“Os Lobos Nunca Choram”: a ecologia de populações entendida a partir do cinema

Abstract

This work aims to analyze a class developed in the discipline Teaching Methodology of Ecology, offered in the Biological Sciences degree course at UFLA, which aimed to understand how alternative methodologies allow a more meaningful teaching of ecology. And, in addition, understand how the discipline contributed to the process of initial training of biology teachers. The theme of the class was population ecology and the methodology used had the film 'Never Cry Wolf' (1983) as teaching material. At the end of the class, the students evaluated the practice, and these evaluations were used to analyze this work. It was possible to notice that the film made possible rich dialogues for the construction of the concepts of population ecology.