Descrição
Research indicates the potential of literary works to be used in teaching natural sciences. This text deals with Carl Djerassi's Cantor’s dilemma (1991), a material that portrait intrigues from the academic world in the form of fiction. The objective of the present study was to investigate the potential of this work for the approach of experimentation in training natural sciences teachers from various fields. The work was analyzed according to the procedures of the discursive textual analysis and two emergent categories were constructed: ‘epistemological issues associated to experimentation’ and ‘the laboratory diary in scientific activity’. The analysis pointed out the potential of the work to favor the debate regarding: the function of experimentation in the refutation/confirmation of hypotheses and their social nature; the non-reduction of the work with experiments to the action in the laboratory; the association between experimentation and error; and writing in laboratory journals and related aspects.||Investigaciones señalan el potencial de obras literarias para ser utilizadas en la enseñanza de las ciencias naturales. El texto en cuestión trata de la obra El dilema de cantor de Carl Djerassi (1991) que trata, en forma de ficción, de intrigas del mundo académico. El objetivo del trabajo fue investigar el potencial de esta obra para el abordaje de la experimentación en la formación de profesores del área de las ciencias naturales. La obra fue analizada de acuerdo con los procedimientos del análisis textual discursivo y se construyeron dos categorías emergentes denominadas ‘cuestiones epistemológicas asociadas a la experimentación’ y ‘el diario de laboratorio en la actividad científica’. El análisis apuntó el potencial de la obra para favorecer el debate en relación: a la función de la experimentación en la refutación/confirmación de hipótesis y a su naturaleza social; a la no reducción del trabajo con experimentos a la acción en el laboratorio; a la asociación entre experimentación y error; y a la escritura en diarios de laboratorio y a aspectos vinculados a ella.||Research indicates the potential of literary works to be used in teaching natural sciences. This text deals with Carl Djerassi's Cantor’s dilemma (1991), a material that portrait intrigues from the academic world in the form of fiction. The objective of the present study was to investigate the potential of this work for the approach of experimentation in training natural sciences teachers from various fields. The work was analyzed according to the procedures of the discursive textual analysis and two emergent categories were constructed: ‘epistemological issues associated to experimentation’ and ‘the laboratory diary in scientific activity’. The analysis pointed out the potential of the work to favor the debate regarding: the function of experimentation in the refutation/confirmation of hypotheses and their social nature; the non-reduction of the work with experiments to the action in the laboratory; the association between experimentation and error; and writing in laboratory journals and related aspects.
