Technological trends in high school natural sciences: an analysis from PCN+ and BNCC

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the technological trends present within two national curricular proposals of high school: the Educational Guidelines Complementary to the National Curriculum Parameters of High School (PCN +) and the Common National Curricular Base (BNCC). To achieve this end, Bardin's Content Analysis techniques were used, which included two stages: the first stage aimed at enumerating the frequencies of terms linked to the radical techno (technology and technology) in both documents; and the second, aiming at categorizing the trends found from the analysis of their respective context units. The results demonstrate an amount of 147 context units in the PCN + compared to 30 in the BNCC. Among the context units, six technological trends were identified in PCN + while in BNCC only five of these. Even so, it is possible to consider them as essential trends in the Scientific-Technological Literacy process.

Keywords: Technological trends; Scientific-Technological Literacy; Natural Sciences.