“Discovering the environment”: discourse strategies in Science schoolbooks

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing sentences about environment showed in two Brazilian schoolbooks. We aims at investigating the discourse strategies that appears reporting an interpretative discipline of knowing circulations; like novelty reporting a new way of a ambient education propose titled “discovering the ambient”, but with truth’s effects. According this instrumental analytical resource, discursive sequences from two schoolbooks of National Program of Schoolbook were analyzed; were utilized concepts French Discourse Analyses. We propose that disclosing an ideological process appears according a singular form of a knowing circulation about “ambient sciences”, among discursive mechanisms, that reinforced the ideal imaginary of absolutely equality about the ambient sciences usages.

Keywords

• ambiental science
• schoolbooks
• pedagogical discourse