Abordagem do tema vírus em uma escola pública de ensino médio em Fortaleza

Abstract

The importance of knowledge about virology for the education of the basic level student is notorious. Among many notable factors, there is the wide range of relevance that they provide to human knowledge, as in the ecological services provided by them, pharmacological and agronomic applications. However, there is a very recurrent microbiology-disease relationship in society, which may also have repercussions in the classroom, providing a limited view of reality for the students. Faced with this problem, this work has as the main objective to analyze the approach of the content related to viruses and the educational concepts of teachers about these microorganisms in a public high school. For this, a semi-structured interview was made with the school's Biology teachers. It was also made the analysis of the textbook adopted by this educational institution and used by the teachers for the formulation of their classes. After an interview, it is noteworthy that all teachers reported using the textbook as the main source of research for their classes. There is a predominance of lectures such as didactic modality and trends in their conceptions about viruses with emphasis given to the virus-human health relations. Still in relation to the book used, it has positive points as good illustrative images and text suitable for the audience it serves, but as negative points there is suppression of important information (e.g. viral replication).