Argumentation of first year High School students on the theme of "Energy": discussions in an Environmental Education perspective

Abstract: This article presents an analysis of arguments produced by students about the theme "Energy: production, uses and environmental impacts", with the aim of contributing to the studies on the theme Environmental Education in Basic Education. The theoretical concepts that underlie our study are related to the process of social interactions, in the Vigotskian perspective, and to the production of arguments, from the standard of Toulmin. The data presented in this research were collected with students of the first grade of the High School in the discipline of Physics of a public school in the State of São Paulo. The study provides evidence that classroom work promotes an enabling environment for the emergence of valid arguments, and favors the implementation of the Environmental Education process with the critical approach.

摘要：本文针对学生围绕「能源：生产、利用与环境影响」主题生成的论证内容展开分析，旨在为基础教育（Basic Education）阶段环境教育（Environmental Education）领域的研究提供参考。本研究依托的理论基础涵盖维果茨基（Vygotsky）视角下的社会互动过程，以及以图尔敏（Toulmin）论证标准为框架的论证生成机制。本研究的数据采集自巴西圣保罗州一所公立中学高中一年级修读物理课程的学生。研究结果表明，课堂教学活动可构建有助于有效论证产生的适宜环境，同时有利于推动以批判性思维为导向的环境教育流程落地实施。