Ensino de biologia na educação básica: concepções e práticas

Abstract

This work addresses themes related to Biology Education in Basic Education. It takes as an object of study the speeches of teachers from different schools Network Official State Education of São Paulo about their practices related to the ministry of this discipline. The theoretical basis of the analysis is based on the thought of Paulo Freire, among other contributions, the following categories: dialogue, banking education, critical education, world reading and inconclusiveness. Thanks is also the notion of ecopedagogy category also linked to Freire tradition. Methodologically, it is a qualitative research documentary and empirical basis. In addition to resort to literature on the subject in question were carried out and subsequently analyzed, semi-structured interviews with six teachers of that school system. The results indicated that the exam developed here, which includes a small context of the great São Paulo school system, the practical biology teaching the teachers are, in general, still marked by a traditional pedagogical concept that, by its characteristics general, can be described as a banking education. Although there is evidence disclosed in the statements of respondents on determining conditions of this type of educational practice, the present study did not aim to explain its causes or to say whether this sets a hegemonic scenario of teaching this discipline in Network Official State Education Sao Paulo.