EXPERIMENTATION DISPOSITIVE AND HOMO EXPERIMENTALIS SUBJECT'S PRODUCTION IN SCIENCE'S CURRICULUM

In TV news, movies, cartoons, social networking websites and funding notices we can find scientific experimentation being discursively constructed. In this paper, the scientific experimentation is analyzed as a device that, at a given historical moment, responded to the urgent need of defining what counts as modern science or not. This analysis can be proved theoretically and experimentally. Moreover, the dispositive produced a specific science that gets certain contours in science classes. We argue here that, in the discourse of teaching by experimentation, a set of practices and techniques is triggered to make learning in a different way possible and, thus, produces Homo experimentalis. Therefore, we conducted a field research during a year in science classes in a public school in Belo Horizonte City. Using Foucault's conceptual tools, we observed demands to the subject of this device, a subject that doubts and needs to observe, record, test, theorize, criticize and discredit to achieve an authority through scientific method.

Keywords:
Science; Experimentation; Dispositive.