A teoria da evolução no currículo de biologia

Abstract

This paper is fundamentedon the historical-critical pedagogy to discuss the importance of having the evolutionary theory as central in the biology curriculum of the primary education, in view of the school social function of creating the subjective conditions to overcome capitalism through the socialization of the historical knowledge produced by humanity, and the upbringing of critical conscience. From this discussion a research was done to investigate the number of scientific papers in Brazil regarding the centrality of evolutionary theory for the biology curriculum, aiming to contribute with the works that build arelation between the historical-critical pedagogy and the science and biology curriculum. 23 papers were selected, which are about proposals for the construction of the curricular component “Natural Sciences” and analysis of state curricula already built, about pedagogical proposals for the teaching of evolution, about the evolution theory in textbooks, about the acceptance by students of the teaching of evolution theory, and about the importance of evolutionary thinking for Biology teaching.None of them discusses the centrality of evolution for the biology curriculum, but some of these papers points to the historical and scientific relevance of that theory for biology teaching, giving support to the defense of a curriculum oriented by the biological evolution.