[call is now open] Scientific and Digital Cultures in research that articulates university-school-society

[special issue] Edited by Miriam Struchiner [NUTES/UFRJ] and Maria Elizabeth Bianconcini de Almeida [PUC-SP]

Submission deadline: May 15, 2025

| To be published in October 2025

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Considering that bringing schools closer to the sociocultural reality of students constitutes a major challenge for education, researchers argue that articulating curriculum and educational practices with issues that permeate students' daily lives fosters meaningful, critical, and transformative learning. This challenge is further intensified by the accelerated scientific and technological advances, which demand the strengthening of a scientific culture in our society -one that is not restricted to scientists but is built through dialogue with citizens in the search for solutions to local and global problems that affect the lives of their communities. Therefore, there is an urgent need for education oriented towards scientific literacy and changes in school culture, one that moves beyond the traditional information transmission model focused on reproduction and that aims the empowerment of teachers, students, and the community, the flexibility of the curriculum, and citizens’ socio-scientific action. In this scenario, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) stand out as part of everyday life, influencing social and work relationships, forms of communication, thought and knowledge construction. Digital resources, some of which are already present in students' daily lives, such as videos, memes, podcasts, games, blogs, social networks, search tools, videoconferencing, artificial intelligence, among others, enhance creative, participatory, and dialogic pedagogical activities.

In this regard, this special issue aims to disseminate research involving analyses of experiences that articulate scientific culture and digital culture in school contexts, from a participatory, critical, and emancipatory perspective and based on the integration between university, school and society, as well as raising new research questions on this pressing issue.

Miriam Struchiner and Maria Elizabeth Bianconcini de Almeida
[Guest editors of Sisyphus special issue on ‘Scientific and Digital Cultures in research that articulates university-school-society’]