with the construction of a IIR. For this analysis, besides the development of IIR, a questionnaire was applied to identify prior knowledge. The analysis was performed from the products of IIR, responses from questionnaires and from observations of the researcher in the context of an action research. It was concluded that the use of the STS approach, departing from IRR, contributes to make evident the relation between scientific knowledge and everyday life.