SCIENTIFIC LITERACY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CASCAVEL - PR CURRICULUM (2008–2020) IN LIGHT OF POST-BNCC RESTRUCTURING
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https://doi.org/10.51891/rease.v12i2.24175Keywords:
Science education. Curriculum policy. Public education. Historical-critical pedagogy.Abstract
The conceptions and guidelines related to scientific literacy expressed in the 2008 and 2020 versions of the Early Childhood Education Curriculum of the Municipality of Cascavel (PR) reveal significant transformations in the understanding of science education in early childhood. The analysis is situated within the field of Science Education and is grounded in historical-critical pedagogy, which conceives the curriculum as a political, social, and cultural movement articulated with the social function of schooling and knowledge. In this sense, this study is characterized as a qualitative investigation of a documentary and analytical-comparative nature, critically examining both curricular documents in dialogue with the Brazilian National Common Core Curriculum (BNCC). The results indicate that the 2008 curriculum does not include the term or the concept of scientific literacy, whereas the 2020 version incorporates it both in the general objective of the Science component and in the theoretical-methodological guidelines. Although this inclusion represents an advance in the recognition of the theme, a lack of epistemological deepening and a more precise definition of the teacher’s role in mediating scientific knowledge is observed. From this perspective, the effective consolidation of scientific literacy in Early Childhood Education requires conceptual mastery and pedagogical intentionality, so that science education is configured as a means for the omnilateral development of children.
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