O silêncio que ninguém ouviu: análise do enfoque CTSA nas concepções e práticas de professores premiados em um evento ambiental

The aim of this work is to understand the relationship between conceptions and practices of advisor professors about the Science, Technology, Society and Environment (STSE) focus in a State Environmental Education Fair. Based on a qualitative paradigm, the voices and projects of five faculty members were evaluated by Content Analysis. The majority of the responders presented more critical understandings about the STSE a relations, although those conceptions lacked internal coherence, since those professors contradicted themselves in more contextualized visions, or even their opposite. In general, their daily practices comprise three approaches: the first one shows applications of sciences and technology (ST the second one is pedagogical production of new sustainable technologies – in a Salvationist comprehension – and, thirdly and more rarely, an approach enriched by discussions about the impacts of S&T. The professors who had Salvationist visions implemented their practices concentrating on new clean technologies, without considering social and political dimensions of the environment. Moreover, there is a complex structure of the STSE a relations both in the professors’ thinking and in their environmental practices, without linearity, because completely neutral professors’ conceptions are not always hidden behind conservative and pragmatic practices of environmental education.