Dantas, Josivânia MarisaLima, Dioginys César Felix de2022-10-102022-10-102022-08-22LIMA, Dioginys César Felix de. A tecnologia em foco na Educação CTS: um estudo na formação inicial de professores de Ciências. Orientadora: Josivânia Marisa Dantas. 2022. 109f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ensino de Ciências e Matemática) - Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Terra, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2022.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/49534Some researches in the field of studies of Science, Technology, and Society Education (STS) indicate that proposals and discussions in recent years tend to privilege only the elements (S and S) - Science and Society, secondarily leaving the debate on Technology in a secondary way and/ or linked merely to an instrumental artifact, without proposing a broader discussion about this element in order not to consider its epistemological character. In this perspective, to give greater visibility to the element (T) in STS Education, the present study aimed to investigate the conceptions of Technology of Natural Sciences undergraduates in two public Higher Education institutions in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. To this end, a survey was carried out on the topic of Technology in the area of Science teaching in the 2010-2020 decade; and we seek to identify how these dimensions are addressed in the curricular and extracurricular activities of the courses in which the participants are linked. This research is exploratory, with a qualitative approach. The instrument used was a questionnaire applied remotely with the help of Google Forms with 86 undergraduates from the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Physics courses at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN). The research was submitted to the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) of UFRN, approved by Opinion No. 5,268,294, thus respecting the norms of Resolution No. 510/2016 of the National Health Council. To analyze the corpus, we used elements from Bardin's content analysis (1977). The results indicate that the dimension Technology as a human activity was the most frequent, followed by the dimensions Technology as object/artifact and Technology as a mode of knowledge. We observed that most of the answers allude to the prevalence of Restricted Conceptions of Technology, as these are close to deterministic and instrumentalist concepts of Technology. For the researched universe, technologies are useful to satisfy human needs, in addition, aspects such as non-neutrality and the volitional dimension of Technology were not mentioned in the answers obtained. Therefore, we consider the need for discussion and insertion of curricular proposals of the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Physics Licentiate courses of these institutions to consider the aspects of the Nature of Technology broadly. In this way, we emphasize that, for the rise of the element (T) to occur in a way that is equivalent to the other elements (S and S) in the implementation of STS Education, it is necessary to propose and carry out more studies that involve this theme in initial training and/or continuing education of Science teachers.Acesso AbertoEducação CTSNatureza da tecnologiaFormação de professores de ciênciasmasterThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::MATEMATICA