COMO A GENÉTICA É TRABALHADA NOS CURSOS DE LICENCIATURA EM CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS NO ESTADO DE GOIÁS

Abstract

This is a documentary research whose approach is qualitative and quantitative, with the objective of investigating the subjects of the Genetics discipline of the Biological Sciences undergraduate courses in the State of Goiás, through a mapping that involved the Pedagogical Projects of Courses of the respective courses, with the purpose of reflecting on the contributions that the discipline brings to the training of future teachers of basic education biology. For this, it was analyzed how the syllabus of the subjects of genetics in said courses are structured. Authors of the area of Genetics, Genetics teaching, and education were used as a theoretical contribution to substantiate and support the analysis of the data collected. In the state of Goiás 44 courses of Biological Sciences are offered, licensing degree. The corpus of this research consisted of 16 PPC's of this universe of courses, of which 8 are from private HEIs and 8 from public HEIs, about 81% of the courses are in classroom course mode, 19% is distance. The great part of CBL courses originates in the state of Goiás, 81%, 13% originated in the state of São Paulo and 6% in the state of Rio de Janeiro. In the syllabus were found 26 disciplines related to the content of Genetics, distributed in 12 subtopics in Biological Sciences Degree in the State of Goiás, 23% of the courses offer only the discipline of Genetics based on the curriculum, in the other courses we perceive the fragmentation in levels of knowledge and the content of Genetics, this one is fragmented in a more specific area, each discipline presents a frequency that ranges from 4% to 11%. The duration of the course in Genetics in the courses is on average 57 hours (± 16), ranging from 32 to 100 hours, most of them have a frequency ranging from 60 to 80 hours along the course, the discipline is usually offered between the third and seventh period of the course. Of the 75 books cited in the syllabus over 50 have less than a decade of publication the remaining 25 are prior to 2008. The five most used works: GRIFFITHS et al, 2008 and 2013 (20%), SNUSTAD and SIMMONS, 2008 and 2013 (13%), HARTI, 2010 (8%), PIRCE, 2011 (6.5%), NUSSBAUM et al. al, 1993 and 2002 (4%). The number of books in the supplementary bibliography (107) is superior to that of basic references (75), but what is noticeable is that some authors that appear prominently are common to both bibliographies. The 5 most used works in the complement are: SNUSTAD, 2008 and 2010 (7,5%), KLUG et al 2010 (5,5%), GRIFFITHS et al, 2002, 2006 and 2008 (4,5%), BROWN 2009 and 2012 (3.5%), PIRCE, 2004, 2011 and 2012 (3.5%).Understanding that the course of Biological Sciences undergraduate Biology teachers to work in basic education and that the content of genetics is part of the curriculum, it is believed that this research serves as an alert so that the Structuring Faculty can review the menus and bibliographies used in this discipline. It should be emphasized that the Pedagogical Projects of Courses are going through compulsory reformulation according to the resolution National Council of Education - Full Council nº 2, of July 1, 2015 - It defines the National Curricular Guidelines for the initial formation in upper-level courses. A unique moment for the restructuring of the course with a view to improving the education of the elementary school teacher.