Perspectivas de professores e estudantes em relação à utilização de textos de divulgação científica(TDC) em oficinas pedagógicas de genética

Abstract

The way Biology contents are taught at school are generally limited to the simple accomplishment of textbooks table of contents and the knowledge is presented as ready, absolute and truthful. This teaching crystallization that is based only on a noncontextualized knowledge transmission in a way provokes a disconnection between what is learned at school and the students reality. Considering that, we suggested the use of Science Divulgation Texts (TDC) through pedagogical workshops, aiming at putting together social problems and the school context, as well as to foster experiences that make possible a critical and significant reading of the information. Three workshops were made up: Genetics in the media: stem cells; Stem cells: do they save?; and Cloning: producing franksteins?. Different aspects related to this theme are discussed in the workshops. The workshops were offered to 89 school teachers, 77 students from UFSM and also students from the public education system in Santa Maria city. The data informed by the implementations was collected through two tools: Field Diary and Questionnaire and they were analyzed through the discourse analysis perspective. It was evidenced through the registers and participants narratives that most of them were favorable to the workshops development, because they affirmed that they proportioned a space of reflection, experience exchange and problematization of Science contents. The TDC reading is relevant in way that most of the participants attributed sense to the texts read, relating them to the context lived by them, building the most varied discourses. However, a non-critical and centered on traditional models reading, besides the attachment to determined behaviors and conceptions of some participants were limits to be overcome in the workshops and also in the education process in a general way. We believe that the overcome of such barriers are to develop more dialogic and problematizing practices that stimulate a critical sense and prepare people properly to the life in society. This study fits in the Line of Research: Curriculum, Education and School Practices in the Post-Graduate Program in Education at UFSM.