A compreensão e o ensino da evolução biológica pelos docentes de escolas públicas no município de Maracanaú-Ce.

Abstract

The Biological Evolution has a great importance to the comprehension to Biology studies, as well as to citizens‟ formation, since it is considered the main point for a better comprehension of biological processes. This work intends to verify the main views presented by teachers‟ high school biology at public schools at Maracanaú’s city (Ceará), about evolution as well as its way of dealing with it on a day-to-day, especially in controversial issues surrounding the evolutionary theory. For this, we applied a questionaries to the biology teachers in these schools between April and November 2015. In the analysis of these questionaries, it was verified that teachers have some difficulties to these study thoughts of Biologic Evolution, especially to the concept and meaning of natural selection to control of evolution evidences, of mistaken conceptions sometimes connected to questionably designated as such scientific knowledge. Evolutionary biology, in our reality, is not a priority up to its potential and importance, in order to contribute to the needs of society in the field of their social applications, such as in research, combat genetic diseases and treatment and plant breeding, thus ensuring survival of living beings.