MAPPING SCIENCE CLUBS IN LATIN AMERICA AND BUILDING THE WEBSITE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE CLUBS NETWORK

ABSTRACT:

In Brazil and especially in other Latin American countries, there are collective that have sought, with the Science Clubs, to break the traditional way of organizing time and space conventionally destined by schools to the Science teaching. With this objective in mind,the organization and functioning of Science Clubs were investigate in order to map and share innovative experiences in school contexts. For that, a research was conducted on the Internet of Science Clubs of schools in Latin American countries. With the survey, a website was created, constituting the International Network of Science Clubs. It was possible to map Clubs of Sciences distributed in twelve countries that have channels of diffusion and communication by the Internet. With systematized information, knowledge can be produced that allows learning about these contexts in their diversity of experiences.

Keywords:
Science teaching; Science Clubs; Latin America; Educational Practices