Our purpose in this article is to discuss the roles for HPSS in Science Education considering the crisis of COVID-19, as well as to think what Science Education could look like beyond the pandemic. Considering the context of a pandemic as a starting point, we defend in this article the thesis that contours of public controversy involving COVID-19 bring elements that allow us to argue that Science Education needs to embrace perspectives that highlight politics as co-constitutive of science, and not in a subsidiary role to it. To defend this thesis, we begin with a theoretical framework based on arguments of science studies and from exemplary cases from history of science. Then, we analyze some of the public controversies surrounding COVID-19, in its most central aspects, trying to interpret how intertwining between science and politics took place. Brazilian case is analyzed in more details. Finally, based on educational scholarship and considering the previous discussions, we propose some implications for Science Education research and practices, both concerning the role of HPSS in its teaching and discussing critically boundaries of this research field.

RESUMO: Pesquisas na área de Educação em Ciências apontam a importância de se ensinar sobre ciências na educação básica e na formação de professores de ciências, o que se materializa em torno do construto “Natureza da Ciência” (NdC). Apesar de reconhecer o consenso em torno ao tema, entendemos ser importante debatermos sobre o ensino de NdC à luz do debate sobre o porquê ensinar ciências. De forma a contribuir para esse debate, propomos nesse ensaio teórico analisar os tipos de fenômenos educacionais que as três propostas para o ensino de NdC mais citadas na literatura de ensino de ciências habilitam ou desabilitam. Para tal, utilizamos dois aspectos de debates sobre currículo: o da reconceptualização e seus desdobramentos para o entendimento sobre currículo e o da função prescritiva-normativa de documentos curriculares. Nossa análise constata o afastamento do questionamento sobre os fins do ensino sobre as ciências nas propostas analisadas e o caráter prescritivo-normativo de todas elas.

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