Abordagem da embriologia humana em livros didáticos de ciências - PNLD/2017

Abstract

In this research, it was analyzed the human embryology contents in Science textbooks approved by PNLD/2017. The main objective was to evaluate how the contents of human embryology were addressed in 8th grade science textbooks, from Projeto Teláris and Jornadas-Ciências collections, belonging to PNLD/2017. These books were used by science teachers and in initiation to regency by the Pedagogical Residency Program, in two schools of the state network of Ponta Grossa/PR, in institutional partnership with the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Campus Ponta Grossa. The research was documental in nature, with qualitative analysis of the didactic contents based on the content analysis proposed by Moraes (1999). These human embryology contents were identified in both volumes of textbooks, followed by the verification of the use of illustrations in the text-image interface as visual representations of human embryology. In continuity, the proposals of activities were analyzed and characterized as descriptive and interpretive or that enable debate, interpretation and research. The analysis also allowed to evaluate the need to approach the theme pregnancy in adolescence together with human embryology. The results evidenced that the LD1 approaches the content in a more scarce way, where the correlation of the other contents with the main theme is made only when necessary. What was observed in LD2 is that there is a contrary situation to LD1, because it correlates the content with the main theme from the beginning, which enables better understanding by students. In summary, it is understood that both books, keeping their specificities, contribute satisfactorily with the approach of the contents of human embryology in order to contribute to the development of notions and student learning, their training as a reader and social performance, so that their choices are better for themselves and for others.