The semantics of Ocean Literacy: several definitions in only one ocean
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https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v63i0.88097Keywords:
ocean literacy, formal education, scientific educationAbstract
Despite its potential, formal education still hardly addresses topics referring to the marine and ocean environment in teaching-learning practices. Work in this area is being done in the context of Coastal and Marine Environmental Education (CMEE) and, more recently through the inclusion of the Ocean Culture (OC), resulting from Ocean Literacy (OL) guidelines. This article provides a bibliographic review of the different translations of the term “Literacy”, as the terms “literacy” and “culture” have different meanings and semantic applications in Brazil, even in the science education context. The paper also contributes a bibliographical review of how CMEE and OC have been developed in the formal areas of basic education in Brazil. The results show that using the term “Ocean Culture” to translate Ocean Literacy has the greatest semantic relevance for the inclusion of topics related to the ocean in the formal teaching scope. As for the survey of papers carried out in these approaches, CMEE and CO during the period stipulated, it was verified that despite the diversity of topic contemplated in the studies, few are associated with the formal curriculum and the school context.
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