Confiança na ciência, desinformação e ensino de ciências: para onde vamos?

This essay was motivated by the growing misinformation landscape affecting various spheres of society, especially in topics related to scientific knowledge and its implications for the area of science education. Here, we discuss analyses based on a supposed "crisis of trust" in science, positioning this phenomenon within a broader and more complex framework. We also discuss how the field of science education has positioned itself in the face of these issues, seeking to summarize current educational approaches in the context of misinformation. We engage with proposals from researchers in this field to synthesize, articulating and presenting our arguments on how to position ourselves as a field in this context. Based on the work of Bruno Latour, we propose an informed, balanced, and critical trust in science in the classroom, based on three codependent axes: i) how science is done; ii) who does science; and iii) where science is.

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2025-09-01
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https://doi.org/10.1590/scielopreprints.13047
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Science and Education Research
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Confiança na ciência, desinformação e ensino de ciências: para onde vamos?

Luiz Gustavo Franco, Ludmila F. Kelles, Nathan Willig Lima, Francisco Ângelo Coutinho
Science and Education Research
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Confiança na ciência, desinformação e ensino de ciências: para onde vamos?

Luiz Gustavo Franco, Ludmila F. Kelles, Nathan Willig Lima, Francisco Ângelo Coutinho
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Abstract

This essay was motivated by the growing misinformation landscape affecting various spheres of society, especially in topics related to scientific knowledge and its implications for the area of science education. Here, we discuss analyses based on a supposed "crisis of trust" in science, positioning this phenomenon within a broader and more complex framework. We also discuss how the field of science education has positioned itself in the face of these issues, seeking to summarize current educational approaches in the context of misinformation. We engage with proposals from researchers in this field to synthesize, articulating and presenting our arguments on how to position ourselves as a field in this context. Based on the work of Bruno Latour, we propose an informed, balanced, and critical trust in science in the classroom, based on three codependent axes: i) how science is done; ii) who does science; and iii) where science is.

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (BR), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (BR)
Openalex Percentile: Top 74%
Science and Education Research
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