Muito Além da Dolly: as "novidades científicas" em sala de aula
AUTOR(ES)
Maria Letícia Felicori Tonelli e Teixeira Leite
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2004
RESUMO
This work aims to understand teacher’s point of view on scientific news, specifically the ones concerning Genetics/Evolution/Biotechnology available information which arrives in classroom. Thus, the focus of the research rises upon the understanding of teachers’ attitudes and the variety of ways in which they use the scientific news within their classrooms. The research has used interviews as the main data collection strategy to build a case study with three biology schoolteachers. The main assumption of the work is that school subjects have a dynamic characteristic, changing according to the community upon which the school is placed, and that teachers build specific knowledge hemselves. From this perspective, the research targets to specify the mechanisms used by teachers to deal with tensions in classroom caused by the informing of counter-intuitive (and therefore surprising) scientific news. Taking into account how influent is the reference science to determine biology teaching contents at school,the research studies several interactions that teachers establish when confronted with different knowledge modalities. Also, these interactions can produce behaviours that range from scientific knowledge updating to specific ways to control a classroom. Finally, by the use of the current stage of biological knowledge and its social consequences, the research contributes to understand not only new trends in biology teaching, but also Genetics/ Evolution/ Biotechnology school subject contents.
ASSUNTO(S)
s knowledge didactic transposition teacher’ educacao ensino de biologia biology teaching transposição didática professores - formação ciência - estudo e ensino saberes docentes
