Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências (Jan 2010)

TEORIAS DA ORIGEM E EVOLUÇÃO DA VIDA: DILEMAS E DESAFIOS NO ENSINO MÉDIO

  • Paulo Roberto de Araújo Porto,
  • Eliane Brígida Morais Falcão

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 3
pp. 13 – 30

Abstract

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This work analyses the social representation of high school students group in a catholic school about the origin os living things, highlighting the man and woman arising. Its was foccused trough the subject collective discourse (SCD) methodology. The results shows that the analyzed group has vigorous religious characteristics althrough opened to scientific explication. Their discourses revealed religious influence, but it did not denote that those were obstacles for dread the teaching content the scientific scope. They showed, before, fault sign in approach school topic. In their social representations, the family¿s influence seems to be more important than the ones from school activities.