Analysis of perceptions of high school students about the film: "The October Sky"

Abstract

his article presents an activity carried out with students of the 3rd Year of High School on the film "The October Sky" This film portrays the commitment of students from a small town who are dedicated to building a rocket in order to be selected for the science fair. In the activity, the students critically analyze aspects / contexts addressed in the film plot. The objective of this work was to propose to the students a critical analysis of the familiar, political, historical, social and scientific activity related to the science fair presented in the film, using the proposal presented in the article by Eduardo Fleury Mortimer and Phil Scott, which proposes a tool to analyzing the interventions and the intentions in the classroom teacher's discourse. The method of analysis provided subsidy to conclude that the proper course of discussion of the film depends on the interventions of the teacher, which mediates the discourse to the desired intention and focus, exploring students' views on the contexts pointed out in the film.

Keywords

• Ensino de Química
• Atividade discursiva
• Percepções
• Intervenções
• Filmes
• Feira de Ciências