Abstract

FRAGA, Fernando Bueno Ferreira Fonseca de  and  ROSA, Russel Teresinha Dutra da. The Microbiology in the Ciência Hoje das Crianças magazine: An analysis of scientific popularization texts. Ciência educ. [online]. 2015, vol.21, n.1, pp.199-218. ISSN 1516-7313.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-731320150010013.

This article aims to analyze scientific popularization texts related to microbiology published in the magazine "Ciência Hoje das Crianças". Children, in spite of their contact with microorganisms, do not observe them directly, a situation which is important regarding the selection of texts. The material was scrutinized in accordance with the characteristics of the discourse of scientific popularization, as described in the literature related to texts for adults. Results show that these features are also present in texts for children, which corroborates the idea that scientific popularization has a discourse of its own. The texts have, as their distinctive features, the appeal to reading done via the intervention of pictures and the use of informal language: an attempt to approach the children's daily lives, as presupposed by the authors of the texts. Also, they appeared to offer a interdisciplinary approach to microbiology, offering the possibility of the use the texts in science classes.

Keywords : Scientific texts; Ciência Hoje das Crianças; Magazine; Microbiology.

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