O uso da divulgação científica como instrumento pedagógico é o tema de nosso trabalho. Partindo da perspectiva de trazer para a educação em ciências e em química a literatura de divulgação científica (LDC) como um veículo para construção do conhecimento escolar e como alternativa ao livro-texto, apresenta-se neste trabalho a percepção de professores de química do Ensino Superior sobre a sua possibilidade de inserção na prática docente com a finalidade de facultar ao professor em formação o conhecimento deste recurso didático às suas aulas e que isso faça parte do currículo.

This paper focuses on the use of scientific dissemination literature as a pedagogical tool. This study departs from the perspective that the scientific dissemination literature (SDL) can be employed in scientific and chemical education as a means of knowledge construction at school and as an alternative to the didactic textbooks. In this sense, this paper presents the perceptions of chemistry professors on the possibility of employing SDL in teaching. The aim is to provide teachers in training with knowledge of how to use this didactical resource in the classroom, suggesting the inclusion of such knowledge in the teachers' training syllabi.

The teaching of general chemistry involves both the choice and the organization of its concepts. Although College Teachers make their choices, frequently the text books play an important role in this selection. In the present project we intend to show what are Teachers' perceptions of conceptual organization and selection as well as their perceptions of how to teach general chemistry. This demonstration is carried out through the use of metaphors from new information technologies.

Este texto pretende enfatizar alguns aspectos da vida docente problematizando-os através dos Estudos Culturais e com algumas análises de inspiração foucaultiana. Pretende-se evidenciar os diferentes discursos que formam a identidade docente, bem como a dificuldade enfrentada pelos novos/as professores/ as em sua chegada à escola. Considera-se a escola como possuindo uma cultura específica de produção de saberes e de formação dos docentes que participam de sua estrutura institucional. Os/as professores/as são constituídos/as pelo título e colados/as a ele, onde há uma carga de significados que são deste mundo moderno e que não “podem” ser pensados diferentemente. É claro que esta produção não é exclusiva da cultura escolar, ela se faz intra e extramuros da escola. Essas são as discussões que perpassam todo o texto, enfatizando-se a necessidade de pensar como está sendo narrado, subjetivado e identificado este ser professor/a e quão importante é conhecer estas narrativas. Conhecer é um ato de governo.

This paper intends to emphatize some aspects of teaching life, dealing with troubles based on Cultural Studies and with analysis from Foucault's inspiration. We aim to point out the different speeches that form the teacher's identity, even though the hardness faced by the new teachers in their arrival at the schools. We consider the school possessing a specific culture regarding to the production of knowledge and in the formation of the teachers that participate in its institutional structure. The teachers are constituted by a title and are bind to it. There is a charge of meanings that are proper of this modern world and that cannot be thought in a different way. It becomes clear that this production is not exclusively from a school's culture, it is done in and outside from the walls of the school. These are the discussions focused through the entire text, pointing out the necessity of thinking how this teacher it is being narrated, subjectived and identified and how it is important to know such narratives. Knowing is an act of governing.

This work evidences a survey conducted during a teacher professional qualification in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This survey analysed the textbooks used by these teachers. The dynamics consisted of choosing the analytic criteria used by teachers, and adding new criteria for examining their difficulties and ways to choose textbooks. This article emphasises the problematics and difficulties teachers have to make choices and their loss of skills and authority to consider these books more profoundly.

In this paper we discuss an approach for two initial topics in Chemistry: atomic structure and periodic table. The focus of this approach is the use of educational software resources in the perspective of teacher's formation.