Transversality in chemistry teaching: A social approach to drug use
Keywords:
Drugs, Contextualization, Chemistry TeachingAbstract
The indiscriminate use of licit or illicit drugs has been growing significantly among the young population of our country, causing several problems and being present in the most diverse social environments. In education, the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs by adolescents has a direct influence on absences, school dropout, low learning, failure, and repetition. The teaching of Chemistry as a curricular component of basic education can function as a mediator at the interface between health and education, promoting, through its contextualized contents, a problematization of social generating themes such as drugs. This work sought, among the attributions of the Tutorial Education program (PET-Chemistry) of the Federal University of Campina Grande, to develop extension activities in a public high school, using a mediating tool between knowledge and high school students, through the lecture entitled Alcohol and Synthetic Drugs: the Risks of Consumption. In this way, the importance of working on chemical knowledge was highlighted, informing and making students aware of the problems related to the theme of drugs.
