An interdisciplinary vision of science teaching through scientific theatre

Discussing interdisciplinarity at school is always a challenge. It is necessary to understand its real importance in the formation of the student as a citizen, and how it can be approached to contribute in this formation. The present work aims to discuss these points using a teaching tool that is being used by science teachers, called "Scientific Theater". In a qualitative investigation, an interview was conducted with three chemistry teachers who use this tool in different high schools in Mossoro City, RN, Brazil, questioning how the interdisciplinarity is approached in these projects and how this tool can contribute to the teaching and citizen formation of the students involved in the project. Through the content analysis, it was noted that when working the scientific theater, it is possible that interdisciplinarity can cover a higher number of disciplines. It is also emphasized the contribution in the student critical formation, since he or she exercises several cognitive abilities like group work, solidarity, commitment and responsibility. Despite this, there is several difficulties when working this tool in schools due to lack of cooperation of other teachers. This happens, according to the teachers, with any interdisciplinary activity. This, according to them, is a result of the lack of time and motivation of teachers to plan such activities due to work in other jobs, low wages, fatigue and other.