Estratégia de ensino baseada em Questões Sociocientíficas (QSC) na disciplina de Biologia do ensino médio da rede pública estadual de Cruz das Almas-BA

Abstract

Due to the environmental problems that have occurred over decades by human action, educational politics are needed to improve teaching methodologies, to contribute to the formation of critical citizens socio-environmentally, thus uniting education, environment and society. Therefore, Environmental Education (EE) should be treated in a transversal and interdisciplinary perspective in school subjects: science and biology, because there are several methods to work on this theme and one of these is the contextualization through Socioscientific Issues (SQS), which are configured by dealing with issues that occur in everyday life and are usually associated with themes of study of Science, Technology, Society and Environment (STEM), which are topics of wide discussion in society. One of the environmental problems occurring today is noise pollution in aquatic ecosystems, which has been causing several impacts on this environment, especially on aquatic mammals such as the Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis). Therefore, the objective of this work is to evaluate a teaching strategy based on Social Scientific Questions (SQS) related to the conservation of marine ecosystems in the Biology discipline in the public high school in Cruz das Almas - BA. This is a qualitative research of investigative nature, developed through the application of a structured questionnaire via "Google forms", based on the perceptions of high school Biology teachers about a Socioscientific Issue, based on the environmental problem occurring in the Todos Santos Bay, Bahia, related to the effects of noise pollution from boats on the grey river dolphin (Sotalia guianensis). From the data analysis, understand if the Biology teachers have knowledge about education with STEM focus, and about SQS. They work on Environmental Education through parallel interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary projects and in some content during the classes. About the SQS presented, they pointed out as an efficient teaching strategy for the promotion of Environmental Education related to the marine ecosystem, and that they would apply it in their Biology classes, but would also make some adaptations to fit their realities within the teaching practice.