Cern Portuguese Language Teachers Program: A Discourse Analysis From the Point of View of Ludwik Fleck’s Epistemology

Abstract

In this study, Ludwik Fleck’s epistemology is used to interpret the socialization of knowledge between scientists and teachers participating in a short course called “CERN Portuguese Language Teachers Program”. We argue that the two groups of subjects whose interaction is investigated — CERN scientists and high school physics teachers — constitute a single thought collective, with CERN researchers comprising the esoteric circle and the teachers comprising the exoteric circle. The interactions between these two circles occur through intracollective communication, and the socialized knowledge is mostly scientific, not pedagogical, and inscribed in the discursive formations of the sciences of journals and handbooks.