A natureza da Biologia: um olhar para a prática docente

Abstract

In times of rampant dissemination of misinformation, it becomes essential to promote a pedagogical practice of the Biology teacher that seeks to foster the Biological Literacy of the subjects so that they are able to make choices that benefit not only themselves, but also the community. With this in mind, this work had as its general objective to investigate how the Nature of Biology is considered in the practice of the teacher of this school subject. To achieve this purpose, the methodological proposition is classified as an applied research whose approach is Case Study (Yin, 2015). We chose the Direct Observation and Semi-structured Interview techniques to obtain the data that were analyzed through Bardin's Content Analysis (2016). Three Biology teachers working in public high schools participated in this research. After analyzing the interviews, the following categories emerged: General perceptions of biology teachers about the nature of this science and Intersections in the teaching practice of biology teachers: challenges, limitations and possibilities when dealing with the specificities of this science. In general, it was found that the subjects participating in this research have conceptions that are not very close to the nature of biology, an aspect that directly interferes in their pedagogical practice and compromises the biological literacy of students. Finally, thinking about the insertion of the nature of biology in teaching practice, we produced a technicaltechnological product containing a dichotomous key for identifying terrestrial apodous vertebrates.