O ensino da evolução biológica sob a perspectiva da construção do conhecimento

Abstract

The teaching of biological evolution is one of the most complex issues within the biology education and is considered by many authors as the axis that integrates all the knowledge studied in the biological field. This study aimed to investigate the pedagogical possibilities of a practice further opportunity to build knowledge on the theme "Biological Evolution" in a class of 1st year of the Polytechnic School of the State network Pelotas. The research relies on epistemological Genática of Jean Piaget and the theory that guides the conceptual change model. It is characterized as an action research aimed at constant reflection on the pedagogical practice. The research was carried out ten meetings with a group of the 1st. Year of high school, to develop a unit where different teaching resources were used. The work of students were registered individually and collectively, with a view to monitoring their concepts and constructs. Data were analyzed in a qualitative approach, involving the Descriptive Analysis of the activities developed in the classroom and monitoring of learning and content analysis, where the works of students, daily field to practice accompaniments and records the construction of knowledge were categorized and theorized.