Análise das compreensões de estudantes no contexto de uma intervenção didática fundamentada na abordagem CTS a partir da temática adulteração/falsificação de medicamentos

Abstract

In this research, the objective was to analyze students' understandings in the context of a didactic intervention based on the CTS Approach based on the theme of drug adulteration/counterfeiting. The research was qualitative and of the pedagogical intervention type, carried out in a public school, located in Recife - PE, with the participation of 19 students from the 2nd year of high school. The intervention took place in three meetings, the first two lasting two hours each and the last four hours, divided into two distinct moments. The methodological stages of the study included the planning of the didactic intervention, the application of the didactic intervention and the organization and analysis of the data obtained. The results indicate that: some students expressed limited prior conceptions regarding the adulteration/counterfeiting of medicines and their impacts on society, such as, for example, an understanding focused only on the alteration or modification of the medicine and the impacts promoted by the adulteration/counterfeiting of medicines in society; there was an evolution in students' understanding of different aspects, including the chemical concepts covered and the risks associated with the consumption of adulterated medicine; and in their understandings, students integrated scientific and social aspects of different orders: environmental, economic, legal and public health, except technological aspects.