Banca de DEFESA: ANA JULIA SOARES SANTANA

TEACHING THROUGH RESEARCH AND BIOLOGY: AN INVESTIGATIVE ACTIVITY ABOUT FUNGI IN HIGH SCHOOL

Keywords: Teaching by Research, Fungi, Nature of Biology; Scientific Literacy, New High School.

This dissertation deals with Teaching by Research in the Teaching of Biology from a perspective of Scientific Literacy and the Nature of Science Biology, the work starts from the challenges and possibilities of the approach through the context of Brazilian public schools with a view to providing a teaching of Biology that meets the purpose of Scientific Literacy. Thus, the research aims to investigate the implementation of an Investigative Activity in the teaching of Biology from a perspective of Scientific Literacy in a High School class of a public school in Alagoas. In view of this, the methodology was of the qualitative type based on a case study in a class of the first year of High School in the component of Laboratory of Experimental Practices that make up the Alagoas Program of Integral Education. Data collection took place through the recording and transcription of classes and the recording of students from the development of an Investigative Activity on fungi, which were submitted to Discursive Textual Analysis. The results were organized into three categories: the elements of Teaching by Inquiry in an Investigative Activity on fungi, in which the key activities of the Investigative Activity developed were discussed; the indicators of Scientific Literacy emerged in the implementation of the Investigative Activity on fungi, presenting the indicators of the process; contributions of the Didactic Approach to the Nature of Biology, emphasizing the approach of the Nature of Science Biology in the proposed activities, which was characterized by the time and ethical implications of experiments with living beings. Finally, it was possible to highlight the main results related to the implications of teacher training for the use of the approach, especially in relation to class and time management during application, as well as the importance of the approach for the emergence of CA indicators; adequacy to the characteristics of Biology, namely: methodology for the study of fungi, time required, bioethics and biosafety; in addition to highlighting the importance of the Biology laboratory for the development of activities such as the one proposed, results that subsidized considerations about the potential of Teaching by Research for the teaching of fungi, the main one being the possibility of addressing the aspects of time and ethics of the Nature of Biology.