Temática ambiental, evolução biológica e suas relações: uma análise nos documentos curriculares das licenciaturas em ciências biológicas das universidades federais de Minas Gerais

Abstract

Based in a socio-historic theoretic foundation, the stregth of hegemonic ideas in education, science and enviromental issues is decribed. The inset of biological evolution and enviromental themes is analised, and the existence of relation and aproximations between these themes is inquired, for in the face of the actual enviromental and knowledg crises, we see they can help each other. Data has been collected through documental analysis of the pedagogical projects from undergraduate courses in Federal Universities in the state of Minas Gerais. For the analysis, we have leaned in the methodology of Laurence Bardin. Results indicate that the inset of biological evolution is mostly restricted to a scientific curricular component, in a isoladed fashion, characterizing living being groups studied in zoology of botanic, filling topics in paleontology e sistematization, in any case without any relation to the pedagogical area. Environmental themes have no emphasis in the curricula, where the a conservative major tendency prevails, when present. The relation between society and nature and the socio environmental crisis is presented in curricular topics connected to environmental education. The polical feature intrinsic in education is practically absent, as well as its integration with teachers and students reality. In face of this scenary, the relations stablished by the courses between the two themes are incipient, requiring detailed descriptions in the syllabus and/or curricular restructuring that may contribute, in the frame of a national critical education, with citzenship emancipation, scientific alphabetization and a transformation in the relation between society and nature.