Filmes de ficção científica como um meio de sensibilização para a ética planetária: estudo de caso numa escola pública de ensino médio em São Bernardo do Campo (2006-2007)

Abstract

In this work, it is discoursed on the urgency of a directed ethical formation for those who inherit a planet which is more and more globalized. The principle is if the globalization shows us an opportune time for seeing ourselves as a unique human family that lives in a small blue spot in the vastness of the Universe, it also presents the hazards conducted by the selfishness and the lack of conscience towards the environmental sustainability. These elements will bring serious consequences for the sociosphere, the technosphere and the biosphere, not only locally speaking but also in a world-wide scope. Besides this perspective, it is also discoursed on the serious reality evidenced in the microcosm of the classrooms in public high-schools: non motivated pupils, discouraged teachers and the lack of structure that devastates some high-schools; consequences of the society that faces, amongst many factors, deep economic and social uneven nesses. In these sceneries, the aim was to verify if the science fiction under the filmic form can be used as a didactic resource in the classrooms. The proposal is to accomplish the demand for an interdisciplinary and contextualized education, to favor quarrels on planetary ethics, as a way of rescuing the emotion and the imagination in the Science of the Nature lessons so that it can be playful and pleasant not only for the teachers but also for the pupils. After showing two cinematographic units of science fiction called Contact and Silent Running, for the pupils of a public high-school in São Bernardo do Campo, it was verified that, by means of reading the answers of the applied questionnaire, good films of the sort can be useful instruments in the hands of teachers who worry about the demands mentioned above.