Documental analysis of Brazilian academic production about evolution teaching (1990-2010): characterization and proposals

Authors

  • Caio Samuel Franciscati da Silva Faculdade de Ciências – UNESP, campus de Bauru – Dept° de Psicologia Av. Eng. Luiz Edmundo Carrijo Coube, 14-01, Bauru – SP, CEP - 17033-360
  • Jair Junior Lopes Faculdade de Ciências – UNESP, campus de Bauru – Dept° de Psicologia Av. Eng. Luiz Edmundo Carrijo Coube, 14-01, Bauru – SP, CEP - 17033-360

Keywords:

documental analysis, biology teaching, evolution teaching.

Abstract

The quantitative and qualitative increasing of researches in Science teaching imposes the periodical mapping need of scientific production about the subject, with a view to identify its own characteristics and tendencies. In this context, researches such as “State of art”, given his executrix character, constitute in modality inquiring that allow us to outline historical scenes for a given area (or subarea) of knowledge. In this light, this work aims to outline the panorama of Brazilian academic production, represented by dissertations and thesis, in evolution teaching between 1990- 2010. The documents susceptible of analysis were raised in three online data basis and its selection happened from the reading of titles, abstracts and key-words with views to identify the dissertations and thesis that truly approached the Evolution Teaching. The found results evidence the predominance of dissertations related to the number of thesis and the concentration of academic production in Evolution Teaching in Brazil south-east region, especially in São Paulo state. In researches trends we verified the prevalence of investigations related to the previous conceptions of students and professors (in all teaching levels) and to teacher training.

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Published

2016-06-13

How to Cite

da Silva, C. S. F., & Lopes, J. J. (2016). Documental analysis of Brazilian academic production about evolution teaching (1990-2010): characterization and proposals. Investigations in Science Education, 18(2), 505–521. Retrieved from https://ienci.if.ufrgs.br/index.php/ienci/article/view/142

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2013): August of 2013

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