Experimentation in biology teaching: What teachers in a public school in Ourilândia do Norte (Pará State, Brazil) do/say

Authors

  • Bruno de Oliveira Lins Licenciado em Biologia pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará
  • Dalva Ferreira dos Santos Licenciada em Biologia pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará
  • Renato Silva Araújo Mestrando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em Ciências e Matemáticas (PPGECM).
  • João Manoel da Silva Malheiro Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em Ciências e Matemática (UFPA). Faculdade de Pedagogia do Campus Castanhal (UFPA).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2014.181.2620

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the reasons why biology teachers in a public school of Ourilândia do Norte (PA) have used (or not) the experimentation during their classes. The held experimentations are restricted to study course books (Lopes, 1994) and are intended to validate theories, demonstrating the way how problems are evaluated and not giving credits to them as a possibility to contribute to the students learning (Campanário and Moya, 1999). We applied to analysis the descriptive, interpretative and analytical method of the researched knowledge in the fi eld of the constitution of information. Aiming to validate the results, we also applied a qualitative approach, substantiated by interviews with teachers of biology. Although teachers claim that the experimental classes signifi cantly contribute to the processes of teaching and learning, a few things have been done to implement this practice. We can infer that teachers must seek for concrete and innovative ways that will provide a teaching and a learning of sciences more consistent with the student’s social, cultural and scientifi c real needs; and, about the speeches analyzed here, we believe that the problematical experimental practice is one of the ways that can engender this change, whether in a laboratory or a classroom.

Keywords: biology teaching, teaching and learning, problematical experimentation.

Author Biographies

Bruno de Oliveira Lins, Licenciado em Biologia pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará

Licenciado em Biologia pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará

Dalva Ferreira dos Santos, Licenciada em Biologia pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará

Licenciada em Biologia pelo Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará

Renato Silva Araújo, Mestrando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em Ciências e Matemáticas (PPGECM).

Professor da Secretaria Estadual de Educação do Pará, Rodovia Augusto Montenegro Km 10, S/N, CEP: 66.820-000, Icoaraci, Belém, Pará, Brasil.

João Manoel da Silva Malheiro, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em Ciências e Matemática (UFPA). Faculdade de Pedagogia do Campus Castanhal (UFPA).

Professor do programa de pós-graduação em educação em Ciências e Matemática da Universidade Federal do Pará. Professor da Faculdade de Pedagogia do Campus de Castanhal da UFPA.

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Published

2013-12-02

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2014): January/April

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