A inserção da temática saúde nos cursos de formação de professores em ciências biológicas das instituições públicas de ensino superior do Sul de Minas Gerais

Abstract

In December 2019, in the city of Wuhan (China), Covid19 was identified. The disease became a pandemic from March 2020, with impacts on health, social and economic areas. In the following years, the world was faced with a health and health crisis, resulting from the Covid-19 Pandemic, a situation that generated transformations in the population's way of being. After the period of isolation, and with the return of economic and social activity, the emerging need to think about health education strategies for the population became evident. In this context, the school environment proved to be a space conducive to discussion, due to the need for preventive measures and awareness among the population regarding health care. In this sense, it is clear that the science and biology teacher has a fundamental role in instructing students so that they become conscious citizens who are aware of the problems that involve health as a whole. In this way, this research emerges, given the need to verify how the topic of health is included in the initial training curricula of biological sciences professionals. Using a qualitative approach, documents from the Pedagogical Projects for Degree Courses in Biological Sciences at Public Higher Education Institutions in the South of Minas Gerais were analyzed. The results demonstrate that the programmatic contents of the curricular subjects and the extension activities are still not consistent with what was expected, and that they need to be critically rethought, so that they start to encourage reflection on the theme of health education, from the perspective of the social reality in which the student is inserted, so that there is professional performance, especially for those with a degree in biological sciences, committed to the transformation of society, and the perception of community health. Therefore, it is suggested that more studies can be carried out on the same topic, in other regions and universities in the country, in order to stimulate discussion about the training of professionals in biological sciences, and promote discussion and necessary changes.