Science, art and philosophy: mobilizing discourses in the educational use of cinema in non-formal activity

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the educational use of cinema in scientific communication in the context of a non-formal education, which included the debate with a guest after the presentation of the film, of the Sci-Fi genre, “Inception” for a diverse audience (university students, citizens and tourists). We analyzed the discourse undertaken by the guest considering interfaces between science, philosophy and art, from a historical-cultural perspective, activity theory and from historical and dialectical materialism. The results point to different enunciative strategies, among them: the mobilization of knowledge from different spheres of ideological creation - science, art and philosophy - as structured systems of production and human action; and the establishment of ontological links (science-reality; science-fiction and philosophy-fiction) with the discursive objects of the commented cinema session. The analyzed case also shows that educational activities can be better understood as composed by subordination of structured and conscious actions.

Keywords

• educação em ciências
• cinema
• teoria da atividade
• educação não formal