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The current context of intense social and environmental changes, resulting from scientific and technological development, poses a challenge in the sense that the society needs to provide training for professionals for the full exercise of citizenship, participation in decision-making processes, understanding of the relationships between Science, Technology, Society and Environment (STSE), which demands a novel way of thinking from people. These aspects are consistent with the objectives of the STSE approach and should permeate Chemistry Education Courses. In this way, this research aims to investigate how the STSE approach has been contemplated and incorporated in the Pedagogical Course Projects (PCP) of Chemistry Education Programs at public Institutions of Higher Education located in the State of Parana, Brazil. For that, we carried out an analysis of these documents according to the assumptions of the Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA). From the analysis itself, we identified aspects such as training for citizenship; ethical, social and/or environmental responsibility; critical, emancipatory and transforming reshape of reality, which are all elements related to the STSE approach that lead to a humanistic training. The results guide us to understand that the Chemistry Education Courses analyzed in this study perceive the importance of this kind of training, as the teacher not only must be trained based on technical-scientific knowledge and human values, but also has to comprehend the social and political function of teaching, in order to be recognized as a professional citizen. |