The communication of science is commonly associated to the contents and media formats
that contemplate the theme of science. Besides the media centrality, the conceptions and
practices of communication of science are usually based on a diffusion and linear model
that separates, in opposite poles, people who “have knowledge” (scientists) and the
society in general. In this dissertation, however, we ask what is communicational in the
relationships between science and society, that we realize to be beyond the presence of a
technological apparatus, as well as it involves relationships more complex than a simple
transfer of knowledge. So, we invest ourselves in order to understand the
communicational dimensions of an Amazon experience developed by the Museum of
Pará Emílio Goeldi: the Club of the Little Researcher. The club has the proposal to offer to
the students of basic education some experiences of sharing and production of scientific
knowledge, in a collaborative and interactive way. Our challenge was developing an
exploratory research, by a transmethodological perspective, congregating qualitative and
quantitative procedures in the construction of an object of study in the area of
Communication. In this course, the analysis of the communicational processes developed
and triggered by the Club happened from the constant relationship of our referential with
what the empiric made us possible to observe and interpret. We work with a
collaborative and dialogic methodology, through procedures of reception, that allows us
to analyze the communicational processes in the Club and also analyzing it from the
perception of the participant subjects on, besides experiencing the communicational
dimensions in our own process of research. From a bigger discussion about science and
communication, we developed the critic of the communication of science and other
denominations related, which led us to work with the concept of communication of
science as a process that puts in circulation practices and several conceptions, joining the
functional and the normative, the positivist and the post-modern, the functionalist and
the dialogic, the simple and the complex, the subject and the object, in varied measures
and proportions, in immediate and infinite times. We found, in the club experience, some
communicational dimensions (sharing, seduction, affection, conviction and convincing,
negotiation and coexistence, appropriation, active role of the subject and
incommunication), which are constituted as elements that promote the beginning and
the continuity of the communicational flows of the science. So we understand that the
contribution of our area to the discussion about the theme of communication of science
is to reflect, evidence and problematize that the communication isn’t only in the diffusion
of the results of a research, but it is inherent to the process of construction of the
scientific knowledge, above all, in the contemporaneity.
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