Abstract
Ciência em Tela is an open access Brazilian science teacher education online journal that has been published twice a year since 2008 and which encourages the participation of professionals with different backgrounds and the submission of a variety of textual genres, besides research papers. Another feature is that the journal includes practicing schoolteachers not only as authors but also as reviewers, which not only provides those who submit contributions to the journal with an early feedback from their target audience but also helps empower schoolteachers by placing them in a discursive situation in which they are producers, as opposed to consumers, of discourses about science education. In this paper we describe the background to and main aspects of the journal’s innovative editorial policy, which seeks to bridge gaps between communities and institutions linked to science education, as well as to discuss the challenges that arise from it, in particular, issues concerning internationalisation and funding, as well as the role of journals in times of colonisation and commodification of knowledge and of discourses.
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Ciência em Tela é um periódico brasileiro, de acesso aberto na internet, voltado à formação de professores. Vem sendo publicado semestralmente desde 2008. Estimula a participação de profissionais da educação com diferentes perfis e a submissão diferentes gêneros de texto, além de artigos de pesquisa. O periódico não somente encoraja submissões de professores da educação básica como também os inclui no corpo de árbitros. Isto permite àqueles que submetem textos à revista um feedback precoce da audiência alvo, bem como contribui no sentido de promover o empoderamento dos professores na medida que os coloca em uma situação discursiva na qual são produtores—e não consumidores—, de discursos sobre Educação em Ciências. Neste artigo descrevemos as motivações, contextos e características deste projeto editorial inovador, que busca estabelecer pontes entre comunidades e instituições comprometidas com a educação em ciências, e discutimos os desafios dele decorrentes, em particular, a internacionalização, o financiamento e o papel dos periódicos em tempos de colonização e comodificação de conhecimentos e de discursos.
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This paper expands and complements ideas originally put forward in a paper presented at the 2011 Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, jointly authored with Professor Barros, who passed away before a final version could be finished. This is an acknowledgement of her contribution to the thinking behind the argument in this paper and a tribute in recognition of her incessant efforts to improve Science Education in Brazil. Brazilian Research Council (CNPq), Rio de Janeiro State Research Council (FAPERJ) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PIBEX/PR5/UFRJ) are gratefully acknowledged for their financial support.
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In memorian of Susana de Souza Barros.
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Martins, I., de Souza Barros, S. The role of journals in building up communities: the experience of Ciência em Tela . Cult Stud of Sci Educ 10, 1033–1050 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-014-9637-5
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