ARAUJO, Cosma Taise Silva de.
Abstract:
Science is a vast field, which includes zoology to be taught in regular education classes,
however, Brazilian education is full of obstacles and gaps. For this reason, this research is
necessary to provide an overview of how zoology is being taught in Brazil. Therefore, this
study's objective is to describe how the teaching of zoology in Brazil has been approached,
based on the analysis of the publication of scientific studies that evaluated the institutional
content of Zoology in the last 10 years in scientific dissemination journals. for this reason, data
collection was carried out on scientific indicators, using some descriptors: “zoology”, “science
teaching”, “biology teaching” and “taxonomic groups”. Afterward, a screening was carried out
to retrieve the documents that would serve as data. Once this was completed, another screening
was carried out so that the academic works were separated by Brazilian geographic region,
taxonomic groups, teaching approaches, and level of education. Finally, these data were crossed
to better explain the results. With this methodology, the results were that the group most worked
on were invertebrates, the region that presented the most data was the Northeast, the level of
education that had the greatest quantification was elementary school and different types of
approaches educational. For data crossing, the following result was obtained in the Northeast
region, which stood out both in the teaching of vertebrates and in the teaching of invertebrates,
with different types of approaches. it is concluded that zoology is well worked on in the
classroom, especially in the Northeast of Brazil, this is at least when scholars in the scientific
field go to the classroom and that to overcome the barriers of school education, investments in
policies are necessary public for this área.
