Science, art and philosophy: mobilizing discourses in the educational use of cinema in non-formal activity

• Published in: Investigações em Ensino de Ciências Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 305 - 323
• Main Authors: Guilherme da Silva Lima, Cassiano Rezende Pagliarini, Orlando Gomes Aguiar Jr
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 01.04.2021
• Subjects: cinema; educação em ciências; educação não formal; teoria da atividade
• ISSN: 1518-8795
• DOI: 10.22600/1518-8795.ienci2021v26n1p305

This paper aims to understand the educational use of cinema in scientific communication in the context of a non-formal education, which included the debate with a guest after the presentation of the film, of the Sci-Fi genre, “Inception” for a diverse audience (university students, citizens and tourists). We analyzed the discourse undertaken by the guest considering interfaces between science, philosophy and art, from a historical-cultural perspective, activity theory and from historical and dialectical materialism. The results point to different enunciative strategies, among them: the mobilization of knowledge from different spheres of ideological creation - science, art and philosophy - as structured systems of production and human action; and the establishment of ontological links (science-reality; science-fiction and philosophy-fiction) with the discursive objects of the commented cinema session. The analyzed case also shows that educational activities can be better understood as composed by subordination of structured and conscious actions.