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Ensino da biologia e geologia no Ensino Secundário:exames e trabalho experimental

Authors: Preto, Alexandra Isabel da Assunção;

Ensino da biologia e geologia no Ensino Secundário:exames e trabalho experimental

Abstract

No âmbito da actual reforma curricular do Ensino Secundário surge a disciplina bienal de Biologia e Geologia com o principal objectivo de contribuir para o aumento da literacia científica dos jovens portugueses. Para a sua concretização, os professores deverão promover um ensino prático de natureza experimental, principalmente de tipo investigativo. Contudo, constatou-se que continuavam a oferecer resistência à mudança, perpetuando rotinas de trabalho experimental fortemente embebidas no ensino por transmissão. De modo a aferir se as aprendizagens veiculadas nos documentos oficiais estão a ser desenvolvidas, nomeadamente as que se relacionam com o trabalho experimental, o Ministério da Educação implementou, em 2006, os exames nacionais à disciplina de Biologia e Geologia. Neste contexto, esta investigação tem como objectivo averiguar que influências exercem na recontextualização do programa de Biologia e Geologia do 11º ano no que se refere ao trabalho experimental. Para este efeito, realizou-se um estudo de natureza qualitativa segundo uma abordagem interpretativa. Os participantes foram três professores a leccionarem a disciplina de Biologia e Geologia ao 11º ano em escolas situadas na área da grande Lisboa e 30 dos seus alunos. Como métodos de recolha de dados seguiu-se a observação, a entrevista semi-estruturada e a análise documental. Após a análise dos dados verifica-se que os professores reconhecem que os exames nacionais, à semelhança do programa que pretendem avaliar, apresentam um elevado nível de exigência conceptual e apelam ao desenvolvimento de várias competências. Contudo, ao constituírem-se como provas escritas e de duração limitada, acabam por não avaliar, entre outras competências, as que se associam com o domínio prático do trabalho experimental. Esta constatação, aliada à grande quantidade de conteúdos programáticos que os professores são compelidos a cumprir, poderá ter contribuído para que, muito embora reconhecessem a importância do trabalho experimental, o tenham implementado com pouca frequência e sem a qualidade desejada

Under the current Secondary Education curriculum reform appears the biennial subject of Biology and Geology with the aim of contributing to the increase of Portuguese students' scientific literacy. To perform this educational aim, teachers should promote an experimental teaching, especially of investigative nature. However, it appears that teachers continue to offer resistance to change, perpetuating routines of experimental work strongly embedded in the transmission approach. In order to ascertain whether the learning carried by the official documents are being developed, particularly those related to the experimental work, the Ministry of Education implemented, in 2006, national examination to the subject of Biology and Geology. Thus, this research goal is to investigate the influence of national examinations in the recontextualization of Biology and Geology syllabi in the 11th grade with regard to the experimental work. To this end, it was done a qualitative study according to an interpretative approach. The participants were three Biology and Geology teachers from schools situated in the outskirts of Lisbon and 30 of their 11th grade students. Data collection methods were observation, semi‐structured interviews and documentary analysis. After data analysis it appears that teachers recognize that national examinations, like the syllabi they are based on, have a high level of conceptual demand and appeal for the development of various competences. However, being a written test of limited duration, they do not assess, among other competences, those that are associated with the practical field of experimental work. This finding and the large amount of syllabi content that teachers are compelled to teach, may have contributed to a low frequency and therefore, a low quality of experimental work in Biology and Geology classes, although teachers recognize its importance

Tese de mestrado, Educação (Didáctica das Ciências), 2008, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa

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Didáctica das ciências, Educação, Teses de mestrado

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