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The study analyses the curricular reorganisation in science teaching in the Portuguese 3rd cycle of basic education, explores how scientific literacy is embraced in the curriculum and analyses the evolution in the students’ results in the external assessments PISA and TIMSS. The curriculum reforms have culminated in two documents in force in science education: Essential Apprenticeships and Profile of Students Leaving Compulsory Schooling. In both, the development of scientific literacy is one of the main goals to be achieved. During the curricular changes, the emphasis on the importance of scientific literacy for the students’ education has increased, which is reflected in the relevant growth of Portugal’s results in external assessments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses a minor environmental education that avoids the contradictions of sustainable development based on neoliberal economic perspectives. Along with the idea of minority, based on post-critical thinking, decolonial and transdisciplinary propositions of education for environments are presented. To this end, the critique of the Anthropocene/Capitalocene and the artistic activism of representatives of indigenous communities, as ideas to postpone the end of the world, are mapped in the text and promote differentiated propositions that can be considered alongside Science Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary scientific education emphasizes its work in the dialogue between learning science, its nature and scientific practice, situated in the new challenges of scientific and technological innovation. As well as the public understanding of science through citizen participation in decision-making, gradually integrating technical-scientific reasons into the complex social organization. The results of the role that scientific skills occupy in the teaching of science on stage are shown from a descriptive analysis that compares the perceptions of teachers of basic and secondary education, regarding the formative sense, the methodological and procedural conditions, classification, curricular organization and evaluation process of scientific skills. Thus contributing to characterizing the role that scientific skills can occupy at school, overcoming the instrumental reading that is regularly done in classroom work, an epistemological bias that can even 'empty' meaning the scientific task separating it from a context, a question and a need. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]