A description of the semiotic metaphor in biology teaching: assertions about the animal cell

Authors

  • Marlon Dantas Trevisan Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC - UNESP - Marília, SP
  • Marcelo Carbone Carneiro Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação para a Ciência - UNESP - Bauru Departamento de Ciências Humanas da FAAC - Unesp/Bauru, SP

Keywords:

metaphor, semiotics, sign, picture, speech sentence.

Abstract

The main objective of this survey is describing signly the metaphor learning resource, with focus on biology education. Our teorical reference is the peircean semiotics, because it means solid heritage to code surveys implicated at science education, it led us to do an explanation about the main lines about that reference, addressed to researchers and lecturers interested in those reasonings. In the description yearned, another objectives appear: demonstrate diferences between metaphor/analogy and pragmatic analogy; to list metaphors, from cell representation analysis, and argue about principals diferences and probable cognitive consequences between the metaphor event in the visual representation and speech sentences. Therefore we analysed the animal cell of a high school first grade studying book – biology – cell biology – used by São Paulo and another state students. The findings demonstrate the undeniable importance of the metaphor as a learning tool in the biology education, and new findings about that, such as its limits in the concept elaboration, gnosiologic consequences for receptioning, the search needs for propositions– pictures between concept relations – in the science speech construction, and other results.

Author Biography

  • Marlon Dantas Trevisan, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC - UNESP - Marília, SP
    Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC - UNESP - Marília, SP

Published

2016-09-14

How to Cite

A description of the semiotic metaphor in biology teaching: assertions about the animal cell. (2016). Investigations in Science Education, 14(3), 479-496. https://ienci.if.ufrgs.br/index.php/ienci/article/view/352

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