O ensino da ecologia em diálogo com a cultura afro-brasileira na formação inicial de professores de ciências e biologia: uma análise da disciplina de metodologia de ensino em ecologia

Abstract

Afro-Brazilian culture has always been greatly undervalued in the formation process of Brazil and the Brazilian people. From this perspective that the discipline of Ecology Teaching Methodology of the Federal University of Lavras brought the proposal of working the contents of Ecology in dialogue with the Afro-Brazilian culture. This aim was for the licenciandos to know, recognize and value this culture. Thus, the present work aims to investigate if the students succeeded in establishing a dialogue between Afro-Brazilian culture and teaching in ecology and how they did it. For this analysis was used the qualitative method, and within this the analysis of content with the categorization. With this analysis we perceive the importance of this theme in teacher training, so that they can take to the classroom a contextualized and transversal teaching that recognizes the contribution of these people to this Brazilian plural society.