Biosafety as Our Topic: Looking at the Topic in the School Context

Abstract

Biosafety is an area focused on preventing, minimizing and eliminating health risks and has become a socially emphasized issue, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The main objective of this study was to analyze specific approaches to Biosafety from 2017 to 2023, in the databases: Google Scholar, Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and Scielo. We were interested in seeing how the Biosafety theme permeates the school and extra-school interaction processes. We used the following descriptors: Biosafety, Teaching Strategies, Science Teaching and Biosafety, Biosafety and school spaces and Biosafety Teaching. Academic productions relating the topic of Biosafety with the school context were analyzed. However, what is found in the literature analyzed from 2017 to 2023 are works mainly aimed at laboratory scenarios, giving little emphasis to the approach in school environments. The work methodology consisted of a systematic review of these productions through searches on academic work platforms. The findings of this review highlighted the need for more researchers to channel and expand the discussion of Biosafety to school environments, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic scenario, where the subject gained considerable publicity.