Avaliação da abordagem dos sete princípios essenciais do oceano na Base Nacional Comum Curricular do Brasil

Abstract

The ocean has a valuable relationship with human beings who, since the beginning, launched into boats to discover and explore it. About 4.6 billion people live close to the sea and enjoy its ecosystem services. On December 5, 2017, the United Nations declared the Decade of Ocean Science to ensure support for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In Brazil, the launch of the program on ocean literacy was carried out in 2019, and since then, several entities have been trying to expand society’s access to the principles of this program. Ocean literacy has seven essential principles of the ocean to involve society in the themes of the sea, principles that were explored in this work through an exploratory analysis, through the use of keywords, to assess possible approaches in the Common National Curriculum Base of Brazil, given the urgent need to work on ocean education in schools. The analysis of the keywords showed how much they were cited in the BNCC text, highlighting the words “resources” with 181 citations, of which only 22 were related to some essential principle of the ocean, followed by the words “diversity”, “dynamics” and “earth” with 126, 71 and 56 citations, respectively. It was possible to identify the principle that presented the highest number of related citations, principle 6 for being related to 73.3% of citations, as well as the least related, principle 4 representing only 10% of citations. BNCC's abilities were also identified for the stages of elementary and high school, directly or indirectly related to the seven essential principles of the ocean, showing that, despite the difficulties encountered, it is possible to work on the oceanic theme in the contexts of the BNCC. It is also possible to identify the areas that present greater possibilities for approaching the ocean and its principles, with greater emphasis on the areas of Natural Sciences and its technologies and geography. The results also show that the presence of Keywords directly related to the essential principles facilitates the process of approaching them, while the relationship indirectly requires a greater effort from the educator and the development of a more sensitive look to the demand of ocean education with the students. The development of works like this reflects the importance of recognizing the role of the ocean in our lives and the duty to include it in our basic education.