The role of emotions in high school student’s scientific initiation from Vocational Program of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

ABSTRACT

The Oswaldo Cruz Scientific Vocation Program is a scientific initiation educational program for High School students, in Biological, Health, Human, and Social Sciences areas. We consider that living in less advantaged neighborhoods impacts on the students, advisors and co-advisors’ emotions. In this paper, to illustrate our hypothesis, we selected narratives of a particular student living in Rio’s periphery and not acquainted with scientific practices, and the narratives of a co-advisor that lived in a suburb of Rio. Through Bakhtin framework and theoretical contributions from Education, Social Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology of Emotions we conducted and analyzed interviews. In these narratives, we show the emotions through interviewees regarding their experiences, and we identified authenticity feelings such as liking and interest. The specific emotions related to scientific activities detected were friendship, dissatisfaction, appreciation, and interest. These emotions seem to influence future projects and stimulate sociability bringing together affinities and attenuating inequalities.

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Funding

The Oswaldo Cruz Institute/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and Vice President Education, Information and Communication/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation provided fellowships to conduct this study.

Notes on contributors

Bruna Navarone Santos

Bruna Navarone Santos holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and a master’s degree in the area of Sciences from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz). She develops research in the area of comparative studies on emotion and scientific education at Fiocruz with a focus on the students, at the Scientific Initiation Laboratory in Basic Education of the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health and under the guidance of the researchers-advisors Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa and Lucia de la Rocque.

Address: Scientific Initiation Laboratory in Basic Education (Lic-Provoc),

Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), 4365 Brazil Avenue, room number 308, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, zip code 21 040-900, Brazil.

Lucia de La Rocque

Bruna Navarone Santos holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and a master’s degree in the area of Sciences from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz). She develops research in the area of comparative studies on emotion and scientific education at Fiocruz with a focus on the students, at the Scientific Initiation Laboratory in Basic Education of the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health and under the guidance of the researchers-advisors Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa and Lucia de la Rocque.

Address: Scientific Initiation Laboratory in Basic Education (Lic-Provoc),

Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), 4365 Brazil Avenue, room number 308, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, zip code 21 040-900, Brazil.

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.

Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa

Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa is a Psychologist from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and holds a Ph. D. 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 also 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).