The teaching of the themes “Origin of life” and “Biological evolution” in Brazilian dissertations and theses

Abstract

The present research is derived from State of Art and it aims to highlight what is being produced in academic researches, in the form of dissertations and theses, from 2006 to 2016, regarding the teaching of the themes Origin of Life and Biological Evolution. the analysis was performed using pre-printed descriptors based on Megid Neto (1999) and Teixeira (2008). 78 articles were found, being 65 dissertations and 16 theses. Half of the papers are dissertations on teaching Biological Evolution, and only one thesis investigates the teaching of the Origin of Life. We found three issues that were not well investigated in the researches: Curriculum and Programs, Non-Formal Education and School Organization. These results, as well as the researches focused on the analysis of academic production, can contribute to the deployment of more specific proposals of teaching formation and improvements in the teaching-learning of this theme.

Keywords

• educação em biologia
• evolução
• origem da vida
• estado da arte