DNA, the heredity molecule: history science in teacher continuous training

• Autor(a) principal: França, Beatriz Segantini
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Augusto, Thaís Gimenez da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Alexandria (Florianópolis)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/alexandria/article/view/68023

The importance of the History of Science (HS) approach in science teaching has been gaining prominence in research for some decades; however, there is a need for teacher training on the subject. In order to overcome this deficit, a meeting of teacher continuous training was held with 18 teachers from a Teaching Board of the interior of São Paulo, with the theme “DNA, a molecule of heredity”. The present work aims to analyze this encounter through the participant teachers' conceptions about HS, with emphasis on the historical episode of the proposal of the DNA molecule model and its relations with teaching. For this, a qualitative research was conducted, with data collection through questionnaires and filming of the meeting. The results showed that teachers did not study or studied HS very superficially on this theme during their undergraduate course, they evaluated the approach of the theme in the teaching material used by them as insufficient and consider that the meeting of teacher continuous training brought important elements that will contribute to their practice pedagogical.