O direito dos animais e o ensino de biologia: uma analise a partir dos livros didáticos

Abstract

The discussion about animal rights assumes, in the current context, a great relevance. Over the last few decades, animal rights defensors have obteined many achievements, and many laws have been created in order that the basic rights of not feeling, pain, hunger, fear, anguish, and stress were preserved. Human beings and animals have many differences, but despite of these differences, both have a similarity that is the capacity to suffer, which in itself would be enough to treat animals equally to humans. Therefore the objective of this research was to perform an analysis of the way animals are treated in textbooks, trying to evaluate the theoretical part and the visual part of the books of the Biology discipline. Data were collected through a documentary analysis of textbooks used in the public school system of the Núcleo Regional de Educação de Dois Vizinhos - PR. It was a survey of qualitative data that aimed to analyze how the Rights of Animals are disseminated, represented and ensured in teaching materials. The result of the research shows that the didactic materials, in the three volumes analyzed, do not mention the right of the animals at the moment. The negligence of teaching materials in animal law creates numerous problems, because it ignores students' awareness of animal rights and the consequent ethical obligation of man to animals. In addition, it induces a formative process still anthropocentric that intends to affirm the principle of superiority and domination of man over animals. School and education as trainers of future citizens can not ignore this problem. Numerous species are threatened and man has the responsibility and the ethical obligation not to destroy them and to preserve their life and ecosystems.