O ensino da microbiologia na educação básica: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

The Brazilian research has grown extensively in many areas of microbiology. However, there are few academic papers that address the issue the teaching of microbiology in basic education. In this context, the aim of this study was to review the literature on teaching of microbiology in basic education. For this five databases (SciELo, Institutional Repository UFBA, Google Scholar, bank of theses and dissertations Public Domain and Base Acervus) were chosen to perform the bibliographic survey using the following descriptors: microbiology, micro-organisms and teaching microbiology. Found 248.475 works with microbiology descriptor, 178.902 with the descriptor micro-organisms and only 120 works with the teaching microbiology descriptor. In the second stage of the work the abstracts related teaching microbiology were read and selected those work related to the following categories theoretical: perception of students of basic education about teaching microbiology, perception of the teacher's basic teaching on teaching microbiology, continuing teacher training and practices carried out about microbiology. After reading the abstracts was selected a total of 11 papers, four related first category, one related second category, two on the third category and five that address the fourth theoretical category. Based on the analysis of different themes such discussions, it was observed that although teaching microbiology to be very important, it is still little discussed and, in addition, this study showed that most students only know that micro-organisms cause disease. One of the strategies for change that is to continue investing in the continued formation of teachers and production of innovative teaching materials for learners. Thus, can contribute to a student significant learning.