A abordagem da paleontologia nos trabalhos apresentados no Encontro Nacional de Ensino de Biologia

Abstract

Paleontology is the science that investigates the beings of the past and understands broad issues in many areas. The teaching of paleontology is still very restricted and is not part of the formal curriculum, being worked succinctly and punctually. That is why it is important to disseminate scientific work of teachers in the classroom, in addition to non-formal education. The main objective of the study was to analyze the papers pub-lished at the National Meeting of Teaching of Biology (ENEBIO) on the approach of teaching Paleontology. This analysis was documentary, qualitative and we used three categories of analysis for teaching conceptions: technical, practical and critical / eman-cipatory. Of a total of 1,265 papers published in the ENEBIO, only five abstracts were related to the teaching area of Paleontology. As for the conceptions, we obtained three works of the technical type and two practical ones, and the critical design was not found in any of the works analyzed. Therefore, we can infer that in higher education paleon-tology is worked in a technical and practical way.