Non-formal education spaces and scientific dissemination in an Interdisciplinary Degree in Natural Sciences
Given the assumption that education is important, we understand that teacher training is also important, for this reason we turn our attention to initial training formally carried out in undergraduate courses, whose organization was built throughout history in order to train professionals to teach specific areas of knowledge, as a projection of the major areas of Science: Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, etc. The continuous search for improvements in this initial training means that several researchers are dedicated to understanding and proposing new challenges for the curricula of these courses, among them, establishing the interdisciplinarity as a possible path to overcome fragmentation and the lack of dialogue between different areas of knowledge, as well as overcoming the naturalization that knowledge has a static character, as in the (pre)written curriculum. We understand that non-formal education and scientific dissemination have great potential to contribute to the challenges imposed on teacher training, given one of the characteristics shared by both: dialogicity. The research presented here has the general objective of understanding whether and how an Interdisciplinary Degree in Natural Sciences (LICN) course addresses the topic of non-formal education and scientific dissemination in its guiding documents. It also has specific objectives: identifying which elements of the curriculum the themes are or could be included in and what approach is given to the themes. Qualitative and documentary in nature, the research was carried out by surveying keywords in documents from the Federal University of Cariri (UFCA) and in the specific documents of the Interdisciplinary Degree in Natural Sciences course offered by the Educators Training Institute of that University. . Our preliminary results indicate that the words with the highest number of citations – Science and Culture Center – are associated with units that make up the UFCA organization chart. The third most cited – Museum – raised new questions, including: are virtual and physical museum projects articulated and involve people from LICN? All keywords mentioned require a more careful analysis, in order to determine whether they are associated with the inclusion of non-formal education and scientific dissemination in the guidelines and aspirations of LICN and UFCA. This analysis will be related to literature regarding teacher training, curriculum, interdisciplinarity, non-formal education and scientific dissemination.