Pangenesis and heredity: a historical and philosophical approach in elementary school

• Autor(a) principal: do Amaral, Priscila
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Guerra, Andréia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Alexandria (Florianópolis)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/alexandria/article/view/1982-5153.2017v10n1p143

This article presents the results of a study conducted to analyze which elements on the construction of science students of the eighth grade of elementary school problematized along a historical and contextual study of heredity, from the introduction of the hypothesis of pangenesis, prepared by Charles Darwin. The research was conducted over a pedagogical approach based on strategy called three axes, which aims a more contextual approach to science, presenting artistic elements, technical and scientific the study period. To build the research we used the methodology of action-research and we use the framework of discursive textual analysis to analyze the data collected. Among the results discussed, we emphasize that students problematized contextual issues students problematized contextual issues like slavery in Brazil. During the research, we observed some challenges related to the history of science insertion in elementary school, cultural approach to science, indicating future research prospects.