Socio-Scientific Controversies on Web 2: What Educational Possibilities Exist Regarding Racism and Machismo?

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https://doi.org/10.35819/tear.v10.n1.a4914

Abstract

Abstract: The need for alternative ways that can effectively help us approach and especially learn more from controversial issues like Brazilian machismo and racism, despite the digital technologies of the 21st century, triggered the following question - What educational possibilities are available from using Web 2.0 to promote discussions related to socioscientific controversies like machismo and racism in their intersectionalities? The authors of this article, focused on themes like education, race-gender intersectionality, internet and controversies in socio-scientific matters, to identify and discuss the educational potentials of Web 2.0 in teaching-learning-asking questions related to controversial issues, especially those involving race and gender intersectionalities. Research reports about socio-scientific controversies using digital technologies including YouTube, as social media for sharing videos, were also treated. Kimberly Crenshaw (2002), Sueli Carneiro (2005), Tim O’Reilly (2005), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2007), Pedro Reis (2006) and others alike, provided the needed theoretical support. Analyses helped conclude that the approach to controversial topics in virtual spaces, while providing rich educational venues, made it possible for more people to become protagonists of their own existence, and similarly, be resistant and independent in problematizing different issues to the extent that they could even bring about changes in a racist and sexist context such as the one we live in Brazilian society. 

Keywords:  Socio-scientific Controversies. Internet. Race-Gender Intersectionality.

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Author Biographies

  • Emanuella Geovana Magalhães De Souza, UFPI

    Doutoranda em Educação pelo Programa de Pós - Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal do Piauí (PPGED - UFPI).

  • Mr. Boakari, UFPI

     

     

  • Francilene Brito da Silva, UFPI

    Doutora em Educação (UERJ) e professora da Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI).

Published

2021-07-05

How to Cite

Socio-Scientific Controversies on Web 2: What Educational Possibilities Exist Regarding Racism and Machismo?. #Tear: Journal of Education, Science and Technology, Canoas, v. 10, n. 1, 2021. DOI: 10.35819/tear.v10.n1.a4914. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ifrs.edu.br/index.php/tear/article/view/4914. Acesso em: 5 jun. 2026.