Ensino de Ciências e Religião : uma análise baseada em artigos e periódicos de revistas científicas produzidas entre 2000 e 2022

Abstract

This research originates from personal inquiries about the scientific and religious spheres with which I relate. Seeking a better understanding of the approach between Science and Religion in the educational environment, we sought to investigate journal publications and scientific articles with the best evaluations of the CAPES Qualis index, in which we intend to reveal how this theme has been approached in education. We sought to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze articles published in prominent national Science Teaching journals that addressed the relationship between Science Teaching and Religion. For this purpose, we selected, among the national science teaching journals belonging to extracts A1, A2, A3 and A4 of CAPES' Qualis system, articles that responded to the keywords: "religion", beliefs", "church", "Science" , “Belief”, “Intelligent Design”, “God”, “Faith”, “Church”, “Materialism”, “Naturalism”, “Religion”, “Religious”, “Religiosity”, “Religious” and “Supernatural”. Among the 13 journals that met these criteria, we found a total of 40 articles that addressed the theme, distributed over the last 22 years. We verified that the predominant area of the works is Biology and in relation to the relationship between Science and Religion, among 4 possible positions (dialogue, independence, conflict and integration) we reached the conclusion that the dialogue was more present in the works. There was recurrence of work based on a methodology of interviews and questionnaires, either with students or teachers, which seek to analyze the conceptions of science and religion of the interviewees.