Here we present a partial profile of 24 science teachers enrolled in a project that explicit aimed at promoting science literacy. The teachers' answers to a questionnaire, complemented with interviews, enabled us to verify some elements related to teachers' objectives and importance attributed to school science and also the level of confidence these teachers declare to have to teach science in relation to other school topics. We verified that teachers rank the teaching of the mother language as more important than the teaching of science and indicate, as objectives for school science, the environmental education and the learning of concepts. Our most important remark is that, in their stage of professional development, these teachers can neither clearly explicit the implications the idea of science literacy can have to their school science objectives, nor conciliate this with the high value that it is attributed to the teaching of the mother language.
Teachers formation; Science education; Science literacy
