The sciences textbook at stake: a triangulation between analysis of units, conception of elementary school teachers and the insight of undergraduate students of biological sciences

• Autor(a) principal: Marinho, Julio Cesar Bresolin
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Gonçalves, Ana Caroline Machado, Ferraz, Joseane Salau, Glasenapp, Gabriele Milbradt, Garcia, Kevin Giovanni da Silva, Feliciani, Etienne Caroline Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Actio (Curitiba)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/actio/article/view/12013
• topic: Ciências Humanas; Educação; Livro didático; Ensino de Ciências; Formação de professores.; Textbook; Science education; Teacher training

The purpose of the work focused on carrying out a triangulation of evidences between the conceptions of elementary school Sciences teachers about the textbook (TB), analysis of the Sciences TB units used at schools in the town of São Gabriel - RS and finally analyze the conception of future Sciences and Biology teachers who will use the TB in their professional action. The research, of qualitative approach, established itself as exploratory. As research instruments, two open questionnaires were used to analyze the conceptions of the participants concerning the Sciences TB, one of them directed elementary school Sciences teachers and other answered by undergraduate students of Biological Sciences. The research participants were: six undergraduate students from the 5th semester of the graduation course in Biological Sciences of the Federal University of the Pampa – UNIPAMPA, São Gabriel Campus and three Sciences teachers from the public network of education of the town of São Gabriel - RS. The teachers mentioned they never had any training aimed at choosing the TB. The discourses show that, except at private schools, the process of choosing the TB is carried out by the teachers themselves. We highlight that the choice of the book is carried out based on some criteria. The teachers usually consider the TB as “good”. Concerning the amount of books available for the number of students sometimes it is not enough precluding the possibility of having the TB taken home and therefore only being used at school. The TB in Sciences classes is used as a support, mainly for the resolution of exercises. In the analysis of the TB units, eight aspects were pointed out: presentation; language; visual resources; exercises and proposed activities; relationship Science, Technology and Society; contextualization and interdisciplinarity; complementary material; problems and/or absences/mistakes observed. According to the undergraduate students’ perception about the TB it has been observed that, previous to the analytical activity, these were wrong. The main positive aspect highlighted in the TB, by the undergraduate students, were the proposed activities. As absences/mistakes/problems found in the material, most pointed out the texts, claiming that they are very short. The undergraduate students pointed out that the activity of TB analysis collaborated for their training, contributing for the development of a better critical sense; providing a reflection on how Sciences themes are proposed to be carried out in elementary education; enabled them to have another opinion about the use of the TB, noticing that it can be a powerful resource. Through the data triangulation we inferred that some coordinated work is necessary, in which the graduation courses problematize aspects concerning the choice of the TB and present the potentials of their usage for future teachers; implementation of periodic analysis of the collection approved by the PNLD in order to check how the themes are proposed as well as the quality of the materials; work on continuous training of teachers so that they can set clear criteria which enable them for a more aware and critical choice of the TB they will use.