Analyzing the impact of Paulo Freire on Brazilian Science, Technology, and Society education through quotations

Abstract

Through the database of the Science, Technology, and Society Education Research Group at the Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ) and Social Network Analysis (SNA), using NodeXL and Gephi software, the present work seeks to comprehend and map the representation of Paulo Freire in Brazilian Science, Technology, and Society (CTS) Education. The research corpus consisted of 142 articles from the aforementioned database, which comprises 509 CTS Education articles published in national journals. As a criterion, the articles should have at least one citation to a work by Freire. Within this corpus, the authors and institutions that engage in this scope were analyzed, as well as which primary sources of Paulo Freire were used and to what extent.