Integration between general and professional training and approach CTS: analysis of an educational practice of biology in professional and technological education

Abstract

This research is inserted in the field of Professional and Technological Education in the interface with Science Education and studies on Science-Technology-Society. This is a case study from an ethnographic perspective, in which we sought to characterize a set of Biology classes, at a Federal School, guided by the following questions: the teaching of Biology occurs in order to promote or hinder integration between general and professional training? Are science, technology and society present in the investigated educational practice? Is the Science-Technology-Society approach linked to the characterization of this practice from the point of view of integration? From the perspective of the teacher and the interviewed students, integration does not happen in the investigated educational practice, and science, technology and society are present, but contingently and not explicitly interrelated so that basic and specific knowledge are part of the curriculum in an articulated and integrated way. It was concluded that the integration between general and professional training could have been enhanced by the effective presence of the Science-Technology-Society approach.

Keywords

• integração entre formação geral e profissional
• abordagem cts
• educação profissional e tecnológica
• currículo
• prática educativa
• ensino de biologia