ENTENDIMENTOS DE CIÊNCIA AO LONGO DE UM CURSO DE LICENCIATURA EM CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS / SCIENCE UNDERSTANDINGS OF STUDENTS ALONG A BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES UNDEGRADUATE COURSE THAT FORMS SCIENCE AND BIOLOGY TEACHERS

Abstract

Research in the field of Science Education has shown us how discussions on the History and Philosophy of Science (HFC) contribute to the formation of more critical teachers. In the present article, we aim to investigate the understandings that two classes in a Biological Sciences course have about science. In both, we applied a questionnaire with ten questions at the entrance to the course and at the exit. Of these ten, we selected one: say what do you mean by science? We were able to analyze how this understanding changed or not and articulate it with several HFC authors such as Chalmers (1993) and Feyerabend (1977) in addition to more contemporary ones such as Lyotard (2009) and Sousa-Santos (2008). The multiplicity present in the answers, enabled us to infer whether there is an influence of the course on the students' conceptions and the importance of these discussions for teacher education.