CINEMA AS NARRATIVE TO TEACH NATURE OF SCIENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

Abstract

This work discusses the contribution of cinema as a tool for natural science education. Experiences come from an interaction with a learning environment and personal construction of knowledge occurs through the interaction between the individual´s knowledge schemes and his or her experiences with the environment. In this way, movies are analysed by considering the potential of the narrative to teach understandings of nature of science, scientific and common languages to be used as a tool to mediating science teaching and learning. This occurs because of the integration of an individual's reality with the surrounding environment, which develops, in the student, the sensitivity and perception of the setting.