ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Language, Culture and Diversity
Scientific Literacy through an inquiry-based multimodal teaching: outcomes from a classroom study
Provisionally accepted
- 1Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Volta Redonda Campus, Volta Redonda, Brazil
- 2Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil
- 3Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Paracambi Campus, Paracambi, Brazil
- 4Physics Institute, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
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This study offers a culturally responsive instructional model that integrates historical narratives, qualitative experimentation, and computational simulations to promote scientific literacy in linguistically and socioeconomically diverse classrooms. By legitimizing students' everyday language and reasoning as tools for scientific meaning-making, the model fosters epistemic agency, engagement, and identity formation in science. It provides a scalable framework for inclusive science education in resource-constrained settings and contributes to teacher professional development through classroom-based inquiry.
Keywords: educational equity, epistemic agency, inquiry-based learning, Linguistic diversity, Nature of science
Received: 16 Oct 2025; Accepted: 26 Jan 2026.
Copyright: © 2026 Souza, Silva, Dutra and Monteiro. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Fabio Ferreira Monteiro
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