Scientific Concepts in programs in Brazil and Japan for High School Students

Authors

  • Bruna Navarone Santos Fundação Oswaldo Cruz https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5026-9644
  • Lucia de la Rocque Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
  • Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
  • Tokie Anme University of Tsukuba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32674/bp7smy03

Keywords:

Science Education, High School, Japan, Brazil

Abstract

This paper investigates how cultural, historical, and emotional factors influence scientific concepts in Brazil's Science Vocation Program (Provoc) and Japan's Sakura Science program. It analyzes how Western and Eastern views of science might shape program goals, through high school students’ reports. Sociology and Anthropology of Emotions, History and Sociology of Science have been deployed to analyze documents of the year 2019 of both programs and Content Analysis has been conducted with the assistance of ATLAS.ti. The results indicate that the different trends of the programs are important. While Provoc students’ reports the express value of science as more related to individual growth, either academic and/or professional, students’ reports of the Sakura Science tend to be more collectively oriented, valuing scientific and technological innovation.

Author Biographies

  • Bruna Navarone Santos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz

    Bruna Navarone Santos is Bachelor of Social Sciences from State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and master’s degree student in Education in Biosciences and Health from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/ Oswaldo Cruz Institute (PGEBS/IOC/Fiocruz). She develops research in the area of ​​comparative studies on emotion and scientific education at Fiocruz with focus on the students, at the Laboratory of Scientific Initiation in Basic Education (Lic-Provoc) of the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV) and under guidance of the researcher-advisor Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa.

  • Lucia de la Rocque, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

    Lucia de la Rocque holds two bachelor's degree (in both Biology and Letters) and one master’s degree in Science from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, a Ph.D. in Sciences from the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from this Federal University. She is a professor in the graduate program in Teaching in Biosciences and Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and has also been a professor of English Literature at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Her main research interests include Gender, Science, and Health in Literature, as well as Literature and other Media in Science Education. 

  • Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

    Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa is a Psychologist from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and holds a PhD in International/Intercultural Education from the University of Southern California. She works as a researcher at the Scientific Initiation Laboratory in Basic Education of the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. She is a professor of the graduate program in Teaching in Biosciences and Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, coordinating the research group Comparative Studies in Scientific Education. She is also a researcher associated with the Interdisciplinary Group for Migratory Studies (NIEM). Her major research interests include Intercultural/International Education, Curriculum, Gender, Reproductive Health, and the Psychology of Teaching and Learning

  • Tokie Anme, University of Tsukuba

    Tokie Anme holds a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Tokyo. She is a professor in the Department of International Community Care and Life-span Development at the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba. Additionally, she is President of International Systems and Empowerment Sciences for Lifespan Development and the President of the Japanese Systems Sciences in Health-Social Services. Her main research interests include Community Empowerment, the Plasticity of Lifespan Development and its Implications, and System Sciences for Health-Social Services. 

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Published

2025-01-05

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): Journal of International Students

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Scientific Concepts in programs in Brazil and Japan for High School Students. (2025). Journal of International Students, 15(1), 169-188. https://doi.org/10.32674/bp7smy03