As concepções dos professores de ciências biológicas: relações entre a formação pedagógica e científica.

Abstract

The present study aim to understand the pedagogical and scientific conceptions of university professors who work in a licentiate course in biological sciences, as well as to understand the relations and distance between these two axes in the process of training these teachers for the university teaching profession. According to some authors (SANTOS 2010; CAPRA, 2002; MORIN, 2003) the positivist character, which has historically established in the natural science teachers formation, still very present in the field of teacher education in biological sciences and may have an impact on the teaching practice these are some of the hypotheses that motivated researchers to investigate the themes presented. Through semi -structured interview realized with university professors from the different disciplines of the major areas of biology, we sought to identify their understandings about teaching, pedagogical knowledge, methodologies, challenges of the education room, as well as their understanding of science, its evolution, its statements, the logic of its construction, its relation with society. The studies of Cunha (2000, 2007), Pimenta (2010), Almeida (2012), Veiga (2012) and Pérez-Goméz (1998), Santos (2004, 2010), Mayr (2005), Morin (2003) and others, supported the data analysis. The findings pointed out that the teaching of biology in the graduation course is based on the transmission of a static, ahistorical and timeless knowledge, prevailing the valorization of the knowledge of the specific scientific field on the pedagogical knowledge. It was also highlights that, despite understanding the needs of disruption with traditional teaching practices, teachers have few methodological and evaluative alternatives to put into practice, the result of a deficient pedagogical preparation in the scope of post-graduation, aggravated by the understanding that it suffices the scientific knowledge of the discipline to know how to teach it.