A popularização da ciência no semiárido brasileiro: desafios e possibilidades para promoção e apropriação do conhecimento científico-tecnológico

Abstract

This work presents a historical review of the Brazilian Semi-Arid Science Popularization Week (POP Week) and its contribution to the region. In this sense, we sought to identify the different roles played by partners in the promotion and appropriation of scientific-technological knowledge. It was also sought to describe the actions of the Popularization of Science in the Brazilian Semiarid region as a form of social inclusion, as well as to prepare a booklet, as na educational product, that presented the POP Week as a means of promoting the realization of a popular scientific event. For that, the concepts of university extension, the challenges in the diffusion of scientific knowledge, scientific literacy and the popularization of science were used as theoretical support. Based on these concepts, the historical trajectory of the Week for the Popularization of Science in the Brazilian Semiarid region is described as a pollinator of actions that permeate scientific literacy, the popularization of science and social inclusion, through dialogic constructions between the actors involved in the process, permeating academic knowledge and popular knowledge. Thus, it was observed that the partnership between academia and the general population is powerful and possible. Therefore, this proposal can be applied in other regions of the country.