Socioscientific issues in the Small Research Group: dialogue with the continuing education of teachers

Abstract

In this work, the Socioscientific Issues (SSI) emerge as a possibility of re-signifying in/of the in-service teachers education through discussion in the Small Research Group (SRG), which consists of agents from the university and the school who aim at facing issues related to scientific education in order to support critical teacher education. Under the aegis of the participant research, it was used an analysis device anchored in the perspective of Jürgen Habermas and Paulo Freire. By addressing the QSC, we were able to allow enlargement of the participants’ view, insofar as this educational focus transcends the learning of the contents, covering a broad thematic spectrum that allows debates of a social, cultural, ethical, moral, scientific and technological nature. Therefore, it can be a coherent approach with critical teacher education today.