Ongoing projects

Alana Adler de Oliveira

The role of fossil records on the genesis of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary thought: diachronic analysis of the ‘Transmutations Notebooks’ (1837 and 1839)

Supervisor: Maria Elice de Brzezinski Prestes.

Undergraduate, Biological Science, USP.

Start: 2020.

Anderson Ricardo Carlos

João Batista de Lacerda’s (1846-1915) contributions to science in Brazil.

Supervisor: Maria Elice de Brzezinski Prestes.

Doctoral Degree, Interunity Graduate Program in Science Education, USP.

Start: 2020.

Aurelio Bianco Pena

Communication, community and information: a study on the genesis of the Information Theory.

Supervisor: Cibelle Celestino Silva.

Master’s Degree, Physics, IFSC-USP.

Start: 2021.

Camila Ramalho de Freitas

How science is thought for and by women: a case study from a contribution by Bertha Lutz.

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Undergraduate, Unifesp.

Start: 2021.

Christine Janczur

FOriginal sources of the history of science in the teaching of biology: commented translation of parts II and III of the work Introduction à l’étude de la médecine expérimental (1865) by Claude Bernard.

Supervisor: Maria Elice de Brzezinski Prestes.

Doctoral Degree, Biological Sciences, USP, CAPES.

Start: 2016.

Ciro Thadeu Tomazella Ferreira

Mathematization of nature in the 17th century.

Supervisor: Cibelle Celestino Silva.

Master’s Degree, Physics, IFSC-USP, USP, CNPq.

Start: 2018.

Cleyton Alves de Oliveira

Mario Schenberg and the proposition of the Urca process: elements of nature of science for a humanized physics teaching.

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Undergraduate, UNIFESP.

Start: 2021.

Débora de Cássia Gomes Cruz

Women in the history of sciences: occupied spaces, were heard?

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Extension Program. Federal University of São Paulo.

Start: 2021.

Deyvid José Souza Santos

History and philosophy of sciences in the post-modern scholar context: a propose of rescue of the dialogue with tradition.

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Science Education, UNIFESP.

Start: 2019.

Diana Borges dos Santos

The role of geological studies on the theories about the transmutation of species in the 19th century: a historical contribution to the evolution teaching.

Supervisor: Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins.

Doctoral Degree, Interunity Graduate Program in Science Education, USP.

Start: 2017.

Eduardo Ruan Saraiva

Scientific literacy and nature of science: elaboration of a didactical sequence on physics involved in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Supervisor: Cibelle Celestino Silva.

Master’s Degree, Physics, USP.

Start: 2021.

Fernanda Gonçalves Arcanjo

The gene and its relations with evolution and development: from classical Genetics to the modern Synthesis (1926-1940)?

Supervisor: Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins.

Doctoral Degree, Comparative Biology, USP, CAPES.

Start: 2019.

Fernando de Jesus Guilger

History of sciences, physics and art in education: a study from the Divine Comedy and Treatise on the Sphere in the initial formation of teachers.

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Science Education, UNIFESP.

Start: 2019.

Francisco Aparecido Cardeira

Post-appropriations of Dewar Flask for different purposes: approaching socioscientific questions in teaching.

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Extension Program. Federal University of São Paulo.

Start: 2021.

Gabriel Vanzo Rodrigues

The Punctuated Theory: a analysis of Stephen Jay Gould studies from 1971 to 2002.

Supervisor: Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins.

Master’s Degree, Comparative Biology, FFCLRP, USP, CAPES.

Start: 2020.

Giuliana Uchôa Carrieri

The observation of animals over the history of biology: the description of serpents as case study for a contextual science teaching.

Supervisor: Maria Elice de Brzezinski Prestes.

Master’s Degree, Interunity Graduate Program in Science Education, USP.

Start: 2019.

Heloísa Mariana Soares

The Pascal Principle in University Education in multicontextual approach (historical-philosophical and conceptual).

Supervisor: Juliana Mesquita Hidalgo Ferreira.

Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Education, UFRN.

Start: 2021.

Jean Costa

A critical study of the first writings of Thomas Young (1773-1829) on optics.

Supervisor: Breno Arsioli Moura.

Undergrad, Science and Technology, UFABC.

Start: 2020.

João Vítor Gonçalves

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and 19th century science: articulations between science teaching, society and culture.

Supervisor: Breno Arsioli Moura.

Master’s Degree, Education, History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, UFABC.

Start: 2021.

José Antônio Ferreira Pinto

Discussing the nature of science in the formation of teachers in a historical-investigative perspective: the Leyden bottle episode.

Supervisor: Cibelle Celestino Silva.

Doctoral Degree, Interunity Graduate Program in Science Education, USP.

Start: 2017.

José Guilherme Lício

Gods and Quarks: The rhetorical perception of particle physics by basic education students.

Supervisor: Cibelle Celestino Silva.

Doctoral Degree, Interunity Graduate Program in Science Education, USP.

Start: 2018.

Karel Pontes Leal

Nature and history of sciences: discussing events of the development of radioactivity.

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Doctoral Degree, Science Education, USP, CPGI.

Start: 2019.

Mara Cristina Júlio de Oliveira

Arquimedes’ principle: a multi contextual approach in teacher formation.

Supervisor: Juliana Mesquita Hidalgo Ferreira.

Master’s Degree, Natural Sciences and Mathematics Education, UFRN.

Start: 2020.

Marcos Vinícius Ribeiro Ferreira

Kit Covid: How to transform disinformation into science teaching and learning?

Supervisor: Cibelle Celestino Silva.

Master’s Degree, Science Education, USP.

Start: 2021.

Matheus Cardoso

Creation of short videos about episodes from the photosynthesis history.

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Extension Program. Natural Sciences and Mathematics Education.

Start: 2021.

Natália Soares Balbino

Women in the history of sciences: constructing a proposal for the elementary school.

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Extension Program. Federal University of São Paulo.

Start: 2021.

Pedro de Lima Navarro

The portuguese translations of the Origin of species and Descent of man in Brazil and Portugal and its relations with Darwin’s reception in Brazil in the end of the 19th century and early 20th century.

Supervisor: Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins.

Doctoral Degree, Comparative Biology, FFLCRP, USP.

Start: 2020.

Regina Carneiro Silva

Slaves’ disease: historiographical study about the ?ainhum? In Brazil.

Supervisor: Breno Arsioli Moura.

Undergrad,Science and Technology, UFABC.

Start: 2020.

Renan Siqueira da Silva

Cinema as historical source of science: an analysis of brasilian science-fiction between 1960-2010.

Supervisor: Breno Arsioli Moura.

Doctoral Degree, History of Science and Mathematics Education, UFABC.

Start: 2019.

Rodolfo Moreno Guidil Roda

Revisiting Gil-Pérez and collaborators: an analysis about the consensual view of the nature of science.

Supervisor: Roberto de Andrade Martins.

Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Science Education, UNIFESP.

Start: 2019.

Sabrina Sobral Marchetto Leite

The challenges of teacher formation in science – reflections and practices.

Supervisor: Roberto de Andrade Martins.

Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Science Education, UNIFESP.

Start: 2019.

Taluan Nogueira

[Development of investigative experiments for elementary school II based on the national curriculum plans.

Supervisor: Thaís Cyrino de Mello Forato.

Undergraduate, UNIFESP.

Start: 2019.