The city as a space for ongoing teacher education: analysis of a teacher training course from the STS focus

Abstract

This work aims to analyze a teacher training course dedicated to expanding territories for science education, based on the assumptions of STS Education. The intention is to highlight its potentialities and to discuss aspects that can be improved for later actions aimed at professional teacher development in this area. The study is characterized as a descriptive research with a qualitative approach. For this, we initially present the action carried out in 2017, the spaces covered and the focus given in that period. Then, we selected one of the spaces visited, the Municipal Market, to deepen the analysis of the approach used in the training and suggest actions that enhance the STS approach in the exploration of that space. We understand, at the end of this analysis, that the city can be the environment for understanding the relations between Science, Technology and Society and that the proposition of socio-scientific issues is a strategy for the adoption of STS Education in the exploration of different spaces.