What’s in the E of STSE?: a systematic mapping on environmental contextualization in educational products of Ifes/Brazil

Abstract

Scientific education with a focus on Science, Technology, Society and Environment (STSE) values the development of pedagogical practices that emphasize environmental contextualization in order to mobilize sustainable awareness in students. This article aims to offer an overview of the inclusion of socio-environmental aspects in Educational Products (PE) of science teaching that present STS/STSE education as a theoretical-methodological axis, through a Systematic Literature Mapping (SLM). The mapping protocol was developed according to Falbo (2018) and the analysis corpus was constituted by the set of PEs imported from the EduCAPES journal, through a systematic search using the BUSCAd tool. 30 educational products were analyzed, published between 2013 and 2022. The analysis allowed us to verify that there are several nuances worked on from an environmental perspective in these PEs and usually the environment is reduced to its natural aspects. However, it was possible to perceive that there has been a movement towards a multidimensional environmental contextualization within the scope of science teaching in Espírito Santo.