Ensino de zoologia no Brasil: uma revisão literária dos últimos dez anos.

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.