PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC LITERACY THROUGH THE USE OF PLAYABILITY ALLIED TO ARGUMENTATION IN A 1ST YEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASS
Ludicity in teaching. Argumentation. Science teaching.
Scientific literacy, in addition to literacy, must prepare the student to understand, interpret the world and transform it, and it is necessary to ensure access to the diversity of scientific knowledge produced. The use of playful practices in teaching, making it enjoyable and by providing interaction and expression of opinions, and thus formulating hypotheses in a natural way, provides those involved with the opportunity for reflection, questioning and negotiation of meanings, facilitating the active involvement of the student in the construction of one’s own knowledge. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the potential for exercising scientific literacy in a previously prepared didactic sequence, analyzing the impact of the intentional association of a playful approach with argumentative discourse for critical reflective science teaching for teaching students. Fundamental. This is a qualitative research that has as its research object a Didactic Sequence prepared for a 9-year-old first-year elementary school class. To verify the occurrence of an argumentative discourse in the face of the mobilized content, this research will use Leitão's (2011) argumentative triad as a guiding tool for analysis: argument, counter-argument and response. To analyze the elaborated sequence, the presence of indicators that point to the playful and argumentative potential of the sequence are considered. Thus, from the analysis of the activities proposed in the didactic sequence set up, it is observed that the indicators referring to playful and argumentative potential are present, evidencing a significant role that corroborates the students' scientific literacy. The use of playfulness is a valid strategy with the aim of promoting argumentation by favoring the development of critical thinking in the capacity for analysis and synthesis, forming individuals capable of acting in society in a persuasive way based on acquired scientific knowledge.