HR: 13:50h
AN: ED23A-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Building Bridges Between Scientific Categories and Common Sense Social Representations
AU: * Kleiman, A
EM: akleiman@mpc.com.br
AF: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Cidade Universit ria Zeferino Vaz, Campinas, SP Brazil
AB: The teaching of scientific categories in remote regions of the country, far away from research centers involved in the production of knowledge must take into account the layman's common sense concepts of those categories. Our research on the comprehension and learning of linguistic categories in on-service education courses gives support to the utility of the notion of social representations (such as described by Moscovici, Abric and others ) and has shown that re-textualization of scientific definitions undertaken by students in on-service training programs is reinforced by everyday, non-scientific categories. It has also shown that re-textualization is an activity that involves the social representation of the discourse objects. It has been said that all scientific concepts have a a corresponding common sense one; our paper addresses the problem of how to investigate the community's local knowledge so as to build the foundations of outreach programs.
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly