Análise do conteúdo de ecologia em livros didáticos: uma contribuição para professores de ciências e biologia.

Abstract

Ws through the Textbook that most public school students acquire information, and in some cases the only text that students have. Therefore, the analysis of this material is increasingly necessary, especially about the content of Ecology, due some textbooks had errors and teachers have to select what best suits of the content and of your school. Moreover, scientific discoveries are a continuous process, and instructional materiais need to be always updated. The objective of this work was to analyze the content of Ecology in some textbooks of Elementary and Secondary Education, adopted by three public schools: one of them in the city of Fagundes -PB and two in the city of Cuité -PB. The analysis occurred between December/2013 and february/2014, being used six textbooks and applying methodological criteria, developed according to the Guide Textbook of the National Textbook, Brazil. Among the six books reviewed two were considered fully satisfactory, two as satisfactory and two as totally unsatisfactory. No book was considered unsatisfactory. After the analysis, guidelines have been proposed for the analysis of textbooks, altemative suggestions for teaching Ecology's contents and indicates the best textbook that analyzed.