Science Education in Brazil

Last update:11 May 2023

Basic Science Education

It is essential to include Basic Science Education from the beginning of the educational process, making the investment in Science Education a priority. This approach decisively encourages young people to pursue careers in science and technology. Nevertheless, the most important consequence is the contribution it makes to improving education, which is a subject that has mobilized several segments of society because of its importance.

Science education and the development of sustainable practices are themes of great interest to UNESCO in Brazil. The major challenge posed in the country is to have Science Teaching disseminated to the population in an increasingly homogeneous way capable of effectively improving people’s quality of life.

Brazil faces challenges in science education and cannot address them separately because of the cause-and-effect relations existing among them like:

  • Increment and encouragement of scientific education vs a shortage of teachers in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
  • Improvement of science education quality vs poor school infrastructure

UNESCO has provided expertise in enhancing science education and implementing innovative and pilot actions to strengthen primary and secondary education science teaching. UNESCO particularly supports initiatives in developing technical cooperation efforts aimed at:

  • generating new technical-scientific knowledge
  • disseminating scientific knowledge
  • capacity building and training of human resources
UNESCO IEA brief on mathematics an science education
EDUCASTEM2030 initiative

#EDUCASTEM Initiative

UNESCO Brasilia promotes STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education for girls.

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Publications

Educação em clima de riscos de desastres: Programa Cemaden Educação
Cemaden
2022
With the technical and financial assistance of UNESCO Brasilia Office
0000383095
Matemática é liberdade: the math circle e o círculo da matemática do Brasil
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Instituto TIM
2020
UNESCO
0000381141
Engineering for sustainable development: delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals
UNESCO
ICEE
Central Compilation and Translation Press
2021
UNESCO
0000375644