Abstract

SANTOS, SAULO CÉZAR SEIFFERT  and  CUNHA, MÁRCIA BORIN DA. THEME PARK, POPULARIZATION AND AMAZONIC RESEARCH: THE PROPOSAL OF THE SCIENCE GROVE PARK/INPA. Educ. rev. [online]. 2022, vol.38, e29448.  Epub Feb 10, 2022. ISSN 1982-6621.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-469829448.

Theme parks are spaces for entertainment and scientific-cultural learning through cultural activities. In the states that make up the Brazilian Amazon there are few classic science museums, however, there are open environments with the presence of green and living. Thus, the objective was to characterize a Science and Technology Setting in the North Region, with its Amazonian characteristics, which carries out scientific research and promotes the popularization of this research among audiences in physical visitation spaces. We chose a Science and Technology institution that promotes the scientific popularization of its research, in this case, in Manaus/AM, the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), in its extension space, the Science Grove Park. Between February and March 2018, we received documents related to planning, reports, requests for visits and advertising, in which we carried out a thematic content analysis. The data indicated that the team of monitors carries out a curricular internship, with an average duration of six months, linked to tourism and forest management, the visitors are mostly from the early childhood school audience and their visit motivations are linked to the cultivation of enrichment. cultural origin from the Amazonian space. We believe that the monitoring model can be improved with actions of greater internalization of monitors in the institution, adopting a vision of the theme park as a museum for the adoption of a multidisciplinary educational team in addition to education/entertainment, but a vision of Amazonian heritage.

Keywords : informal education; sciences museum; science and technology setting; INPA.

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