O bioma caatinga na concepção dos professores de ciências do município de Serra Branca-PB.

Abstract

This work presents a survey on the educational scope focusing on teaching science in elementary education in the municipality of Serra Branca, highlighting the Caatinga, analyzing the conceptions of science teachers about this biome that covers the region in which the city is entered.Thus, this work aims at identifying and analyzing the conceptions of science teachers of elementary schools that operate in the municipality of Serra Branca about the Caatinga region in which the city is entered. The survey was used assumptions of qualitative research, using the method of Phenomenological Research, in that in the first phase was carried out a review of literature on the evolution of science education and the formation of the science teacher, and definitions for the concept of the Caatinga, with fieldwork conducted in schools: school middle and high school State Senator Jose Gaudentius and Municipal school Canon Joao Marques Pereira. During the conduct of field research, was used the following data collection techniques to semi-structured interviews with application of questionnaires to teachers. This research on the design of science teachers in relation to the Caatinga, in addition to checking the knowledge these teachers on the biome, also will serve, although implicitly, to analyze the ability of these professionals for a new vision of teaching about the Caatinga, destroying (pre) concepts of Caatinga and heading towards a Contextualised Education for Coexistence with the Brazilian Semi-arid.