An articulation between the formal school curriculum and the exhibition of Museu do Amanhã: contributions to the expansion of culture and scientific literacy
There is growing acknowledgment of the educational potential of non-formal education spaces that dialogue with the school and transform educational practices through their dynamic and differentiated character for the production of information and knowledge. Scientific and technological development has given rise to the need to contemplate scientific culture beyond the school context, in order to expand scientific literacy and guarantee the population's access to these spaces such as by parks, museums, zoos, botanical gardens, among other institutions. The research, developed from a qualitative methodology, consisted of the analysis of an official document, the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) and the observation of the narrative path of the Museu do Amanhã. The BNCC is structured as a normative document that guides the curricula and pedagogical proposals of the educational systems and networks of the Federative Units for all stages and modalities of Education. The analysis of this document focused on its relationship with non-formal education as alternative and complementary spaces to formal education for science teaching, especially the role of science museums as promoters of culture and scientific dissemination. Based on these findings and recognizing that museums have their own curriculum and are configured as institutions that articulate with the school, the purpose of observation at the Museu do Amanhã was to establish relations with the formal curriculum of Natural Sciences’ field, BNCC, on the theme of biodiversity presented in the narrative path of the Life cube that belongs to the permanent exhibition called “Terra” of the Museu do Amanhã. The museum is located in the city of Rio de Janeiro and is characterized by being a museum of applied sciences that explores the opportunities and challenges that humanity will have to face in the coming decades from the perspectives of sustainability and coexistence.