Ciências versus biologia: (des)encontro entre ensino fundamental e ensino médio

Abstract

The present study concerns a qualitative study. It originates from the teaching experience of its author in Science and Biology before the problem recurring on the lag of biological content by students in the transition from Elementary School to High School. Then there is a gap counterproductive to learning. Students show difficulties in following content within the Biology discipline, which have been studied during the Elementary School, even to a lesser degree of depth and complexity, in the discipline of Science. So the research question that guided this study was to identify what is the repertoire of knowledge in Biology that are present among beginning students of the 1st grade of High School, to identify a possible discrepancy and collect data that can guide actions to reduce the deficiencies of learning. For this, it was elaborated an Educational Product, the "Entering the High School: Notebook Diagnostic Contents Evaluation in Biology", which included 10 questions of knowledge studied in Science in Elementary School and will be deepened in Biology in 1st grade of High School. Each issue arranged in such material added justifications based on authors of the Sciences teaching area the outside and Brazil, as well as justifications issued by the teaching experience of the practice of the author/master student. The Notebook was implemented in March 2015 with three classes of 1st High School grade of a public school in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The choice of the three issues for analysis was the result of consideration of the number of hits/errors and on important considerations in made answers. The methodology used was Grounded Theory (Based Methodology in Data), in reason of to be a methodological approach that is born from the practice of research, allowing the proposed problem was tapped as a source of information, and analysis of qualitative data could be rooted (grounded) on the data collected. The survey covered 116 students and the results indicate the existence of a fragmentation of biological knowledge in Elementary-High School education interface, derived from various aspects, including political, social and bureaucratic, but also pedagogical, in which teachers can act. Using the Notebook provided information that configured subsidies assessment strategies and future actions. A diagnostic evaluation was useful for the teacher to analyze the knowledge brought by his students, and then direct their classes, looking fit methodologies and content to the most relevant needs of the class, seek curricular articulation, besides to grant the necessary attention to the evaluation process, among others, so that the students can indeed understand and participate in class. After all, if the teacher cannot interfere with the student's entry, can (and should) interfere with their output conditions.