A contextualização no ensino CTS: uma análise das redes sociais

The contextualization and the approach based on Science-Technology-Society (STS) are presents themes in the sciences teaching. Therefore, to understand how these themes converge and are disseminated in the articles that research the science teaching is the focus of the research presented. In order to extract the data, we used the database of the STS and Education Group of CEFET-RJ, which at the time of the research had 324 articles cataloged between 1996 and 2017 of national journals in the area of Science Teaching, being selected 28 articles that had in their keywords or titles the words contextualization and correlates. The selected articles were analyzed regarding the insertion of the researched topic and then the bibliometric and network analyzes were carried out. The network analysis enabled the construction of co-authoring networks, institutions and keywords. From these analyzes it was possible to identify some aspects and challenges that the theme presents for brazilian STS teaching.