Análise de metodologias de ensino em genética em escolas da rede estadual de ensino médio de Santarém-PA

Abstract

The present article searched analyzing how biology teachers introduce and develop, in their teaching practices certain methodologies in the high schools of this city. This research also aims to allow, for other teachers and researchers, access to teachers' perceptions of how they use different methodologies in the classroom, the difficulties they face in employing and implement them with school’s reality. The methodological construction of this research is qualitative, interpretative and descriptive. The technique used for data collection consisted of structured interviews in a questionnaire, adapted from the researches of Lima and Vasconcelos (2006), and Wieman and Gilbert (2014), containing both multiple choice and discursive questions. For content analysis, Bardin (2004) was used as a reference. 90% of teachers consider the experiences and concepts previously carried by students before the classes. Regarding the strategies performed by the teachers, it was observed the implementation of various strategies in their planning, however, the most frequent are expository classes. The present study allowed us to verify that in teachers’ perceptions the lack of time, resources and structure in schools are the factors that most interfere in the didactic process and consequently in the students' learning. Among the schools participating in the research, the majority do not have enough apparatus for teacher develop comfortably the use of alternative methodologies to the teaching of Genetics.