Espaços não formais de educação como campos de atuação profissional do licenciando em Biologia: as vozes dos educadores em formação

Abstract

Education is a broad and comprehensive process that takes place throughout an individual's life, permeated by culture, history and the experience of the subject who learns, through socialization and mediation systems, which takes place in different spaces and times and which are capable of contributing to human development and learning. Depending on the formal education, offered in the school space, in the non-school environment and, therefore, non- formal, it is also possible to promote learning situations, knowledge construction and training, in addition to entertainment and leisure, being of great importance for the expansion subject's repertoire. In this perspective, the objective of this study was to analyze the perceptions of students of the Degree in Biology about the possibilities of professional performance in different non-formal educational spaces. For the expansion of understanding about non-formal spaces of education and scientific dissemination, the readings of authors such as Marandino (2017); Oliveira (2011); Romanzini (2009); Jacobucci (2008), Gohn (2006) among others. It was a qualitative research, of the exploratory type, which had the participation of 12 students of the Degree in Biology, with whom a semi-open questionnaire was applied, using the thematic content analysis procedure. As a result, it was noticed that the participants showed interest in studying and knowing the non-formal spaces, reasonably understand that they are opportune for the professional exercise of the educator in Biology, as well as recognizing the differences between what he does in the spaces addressed and at school. Some undergraduates expressed limited understanding in relation to non-formal spaces for culture and scientific dissemination, despite realizing that they broaden the knowledge and experiences of people who circulate in different environments, such as museums, zoos, botanical gardens, herbariums, planetariums, etc. It is concluded that the graduate in Biology is an education professional who learns continuously and who can work in different educational contexts, be it school (formal) or non- formal. However, it is up to the undergraduate course that the research participants undertake to invest in this object of knowledge and bring students closer to non-formal spaces during initial training, so that they assimilate and see the professional possibilities that non-formal education spaces offer them.