The article discusses the discursive production of science education considering the network of meanings formed by notions of scientific culture, dissemination, popularization and scientific literacy. An analysis was carried out on the document Cultura Científica: um direito de todos (Scientific Culture: a right of all). We adopt the French theoretical and methodological framework of discourse analysis, and a literature review of such notions was conducted. In the survey of the keywords scientific culture, scientific literacy, science education and popularization of science, we focused on the Presentation of the document and on the articles in which these terms are present. A reading of the articles will indicate that the issue of scientific culture is strongly linked to education, causing the arguments to be constructed in the context of discursive formations engendered in the teaching-science- technology.
Scientific culture; science education; discourse analysis.