STSE education and cinema: proposal for science teacher training

Abstract

Cinema is a tool for science education. Movies promote reflective and critical thinking, supply knowledge construction and improve creativity development. These attributes make cinema an interesting resource to transmit the STSE (Science-Technology-Society-Environment) approach in teacher training. The aim of this study is to promote the role of cinema as a tool to STSE teaching and learning approach. Specifically, a didactic proposal to teach STSE education is described through the film Wall-E in a virtual learning environment. The outlined proposal aims to allow future science teachers to collaborate actively to extract the STSE relationships from the film Wall-E and to practice in the preparation and use of educational tools with STSE potential, such as cinema. It is expected that the lesson plan improves the motivation and knowledge of the teachers towards the use and the implementation of this approach in their future secondary science classroom.